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|author=Anne O'BrienHeather Morris|title=The Shadow QueenTattooist of Auschwitz|rating=4.5

|summary=Born So, you arrive in 1328all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see the horror there, and immediately swear to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind it, Joan of Kent may be of royal blood but she's from a family tainted by treachery. what do you do to see that oath out? Her father Edmund WoodstockDo you get to work diligently as the Nazis demand, 1st Earl of Kent, was executed for his part in to the extent you get the infamous Montague plot. word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? However Joan has grown up under Do you dare to stick your neck out and get a job that means you're actually a Jew working in the protection political wing of her cousinthe SS, King Edward III answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with all civilian workers building the advantages place, and attributes of a princess. Yet, much to her mothertrade the loot purloined from the incoming victims's chagrinbelongings with food they smuggle in for you, obedience isn't one under the eyes of these attributes. all the camp guards? Joan's head strong feist takes her on a varied journey in The man whose real life. Having said story inspired this novel did all that, three husbandsand survived to tell the tale, but he also managed to do something even more daring, five marriages (technically) and unexpected – he dared to invest hope in a son destined for burgeoning love that he found in the English throne means that it's also been one heck of a life!camp.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18484550701785763644</amazonuk>

|author=Patricia FalveyRachel Halliburton|title=The Girls of EnnismoreOptickal Illusion: A Heartvery eighteenth-Rending Irish Sagacentury scandal|rating=43.5

|summary=Ireland 1900: Ennismore HouseRachel Halliburton's young heiress Victoria had hoped that she and Rosie Killeen would be friends foreverdebut novel opens in London in January 1797. Rosie soon comes to know better as thereBenjamin West, President of the Royal Academy, is reflecting on the past year's a social chasm between those who live in scandal involving the House Provises, father and thosedaughter, like Rosieand worries that he handled everything poorly. From the start the book's family, who have been brought up merely figurative language is appropriately full of colour and painterly techniques: 'He had intended to serve deal with them. The days of innocence are coming to an end honourably, but now everyone in many waysLondon was saying he had not. Soon, It was as if somebody had dropped a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – the more he prodded and stirred the cry for Irish Home Rule becomes loudermemory, 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 same againmurkier it became.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17864906250715651978</amazonuk>

|author= Elaine EverestJohn Banks|title= The Butlins GirlsW

|summary=Fresh''Christmas at Woolworths'' is the sequel to wartime saga ''The Woolworths Girls,'' and continues the story where the first book left off. Members of the close-faced Molly Missons has just arrived knit community in Skegness Erith are doing their best to start her new job as a Butlins auntiepull together and keep morale high, even though the future is uncertain. Behind At the heart of the neighbourhood, the smiles home of kindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where family and confident appearance, she hides friends can gather for good food and conversation: a secretway to forget the troubles outside. Spirits remain high; she has taken even when the job bombs are falling so close to escape escalating problems at home. She soon finds good We catch up with the three friends in her chalet-mates Bunty from the first book: Sarah yearns for peace and Pluman end to the war, and it turns out that they each have their own reasons Maisie is desperate for wanting a fresh start. Meanwhile, Molly is shocked child and Freda would love to discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at the campfind romance. Is he really as suave as his on-screen persona? And why is he working at the camp anywayWill they all get their wishes this Christmas? As hidden secrets become discovered, Molly and her new friends face new threats and dangers that may threaten their new-found freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14472955361509843655</amazonuk>

|author= Geraint JonesMinette Walters|title= Blood ForestThe Last Hours|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= FelixIn June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port of Melcombe in Dorset. The lucky oneIgnorant of many rules of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, the disease rages through the country. He doesn't feel especially lucky when he staggers out into On the estate of Develish, Lady Anne Develish took control of the grove and finds twelve future of his comrades butchered and mutilated the people who lived in the worst possible waysdemesne after her husband had ridden off to try and secure a marriage for his daughter. He felt even less lucky Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the estate and when Lady Anne realised the virulence of the soldiers arrivedplague she ordered that the estate refuse entry to anyone, Roman cavalry. He might have runincluding her husband and his entourage, but he knew he'd never make it. He stepped out for fear that they would bring the disease to face whatever came nexther people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181848151760632139</amazonuk>

