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|author= Simon EdgeHeather Morris|title= The Hopkins ConundrumTattooist of Auschwitz|rating= 4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=So, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see the horror there, and immediately swear to survive the 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 Nazis demand, to the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and get a job that means you're actually a Jew working in the political wing of the SS, 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 smuggle in for you, under the eyes of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, and survived to tell the tale, but he also managed to do something even more daring, and unexpected – he dared to invest hope in a burgeoning love that he found in the camp.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785763644</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rachel Halliburton|title=The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens in London in January 1797. Benjamin West, President of the Royal Academy, is reflecting on the past year's scandal involving the Provises, father and daughter, and worries that he handled everything poorly. From the start the book's figurative language is appropriately 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 if somebody had dropped a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – the more he prodded and stirred the memory, the murkier it became.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715651978</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Banks|title= W|rating= 4

|summary= Tim Cleverley inherits On the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored and with his world in turmoil. Beginning a failing pub in Walesjourney westward, which he plans 's filled with a desire to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupt. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0983333416</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Elaine Everest|title= Christmas at Woolworths|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=''Christmas at Woolworths'' is the sequel to concoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard Manley Hopkins, who composed wartime saga ''The Wreck of the DeutschlandWoolworths Girls,'' nearbyand continues the story where the first book left off. In Victorian EnglandMembers of the close-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together and keep morale high, Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life full even though the future is uncertain. At the heart of confusion and contradictionthe neighbourhood, but discovers the home of kindly matriarch Ruby is a calling beacon where family and friends can gather for poetry that threatens good food and conversation: a way to overrule his calling forget the troubles outside. Spirits remain high; even when the bombs are falling so close to Godhome. AndWe catch up with the three friends from the first book: Sarah yearns for peace and an end to the war, speaking of God, Five nuns leave persecution to travel to Maisie is desperate for a new world – only child and Freda would love to find themselves in more trouble that romance. Will they could ever have imagined… all get their wishes this Christmas?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17856303341509843655</amazonuk>

|author=Anne O'BrienMinette Walters|title=The Shadow QueenLast Hours

|summary=Born In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port of Melcombe in 1328, Joan Dorset. Ignorant of Kent may be many rules of royal blood but shehygiene which we's from a family tainted by treachery. Her father Edmund Woodstockd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, 1st Earl of Kent, was executed for his part in the infamous Montague plotdisease rages through the country. However Joan has grown up under On the protection estate of her cousinDevelish, King Edward III with all Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of the people who lived in the advantages demesne after her husband had ridden off to try and attributes of secure a princessmarriage for his daughter. Yet, much Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the estate and when Lady Anne realised the virulence of the plague she ordered that the estate refuse entry to her mother's chagrinanyone, obedience isn't one of these attributes. Joan's head strong feist takes including her on a varied journey in life. Having said that, three husbandshusband and his entourage, five marriages (technically) and a son destined for fear that they would bring the English throne means that it's also been one heck of a life!disease to her people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18484550701760632139</amazonuk>

|author=Patricia FalveyLars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)|title=The Girls Sixteen Trees of Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish Sagathe Somme

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Ireland 1900: Ennismore HouseWhile his grandfather lived the past was an area of certainty for Edvard. At aged 4 he's young heiress Victoria had hoped d been taken to live with his grandparents, having survived the accident that she and Rosie Killeen would be friends foreverkilled his parents. Rosie soon comes Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to know better as therelight showing Edvard his family history is different from what he'd believed… his mother's birthplace, his mother's a social chasm between those who live in name, the House whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and those, like Rosiethat's family, who have been brought up merely to serve themwithout looking more deeply into the fatal accident itself. The days of innocence are coming Edvard is determined to an end in many ways. Soon, as solve the cry for Irish Home Rule becomes louderpuzzle, there'll be more than steps on society's ladder between them as each must discover their own way in a nation determination that will never be the same againtake him away from his native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secrets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17864906250857056069</amazonuk>

|author= Elaine EverestToby Clements|title= The Butlins GirlsKingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)|rating= 45|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness 1470 dawns and the next chapters of the War of the Roses are ready to start her new job as a Butlins auntieplay out. Behind King Edward thinks that the smiles and confident appearance, she hides a secret; she future has taken the job to escape escalating problems at homebeen settled but treachery is still lurking. She soon finds good friends in her chalet-mates Bunty Meanwhile Katherine and Plum, and it turns out that they each Thomas also have their own reasons for wanting a fresh start. Meanwhile, Molly is shocked to discover world turned upside down when that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at the camp. Is he really as suave as his on-screen persona? And why is he working at the camp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, Molly ledger and her new friends face new threats and dangers that may a chance comment threaten all they have, including their new-found freedomlives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447295536178089466X</amazonuk>

