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|author= Polly ClarkHeather Morris|title= LarchfieldThe Tattooist of Auschwitz|rating= 54|genre= Literary Historical Fiction |summary=I It's early summer when a young poetSo, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitz, Dora Fieldingand see the horror there, moves and immediately swear to survive the ordeal to Helensburgh see retribution dealt on those behind it, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the west coast of Scotland and her hopes are first challenged. Newly marriedNazis demand, pregnant, sheto the extent you get the word ''collaborator''s excited by the prospect of muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and get a life job that combines family and creativity. She thinks she knows what being means you're actually a personJew working in the political wing of the SS, a wifeanswerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the place, a mother, means. She is soon shown that she is wrong. As and trade the loot purloined from the battle begins incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for her very sense of selfyou, Dora comes to find under the realities eyes of small town all the camp guards? The man whose real life suffocatingstory inspired this novel did all that, andsurvived to tell the tale, eventually, terrifying; until she finds a way but he also managed to escape reality altogether. Another poet, she discoversdo something even more daring, lived in Helensburgh once. Wystan H. Auden, brilliant and awkward at 24, with his first book of poetry published, should be embarking on success and society unexpected – he dared to invest hope in London. Instead, in 1930, fleeing a broken engagement, he takes a teaching post at Larchfield School for boys where burgeoning love that he is mocked for his Englishness and suspected - rightly - of homosexuality. Yet found in this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in love for the first time, even as he fights his deepest fearscamp.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17864819281785763644</amazonuk>

|author=Dinah JefferiesRachel Halliburton|title=Before the RainsThe Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal|rating=43.5

|summary=Eliza has tragically punctuated childhood memories of India that have feed her desire to returnRachel Halliburton's debut novel opens in London in January 1797. Therefore in 1930Benjamin West, following the death President of her husband, when the British government commission her to photograph scenes of Indian lifeRoyal Academy, she jumps at is reflecting on the chance. What she doesnpast year't realise is s scandal involving the Provises, father and daughter, and worries that not everyone she comes across is delighted with he handled everything poorly. From the idea. Living within start the Sultanabook's opulent palace complex figurative language is definitely an attraction for herappropriately full of colour and painterly techniques: 'He had intended to deal with them honourably, but now everyone in London was saying he had not. It was as is Jayif somebody had dropped a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – the more he prodded and stirred the memory, an Indian price who shows Eliza the real India. However, attractions are sometimes dangerous and even deadlymurkier it became.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412870810715651978</amazonuk>

|author=Otto de Kat and Laura Watkinson (translator)John Banks|title=The Longest NightW|rating=3.54|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Emma has a philosophy – ''let On the dead restslopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, and love the living''. The problem with that, as a 96an 1000-yearold Viking is discovered frozen -old, three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is that there are too few living inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having lefthim angry, unmoored and so while the love remains she will go through her memories, taking with his world in turmoil. Beginning a woozyjourney westward, diaphanous path through all the major events of her life. Starting in wartime Berlin he's filled with one husband, who gets snatched from her at work, fleeing a desire to another place to wait for peace, and wait for him in vain, moving to Holland and finding new love, and so wreak vengeance on – this wispy journey will show all the impacts of war, from rationing right up to exile, death and survivalindividuals he finds morally corrupt. The memories are coming strongly here and now, as Emma is waiting for at least one of her two sons to visit, and then she will die…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570560850983333416</amazonuk>

|author= Adrian GoldsworthyElaine Everest|title= VindolandaChristmas at Woolworths

|summary= AD 98: in ''Christmas at Woolworths'' is the northern fields of Britannia lies Vindolandasequel to wartime saga ''The Woolworths Girls, a Roman auxiliary base situated on '' and continues the edge of story where the Roman worldfirst book left off. Far from Members of the prosperity close-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together and decadence of Romekeep morale high, even though the wild and untamed lands around Vindolanda are ripe with rebel tribes and druids set against future is uncertain. At the destruction heart of Rome and its armies. In the midst neighbourhood, the home of this destruction kindly matriarch Ruby is Flavius Ferox; a Briton beacon where family and friends can gather for good food and Roman Centurion who has been given 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 task of keeping three friends from the first book: Sarah yearns for peace in this desolate edge of and an end to the world. But life in Roman Britain war, Maisie is full of danger desperate for a child and betrayal at every turn, and Ferox knows it will take more than courage Freda would love to overcome what lies aheadfind romance.Will they all get their wishes this Christmas?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849746841509843655</amazonuk>