|author= Dominic SmithLars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)|title= The Last Painting Sixteen Trees of Sara de Vosthe Somme|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= If you find While his grandfather lived the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinating, ''The Last Painting past was an area of Sara de Voscertainty for Edvard. At aged 4 he'' provides a masterclass in how d been taken to work up a canvas in stages. Framing the novel as the story of a seventeenth century Dutch paintinglive with his grandparents, Dominic Smith vividly sketches out having survived the main contours of accident that killed his characters and the three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of the way throughparents. Sara is one of the few women artists of the period and her painting is of children skating on a frozen canal, her now dead daughter its central figure. The painting Now his grandfather has been in Marty de Groot's died revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family since before Isaac Newton was born and he history is the patent lawyer different from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattan. Ellie Shipley forged a copy of the painting in her postgraduate student years and in 2000 finds herself at the centre of a gathering storm which threatens to destroy her reputation as one of Sydneywhat he'd believed… his mother's foremost fine art academics. Satisfying though those first descriptions arebirthplace, we then understand these are merely the authorhis mother's equivalent of name, the delicate chalk lines used by painters whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and that's without looking more deeply into the Dutch Golden Age fatal accident itself. Edvard is determined to mark out solve the composition which puzzle, a determination that will followtake him away from his native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secrets. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>192526680X0857056069</amazonuk>

|author= Caro FraserToby Clements|title= The Summer House PartyKingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Historical Fiction |summary= In 1470 dawns and the gloriously hot summer next chapters of 1936, a group the War of people meet at a country house partythe Roses are ready to play out. Within three years, England will be at war, King Edward thinks that the future has been settled but for now, time stands treachery is stilllurking. Dan Ranscombe is clever Meanwhile Katherine and good-looking, but he resents the wealth and easy savoir-faire of fellow guest, Paul Latimer. Surely a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through Thomas also have their world turned upside down when that, wouldn't she? And what about Diana, Paul's beautiful sister, Charles Asher, the Jewish outsider, Madeleine, restless ledger and dissatisfied with her role as children's nanny? And artist Henry Haddon, their host, no longer young, but secure in his power as a practised seducer. As these guests gather, none has any inkling the choices chance comment threaten all they make will have fateful consequences, lasting through the war and beyondincluding their lives. Or that the first unforeseen event will be a shocking death… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786691485178089466X</amazonuk>

|author= Matthew HarffyP F Chisholm|title= Guns in the North (The Serpent SwordSir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= 1592: Sir Robert Carey flees the strictures of Elizabethan court – and his creditors – in order to become Deputy Warden of 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 to become his world. It's AD 633 now his job to bring law to the lawless. This isn't easy when every local he comes across has an affinity and Albion is a divided island made up heritage of petty warlords who want crime to be treated like honourable royalty but act like gangsterssome degree. Romans are a memory that have entered into myth and For Robert the souls of Albion are torn between best thing about the old Gods and the new Christ. It job is in this world that we follow its proximity to the adventures of Beobrand as woman he loves but he doesn't know what he undertakes the classic hero’s journey'll do about that yet either. Beobrand moves from wide-eyed teenager Meanwhile he soon realises that those who are supposed to hardened and honourable warrior through a brutal rite of passage as he hunts the killer of be on his brother and seeks to become a true warriorside are plotting against him but they don't realise what they're up against. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866924061786694719</amazonuk>

|author=Zanna Sloniowska and Antonia SeniorLloyd-Jones (translator)|title=The Tyrant's ShadowHouse with the Stained-Glass Window

|summary=Warning: spoilers ahead for ''Treason's Daughter''.Patience lives with her widowed brotherMarianna, William, helping an opera singer in the soon-to care for his son Richard (nicknamed Blackberry). Despite the Civil war ending-be Ukrainian city of Lviv, the times are still uncertain. Cromwell is increasingly annoyed with mistakenly shot dead at a parliament political rally in the dying days of rebels refusing to go to the electorate for ratificationSoviet Union. William sees this problem at close quarters once heThis novel begins with both anger and hope, as Marianna's effectively forced to become Cromwell's legal advisor coffin is covered in an atmosphere poisoned by espionage the illegal blue and religious factions. However when Patience comes across Shadrick Simpsonyellow flag, and her death seems to herald the birth of a charismatic preacher, all becomes clearer for new nation. But the day of her funeral is also the day of her at least. Meanwhile Sam Challoner, Williamdaughter's brother first period – a girl who must learn how to be a woman in lawthis time of drastic change, comes home after privateering with Prince Rupert and realises that no mother to guide her along the fight at sea is better than peace at home. At least when you're privateering you know who your enemy isway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17823966160857057138</amazonuk>

