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|author= Matthew HarffyMinette Walters|title= The Serpent SwordLast Hours|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= It's AD 633 and Albion is a divided island made up In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port of petty warlords who want to be treated like honourable royalty but act like gangstersMelcombe in Dorset. Romans are a memory that have entered into myth and the souls Ignorant of many rules of Albion are torn between hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, the old Gods and disease rages through the new Christcountry. It is in this world that we follow On the estate of Develish, Lady Anne Develish took control of the adventures future of Beobrand as he undertakes the classic hero’s journey. Beobrand moves from wide-eyed teenager people who lived in the demesne after her husband had ridden off to hardened try and honourable warrior through secure a brutal rite marriage for his daughter. Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the estate and when Lady Anne realised the virulence of passage as he hunts the killer of plague she ordered that the estate refuse entry to anyone, including her husband and his brother and seeks entourage, for fear that they would bring the disease to become a true warriorher people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866924061760632139</amazonuk>

|author=Antonia SeniorLars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)|title=The Tyrant's ShadowSixteen Trees of the Somme|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Warning: spoilers ahead While his grandfather lived the past was an area of certainty for Edvard. At aged 4 he''Treason's Daughter''.Patience lives d been taken to live with her widowed brotherhis grandparents, William, helping to care for having survived the accident that killed his son Richard (nicknamed Blackberry)parents. Despite the Civil war ending, the times Now his grandfather has died revelations are still uncertain. Cromwell coming to light showing Edvard his family history is increasingly annoyed with a parliament of rebels refusing to go to the electorate for ratification. William sees this problem at close quarters once different from what he's effectively forced to become Cromwelld believed… his mother's legal advisor in an atmosphere poisoned by espionage and religious factions. However when Patience comes across Shadrick Simpsonbirthplace, a charismatic preacher, all becomes clearer for her at least. Meanwhile Sam Challoner, Williamhis mother's brother in lawname, comes home after privateering with Prince Rupert the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and realises that 's without looking more deeply into the fight at sea is better than peace at homefatal accident itself. At least when you're privateering you know who your enemy Edvard isdetermined to solve the puzzle, a determination that will take him away from his native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secrets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17823966160857056069</amazonuk>

|author= David BarbareeToby Clements|title= DeposedKingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= A.D 68. A deposed emperor lies in a prison cell, betrayed 1470 dawns and newly blinded by those who were sworn to protect him. He is now crippled and deprived the next chapters of power, left completely on the edge War of despair with a frightened young slave named Marcus as his only companionthe Roses are ready to play out. Ten years later and it is Emperor Vespasian who wears King Edward thinks that the purple. Things may have future has been settled since the civil war but Vespasian's son Titus treachery is plagued by worry about plots to murder his fatherstill lurking. Gruesome atrocities Meanwhile Katherine and Thomas also have their world turned upside down when that ledger and mysterious disappearances are rife throughout Rome; it is a city full of falsehoods and intrigues with the fear of rebellion lurking beneath the surface. Furthermorechance comment threaten all they have, a man who used to be emperor still including their lives – a blind man who everyone believes to be dead. His name is Nero and he seeks revenge against those who wronged him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762672178089466X</amazonuk>

|author= Diney CosteloeP F Chisholm|title= Guns in the North (The Married GirlsSir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Wynsdown, 1949. In 1592: Sir Robert Carey flees the small Somerset village strictures of Wynsdown, Charlotte Shepherd is happily married Elizabethan court – and his creditors – in order to farmer Billybecome Deputy Warden of the West March in Carlisle. She arrived The Scottish/English borders and those who inhabit them are different from Germany on the Kindertransport as a child during the war and now feels settled in her adopted homeworld he's left behind but it will have to become his world. Meanwhile, the squire It's fighter pilot son, Felix, has returned now his job to bring law to the village with a fiancée in tow. Daphne is beautiful, charming..lawless. This isn't easy when every local he comes across has an affinity and harbouring secrets. After meeting during the war, Felix knows some a heritage of Daphne's past, but she has worked hard crime to conceal that which could unravel her carefully built lifesome degree. For Charlotte, too, a dangerous past Robert the best thing about the job is coming back in its proximity to the shape of fellow refugee, bad boy Harry Blackwoman he loves but he doesn't know what he'll do about that yet either. Forever bound by their childhoods, Charlotte will always care for Meanwhile he soon realises that those who are supposed to be on his side are plotting against him, but Harrythey don's return disrupts the village quiet and itt realise what they's not long before gossip spreads. The war may have ended, but for these girls, trouble is only just beginning..re up against. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849761211786694719</amazonuk>