|author=Jeroen Blokhuis and Asja Novak (translator)Minette Walters|title=The Yellow HouseLast Hours|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Historical Fiction|summary=If you were In June 1348 the needy kind, would you really join in Black Death came into the country through the drumming-out port of town Melcombe in Dorset. Ignorant of two people accused many rules of murder purely because hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, the disease rages through the country. On the estate of their nationality? Would you get a feeling Develish, Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of belonging just because you were there when someone carried a dead dog down the people who lived in the demesne after her husband had ridden off to try and secure a mountain? The main character in this novel doesmarriage for his daughter. But he has something Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the estate and when Lady Anne realised the virulence of the plague she ordered that will really get him noted, well-thought-of, included. He has come to the south of France estate refuse entry to set up an artists' collectiveanyone, where he can live including her husband and work alongside his counterpartsentourage, who can inspire each other and best each other for fear that they would bring the disease to create wonderful arther people. In fact a much-respected guest is on his way now, so surely he can find kinship? The guest's name is, after all, Gauguin. The main character is, of course, Vincent van Gogh…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19073205631760632139</amazonuk>

|author=Antonin Varenne Lars Mytting and Sam Taylor Paul Russell Grant (translatorTranslator)|title=Retribution RoadThe Sixteen Trees of the Somme

|genre=Historical General Fiction |summary=''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard man, he While his grandfather lived the past was something else: a dangerous man.'' If, indeed, there was someone who was ideal an area of certainty for a suicide mission, it was himEdvard. Working as a soldier for the East India Company in the rural, remote, outlaw hotbeds of Asia in the 1850s, At aged 4 he's tasked d been taken to live with taking a boat of unknown prospects up his grandparents, having survived the Irrawaddy to try and combat local warlord Pagan Minaccident that killed his parents. It doesn't go well – Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to start with, light showing Edvard his family history is different from what he'd believed… his mother's supposed to run the rule over ruffians saved from the gallowsbirthplace, but can't command them until hehis mother's forced his way to having name, the knowledge whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and that's without looking more deeply into the mission he needs first, only for all hell to break loosefatal accident itself. But get back he doesEdvard is determined to solve the puzzle, only to find a determination that while will take him away from his nightmares about what really happened are met native Norway to an area of France synonymous with equally dark goings-on, the official record suggests the mission never actually existed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857053744</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Theodore Brun|title=A Mighty Dawn (The Wanderer Chronicles)|rating=3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= A story like this needs a strong central character; it needs a warrior who has conviction, heart devastation and honour. Hakan has all these in abundance, but he didn't get them easily. In this coming of age tale, he goes on a quest to find himself after experiencing the most tremendous of betrayalsremote Scottish island loaded with secrets. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17823999410857056069</amazonuk>

|author=S J Hardman LeaToby Clements|title=The Sins of SoldiersKingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)

|summary=Anson Scott wants to join 1470 dawns and the next chapters of the British army and World War I for a different reason than most of his fellow Americans. He's a journalist wanting the uncensored inside story Roses are ready to send back home; a deadly enterprise as, if the Germans don't get him, the Brits may deem him a spyplay out. Unperturbed he carries his plan through and finds himself on King Edward thinks that the French front in 1916. He future has an ally in British officer David Alexander, which been settled but treachery is just as well since not all his enemies are across no man's landstill lurking. The two men Meanwhile Katherine and Thomas also have their world turned upside down when that ledger and a lot in commonchance comment threaten all they have, more than they know and perhaps more than is good for them as the Somme approachesincluding their lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785890182178089466X</amazonuk>

|author=David GilmanP F Chisholm|title=Viper's Blood Guns in the North (Master of WarThe Sir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)|rating=4.5

