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|author= Emma HendersonHeather Morris|title= The Valentine HouseTattooist of Auschwitz|rating= 4|genre= Literary Historical Fiction|summary= In June 1914So, Sir Anthony Valentineyou arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitz, a keen mountaineerand see the horror there, arrives with his family and immediately swear to spend survive the summer in their chaletordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind it, high in but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the French Alps. ThereNazis demand, for to the first time, fourteen-year-old foundling Mathilde starts work as one of extent you get the word 'uglies' - village girls employed as servants collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and picked, it is believed, to ensure they donget a job that means you't catch Sir Anthony's roving eye. For Mathilde it is re actually a Jew working in the start political wing of a life-long entanglement the SS, answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with les anglais - strangecivilian workers building the place, exciting peopleand trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for you, far removed from under the hard grind eyes of farming. Except she soon finds all the Valentines are less carefree than they appearcamp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, with a curiously absent daughter no one talks about. It will be decades - disrupted by war, accidents and a cruel betrayal - before Mathilde discovers the key survived to tell the mystery. And in 1976tale, the year Sir Anthony's great-great grandson comes but he also managed to visitdo something even more daring, she must decide whether and unexpected – he dared to use itinvest hope in a burgeoning love that he found in the camp.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14447040281785763644</amazonuk>

|author= Polly ClarkRachel Halliburton|title= Larchfield|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary=I It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland and her hopes are first challenged. Newly married, pregnant, she's excited by the prospect of a life that combines family and creativity. She thinks she knows what being a person, a wife, a mother, means. She is soon shown that she is wrong. As the battle begins for her The Optickal Illusion: A very sense of self, Dora comes to find the realities of small town life suffocating, and, eventually, terrifying; until she finds a way to escape reality altogether. Another poet, she discovers, 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 in London. Instead, in 1930, fleeing a broken engagement, he takes a teaching post at Larchfield School for boys where he is mocked for his Englishness and suspected eighteenth- rightly - of homosexuality. Yet in this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in love for the first time, even as he fights his deepest fears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786481928</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dinah Jefferies|title=Before the Rainscentury 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 devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with equally dark goings-on, the official record suggests the mission never actually existed…secrets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570537440857056069</amazonuk>

|author=Theodore BrunToby Clements|title=A Mighty Dawn Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (The Wanderer ChroniclesBook 4)|rating=3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= A story like this needs a strong central character; it needs a warrior who has conviction, heart 1470 dawns and honourthe next chapters of the War of the Roses are ready to play out. Hakan King Edward thinks that the future has all these in abundance, been settled but he didn't get them easilytreachery is still lurking. In this coming of age tale Meanwhile Katherine and Thomas also have their world turned upside down when that ledger and a chance comment threaten all they have, he goes on a quest to find himself after experiencing the most tremendous of betrayalsincluding their lives. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782399941178089466X</amazonuk>

|author=S J Hardman LeaP F Chisholm|title=Guns in the North (The Sins of SoldiersSir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)|rating=4.5

|summary=Anson Scott wants 1592: Sir Robert Carey flees the strictures of Elizabethan court – and his creditors – in order to join become Deputy Warden of the British army West March in Carlisle. The Scottish/English borders and World War I for a those who inhabit them are different reason than most of from the world he's left behind but it will have to become his fellow Americansworld. HeIt's now his job to bring law to the lawless. This isn't easy when every local he comes across has an affinity and a journalist wanting heritage of crime to some degree. For Robert the uncensored inside story best thing about the job is its proximity to send back home; a deadly enterprise as, if the Germans donwoman he loves but he doesn't get him, the Brits may deem him a spyknow what he'll do about that yet either. Unperturbed Meanwhile he carries his plan through and finds himself soon realises that those who are supposed to be on the French front in 1916. He has an ally in British officer David Alexander, which is just as well since not all his enemies side are across no manplotting against him but they don't realise what they's landre up against. The two men have a lot in common, more than they know and perhaps more than is good for them as the Somme approaches.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858901821786694719</amazonuk>