|author= Geraint JonesP F Chisholm|title= Blood ForestGuns in the North (The Sir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Felix1592: 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 lucky oneScottish/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 now his job to bring law to the lawless. He doesnThis isn't feel especially lucky easy when every local he staggers out into the grove comes across has an affinity and finds twelve a heritage of his comrades butchered and mutilated in the worst possible wayscrime to some degree. He felt even less lucky when For Robert the best thing about the job is its proximity to the soldiers arrived, Roman cavalry. He might have run, woman he loves but he knew doesn't know what he'd never make itll do about that yet either. He stepped out Meanwhile he soon realises that those who are supposed to face whatever came nextbe on his side are plotting against him but they don't realise what they're up against. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181848151786694719</amazonuk>

|author= Dominic SmithZanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title= The Last Painting of Sara de VosHouse with the Stained-Glass Window|rating= 54|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= If you find the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinatingMarianna, ''The Last Painting of Sara de Vos'' provides a masterclass an opera singer in how the soon-to work up -be Ukrainian city of Lviv, is mistakenly shot dead at a canvas political rally in stagesthe dying days of the Soviet Union. Framing the This novel begins with both anger and hope, as Marianna's coffin is covered in the story of a seventeenth century Dutch paintingillegal blue and yellow flag, Dominic Smith vividly sketches out the main contours of his characters and her death seems to herald the three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth birth of the way througha new nation. Sara is one of But the few women artists day of the period and her painting funeral is also the day of children skating on a frozen canal, her now dead daughter its central figure. The painting has been in Marty de Groot's family since before Isaac Newton was born and he is the patent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattan. Ellie Shipley forged first period – a girl who must learn how to be a copy of the painting woman in her postgraduate student years and in 2000 finds herself at the centre this time of a gathering storm which threatens drastic change, with no mother to destroy guide her reputation as one of Sydney's foremost fine art academics. Satisfying though those first descriptions are, we then understand these are merely along the author's equivalent of the delicate chalk lines used by painters of the Dutch Golden Age to mark out the composition which will followway. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>192526680X0857057138</amazonuk>

|author= Caro FraserK J Whittaker|title= The Summer House PartyFalse Lights

|genre= General Historical Fiction |summary= In Cornwall, 1817. What if your worst mistake changed the gloriously hot summer course of 1936, a group history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of people meet Wellington at a country house party. Within three yearsthe Battle of Waterloo, England will be at war, but for now, time stands still. Dan Ranscombe is clever and goodhis ex-looking, but he resents the wealth and easy savoirwife Josephine presides over French-faire of fellow guest, Paul Latimeroccupied England. Surely a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through thatCornwall erupts into open rebellion, wouldn't she? And what about Dianaand young heiress Hester escapes with Crow, PaulWellington's beautiful sister, Charles Asherformer intelligence officer, a half-French aristocrat haunted by his part in the Jewish outsidercatastrophic defeat. Together, Madeleine, restless they become embroiled in a web of treachery and dissatisfied with her role espionage as children's nanny? And artist Henry Haddon, their host, no longer young, but secure plans are laid to free Wellington from secret captivity in his power as the Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the French occupation. In a practised seducer. As these guests gathercountry rife with traitors, none has any inkling the choices they make will have fateful consequences, lasting through the war Hester and beyondCrow know it is impossible to play such a game as this for long... Or that the first unforeseen event will be a shocking death… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866914851786695340</amazonuk>

|author= Matthew HarffyJ Jefferson Farjeon|title= The Serpent SwordSeven Dead|rating= 4.5