|author= Philip KerrZanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12The House with the Stained-Glass Window|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime (Historical) Fiction|summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939Marianna, he was stationed an opera singer in Berlin as a police officer handling murder cases and occasionally doing work for some highthe soon-to-ranking Nazis. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he was a known member be Ukrainian city of the Social Democratic Party)Lviv, he understood that the best thing he could do for himself is mistakenly shot dead at that time was to make himself indispensable to men like Reinhard Heydrich and Martin Bormann. So when he is assigned to solve a murder that has occurred at Hitler's Berghof political rally in the Bavarian mountainsdying days of the Soviet Union. This novel begins with both anger and hope, he knows that he needs to do it quickly and discreetly – not just for justiceas Marianna's sake, but for his own. He coffin is given exactly one week to apprehend covered in the suspectillegal blue and yellow flag, and he hopes that with her death seems to herald the birth of a new nation. But the day of her funeral is also the help day of her daughter's first period – a girl who must learn how to be a woman in this time of his friend Friedrich Korschdrastic change, an investigator with no mother to guide her along the Krimialpolizei (or Kripo, for short) he just might get luckyway. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17842964810857057138</amazonuk>

|author= Stephan CollishawK J Whittaker|title= The Song of the StorkFalse Lights

|genre= Literary Historical Fiction|summary= Stephan Collishaw Cornwall, 1817. What if your worst mistake changed the course of history? Napoleon has achieved crushed the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo, and his ex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied England. Cornwall erupts into open rebellion, and young heiress Hester escapes with Crow, Wellington's former intelligence officer, a rare feat – half-French aristocrat haunted by his part in the catastrophic defeat. Together, they become embroiled in a novel set amidst the horrors web of Nazi tyranny that does not shy away treachery and espionage as plans are laid to free Wellington from human sufferingsecret captivity in the Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the French occupation. In a country rife with traitors, but does not drown in Hester and Crow know it eitheris impossible to play such a game as this for long... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850791901786695340</amazonuk>

|author=Alan KennedyJ Jefferson Farjeon|title=A Time to Tell LiesSeven Dead|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical) Fiction|summary= Psychologist Alan Kennedy's fifth novel continues Ted Lyte was petty criminal, but not usually the housebreaking type. He lacked the story courage. However, needs must, and whilst feeling down on his luck he began decided to try his chances at an isolated house with [[Lucy by Alan Kennedy]]a shuttered window. ''... In he might find a bit of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the autumn of 1942shutters, Captain Alex Vere and Justine Perry are among the but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and women picked up and taken to a stately home in Scotland, where they are trained woman. Fleeing the house in spy skills. After this first encounterhorror, Alex is smitten yet uncertain if he will ever see Justine again. The spy's life is dangerous pursued and unpredictablecaught by a passing yachtsman, after all. Six weeks laterThomas Hazeldean, though, they meet up again in southwest France, where they have been sent who also happens to collect Simone, be a Special Operations Executive agentjournalist. ItFascinated by Ted's Alex's first mission story (Justine's fourthand a possible scoop) , Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and all goes horribly awry. Alex ends up in custody at its assortment of odd clues, including a portrait shot through the Gendarmerieheart, facing an old cricket ball and a German who knows he has a false passportmysterious note written by one of the victims.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>09932023220712356886</amazonuk>

