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===[[Murmuration by Robert Lock]]===
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''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]]
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| 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]] <!-- de Lacey Davidson Syson -->
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===[[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;"|===[[Precept: A Novel The Story Keeper by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonAnna Mazzola]]===
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Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival Audrey, a complex mix of flights of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more excited that his Quaker fatherthan what everyone expects of her, who is publishing escapes from the British edition straightjacket of ''Narrative''her home. Where every action, Douglass's memoir of his life as a slaveevery thought, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan every yearning is deeply impressed controlled by Douglassher father, who is only once in his life threw caution to the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a charismatic figure widower 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 remarried, he sees for himself has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the beginnings bastion of the horrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connelldoing what is expected. [[Precept: A Novel The Story Keeper by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonAnna Mazzola|Full Review]]
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Butcher's Daughter by Daniel PeltzVictoria Glendinning]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company of Molly Cavendish who The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Mariawealth of intrigue, which is what the ruins plots and machinations. The regular cast of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiececourtly characters are usually rich and powerful, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs so many to choose from that the attention of young well never seems to run dry and old. Molly uses the history to entertain characters are often those high up in the touristscircles of power, but or those prepared to do anything to get there's more too it than she knows. This book, however, particularly as is totally different. Set in the history of mid–to–late 1500s we see the building is also world through the history eyes of the Vannini familyAgnes 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, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants she is sent to join the director nuns of the museumShaftesbury Abbey. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Butcher's Daughter by Daniel PeltzVictoria Glendinning|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary Silence in the Desert by Lucy WorsleyDavid Longridge]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles As the famous story shadow of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleynthe Second World War descends upon the planet, his divorce from Katherine four people are explored in a tale of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, love and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymourfriendship. Henri, which finally produces fulfilling a family tradition in joining the much longed for birth of a male heir. This timeForeign Legion, Bill, the story is told through the eyes of arriving at Cambridge on an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughterRAF scholarship, Leo, Mary. Mary's hopes struggling to align his beliefs with those of her family staying his upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together are crushed by the divorce strife and she is treated terribly by a father under turmoil. As the influence of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through war rages, these awful years men are tested like never before, with trust, loyalty and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous eventsthose all around them. [[Lady Mary Silence in the Desert by Lucy WorsleyDavid Longridge|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisAlison Weir]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
[[image:4starWhen 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Six Tudor Queens:Category:Humour|Humour]]Jane Seymour, [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Haunted Queen by Alison Weir|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 Dalrymple -->
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In eighteenth century London, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity are changed forever It was about 1509 when they become entwined with a series of mystical events foreshadowed the end of the Fowler family - Aztec Empire and charged the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with protecting a mysterious childtheir deer-without-antlers. Fast forward to Some thought the London of 2015Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a decent man, and particularly by the sisters are still waiting - with no way standards of knowing if the boy is alive or deadtime. Far away, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the force, but also forces them at the age of twenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to keep convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. He'd joined the army from a secret for two hundred years. As those years pass byseminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, those who were granted immortality find he'd failed to appreciate that it's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging in establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the absence of deathAztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. [[The Parentations In Gold's Name by Kate MayfieldMarcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Industry of Human Happiness by David LawsJames Hall]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in public, you know – a full one-line in a ''Beyond the FringeThe Industry of Human Happiness'' sketch, where he says he has first and foremost is a piece of paper from Hitlernovel about music. I then proceeded It is about human beings being able to prove it was a paper bag, find music and magic in fact, by blowing it up the simplest of places. Max and immediately bursting it. That is what that paper was to many – the indicator his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a lot of hot air, and only leading to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anywaygramophone company. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with the NazisHowever, their ambition and this book opens with the first-person reportage of one such man, keen hubris soon puts them on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign the Sudetenland awaya course towards London's underworld. 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 They will ascend broken and see just what did happen to himtheir lives changed forever. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Industry of Human Happiness by David LawsJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin The Spirit Photographer by Snorri KristjanssonJon 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:5starof 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese|Crime (Historical)Full Review]]
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]]
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===[[Templar Silks by Elizabeth Chadwick]]===
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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 ''Templar SilksNarrative'' is a great example of historical fiction done well. It, Douglass's a fictitious account memoir of William Marshal's time in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during his life as a brief spell of calm before slave, will be accompanying the death of King Baldwin to leprosy in 1185famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Elizabeth Chadwick has written Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack of researchcharismatic figure and a gifted orator. In this book she goes back to fill in the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of his lifeBut Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. Her main problem, We watch him through Nathan's eyes as she acknowledges at he sees for himself the end beginnings of the book, is that virtually nothing is known horrors of Marshal's time in Jerusalem. We know when the potato famine and meets and why he went, we know who befriends the major power players werefamous Irish nationalist, 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 lessDaniel O'Connell. [[Templar Silks Precept: A Novel by Elizabeth ChadwickMatthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Mitchell & MitchellDaniel Peltz]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we''Revenge'' opens with re in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the news that Charles Stuart Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the ruins of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to return to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the throne as Charles II attention of Englandyoung and old. A young woman, Ruth CourtneyMolly uses the history to entertain the tourists, is returning home to her familybut there's farmhousemore too it than she knows, excited at particularly as the history of the building is also the prospect history of a new King. She arrives homethe Vannini family, however, to find her home ablaze who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and surrounded by renegade soldiers, supporters one of whose descendants is the director of Cromwell, her family nowhere to be foundthe museum. [[Revenge The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Mitchell & MitchellDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock Lady Mary by Shahad Al RawiLucy Worsley]]===