|summary= ItTed Lyte was petty criminal, but not usually the housebreaking type. He lacked the courage. However, needs must, and 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?'s AD 633 ' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the shutters, but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and Albion a woman. Fleeing the house in horror, he is pursued and caught by a divided island made up of petty warlords passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who want also happens to be treated like honourable royalty but act like gangstersa journalist. Romans are Fascinated by Ted's story (and a memory that have entered into myth possible scoop), Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and the souls its assortment of Albion are torn between odd clues, including a portrait shot through the heart, an old Gods and the new Christ. It is in this world that we follow the adventures of Beobrand as he undertakes the classic hero’s journey. Beobrand moves from wide-eyed teenager to hardened cricket ball and honourable warrior through a brutal rite mysterious note written by one of passage as he hunts the killer of his brother and seeks to become a true warriorvictims.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866924060712356886</amazonuk>

|authortitle=Antonia SeniorSalt Creek|titleauthor=The Tyrant's ShadowLucy Treloar|rating=4.5

|summary=Warning: spoilers ahead for The first chapter of ''TreasonSalt Creek's Daughter''.Patience lives with her widowed brotheropens in Chichester, WilliamEngland, helping to care for his son Richard (nicknamed Blackberry). Despite the Civil war ending, the times are still uncertainin 1874. Cromwell Hester Finch is increasingly annoyed with a parliament respected and reasonably wealthy member of rebels refusing to go to the electorate for ratificationher community. William sees this problem at close quarters once heBut she can's effectively forced t stop her thoughts wandering back to become Cromwell's legal advisor in an atmosphere poisoned by espionage and religious factions. However when Patience comes across Shadrick Simpson, a charismatic preacher, all becomes clearer for her at least. Meanwhile Sam Challoneradolescence, William's brother spent on Salt Creek Station in law, comes home after privateering with Prince Rupert and realises that the fight at sea is better than peace at homeremote South Australian Coorong region. At least Hester feels ''has never felt so alive as then, when youwe had so little''re privateering you know who your enemy is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17823966161910709417</amazonuk>

|author= David BarbareeJamie Ford|title= DeposedLove and Other Consolation Prizes|rating= 4.5

|summary= AAt the World's Fair in 1962, it seems that all eyes are focused on the future.D 68. A deposed emperor lies in a prison cellThe Space Needle dominates the landscape, betrayed and newly blinded by those who were sworn filling people with anticipation about things to protect himcome. He is now crippled and deprived of powerOne visitor, however, left completely has his mind firmly focused on the edge of despair past. Ernest Young is helping his daughter Ju-ju with a frightened young slave named Marcus as his only companion. Ten years later and it story she is Emperor Vespasian who wears the purple. Things may have settled since the civil war but Vespasian's son Titus is plagued by worry about plots to murder his father. Gruesome atrocities and mysterious disappearances are rife throughout Romewriting for her newspaper; it is a city full of falsehoods and intrigues with the fear of rebellion lurking beneath the surface. Furthermore, story about a man young immigrant boy who used to be emperor still lives – was given away as a prize in a blind man who everyone believes to be dead. His name is Nero and he seeks revenge against those who wronged himraffle at the World's Fair in 1909. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17857626720749022752</amazonuk>

|author= Diney CosteloeNicola Pryce|title= The Married GirlsCaptain's Girl|rating= 4.5

|summary=WynsdownLast year, 1949. In the small Somerset village of WynsdownBookbag reviewed, Charlotte Shepherd is happily married to farmer Billy. She arrived from Germany on the Kindertransport as a child during the war and now feels settled in her adopted home. Meanwhilethoroughly enjoyed, the squire[[Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's fighter pilot sonDaughter]], Felix, has returned to the village with a fiancée swashbuckling historical romance set in towpicturesque Cornwall. Now we have the pleasure of reading the much-anticipated sequel. Daphne is beautifulThis time, charming... and harbouring secrets. After meeting during the warstory focuses on a neighbour of the Polcarrow family, Felix knows some of Daphne's pastMiss Celia Cavendish, but she who has worked hard been engaged to conceal a cruel man that which could unravel her carefully built lifeshe does not love. For CharlotteOne fateful night, too, a dangerous past is coming back in she runs away to the shape of fellow refugee, bad boy Harry Black. Forever bound by their childhoods, Charlotte will always care Polcarrow house to beg them for himhelp, but Harry's return disrupts and the village quiet and it's not long before gossip spreads. The war may pivotal events of that night have ended, but far-reaching consequences for these girls, trouble is only just beginning..all involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849761211782398856</amazonuk>

