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|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Heather Morris|title=Retribution RoadThe Tattooist of Auschwitz|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard manSo, he was something else: a dangerous man.'' If, indeedyou arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see the horror there was someone who was ideal for a suicide mission, and immediately swear to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind it was him. , but what do you do to see that oath out? Working Do you get to work diligently as a soldier for the East India Company in Nazis demand, to the rural, remote, outlaw hotbeds of Asia in extent you get the 1850s, heword ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and get a job that means you's tasked with taking re actually a boat Jew working in the political wing of unknown prospects up the Irrawaddy SS, answerable to try and combat local warlord Pagan Min. Berlin? It doesn't go well – to start Do you dare get contacts withcivilian workers building the place, he's supposed to run and trade the rule over ruffians saved loot purloined from the gallowsincoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for you, but can't command them until he's forced his way to having under the knowledge eyes of all the mission he needs firstcamp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, only for all hell and survived to break loose. But get back tell the tale, but he doesalso managed to do something even more daring, only and unexpected – he dared to find invest hope in a burgeoning love that while his nightmares about what really happened are met with equally dark goings-on, he found in the official record suggests the mission never actually existed…camp.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570537441785763644</amazonuk>

|author=Theodore BrunRachel Halliburton|title=The Optickal Illusion: A Mighty Dawn (The Wanderer Chronicles)very eighteenth-century scandal

|summary=Bowman and commander Thomas Blackstone is one of Edward IIIRachel Halliburton's greatest weapons, bringing him potentially head to head against the Dauphin once againdebut novel opens in London in January 1797. HoweverBenjamin West, faced with an elongated stale mate, Thomas' role becomes that President of scavenger leader as the chances of victory make way for a greater chance of starvation amongst the armies. There is a light at the end of the tunnel though. Blackstone Royal Academy, is to go reflecting on a trip: an escort mission to Italy, delivering the French Kingpast year's scandal involving the Provises, father and daughter Isabelle to Milan , and her weddingworries that he handled everything poorly. Having said that, From the light at start the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming lance. Isabellebook's prospective groom figurative language is one appropriately full of the brothers who killed Thomascolour and painterly techniques: ' wife and daughterHe had intended to deal with them honourably, but now everyone in London was saying he had not. Death is definitely It was as if somebody had dropped a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – the cards… but whose?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784974463</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rory Clements|title=Corpus|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=A suicidal overdose more he prodded and stirred the murder of upper class Cecil Langley and his wife are two events that may be unconnected. However this is England in 1936memory, a magnet for opposing forces and their first moves in preparation for the coming conflict, assisted or prevented by a royal crisis (depending on which side you're on)murkier it became. Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into the middle of this accidentally to begin with but his curiosity has been piqued enough to ensure he's not walking away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17857626130715651978</amazonuk>

|author= Beatrice ColinJohn Banks|title= To Capture What We Cannot KeepW

|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Paris, February 1887, and work on On the foundations slopes of Eiffel's daring tower Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is about to begindiscovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. Engineer Emile Nouguier, taking photographs of Josh Kinninger is inspired by the site from a tethered hot air balloon for tourists nearby, chances to meet a young widow from Glasgow named Caitriona WallaceViking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored and with his own foundations start to shiftworld in turmoil. Over the next two years as the tower slowly rises in the Champ de MarsBeginning a journey westward, what began as an impossible dream becomes solid reality – Cait and Emilehe's love for each other. In filled with a world where more than bustles and corsets hem her in, will Cait be able desire to break free of her oppressive future, and given their different social strata, can Emile re-shape his?wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupt. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17602917220983333416</amazonuk>

|author= Deanna RaybournElaine Everest|title= A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell Mystery)Christmas at Woolworths|rating= 43.5

|summary=Veronica Speedwell did not choose ''Christmas at Woolworths'' is the sequel to be an investigator by profession. She waswartime saga ''The Woolworths Girls, first '' and foremost, a scientist; a lepidopterist and adventuress who travelled continues the story where the world looking for exciting butterfly specimensfirst book left off. However, when her latest expedition was cancelled due Members of the close-knit community in Erith are doing their best to an unfortunate incident with a giant tortoisepull together and keep morale high, Veronica and her taxidermist friend Stoker took up even though the challenge of a murder investigation as an interesting diversionfuture is uncertain. The case seemed to an open-and-shut one; Miles Ramsforth, an art patron, had been accused At the heart of murdering his pregnant mistressthe neighbourhood, Artemisia. He was discovered at the scene, covered in her blood home of kindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where family and had both the motive friends can gather for good food and circumstances conversation: a way to commit forget the troubles outside. Spirits remain high; even when the crimebombs are falling so close to home. He would hang by We catch up with the three friends from the first book: Sarah yearns for peace and an end of to the week if Veronica war, Maisie is desperate for a child and Stoker could not Freda would love to find the 'real' killerromance.Will they all get their wishes this Christmas?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04514761581509843655</amazonuk>