|author=David GilmanZanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title=Viper's Blood (Master of War)The House with the Stained-Glass Window|rating=54

|summary=Bowman and commander Thomas Blackstone is one of Edward III's greatest weapons, bringing him potentially head to head against the Dauphin once again. HoweverMarianna, faced with an elongated stale mate, Thomas' role becomes that of scavenger leader as opera singer in the chances soon-to-be Ukrainian city of victory make way for a greater chance of starvation amongst the armies. There Lviv, is mistakenly shot dead at a light at political rally in the end dying days of the tunnel thoughSoviet Union. Blackstone is to go on a trip: an escort mission to ItalyThis novel begins with both anger and hope, delivering the French Kingas Marianna's daughter Isabelle to Milan coffin is covered in the illegal blue and yellow flag, and her weddingdeath seems to herald the birth of a new nation. Having said that, But the light at day of her funeral is also the end day of the tunnel may be an oncoming lance. Isabelleher daughter's prospective groom is one first period – a girl who must learn how to be a woman in this time of drastic change, with no mother to guide her along the brothers who killed Thomas' wife and daughterway. Death is definitely on the cards… but whose?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849744630857057138</amazonuk>

|author=Rory ClementsK J Whittaker|title=CorpusFalse Lights|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=A suicidal overdose and Cornwall, 1817. What if your worst mistake changed the course of history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of Wellington at the murder Battle of upper class Cecil Langley Waterloo, and his ex-wife are two events that may be unconnectedJosephine presides over French-occupied England. However this is England in 1936Cornwall erupts into open rebellion, and young heiress Hester escapes with Crow, Wellington's former intelligence officer, a magnet for opposing forces and their first moves half-French aristocrat haunted by his part in preparation for the coming conflictcatastrophic defeat. Together, assisted or prevented by they become embroiled in a royal crisis (depending on which side you're on). Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into the middle web of this accidentally treachery and espionage as plans are laid to begin free Wellington from secret captivity in the Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the French occupation. In a country rife with but his curiosity has been piqued enough traitors, Hester and Crow know it is impossible to ensure he's not walking awayplay such a game as this for long...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17857626131786695340</amazonuk>

|author= Beatrice ColinJ Jefferson Farjeon|title= To Capture What We Cannot KeepSeven Dead

|summary=ParisTed Lyte was petty criminal, February 1887but not usually the housebreaking type. He lacked the courage. However, needs must, and work whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with a shuttered window. ''...he might find a bit of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the foundations of Eiffelshutters, but it definitely isn't what he's daring tower d hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman. Fleeing the house in horror, he is about pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to beginbe a journalist. Engineer Emile NouguierFascinated by Ted's story (and a possible scoop), taking photographs Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and its assortment of odd clues, including a portrait shot through the site from heart, an old cricket ball and a tethered hot air balloon for tourists nearbymysterious note written by one of the victims.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356886</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Salt Creek|author=Lucy Treloar|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The first chapter of ''Salt Creek'' opens in Chichester, England, chances to meet in 1874. Hester Finch is a young widow from Glasgow named Caitriona Wallace, respected and his own foundations start reasonably wealthy member of her community. But she can't stop her thoughts wandering back to shifther adolescence, spent on Salt Creek Station in the remote South Australian Coorong region. Over the next two years Hester feels ''has never felt so alive as the tower slowly rises in the Champ de Marsthen, what began as an impossible dream becomes solid reality – Cait when we had so little''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709417</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jamie Ford|title= Love and EmileOther Consolation Prizes|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=At the World's love for each otherFair in 1962, it seems that all eyes are focused on the future. In a world where more than bustles and corsets hem her inThe Space Needle dominates the landscape, will Cait be able filling people with anticipation about things to break free of her oppressive futurecome. One visitor, and given their different social stratahowever, can Emile rehas his mind firmly focused on the past. Ernest Young is helping his daughter Ju-shape his?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>17602917220749022752</amazonuk>

|author= Deanna RaybournNicola Pryce|title= A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell Mystery)The Captain's Girl

