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{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Lock -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1787198243.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787198243/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | 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 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]] <!-- Mitchell Weir -->*|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mitchell_Revenge1472227670.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/1520973179140886553X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 

| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Revenge In Gold's Name by Mitchell & MitchellMarcus Dalrymple]]===

''Revenge'' opens It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the end of the Aztec Empire and the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a decent man, particularly by the standards of the time. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the force, but at the news age of twenty three he believed that Charles Stuart is the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to return convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the throne as Charles II of Englandlocal religions which required human sacrifices. A young womanHe'd joined the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, Ruth Courtney, is returning home he'd failed to her familyappreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. [[In Gold's farmhouseName 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 Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], excited at the prospect [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] ''The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a new Kingnovel about music. She arrives home, however, It is about human beings being able to find her home ablaze music and surrounded by renegade soldiers, supporters magic in the simplest of places. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of Cromwellopening a gramophone company. However, her family nowhere to be foundtheir ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[Revenge The Industry of Human Happiness by Mitchell & MitchellJames Hall|Full Review]]<br><!-- Rawi Varese -->*|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rawi_Baghdad0715653008.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/17860732260715653008/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]

===Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the life story of the real-life father of spirit photography, William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-in here is Edward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in Boston. Moody is 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 loved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, so that it seems to appear hazily in the background. Looking back from today's high-tech perspective, it's hard to see how anyone could have been fooled, but suffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for séances. [[The Baghdad Clock Spirit Photographer by Shahad Al RawiJon Michael Varese|Full Review]]===

''The Baghdad Clock'' is a tale of two friends growing up during the first and second Iraqi war. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism to illustrate the displacement felt by a young girl and her neighbourhood. The novel introduces us to the various characters surrounding the protagonist. They are full of life and yet never seem to add anything to the central narrative. Rawi, it would seem, has a problem with telling a story. [[The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi|Full Review]]<br><!-- Clements de Lacey Davidson -->*|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Clements_Coffin1506905900.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/14722042711506905900/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]

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Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on the old coffin path that winds from the village to the moor top, the villagers only speak of it in hushed tones - of how it's a foreboding place filled with evil. Mercy Booth has lived there since birth, and she's always loved the grand house and its isolation, but a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle her. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed in the house, mysteries come to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secrets. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? ===[[The Coffin Path Precept: A Novel by Katherine Clements|Full ReviewMatthew de Lacey Davidson]]<br>===

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===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 ''Narrative'', Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connell. [[Walking Wounded Precept: A Novel by Sheila LlewellynMatthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]===

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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Heather MorrisDaniel Peltz]]===

So, you arrive When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in all ignorance the company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at Auschwitz, and see the horror thereMuseo di Santa Maria, and immediately swear to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind it, but which is what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demand, to ruins of the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Do you dare Crowds flock to stick your neck out and get see its centrepiece, a job that means you're actually renaissance fresco with a Jew working in history which grabs the political wing attention of young and old. Molly uses the SS, answerable history to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building entertain the placetourists, and trade but there's more too it than she knows, particularly as the loot purloined from history of the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for you, under building is also the eyes history of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all thatVannini family, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and survived to tell one of whose descendants is 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 director of the campmuseum. [[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Heather MorrisDaniel Peltz|Full Review]] <br!-- Worsley -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Worsley_Mary.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/408869446/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]

| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Lady Mary by Rachel HalliburtonLucy Worsley]]===

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Rachel Halliburton''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's debut novel opens in London in January 1797. Benjamin Westlove affair with Anne Boleyn, President his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the Royal Academymuch longed for birth of a male heir. This time, the story is reflecting on told through the past yeareyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's scandal involving the Provises, father and young daughter, and worries that he handled everything poorlyMary. From the start the bookMary's figurative language is appropriately full hopes of colour her family staying together are crushed by the divorce 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 she is treated terribly by a small amount father under the influence of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – the more he prodded Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and stirred you can't help but root for the memory, little girl stuck in the murkier it becamemiddle of these tumultuous events.' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Lady Mary by Rachel HalliburtonLucy Worsley|Full Review]]<br>

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[[image:4star.jpg|linkstyle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [["vertical-align:Categorytop; text-align:Historical Fictionleft;"|Historical Fiction]], ===[[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionMy Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]===

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[[image:4star. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angryjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], unmoored and with his world in turmoil. Beginning a journey westward, he's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupt. [[W by John Banks:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]<br>

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| style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Parentations by Kate Mayfield]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{newreview{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] 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 London of 2015, and the sisters are still waiting - with no way of knowing if the boy is alive or dead. 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 absence of death. [[The Parentations by Kate Mayfield|Full Review]] <!-- Laws -->|author-| style=Hawa L Crickmore"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Laws_Munich.jpg|titlelink=Across the Oceanhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178803788X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle=4"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=General Fiction==[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=A young cage fighterCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] I've played Neville Chamberlain in public, Martin Grandson, was diagnosed with you know – a rare genetic disorder which required full one-line in a bone-marrow transplant''Beyond the Fringe'' sketch, preferably where he says he has a piece of paper from a siblingHitler. Only recently he'd been I then proceeded to prove it was a fit young manpaper bag, in fact, by blowing it up and immediately bursting it. That is what that paper was to many – the prime indicator of lifea lot of hot air, and only leading to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anyway. Certainly, but now he not everyone was suffering from a rare type of bone cancer: without keen on his appeasement with the transplant he would be paralysed for life Nazis, and might be dead within this book opens with the next twelve weeks if first-person reportage of one such man, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he didn't receive should not sign the transplant within the next fourteen daysSudetenland away. Unfortunately Martin's parents had died in But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving a car crash and there were no siblings or other close relatives. His girlfriendgrand-daughter, CeliaEmma, was not at Cambridge but under a matchcloud of ignominy, to pick the last, barest threads of the story up and see just what did happen to him.Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk!-- Kristjansson -->}}|-{{newreview| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kristjansson_Kin.jpg|authorlink= M J Tjiahttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786489937/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |titlestyle= She Be Damned"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||rating= 4==[[Kin by Snorri Kristjansson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|genrelink= Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|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 -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0751564974.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751564974/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle= London, 1863"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Templar Silks by Elizabeth Chadwick]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: prostitutes Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''Templar Silks'' is a great example of historical fiction done well. It's a fictitious account of William Marshal's time in Jerusalem during the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removedlate 1100s during a brief spell of calm before the death 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. When another girl In this book she goes missingback to fill in the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of his life. Her main problem, as she acknowledges at the end of the book, fears grow is that virtually nothing is known of Marshal's time in Jerusalem. We know when and why he went, we know who the killer may have claimed their latest victimmajor power players were, we know when he came back and that is about it. The police are at a loss and so So understandably, this book is probably more fiction than history but it falls is brilliantly written none the less. [[Templar Silks by Elizabeth Chadwick|Full Review]] <!-- Mitchell -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:MandM_Revenge.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1520973179/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Revenge by Mitchell & Mitchell]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''Revenge'' opens with the news that Charles Stuart is to courtesan and professional detectivereturn to the throne as Charles II of England. A young woman, Heloise ChanceyRuth Courtney, is returning home to investigate. With her family's farmhouse, excited at the assistance prospect of her trusty Chinese maida new King. She arrives home, Amah Li Leenhowever, Heloise inches closer to the truth. But when Amah is implicated in the brutal plotfind her home ablaze and surrounded by renegade soldiers, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trustsupporters of Cromwell, before the killer strikes againher family nowhere to be found.[[Revenge by Mitchell & Mitchell|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->}|}