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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 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 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 Tattooist regular cast of Auschwitz 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 Heather MorrisAlison Weir]]===

SoWhen it comes to Jane Seymour, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitzthe third wife of Henry VIII, and 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 horror there, king's eyes. Others view her as a pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and immediately swear stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind itAnne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demandan extent. In ''The Haunted Queen, to '' the extent you get third book in the word ''collaboratorSix Tudor Queens'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out series, author and get a job that means you're actually a Jew working in historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the political wing bones of a Queen haunted by 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 shadow 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 campformidable predecessor. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Tattooist of Auschwitz Haunted Queen by Heather MorrisAlison Weir|Full Review]]<br>

{{newreview<!-- Dalrymple -->|author=Rachel Halliburton-|titlestyle=The Optickal Illusion"width: 10%; vertical-align: A very eighteenthtop; text-century scandalalign: center;"|[[image:140886553X.jpg|ratinglink=3http://www.5amazon.co.uk/dp/140886553X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Historical Fiction"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=Rachel Halliburton==[[In Gold's debut novel opens in London in January 1797Name by Marcus Dalrymple]]=== [[image:4star. Benjamin West, President jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the Royal Academy, is reflecting on end of the past year's scandal involving the Provises, father and daughter, Aztec Empire and worries that he handled everything poorly. From the start inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the book's figurative language is appropriately full of colour and painterly techniques: 'He had intended to deal pale faces who arrived many years later with them honourablytheir deer-without-antlers. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but now everyone in London was saying he had not. It was as if somebody had dropped essentially a small amount decent man, particularly by the standards of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment the time. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on a palette – the more force, but at the age of twenty three he prodded believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and stirred to convert the memorylocal inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. He'd joined the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the murkier it becameAztec 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 -->|amazonuk-| style=<amazonuk>0715651978<"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785630806.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785630806/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Industry 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 foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the simplest of places. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall|Full Review]] {{newreview<!-- Varese -->|-|authorstyle= John Banks"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0715653008.jpg|titlelink= Whttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0715653008/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese]]=== 4 [[image:3star.jpg|genrelink= General Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction |Historical Fiction]]|summary=On Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the slopes life story of Mt Hood in Oregonthe real-life father of spirit photography, an 1000William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-year old Viking in here is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationEdward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in Boston. Josh Kinninger Moody is inspired dismissive of spiritualism, yet considers himself to be doing a service to the bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the ghost of a departed loved one appears. This involves getting hold of an image of the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angryloved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, unmoored and with his world so that it seems to appear hazily in turmoilthe background. Beginning a journey westwardLooking back from today's high-tech perspective, heit's filled with a desire hard to see how anyone could have been fooled, but suffering people in desperate situations often want to wreak vengeance on believe; the individuals he finds morally corruptsame goes for séances. [[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese|Full Review]]  |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0983333416</amazonuk!-- de Lacey Davidson -->}}|-{{newreview| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1506905900.jpg|authorlink=Elaine Everesthttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1506905900/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |titlestyle= Christmas at Woolworths"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| |rating= 3==[[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson]]=== [[image:4star.5jpg|genrelink= Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] |summary=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 British edition of ''Christmas at WoolworthsNarrative'' is the sequel to wartime saga ''The Woolworths Girls,Douglass'' and continues the story where the first book left off. Members s memoir of the close-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together and keep morale highhis life as a slave, even though will be accompanying the future famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is uncertain. At the heart of the neighbourhooddeeply impressed by Douglass, the home of kindly matriarch Ruby who is a beacon where family and friends can gather for good food charismatic figure and conversation: a way to forget the troubles outsidegifted orator. Spirits remain high; even when the bombs are falling so close to homeBut Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We catch up with watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the three friends from horrors of the first book: Sarah yearns for peace potato famine and meets and an end to befriends the warfamous Irish nationalist, Maisie is desperate for a child and Freda would love to find romanceDaniel O'Connell. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas?