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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]] <!-- Kristjansson 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 -->

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===[[Kin The Story Keeper by Snorri KristjanssonAnna Mazzola]]===

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Unnthor Reginsson is the uncrowned king Audrey, a complex mix of flights of the valley; retired Viking farmer fancy and rumoured owner seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of a large hoard her, escapes from the straightjacket of goldher home. He Where every action, every thought, every yearning is gathering controlled by her father, who only once in his clanlife threw caution to the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower and remarried, a grand reunion after ten years of absence. It he has rigorously returned to upholding what is time for strengthening family bondsright, feastingwhat is proper, telling tall tales and remembering shared historythe bastion of doing what is expected. [[Kin The Story Keeper by Snorri KristjanssonAnna Mazzola|Full Review]]

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===[[Templar Silks The Butcher's Daughter by Elizabeth ChadwickVictoria Glendinning]]===

''Templar Silks'' The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a great example wealth of historical fiction done intrigue, plots and machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many to choose from that the wellnever 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. It's As a woman she can either marry, or join a fictitious account convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, and she is sent to join the nuns of William MarshalShaftesbury Abbey. [[The Butcher's time 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 Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell 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 calm before the death Second World War descends upon the planet, four people are explored in a tale of King Baldwin to leprosy in 1185love and friendship. Elizabeth Chadwick has written Henri, fulfilling a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period family tradition in joining the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his life for lack beliefs with those of researchhis upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. In this book she goes back As the war rages, these men are tested like never before, with trust, loyalty and love leading to fill decisions that affect both their lives and those all around them. [[Silence in the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of his lifeDesert 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. Her main problemjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] When it comes to Jane Seymour, as she acknowledges at the end third wife of the bookHenry VIII, popular opinion is that virtually divided. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing is known of Marshalto gain favour in the king's time in Jerusalemeyes. We know when Others view her as a pious and why he went, we know God-fearing woman who the major power players werebrought calm and stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, we know when he came back and that is about itto an extent. So understandablyIn ''The Haunted Queen, this '' the third book is probably more fiction than history but it is brilliantly written none in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a Queen haunted by the lessshadow of a formidable predecessor. [[Templar Silks Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Elizabeth ChadwickAlison Weir|Full Review]]

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===[[Revenge In Gold's Name by Mitchell & MitchellMarcus Dalrymple]]===

''Revenge'' opens with It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the end of the Aztec Empire and the news that Charles Stuart is inhabitants were to return some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Some thought the throne as Charles II of EnglandSpaniards were gods. A young womanAntonio Vega was no god, Ruth Courtneybut he was essentially a decent man, is returning home to her family's farmhouseparticularly by the standards of the time. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the force, excited but at the prospect age of a new Kingtwenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. She arrives home, howeverHe'd joined the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed to find her home ablaze appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and surrounded minds but by renegade soldiers, supporters of Cromwell, her family nowhere to be foundthreats and torture. [[Revenge In Gold's Name by Mitchell & MitchellMarcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]

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===[[The Baghdad Clock Industry of Human Happiness by Shahad Al RawiJames Hall]]===

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''The Baghdad ClockIndustry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a tale of two friends growing up during the first and second Iraqi warnovel about music. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism It is about human beings being able to illustrate the displacement felt by a young girl find music and her neighbourhood. The novel introduces us to magic in the various characters surrounding the protagonistsimplest of places. They are full Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of life and yet never seem to add anything to the central narrativeopening a gramophone company. RawiHowever, it would seem, has their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a problem with telling a storycourse towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[The Baghdad Clock Industry of Human Happiness by Shahad Al RawiJames Hall|Full Review]]

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===[[The Coffin Path Spirit Photographer by Katherine ClementsJon 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:4of the loved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, so that it seems to appear hazily in the background.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]Looking back from today's high-tech perspective, [[:Category:Horror|Horror]]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. [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese|Historical FictionFull Review]]

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===[[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]

David Reece was called up in 1941 and sent to fight Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in BurmaIreland. On And even more excited that his return in 1946Quaker father, who is publishing the British edition of ''Narrative'', he finds a return to civilian Douglass's memoir of his life quite beyond him and, after as a brawlslave, is sent to a military psychiatric hospitalwill be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. There, he Nathan is treated deeply impressed by Daniel CarterDouglass, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies can work with men like David, but who is working in a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such charismatic figure and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as ECT and lobotomyFrederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan''Walking Wounded'' follows both men s eyes as they both try to come to terms with traumatic experiences he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of the potato famine and find a place in a world moving on from WWIImeets 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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===[[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 Auschwitzthe Museo di Santa Maria, and which is what the ruins of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the horror there, attention of young and immediately swear old. Molly uses the history to survive entertain the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind tourists, but there's more too itthan she knows, particularly as the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini family, but what do you do to see that oath outwho helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the director of the museum. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz|Full Review]] <!-- Worsley -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Worsley_Mary.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/408869446/ref=nosim? Do you get tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''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 work diligently as Jane Seymour, which finally produces the Nazis demandmuch longed for birth of a male heir. This time, to the extent you get story is told through the word eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary. Mary'collaborators hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by a father under the influence of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you can't help but root 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?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My Lady' muttered behind s Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your back? Do journey you dare 'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to stick your neck out save you from a life alone, and get fired by a job that means rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you're actually a Jew working in ll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the political wing of mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the SSway, answerable it's clear this isn't going to Berlinbe an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]<!-- Mayfield -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1786072424.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786072424/ref=nosim? 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As those years pass by, those who were granted immortality find that it' belongings s far from a blessing - with food they smuggle true darkness emerging in for you, under the eyes absence of all the camp guardsdeath. [[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.co.uk/dp/178803788X/ref=nosim? tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Munich: The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all thatMan 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'' sketch, where he says he has a piece of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded to prove it was a paper bag, in fact, by blowing it up and survived immediately bursting it. That is what that paper was to tell many – the taleindicator of a lot of hot air, but he also managed and only leading to do something even more daringan unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anyway. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with the Nazis, and unexpected – he dared this book opens with the first-person reportage of one such man, keen on showing proof to invest hope in a burgeoning love Chamberlain that he found in 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 ignominy, to pick the last, barest threads of the campstory up and see just what did happen to him. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Tattooist of Auschwitz Man Who Said No! by Heather MorrisDavid Laws|Full Review]]

