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|author= Stephan CollishawHeather Morris|title= The Song Tattooist of the Stork|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Stephan Collishaw has achieved a rare feat – a novel set amidst the horrors of Nazi tyranny that does not shy away from human suffering, but does not drown in it either. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079190</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alan Kennedy|title=A Time to Tell LiesAuschwitz

|genre=Crime (Historical) Fiction|summary= Psychologist Alan Kennedy's fifth novel continues So, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see the horror there, and immediately swear to survive the story he began with [[Lucy by Alan Kennedy]]. In ordeal to 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 autumn of 1942Nazis demand, Captain Alex Vere and Justine Perry are among to the extent you get the men word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and women picked up and taken to get a job that means you're actually a stately home Jew working in Scotlandthe political wing of the SS, where answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the place, and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with food they are trained smuggle in spy skills. After this first encounterfor you, Alex is smitten yet uncertain if he will ever see Justine again. under the eyes of all the camp guards? The spy's man whose real life is dangerous and unpredictable, after story inspired this novel did all. Six weeks laterthat, thoughand survived to tell the tale, they meet up again in southwest France, where they have been sent but he also managed to collect Simonedo something even more daring, a Special Operations Executive agent. It's Alex's first mission (Justine's fourth) and all goes horribly awry. Alex ends up unexpected – he dared to invest hope in custody at the Gendarmerie, facing a German who knows burgeoning love that he has a false passportfound in the camp.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>09932023221785763644</amazonuk>

|author=Alex NyeRachel Halliburton|title=For My SinsThe Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal|rating=3.5

|summary=1586: Mary StuartRachel Halliburton's debut novel opens in London in January 1797. Benjamin West, Queen President of Scotsthe Royal Academy, has time to look back over her is reflecting on the past life as she sitsyear's scandal involving the Provises, father and daughter, incarcerated by her second cousin Queen Elizabeth Iand worries that he handled everything poorly. MaryFrom the start the book's life hasn't been one figurative language is appropriately full of totally pampered royalty. Growing up in France, away from her mother, widowed colour and then returning painterly techniques: 'He had intended to Scotland to claim the throne before she deal with them honourably, but now everyone in London was even 19, her struggle with fate started earlysaying he had not. The tensions between Mary It was as if somebody had dropped a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – the woman, Mary the Catholic more he prodded and Mary stirred the political force continue through three marriagesmemory, an unsolved murder and the thwarted desire to serve her peoplemurkier it became. Now it's come to this prison cell but while there's life, there's still hope…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19059167870715651978</amazonuk>

|author= Grace MacallisterJohn Banks|title= The Magician's LieW|rating=4|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction |summary= The Amazing Arden is On the most famous female illusionist slopes of her dayMt Hood in Oregon, renowned for her notorious trick of sawing a man in half on stage. But one night she swaps her trademark saw for an axe1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. When Arden's husband Josh Kinninger is found dead later that night, inspired by the answer seems clearViking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, most of all to young policeman Virgil Holtunmoored and with his world in turmoil. Captured and taken into custodyBeginning a journey westward, all seems set for Ardenhe's swift confession. But she has filled with a different story desire to tell. Even handcuffed and alone, Arden is far from powerless, and what she reveals is as unbelievable as it is spellbindingwreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17871999670983333416</amazonuk>

|author=Helen DunmoreElaine Everest|title=Birdcage WalkChristmas at Woolworths|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married well. John Diner Tredevant ''Christmas at Woolworths'' is a property developer who has reached the zenith of his lifesequel to wartime saga ''The Woolworths Girls,''s work: building a terrace and continues the story where the first book left off. Members of prestigious houses overlooking the Avon Gorgeclose-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together and keep morale high, even though the future is uncertain. In a time At the heart of turbulence as France reaches the dawn neighbourhood, the home of revolution, Britain, including Diner, fears it may spread. This puts Lizzie in kindly matriarch Ruby is a difficult position since her mother beacon where family and step-father both believe in propagating pamphlets and ideas of egalitarianism 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 all, including womenhome. In other words, they think nothing of spreading ideas of We catch up with the three friends from the sort that fanned first book: Sarah yearns for peace and an end to the French flames. Howeverwar, that's not Lizzie's only problem… there Maisie is desperate for a darkness in her husband's past of which she's unawarechild and Freda would love to find romance.Will they all get their wishes this Christmas?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00919594031509843655</amazonuk>

