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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Murmuration by Robert Lock]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''Murmuration'' follows the lives of a host of characters from 1863 to the present day. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller, we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. There is a hint of mysticism to the tale, with the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. [[Murmuration by Robert Lock|Full Review]] <!-- Winthrop -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Winthrop_Mercy.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147367249X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147367249X]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H Winthrop]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] In an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the shadow of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun rays. At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a chair and electrocuted for the rape of a white girl, who later committed suicide. He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, love between a black man and a white woman was never going to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. [[The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]] <!-- de Lacey Davidson Maitland -->
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===[[A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland]]===
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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]]
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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Precept: A Novel Mr Peacock's Possessions by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonLydia Syson]]===
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Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about On a remote volcanic island off the arrival coast of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker fatherNew Zealand, who is publishing the British edition a family of ''Narrative'', Douglass's memoir of his life as settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tourhome. Nathan is deeply impressed by DouglassWhen a ship appears, who is a charismatic figure they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a gifted oratorvulnerable boy disappears. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for himself the beginnings of child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the horrors of the potato famine island and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connellthose who inhabit it. [[Precept: A Novel Mr Peacock's Possessions by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonLydia Syson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Story Keeper by Daniel PeltzAnna Mazzola]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company Audrey, a complex mix of flights of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Mariafancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, which is to be more than what the ruins everyone expects of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepieceher, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs escapes from the attention straightjacket of young and oldher home. Molly uses the history to entertain the touristsWhere every action, but there's more too it than she knowsevery thought, particularly as the history of the building every yearning is also the history of the Vannini familycontrolled by her father, who helped only once in building his life threw caution to the chapel some six hundred years ago wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower and one of whose descendants remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the director bastion of the museumdoing what is expected. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Story Keeper by Daniel PeltzAnna Mazzola|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary The Butcher's Daughter by Lucy WorsleyVictoria Glendinning]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleynintrigue, his divorce from Katherine plots and machinations. The regular cast of Aragon, Anne's execution for adulterycourtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many to choose from that the well never seems to run dry and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth characters are often those high up in the circles of a male heirpower, or those prepared to do anything to get there. This timebook, however, is totally different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the story is told world through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's Agnes Peppin, a young daughter, Marypoor woman. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and As a woman she is treated terribly by can either marry, or join a father under the influence of the Boleyn factionconvent. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, and you can't help but root for she is sent to join the little girl stuck in the middle nuns of these tumultuous eventsShaftesbury Abbey. [[Lady Mary The Butcher's Daughter by Lucy WorsleyVictoria Glendinning|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing Silence in the Desert by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisDavid Longridge]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
[[image:4starAs the shadow of the Second World War descends upon the planet, four people are explored in a tale of love and friendship. Henri, fulfilling a family tradition in joining the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those of his upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]As the war rages, these men are tested like never before, with trust, loyalty and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around them. [[:Category:Historical FictionSilence in the Desert by David Longridge|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 Weir -->
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In eighteenth century LondonWhen it comes to Jane Seymour, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - and charged with protecting a mysterious child. Fast forward to the London third wife of 2015Henry VIII, and the sisters are still waiting popular opinion is divided. Some see her as a scheming marriage- with no way of knowing if wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the boy is alive or deadking's eyes. Far away, Others view her as a hidden pool grants those pious and God-fearing woman who sup from it eternal brought calm and stability into Henry's lifefollowing his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, but also forces them to keep a secret for two hundred yearsan extent. As those years pass byIn ''The Haunted Queen, those who were granted immortality find that it's far from ' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a blessing - with true darkness emerging in Queen haunted by the absence shadow of deatha formidable predecessor. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Parentations Haunted Queen by Kate MayfieldAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! In Gold's Name by David LawsMarcus Dalrymple]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in public, you know – It was about 1509 when a full oneseries of mystical events foreshadowed the end of the Aztec Empire and the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-line in a ''Beyond antlers. Some thought the Fringe'' sketchSpaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, where he says but he has a piece of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded to prove it was essentially a paper bag, in factdecent man, particularly by blowing it up and immediately bursting it. That is what that paper was to many – the indicator standards of a lot of hot air, and only leading to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anywaythe time. Certainly, not everyone He was keen the finest marksman with his harquebus on his appeasement with the Nazisforce, and this book opens with but at the first-person reportage age of one such man, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain twenty three he believed that he should not sign the Sudetenland away. But he only got so far before his story expedition in October 1520 was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominy, to pick establish trade links and to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the last, barest threads of local religions which required human sacrifices. He'd joined the story up army from a seminary and see just what did happen to whilst you wouldn't call him. Ohnaive, he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and her help has just come out of prison… torture. [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! In Gold's Name by David LawsMarcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin The Industry of Human Happiness by Snorri KristjanssonJames Hall]]===
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Unnthor Reginsson ''The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the uncrowned king simplest of the valley; retired Viking farmer places. Max and rumoured owner his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a large hoard of goldgramophone company. He is gathering his clanHowever, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a grand reunion after ten years of absencecourse towards London's underworld. It is time for strengthening family bonds, feasting, telling tall tales They will ascend broken and remembering shared historytheir lives changed forever. [[Kin The Industry of Human Happiness by Snorri KristjanssonJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks The Spirit Photographer by Elizabeth ChadwickJon 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:Historical FictionThe Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese|Historical FictionFull Review]]