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''The Baghdad ClockLady Mary'' is a tale chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Katherine of two friends growing up during the first Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and second Iraqi war. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism Henry's subsequent marriage to illustrate Jane Seymour, which finally produces the displacement felt by much longed for birth of a young girl and her neighbourhoodmale heir. The novel introduces us to This time, the various characters surrounding story is told through the protagonisteyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary. They Mary's hopes of her family staying together are full crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by a father under the influence of life the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and yet never seem to add anything to you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the central narrative. Rawi, it would seem, has a problem with telling a storymiddle of these tumultuous events. [[The Baghdad Clock Lady Mary by Shahad Al RawiLucy Worsley|Full Review]]
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===[[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 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 -->|-| 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;''|===[[The Coffin Path Parentations by Katherine ClementsKate Mayfield]]===
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Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on In eighteenth century London, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the old coffin path that winds from the village Fowler family - and charged with protecting a mysterious child. Fast forward to the moor topLondon of 2015, and the villagers only speak of it in hushed tones sisters are still waiting - with no way of how knowing if the boy is alive or dead. Far away, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it's eternal life, but also forces them to keep a foreboding place filled with evilsecret for two hundred years. Mercy Booth has lived there since birthAs those years pass by, and shethose who were granted immortality find that it's always loved the grand house and its isolation, but far from a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle her. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed blessing - with true darkness emerging in the house, mysteries come to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secretsabsence of death. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path Parentations by Katherine ClementsKate Mayfield|Full Review]]
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===[[Walking Wounded Munich: The Man Who Said No! by Sheila LlewellynDavid Laws]]===
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David Reece was called up I've played Neville Chamberlain in 1941 and sent to fight public, you know – a full one-line in Burma. On his return in 1946a ''Beyond the Fringe'' sketch, where he finds says he has a return piece of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded to civilian life quite beyond him andprove it was a paper bag, after a brawlin fact, by blowing it up and immediately bursting it. That is sent what that paper was to many – the indicator of a military psychiatric hospitallot of hot air, and only leading to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anyway. ThereCertainly, 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 is treated by Daniel Cartershould not sign the Sudetenland away. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-daughter, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies can work with men like DavidEmma, at Cambridge but who is working in under a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT cloud of ignominy, to pick the last, barest threads of the story up and lobotomysee just what did happen to him. ''Walking Wounded'' follows both men as they both try to Oh, and her help has just come to terms with traumatic experiences and find a place in a world moving on from WWII. out of prison… [[Walking Wounded Munich: The Man Who Said No! by Sheila LlewellynDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Kin by Heather MorrisSnorri Kristjansson]]===
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So, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see Unnthor Reginsson is the horror there, and immediately swear to survive uncrowned king of the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind it, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demand, to the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out valley; retired Viking farmer and get rumoured owner of a job that means you're actually a Jew working in the political wing large hoard of the SS, answerable to Berlin? gold. Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the placeHe is gathering his clan, and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in a grand reunion after ten years of absence. It is time for youstrengthening family bonds, under the eyes of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all thatfeasting, telling tall tales 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 campremembering shared history. [[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Kin by Heather MorrisSnorri Kristjansson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Templar Silks by Rachel HalliburtonElizabeth Chadwick]]===
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Rachel Halliburton''Templar Silks'' is a great example of historical fiction done well. It's debut novel opens a fictitious account of William Marshal's time in London Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before the death of King Baldwin to leprosy in January 17971185. Benjamin West, President 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 fill in the Royal Academygaps having spent time studying this particular period of his life. Her main problem, is reflecting on as she acknowledges at the past year's scandal involving end of the Provisesbook, father and daughter, and worries is that he handled everything poorly. From the start the book's figurative language virtually nothing is appropriately full known of colour and painterly techniques: Marshal'He had intended to deal with them honourably, but now everyone s time in London was saying Jerusalem. We know when and why he had not. It was as if somebody had dropped a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – went, we know who the more major power players were, we know when he prodded came back and stirred the memorythat is about it. So understandably, this book is probably more fiction than history but it is brilliantly written none the murkier it becameless.' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Templar Silks by Rachel HalliburtonElizabeth Chadwick|Full Review]]
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On ''Revenge'' opens with the slopes news that Charles Stuart is to return to the throne as Charles II of Mt Hood in OregonEngland. A young woman, Ruth Courtney, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationreturning home to her family's farmhouse, excited at the prospect of a new King. Josh Kinninger is inspired She arrives home, however, to find her home ablaze and surrounded by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angryrenegade soldiers, unmoored and with his world in turmoil. Beginning a journey westwardsupporters of Cromwell, he's filled with a desire her family nowhere to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corruptbe found. [[W Revenge by John BanksMitchell & Mitchell|Full Review]]
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|title= Christmas at Woolworths
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|genre= Historical Fiction
|summary=''Christmas at Woolworths'' is 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 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 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?
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|title=The Last Hours
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port of Melcombe in Dorset. Ignorant of many rules of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, the disease rages through the country. On the estate of Develish, 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 to anyone, including her husband and his entourage, for fear that they would bring the disease to her people.
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|title=The Sixteen Trees of the Somme
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=While his grandfather lived the past was an area of certainty for Edvard. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with his grandparents, having survived the accident that killed his parents. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family history is different from what he'd believed… his mother's birthplace, his mother's name, the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and that's without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itself. 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.
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|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. 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 have, including their lives.
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|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 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.
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|summary= Marianna, an opera singer in the soon-to-be Ukrainian city of Lviv, is mistakenly shot dead at a political rally in the dying days of the Soviet Union. This novel begins with both anger and hope, as Marianna's coffin is covered in the illegal blue and yellow flag, 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 to be a woman in this time of drastic change, with no mother to guide her along the way.
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