|author=Beth UnderdownMinette Walters|title=The Witchfinder's SisterLast Hours

|summary=England 1645: Matthew Hopkins is good at his chosen career: seeking, testing and convicting those with In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the Devil port of Melcombe in themDorset. His sisterIgnorant of many rules of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, Alice, doesn't realise the full connotations disease rages through the country. On the estate of his actions untilDevelish, widowed and pregnant, she returns home. Alice is grateful to be allowed to live under Matthew's roof but then watches his sinister finger Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of suspicion point the people who lived in unexpected places. This is a man changed from the boy that Alice used demesne after her husband had ridden off to knowtry and secure a marriage for his daughter. She never then Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the estate and when Lady Anne realised the virulence of the plague she ordered that he'd be capable of killing hundreds of people the estate refuse entry to anyone, including her husband and making his entourage, for fear that they would bring the disease to her the Witchfinder's Sisterpeople.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02419780331760632139</amazonuk>

|author= Emma HendersonLars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)|title= The Valentine HouseSixteen Trees of the Somme|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary= In June 1914, Sir Anthony Valentine, a keen mountaineer, arrives While his grandfather lived the past was an area of certainty for Edvard. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with his family to spend the summer in their chaletgrandparents, high in having survived the French Alpsaccident that killed his parents. There Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family history is different from what he'd believed… his mother's birthplace, his mother's name, for the first time, fourteen-year-old foundling Mathilde starts work as one whereabouts of the 'uglies' late Great- village girls employed as servants Uncle Einar… and picked, it is believed, to ensure they don't catch Sir Anthonythat's roving eyewithout looking more deeply into the fatal accident itself. For Mathilde it Edvard is determined to solve the start of puzzle, a life-long entanglement with les anglais - strange, exciting people, far removed determination that will take him away from the hard grind his native Norway to an area of farming. Except she soon finds the Valentines are less carefree than they appear, France synonymous with a curiously absent daughter no one talks about. It will be decades - disrupted by war, accidents devastation and a cruel betrayal - before Mathilde discovers the key to the mystery. And in 1976, the year Sir Anthony's great-great grandson comes to visit, she must decide whether to use itremote Scottish island loaded with secrets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14447040280857056069</amazonuk>

|author= Polly ClarkToby Clements|title= LarchfieldKingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)|rating= 5|genre= Literary Historical Fiction |summary=I It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on 1470 dawns and the west coast next chapters of Scotland and her hopes are first challenged. Newly married, pregnant, she's excited by the prospect War of a life that combines family and creativitythe Roses are ready to play out. She King Edward thinks she knows what being a person, a wife, a mother, means. She is soon shown that she the future has been settled but treachery is wrongstill lurking. As the battle begins for her very sense of self, Dora comes to find the realities of small town life suffocating, Meanwhile Katherine and, eventually, terrifying; until she finds a way to escape reality altogether. Another poet, she discovers, lived in Helensburgh once. Wystan H. Auden, brilliant Thomas also have their world turned upside down when that ledger 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 - rightly - of homosexuality. Yet in this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in love for the first timechance comment threaten all they have, even as he fights his deepest fearsincluding their lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786481928178089466X</amazonuk>

|author=Dinah JefferiesP F Chisholm|title=Before Guns in the RainsNorth (The Sir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)