|authortitle=Alex NyeSalt Creek|titleauthor=For My SinsLucy Treloar|rating=4.5

|summary=1586: Mary Stuart, Queen The first chapter of Scots''Salt Creek'' opens in Chichester, has time to look back over her past life as she sitsEngland, incarcerated by in 1874. Hester Finch is a respected and reasonably wealthy member of her second cousin Queen Elizabeth Icommunity. Mary's life hasnBut she can't been one of totally pampered royalty. Growing up in France, away from stop her mother, widowed and then returning to Scotland thoughts wandering back to claim the throne before she was even 19, her struggle with fate started early. The tensions between Mary the womanadolescence, Mary the Catholic and Mary the political force continue through three marriages, an unsolved murder and spent on Salt Creek Station in the thwarted desire to serve her peopleremote South Australian Coorong region. Now itHester feels 's come to this prison cell but while there's lifehas never felt so alive as then, therewhen we had so little's still hope…'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19059167871910709417</amazonuk>

|author= Grace MacallisterJamie Ford|title= The Magician's LieLove and Other Consolation Prizes|rating=45|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary= The Amazing Arden is At the most famous female illusionist of her dayWorld's Fair in 1962, renowned for her notorious trick of sawing a man in half it seems that all eyes are focused on stagethe future. But one night she swaps her trademark saw for an axe. When Arden's husband is found dead later that night, The Space Needle dominates the answer seems clearlandscape, most of all filling people with anticipation about things to young policeman Virgil Holtcome. Captured and taken into custodyOne visitor, however, all seems set for Arden's swift confessionhas his mind firmly focused on the past. But she has Ernest Young is helping his daughter Ju-ju with a different story to tell. Even handcuffed and alone, Arden is far from powerless, and what she reveals is writing for her newspaper; a story about a young immigrant boy who was given away as unbelievable as it is spellbindinga prize in a raffle at the World's Fair in 1909.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17871999670749022752</amazonuk>

|author=Helen DunmoreNicola Pryce|title=Birdcage WalkThe Captain's Girl|rating=54|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married well. John Diner Tredevant is a property developer who has reached the zenith of his lifeLast year, Bookbag reviewed, and thoroughly enjoyed, [[Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's work: building Daughter]], a terrace swashbuckling historical romance set in picturesque Cornwall. Now we have the pleasure of prestigious houses overlooking reading the Avon Gorgemuch-anticipated sequel. In This time, the story focuses on a time neighbour of turbulence as France reaches the dawn of revolutionPolcarrow family, BritainMiss Celia Cavendish, including Diner, fears it may spread. This puts Lizzie in who has been engaged to a difficult position since her mother and step-father both believe in propagating pamphlets and ideas of egalitarianism for and to all, including womencruel man that she does not love. In other wordsOne fateful night, they think nothing of spreading ideas of she runs away to the sort that fanned Polcarrow house to beg them for help, and the French flames. However, pivotal events of that's not Lizzie's only problem… there is a darkness in her husband's past of which she's unawarenight have far-reaching consequences for all involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00919594031782398856</amazonuk>

|author=Beth UnderdownHawa L Crickmore|title=The Witchfinder's SisterAcross the Ocean|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=England 1645: Matthew Hopkins is good at his chosen career: seekingA young cage fighter, Martin Grandson, testing and convicting those was diagnosed with the Devil in thema rare genetic disorder which required a bone-marrow transplant, preferably from a sibling. His sisterOnly recently he'd been a fit young man, Alicein the prime of life, doesnbut now he was suffering from a rare type of bone cancer: without the transplant he would be paralysed for life and might be dead within the next twelve weeks if he didn't realise receive the transplant within the full connotations of his actions until, widowed and pregnant, she returns homenext fourteen days. Alice is grateful to be allowed to live under MatthewUnfortunately Martin's roof but then watches his sinister finger of suspicion point parents had died in unexpected placesa car crash and there were no siblings or other close relatives. This is His girlfriend, Celia, was not a man changed from the boy that Alice used to know. She never then realised that he'd be capable of killing hundreds of people and making her the Witchfinder's Sistermatch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02419780331524666971</amazonuk>