[[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]] <!-- Daniel Peltz -->|-|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1509843655<"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912083779.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912083779/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Minette Walters"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title===[[The Last HoursIndomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating=4.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|genre=Historical Fiction]] |summary=In June 1348 When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the Black Death came into company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the country through Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the port ruins of Melcombe in Dorsetthe Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Ignorant of many rules of hygiene Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, grabs the disease rages through attention of young and old. Molly uses the country. On history to entertain the estate of Develishtourists, but there's more too it than she knows, Lady Anne Develish took control particularly as the history of the future building is also the history of the people Vannini family, who lived helped in building the demesne after her husband had ridden off to try and secure a marriage for his daughter. Two chapel some six hundred bonded serfs lived on the estate years ago and when Lady Anne realised one of whose descendants is the virulence director 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 peoplemuseum.[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760632139</amazonuk!-- Worsley -->}}|-{{newreview| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Worsley_Mary.jpg|authorlink=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/408869446/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |titlestyle=The Sixteen Trees of the Somme"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||rating=4==[[Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley]]=== [[image:4star.5jpg|genrelink=General Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]|summary=While his grandfather lived ''Lady Mary'' chronicles the past was an area famous story of certainty for Edvard. At aged 4 heHenry VIII'd been taken to live s love affair with his grandparentsAnne Boleyn, 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 divorce from what he'd believed… his motherKatherine of Aragon, Anne's birthplaceexecution for adultery, his motherand Henry's namesubsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of a male heir. This time, the whereabouts story is told through the eyes of late Greatan important but often neglected player -Uncle Einar… and thatHenry's young daughter, Mary. Mary's without looking more deeply into hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the fatal accident itself. Edvard divorce and she is determined to solve treated terribly by a father under the puzzle, a determination that will take him away from his native Norway to an area influence of France synonymous with devastation the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and a remote Scottish island loaded with secretsyou can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous events.[[Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056069</amazonuk!-- Curran -->}}|-{{newreview| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|authorlink=Toby Clementshttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |titlestyle=Kingmaker"vertical-align: Kingdom Cometop; text-align: (Book 4)left;"||rating=5==[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] |summary=1470 dawns and the next chapters You are a lass of the War of the Roses are ready to play outtwenty eight. King Edward thinks that Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the future has been settled but treachery race is still lurkingon to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Meanwhile Katherine Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and Thomas also fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have their world turned upside down when that ledger to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and a chance comment threaten all they haveancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, including their livesit's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision...[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]<!-- Mayfield -->|amazonuk-| style=<amazonuk>178089466X<''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1786072424.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786072424/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=P F Chisholm''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''||title=Guns in the North (==[[The Sir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)Parentations by Kate Mayfield]]=== |rating=[[image:4.55star.jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] |summary=1592: Sir Robert Carey flees In eighteenth century London, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - and charged with protecting a mysterious child. Fast forward to the strictures London of Elizabethan court – 2015, and his creditors – in order to become Deputy Warden the sisters are still waiting - with no way of knowing if the West March in Carlisleboy is alive or dead. The Scottish/English borders and Far away, a hidden pool grants those who inhabit them are different sup from the world he's left behind it eternal life, but it will have also forces them to become his worldkeep a secret for two hundred years. ItAs those years pass by, those who were granted immortality find that it's now his job to bring law to far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging in the lawlessabsence of death. [[The Parentations by Kate Mayfield|Full Review]] <!-- Laws -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Laws_Munich.jpg|link=http://www.amazon. This isnco.uk/dp/178803788X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] I've played Neville Chamberlain in public, you know – a full one-line in a ''Beyond the Fringe''t easy when every local sketch, where he says he comes across has an affinity a piece of paper from Hitler. 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 indicator of a heritage lot of crime hot air, and only leading to some degreean unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anyway. For Robert Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with the best thing about Nazis, and this book opens with the job is its proximity first-person reportage of one such man, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign the woman Sudetenland away. But he loves only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but he doesn't know under a cloud of ignominy, to pick the last, barest threads of the story up and see just what he'll do about that yet either. Meanwhile he soon realises that those who are supposed did happen to be on his side are plotting against him but they don't realise what they're up against. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws|Full Review]] <!-- Kristjansson -->|-|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1786694719<"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kristjansson_Kin.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786489937/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Zanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd"vertical-align: top; text-Jones align: left;"|===[[Kin by Snorri Kristjansson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (translatorHistorical)|Crime (Historical)]] Unnthor 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. [[Kin by Snorri Kristjansson|Full Review]] <!-- Chadwick -->|title=The House with the Stained-Glass Window|ratingstyle=4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0751564974.jpg|genrelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751564974/ref=nosim?tag=Historical Fictionthebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle= Marianna, an opera singer in the soon"vertical-toalign: top; text-be Ukrainian city of Lviv, align: left;"|===[[Templar Silks by Elizabeth Chadwick]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''Templar Silks'' is mistakenly shot dead at a political rally in the dying days great example of the Soviet Unionhistorical fiction done well. This novel begins with both anger and hope, as MariannaIt's a fictitious account of William Marshal's coffin is covered time in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before the illegal blue and yellow flag, and her death seems of King Baldwin to leprosy in 1185. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack of research. In this book she goes back to herald fill in the birth gaps having spent time studying this particular period of a new nationhis life. But Her main problem, as she acknowledges at the day end of her funeral the book, is that virtually nothing is also the day known of her daughterMarshal's first period – a girl time in Jerusalem. We know when and why he went, we know who must learn how to be a woman in the major power players were, we know when he came back and that is about it. So understandably, this time of drastic change, with no mother to guide her along book is probably more fiction than history but it is brilliantly written none the wayless.[[Templar Silks by Elizabeth Chadwick|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857057138</amazonuk!-- Mitchell -->}}|-{{newreview| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:MandM_Revenge.jpg|left|authorlink= K J Whittakerhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1520973179/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |titlestyle= False Lights"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||rating= 4==[[Revenge by Mitchell & Mitchell]]=== [[image:4star.5jpg|genrelink= Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|summary=Cornwall, 1817.Historical Fiction]]

What if your worst mistake changed the course of history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo, and his ex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied England. Cornwall erupts into open rebellion, and young heiress Hester escapes with Crow, Wellington's former intelligence officer, a half-French aristocrat haunted by his part in the catastrophic defeat. Together, they become embroiled in a web of treachery and espionage as plans are laid to free Wellington from secret captivity in the Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the French occupation. In a country rife with traitors, Hester and Crow know it is impossible to play such a game as this for long...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786695340</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= J Jefferson Farjeon|title= Seven Dead|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Ted 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. 'Revenge'...he might find a bit of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind opens with the shutters, but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman. Fleeing the house in horror, he news that Charles Stuart is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be a journalist. Fascinated by Ted's story (and a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides return to investigate this curious case and its assortment of odd clues, including a portrait shot through the heart, an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one throne as Charles II of the victimsEngland.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356886</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Salt Creek|author=Lucy Treloar|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The first chapter of ''Salt Creek'' opens in Chichester A young woman, EnglandRuth Courtney, in 1874. Hester Finch is a respected and reasonably wealthy member of her community. But she can't stop her thoughts wandering back returning home to her adolescence, spent on Salt Creek Station in the remote South Australian Coorong region. Hester feels ''has never felt so alive as then, when we 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 Worldfamily's Fair in 1962farmhouse, it seems that all eyes are focused on excited at the futureprospect of a new King. The Space Needle dominates the landscape, filling people with anticipation about things to come. One visitor She arrives home, however, has his mind firmly focused on the past. Ernest Young is helping his daughter Ju-ju with a story she is writing for to find her newspaper; a story about a young immigrant boy who was given away as a prize in a raffle at the World's Fair in 1909.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022752</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nicola Pryce|title= The Captain's Girl|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Last year, Bookbag reviewed, home ablaze and thoroughly enjoyed, [[Pengelly's Daughter surrounded by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's Daughter]]renegade soldiers, a swashbuckling historical romance set in picturesque Cornwall. Now we have the pleasure supporters of reading the much-anticipated sequel. This timeCromwell, the story focuses on a neighbour of the Polcarrow her family, Miss Celia Cavendish, who has been engaged nowhere to a cruel man that she does not lovebe found. One fateful night, she runs away to the Polcarrow house to beg them for help, and the pivotal events of that night have far-reaching consequences for all involved.[[Revenge by Mitchell & Mitchell|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398856</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

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