|author=Jemima BriggesMinette Walters|title=Counting the CostThe Last Hours|rating=4.5

|summary=The year is 1794 and we meet our young protagonist, Maria, In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port of Melcombe in desperate circumstancesDorset. Alone and terrifiedIgnorant of many rules of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, she has concluded that her only option is to take her own life by throwing herself into the surging river watersdisease rages through the country. Months previouslyOn the estate of Develish, she was cruelly violated by Lady Anne Develish took control of the master future of the house where she worked and now, people who lived in the advanced stages of demesne after her pregnancy, the future seems bleak. Luckily, husband had ridden off to try and secure a pair of gypsy women find Maria and take her inmarriage for his daughter. Following a traumatic labour, Maria becomes desperately ill Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the estate and when Lady Anne realised the virulence of the plague she recoversordered that the estate refuse entry to anyone, including her baby is gone. Alone againhusband and his entourage, Maria is free to start a new life. With a clever disguise, she becomes the dowdy 'Miss Dinchope' and takes a position as a housekeeper for fear that they would bring the village rectordisease to her people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858991391760632139</amazonuk>

|author=Steven BurgauerLars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)|title=The Night Sixteen Trees of The Eleventh Sunthe Somme

|summary=The word 'Neanderthal' has become equated with people deemed 1470 dawns and the next chapters of the War of the Roses are ready to have a backward attitude and outlookplay out. But what do we know of King Edward thinks that the original Neanderthals from over 200,000 years ago? future has been settled but treachery is still lurking. Here American author [[:Category:Steven Burgauer|Steven Burgauer]] melds the knowledge of anthropologists, archaeologists Meanwhile Katherine and historians with the story of Strong Arms, his family Thomas also have their world turned upside down when that ledger and their struggle to survive in a very effectivechance comment threaten all they have, and informative wayincluding their lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419671545178089466X</amazonuk>

|author=Meelis Friedenthal and Matthew Hyde (translator)P F Chisholm|title=Guns in the North (The Willow KingSir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)|rating=34.5

|summary=Meet Laurentius1592: Sir Robert Carey flees the strictures of Elizabethan court – and his creditors – in order to become Deputy Warden of the West March in Carlisle. HeThe Scottish/English borders and those who inhabit them are different from the world he's a scholar newly arrived in Estonia in left behind but it will have to become his world. It's now his job to bring law to the seventeenth century, aiming to study morelawless. But things arenThis isn't going well for him – easy when every local he comes across has an affinity and a long-standing illness seems heritage of crime to some degree. For Robert the best thing about the job is its proximity to be returning, the weather and roads are awful, woman he loves but he doesn't know what he's late – and ll do about that yet either. Meanwhile he soon realises that those who are supposed to be on his only friend, a parakeet, wonside are plotting against him but they don't even survive the first two days ashore. He's entering a weird world, realise whatthey's more – one imbued with evil smells, peopled by strange characters with stranger ideasre up against. Can his modern ideas, and thinking about the soul, bear him through his course?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17822717401786694719</amazonuk>

|author=Ian RossZanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title=The Mask of Command (Twilight of Empire)House with the Stained-Glass Window|rating=54

|summary= Warning: spoilers ahead for previous books Marianna, an opera singer in the series. 305AD: Castus Aureliussoon-to-be Ukrainian city of Lviv, following is mistakenly shot dead at a political rally in the death of his predecessor, has been promoted to commander (or vir perfecctissiums) dying days of the Roman forces at the RhineSoviet Union. He's also been ordered to take CrispusThis novel begins with both anger and hope, Constantineas Marianna's son coffin is covered in the illegal blue and heiryellow flag, for and her death seems to herald the character-building experiencebirth of a new nation. That complicates matters as when Castus isn't trying to keep Crispus alive, heBut the day of her funeral is also the day of her daughter's finding it difficult first period – a girl who must learn how to increase his own chance be a woman in this time of survivaldrastic change, especially considering how with no mother to guide her along the last Rhine commander met his endway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849752570857057138</amazonuk>