|author= Emma HendersonM J Tjia|title= The Valentine HouseShe Be Damned

|genre= Literary FictionCrime (Historical) |summary= In June 1914London, 1863: prostitutes in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, Sir Anthony Valentinetheir sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a keen mountaineerloss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, arrives with his family to spend investigate. With the summer in their chaletassistance of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, high Heloise inches closer to the truth. But when Amah is implicated in the French Alps. Therebrutal plot, for the first timeHeloise must reconsider whom she can trust, fourteen-year-old foundling Mathilde starts work as one of before the 'uglies' killer strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Franklin|title= Shelter|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Connie Granger has escaped her bombed- village girls employed as servants and pickedout city home, it is believed, to ensure they don't catch Sir Anthonyfinding refuge in the Women's roving eyeTimber Corps. For Mathilde it her, this remote community must now serve a secret purpose.<br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner of war, is haunted by his memories. In the start of forest camp, he finds a life-long entanglement with les anglais - strange, exciting people, far removed from the hard grind kind of farmingfreedom. Except she soon finds the Valentines Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are less carefree than they appeardrawn together, with a curiously absent daughter no one talks aboutthe world outside their forest haven is being torn apart. It will be decades - disrupted by warOld certainties are crumbling, accidents and both must now make a cruel betrayal life- before Mathilde discovers the key to the mysterydefining choice. And in 1976, the year Sir Anthony's great-great grandson comes <br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to visit, she must decide whether to use it.protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14447040281785762990</amazonuk>

|author= Polly ClarkJane Johnson|title= LarchfieldCourt of Lions

|genre= Literary Historical Fiction |summary=I It's early summer when Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city of Granada a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on year ago. In the west coast shadow of Scotland and her hopes are first challenged. Newly marriedthe Alhambra, pregnantone of the most beautiful places on earth, she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends she's excited by the prospect of a happy with her new life that combines family – but how could she be? Kate's alone, afraid and creativityhiding under a false name. She thinks she knows what being And fate is about to bring her face-to-face with her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, a personmessage, in a wifehand few could read, was inscribed in blood on a mother, meansstolen scrap of paper. She is soon shown that she is wrongThe paper was folded and pressed into one of the Alhambra's walls. As There it has lain, undisturbed by the battle begins for her very sense tides of history – the Fall of selfGranada, Dora comes to find the realities expulsion of small town life suffocating, and, eventually, terrifying; its last Sultan – until she finds a way to escape reality altogether. Another poet, she Kate discovers, lived in Helensburgh once. Wystan Hit. Auden, brilliant and awkward at 24, with his first book Born of poetry published, should be embarking on success and society in London. Insteadlove, in 1930, fleeing a broken engagementtime of danger and desperation, he takes a teaching post at Larchfield School for boys where he is mocked for his Englishness and suspected - rightly - of homosexuality. Yet in this repressed limbo Wystan the fragment will fall in love for be the first time, even as he fights his deepest fearscatalyst that changes Kate's life forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17864819281786694336</amazonuk>

|author=Dinah JefferiesAngus Watson|title=Before the RainsYou Die When You Die|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Eliza has tragically punctuated childhood memories Finnbogi the Boggy and his tribe of India that have feed her desire to returnmushroom men (Vikings) must take a road trip through hostile territory whilst being hunted by the greatest fighting force ever seen (Amazonian Native Americans). Therefore Vikings meet Native Americans in 1930, following the death a clash of her husband, when cultures and potentially the British government commission her to photograph scenes end of Indian life, she jumps at the chanceworld. What she doesn't realise is that not everyone she comes across is delighted with When the idea. Living within Queen of the Sultana's opulent palace complex is definitely an attraction for her, as is Jay, an Indian price who shows Eliza the real India. However, attractions are sometimes dangerous and even deadlyknown world says your tribe has to be exterminated then your immediate future may not be so rosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412870810356507564</amazonuk>

