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|author=Jeroen Blokhuis and Asja Novak (translator)Heather Morris|title=The Yellow HouseTattooist of Auschwitz|rating=34|genre=Literary Historical Fiction|summary=If So, you were arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see the horror there, and immediately swear to survive the needy kindordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind it, would but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you really join get to work diligently as the Nazis demand, to the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and get a job that means you're actually a Jew working in the drumming-out political wing of town of two people accused of murder purely because of their nationalitythe SS, answerable to Berlin? Would Do you dare get a feeling contacts with civilian workers building the place, and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for you, under the eyes of belonging just because you were there when someone carried a dead dog down off a mountainall the camp guards? The main character in man whose real life story inspired this novel does. But he has something did all that will really get him noted, well-thought-of, included. He has come and survived to tell the south of France to set up an artists' collectivetale, where but he can live and work alongside his counterpartsalso managed to do something even more daring, who can inspire each other and best each other unexpected – he dared to create wonderful artinvest hope in a burgeoning love that he found in the camp. In fact a much|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785763644</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rachel Halliburton|title=The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-respected guest century scandal|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens in London in January 1797. Benjamin West, President of the Royal Academy, is reflecting on his way nowthe past year's scandal involving the Provises, father and daughter, so surely and worries that he can find kinship? The guesthandled everything poorly. From the start the book's name figurative language isappropriately full of colour and painterly techniques: 'He had intended to deal with them honourably, after all, Gauguinbut now everyone in London was saying he had not. The main character is, It was as if somebody had dropped a small amount of courseivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – the more he prodded and stirred the memory, Vincent van Gogh…the murkier it became.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19073205630715651978</amazonuk>

|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)John Banks|title=Retribution RoadW|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction |summary=''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard manOn the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, he was something else: a dangerous manan 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration.'' IfJosh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, indeed, there was someone who was ideal for a suicide mission, it was himunmoored and with his world in turmoil. Working as Beginning a soldier for the East India Company in the rural, remote, outlaw hotbeds of Asia in the 1850sjourney westward, he's tasked filled with taking a boat of unknown prospects up the Irrawaddy desire to try and combat local warlord Pagan Min. It doesn't go well – to start with, he's supposed to run the rule over ruffians saved from the gallows, but can't command them until he's forced his way to having wreak vengeance on the knowledge of the mission individuals he needs first, only for all hell to break loosefinds morally corrupt. But get back he does, only to find that while his nightmares about what really happened are met with equally dark goings-on, the official record suggests the mission never actually existed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570537440983333416</amazonuk>

|author=Theodore BrunElaine Everest|title=A Mighty Dawn (The Wanderer Chronicles)Christmas at Woolworths|rating=3.5

|summary= A story like this needs a strong central character; it needs a warrior who has conviction''Christmas at Woolworths'' is the sequel to wartime saga ''The Woolworths Girls, heart '' and honourcontinues the story where the first book left off. Hakan has all these Members of the close-knit community in abundanceErith are doing their best to pull together and keep morale high, but he didn't get them easilyeven though the future is uncertain. In this coming At the heart of the neighbourhood, the home of age talekindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where family and friends can gather for good food and conversation: a way to forget the troubles outside. Spirits remain high; even when the bombs are falling so close to home. We catch up with the three friends from the first book: Sarah yearns for peace and an end to the war, he goes on Maisie is desperate for a quest child and Freda would love to find himself after experiencing the most tremendous of betrayalsromance. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17823999411509843655</amazonuk>

|author=S J Hardman LeaMinette Walters|title=The Sins of SoldiersLast Hours|rating=4.5

|summary=Anson Scott wants to join In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the British army and World War I for a different reason than most port of his fellow AmericansMelcombe in Dorset. HeIgnorant of many rules of hygiene which we's a journalist wanting d find basic nearly seven hundred years later, the disease rages through the country. On the uncensored inside story to send back home; a deadly enterprise asestate of Develish, if Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of the Germans don't get him, people who lived in the Brits may deem him demesne after her husband had ridden off to try and secure a spymarriage for his daughter. Unperturbed he carries his plan through Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the estate and finds himself on when Lady Anne realised the virulence of the plague she ordered that the French front in 1916. He has an ally in British officer David Alexanderestate refuse entry to anyone, which is just as well since not all including her husband and his enemies are across no man's land. The two men have a lot in commonentourage, more than for fear that they know and perhaps more than is good for them as would bring the Somme approachesdisease to her people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858901821760632139</amazonuk>

