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 | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Murmuration by Robert Lock]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''Murmuration'' follows the lives of a host of characters from 1863 to the present day. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller, we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. There is a hint of mysticism to the tale, with the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. [[Murmuration by Robert Lock|Full Review]] <!-- Winthrop -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Winthrop_Mercy.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147367249X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147367249X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H Winthrop]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] In an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the shadow of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun rays. At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a chair and electrocuted for the rape of a white girl, who later committed suicide. He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, love between a black man and a white woman was never going to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. [[The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]] <!-- Maitland -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1472235878.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472235878/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Witchcraft, the supernatural and the will to survive at all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the darker side of human nature. The land is unhappy, the old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence of the old faith. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a wind of change. [[A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland|Full Review]] <!-- Syson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Syson_Peacock.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785761862/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, a family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit it. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson|Full Review]] <!-- Mazolla -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1472234782.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472234782/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Tattooist Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Audrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of Auschwitz her, escapes from the straightjacket of her home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in his life threw caution to the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expected. [[The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola|Full Review]] <!-- Glendinning -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0715652915.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0715652915/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth of intrigue, plots and machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many to choose from that the well never seems to run dry and the characters are often those high up in the circles of power, or those prepared to do anything to get there. This book, however, is totally different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes Peppin, a young, poor woman. As a woman she can either marry, or join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, and she is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. [[The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning|Full Review]] <!-- Longridge -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1788034503.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788034503/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Silence in the Desert by David Longridge]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] As the shadow of the Second World War descends upon the planet, four people are explored in a tale of love and friendship. Henri, fulfilling a family tradition in joining the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those of his upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. As the war rages, these men are tested like never before, with trust, loyalty and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around them. [[Silence in the Desert by David Longridge|Full Review]] <!-- Weir -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1472227670.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472227670/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] When it comes to Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, popular opinion is divided. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the king's eyes. Others view her as a pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, to an extent. In ''The Haunted Queen,'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a Queen haunted by the shadow of a formidable predecessor. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir|Full Review]] <!-- Dalrymple -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:140886553X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/140886553X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In Gold's Name by Heather MorrisMarcus Dalrymple]]===

So, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the end of the horror there, Aztec Empire and immediately swear to survive the ordeal inhabitants were to see retribution dealt on those behind it, but what do you do some extent conditioned to see that oath out? accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Do you get to work diligently as Some thought the Nazis demandSpaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, to the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and get but he was essentially a job that means you're actually a Jew working in decent man, particularly by the political wing standards of the SS, answerable to Berlin? time. Do you dare get contacts He was the finest marksman with civilian workers building his harquebus on the placeforce, but at the age of twenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and trade to convert the loot purloined local inhabitants to Christianity from the incoming victimslocal religions which required human sacrifices. He' belongings with food they smuggle in for d joined the army from a seminary and whilst youwouldn't call him naive, under he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the eyes of all the camp guardsAztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. [[In Gold's Name by Marcus Dalrymple|Full Review]] <!-- Hall -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785630806.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785630806/ref=nosim? tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all thatIndustry of Human Happiness by James Hall]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] ''The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and survived foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to tell find music and magic in the tale, but he also managed to do something even more daringsimplest of places. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. However, their ambition and unexpected – he dared to invest hope in hubris soon puts them on a burgeoning love that he found in the campcourse towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[The Tattooist Industry of Auschwitz Human Happiness by Heather MorrisJames Hall|Full Review]]<br>

