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===[[The Spirit Photographer Murmuration by Jon Michael VareseRobert Lock]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the life story of the real-life father of spirit photography, William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-in here is Edward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in Boston. Moody is dismissive of spiritualism, yet considers himself to be doing a service to the bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the ghost of a departed loved one appears. This involves getting hold of an [[image of the loved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, so that it seems to appear hazily in the background:3star. Looking back from today's high-tech perspective, it's hard to see how anyone could have been fooledjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], but suffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for séances. [[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical 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]]
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===[[The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass In an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker fatherdingy cell, who is publishing staring at the British edition shadow of ''Narrative'', Douglassthe window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's memoir of his life as a slavedying sun rays. At midnight, he will be accompanying dead; strapped to a chair and electrocuted for the famous black American abolitionist on rape of a white girl, who later committed suicide. He is resigned to his speaking tour. Nathan fate; it is deeply impressed by Douglassfutile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, who is love between a charismatic figure black man and a gifted orator. But Ireland will white woman was never going to have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connella happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. [[Precept: A Novel The Mercy Seat by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria A Gathering of Ghosts by Daniel PeltzKaren Maitland]]===
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When we first visit Witchcraft, the supernatural and the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're will to survive at all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the company darker side of Molly Cavendish who human nature. The land is a part-time guide at unhappy, the Museo di Santa Maria, which old spirits want revenge and famine is what the ruins kindling a resurgence of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young and oldfaith. Molly uses the history to entertain the touristsAs fear rises, but there's more too it than she knows, particularly as the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini familyincreasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, who helped its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one on a wind of whose descendants is the director of the museumchange. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria A Gathering of Ghosts by Daniel PeltzKaren Maitland|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lucy WorsleyLydia Syson]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles On a remote volcanic island off the famous story coast of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne BoleynNew Zealand, his divorce from Katherine a family of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage settlers struggle to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of make such an unforgiving place a male heirhome. This timeWhen a ship appears, the story is told through the eyes of an important they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary. Mary's high hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by swiftly dashed when a father under the influence of the Boleyn factionvulnerable boy disappears. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years As both settlers and you can't help but root newcomers come together in the search for the little girl stuck in child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the middle of these tumultuous eventsisland and those who inhabit it. [[Lady Mary Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lucy WorsleyLydia Syson|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing The Story Keeper by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisAnna Mazzola]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
[[image:4starAudrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the straightjacket of her home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in his life threw caution to the wind and married way beneath him for love.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]Now a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expected. [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola|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 Glendinning -->
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In eighteenth century London, sisters FitzgeraldThe Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth of intrigue, Constance plots and Verity machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - usually rich and charged powerful, with protecting a mysterious child. Fast forward so many to choose from that the London of 2015, well never seems to run dry and the sisters characters are still waiting - with no way often those high up in the circles of knowing if the boy power, or those prepared to do anything to get there. This book, however, is alive or deadtotally different. Far awaySet in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes Peppin, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal lifeyoung, but also forces them to keep a secret for two hundred yearspoor woman. As those years pass bya woman she can either marry, those who were granted immortality find that it's far from or join a blessing - with true darkness emerging in convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, and she is sent to join the absence nuns of deathShaftesbury Abbey. [[The Parentations Butcher's Daughter by Kate MayfieldVictoria Glendinning|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Silence in the Desert by David LawsLongridge]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in publicAs the shadow of the Second World War descends upon the planet, you know – a full one-line four people are explored in a ''Beyond the Fringe'' sketch, where he says he has a piece tale of paper from Hitlerlove and friendship. I then proceeded to prove it was Henri, fulfilling a paper bag, family tradition in factjoining the Foreign Legion, by blowing it up and immediately bursting it. That is what that paper was to many – the indicator of a lot of hot airBill, and only leading to arriving at Cambridge on an unwelcome noiseRAF scholarship, when WW2 actually struck anyway. CertainlyLeo, not everyone was keen on struggling to align his appeasement beliefs with the Nazisthose of his upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and this book opens with changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. As the first-person reportage of one such manwar rages, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign the Sudetenland away. But he only got so far these men are tested like never before his story was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominywith trust, loyalty and love leading to pick the last, barest threads of the story up decisions that affect both their lives and see just what did happen to himthose all around them. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Silence in the Desert by David LawsLongridge|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Snorri KristjanssonAlison Weir]]===