|summary=Bowman 1592: Sir Robert Carey flees the strictures of Elizabethan court – and commander Thomas Blackstone is one his creditors – in order to become Deputy Warden of Edward IIIthe West March in Carlisle. The Scottish/English borders and those who inhabit them are different from the world he's greatest weapons, bringing him potentially head left behind but it will have to become his world. It's now his job to bring law to head against the Dauphin once againlawless. However, faced with This isn't easy when every local he comes across has an elongated stale mate, Thomas' role becomes that of scavenger leader as the chances of victory make way for affinity and a greater chance heritage of starvation amongst the armiescrime to some degree. There is a light at For Robert the end of best thing about the tunnel though. Blackstone job is its proximity to go on a trip: an escort mission to Italy, delivering the French Kingwoman he loves but he doesn's daughter Isabelle to Milan and her weddingt know what he'll do about that yet either. Having said Meanwhile he soon realises that, the light at the end of the tunnel may those who are supposed to be an oncoming lance. Isabelleon his side are plotting against him but they don's prospective groom is one of the brothers who killed Thomast realise what they' wife and daughterre up against. Death is definitely on the cards… but whose?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849744631786694719</amazonuk>

|author=Rory ClementsZanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title=CorpusThe House with the Stained-Glass Window|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=A suicidal overdose and Marianna, an opera singer in the soon-to-be Ukrainian city of Lviv, is mistakenly shot dead at a political rally in the murder dying days of upper class Cecil Langley the Soviet Union. This novel begins with both anger and his wife are two events that may be unconnected. However this hope, as Marianna's coffin is England covered in 1936the illegal blue and yellow flag, a magnet for opposing forces and their first moves in preparation for her death seems to herald the coming conflict, assisted or prevented by birth of a royal crisis (depending on which side you're on)new nation. Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into But the middle day of her funeral is also the day of her daughter's first period – a girl who must learn how to be a woman in this accidentally to begin time of drastic change, with but his curiosity has been piqued enough no mother to ensure he's not walking awayguide her along the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17857626130857057138</amazonuk>

|author= Beatrice ColinK J Whittaker|title= To Capture What We Cannot KeepFalse Lights|rating= 4.5

|summary=ParisCornwall, February 1887, and work on 1817. What if your worst mistake changed the foundations course of Eiffel's daring tower is about to begin. Engineer Emile Nouguier, taking photographs history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of Wellington at the site from a tethered hot air balloon for tourists nearby, chances to meet a young widow from Glasgow named Caitriona WallaceBattle of Waterloo, and his own foundations start to shiftex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied England. Over the next two years as the tower slowly rises in the Champ de MarsCornwall erupts into open rebellion, what began as an impossible dream becomes solid reality – Cait and Emileyoung heiress Hester escapes with Crow, Wellington's love for each otherformer intelligence officer, a half-French aristocrat haunted by his part in the catastrophic defeat. In Together, they become embroiled in a world where more than bustles web of treachery and corsets hem her in, will Cait be able espionage as plans are laid to break free of her oppressive futureWellington from secret captivity in the Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the French occupation. In a country rife with traitors, Hester and given their different social strata, can Emile re-shape his?Crow know it is impossible to play such a game as this for long...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17602917221786695340</amazonuk>

|author= Deanna RaybournJ Jefferson Farjeon|title= A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell Mystery)Seven Dead

|summary=Veronica Speedwell did Ted Lyte was petty criminal, but not choose to be an investigator by professionusually the housebreaking type. She was, first and foremost, a scientist; a lepidopterist and adventuress who travelled He lacked the world looking for exciting butterfly specimenscourage. However, when her latest expedition was cancelled due needs must, and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an unfortunate incident isolated house with a giant tortoiseshuttered window. ''...he might find a bit of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the shutters, Veronica but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and her taxidermist friend Stoker took up a woman. Fleeing the challenge of house in horror, he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be a murder investigation as an interesting diversionjournalist. The Fascinated by Ted's story (and a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case seemed to an open-and-shut one; Miles Ramsforth, an art patron, had been accused its assortment of murdering his pregnant mistressodd clues, Artemisia. He was discovered at including a portrait shot through the sceneheart, covered in her blood an old cricket ball and had both the motive and circumstances to commit the crime. He would hang a mysterious note written by the end one of the week if Veronica and Stoker could not find the 'real' killervictims.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04514761580712356886</amazonuk>

|authortitle=Jemima BriggesSalt Creek|titleauthor=Counting the CostLucy Treloar|rating=4.5