|author=David GilmanLars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)|title=Viper's Blood (Master The Sixteen Trees of War)the Somme|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Bowman and commander Thomas Blackstone is one While his grandfather lived the past was an area of Edward IIIcertainty for Edvard. At aged 4 he's greatest weapons, bringing him potentially head d been taken to head against the Dauphin once again. However, faced live with an elongated stale matehis grandparents, Thomas' role becomes having survived the accident that of scavenger leader as the chances of victory make way for a greater chance of starvation amongst the armieskilled his parents. There is a Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to light at the end of the tunnel though. Blackstone showing Edvard his family history is to go on a trip: an escort mission to Italydifferent from what he'd believed… his mother's birthplace, delivering the French Kinghis mother's daughter Isabelle to Milan and her wedding. Having said thatname, the light at the end whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and that's without looking more deeply into the tunnel may be an oncoming lancefatal accident itself. Isabelle's prospective groom Edvard is one determined to solve the puzzle, a determination that will take him away from his native Norway to an area of the brothers who killed Thomas' wife France synonymous with devastation and daughtera remote Scottish island loaded with secrets. Death is definitely on the cards… but whose?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849744630857056069</amazonuk>

|author=Rory Toby Clements|title=CorpusKingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)

|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=A suicidal overdose 1470 dawns and the murder next chapters of upper class Cecil Langley and his wife the War of the Roses are two events ready to play out. King Edward thinks that may be unconnectedthe future has been settled but treachery is still lurking. However this is England in 1936, a magnet for opposing forces Meanwhile Katherine and Thomas also have their first moves in preparation for the coming conflictworld turned upside down when that ledger and a chance comment threaten all they have, assisted or prevented by a royal crisis (depending on which side you're on). 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 awayincluding their lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762613178089466X</amazonuk>

|author= Beatrice ColinP F Chisholm|title= To Capture What We Cannot KeepGuns in the North (The Sir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Paris, February 1887, and work on 1592: Sir Robert Carey flees the foundations strictures of Eiffel's daring tower is about to begin. Engineer Emile Nouguier, taking photographs of the site from a tethered hot air balloon for tourists nearby, chances to meet a young widow from Glasgow named Caitriona Wallace, Elizabethan court – and his own foundations start creditors – in order to shift. Over become Deputy Warden of the next two years as the tower slowly rises West March in Carlisle. The Scottish/English borders and those who inhabit them are different from the Champ de Mars, what began as an impossible dream becomes solid reality – Cait and Emileworld he's love for each other. In a world where more than bustles and corsets hem her in, left behind but it will Cait be able have to break free of her oppressive future, and given their different social strata, can Emile re-shape become his world. It's now his?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760291722</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Deanna Raybourn|title= A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell Mystery)|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Veronica Speedwell did not choose job to bring law to be an investigator by profession. She was, first and foremost, a scientist; a lepidopterist and adventuress who travelled the world looking for exciting butterfly specimenslawless. However, This isn't easy when her latest expedition was cancelled due to every local he comes across has an unfortunate incident with affinity and a giant tortoise, Veronica and her taxidermist friend Stoker took up the challenge heritage of a murder investigation as an interesting diversion. The case seemed crime to an open-and-shut one; Miles Ramsforth, an art patron, had been accused of murdering his pregnant mistress, Artemisiasome degree. He was discovered at For Robert the scene, covered in her blood and had both best thing about the motive and circumstances job is its proximity to commit the crimewoman he loves but he doesn't know what he'll do about that yet either. He would hang by the end of the week if Veronica and Stoker could not find the Meanwhile he soon realises that those who are supposed to be on his side are plotting against him but they don'realt realise what they' killerre up against. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>04514761581786694719</amazonuk>

|author=Jemima BriggesZanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title=Counting The House with the CostStained-Glass Window