|summary=Veronica Speedwell did not choose to be an investigator by profession. She wasLast year, Bookbag reviewed, first and foremostthoroughly enjoyed, [[Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's Daughter]], a scientist; a lepidopterist and adventuress who travelled swashbuckling historical romance set in picturesque Cornwall. Now we have the pleasure of reading the world looking for exciting butterfly specimensmuch-anticipated sequel. HoweverThis time, when her latest expedition was cancelled due to an unfortunate incident with the story focuses on a giant tortoise, Veronica and her taxidermist friend Stoker took up neighbour of the challenge of a murder investigation as an interesting diversion. The case seemed to an open-and-shut one; Miles RamsforthPolcarrow family, an art patronMiss Celia Cavendish, had who has been accused of murdering his pregnant mistressengaged to a cruel man that she does not love. One fateful night, Artemisia. He was discovered at she runs away to the scenePolcarrow house to beg them for help, covered in her blood and had both the motive and circumstances to commit the crime. He would hang by the end pivotal events of the week if Veronica and Stoker could not find the 'real' killerthat night have far-reaching consequences for all involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04514761581782398856</amazonuk>

|author=Jemima BriggesHawa L Crickmore|title=Counting Across the CostOcean

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=The year is 1794 and we meet our A young protagonistcage fighter, MariaMartin Grandson, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder which required a bone-marrow transplant, preferably from a sibling. Only recently he'd been a fit young man, in desperate circumstances. Alone and terrifiedthe prime of life, she has concluded that her only option is to take her own but now he was suffering from a rare type of bone cancer: without the transplant he would be paralysed for life by throwing herself into and might be dead within the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive the transplant within the surging river watersnext fourteen days. Months previously Unfortunately Martin's parents had died in a car crash and there were no siblings or other close relatives. His girlfriend, Celia, she was cruelly violated by not a match.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= M J Tjia|title= She Be Damned|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= London, 1863: prostitutes in the master of Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the house where she worked killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a loss and so it falls to courtesan and nowprofessional detective, Heloise Chancey, in to investigate. With the advanced stages assistance of her pregnancytrusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the future seems bleaktruth. LuckilyBut when Amah is implicated in the brutal plot, a pair of gypsy women find Maria and take Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Franklin|title= Shelter|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Connie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge inthe Women's Timber Corps. Following For her, this remote community must now serve a traumatic laboursecret purpose.<br>Seppe, Maria becomes desperately ill and when she recoversan Italian prisoner of war, her baby is gonehaunted by his memories. Alone againIn the forest camp, Maria is free to start he finds a strange kind of freedom.Their meeting signals new lifebeginnings. With a clever disguiseBut as they are drawn together, she becomes the dowdy 'Miss Dinchope' world outside their forest haven is being torn apart. Old certainties are crumbling, and takes both must now make a position as a housekeeper life-defining choice.<br>What price will they pay for the village rector.freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858991391785762990</amazonuk>

|author=Steven BurgauerJane Johnson|title=The Night Court of The Eleventh SunLions|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The word Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city of Granada a year ago. In the shadow of the Alhambra, one of the most beautiful places on earth, she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends she'Neanderthals happy with her new life – but how could she be? Kate' has become equated s alone, afraid and hiding under a false name. And fate is about to bring her face-to-face with people deemed to have her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, a message, in a hand few could read, was inscribed in blood on a backward attitude stolen scrap of paper. The paper was folded and outlook. But what do we know pressed into one of the original Neanderthals from over 200Alhambra's walls. There it has lain,000 years ago? Here American author [[:Category:Steven Burgauer|Steven Burgauer]] melds undisturbed by the tides of history – the knowledge Fall of anthropologistsGranada, archaeologists and historians with the story expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of Strong Armslove, his family and their struggle to survive in a very effectivetime of danger and desperation, and informative waythe fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14196715451786694336</amazonuk>