|author= David BarbareeK J Whittaker|title= DeposedFalse Lights

|summary= A.D 68. A deposed emperor lies in a prison cellCornwall, betrayed and newly blinded by those who were sworn to protect him1817. He is now crippled and deprived  What if your worst mistake changed the course of history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of power, left completely on Wellington at the edge Battle of despair with a frightened young slave named Marcus as Waterloo, and his only companionex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied England. Ten years later Cornwall erupts into open rebellion, and it is Emperor Vespasian who wears the purple. Things may have settled since the civil war but Vespasianyoung heiress Hester escapes with Crow, Wellington's son Titus is plagued former intelligence officer, a half-French aristocrat haunted by worry about plots to murder his fatherpart in the catastrophic defeat. Gruesome atrocities and mysterious disappearances are rife throughout Rome; it is Together, they become embroiled in a city full web of falsehoods treachery and intrigues with espionage as plans are laid to free Wellington from secret captivity in the fear of rebellion lurking beneath Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the surfaceFrench occupation. FurthermoreIn a country rife with traitors, a man who used Hester and Crow know it is impossible to be emperor still lives – play such a blind man who everyone believes to be deadgame as this for long.. His name is Nero and he seeks revenge against those who wronged him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17857626721786695340</amazonuk>

|author= Diney CosteloeJ Jefferson Farjeon|title= The Married GirlsSeven Dead|rating= 4.5

|summary=WynsdownTed Lyte was petty criminal, 1949. In but not usually the small Somerset village of Wynsdown, Charlotte Shepherd is happily married to farmer Billyhousebreaking type. She arrived from Germany on the Kindertransport as a child during He lacked the war and now feels settled in her adopted homecourage. Meanwhile, the squire's fighter pilot sonHowever, Felixneeds must, has returned and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to the village try his chances at an isolated house with a fiancée in towshuttered window. Daphne is beautiful, charming''... and harbouring secrets. After meeting during the war, Felix knows some he might find a bit of Daphnealright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'s past' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the shutters, but she has worked hard to conceal that which could unravel her carefully built lifeit definitely isn't what he'd hoped. For Charlotte, too, In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a dangerous past is coming back woman. Fleeing the house in the shape of fellow refugeehorror, bad boy Harry Black. Forever bound he is pursued and caught by their childhoodsa passing yachtsman, Charlotte will always care for himThomas Hazeldean, but Harrywho also happens to be a journalist. Fascinated by Ted's return disrupts the village quiet story (and a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and it's not long before gossip spreads. The war may have endedits assortment of odd clues, but for these girlsincluding a portrait shot through the heart, trouble is only just beginning..an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one of the victims.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849761210712356886</amazonuk>

|authortitle= Philip KerrSalt Creek|titleauthor= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12Lucy Treloar|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime (Historical) Fiction|summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939The first chapter of ''Salt Creek'' opens in Chichester, England, he was stationed in Berlin as 1874. Hester Finch is a police officer handling murder cases respected and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking Nazis. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he was a known reasonably wealthy member of the Social Democratic Party)her community. But she can't stop her thoughts wandering back to her adolescence, he understood that spent on Salt Creek Station in the best thing he could do for himself at that time was to make himself indispensable to men like Reinhard Heydrich and Martin Bormannremote South Australian Coorong region. So Hester feels ''has never felt so alive as then, when he is assigned to solve a murder that has occurred at Hitlerwe had so little''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709417</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jamie Ford|title= Love and Other Consolation Prizes|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=At the World's Berghof Fair in 1962, it seems that all eyes are focused on the future. The Space Needle dominates the Bavarian mountainslandscape, he knows that he needs filling people with anticipation about things to do it quickly and discreetly – not just for justice's sakecome. One visitor, however, but for has his ownmind firmly focused on the past. He Ernest Young is given exactly one week to apprehend the suspect, and he hopes that with the help of helping his friend Friedrich Korsch, an investigator daughter Ju-ju with a story she is writing for her newspaper; a story about a young immigrant boy who was given away as a prize in a raffle at the Krimialpolizei (or Kripo, for short) he just might get luckyWorld's Fair in 1909. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17842964810749022752</amazonuk>