|summary=Eliza has tragically punctuated childhood memories 1592: Sir Robert Carey flees the strictures of Elizabethan court – and his creditors – in order to become Deputy Warden of India that the West March in Carlisle. The Scottish/English borders and those who inhabit them are different from the world he's left behind but it will have feed her desire to returnbecome his world. Therefore in 1930, following the death of her husband, when the British government commission her It's now his job to bring law to photograph scenes of Indian life, she jumps at the chancelawless. What she doesnThis isn't realise is that not everyone she easy when every local he comes across is delighted with the ideahas an affinity and a heritage of crime to some degree. Living within For Robert the best thing about the Sultana's opulent palace complex job is definitely an attraction for her, as is Jay, an Indian price who shows Eliza its proximity to the real Indiawoman he loves but he doesn't know what he'll do about that yet either. However, attractions Meanwhile he soon realises that those who are supposed to be on his side are sometimes dangerous and even deadlyplotting against him but they don't realise what they're up against. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412870811786694719</amazonuk>

|author=Otto de Kat Zanna Sloniowska and Laura Watkinson Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title=The Longest NightHouse with the Stained-Glass Window|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Historical Fiction|summary=Emma has a philosophy – ''let the dead restMarianna, and love an opera singer in the living''. The problem with that, as a 96soon-yearto-oldbe Ukrainian city of Lviv, is that there are too few living left, and so while the love remains she will go through her memories, taking mistakenly shot dead at a woozy, diaphanous path through all political rally in the major events dying days of her lifethe Soviet Union. Starting in wartime Berlin This novel begins with one husbandboth anger and hope, who gets snatched from her at work, fleeing to another place to wait for peace, and wait for him as Marianna's coffin is covered in vain, moving to Holland the illegal blue and finding new loveyellow flag, and so on – this wispy journey will show all her death seems to herald the impacts birth of war, from rationing right up to exile, death and survivala new nation. The memories are coming strongly here and now, as Emma But the day of her funeral is waiting for at least one also the day of her two sons daughter's first period – a girl who must learn how to visitbe a woman in this time of drastic change, and then she will die…with no mother to guide her along the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570560850857057138</amazonuk>

|author= Adrian GoldsworthyK J Whittaker|title= VindolandaFalse Lights|rating= 34.5

|summary= AD 98: in Cornwall, 1817. What if your worst mistake changed the northern fields course of Britannia lies Vindolanda, a Roman auxiliary base situated on history? Napoleon has crushed the edge Duke of Wellington at the Roman worldBattle of Waterloo, and his ex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied England. Far from the prosperity Cornwall erupts into open rebellion, and decadence of Romeyoung heiress Hester escapes with Crow, Wellington's former intelligence officer, a half-French aristocrat haunted by his part in the wild catastrophic defeat. Together, they become embroiled in a web of treachery and untamed lands around Vindolanda espionage as plans are ripe with rebel tribes laid to free Wellington from secret captivity in the Scilly Isles and druids set lead an uprising against the destruction of Rome and its armiesFrench occupation. In the midst of this destruction is Flavius Ferox; a Briton and Roman Centurion who has been given the task of keeping the peace in this desolate edge of the world. But life in Roman Britain is full of danger and betrayal at every turncountry rife with traitors, Hester and Ferox knows Crow know it will take more than courage is impossible to overcome what lies aheadplay such a game as this for long...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849746841786695340</amazonuk>

|author=Jeroen Blokhuis and Asja Novak (translator)J Jefferson Farjeon|title=The Yellow HouseSeven Dead|rating=34|genre=Literary Historical Fiction|summary=If you were Ted Lyte was petty criminal, but not usually the needy kindhousebreaking type. He lacked the courage. However, would you really join in the drumming-out of town of two people accused of murder purely because of their nationality? Would you get a needs must, and whilst feeling of belonging just because you were there when someone carried down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with a dead dog down off shuttered window. ''...he might find a mountainbit of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it? The main character in this novel '' Ted doesindeed find something interesting behind the shutters, but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. But In a locked room he has something that will really get him noted, well-thought-of, includedfinds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman. He has come to Fleeing the south of France to set up an artists' collectivehouse in horror, where he can live is pursued and work alongside his counterpartscaught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who can inspire each other and best each other also happens to create wonderful artbe a journalist. In fact a much-respected guest is on his way now, so surely he can find kinship? The guestFascinated by Ted's name isstory (and a possible scoop), after allHazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and its assortment of odd clues, Gauguin. The main character isincluding a portrait shot through the heart, an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one of course, Vincent van Gogh…the victims.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19073205630712356886</amazonuk>