|author= Sophia TobinK J Whittaker|title= The VanishingFalse Lights|rating=34.5

|summary=1814Cornwall, 1817. In  What if your worst mistake changed the course of history? Napoleon has crushed the middle Duke of Wellington at the Yorkshire Moors in an isolated spot lies White WindowsBattle of Waterloo, a house shadowed in mystery and intriguehis ex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied England. Living in this desolate household is Marcus TwentymanCornwall erupts into open rebellion, a hard drinking and complicated man and his sister, the hardened widow young heiress Hester. Brought to White Windows is Annaleighescapes with Crow, a young runaway from London who has come to Yorkshire to be the new housekeeper to the TwentymanWellington's with former intelligence officer, a half-French aristocrat haunted by his part in the hope of leaving her painful past behind hercatastrophic defeat. At firstTogether, Annaleigh believes she may have found sanctuary but soon realises she has they become entangled embroiled in a web of conspiracy treachery and espionage as plans are laid to free Wellington from secret captivity in the Scilly Isles and dangerlead an uprising against the French occupation. In a country rife with traitors, leaving her trapped Hester and more alone than everCrow know it is impossible to play such a game as this for long...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711516031786695340</amazonuk>

|author= Mary GibsonJ Jefferson Farjeon|title=Bourbon Creams and Tattered Dreams (The Factory Girls)Seven Dead

|summary=Where did it all go wrong? Only a short time agoTed Lyte was petty criminal, Matty Gilbie was a star of but not usually the housebreaking type. He lacked the silver screen courage. However, needs must, and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with a glittering future predicted for hershuttered window. ''. As ..he might find a bit of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the shutters, but it definitely isn'Cockney Canaryt what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman. Fleeing the house in horror, her melodic singing voice he is pursued and stunning good looks had ensured that her first foray into movies was caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be a runaway successjournalist. Unfortunately that success came with a price: MattyFascinated by Ted's business partner Frank Rossi frittered away their money and turned violent and controlling. Bruised story (and battered from a particularly vicious beating from Frankpossible scoop), Matty secretly makes her escape back Hazeldean decides to her home in Bermondsey, investigate this curious case and the comfort its assortment of family and friends. Frank is not one to be crossedodd clues, howeverincluding a portrait shot through the heart, an old cricket ball and vows to do whatever it takes to win Matty backa mysterious note written by one of the victims. Can she ever be truly free?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849733350712356886</amazonuk>

|authortitle=Shirley McKaySalt Creek|titleauthor=1588: A Calendar of Crime (A Hew Cullan Mystery)Lucy Treloar

|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=A lot The first chapter of crime happens ''Salt Creek'' opens in St Andrews during 1588 Chichester, England, in 1874. Hester Finch is a respected and therefore reasonably wealthy member of her community. But she can't stop her thoughts wandering back to her adolescence, spent on Salt Creek Station in the life of law lecturer remote South Australian Coorong region. Hester feels ''has never felt so alive as then, when we had so little''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709417</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jamie Ford|title= Love and local investigator Hew Cullen tooOther Consolation Prizes|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=At the World's Fair in 1962, it seems that all eyes are focused on the future. As we travel through The Space Needle dominates the year landscape, filling people with himanticipation about things to come. One visitor, however, has his mind firmly focused on the past. Ernest Young is helping his recently wedded English wife Francesdaughter Ju-ju with a story she is writing for her newspaper; a story about a young immigrant boy who was given away as a prize in a raffle at the World's Fair in 1909.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022752</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nicola Pryce|title= The Captain's Girl|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Last year, Bookbag reviewed, doctor brother in law Giles and his sister Megthoroughly enjoyed, the wise woman[[Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's Daughter]], a swashbuckling historical romance set in picturesque Cornwall. Now we also encounter some have the pleasure of his most interesting casesreading the much-anticipated sequel. In fact there's one to match each This time, the story focuses on a neighbour of the year's big festivals: CandlemasPolcarrow family, Miss Celia Cavendish, Whitsunwho has been engaged to a cruel man that she does not love. One fateful night, Lammasshe runs away to the Polcarrow house to beg them for help, Martinmas and Yulethe pivotal events of that night have far-reaching consequences for all involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18469736351782398856</amazonuk>