|author= Stephan CollishawNicola Pryce|title= The Song of the StorkCaptain's Girl|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Historical Fiction|summary= Stephan Collishaw has achieved a rare feat – Last year, Bookbag reviewed, and thoroughly enjoyed, [[Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's Daughter]], a novel swashbuckling historical romance set amidst in picturesque Cornwall. Now we have the pleasure of reading the much-anticipated sequel. This time, the horrors story focuses on a neighbour of Nazi tyranny the Polcarrow family, Miss Celia Cavendish, who has been engaged to a cruel man that she does not shy love. One fateful night, she runs away from human sufferingto the Polcarrow house to beg them for help, but does not drown in it eitherand the pivotal events of that night have far-reaching consequences for all involved. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850791901782398856</amazonuk>

|author=Alan KennedyHawa L Crickmore|title=A Time to Tell LiesAcross the Ocean

|genre=Crime (Historical) General Fiction|summary= Psychologist Alan Kennedy's fifth novel continues the story he began A young cage fighter, Martin Grandson, was diagnosed with [[Lucy by Alan Kennedy]]a rare genetic disorder which required a bone-marrow transplant, preferably from a sibling. In Only recently he'd been a fit young man, in the autumn prime of 1942life, Captain Alex Vere but now he was suffering from a rare type of bone cancer: without the transplant he would be paralysed for life and Justine Perry are among might be dead within the men and women picked up and taken to a stately home in Scotland, where they are trained in spy skills. After this first encounter, Alex is smitten yet uncertain next twelve weeks if he will ever see Justine againdidn't receive the transplant within the next fourteen days. The spy Unfortunately Martin's life is dangerous parents had died in a car crash and unpredictablethere were no siblings or other close relatives. His girlfriend, after allCelia, was not a match. Six weeks later|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= M J Tjia|title= She Be Damned|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= London, though1863: prostitutes in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, they meet up again in southwest Francetheir sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, where they fears grow that the killer may have been sent claimed their latest victim. The police are at a loss and so it falls to collect Simonecourtesan and professional detective, a Special Operations Executive agentHeloise Chancey, to investigate. It's Alex's first mission (Justine's fourth) and all goes horribly awryWith the assistance of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the truth. Alex ends up But when Amah is implicated in custody at the Gendarmeriebrutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, facing a German who knows he has a false passportbefore the killer strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993202322178507931X</amazonuk>

|author=Alex NyeSarah Franklin|title=For My SinsShelter|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1586: Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, Connie Granger has time to look back over escaped her past life as she sitsbombed-out city home, incarcerated by her second cousin Queen Elizabeth I. Maryfinding refuge in the Women's life hasn't been one of totally pampered royaltyTimber Corps. For her, this remote community must now serve a secret purpose. Growing up in France<br>Seppe, away from her motheran Italian prisoner of war, widowed and then returning to Scotland to claim is haunted by his memories. In the throne before she was even 19forest camp, her struggle with fate started earlyhe finds a strange kind of freedom.Their meeting signals new beginnings. The tensions between Mary the womanBut as they are drawn together, Mary the Catholic and Mary the political force continue through three marriagesworld outside their forest haven is being torn apart. Old certainties are crumbling, an unsolved murder and the thwarted desire to serve her peopleboth must now make a life-defining choice. Now it's come <br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to this prison cell but while there's life, there's still hope…protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19059167871785762990</amazonuk>