|authortitle=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Salt Creek|titleauthor=Retribution RoadLucy Treloar

|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=The first chapter of ''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard man, he was something else: a dangerous man.Salt Creek'' If, indeed, there was someone who was ideal for a suicide mission, it was him. Working as a soldier for the East India Company opens in the ruralChichester, remoteEngland, outlaw hotbeds of Asia in the 1850s, he's tasked with taking 1874. Hester Finch is a boat respected and reasonably wealthy member of unknown prospects up the Irrawaddy to try and combat local warlord Pagan Minher community. It doesnBut she can't go well – stop her thoughts wandering back to start withher adolescence, hespent on Salt Creek Station in the remote South Australian Coorong region. Hester feels ''s supposed to run the rule over ruffians saved from the gallowshas never felt so alive as then, but canwhen we had so little't command them until he's forced his way to having the knowledge of the mission he needs first, only for all hell to break loose. 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>08570537441910709417</amazonuk>

|author=Theodore BrunJamie Ford|title=A Mighty Dawn (The Wanderer Chronicles)Love and Other Consolation Prizes|rating=3.5

|summary= A story like this needs a strong central character; At the World's Fair in 1962, it needs a warrior who has convictionseems that all eyes are focused on the future. The Space Needle dominates the landscape, heart and honourfilling people with anticipation about things to come. Hakan has all these in abundanceOne visitor, but he didn't get them easily. In this coming of age talehowever, he goes has his mind firmly focused on the past. Ernest Young is helping his daughter Ju-ju with a story she is writing for her newspaper; a story about a quest to find himself after experiencing young immigrant boy who was given away as a prize in a raffle at the most tremendous of betrayalsWorld's Fair in 1909. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17823999410749022752</amazonuk>

|author=S J Hardman LeaNicola Pryce|title=The Sins of SoldiersCaptain's Girl|rating=54|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Anson Scott wants to join the British army Last year, Bookbag reviewed, and World War I for a different reason than most of his fellow Americans. Hethoroughly enjoyed, [[Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's Daughter]], a journalist wanting swashbuckling historical romance set in picturesque Cornwall. Now we have the uncensored inside story to send back home; a deadly enterprise as, if pleasure of reading the Germans don't get himmuch-anticipated sequel. This time, the Brits may deem him story focuses on a spy. Unperturbed he carries his plan through and finds himself on neighbour of the French front in 1916. He Polcarrow family, Miss Celia Cavendish, who has an ally in British officer David Alexander, which is just as well since been engaged to a cruel man that she does not all his enemies are across no man's landlove. The two men have a lot in commonOne fateful night, she runs away to the Polcarrow house to beg them for help, more than they know and perhaps more than is good the pivotal events of that night have far-reaching consequences for them as the Somme approachesall involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858901821782398856</amazonuk>

|author=David GilmanHawa L Crickmore|title=Viper's Blood (Master of War)Across the Ocean|rating=54|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Bowman and commander Thomas Blackstone is one of Edward III's greatest weaponsA young cage fighter, bringing him potentially head to head against the Dauphin once again. HoweverMartin Grandson, faced was diagnosed with an elongated stale matea rare genetic disorder which required a bone-marrow transplant, Thomas' role becomes that of scavenger leader as the chances of victory make way for preferably from a greater chance of starvation amongst the armiessibling. There is Only recently he'd been a light at fit young man, in the end prime of the tunnel though. Blackstone is to go on life, but now he was suffering from a triprare type of bone cancer: an escort mission to Italy, delivering without the French King's daughter Isabelle to Milan transplant he would be paralysed for life and her wedding. Having said that, might be dead within the light at next twelve weeks if he didn't receive the end of transplant within the tunnel may be an oncoming lancenext fourteen days. IsabelleUnfortunately Martin's prospective groom is one of the brothers who killed Thomas' wife parents had died in a car crash and daughterthere were no siblings or other close relatives. Death is definitely on the cards… but whose?His girlfriend, Celia, was not a match.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849744631524666971</amazonuk>