|author=Meelis Friedenthal and Matthew Hyde (translator)Angus Watson|title=The Willow KingYou Die When You Die|rating=34|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Meet Laurentius. He's a scholar newly arrived in Estonia in the seventeenth century, aiming to study more. But things aren't going well for him – a long-standing illness seems to be returning, Finnbogi the weather and roads are awful, he's late – Boggy and his only friend, tribe of mushroom men (Vikings) must take a parakeet, won't even survive road trip through hostile territory whilst being hunted by the first two days ashoregreatest fighting force ever seen (Amazonian Native Americans). He's entering Vikings meet Native Americans in a weird clash of cultures and potentially the end of the world, what's more – one imbued with evil smells, peopled by strange characters with stranger ideas. Can his modern ideas, and thinking about When the Queen of the soul, bear him through his course?known world says your tribe has to be exterminated then your immediate future may not be so rosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17822717400356507564</amazonuk>

|author=Ian RossAlison Weir|title=The Mask of Command (Twilight of Empire)Six Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession: Six Tudor Queens 2|rating=54

|summary= Warning: spoilers ahead for previous books in Thomas Boleyn sends his daughters abroad to be trained at the seriescourts of European royalty. 305AD: Castus Aurelius, following Not only does this give them an education in the death ways of his predecessorthe elite, has been promoted to commander (or vir perfecctissiums) of the Roman forces at the Rhineit could also ensure a good marriage. HeUnfortunately he hasn's also been ordered to take Crispust reckoned on the ideas that one of them, Anne, Constantine's son picks up and heir, as for marriage… Anne is determined to marry for the character-building experiencelove not through some paternal arrangement. That complicates matters as when Castus isn't trying Yet the reality turns out to keep Crispus alivebe different, he's finding it difficult driving a wedge through her family on a road leading to increase his own chance of survival, especially considering how the last Rhine commander met his enddark tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784975257147222762X</amazonuk>

|author= Sophia TobinMartha Conway|title= The VanishingFloating Theatre|rating=35

|summary=1814. In When young seamstress May Bedloe is left alone and penniless on the middle shore of the Yorkshire Moors in an isolated spot lies White WindowsOhio, a house shadowed in mystery she finds work on the famous floating theatre that plies its trade along the river. Her creativity and needlework skills quickly become invaluable and intrigueshe settles into life among the colourful troupe of actors. Living in this desolate household is Marcus TwentymanShe finds friends, a hard drinking and complicated man possibly the promise of more. But cruising the border between the Confederate South and his sister, the hardened widow Hester'free' North is fraught with danger. Brought For the sake of a debt that must be repaid, May is compelled to White Windows is Annaleightransport secret passengers, under cover of darkness, a young runaway from London who has come to Yorkshire to be across the new housekeeper to river and on, along the Twentymanunderground railroad. But as May's with the hope of leaving her painful past behind her. At firstsecrets become harder to keep, Annaleigh believes she may have found sanctuary but soon realises learns she has become entangled in a web must endanger those now dear to her.  And to save the lives of conspiracy and dangerothers, leaving she must risk her trapped and more alone than everown...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711516031785762907</amazonuk>

|author= Mary GibsonJenny Ashcroft|title=Bourbon Creams and Tattered Dreams (The Factory Girls)Beneath a Burning Sky

|summary=Where did it all go wrong? Only Young bride Olivia Sheldon finds returning to her childhood home in Egypt a short time agobitter-sweet experience. On the one hand, Matty Gilbie was a star of she has been reunited with her estranged sister Clara, and the silver screen with pair have formed a glittering future predicted for herdeep and loving bond. As On the 'Cockney Canary'other, she has an unhappy marriage to her melodic singing voice and stunning good looks domineering husband Alistair, who only married her to spite Clara, who had ensured that her first foray into movies was a runaway successrefused him previously. Unfortunately that success came Life with the sadistic Alistair is unbearable, with a price: Matty's business partner Frank Rossi frittered away their money and turned violent and controllingOlivia subjected to horrific abuse at his hands, daily. Bruised and battered from As a particularly vicious beating from Franklady with no means of supporting herself, Matty secretly makes her Olivia seems trapped without any means of escape back to her home , only finding solace in Bermondsey, and the comfort company of family her sister and friends. Frank But when her dear sister goes mysteriously missing in the bustling streets of Alexandria, it is not one up to Olivia to be crossed, however, try and vows to do whatever solve the mystery of her disappearance before it takes to win Matty backis too late. Can she ever be truly free?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849733350751565032</amazonuk>