|author= Grace MacallisterJane Johnson|title= The Magician's LieCourt of Lions|rating=45|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction |summary= The Amazing Arden is Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city of Granada a year ago. In the most famous female illusionist shadow of her daythe Alhambra, renowned for her notorious trick one of sawing the most beautiful places on earth, she works as a man waitress serving tourists in half on stagea busy bar. But one night She pretends she swaps 's happy with her trademark saw for an axe. When Ardennew life – but how could she be? Kate's husband alone, afraid and hiding under a false name. And fate is found dead later that nightabout to bring her face-to-face with her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, a message, the answer seems clearin a hand few could read, most was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of all to young policeman Virgil Holtpaper. Captured The paper was folded and taken pressed into custody, all seems set for Ardenone of the Alhambra's swift confessionwalls. But she There it has lain, undisturbed by the tides of history – the Fall of Granada, the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of love, in a different story to tell. Even handcuffed time of danger and alonedesperation, Arden is far from powerless, and what she reveals is as unbelievable as it is spellbindingthe fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17871999671786694336</amazonuk>

|author=Helen DunmoreAngus Watson|title=Birdcage WalkYou Die When You Die|rating=54|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married well. John Diner Tredevant is a property developer who has reached Finnbogi the zenith of Boggy and his life's work: building a terrace tribe of prestigious houses overlooking the Avon Gorge. In mushroom men (Vikings) must take a time of turbulence as France reaches road trip through hostile territory whilst being hunted by the dawn of revolution, Britain, including Diner, fears it may spreadgreatest fighting force ever seen (Amazonian Native Americans). This puts Lizzie Vikings meet Native Americans in a difficult position since her mother clash of cultures and step-father both believe in propagating pamphlets and ideas potentially the end of egalitarianism for and to all, including womenthe world. In other words, they think nothing of spreading ideas When the Queen of the sort that fanned the French flames. However, that's known world says your tribe has to be exterminated then your immediate future may not Lizzie's only problem… there is a darkness in her husband's past of which she's unawarebe so rosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00919594030356507564</amazonuk>

|author=Beth UnderdownAlison Weir|title=The WitchfinderSix Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn: A King's SisterObsession: Six Tudor Queens 2|rating=4.5

|summary=England 1645: Matthew Hopkins is good Thomas Boleyn sends his daughters abroad to be trained at his chosen career: seeking, testing and convicting those with the Devil courts of European royalty. Not only does this give them an education in themthe ways of the elite, it could also ensure a good marriage. His sister, Alice, doesnUnfortunately he hasn't realise reckoned on the full connotations ideas that one of his actions untilthem, Anne, widowed picks up and pregnant, she returns home. Alice as for marriage… Anne is grateful determined to be allowed to live under Matthew's roof but then watches his sinister finger of suspicion point in unexpected placesmarry for love not through some paternal arrangement. This is a man changed from Yet the boy that Alice used reality turns out to know. She never then realised that he'd be capable of killing hundreds of people and making different, driving a wedge through her the Witchfinder's Sisterfamily on a road leading to dark tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241978033147222762X</amazonuk>

|author= Emma HendersonMartha Conway|title= The Valentine HouseFloating Theatre|rating= 45|genre= Literary Historical Fiction|summary= In June 1914When young seamstress May Bedloe is left alone and penniless on the shore of the Ohio, Sir Anthony Valentine, a keen mountaineer, arrives with his family to spend she finds work on the summer in their chalet, high in famous floating theatre that plies its trade along the French Alpsriver. ThereHer creativity and needlework skills quickly become invaluable and she settles into life among the colourful troupe of actors. She finds friends, for and possibly the first time, fourteen-year-old foundling Mathilde starts work as one promise of more. But cruising the border between the Confederate South and the 'ugliesfree' - village girls employed as servants and picked, it North is believed, to ensure they don't catch Sir Anthony's roving eyefraught with danger. For Mathilde it is the start sake of a life-long entanglement with les anglais - strangedebt that must be repaid, exciting peopleMay is compelled to transport secret passengers, far removed from the hard grind under cover of farming. Except she soon finds darkness, across the Valentines are less carefree than they appearriver and on, with a curiously absent daughter no one talks aboutalong the underground railroad. It will be decades - disrupted by warBut as May's secrets become harder to keep, accidents and a cruel betrayal - before Mathilde discovers the key she learns she must endanger those now dear to the mysteryher.  And in 1976, to save the year Sir Anthony's great-great grandson comes to visitlives of others, she must decide whether to use itrisk her own...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14447040281785762907</amazonuk>