|author=Lesley LokkoHawa L Crickmore|title=The Last DebutanteAcross the Ocean

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=In 1936 in Chalfont Hall in Dorset A young Kit Algernon-Waters can't really understand what's going on: at thirteen years old she's been banished to have supper in the nursery whilst everyone else is dining downstairs with the guests. Even her elder sistercage fighter, LilyMartin Grandson, who's sixteen is dining was diagnosed with these unnamed 'guests'a rare genetic disorder which required a bone-marrow transplant, preferably from a sibling. Kit has tapped all her usual sources to find out who Only recently he'd been a fit young man, in the visitors areprime of life, but to no avail. All she's managed to work out (well, let's now he was suffering from a rare type of bone cancer: without the transplant he would be paralysed for life and might be honest dead within the next twelve weeks if he didn'find out by eavesdropping' is closer to t receive the truth) is that transplant within the visitors are Germannext fourteen days. KitUnfortunately Martin's parents, Lord had died in a car crash and Lady Wharton, are short of money and it's important that at least one of their daughters makes a good marriagethere were no siblings or other close relatives. Six months later Lily is married to one of the GermanHis girlfriend, living in some style in Germany. Within a couple of years she's mixing with some dubious companyCelia, including Unity Mitford. It was even rumoured that she'd met Hitlernot a match.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140914254X1524666971</amazonuk>

|author=Stef PenneyM J Tjia|title=Under a Pole StarShe Be Damned|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction) |summary=1948London, 1863: Elderly Flora Mackie is invited on prostitutes in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their 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 press trip loss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigate. With the North Pole; a trip that takes assistance of her back through her lifetrusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the truth. Flora remembers her childhood with her father on whaling ships But when Amah is implicated in the seas around Greenlandbrutal plot, her marriage born of ambition and misaligned lust and the result: the Arctic exploration team Heloise must reconsider whom she led in can trust, before the late 19th century. This was a trip that had many knock-on effects including death and lovekiller strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786481162178507931X</amazonuk>

|author= Morgan McCarthySarah Franklin|title= The House of BirdsShelter|rating= 4.5

|summary=Oliver Connie Granger has spent years trying to convince himself that heescaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge in the Women's suited to Timber Corps. For her, this remote community must now serve a secret purpose.<br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner of war, is haunted by his memories. In the forest camp, he finds a life strange kind of money making in freedom.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are drawn together, the cityworld outside their forest haven is being torn apart. Old certainties are crumbling, and that he doesn't miss both must now make a childhood spent life-defining choice.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762990</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jane Johnson|title= Court of Lions|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived in pursuit the sunlit city of mystery, when he cycled around Granada a year ago. In the cobbled lanes shadow of Oxfordthe Alhambra, exploring its one of the most intriguing corners. When his girlfriend Kate inherits beautiful places on earth, she works as a derelict house - and waitress serving tourists in a fierce family feud - busy bar. She pretends she's happy with her new life – but how could shebe? Kate's determined to strip italone, sell it afraid and move onhiding under a false name. And fate is about to bring her face-to-face with her greatest fear. For Oliver thoughFive centuries ago, the house has an allurea message, and amongst the shelves of in a discardedhand few could read, leather bound was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of paper. The paper was folded and gilded volumes, he discovers pressed into one that conceals a hidden diary from of the 1920sAlhambra's walls. So begins a quest to discover There it has lain, undisturbed by the identity tides of history – the authorFall of Granada, Sophia Louisthe expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. It is Born of love, in a portrait time of war danger and marriagedesperation, isolation and longing and a story that the fragment will shape be the future of the abandoned house - and of Oliver - catalyst that changes Kate's life forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14722058471786694336</amazonuk>

|author= Jacquelyn BensonAngus Watson|title= The Smoke HunterYou Die When You Die