|summary=The year is 1794 and we meet our young protagonistfirst chapter of ''Salt Creek'' opens in Chichester, MariaEngland, in desperate circumstances1874. Alone Hester Finch is a respected and terrified, reasonably wealthy member of her community. But she has concluded that can't stop her only option is thoughts wandering back to take her own life by throwing herself into the surging river waters. Months previously, she was cruelly violated by the master of the house where she worked and nowadolescence, spent on Salt Creek Station in the advanced stages of her pregnancy, the future seems bleakremote South Australian Coorong region. Luckily, a pair of gypsy women find Maria and take her in. Following a traumatic labourHester feels ''has never felt so alive as then, Maria becomes desperately ill and when she recovers, her baby is gone. Alone again, Maria is free to start a new life. With a clever disguise, she becomes the dowdy we had so little'Miss Dinchope' and takes a position as a housekeeper for the village rector.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858991391910709417</amazonuk>

|author=Steven BurgauerJamie Ford|title=The Night of The Eleventh SunLove and Other Consolation Prizes|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=At the World's Fair in 1962, it seems that all eyes are focused on the future. The word 'Neanderthal' has become equated Space Needle dominates the landscape, filling people with people deemed anticipation about things to have a backward attitude and outlookcome. But what do we know of the original Neanderthals from over 200One visitor, however,000 years ago? Here American author [[:Category:Steven Burgauer|Steven Burgauer]] melds has his mind firmly focused on the knowledge of anthropologists, archaeologists and historians past. Ernest Young is helping his daughter Ju-ju with the a story she is writing for her newspaper; a story of Strong Arms, his family and their struggle to survive about a young immigrant boy who was given away as a prize in a very effective, and informative wayraffle at the World's Fair in 1909.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14196715450749022752</amazonuk>

|author=Meelis Friedenthal and Matthew Hyde (translator)Nicola Pryce|title=The Willow KingCaptain's Girl|rating=34|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Meet Laurentius. He's a scholar newly arrived in Estonia in the seventeenth centuryLast year, aiming to study more. But things aren't going well for him – a long-standing illness seems to be returningBookbag reviewed, the weather and roads are awfulthoroughly enjoyed, he[[Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's late – and his only friendDaughter]], a parakeetswashbuckling historical romance set in picturesque Cornwall. Now we have the pleasure of reading the much-anticipated sequel. This time, won't even survive the first two days ashore. He's entering story focuses on a weird worldneighbour of the Polcarrow family, what's more – one imbued with evil smellsMiss Celia Cavendish, peopled by strange characters with stranger ideaswho has been engaged to a cruel man that she does not love. Can his modern ideasOne fateful night, she runs away to the Polcarrow house to beg them for help, and thinking about the soul, bear him through his course?pivotal events of that night have far-reaching consequences for all involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17822717401782398856</amazonuk>

|author=Ian RossHawa L Crickmore|title=The Mask of Command (Twilight of Empire)Across the Ocean|rating=54|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary= Warning: spoilers ahead for previous books in the seriesA young cage fighter, Martin Grandson, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder which required a bone-marrow transplant, preferably from a sibling. 305AD: Castus Aurelius Only recently he'd been a fit young man, following in the death prime of his predecessorlife, has been promoted to commander (or vir perfecctissiums) but now he was suffering from a rare type of bone cancer: without the Roman forces at 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 Rhinenext fourteen days. HeUnfortunately Martin's also been ordered to take Crispus, Constantine's son parents had died in a car crash and heir, for the character-building experiencethere were no siblings or other close relatives. That complicates matters as when Castus isn't trying to keep Crispus aliveHis girlfriend, he's finding it difficult to increase his own chance of survivalCelia, especially considering how the last Rhine commander met his endwas not a match.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849752571524666971</amazonuk>