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Unnthor Reginsson When it comes to Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, popular opinion is divided. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the uncrowned king of the valley; retired Viking farmer 's eyes. Others view her as a pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and rumoured owner of a large hoard of goldstability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. He is gathering his clanPerhaps both sides are true, a grand reunion after ten years of absenceto an extent. It is time for strengthening family bondsIn ''The Haunted Queen, feasting'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, telling tall tales author and remembering shared historyhistorian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a Queen haunted by the shadow of a formidable predecessor. [[Kin Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Snorri KristjanssonAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks In Gold's Name by Elizabeth ChadwickMarcus Dalrymple]]===
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''Templar Silks'' is a great example of historical fiction done well. It's was about 1509 when a fictitious account series of William Marshal's time in Jerusalem during mystical events foreshadowed the late 1100s during a brief spell end of calm before the death of King Baldwin Aztec Empire and the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to leprosy in 1185accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Elizabeth Chadwick has written Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack decent man, particularly by the standards of researchthe time. In this book she goes back to fill in He was the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of finest marksman with his life. Her main problemharquebus on the force, as she acknowledges but at the end age of twenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to convert the booklocal inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. He'd joined the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, is he'd failed to appreciate that virtually nothing is known of Marshal's time in Jerusalem. We know when establishing trade links' meant finding and why he went, we know who removing the major power players were, we know when he came back Aztec gold and that is about it. So understandably, this book is probably more fiction than history any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but it is brilliantly written none the lessby threats and torture. [[Templar Silks In Gold's Name by Elizabeth ChadwickMarcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge The Industry of Human Happiness by Mitchell & MitchellJames Hall]]===
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''RevengeThe Industry of Human Happiness'' opens with the news that Charles Stuart first and foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to return to find music and magic in the throne as Charles II simplest of places. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of Englandopening a gramophone company. A young womanHowever, Ruth Courtney, is returning home to her familytheir ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's farmhouse, excited at the prospect of a new Kingunderworld. She arrives home, however, to find her home ablaze They will ascend broken and surrounded by renegade soldiers, supporters of Cromwell, her family nowhere to be foundtheir lives changed forever. [[Revenge The Industry of Human Happiness by Mitchell & MitchellJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock Spirit Photographer by Shahad Al RawiJon 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:2of the loved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, so that it seems to appear hazily in the background.5starLooking 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:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese|Historical FictionFull Review]]
''The Baghdad Clock'' is a tale of two friends growing up during the first and second Iraqi war. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism to illustrate the displacement felt by a young girl and her neighbourhood. The novel introduces us to the various characters surrounding the protagonist. They are full of life and yet never seem to add anything to the central narrative. Rawi, it would seem, has a problem with telling a story. [[The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements]]===
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Maybe you've heard Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on the old coffin path arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that winds from the village to the moor tophis Quaker father, who is publishing the villagers only speak British edition of it in hushed tones - of how it''Narrative'', Douglass's memoir of his life as a foreboding place filled with evilslave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Mercy Booth has lived there since birthNathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure and shea 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 always loved eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of the grand house potato famine and its isolation, but a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle her. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed in meets and befriends the housefamous Irish nationalist, mysteries come to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secretsDaniel O'Connell. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path Precept: A Novel by Katherine ClementsMatthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]
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===[[Walking Wounded The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Sheila LlewellynDaniel Peltz]]===
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David Reece was called up When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in 1941 and sent to fight in Burma. On his return in 1946, he finds the company of Molly Cavendish who is a return to civilian life quite beyond him and, after a brawlpart-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is sent to what the ruins of the Chiesa - a military psychiatric hospitalchapel - have now become. There, he is treated by Daniel Carter Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies can work renaissance fresco with men like David, but who is working in a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT history which grabs the attention of young and lobotomyold. Molly uses the history to entertain the tourists, but there''Walking Wounded'' follows both men s more too it than she knows, particularly as they both try to come to terms with traumatic experiences the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini family, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and find a place in a world moving on from WWIIone of whose descendants is the director of the museum. [[Walking Wounded The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Sheila LlewellynDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Lady Mary by Heather MorrisLucy Worsley]]===