|author=Otto de Kat and Laura Watkinson (translator)Alison Weir|title=The Longest NightSix Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession: Six Tudor Queens 2|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Historical Fiction|summary=Emma has a philosophy – ''let Thomas Boleyn sends his daughters abroad to be trained at the dead rest, and love the living''courts of European royalty. The problem with that, as a 96-year-old, is that there are too few living left, and so while Not only does this give them an education in the ways of the love remains she will go through her memorieselite, taking it could also ensure a woozy, diaphanous path through all the major events of her lifegood marriage. Starting in wartime Berlin with Unfortunately he hasn't reckoned on the ideas that one husbandof them, who gets snatched from her at work, fleeing to another place to wait for peaceAnne, picks up and wait as for him in vain, moving marriage… Anne is determined to Holland and finding new marry for love, and so on – this wispy journey will show all not through some paternal arrangement. Yet the impacts of war, from rationing right up reality turns out to exilebe different, death and survival. The memories are coming strongly here and now, as Emma is waiting for at least one of driving a wedge through her two sons family on a road leading to visit, and then she will die…dark tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056085147222762X</amazonuk>

|author= Adrian GoldsworthyMartha Conway|title= VindolandaThe Floating Theatre|rating= 3.5

|summary= AD 98: in When young seamstress May Bedloe is left alone and penniless on the northern fields shore of Britannia lies Vindolandathe Ohio, a Roman auxiliary base situated she finds work on the edge of famous floating theatre that plies its trade along the Roman worldriver. Far from Her creativity and needlework skills quickly become invaluable and she settles into life among the prosperity and decadence colourful troupe of Romeactors. She finds friends, the wild and untamed lands around Vindolanda are ripe with rebel tribes and druids set against possibly the destruction promise of Rome more. But cruising the border between the Confederate South and its armiesthe 'free' North is fraught with danger. In For the midst sake of this destruction a debt that must be repaid, May is Flavius Ferox; a Briton and Roman Centurion who has been given the task compelled to transport secret passengers, under cover of keeping darkness, across the peace in this desolate edge of river and on, along the worldunderground railroad. But life in Roman Britain is full as May's secrets become harder to keep, she learns she must endanger those now dear to her.  And to save the lives of danger and betrayal at every turnothers, and Ferox knows it will take more than courage to overcome what lies aheadshe must risk her own...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849746841785762907</amazonuk>

|author=Jeroen Blokhuis and Asja Novak (translator)Jenny Ashcroft|title=The Yellow HouseBeneath a Burning Sky|rating=34|genre=Literary Historical Fiction|summary=If you were Young bride Olivia Sheldon finds returning to her childhood home in Egypt a bitter-sweet experience. On the needy kindone hand, would you really join in she has been reunited with her estranged sister Clara, and the drumming-out of town of two people accused of murder purely because of their nationality? Would you get pair have formed a feeling of belonging just because you were there when someone carried a dead dog down off a mountain? The main character in this novel doesdeep and loving bond. But he On the other, she has something that will really get him notedan unhappy marriage to her domineering husband Alistair, well-thought-ofwho only married her to spite Clara, includedwho had refused him previously. He has come to Life with the south of France sadistic Alistair is unbearable, with Olivia subjected to set up an artists' collective, where he can live and work alongside horrific abuse at his counterpartshands, who can inspire each other and best each other to create wonderful artdaily. In fact As a much-respected guest is on his way nowlady with no means of supporting herself, so surely he can find kinship? The guest's name isOlivia seems trapped without any means of escape, after allonly finding solace in the company of her sister and friends. But when her dear sister goes mysteriously missing in the bustling streets of Alexandria, Gauguin. The main character it is, up to Olivia to try and solve the mystery of course, Vincent van Gogh…her disappearance before it is too late.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19073205630751565032</amazonuk>