|author=Rory ClementsM J Tjia|title=CorpusShe Be Damned|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=A suicidal overdose and London, 1863: prostitutes in the murder of upper class Cecil Langley Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and his wife are two events removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may be unconnectedhave claimed their latest victim. However this is England in 1936, The police are at a magnet for opposing forces loss and so it falls to courtesan and their first moves in preparation for the coming conflictprofessional detective, Heloise Chancey, assisted or prevented by a royal crisis (depending on which side you're on)to investigate. Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into With the middle assistance of this accidentally her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to begin with but his curiosity has been piqued enough to ensure he's not walking awaythe truth. But when Amah is implicated in the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762613178507931X</amazonuk>

|author= Beatrice ColinSarah Franklin|title= To Capture What We Cannot KeepShelter|rating= 45

|summary=ParisConnie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home, February 1887, and work on finding refuge in the foundations of EiffelWomen's daring tower Timber Corps. For her, this remote community must now serve a secret purpose.<br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner of war, is about to beginhaunted by his memories. Engineer Emile NouguierIn the forest camp, taking photographs he finds a strange kind of freedom.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are drawn together, the site from world outside their forest haven is being torn apart. Old certainties are crumbling, and both must now make a tethered hot air balloon life-defining choice.<br>What price will they pay for tourists nearby, chances freedom? What will they fight to meet protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762990</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jane Johnson|title= Court of Lions|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city of Granada a young widow from Glasgow named Caitriona Wallace, and his own foundations start to shiftyear ago. Over In the next two years as shadow of the tower slowly rises in Alhambra, one of the Champ de Marsmost beautiful places on earth, what began she works as an impossible dream becomes solid reality a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends she's happy with her new life – Cait and Emilebut how could she be? Kate's love for each otheralone, afraid and hiding under a false name. And fate is about to bring her face-to-face with her greatest fear. In Five centuries ago, a message, in a hand few could read, was inscribed in blood on a world where more than bustles stolen scrap of paper. The paper was folded and corsets hem her inpressed into one of the Alhambra's walls. There it has lain, undisturbed by the tides of history – the Fall of Granada, will Cait be able to break free the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of her oppressive futurelove, in a time of danger and given their different social stratadesperation, can Emile re-shape his?the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life forever. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17602917221786694336</amazonuk>

|author= Deanna RaybournAngus Watson|title= A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell Mystery)You Die When You Die

|summary=Veronica Speedwell did not choose to be an investigator by profession. She was, first Finnbogi the Boggy and foremost, his tribe of mushroom men (Vikings) must take a scientist; a lepidopterist and adventuress who travelled road trip through hostile territory whilst being hunted by the world looking for exciting butterfly specimensgreatest fighting force ever seen (Amazonian Native Americans). However, when her latest expedition was cancelled due to an unfortunate incident with Vikings meet Native Americans in a giant tortoise, Veronica clash of cultures and her taxidermist friend Stoker took up potentially the challenge of a murder investigation as an interesting diversion. The case seemed to an open-and-shut one; Miles Ramsforth, an art patron, had been accused end of murdering his pregnant mistress, Artemisia. He was discovered at the scene, covered in her blood and had both the motive and circumstances to commit the crimeworld. He would hang by When the end Queen of the week if Veronica and Stoker could known world says your tribe has to be exterminated then your immediate future may not find the 'real' killerbe so rosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04514761580356507564</amazonuk>

|author=Jemima BriggesAlison Weir|title=Counting the CostSix Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession: Six Tudor Queens 2