|author= Polly ClarkJenny Ashcroft|title= LarchfieldBeneath a Burning Sky|rating= 54|genre= Literary Historical Fiction |summary=I It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves Young bride Olivia Sheldon finds returning to Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland and her hopes are first challengedchildhood home in Egypt a bitter-sweet experience. Newly marriedOn the one hand, pregnantshe has been reunited with her estranged sister Clara, she's excited by and the prospect of pair have formed a life that combines family deep and creativityloving bond. She thinks On the other, she knows what being a personhas an unhappy marriage to her domineering husband Alistair, a wife, a motherwho only married her to spite Clara, meanswho had refused him previously. She Life with the sadistic Alistair is soon shown that she is wrongunbearable, with Olivia subjected to horrific abuse at his hands, daily. As the battle begins for her very sense a lady with no means of selfsupporting herself, Dora comes to find the realities Olivia seems trapped without any means of small town life suffocating, and, eventually, terrifying; until she finds a way to escape reality altogether. Another poet, she discovers, lived only finding solace in Helensburgh once. Wystan H. Auden, brilliant and awkward at 24, with his first book the company of poetry published, should be embarking on success her sister and society in Londonfriends. Instead, But when her dear sister goes mysteriously missing in 1930, fleeing a broken engagementthe bustling streets of Alexandria, he takes a teaching post at Larchfield School for boys where he it is mocked for his Englishness up to Olivia to try and suspected - rightly - solve the mystery of homosexuality. Yet in this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in love for the first time, even as he fights his deepest fearsher disappearance before it is too late.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17864819280751565032</amazonuk>

|author=Dinah JefferiesConn Iggulden|title=Before Dunstan: One Man Will Change the RainsFate of England

|summary=Eliza has tragically punctuated childhood memories The young Dunstan shows no sign of India that have feed her desire to returnthe sainthood he'll later attain. Therefore in 1930, following the death Son of her husbanda Wessex thane and sent to a monastery for education, when the British government commission her this isn't a lad who responds to photograph scenes of Indian lifediscipline. However an enquiring, she jumps at intelligent mind begins to emerge and then comes the chancebig break. What Lady Elflaed calls to put a proposal to him after hearing about what she doesn't realise is that not everyone she comes across is delighted with considers to be a miracle and the ideamonks consider another in a long line of excuses. Living within Yet Dunstan will outshine all his teachers as well as knowing seven kings and holding responsible positions in their courts, as the Sultanabook's opulent palace complex is definitely an attraction for her, as is Jay, an Indian price who shows Eliza the real Indiatitle suggests. HoweverWhether we believe in the miracles or not, attractions are sometimes dangerous and even deadly.Dunstan certainly had quite a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412870810718181441</amazonuk>

|author=Otto de Kat and Laura Watkinson (translator)Simon Edge|title=The Longest NightHopkins Conundrum|rating=3.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Emma has Tim Cleverley inherits a philosophy – 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 ''let the dead rest, and love The Wreck of the livingDeutschland''nearby. The problem with that In Victorian England, as Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a 96-year-old, is that there are too few living left, life full of confusion and so while the love remains she will go through her memoriescontradiction, taking but discovers a woozycalling for poetry that threatens to overrule his calling to God. And, diaphanous path through all the major events speaking of her life. Starting in wartime Berlin with one husband, who gets snatched from her at workGod, fleeing Five nuns leave persecution to another place travel to wait for peace, and wait for him in vain, moving to Holland and finding a new love, and so on world – this wispy journey will show all the impacts of war, from rationing right up only to exile, death and survival. 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…find themselves in more trouble that they could ever have imagined… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570560851785630334</amazonuk>

|author= Adrian GoldsworthyAnne O'Brien|title= VindolandaThe Shadow Queen|rating= 34.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= AD 98: Born in the northern fields 1328, Joan of Kent may be of Britannia lies Vindolandaroyal blood but she's from a family tainted by treachery. Her father Edmund Woodstock, a Roman auxiliary base situated on the edge 1st Earl of Kent, was executed for his part in the Roman worldinfamous Montague plot. Far from However Joan has grown up under the prosperity and decadence protection of Romeher cousin, King Edward III with all the wild and untamed lands around Vindolanda are ripe with rebel tribes advantages and druids set against the destruction attributes of Rome and its armiesa princess. In the midst Yet, much to her mother's chagrin, obedience isn't one of this destruction is Flavius Ferox; these attributes. Joan's head strong feist takes her on a Briton and Roman Centurion who has been given the task of keeping the peace varied journey in this desolate edge of the worldlife. But life in Roman Britain is full of danger and betrayal at every turn Having said that, three husbands, five marriages (technically) and Ferox knows a son destined for the English throne means that it will take more than courage to overcome what lies ahead.'s also been one heck of a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849746841848455070</amazonuk>