|summary=The year is 1794 and we meet our young protagonist, MariaMarianna, an opera singer in desperate circumstances. Alone and terrifiedthe soon-to-be Ukrainian city of Lviv, she has concluded that her only option is to take her own life by throwing herself into mistakenly shot dead at a political rally in the surging river waters. Months previously, she was cruelly violated by the master dying days of the house where she worked Soviet Union. This novel begins with both anger and nowhope, as Marianna's coffin is covered in the advanced stages of her pregnancy, the future seems bleak. Luckily, a pair of gypsy women find Maria illegal blue and take her in. Following a traumatic labouryellow flag, Maria becomes desperately ill and when she recovers, her baby is gone. Alone again, Maria is free death seems to start herald the birth of a new lifenation. With a clever disguise, she becomes But the day of her funeral is also the dowdy day of her daughter'Miss Dinchope' and takes s first period – a position as girl who must learn how to be a housekeeper for woman in this time of drastic change, with no mother to guide her along the village rectorway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858991390857057138</amazonuk>

|author=Steven BurgauerK J Whittaker|title=The Night of The Eleventh SunFalse Lights|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The word 'Neanderthal' has become equated with people deemed to have a backward attitude and outlookCornwall, 1817. But what do we know  What if your worst mistake changed the course of history? Napoleon has crushed the original Neanderthals from over 200,000 years ago? Here American author [[:Category:Steven Burgauer|Steven Burgauer]] melds Duke of Wellington at the knowledge Battle of anthropologistsWaterloo, archaeologists and historians 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 half-French aristocrat haunted by his part in the story catastrophic defeat. Together, they become embroiled in a web of Strong Arms, his family treachery and their struggle espionage as plans are laid to survive free Wellington from secret captivity in the Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the French occupation. In a very effectivecountry rife with traitors, Hester and informative wayCrow know it is impossible to play such a game as this for long...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14196715451786695340</amazonuk>

|author=Meelis Friedenthal and Matthew Hyde (translator)J Jefferson Farjeon|title=The Willow KingSeven Dead|rating=34|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Meet LaurentiusTed Lyte was petty criminal, but not usually the housebreaking type. He's a scholar newly arrived in Estonia in lacked the seventeenth centurycourage. However, aiming needs must, and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to study moretry his chances at an isolated house with a shuttered window. But things aren't going well for him – '...he might find a long-standing illness seems to be returning, bit of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the weather and roads are awfulshutters, but it definitely isn't what he's late – d hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and his only frienda woman. Fleeing the house in horror, he is pursued and caught by a parakeetpassing yachtsman, won't even survive the first two days ashoreThomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be a journalist. HeFascinated by Ted's entering story (and a weird worldpossible scoop), what's more – one imbued with evil smellsHazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and its assortment of odd clues, peopled by strange characters with stranger ideas. Can his modern ideasincluding a portrait shot through the heart, an old cricket ball and thinking about a mysterious note written by one of the soul, bear him through his course?victims.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17822717400712356886</amazonuk>

|authortitle=Ian RossSalt Creek|titleauthor=The Mask of Command (Twilight of Empire)Lucy Treloar|rating=4.5

|summary= Warning: spoilers ahead for previous books The first chapter of ''Salt Creek'' opens in the series. 305AD: Castus AureliusChichester, following the death of his predecessorEngland, has been promoted to commander (or vir perfecctissiums) in 1874. Hester Finch is a respected and reasonably wealthy member of the Roman forces at the Rhineher community. HeBut she can's also been ordered t stop her thoughts wandering back to take Crispusher adolescence, Constantine's son and heir, for spent on Salt Creek Station in the character-building experienceremote South Australian Coorong region. That complicates matters Hester feels ''has never felt so alive as then, when Castus isnwe had so little't trying to keep Crispus alive, he's finding it difficult to increase his own chance of survival, especially considering how the last Rhine commander met his end.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849752571910709417</amazonuk>

|author= Sophia TobinJamie Ford|title= The VanishingLove and Other Consolation Prizes|rating=35

|summary=1814At the World's Fair in 1962, it seems that all eyes are focused on the future. In the middle of The Space Needle dominates the Yorkshire Moors in an isolated spot lies White Windowslandscape, a house shadowed in mystery and intriguefilling people with anticipation about things to come. Living in this desolate household is Marcus TwentymanOne visitor, however, a hard drinking and complicated man and has his sister, mind firmly focused on the hardened widow Hesterpast. Brought to White Windows Ernest Young is helping his daughter Ju-ju with a story she is Annaleigh, writing for her newspaper; a story about a young runaway from London immigrant boy who has come to Yorkshire to be the new housekeeper to was given away as a prize in a raffle at the TwentymanWorld's with the hope of leaving her painful past behind her. At first, Annaleigh believes she may have found sanctuary but soon realises she has become entangled Fair in a web of conspiracy and danger, leaving her trapped and more alone than ever1909.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711516030749022752</amazonuk>