|author=Shirley McKayConn Iggulden|title=1588Dunstan: A Calendar One Man Will Change the Fate of Crime (A Hew Cullan Mystery)England

|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=A lot The young Dunstan shows no sign of crime happens in St Andrews during 1588 and therefore in the life sainthood he'll later attain. Son of law lecturer a Wessex thane and local investigator Hew Cullen toosent to a monastery for education, this isn't a lad who responds to discipline. As we travel through However an enquiring, intelligent mind begins to emerge and then comes the year with big break. Lady Elflaed calls to put a proposal to him, his recently wedded English wife Frances, doctor brother in law Giles after hearing about what she considers to be a miracle and his sister Meg, the wise woman, we also encounter some monks consider another in a long line of his most interesting casesexcuses. In fact thereYet Dunstan will outshine all his teachers as well as knowing seven kings and holding responsible positions in their courts, as the book's one to match each of title suggests. Whether we believe in the year's big festivals: Candlemasmiracles or not, Whitsun, Lammas, Martinmas and Yule.Dunstan certainly had quite a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18469736350718181441</amazonuk>

|author=Lesley LokkoSimon Edge|title=The Last DebutanteHopkins Conundrum|rating=45|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=In 1936 Tim Cleverley inherits a failing pub 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 Wales, which he plans to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist to have supper in the nursery whilst everyone else is dining downstairs with the guests. Even her elder sister, Lilyconcoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard Manley Hopkins, whocomposed 's sixteen is dining with these unnamed 'guestsThe Wreck of the Deutschland'' nearby. Kit has tapped all her usual sources to find out who the visitors are In Victorian England, Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life full of confusion and contradiction, but discovers a calling for poetry that threatens to no avail. All she's managed overrule his calling to work out (well, let's be honest 'find out by eavesdropping' is closer to the truth) is that the visitors are GermanGod. Kit's parentsAnd, Lord and Lady Whartonspeaking of God, are short of money and it's important that at least one of their daughters makes Five nuns leave persecution to travel to a good marriage. Six months later Lily is married new world – only to one of the German, living in some style find themselves in Germany. Within a couple of years she's mixing with some dubious company, including Unity Mitford. It was even rumoured more trouble that she'd met Hitler.they could ever have imagined… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140914254X1785630334</amazonuk>

|author=Stef PenneyAnne O'Brien|title=Under a Pole StarThe Shadow Queen|rating=4.5

|summary=1948: Elderly Flora Mackie is invited on Born in 1328, Joan of Kent may be of royal blood but she's from a press trip to family tainted by treachery. Her father Edmund Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, was executed for his part in the North Pole; a trip that takes her back through her lifeinfamous Montague plot. Flora remembers However Joan has grown up under the protection of her childhood cousin, King Edward III with her father on whaling ships in all the seas around Greenlandadvantages and attributes of a princess. Yet, much to her marriage born mother's chagrin, obedience isn't one of ambition and misaligned lust and the result: the Arctic exploration team she led these attributes. Joan's head strong feist takes her on a varied journey in the late 19th centurylife. This was Having said that, three husbands, five marriages (technically) and a trip son destined for the English throne means that had many knock-on effects including death and love.it's also been one heck of a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17864811621848455070</amazonuk>