|author=Jeroen Blokhuis and Asja Novak (translator)Patricia Falvey|title=The Yellow House|rating=3|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=If you were the needy kind, 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 feeling of belonging just because you were there when someone carried a dead dog down off a mountain? The main character in this novel does. But he has something that will really get him noted, well-thought-Girls of, included. He has come to the south of France to set up an artists' collective, where he can live and work alongside his counterparts, who can inspire each other and best each other to create wonderful art. In fact a muchEnnismore: A Heart-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>1907320563</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|title=Retribution RoadRending Irish Saga

|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard man, he was something elseIreland 1900: a dangerous man.Ennismore House'' If, indeed, there was someone who was ideal for a suicide mission, it was hims young heiress Victoria had hoped that she and Rosie Killeen would be friends forever. Working Rosie soon comes to know better as there's a soldier for the East India Company social chasm between those who live in the ruralHouse and those, remote, outlaw hotbeds of Asia in the 1850s, helike Rosie's tasked with taking a boat of unknown prospects family, who have been brought up the Irrawaddy merely to try and combat local warlord Pagan Minserve them. It doesn't go well – The days of innocence are coming to start withan end in many ways. Soon, he's supposed to run as the rule over ruffians saved from the gallowscry for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, but canthere't command them until hell be more than steps on society's forced his ladder between them as each must discover their own way to having the knowledge of in a nation that will never be the mission he needs first, only for all hell to break loosesame again. 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>08570537441786490625</amazonuk>

|author=Theodore BrunElaine Everest|title=A Mighty Dawn (The Wanderer Chronicles)Butlins Girls|rating=3.54

|summary= A story like this needs Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness to start her new job as a Butlins auntie. Behind the smiles and confident appearance, she hides a strong central charactersecret; it needs a warrior who she has convictiontaken the job to escape escalating problems at home. She soon finds good friends in her chalet-mates Bunty and Plum, heart and honourit turns out that they each have their own reasons for wanting a fresh start. Hakan has all these in abundanceMeanwhile, but he didn't get them easilyMolly is shocked to discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at the camp. In this coming of age tale, Is he goes really as suave as his on a quest to find himself after experiencing -screen persona? And why is he working at the most tremendous of betrayalscamp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, Molly and her new friends face new threats and dangers that may threaten their new-found freedom. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17823999411447295536</amazonuk>

|author=S J Hardman LeaGeraint Jones|title=The Sins of SoldiersBlood Forest|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Anson Scott wants to join the British army and World War I for a different reason than most of his fellow AmericansFelix. The lucky one. He's a journalist wanting the uncensored inside story to send back home; a deadly enterprise as, if the Germans dondoesn't get him, feel especially lucky when he staggers out into the Brits may deem him a spy. Unperturbed he carries grove and finds twelve of his plan through comrades butchered and finds himself on mutilated in the French front in 1916worst possible ways. He has an ally in British officer David Alexanderfelt even less lucky when the soldiers arrived, which is just as well since not all his enemies are across no man's landRoman cavalry. The two men He might have a lot in commonrun, more than they know and perhaps more than is good for them as the Somme approaches.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785890182</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Gilman|title=Viperbut he knew he's Blood (Master of War)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|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. However, faced with an elongated stale mate, Thomas' role becomes that of scavenger leader as the chances of victory d never make way for a greater chance of starvation amongst the armiesit. There is a light at the end of the tunnel though. Blackstone is to go on a trip: an escort mission to Italy, delivering the French King's daughter Isabelle He stepped out to Milan and her weddingface whatever came next. Having said that, the light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming lance. Isabelle's prospective groom is one of the brothers who killed Thomas' wife and daughter. Death is definitely on the cards… but whose?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849744630718184815</amazonuk>