|author= Mary GibsonNicola Pryce|title=Bourbon Creams and Tattered Dreams (The Factory Girls)Captain's Girl

|summary=Where did it all go wrong? Only Last year, Bookbag reviewed, and thoroughly enjoyed, [[Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's Daughter]], a short swashbuckling historical romance set in picturesque Cornwall. Now we have the pleasure of reading the much-anticipated sequel. This time ago, Matty Gilbie was the story focuses on a star neighbour of the silver screen with a glittering future predicted for her. As the 'Cockney Canary'Polcarrow family, Miss Celia Cavendish, her melodic singing voice and stunning good looks had ensured that her first foray into movies was who has been engaged to a runaway success. Unfortunately cruel man that success came with a price: Matty's business partner Frank Rossi frittered away their money and turned violent and controllingshe does not love. Bruised and battered from a particularly vicious beating from FrankOne fateful night, Matty secretly makes her escape back she runs away to her home in Bermondseythe Polcarrow house to beg them for help, and the comfort pivotal events of family and friendsthat night have far-reaching consequences for all involved. Frank is not one to be crossed, however, and vows to do whatever it takes to win Matty back. Can she ever be truly free?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849733351782398856</amazonuk>

|author=Shirley McKayHawa L Crickmore|title=1588: A Calendar of Crime (A Hew Cullan Mystery)Across the Ocean|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=A lot of crime happens in St Andrews during 1588 and therefore in the life of law lecturer and local investigator Hew Cullen tooyoung cage fighter, Martin Grandson, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder which required a bone-marrow transplant, preferably from a sibling. As we travel through the year with him, his Only recently wedded English wife Franceshe'd been a fit young man, doctor brother in law Giles and his sister Meg, the wise womanprime of life, we also encounter some but now he was suffering from a rare type of his most interesting casesbone cancer: without the transplant he would be paralysed for life and might be dead within the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive the transplant within the next fourteen days. In fact thereUnfortunately Martin's one to match each of the year's big festivals: Candlemasparents had died in a car crash and there were no siblings or other close relatives. His girlfriend, WhitsunCelia, Lammas, Martinmas and Yulewas not a match.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18469736351524666971</amazonuk>

|author=Lesley LokkoM J Tjia|title=The Last DebutanteShe Be Damned|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction) |summary=In 1936 in Chalfont Hall in Dorset young Kit Algernon-Waters can't really understand what's going onLondon, 1863: at thirteen years old she's been banished to have supper prostitutes in the nursery whilst everyone else is dining downstairs with Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the guestskiller may have claimed their latest victim. Even her elder sisterThe police are at a loss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, LilyHeloise Chancey, who's sixteen is dining with these unnamed 'guests'to investigate. Kit has tapped all With the assistance of her usual sources to find out who the visitors aretrusty Chinese maid, but to no avail. All she's managed to work out (wellAmah Li Leen, let's be honest 'find out by eavesdropping' is Heloise inches closer to the truth) is that the visitors are German. Kit's parents, Lord and Lady Wharton, are short of money and it's important that at least one of their daughters makes a good marriage. Six months later Lily But when Amah is married to one of implicated in the Germanbrutal plot, living in some style in Germany. Within a couple of years Heloise must reconsider whom she's mixing with some dubious companycan trust, including Unity Mitford. It was even rumoured that she'd met Hitlerbefore the killer strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140914254X178507931X</amazonuk>

|author=Stef PenneySarah Franklin|title=Under a Pole StarShelter|rating=45|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1948: Elderly Flora Mackie is invited on a press trip to Connie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge in the North Pole; Women's Timber Corps. For her, this remote community must now serve a trip that takes her back through her lifesecret purpose.<br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner of war, is haunted by his memories. Flora remembers her childhood with her father on whaling ships in In the seas around Greenlandforest camp, her marriage born he finds a strange kind of ambition and misaligned lust and freedom.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are drawn together, the result: the Arctic exploration team she led in the late 19th centuryworld outside their forest haven is being torn apart. This was Old certainties are crumbling, and both must now make a trip that had many knocklife-on effects including death and lovedefining choice.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17864811621785762990</amazonuk>