''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 death of King Baldwin to leprosy in 1185. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack of research. 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, is that virtually nothing is known 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 less. [[Templar Silks by Elizabeth Chadwick|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge Precept: A Novel by Mitchell & MitchellMatthew de Lacey Davidson]]===
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''Revenge'' opens with Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the news arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that Charles Stuart his Quaker father, who is to return to publishing the throne as Charles II British edition of England. A young woman''Narrative'', Ruth Courtney, is returning home to her familyDouglass's farmhousememoir of his life as a slave, excited at will be accompanying the prospect of a new Kingfamous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. She arrives homeNathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, however, to find her home ablaze who is a charismatic figure and surrounded by renegade soldiers, supporters a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of Cromwellthe potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, her family nowhere to be foundDaniel O'Connell. [[Revenge Precept: A Novel by Mitchell & MitchellMatthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Shahad Al RawiDaniel Peltz]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we''The Baghdad Clock'' re in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a tale part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the ruins of two friends growing up during the first and second Iraqi warChiesa - a chapel - have now become. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism Crowds flock to illustrate see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the displacement felt by a attention of young girl and her neighbourhoodold. The novel introduces us Molly uses the history to entertain the various characters surrounding tourists, but there's more too it than she knows, particularly as the protagonist. They are full history of the building is also the history of life the Vannini family, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and yet never seem to add anything to one of whose descendants is the director of the central narrative. Rawi, it would seem, has a problem with telling a storymuseum. [[The Baghdad Clock Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Shahad Al RawiDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path Lady Mary by Katherine ClementsLucy Worsley]]===
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Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on 'Lady Mary'' chronicles the old coffin path that winds famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from the village Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the moor topmuch longed for birth of a male heir. This time, the villagers only speak story is told through the eyes of it in hushed tones an important but often neglected player - of how itHenry's a foreboding place filled with evilyoung daughter, Mary. Mercy Booth has lived there since birth, and sheMary's always loved hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the grand house divorce and its isolation, but she is treated terribly by a recurrence father under the influence of strange events begins to unsettle the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed these awful years and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the house, mysteries come to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secretsmiddle of these tumultuous events. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path Lady Mary by Katherine ClementsLucy Worsley|Full Review]]
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===[[Walking Wounded My Lady's Choosing by Sheila LlewellynKitty 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]]
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David Reece was called up in 1941 and sent to fight in Burma| style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Parentations by Kate Mayfield]]=== [[image:4.5star. On his return in 1946jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] In eighteenth century London, sisters Fitzgerald, he finds Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - and charged with protecting a return mysterious child. Fast forward to civilian life quite beyond him the London of 2015, andthe sisters are still waiting - with no way of knowing if the boy is alive or dead. Far away, after a brawlhidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life, is sent but also forces them to keep a military psychiatric hospitalsecret for two hundred years. There, he is treated As those years pass by Daniel Carter, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him those who were granted immortality find that talking therapies can work with men like David, but who is working in it's far from a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT and lobotomy. ''Walking Wounded'' follows both men as they both try to come to terms blessing - with traumatic experiences and find a place true darkness emerging in a world moving on from WWIIthe absence of death. [[Walking Wounded The Parentations by Sheila LlewellynKate Mayfield|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Tattooist of Auschwitz Man Who Said No! by Heather MorrisDavid Laws]]===
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SoI've played Neville Chamberlain in public, you arrive know – a full one-line in all ignorance at Auschwitza ''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, and see the horror therein fact, by blowing it up and immediately swear to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind bursting it, but . That is what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get paper was to work diligently as many – the Nazis demandindicator of a lot of hot air, and only leading to the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and get a job that means you're an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually a Jew working in the political wing of the SSstruck anyway. Certainly, answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts not everyone was keen on his appeasement with civilian workers building the placeNazis, and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings this book opens with food they smuggle in for you, under the eyes first-person reportage of all the camp guards? The one such man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, and survived keen on showing proof to tell Chamberlain that he should not sign the taleSudetenland away. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but he also managed under a cloud of ignominy, to do something even more daringpick the last, barest threads of the story up and unexpected – he dared see just what did happen to invest hope in a burgeoning love that he found in the camphim. 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 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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===[[Christmas at Woolworths Revenge by Elaine EverestMitchell & Mitchell]]===
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''Christmas at WoolworthsRevenge'' opens with the news that Charles Stuart is the sequel to wartime saga The Woolworths Girls, and continues return to the story where the first book left offthrone as Charles II of England. Members of the close-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together and keep morale high A young woman, Ruth Courtney, even though the future is uncertain. At the heart of the neighbourhoodreturning home to her family's farmhouse, excited at the home prospect of kindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where family and friends can gather for good food and conversation: a way to forget the troubles outsidenew King. Spirits remain high; even when the bombs are falling so close She arrives home, however, to find her home. We catch up with the three friends from the first book: Sarah yearns for peace ablaze and an end to the warsurrounded by renegade soldiers, supporters of Cromwell, Maisie is desperate for a child and Freda would love her family nowhere to find romancebe found. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas? [[Christmas at Woolworths Revenge by Elaine EverestMitchell & Mitchell|Full Review]]
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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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|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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|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 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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|genre=Historical Fiction
|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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