|author= Philip KerrHawa L Crickmore|title= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12Across the Ocean|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime (Historical) General Fiction|summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939A young cage fighter, Martin Grandson, he was stationed in Berlin as diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder which required a police officer handling murder cases and occasionally doing work for some highbone-ranking Nazismarrow transplant, preferably from a sibling. Although never Only recently he'd been a Nazi party member himself (fit young man, in the prime of life, but now he was suffering from a known member rare type of bone cancer: without the Social Democratic Party), transplant he understood that would be paralysed for life and might be dead within the best thing next twelve weeks if he could do for himself at that time was to make himself indispensable to men like Reinhard Heydrich and didn't receive the transplant within the next fourteen days. Unfortunately Martin Bormann. So when he is assigned to solve a murder that has occurred at Hitler's Berghof parents had died in the Bavarian mountains, he knows that he needs to do it quickly a car crash and discreetly – not just for justice's sake, but for his ownthere were no siblings or other close relatives. He is given exactly one week to apprehend the suspect His girlfriend, and he hopes that with the help of his friend Friedrich KorschCelia, an investigator with the Krimialpolizei (or Kripo, for short) he just might get luckywas not a match. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17842964811524666971</amazonuk>

|author= Stephan CollishawM J Tjia|title= The Song of the StorkShe Be Damned|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary FictionCrime (Historical) |summary= Stephan Collishaw has achieved London, 1863: prostitutes in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a rare feat – a novel set amidst loss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigate. With the horrors assistance of Nazi tyranny that does not shy away from human sufferingher trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, but does not drown Heloise inches closer to the truth. But when Amah is implicated in it eitherthe brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes again. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079190178507931X</amazonuk>

|author=Alan KennedySarah Franklin|title=A Time to Tell LiesShelter|rating=45|genre=Crime (Historical) Fiction|summary= Psychologist Alan KennedyConnie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge in the Women's fifth novel continues the story he began with [[Lucy Timber Corps. For her, this remote community must now serve a secret purpose.<br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner of war, is haunted by Alan Kennedy]]his memories. In the autumn of 1942forest camp, Captain Alex Vere and Justine Perry are among the men and women picked up and taken to he finds a stately home in Scotland, where strange kind of freedom.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are trained in spy skills. After this first encounterdrawn together, Alex the world outside their forest haven is smitten yet uncertain if he will ever see Justine againbeing torn apart. The spy's Old certainties are crumbling, and both must now make a life is dangerous and unpredictable, after all-defining choice. Six weeks later, though, <br>What price will they meet up again in southwest France, where pay for freedom? What will they have been sent fight to collect Simone, a Special Operations Executive agent. It's Alex's first mission (Justine's fourth) and all goes horribly awry. Alex ends up in custody at the Gendarmerie, facing a German who knows he has a false passport.protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>09932023221785762990</amazonuk>

|author=Alex NyeJane Johnson|title=For My SinsCourt of Lions|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1586: Mary StuartKate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city of Granada a year ago. In the shadow of the Alhambra, Queen one of Scotsthe most beautiful places on earth, has time to look back over her past life she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends she sits, incarcerated by her second cousin Queen Elizabeth I. Mary's happy with her new life hasn– but how could she be? Kate't been one of totally pampered royalty. Growing up in France, away from her mothers alone, widowed afraid and then returning hiding under a false name. And fate is about to Scotland bring her face-to claim the throne before she -face with her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, a message, in a hand few could read, was even 19, her struggle with fate started earlyinscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of paper. The tensions between Mary paper was folded and pressed into one of the womanAlhambra's walls. There it has lain, Mary undisturbed by the Catholic and Mary tides of history – the political force continue through three marriagesFall of Granada, an unsolved murder the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of love, in a time of danger and desperation, the thwarted desire to serve her people. Now it's come to this prison cell but while therefragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life, there's still hope…forever. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>19059167871786694336</amazonuk>

|author= Grace MacallisterAngus Watson|title= The Magician's LieYou Die When You Die|rating=4|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary= The Amazing Arden is Finnbogi the most famous female illusionist of her day, renowned for her notorious trick Boggy and his tribe of sawing mushroom men (Vikings) must take a man road trip through hostile territory whilst being hunted by the greatest fighting force ever seen (Amazonian Native Americans). Vikings meet Native Americans in half on stage. But one night she swaps her trademark saw for an axea clash of cultures and potentially the end of the world. When Arden's husband is found dead later that night, the answer seems clear, most Queen of all to young policeman Virgil Holt. Captured and taken into custody, all seems set for Arden's swift confession. But she the known world says your tribe has a different story to tell. Even handcuffed and alone, Arden is far from powerless, and what she reveals is as unbelievable as it is spellbindingbe exterminated then your immediate future may not be so rosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17871999670356507564</amazonuk>