|author= Morgan McCarthyJane Johnson|title= The House Court of BirdsLions|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Oliver has spent years trying to convince himself that he's suited to a life of money making Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city, and that he doesn't miss of Granada a childhood spent in pursuit year ago. In the shadow of mysterythe Alhambra, when he cycled around one of the cobbled lanes of Oxfordmost beautiful places on earth, exploring its most intriguing corners. When his girlfriend Kate inherits 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 of her time much to potentially the chagrin end of her male work colleagues at the Public Records Office. After losing her job and finding a mysterious map abandoned on her former employer's desk, Ellie decides to take a chance at an adventureworld. She packs her bags and sets off on a journey to Central America, where When the map shows Queen of the way known world says your tribe has to a legendary historical city. It's the expedition of a life time, but little does Ellie know that a team of fortune hunters are hot on her trailbe exterminated then your immediate future may not be so rosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14722383460356507564</amazonuk>

|author= Angus MacDonaldAlison Weir|title= Ardnish Was HomeSix Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn: A NovelKing's Obsession: Six Tudor Queens 2|rating= 4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Thomas Boleyn sends his daughters abroad to be trained at the courts of European royalty. Not only does this give them an education in the ways of the elite, it could also ensure a good marriage. Unfortunately he hasn't reckoned on the ideas that one of them, 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, driving a wedge through her family on a road leading to dark tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147222762X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Martha Conway|title= The Floating Theatre|rating= 5

|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 only legitimate child of Rhys ap Tewdr (there's a surname to make hist-fict addicts smile!), the last king The young Dunstan shows no sign of Deheubarth, Wales. Playing on the beach with her brother one day shesainthood he's captured by Norman soldiersll later attain. From there she's held hostage by the noble Montgomery familySon of a Wessex thane and sent to a monastery for education, loyal to King William Rufus. The standard of captivity in which Nesta is kept this isn't bada lad who responds to discipline. Lady Sybil is particularly kind However an enquiring, intelligent mind begins to her, realising that Nest is still mourning the deaths of her father emerge and most of her siblings at then comes the hands of men from that same householdbig break. There is an ulterior motive though. The object of Sybil's attentions is Lady Elflaed calls to make Nest put a suitable wife for English nobility but proposal to him after hearing about what she's already promised considers to be a Welsh princemiracle and the monks consider another in a long line of excuses. Who Yet Dunstan will Nest actually marry outshine all his teachers as well as knowing seven kings andholding responsible positions in their courts, more importantlyas the book's title suggests. Whether we believe in the miracles or not, will Nest have any say in it?Dunstan certainly had quite a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19076058190718181441</amazonuk>

|author=John G SmithSimon Edge|title=EugeneThe Hopkins Conundrum|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Tim Cleverley inherits a 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 composed ''The Wreck of the Deutschland'' nearby. In Victorian England, Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life full of confusion and contradiction, but discovers a calling for poetry that threatens to overrule his calling to God. And, speaking of God, Five nuns leave persecution to travel to a new world – only to find themselves in more trouble that they could ever have imagined… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785630334</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anne O'Brien|title=The 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

|summary=''The night-time of our ancestors is ending. Electric light is our futureFelix. The man who controls it will not simply make an unimaginable fortunelucky one. He will not simply dictate politics… The man who controls electricity will control the very sun in the sky.'' Graham Mooredoesn's latest novel is set in 19th Century New York City following t feel especially lucky when he staggers out into the War of the Currents immediately after the discovery of electricity. Paul Cravath is a young lawyer, recently graduated from Columbia Law School, who grove and finds himself at the centre twelve of the biggest lawsuit his comrades butchered and mutilated in American history to date: who invented the light bulbworst possible ways. Enlisted to defend George Westinghouse against 312 lawsuits and a sum of one billion dollars, Paul embarks on a seemingly impossible case to win. Going up against He felt even less lucky when the incredibly intelligent and extremely resourceful Thomas Edisonsoldiers arrived, who has newspapers at his disposal and the support of JRoman cavalry.P. Morgan himself, Paul is nonetheless determined to win by any means necessary. In his unwavering quest for victory, Paul encounters Nikola Tesla, the eccentric genius, who could He might have the power to stop Edisonrun, Alexander Bell, the inventor of the telephone and only one to beat Edison before, as well as Agnes Huntington, the astonishingly beautiful opera singerbut he knew he'd never make it. With the stakes so high, Paul will discover that everyone is desperate He stepped out to win, setting in motion their own plans with disastrous consequencesface whatever came next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711566640718184815</amazonuk>