|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Conn Iggulden|title=Retribution RoadDunstan: One Man Will Change the Fate of England

|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=The young Dunstan shows no sign of the sainthood he''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard man, he was something else: a dangerous manll later attain.'' If, indeed, there was someone who was ideal for Son of a suicide mission, it was him. Working as Wessex thane and sent to a soldier monastery for the East India Company in the rural, remote, outlaw hotbeds of Asia in the 1850seducation, hethis isn's tasked with taking t a boat of unknown prospects up the Irrawaddy lad who responds to discipline. However an enquiring, intelligent mind begins to try emerge and combat local warlord Pagan Minthen comes the big break. It doesn't go well – Lady Elflaed calls to start with, he's supposed put a proposal to run the rule over ruffians saved from the gallows, but can't command them until he's forced his way him after hearing about what she considers to having be a miracle and the knowledge monks consider another in a long line of the mission he needs first, only for all hell to break looseexcuses. But get back he does, only to find that while Yet Dunstan will outshine all his nightmares about what really happened are met with equally dark goings-onteachers as well as knowing seven kings and holding responsible positions in their courts, as the official record book's title suggests . Whether we believe in the mission never actually existed…miracles or not, Dunstan certainly had quite a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570537440718181441</amazonuk>

|author=Theodore BrunSimon Edge|title=A Mighty Dawn (The Wanderer Chronicles)Hopkins Conundrum|rating=3.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= A story like this needs Tim Cleverley inherits a strong central character; it needs a warrior failing pub in Wales, which he plans to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist to concoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard Manley Hopkins, who has convictioncomposed ''The Wreck of the Deutschland'' nearby. In Victorian England, heart Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life full of confusion and honour. Hakan has all these in abundancecontradiction, but he didn't get them easilydiscovers a calling for poetry that threatens to overrule his calling to God. In this coming And, speaking of age taleGod, he goes on Five nuns leave persecution to travel to a quest new world – only to find himself after experiencing the most tremendous of betrayals. themselves in more trouble that they could ever have imagined… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17823999411785630334</amazonuk>

|author=S J Hardman LeaAnne O'Brien|title=The Sins of SoldiersShadow Queen|rating=4.5

|summary=Anson Scott wants to join the British army and World War I for a different reason than most Born in 1328, Joan of Kent may be of his fellow Americans. Heroyal blood but she's from a journalist wanting the uncensored inside story to send back home; a deadly enterprise asfamily tainted by treachery. Her father Edmund Woodstock, if the Germans don't get him1st Earl of Kent, was executed for his part in the Brits may deem him a spyinfamous Montague plot. Unperturbed he carries his plan through However Joan has grown up under the protection of her cousin, King Edward III with all the advantages and finds himself on the French front in 1916attributes of a princess. He has an ally in British officer David AlexanderYet, which is just as well since not all his enemies are across no manmuch to her mother's landchagrin, obedience isn't one of these attributes. The two men have Joan's head strong feist takes her on a lot varied journey in commonlife. Having said that, three husbands, more than they know five marriages (technically) and perhaps more than is good a son destined for them as the Somme approaches.English throne means that it's also been one heck of a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858901821848455070</amazonuk>

|author=David GilmanPatricia Falvey|title=Viper's Blood (Master The Girls of War)Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish Saga|rating=4.5