|author= Morgan McCarthyPatricia Falvey|title= The House Girls of BirdsEnnismore: A Heart-Rending Irish Saga|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Oliver has spent years trying Ireland 1900: Ennismore House's young heiress Victoria had hoped that she and Rosie Killeen would be friends forever. Rosie soon comes to convince himself that heknow better as there's suited to a life of money making social chasm between those who live in the city, House and that he doesn't miss a childhood spent in pursuit of mysterythose, when he cycled around the cobbled lanes of Oxford, exploring its most intriguing corners. When his girlfriend Kate inherits a derelict house - and a fierce family feud - shelike Rosie's determined family, who have been brought up merely to strip it, sell it and move onserve them. For Oliver though, the house has The days of innocence are coming to an allureend in many ways. Soon, and amongst as the shelves of a discardedcry for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, leather bound and gilded volumes, he discovers one that conceals a hidden diary from the 1920s. So begins a quest to there'll be more than steps on society's ladder between them as each must discover the identity of the author, Sophia Louis. It is their own way in a portrait of war and marriage, isolation and longing and a story nation that will shape never be the future of the abandoned house - and of Oliver - foreversame again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14722058471786490625</amazonuk>

|author= Jacquelyn BensonElaine Everest|title= The Smoke HunterButlins Girls

|summary= Eleanora Mallory is an educated young woman living Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Victorian London but Skegness to start her new job as a Butlins auntie. Behind the smiles and confident appearance, she hides a secret; she is restricted by has taken the strict social codes of the late nineteenth-centuryjob to escape escalating problems at home. She's a historiansoon finds good friends in her chalet-mates Bunty and Plum, and it turns out that they each have their own reasons for wanting a suffragettefresh start. Meanwhile, and Molly is years ahead of her time much shocked to the chagrin of discover that her male work colleagues movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at the Public Records Officecamp. After losing her job and finding a mysterious map abandoned Is he really as suave as his on her former employer's desk-screen persona? And why is he working at the camp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, Ellie decides to take a chance at an adventure. She packs Molly and her bags new friends face new threats and sets off on a journey to Central America, where the map shows the way to a legendary historical city. It's the expedition of a life time, but little does Ellie know dangers that a team of fortune hunters are hot on her trailmay threaten their new-found freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14722383461447295536</amazonuk>

|author= Angus MacDonaldGeraint Jones|title= Ardnish Was Home: A NovelBlood Forest|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=A tiny peninsular lying on the west coast of Scotland, Ardnish provides a beautiful setting for a book that entices the reader to devour it all in one sitting. Duncan Peter Gillies (DP to friends and family) leaves Ardnish as a young man to sign up for the Lovat Scouts in 1915. What a tragically sweet story is to follow! Posted to Gallipoli, brutal scenes of the realities of the First World War face the reader from page one. Tragically, the young DP is desperately wounded and the medical support is woefully poor. The Gallipoli Campaign seems doomed to fail. DP learns that the order has been given for the allied troops to withdraw to the safety of Malta. Distressingly, the rescue boats are unreliable and DP with other casualties and nurses, find themselves in an impossible position stranded in enemy territory. This fast paced story charts DP's progress in escaping from the war zone, in recovering from his injuries, and, in the most desperate of circumstances, finding love.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780274262</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lynn Guest|title= The Sword of Hachiman|rating= 45

|summary= Set at the dawn of the Shogun era, ''Felix. The Sword of Hachimanlucky one. He doesn'' follows two warrior clans, t feel especially lucky when he staggers out into the Minamoto grove and finds twelve of his comrades butchered and the Taira, as they struggle for power under the Emperor. At first the Taira are mutilated in uneasy control, but the three Minamoto sons, separated at birth, plan to secretly reunite in order to defeat the Taira and avenge their Father's deathworst possible ways. The youngest, Yoshitsune, is deemed most worthy and is granted the family heirloom, He felt even less lucky when the Sword of Hachimansoldiers arrived, the War GodRoman cavalry. Initiated into love and espionage by a young Taira noblewomanHe might have run, and tested in the ferocious hand to hand combat that is his birthright, we follow Yoshitsune as but he meets his faithful retainer, Benkei, and as knew he goes behind the scenes of the Cloister court, where two extraordinary women enter his life…'d never make it. He stepped out to face whatever came next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18615156340718184815</amazonuk>