|author= Sophia TobinM J Tjia|title= The VanishingShe Be Damned|rating=34|genre= Crime (Historical Fiction) |summary=1814. In the middle of London, 1863: prostitutes in the Yorkshire Moors in an isolated spot lies White WindowsWaterloo area are turning up dead, a house shadowed in mystery their sexual organs mutilated and intrigueremoved. Living in this desolate household is Marcus TwentymanWhen another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a hard drinking loss and complicated man so it falls to courtesan and his sisterprofessional detective, the hardened widow Hester. Brought to White Windows is AnnaleighHeloise Chancey, a young runaway from London who has come to Yorkshire to be investigate. With the new housekeeper assistance of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the Twentyman's with truth. But when Amah is implicated in the hope of leaving her painful past behind her. At firstbrutal plot, Annaleigh believes she may have found sanctuary but soon realises Heloise must reconsider whom she has become entangled in a web of conspiracy and dangercan trust, leaving her trapped and more alone than everbefore the killer strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471151603178507931X</amazonuk>

|author= Mary GibsonSarah Franklin|title=Bourbon Creams and Tattered Dreams (The Factory Girls)Shelter|rating= 45

|summary=Where did it all go wrong? Only Connie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge in the Women's Timber Corps. For her, this remote community must now serve a short time agosecret purpose.<br>Seppe, Matty Gilbie was a star an Italian prisoner of the silver screen with a glittering future predicted for herwar, is haunted by his memories. As In the 'Cockney Canary'forest camp, her melodic singing voice and stunning good looks had ensured that her first foray into movies was he finds a runaway successstrange kind of freedom. Unfortunately that success came with a price: Matty's business partner Frank Rossi frittered away their money and turned violent and controllingTheir meeting signals new beginnings. Bruised and battered from a particularly vicious beating from FrankBut as they are drawn together, Matty secretly makes her escape back to her home in Bermondsey, and the comfort of family and friendsworld outside their forest haven is being torn apart. Frank is not one to be crossed, howeverOld certainties are crumbling, and vows both must now make a life-defining choice.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to do whatever it takes to win Matty back. Can she ever be truly freeprotect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849733351785762990</amazonuk>

|author=Shirley McKayJane Johnson|title=1588: A Calendar Court of Crime (A Hew Cullan Mystery)Lions|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction |summary=A lot of crime happens in St Andrews during 1588 and therefore Kate Fordham arrived in the life sunlit city of law lecturer and local investigator Hew Cullen tooGranada a year ago. As we travel through In the year with himshadow of the Alhambra, his recently wedded English wife Francesone of the most beautiful places on earth, doctor brother she works as a waitress serving tourists in law Giles a busy bar. She pretends she's happy with her new life – but how could she be? Kate's alone, afraid and his sister Meghiding under a false name. And fate is about to bring her face-to-face with her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, the wise womana message, in a hand few could read, we also encounter some was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of his most interesting casespaper. In fact there's The paper was folded and pressed into one to match each of the yearAlhambra's big festivals: Candlemaswalls. There it has lain, Whitsunundisturbed by the tides of history – the Fall of Granada, Lammasthe expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of love, Martinmas in a time of danger and Yuledesperation, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18469736351786694336</amazonuk>

|author=Lesley LokkoAngus Watson|title=The Last DebutanteYou Die When You Die|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In 1936 in Chalfont Hall in Dorset young Kit Algernon-Waters can't really understand what's going on: at thirteen years old she's been banished to have supper in Finnbogi the nursery Boggy and his tribe of mushroom men (Vikings) must take a road trip through hostile territory whilst everyone else is dining downstairs with being hunted by the guests. Even her elder sister, Lily, who's sixteen is dining with these unnamed 'guests'. Kit has tapped all her usual sources to find out who the visitors are, but to no avail. All she's managed to work out greatest fighting force ever seen (well, let's be honest 'find out by eavesdropping' is closer to the truthAmazonian Native Americans) is that the visitors are German. Kit's parents, Lord and Lady Wharton, are short Vikings meet Native Americans in a clash of money cultures and it's important that at least one potentially the end of their daughters makes a good marriagethe world. Six months later Lily is married to one When the Queen of the German, living in some style in Germany. Within a couple of years she's mixing with some dubious company, including Unity Mitford. It was even rumoured that she'd met Hitlerknown world says your tribe has to be exterminated then your immediate future may not be so rosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140914254X0356507564</amazonuk>

|author=Stef PenneyAlison Weir|title=Under a Pole StarSix Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession: Six Tudor Queens 2