|summary=Bowman and commander Thomas Blackstone is one of Edward IIIIreland 1900: Ennismore House's greatest weapons, bringing him potentially head to head against the Dauphin once againyoung heiress Victoria had hoped that she and Rosie Killeen would be friends forever. However, faced with an elongated stale mate, ThomasRosie soon comes to know better as there' role becomes that of scavenger leader as the chances of victory make way for s a greater chance of starvation amongst social chasm between those who live in the armiesHouse and those, like Rosie's family, who have been brought up merely to serve them. There is a light at the end The days of the tunnel though. Blackstone is innocence are coming to go on a trip: an escort mission to Italy, delivering the French King's daughter Isabelle to Milan and her weddingend in many ways. Having said thatSoon, as the light at the end of the tunnel may cry for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, there'll be an oncoming lance. Isabellemore than steps on society's prospective groom is one of ladder between them as each must discover their own way in a nation that will never be the brothers who killed Thomas' wife and daughtersame again. Death is definitely on the cards… but whose?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849744631786490625</amazonuk>

|author=Rory ClementsElaine Everest|title=CorpusThe Butlins Girls|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=A suicidal overdose Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness to start her new job as a Butlins auntie. Behind the smiles and confident appearance, she hides a secret; she has taken the murder of upper class Cecil Langley and his wife are two events that may be unconnectedjob to escape escalating problems at home. However this is England She soon finds good friends in 1936her chalet-mates Bunty and Plum, a magnet for opposing forces and it turns out that they each have their first moves in preparation own reasons for the coming conflict, assisted or prevented by wanting a royal crisis (depending on which side you're on)fresh start. Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into Meanwhile, Molly is shocked to discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at the middle of this accidentally to begin with but camp. Is he really as suave as his curiosity has been piqued enough to ensure on-screen persona? And why is he's not walking awayworking at the camp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, Molly and her new friends face new threats and dangers that may threaten their new-found freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17857626131447295536</amazonuk>

|author= Beatrice ColinGeraint Jones|title= To Capture What We Cannot KeepBlood Forest|rating= 45

|summary=Paris, February 1887, Felix. The lucky one. He doesn't feel especially lucky when he staggers out into the grove and finds twelve of his comrades butchered and work on mutilated in the foundations of Eiffel's daring tower is about to beginworst possible ways. Engineer Emile Nouguier, taking photographs of He felt even less lucky when the site from a tethered hot air balloon for tourists nearby, chances to meet a young widow from Glasgow named Caitriona Wallacesoldiers arrived, and his own foundations start to shiftRoman cavalry. Over the next two years as the tower slowly rises in the Champ de MarsHe might have run, what began as an impossible dream becomes solid reality – Cait and Emilebut he knew he's love for each otherd never make it. In a world where more than bustles and corsets hem her in, will Cait be able He stepped out to break free of her oppressive future, and given their different social strata, can Emile re-shape his?face whatever came next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17602917220718184815</amazonuk>

|author= Deanna RaybournDominic Smith|title= A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell Mystery)The Last Painting of Sara de Vos|rating= 45

|summary=Veronica Speedwell did not choose to be an investigator If you find the techniques used by profession. She was, first Rembrandt and foremostVermeer fascinating, ''The Last Painting of Sara de Vos'' provides a scientist; masterclass in how to work up a lepidopterist and adventuress who travelled canvas in stages. Framing the novel as the world looking for exciting butterfly specimens. However, when her latest expedition was cancelled due to an unfortunate incident with story of a giant tortoiseseventeenth century Dutch painting, Veronica Dominic Smith vividly sketches out the main contours of his characters and her taxidermist friend Stoker took up the challenge three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of a murder investigation as an interesting diversionthe way through. The case seemed to an open- Sara is one of the few women artists of the period and-shut one; Miles Ramsforth, an art patron, had been accused her painting is of murdering his pregnant mistresschildren skating on a frozen canal, Artemisiaher now dead daughter its central figure. He The painting has been in Marty de Groot's family since before Isaac Newton was discovered at born and he is the patent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattan. Ellie Shipley forged a copy of the scene, covered painting in her blood postgraduate student years and had both in 2000 finds herself at the motive and circumstances centre of a gathering storm which threatens to commit destroy her reputation as one of Sydney's foremost fine art academics. Satisfying though those first descriptions are, we then understand these are merely the author's equivalent of the crime. He would hang delicate chalk lines used by the end painters of the week if Veronica and Stoker could not find Dutch Golden Age to mark out the 'real' killercomposition which will follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0451476158192526680X</amazonuk>