{{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. 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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 anyone, including her husband and his entourage, for fear that they would bring the disease to her people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760632139<http:/amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)|title=The Sixteen Trees of the Somme|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=While his grandfather lived the past was an area of certainty for Edvard. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with his grandparents, having survived the accident that killed his parents. 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, the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and that's without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itself. 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Meanwhile Katherine and Thomas also have their world turned upside down when that ledger and a chance comment threaten all they have, including their livesco.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178089466X<uk/amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=P F Chisholm|title=Guns in the North (The Sir 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 Scottishdp/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. This isn't easy when every local he comes across has an affinity and a heritage of crime to some degree. For Robert the best thing about the job is its proximity to the woman he loves but he doesn't know what he'll do about that yet either. 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{{newreview|authorstyle=Hawa L Crickmore"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=Across the Ocean==[[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating=4}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|genre=General Historical Fiction]]|summary=A young cage fighterJon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the life story of the real-life father of spirit photography, Martin GrandsonWilliam H. Mumler. His fictional stand-in here is Edward Moody, who was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder which required a bone-marrow transplantbattlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in Boston. Moody is dismissive of spiritualism, preferably from yet considers himself to be doing a sibling. Only recently he'd been a fit young man, service to the bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the prime ghost of life, but now he was suffering from a rare type departed loved one appears. This involves getting hold of an image of bone cancer: without the transplant he would be paralysed for life loved one and might be dead within superimposing it on the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive the transplant within negative being developed, so that it seems to appear hazily in the next fourteen daysbackground. Unfortunately MartinLooking back from today's parents had died in a car crash and there were no siblings or other close relatives. His girlfriendhigh-tech perspective, Celiait's hard to see how anyone could have been fooled, was not a matchbut suffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for séances.[[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese|Full Review]]  |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk!-- de Lacey Davidson -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= M J Tjia"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1506905900.jpg|titlelink= She Be Damnedhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1506905900/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle= 4"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| |genre= Crime (Historical) ==[[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink= London, 1863Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: prostitutes Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker father, who is publishing the Waterloo area are turning up deadBritish edition of ''Narrative'', their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missingDouglass's memoir of his life as a slave, fears grow that will be accompanying the killer may have claimed their latest victimfamous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. The police are at Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a loss charismatic figure and so a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigate. With We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the assistance horrors of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the truth. But when Amah is implicated in potato famine and meets and befriends the brutal plotfamous Irish nationalist, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes againDaniel O'Connell.[[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk!-- Daniel Peltz -->}}|-{{newreview| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912083779.jpg|authorlink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912083779/ref=nosim?tag= Sarah Franklinthebookbag-21]]  |titlestyle= Shelter"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||rating= 5==[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|genrelink= Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] |summary=Connie Granger has escaped her bombedWhen we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-out city hometime guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, finding refuge in which is what the ruins of the Women's Timber CorpsChiesa - a chapel - have now become. For her Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, this remote community must now serve a secret purposerenaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young and old.<br>Seppe Molly uses the history to entertain the tourists, but there's more too it than she knows, an Italian prisoner particularly as the history of war, the building is haunted by his memories. In also the forest camp, he finds a strange kind history of freedom.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are drawn togetherthe Vannini family, who helped in building the world outside their forest haven chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is being torn apartthe director of the museum. Old certainties are crumbling, and both must now make a life[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz|Full Review]] <!-- Worsley --defining choice.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Worsley_Mary.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1785762990<http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/408869446/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Jane Johnson"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title= Court of Lions==[[Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating= 5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|genre= Historical Fiction ]]|summary= Kate Fordham arrived in ''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the sunlit city much longed for birth of Granada a year agomale heir. In This time, the story is told through the shadow eyes of the Alhambraan important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, one Mary. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the most beautiful places on earth, divorce and she works as is treated terribly by a waitress serving tourists in a busy barfather under the influence of the Boleyn faction. She pretends sheLady Mary follows her through these awful years and you can's happy with her new life – t help but how could she beroot for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous events. [[Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley|Full Review]] <!-- Curran -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim? Katetag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My Lady's aloneChoosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], afraid and hiding under [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a false namelass of twenty eight. And fate Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is about on to bring her facefind a suitable suitor -or else doom yourself tolife as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood -face with her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, a message, in fiesty noble eager to save you from a hand few could readlife alone, was inscribed in blood on and fired by a stolen scrap of paperrogueish sense for adventure. The paper was folded and pressed into one of the Alhambra's walls. There When it has laincomes to suitors though, undisturbed by you'll have to make the tides of history – ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the Fall of Granadamad, the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers itbad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. Born of loveWith orphans, werewolves, in a time of danger long lost lovers and desperationancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, the fragment will it's clear this isn't going to be the catalyst that changes Katean easy decision... [[My Lady's life forever. Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694336</amazonuk!