|summary=1948: Elderly Flora Mackie is invited on a press trip Thomas Boleyn sends his daughters abroad to be trained at the North Pole; a trip that takes her back through her lifecourts of European royalty. Flora remembers her childhood with her father on whaling ships Not only does this give them an education in the seas around Greenlandways of the elite, her it could also ensure a good marriage born . Unfortunately he hasn't reckoned on the ideas that one of ambition them, Anne, picks up and misaligned lust and the result: the Arctic exploration team she led in the late 19th centuryas for marriage… Anne is determined to marry for love not through some paternal arrangement. This was Yet the reality turns out to be different, driving a trip that had many knock-wedge through her family on effects including death and lovea road leading to dark tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786481162147222762X</amazonuk>

|author= Morgan McCarthyMartha Conway|title= The House of BirdsFloating Theatre|rating= 4.5

|summary=Oliver has spent years trying to convince himself that he's suited to a life When young seamstress May Bedloe is left alone and penniless on the shore of money making in the cityOhio, she finds work on the famous floating theatre that plies its trade along the river. Her creativity and that he doesn't miss a childhood spent in pursuit needlework skills quickly become invaluable and she settles into life among the colourful troupe of mysteryactors. She finds friends, when he cycled around and possibly the cobbled lanes promise of Oxford, exploring its most intriguing cornersmore. When his girlfriend Kate inherits a derelict house - But cruising the border between the Confederate South and a fierce family feud - shethe 'free's determined to strip it, sell it and move onNorth is fraught with danger. For Oliver thoughthe sake of a debt that must be repaid, the house has an allureMay is compelled to transport secret passengers, and amongst the shelves under cover of a discardeddarkness, leather bound across the river and gilded volumeson, he discovers one that conceals a hidden diary from along the 1920sunderground railroad. So begins a quest But as May's secrets become harder to keep, she learns she must endanger those now dear to her.  And to discover save the identity lives of the authorothers, Sophia Louisshe must risk her own.. It is a portrait of war and marriage, isolation and longing and a story that will shape the future of the abandoned house - and of Oliver - forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14722058471785762907</amazonuk>

|author= Jacquelyn BensonJenny Ashcroft|title= The Smoke HunterBeneath a Burning Sky

|summary= Eleanora Mallory is an educated young woman living Young bride Olivia Sheldon finds returning to her childhood home in Victorian London but Egypt a bitter-sweet experience. On the one hand, she is restricted by has been reunited with her estranged sister Clara, and the pair have formed a deep and loving bond. On the strict social codes of other, she has an unhappy marriage to her domineering husband Alistair, who only married her to spite Clara, who had refused him previously. Life with the late nineteenth-centurysadistic Alistair is unbearable, with Olivia subjected to horrific abuse at his hands, daily. She's As a historianlady with no means of supporting herself, a suffragetteOlivia seems trapped without any means of escape, only finding solace in the company of her sister and friends. But when her dear sister goes mysteriously missing in the bustling streets of Alexandria, it is years ahead up to Olivia to try and solve the mystery of her time much to disappearance before it is too late.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751565032</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Conn Iggulden|title=Dunstan: One Man Will Change the chagrin Fate of England|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The young Dunstan shows no sign of her male work colleagues at the Public Records Officesainthood he'll later attain. After losing her job Son of a Wessex thane and finding sent to a mysterious map abandoned on her former employermonastery for education, this isn's deskt a lad who responds to discipline. However an enquiring, Ellie decides intelligent mind begins to take a chance at an adventureemerge and then comes the big break. She packs her bags and sets off on Lady Elflaed calls to put a journey proposal to him after hearing about what she considers to Central America, where be a miracle and the map shows the way to monks consider another in a legendary historical citylong line of excuses. It Yet Dunstan will outshine all his teachers as well as knowing seven kings and holding responsible positions in their courts, as the book's title suggests. Whether we believe in the expedition of miracles or not, Dunstan certainly had quite a life time, but little does Ellie know that a team of fortune hunters are hot on her trail.!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14722383460718181441</amazonuk>