|author=Jemima BriggesCaro Fraser|title=Counting the CostThe Summer House Party|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=The year is 1794 and we In the gloriously hot summer of 1936, a group of people meet our young protagonistat a country house party. Within three years, England will be at war, Mariabut for now, in desperate circumstancestime stands still. Alone Dan Ranscombe is clever and terrifiedgood-looking, she has concluded that her only option is to take her own life by throwing herself into but he resents the surging river waterswealth and easy savoir-faire of fellow guest, Paul Latimer. Months previouslySurely a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through that, wouldn't she was cruelly violated by the master of the house where she worked and now? And what about Diana, Paul's beautiful sister, Charles Asher, in the advanced stages of her pregnancyJewish outsider, the future seems bleak. LuckilyMadeleine, a pair of gypsy women find Maria restless and take dissatisfied with her in. Following a traumatic labourrole as children's nanny? And artist Henry Haddon, Maria becomes desperately ill and when she recoverstheir host, her baby is gone. Alone againno longer young, Maria is free to start but secure in his power as a new lifepractised seducer. With a clever disguiseAs these guests gather, none has any inkling the choices they make will have fateful consequences, she becomes lasting through the dowdy 'Miss Dinchope' war and takes a position as beyond. Or that the first unforeseen event will be a housekeeper for the village rector.shocking death… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858991391786691485</amazonuk>

|author=Steven BurgauerMatthew Harffy|title=The Night of The Eleventh SunSerpent Sword|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The word It'Neanderthal' has become equated with people deemed s AD 633 and Albion is a divided island made up of petty warlords who want to be treated like honourable royalty but act like gangsters. Romans are a memory that have a backward attitude entered into myth and the souls of Albion are torn between the old Gods and outlookthe new Christ. But what do It is in this world that we know follow the adventures of Beobrand as he undertakes the original Neanderthals classic hero’s journey. Beobrand moves from over 200,000 years ago? Here American author [[:Category:Steven Burgauer|Steven Burgauer]] melds the knowledge wide-eyed teenager to hardened and honourable warrior through a brutal rite of anthropologists, archaeologists and historians with passage as he hunts the story killer of Strong Arms, his family brother and their struggle seeks to survive in become a very effective, and informative waytrue warrior.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14196715451786692406</amazonuk>

|author=Meelis Friedenthal and Matthew Hyde (translator)Antonia Senior|title=The Willow KingTyrant's Shadow|rating=34

|summary=Meet LaurentiusWarning: spoilers ahead for ''Treason's Daughter''.Patience lives with her widowed brother, William, helping to care for his son Richard (nicknamed Blackberry). He's a scholar newly arrived in Estonia in Despite the seventeenth centuryCivil war ending, aiming to study morethe times are still uncertain. But things aren't going well for him – Cromwell is increasingly annoyed with a long-standing illness seems parliament of rebels refusing to go to be returning, the weather and roads are awful, electorate for ratification. William sees this problem at close quarters once he's late – effectively forced to become Cromwell's legal advisor in an atmosphere poisoned by espionage and his only friendreligious factions. However when Patience comes across Shadrick Simpson, a parakeetcharismatic preacher, won't even survive the first two days ashoreall becomes clearer for her at least. He's entering a weird worldMeanwhile Sam Challoner, whatWilliam's more – one imbued with evil smellsbrother in law, peopled by strange characters comes home after privateering with stranger ideasPrince Rupert and realises that the fight at sea is better than peace at home. Can his modern ideas, and thinking about the soul, bear him through his course?At least when you're privateering you know who your enemy is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17822717401782396616</amazonuk>