|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 year Floating Theatre|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=When young seamstress May Bedloe is 1794 left alone and we meet our young protagonistpenniless on the shore of the Ohio, Maria, in desperate circumstancesshe finds work on the famous floating theatre that plies its trade along the river. Alone Her creativity and needlework skills quickly become invaluable and terrified, she has concluded that her only option is to take her own settles into life by throwing herself into among the surging river waterscolourful troupe of actors. Months previouslyShe finds friends, she was cruelly violated by and possibly the master promise of more. But cruising the house where she worked border between the Confederate South and now, in the advanced stages 'free' North is fraught with danger. For the sake of her pregnancya debt that must be repaid, the future seems bleak. LuckilyMay is compelled to transport secret passengers, a pair under cover of gypsy women find Maria darkness, across the river and take her inon, along the underground railroad. Following a traumatic labourBut as May's secrets become harder to keep, Maria becomes desperately ill and when she recovers, learns she must endanger those now dear to her baby is gone. Alone again, Maria is free  And to start a new life. With a clever disguisesave the lives of others, she becomes the dowdy 'Miss Dinchope' and takes a position as a housekeeper for the village rectormust risk her own...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858991391785762907</amazonuk>

|author=Steven BurgauerJenny Ashcroft|title=The Night Beneath a Burning Sky|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Young bride Olivia Sheldon finds returning to her childhood home in Egypt a bitter-sweet experience. On the one hand, she has been reunited with her estranged sister Clara, and the pair have formed a deep and loving bond. On the 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 sadistic Alistair is unbearable, with Olivia subjected to horrific abuse at his hands, daily. As a lady with no means of supporting herself, Olivia 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 up to Olivia to try and solve the mystery of her disappearance before it is too late.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751565032</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Conn Iggulden|title=Dunstan: One Man Will Change the Fate of The Eleventh SunEngland

|summary=The word young Dunstan shows no sign of the sainthood he'Neanderthalll later attain. Son of a Wessex thane and sent to a monastery for education, this isn' has become equated with people deemed t a lad who responds to have a backward attitude discipline. However an enquiring, intelligent mind begins to emerge and outlookthen comes the big break. But Lady Elflaed calls to put a proposal to him after hearing about what do we know of the original Neanderthals from over 200,000 years ago? Here American author [[:Category:Steven Burgauer|Steven Burgauer]] melds the knowledge of anthropologists, archaeologists she considers to be a miracle and historians with the story monks consider another in a long line of Strong Arms, excuses. Yet Dunstan will outshine all his family teachers as well as knowing seven kings and holding responsible positions in their struggle to survive courts, as the book's title suggests. Whether we believe in the miracles or not, Dunstan certainly had quite a very effective, and informative way.life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14196715450718181441</amazonuk>

|author=Meelis Friedenthal and Matthew Hyde (translator)Simon Edge|title=The Willow KingHopkins Conundrum|rating=35|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Meet Laurentius. He's Tim Cleverley inherits a scholar newly arrived failing pub in Estonia in the seventeenth centuryWales, aiming which he plans to study more. But things aren't going well for him – a long-standing illness seems rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist to be returning, the weather and roads are awfulconcoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard Manley Hopkins, hewho composed 's late – and his only friend, a parakeet, won't even survive The Wreck of the first two days ashore. HeDeutschland's entering a weird world, what's more – one imbued with evil smells, peopled by strange characters with stranger ideasnearby. Can his modern ideas In Victorian England, Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life full of confusion and thinking about the soulcontradiction, bear him through but discovers a calling for poetry that threatens to overrule his course?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>17822717401785630334</amazonuk>

|author=Ian RossAnne O'Brien|title=The Mask of Command (Twilight of Empire)Shadow Queen|rating=4.5