|summary= Eleanora Mallory is an educated young woman living in Victorian London but she is restricted by Finnbogi the strict social codes Boggy and his tribe of mushroom men (Vikings) must take a road trip through hostile territory whilst being hunted by the late nineteenth-centurygreatest fighting force ever seen (Amazonian Native Americans). She's Vikings meet Native Americans in a historian, a suffragette, clash of cultures and is years ahead potentially the end of her time much to the chagrin world. When the Queen of her male work colleagues at the Public Records Officeknown world says your tribe has to be exterminated then your immediate future may not be so rosy. After losing her job and finding a mysterious map abandoned on her former employer|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356507564</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alison Weir|title=Six Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn: A King's desk, Ellie decides Obsession: Six Tudor Queens 2|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Thomas Boleyn sends his daughters abroad to take a chance be trained at the courts of European royalty. Not only does this give them an adventure. She packs her bags and sets off on a journey to Central America, where education in the map shows ways of the way to elite, it could also ensure a legendary historical citygood marriage. It Unfortunately he hasn's t reckoned on the expedition ideas that one of a life timethem, Anne, picks up and as for marriage… Anne is determined to marry for love not through some paternal arrangement. Yet the reality turns out to be different, but little does Ellie know that driving a team of fortune hunters are hot wedge through her family on her traila road leading to dark tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472238346147222762X</amazonuk>

|author= Angus MacDonaldMartha Conway|title= Ardnish Was Home: A NovelThe Floating Theatre|rating= 45

|summary=A tiny peninsular lying When young seamstress May Bedloe is left alone and penniless on the west coast shore of Scotlandthe Ohio, Ardnish provides a beautiful setting for a book she finds work on the famous floating theatre that entices plies its trade along the reader to devour it all in one sittingriver. Duncan Peter Gillies (DP to friends Her creativity and needlework skills quickly become invaluable and family) leaves Ardnish as a young man to sign up for she settles into life among the Lovat Scouts in 1915colourful troupe of actors. What a tragically sweet story is to follow! Posted to GallipoliShe finds friends, brutal scenes of and possibly the realities promise of more. But cruising the First World War face the reader from page one. Tragically, border between the young DP is desperately wounded Confederate South and the medical support 'free' North is woefully poorfraught with danger. The Gallipoli Campaign seems doomed to fail. DP learns For the sake of a debt that the order has been given for the allied troops must be repaid, May is compelled to withdraw to the safety transport secret passengers, under cover of Malta. Distressinglydarkness, across the rescue boats are unreliable river and DP with other casualties and nurseson, find themselves in an impossible position stranded in enemy territoryalong the underground railroad. This fast paced story charts DPBut as May's progress in escaping from the war zonesecrets become harder to keep, in recovering from his injuries, and, in she learns she must endanger those now dear to her.  And to save the most desperate lives of circumstancesothers, finding loveshe must risk her own...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17802742621785762907</amazonuk>

|author= Lynn GuestJenny Ashcroft|title= The Sword of HachimanBeneath a Burning Sky

|summary= Set at Young bride Olivia Sheldon finds returning to her childhood home in Egypt a bitter-sweet experience. On the dawn of the Shogun eraone hand, ''The Sword of Hachiman'' follows two warrior clansshe has been reunited with her estranged sister Clara, and the Minamoto pair have formed a deep and loving bond. On the Tairaother, she has an unhappy marriage to her domineering husband Alistair, who only married her to spite Clara, as they struggle for power under the Emperorwho had refused him previously. At first Life with the Taira are in uneasy controlsadistic Alistair is unbearable, but the three Minamoto sons, separated with Olivia subjected to horrific abuse at birthhis hands, plan to secretly reunite in order to defeat the Taira and avenge their Father's deathdaily. The youngestAs a lady with no means of supporting herself, Yoshitsune, is deemed most worthy and is granted the family heirloomOlivia seems trapped without any means of escape, only finding solace in the Sword company of Hachiman, the War Godher sister and friends. Initiated into love and espionage by a young Taira noblewoman, and tested But when her dear sister goes mysteriously missing in the ferocious hand bustling streets of Alexandria, it is up to Olivia to hand combat that is his birthright, we follow Yoshitsune as he meets his faithful retainer, Benkei, try and as he goes behind solve the scenes mystery of the Cloister court, where two extraordinary women enter his life…her disappearance before it is too late.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18615156340751565032</amazonuk>

|author=Tracey WarrConn Iggulden|title=ConquestDunstan: Daughter One Man Will Change the Fate of the Last KingEngland

