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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Mercy Seat by Daniel PeltzElizabeth H Winthrop]]===

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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're In an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the company shadow of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what window bars cast onto the ruins of concrete wall by the Chiesa - a chapel - have now becomeevening's dying sun rays. Crowds flock At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs chair and electrocuted for the attention rape of young and olda white girl, who later committed suicide. Molly uses the history He is resigned to entertain the tourists, but there's more too his fate; it than she knows, particularly as the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini familyfutile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, who helped love between a black man and a white woman was never going to have a happy ending in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the director of the museuma small town filled with small-minded people. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Mercy Seat by Daniel PeltzElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]

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===[[Lady Mary A Gathering of Ghosts by Lucy WorsleyKaren Maitland]]===

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''Lady Mary'' chronicles Witchcraft, the supernatural and the famous will to survive at all costs collide in a story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce that never shies away from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth darker side of a male heirhuman nature. This time, the story The land is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughterunhappy, Mary. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce old spirits want revenge and she famine is treated terribly by kindling a father under the influence resurgence of the Boleyn factionold faith. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck strangers are blowing in the middle on a wind of these tumultuous eventschange. [[Lady Mary A Gathering of Ghosts by Lucy WorsleyKaren Maitland|Full Review]]

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[[image:4starOn 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]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. [[:Category:Historical FictionMr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson|Historical FictionFull Review]]

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 journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have 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 ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]<!-- Mayfield Mazolla -->

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In eighteenth century LondonAudrey, sisters Fitzgeralda complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, 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 be more than what everyone expects of 2015her, and escapes from the sisters are still waiting - with no way straightjacket of knowing if the boy her home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is alive or dead. Far awaycontrolled by her father, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal only once in his life, but also forces them threw caution to keep a secret the wind and married way beneath him for two hundred yearslove. As those years pass byNow a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, those who were granted immortality find that it's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging in the absence bastion of deathdoing what is expected. [[The Parentations Story Keeper by Kate MayfieldAnna Mazzola|Full Review]]

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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Butcher's Daughter by David LawsVictoria Glendinning]]===

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I've played Neville Chamberlain in public, you know – a full one-line in a ''Beyond the Fringe'' sketch, where he says he The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a piece wealth of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded to prove it was a paper bagintrigue, in fact, by blowing it up plots and immediately bursting itmachinations. That is what The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many to choose from that paper was the well never seems to many – run dry and the characters are often those high up in the indicator circles of a lot of hot airpower, and only leading or those prepared to do anything to an unwelcome noiseget there. This book, when WW2 actually struck anywayhowever, is totally different. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the Nazis, and this book opens with world through the first-person reportage eyes of one such manAgnes Peppin, a young, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign the Sudetenland awaypoor woman. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving As a grand-daughter, Emmawoman she can either marry, or join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominyall, and she is sent to pick join the last, barest threads nuns of the story up and see just what did happen to himShaftesbury Abbey. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Butcher's Daughter by David LawsVictoria Glendinning|Full Review]]

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===[[Kin Silence in the Desert by Snorri KristjanssonDavid Longridge]]===

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Unnthor Reginsson is As the uncrowned king shadow of the valley; retired Viking farmer and rumoured owner of Second World War descends upon the planet, four people are explored in a large hoard tale of goldlove and friendship. He is gathering his clanHenri, fulfilling a grand reunion after ten years family tradition in joining the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those of absencehis upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. It is time for strengthening family bondsAs the war rages, these men are tested like never before, feastingwith trust, telling tall tales loyalty and remembering shared historylove leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around them. [[Kin Silence in the Desert by Snorri KristjanssonDavid Longridge|Full Review]]

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===[[Templar Silks Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Elizabeth ChadwickAlison Weir]]===