|summary= Warning: spoilers ahead Born in 1328, Joan of Kent may be of royal blood but she's from a family tainted by treachery. Her father Edmund Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, was executed for previous books his part in the seriesinfamous Montague plot. 305AD: Castus Aurelius However Joan has grown up under the protection of her cousin, following King Edward III with all the death advantages and attributes of his predecessora princess. Yet, has been promoted much to commander (or vir perfecctissiums) her mother's chagrin, obedience isn't one of the Roman forces at the Rhinethese attributes. HeJoan's also been ordered to take Crispushead strong feist takes her on a varied journey in life. Having said that, three husbands, Constantine's five marriages (technically) and a son and heir, destined for the character-building experience. That complicates matters as when Castus isn't trying to keep Crispus alive, heEnglish throne means that it's finding it difficult to increase his own chance also been one heck of survival, especially considering how the last Rhine commander met his end.a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849752571848455070</amazonuk>

|author= Sophia TobinPatricia Falvey|title= The VanishingGirls of Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish Saga|rating=34.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=1814Ireland 1900: Ennismore House's young heiress Victoria had hoped that she and Rosie Killeen would be friends forever. In Rosie soon comes to know better as there's a social chasm between those who live in the middle House and those, like Rosie's family, who have been brought up merely to serve them. The days of the Yorkshire Moors in innocence are coming to an isolated spot lies White Windows, a house shadowed end in mystery and intriguemany ways. Living in this desolate household is Marcus Twentyman, a hard drinking and complicated man and his sister Soon, as the hardened widow Hester. Brought to White Windows is Annaleighcry for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, a young runaway from London who has come to Yorkshire to there'll be the new housekeeper to the Twentymanmore than steps on society'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 ladder between them as each must discover their own way in a web of conspiracy and danger, leaving her trapped and more alone than evernation that will never be the same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711516031786490625</amazonuk>

|author= Mary GibsonElaine Everest|title=Bourbon Creams and Tattered Dreams (The Factory Butlins Girls)

|summary=Where did it all go wrong? Only Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness to start her new job as a short time agoButlins auntie. Behind the smiles and confident appearance, Matty Gilbie was she hides a star of secret; she has taken the silver screen with a glittering future predicted for job to escape escalating problems at home. She soon finds good friends in her. As the 'Cockney Canary'chalet-mates Bunty and Plum, her melodic singing voice and stunning good looks had ensured it turns out that her first foray into movies was a runaway success. Unfortunately that success came with they each have their own reasons for wanting a price: Matty's business partner Frank Rossi frittered away their money and turned violent and controllingfresh start. Bruised and battered from a particularly vicious beating from FrankMeanwhile, Matty secretly makes her escape back Molly is shocked to discover that her home in Bermondsey, and movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at the comfort of family and friendscamp. Frank Is he really as suave as his on-screen persona? And why is not one to be crossed, howeverhe working at the camp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, Molly and her new friends face new threats and vows to do whatever it takes to win Matty backdangers that may threaten their new-found freedom. Can she ever be truly free?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849733351447295536</amazonuk>

|author=Shirley McKayGeraint Jones|title=1588: A Calendar of Crime (A Hew Cullan Mystery)Blood Forest|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)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 tooFelix. The lucky one. As we travel through He doesn't feel especially lucky when he staggers out into the year with him, his recently wedded English wife Frances, doctor brother in law Giles grove and his sister Meg, the wise woman, we also encounter some finds twelve of his most interesting cases. In fact there's one to match each of the year's big festivals: Candlemas, Whitsun, Lammas, Martinmas comrades butchered and Yule.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973635</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lesley Lokko|title=The Last Debutante|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In 1936 mutilated 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 the nursery whilst everyone else is dining downstairs with the guestsworst possible ways. Even her elder sister, LilyHe felt even less lucky when the soldiers arrived, who's sixteen is dining with these unnamed 'guests'Roman cavalry. Kit has tapped all her usual sources to find out who the visitors areHe might have run, but to no avail. All shehe knew he's managed to work out (well, let's be honest 'find out by eavesdropping' is closer to the truth) is that the visitors are German. Kit's parents, Lord and Lady Wharton, are short of money and d never make it's important that at least one of their daughters makes a good marriage. Six months later Lily is married He stepped out to one 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 Hitlerface whatever came next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140914254X0718184815</amazonuk>