|author= Angus MacDonaldSimon Edge|title= Ardnish Was Home: A NovelThe Hopkins Conundrum|rating= 45|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=A tiny peninsular lying on 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 west coast Deutschland'' nearby. In Victorian England, Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life full of Scotlandconfusion and contradiction, Ardnish provides but discovers a beautiful setting calling for a book poetry that entices the reader threatens to overrule his calling to devour it all in one sittingGod. Duncan Peter Gillies (DP And, speaking of God, Five nuns leave persecution to travel to friends and family) leaves Ardnish as a young man new world – only to sign up for the Lovat Scouts find themselves in 1915more trouble that they could ever have imagined… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785630334</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anne O'Brien|title=The Shadow Queen|rating=4. What 5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Born in 1328, Joan of Kent may be of royal blood but she's from a tragically sweet story is to follow! Posted to Gallipolifamily tainted by treachery. Her father Edmund Woodstock, brutal scenes 1st Earl of Kent, was executed for his part in the infamous Montague plot. However Joan has grown up under the realities protection of the First World War face the reader from page one. Tragicallyher cousin, King Edward III with all the young DP is desperately wounded advantages and the medical support is woefully poorattributes of a princess. The Gallipoli Campaign seems doomed Yet, much to failher mother's chagrin, obedience isn't one of these attributes. Joan's head strong feist takes her on a varied journey in life. DP learns Having said that , three husbands, five marriages (technically) and a son destined for the order has English throne means that it's also been given for the allied troops to withdraw to the safety one heck of a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848455070</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Patricia Falvey|title=The Girls of MaltaEnnismore: A Heart-Rending Irish Saga|rating=4. Distressingly, the rescue boats are unreliable 5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Ireland 1900: Ennismore House's young heiress Victoria had hoped that she and DP with other casualties and nurses, find themselves in an impossible position stranded in enemy territoryRosie Killeen would be friends forever. This fast paced story charts DP Rosie soon comes to know better as there's progress a social chasm between those who live in escaping from the war zoneHouse and those, like Rosie's family, who have been brought up merely to serve them. The days of innocence are coming to an end in recovering from his injuriesmany ways. Soon, andas the cry for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, there'll be more than steps on society's ladder between them as each must discover their own way in a nation that will never be the most desperate of circumstances, finding lovesame again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17802742621786490625</amazonuk>

|author= Lynn GuestElaine Everest|title= The Sword of HachimanButlins Girls

|summary= Set at the dawn of Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness to start her new job as a Butlins auntie. Behind the Shogun era, ''The Sword of Hachiman'' follows two warrior clans, the Minamoto smiles and the Tairaconfident appearance, as they struggle for power under she hides a secret; she has taken the Emperorjob to escape escalating problems at home. At first the Taira are She soon finds good friends in uneasy control, but the three Minamoto sons, separated at birthher chalet-mates Bunty and Plum, plan to secretly reunite in order to defeat the Taira and avenge it turns out that they each have their Father's deathown reasons for wanting a fresh start. The youngest, YoshitsuneMeanwhile, Molly is deemed most worthy and is granted the family heirloom, the Sword of Hachiman, the War God. Initiated into love and espionage by a young Taira noblewoman, and tested in the ferocious hand shocked to hand combat discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is his birthright, we follow Yoshitsune working as an entertainment adviser at the camp. Is he meets really as suave as his faithful retainer, Benkei, and as on-screen persona? And why is he goes behind the scenes of working at the Cloister courtcamp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, where two extraordinary women enter his life…Molly and her new friends face new threats and dangers that may threaten their new-found freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18615156341447295536</amazonuk>

|author=Tracey WarrGeraint Jones|title=Conquest: Daughter of the Last KingBlood Forest|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|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 of Deheubarth, WalesFelix. Playing on the beach with her brother The lucky one day she's captured by Norman soldiers. From there she's held hostage by the noble Montgomery family, loyal to King William Rufus. The standard of captivity in which Nesta is kept isnHe doesn't bad. Lady Sybil is particularly kind to her, realising that Nest is still mourning feel especially lucky when he staggers out into the deaths grove and finds twelve of her father his comrades butchered and most of her siblings at mutilated in the hands of men from that same householdworst possible ways. There is an ulterior motive thoughHe felt even less lucky when the soldiers arrived, Roman cavalry. The object of SybilHe might have run, but he knew he's attentions is to d never make Nest a suitable wife for English nobility but she's already promised it. He stepped out to a Welsh princeface whatever came next. Who will Nest actually marry and, more importantly, will Nest have any say in it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19076058190718184815</amazonuk>