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''Templar Silks'' When it comes to Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, popular opinion is divided. Some see her as a great example of historical fiction done well. Itscheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the king's eyes. Others view her as a fictitious account of William Marshalpious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and stability into Henry's time in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before the death of King Baldwin life following his turbulent marriage to leprosy in 1185Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack of researchPerhaps both sides are true, to an extent. In this ''The Haunted Queen,'' the third book she goes back to fill in the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of his life. Her main problem''Six Tudor Queens'' series, as she acknowledges at author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the end bones of a Queen haunted by the book, is that virtually nothing is known shadow of Marshal's time in Jerusalem. We know when and why he went, we know who the major power players were, we know when he came back and that is about it. So understandably, this book is probably more fiction than history but it is brilliantly written none the lessa 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]]===

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Maybe youJon Michael Varese've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on s debut novel was inspired by the old coffin path that winds from life story of the village 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 moor top, bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the villagers only speak 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 hushed tones - of how itthe background. Looking back from today's a foreboding place filled with evil. Mercy Booth has lived there since birthhigh-tech perspective, and sheit's always loved the grand house and its isolationhard to see how anyone could have been fooled, but a recurrence of strange events begins suffering people in desperate situations often want to unsettle her. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed in believe; the house, mysteries come to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secretssame goes for séances. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path Spirit Photographer by Katherine ClementsJon Michael Varese|Full Review]]

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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, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently particularly as the Nazis demandhistory of the building is also the history of the Vannini family, to who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the extent you get director of the word 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?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]] ''collaboratorLady Mary'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare 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 stick your neck out Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of a male heir. This time, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and get she is treated terribly by a job that means father under the influence of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and youcan're actually a Jew working t help but root for the little girl stuck in the political wing 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'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 SSrace is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, answerable and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to Berlin? Do suitors though, you dare get contacts with civilian workers building 'll have to make the placeultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and trade caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the loot purloined from mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the incoming victimsway, it's clear this isn't going to be 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?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;'' belongings |===[[The Parentations by Kate Mayfield]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{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 food they smuggle in for youprotecting a mysterious child. Fast forward to the London of 2015, under and the eyes sisters are still waiting - with no way of all knowing if the camp guards? The man whose real boy is alive or dead. Far away, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life story inspired this novel did all that, and survived to tell the tale, but he also managed forces them to do something even more daringkeep a secret for two hundred years. As those years pass by, and unexpected – he dared to invest hope in those who were granted immortality find that it's far from a burgeoning love that he found blessing - with true darkness emerging in the campabsence of death. [[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Parentations by Heather MorrisKate 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 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 immediately bursting it. That is what that paper was to many – the indicator of a lot of hot air, and only leading to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anyway. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with the Nazis, and this book opens with the first-person reportage of one such man, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that 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 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]] <!-- Halliburton Kristjansson -->

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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 slopes late 1100s during a brief spell of Mt Hood 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 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]]

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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. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509843655</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Minette Walters|title=The Last Hours|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port throne as Charles II of Melcombe in DorsetEngland. Ignorant of many rules of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years later A young woman, the disease rages through the country. On the estate of DevelishRuth Courtney, Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of the people who lived in the demesne after her husband had ridden off to try and secure a marriage for his daughter. 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. Edvard is determined to solve the puzzle, a determination that will take him away from his native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secrets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056069</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toby Clements|title=Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1470 dawns and the next chapters of the War of the Roses are ready to play out. new King Edward thinks that the future has been settled but treachery is still lurking. Meanwhile Katherine and Thomas also have their world turned upside down when that ledger and a chance comment threaten all they haveShe arrives home, however, including their lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178089466X</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 Scottish/English borders find her home ablaze 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. 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. But the day of her funeral is also the day of her daughter's first period – a girl who must learn how family nowhere to be a woman in this time of drastic change, with no mother to guide her along the wayfound.[[Revenge by Mitchell & Mitchell|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857057138</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= K J Whittaker|title= False Lights|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Cornwall, 1817.Full Review]]

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 FrenchDO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -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>}}