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===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Kin by Rachel HalliburtonSnorri Kristjansson]]===

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Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens in London in January 1797. Benjamin West, President of the Royal Academy, Unnthor Reginsson is reflecting on the past year's scandal involving uncrowned king of the Provises, father valley; retired Viking farmer and daughter, and worries that he handled everything poorlyrumoured owner of a large hoard of gold. From the start the book's figurative language He is appropriately full gathering his clan, a grand reunion after ten years of colour and painterly techniques: 'He had intended to deal with them honourably, but now everyone in London was saying he had notabsence. It was as if somebody had dropped a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – the more he prodded is time for strengthening family bonds, feasting, telling tall tales and stirred the memory, the murkier it becameremembering shared history.' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Kin by Rachel HalliburtonSnorri Kristjansson|Full Review]]

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===[[W Templar Silks by John BanksElizabeth Chadwick]]===

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On ''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 late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before the slopes death of Mt Hood King Baldwin to leprosy in 1185. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in Oregonhis life for lack of research. In this book she goes back 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, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously that virtually nothing is known Viking explorationof Marshal's time in Jerusalem. Josh Kinninger is inspired by We know when and why he went, we know who the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angrymajor power players were, unmoored we know when he came back and with his world in turmoilthat is about it. Beginning a journey westwardSo understandably, he's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on this book is probably more fiction than history but it is brilliantly written none the individuals he finds morally corruptless. [[W Templar Silks by John BanksElizabeth 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]]===

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{{newreview|author=Elaine Everest|title= Christmas at Woolworths|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=''Christmas at WoolworthsRevenge'' is opens with the sequel to wartime saga ''The Woolworths Girls,'' and continues the story where the first book left off. Members of the close-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together and keep morale high, even though the future news that Charles Stuart is uncertain. At the heart of the neighbourhood, the home of kindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where family and friends can gather for good food and conversation: a way to forget the troubles outside. Spirits remain high; even when the bombs are falling so close return to home. We catch up with the three friends from the first book: Sarah yearns for peace and an end to the war, Maisie is desperate for a child and Freda would love to find romance. 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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 is returning home to anyone, including her husband and his entourage, for fear that they would bring the disease to her people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760632139</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 namefarmhouse, excited at the whereabouts prospect of late Great-Uncle Einar… and that's without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itself. 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Meanwhile he soon realises that those who are supposed to be on his side are plotting against him but they don't realise what they're up against. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694719</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Zanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title=The House with the Stained-Glass Window|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Mariannasurrounded by renegade soldiers, an opera singer in the soon-to-be Ukrainian city of Lviv, is mistakenly shot dead at a political rally in the dying days supporters of the Soviet Union. This novel begins with both anger and hope, as Marianna's coffin is covered in the illegal blue and yellow flagCromwell, and her death seems to herald the birth of a new nation. 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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. ''...he might find a bit of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' 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 a woman. Fleeing the house in horror, he 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 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 of the victims.|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, England, in 1874. Hester Finch is a respected and reasonably wealthy member of her community. But she can't stop her thoughts wandering back 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 World's Fair in 1962, it seems that all eyes are focused on the future. The Space Needle dominates the landscape, filling people with anticipation about things to come. One visitor, however, has his mind firmly focused on the past. Ernest Young is helping his daughter Ju-ju with a story she is writing for her newspaper; a story about a young immigrant boy who was given away as a prize in a raffle at the 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, and thoroughly enjoyed, [[Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's Daughter]], a swashbuckling historical romance set in picturesque Cornwall. Now we have the pleasure of reading the much-anticipated sequel. This time, the story focuses on a neighbour of the Polcarrow family, Miss Celia Cavendish, who has been engaged to a cruel man that she does not love. One fateful night, she runs away to the Polcarrow house to beg them for help, and the pivotal events of that night have farDO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE --reaching consequences for all involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398856</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Hawa L Crickmore|title=Across the Ocean|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=A young cage fighter, Martin Grandson, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder which required a bone-marrow transplant, preferably from a sibling. Only recently he'd been a fit young man, in the prime of life, but now he was suffering from a rare type of bone cancer: without the transplant he would be paralysed for life and might be dead within the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive the transplant within the next fourteen days. Unfortunately Martin's parents had died in a car crash and there were no siblings or other close relatives. His girlfriend, Celia, was not a match.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk>}}