|author=Helen DunmoreAlison Weir|title=Birdcage WalkSix Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession: Six Tudor Queens 2|rating=54

|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married wellThomas Boleyn sends his daughters abroad to be trained at the courts of European royalty. John Diner Tredevant is a property developer who has reached Not only does this give them an education in the zenith ways of his life's work: building the elite, it could also ensure a terrace of prestigious houses overlooking the Avon Gorgegood marriage. In a time of turbulence as France reaches Unfortunately he hasn't reckoned on the dawn ideas that one of revolution, Britainthem, including DinerAnne, fears it may spread. This puts Lizzie in a difficult position since her mother picks up and step-father both believe in propagating pamphlets and ideas of egalitarianism as for and marriage… Anne is determined to all, including womenmarry for love not through some paternal arrangement. In other words, they think nothing of spreading ideas of Yet the sort that fanned the French flames. Howeverreality turns out to be different, that's not Lizzie's only problem… there is driving a darkness in wedge through her husband's past of which she's unawarefamily on a road leading to dark tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959403147222762X</amazonuk>

|author=Beth UnderdownMartha Conway|title=The Witchfinder's SisterFloating Theatre|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=England 1645: Matthew Hopkins When young seamstress May Bedloe is good at his chosen career: seekingleft alone and penniless on the shore of the Ohio, testing she finds work on the famous floating theatre that plies its trade along the river. Her creativity and convicting those with needlework skills quickly become invaluable and she settles into life among the Devil in themcolourful troupe of actors. His sisterShe finds friends, Alice, doesnand possibly the promise of more. But cruising the border between the Confederate South and the 'free't realise North is fraught with danger. For the full connotations sake of his actions untila debt that must be repaid, widowed May is compelled to transport secret passengers, under cover of darkness, across the river and pregnanton, she returns homealong the underground railroad. Alice is grateful But as May's secrets become harder to be allowed keep, she learns she must endanger those now dear to live under Matthew's roof but then watches his sinister finger of suspicion point in unexpected placesher. This is a man changed from  And to save the boy that Alice used to know. She never then realised that he'd be capable lives of killing hundreds of people and making others, she must risk her the Witchfinder's Sisterown...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02419780331785762907</amazonuk>

|author= Emma HendersonJenny Ashcroft|title= The Valentine HouseBeneath a Burning Sky

|genre= Literary Historical Fiction|summary= In June 1914, Sir Anthony Valentine, a keen mountaineer, arrives with his family Young bride Olivia Sheldon finds returning to spend the summer her childhood home in their chalet, high in the French AlpsEgypt a bitter-sweet experience. There, for On the first time, fourteen-year-old foundling Mathilde starts work as one of the 'uglies' - village girls employed as servants and pickedhand, it is believed, to ensure they don't catch Sir Anthony's roving eye. For Mathilde it is the start of a life-long entanglement she has been reunited with les anglais - strangeher estranged sister Clara, exciting people, far removed from and the hard grind of farming. Except she soon finds the Valentines are less carefree than they appear, with pair have formed a curiously absent daughter no one talks about. It will be decades - disrupted by war, accidents deep and a cruel betrayal - before Mathilde discovers the key to the mysteryloving bond. And in 1976, On the year Sir Anthony's great-great grandson comes to visitother, she must decide whether has an unhappy marriage to use it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444704028</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Polly Clark|title= Larchfield|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary=I It's early summer when a young poether domineering husband Alistair, Dora Fieldingwho only married her to spite Clara, moves to Helensburgh on who had refused him previously. Life with the west coast of Scotland and her hopes are first challenged. Newly marriedsadistic Alistair is unbearable, pregnantwith Olivia subjected to horrific abuse at his hands, she's excited by the prospect of a life that combines family and creativitydaily. She thinks she knows what being As a person, a wife, a mother, lady with no means. She is soon shown that she is wrong. As the battle begins for her very sense 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 1930the bustling streets of Alexandria, fleeing a broken engagement, 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 approachesbut he knew he'd never make it. He stepped out to face whatever came next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858901820718184815</amazonuk>