|summary=Princess Nest ferch Rhys is The young Dunstan shows no sign of the only legitimate child sainthood he'll later attain. Son of Rhys ap Tewdr (therea Wessex thane and sent to a monastery for education, this isn's t a surname lad who responds to make hist-fict addicts smile!)discipline. However an enquiring, intelligent mind begins to emerge and then comes the big break. Lady Elflaed calls to put a proposal to him after hearing about what she considers to be a miracle and the last king monks consider another in a long line of Deheubarth, Walesexcuses. Playing on Yet Dunstan will outshine all his teachers as well as knowing seven kings and holding responsible positions in their courts, as the beach with her brother one day shebook's captured by Norman soldierstitle suggests. From there she's held hostage by Whether we believe in the noble Montgomery familymiracles or not, loyal Dunstan certainly had quite a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181441</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Simon Edge|title= The Hopkins Conundrum|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Tim Cleverley inherits a failing pub in Wales, which he plans to King William Rufus. rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist to concoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard Manley Hopkins, who composed ''The standard Wreck of captivity in which Nesta is kept isnthe Deutschland''t badnearby. Lady Sybil is particularly kind to her In Victorian England, realising that Nest is still mourning the deaths Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life full of her father confusion and most of her siblings at the hands of men from contradiction, but discovers a calling for poetry that same householdthreatens to overrule his calling to God. There is an ulterior motive though. The object And, speaking of Sybil's attentions is God, Five nuns leave persecution to travel to make Nest a suitable wife for English nobility but she's already promised new world – only to a Welsh prince. Who will Nest actually marry and, find themselves in more importantly, will Nest trouble that they could ever have any say in it?imagined… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>19076058191785630334</amazonuk>

|author=John G SmithAnne O'Brien|title=EugeneThe Shadow Queen

|summary=Eugene is the youngest Born in 1328, Joan of Kent may be of 13 children, born into royal blood but she's from a family tainted by treachery. Her father Edmund Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, was executed for whom his part in the infamous Montague plot. However Joan has grown up under the protection of her cousin, King Edward III with all the future seems assured due advantages and attributes of a princess. Yet, much to their parentsher mother' butchery business in a smalls chagrin, close East Midlands communityobedience isn't one of these attributes. But they canJoan't see what lies ahead: war s head strong feist takes her on a varied journey in the world and between the siblingslife. For EugeneHaving said that, from his birth in the 1920s through the war in Burma three husbands, five marriages (technically) and trying to settle down afterwards, a son destined for the impact will last English throne means that it's also been one heck of a lifetime.life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01LW2XPQP1848455070</amazonuk>

|author=Irina RatushinskayaPatricia Falvey|title=The OdessansGirls of Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish Saga

|summary=The Petrovs, Geibers Ireland 1900: Ennismore House's young heiress Victoria had hoped that she and Teselenkos may all Rosie Killeen would be friends forever. Rosie soon comes to know better as there's a social chasm between those who live as friends in the Ukrainian town of OdessaHouse and those, like Rosie's family, but this is the dawn who have been brought up merely to serve them. The days of the 20th century: changes innocence are afoot that will test their friendship as well as their existencecoming to an end in many ways. Be they Russian establishmentSoon, Russian Jews or Polishas the cry for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, there'll be more than steps on society's ladder between them as each family will see tragedy alongside the birth pangs of must discover their own way in a future Soviet state, not to mention the struggle for survival nation that will never be more successful for some of them than for othersthe same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14736372601786490625</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Clover MoonElaine Everest|authortitle=Jacqueline WilsonThe Butlins Girls|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary=Clover Moon lives Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Cripps Alley, Skegness to start her new job as a slum street in Victorian EnglandButlins auntie. Her father works at Behind the factory smiles and the heavy work confident appearance, she hides a secret; she has taken a toll on his health. He likes the job to drink an ale or two after work, spending money the family can barely affordescape escalating problems at home. Clover's mother died giving birth to She soon finds good friends in her younger sister, Megschalet-mates Bunty and Plum, and it turns out that they each have their own reasons for wanting a wispyfresh start. Meanwhile, shy child. Father married again - Molly is shocked to Mildred, a sharpdiscover that her movie-tongued woman who star crush Johnny Johnson is free with a beating, particularly if working as an entertainment adviser at the beating goes to Clovercamp. Clover has another four halfIs he really as suave as his on-siblings screen persona? And why is he working at the camp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, Molly and her new friends face new threats and it's Clover, rather than Mildred, who takes care of themdangers that may threaten their new-found freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08575327311447295536</amazonuk>

|author= Graham MooreGeraint Jones|title= The Last Days of NightBlood Forest

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