-- Mayfield -->}}|-{{newreview| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1786072424.jpg|authorlink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786072424/ref=nosim?tag= Angus Watsonthebookbag-21]]  |titlestyle= You Die When You Die''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''||rating= ==[[The Parentations by Kate Mayfield]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|genrelink= Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] |summary= Finnbogi In eighteenth century London, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the Boggy Fowler family - and his tribe of mushroom men (Vikings) must take charged with protecting a road trip through hostile territory whilst being hunted by mysterious child. Fast forward to the greatest fighting force ever seen (Amazonian Native Americans). Vikings meet Native Americans in a clash London of cultures 2015, and potentially the end sisters are still waiting - with no way of knowing if the worldboy is alive or dead. When Far away, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life, but also forces them to keep a secret for two hundred years. As those years pass by, those who were granted immortality find that it's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging in the Queen absence of the known world says your tribe has to be exterminated then your immediate future may not be so rosydeath.[[The Parentations by Kate Mayfield|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356507564</amazonuk!-- Laws -->}}{{newreview|author=Alison Weir-|titlestyle=Six Tudor Queens"width: Anne Boleyn10%; vertical-align: A King's Obsessiontop; text-align: Six Tudor Queens 2center;"|[[image:Laws_Munich.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178803788X/ref=nosim?tag=4thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Historical Fiction"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=Thomas Boleyn sends his daughters abroad to be trained at Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] I've played Neville Chamberlain in public, you know – a full one-line in a ''Beyond the courts Fringe'' sketch, where he says he has a piece of European royaltypaper from Hitler. Not only does this give them an education I then proceeded to prove it was a paper bag, in fact, by blowing it up and immediately bursting it. That is what that paper was to many – the ways indicator of the elitea lot of hot air, and only leading to an unwelcome noise, it could also ensure a good marriagewhen WW2 actually struck anyway. Unfortunately he hasn't reckoned Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with the ideas Nazis, and this book opens with the first-person reportage of one such man, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that one he should not sign the Sudetenland away. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud of themignominy, Anneto pick the last, picks barest threads of the story up and as for marriage… Anne is determined see just what did happen to marry for love not through some paternal arrangementhim. Yet the reality turns out to be differentOh, driving a wedge through and her family on a road leading to dark tragedyhelp has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws|Full Review]] <!-- Kristjansson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kristjansson_Kin.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786489937/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>147222762X</amazonuk>"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Kin by Snorri Kristjansson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] {{newreviewUnnthor Reginsson is the uncrowned king of the valley; retired Viking farmer and rumoured owner of a large hoard of gold. He is gathering his clan, a grand reunion after ten years of absence. It is time for strengthening family bonds, feasting, telling tall tales and remembering shared history. 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And to save the lives of others, she must risk her own... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762907</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jenny Ashcroft|title= 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 ''Revenge'' opens 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 news that Charles Stuart is to spite Clara, who had refused him previously. Life with the sadistic Alistair is unbearable, with Olivia subjected return 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 throne as Charles II of her sister and friendsEngland. But when her dear sister goes mysteriously missing in the bustling streets of Alexandria A young woman, Ruth Courtney, it is up returning home 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 England|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The young Dunstan shows no sign of the sainthood hefamily'll later attain. Son of a Wessex thane and sent to a monastery for educations farmhouse, this isn't a lad who responds to discipline. However an enquiring, intelligent mind begins to emerge and then comes excited at the big break. Lady Elflaed calls to put prospect of a proposal to him after hearing about what she considers to be a miracle and the monks consider another in a long line of excusesnew King. Yet Dunstan will outshine all his teachers as well as knowing seven kings and holding responsible positions in their courtsShe arrives home, as the book's title suggests. Whether we believe in the miracles or nothowever, Dunstan certainly had quite a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181441</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Simon Edge|title= The Hopkins Conundrum|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Tim Cleverley inherits a failing pub in Wales, which he plans to rescue find her home ablaze and surrounded by enlisting an American pulp novelist to concoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard Manley Hopkinsrenegade soldiers, who composed ''The Wreck supporters of the Deutschland'' nearbyCromwell, her family nowhere to be found.[[Revenge by Mitchell & Mitchell|Full Review]]

In Victorian England, Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life full of confusion and contradiction, but discovers a calling for poetry that threatens to overrule his 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>1785630334</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anne O'Brien|title=The Shadow Queen|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=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 his part in the infamous Montague plot. However Joan has grown up under the protection of her cousin, King Edward III with all the advantages and attributes of a princess. Yet, much to her mother's chagrin, obedience isn't one of these attributes. Joan's head strong feist takes her on a varied journey in life. Having said that, three husbands, five marriages (technically) and a son destined for the English throne means that it's also been one heck of a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848455070</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Patricia Falvey|title=The Girls of Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish Saga|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Ireland 1900: Ennismore House's young heiress Victoria had hoped that she and Rosie Killeen would be friends forever. Rosie soon comes to know better as there's a social chasm between those who live in the House and those, like Rosie's family, who have been brought up merely to serve them. The days of innocence are coming to an end in many ways. Soon, as the cry for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, there'll be more than steps on society's ladder between them as each must discover their own way in a nation that will never be the same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786490625</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elaine Everest|title= The Butlins Girls|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=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 secret; she has taken the job to escape escalating problems at home. She soon finds good friends in her chaletDO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -mates Bunty and Plum, and it turns out that they each have their own reasons for wanting a fresh start. Meanwhile, Molly is shocked to discover 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 and her new friends face new threats and dangers that may threaten their new-found freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447295536</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Geraint Jones|title= Blood Forest|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Felix. The lucky one. He doesn't feel especially lucky when he staggers out into the grove and finds twelve of his comrades butchered and mutilated in the worst possible ways. He felt even less lucky when the soldiers arrived, Roman cavalry. He might have run, but he knew he'd never make it. He stepped out to face whatever came next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718184815</amazonuk>}}