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So''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitzhis divorce from Katherine of Aragon, and see the horror thereAnne's execution for adultery, and immediately swear Henry's subsequent marriage to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind itJane Seymour, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as which finally produces the Nazis demandmuch longed for birth of a male heir. This time, to the extent you get story is told through the word eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary. Mary'collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out s hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and get she is treated terribly by a job that means you're actually a Jew working in father under the political wing influence of the SS, answerable to Berlin? Do Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the place, and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victimscan' belongings with food they smuggle in t help but root for you, under the eyes of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, 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 little girl stuck in the campmiddle of these tumultuous events. [[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Lady Mary by Heather MorrisLucy Worsley|Full Review]]
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===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal My Lady's Choosing by Rachel HalliburtonKitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]===
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Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London in January 1797the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Benjamin WestAlong your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, President of the Royal Academyand fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, is reflecting on the past yearyou's scandal involving ll have to make the Provisesultimate decision between witty, father pretty and daughterwealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and worries that he handled everything poorlycaring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. From With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the start the bookway, it's figurative language is appropriately full of colour and painterly techniques: clear this isn'He had intended t going to deal with them honourably, but now everyone in London was saying he had notbe an easy decision.. It was as if somebody had dropped a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – the more he prodded and stirred the memory, the murkier it became.' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal My Lady's Choosing by Rachel HalliburtonKitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] <!-- Banks Mayfield -->
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On In eighteenth century London, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000Fowler family -year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationand charged with protecting a mysterious child. Josh Kinninger is inspired by Fast forward to the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angryLondon of 2015, unmoored and the sisters are still waiting - with his world in turmoilno way of knowing if the boy is alive or dead. Beginning Far away, a journey westwardhidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life, hebut also forces them to keep a secret for two hundred years. As those years pass by, those who were granted immortality find that it's filled far from a blessing - with a desire to wreak vengeance on true darkness emerging in the individuals he finds morally corruptabsence of death. [[W The Parentations by John BanksKate Mayfield|Full Review]]
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===[[Christmas at Woolworths Munich: The Man Who Said No! by Elaine EverestDavid Laws]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in public, you know – a full one-line in a ''Christmas at WoolworthsBeyond the Fringe'' is the sequel to wartime saga The Woolworths Girlssketch, and continues the story where the first book left offhe says he has a piece of paper from Hitler. Members of the close-knit community I then proceeded to prove it was a paper bag, in Erith are doing their best to pull together fact, by blowing it up and keep morale high, even though the future immediately bursting it. That is uncertain. At what that paper was to many – the heart indicator of a lot of the neighbourhoodhot air, the home of kindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where family and friends can gather for good food and conversation: a way only leading to forget the troubles outside. Spirits remain high; even an unwelcome noise, when the bombs are falling so close to homeWW2 actually struck anyway. We catch up Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with the three friends from Nazis, and this book opens with the first book: Sarah yearns for peace and an end -person reportage of one such man, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign the warSudetenland away. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-daughter, Emma, Maisie is desperate for at Cambridge but under a child cloud of ignominy, to pick the last, barest threads of the story up and Freda would love see just what did happen to find romancehim. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas? Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Christmas at Woolworths Munich: The Man Who Said No! by Elaine EverestDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Hours Kin by Minette WaltersSnorri Kristjansson]]===
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In June 1348 Unnthor Reginsson is the Black Death came into uncrowned king of the country through the port valley; retired Viking farmer and rumoured owner of Melcombe in Dorset. Ignorant of many rules a large hoard of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, the disease rages through the countrygold. On the estate of Develish He is gathering his clan, Lady Anne Develish took control a grand reunion after ten years of the future of the people who lived in the demesne after her husband had ridden off to try and secure a marriage absence. It is time 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 anyonestrengthening family bonds, feasting, including her husband telling tall tales and his entourage, for fear that they would bring the disease to her peopleremembering shared history. [[The Last Hours Kin by Minette WaltersSnorri Kristjansson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Sixteen Trees of the Somme Templar Silks by Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Elizabeth Chadwick]]===
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While his grandfather lived ''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 past was an area death of certainty 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 Edvardlack of research. At aged 4 he'd been taken In this book she goes back to live with fill in the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of his grandparentslife. Her main problem, having survived as she acknowledges at the end of the accident book, is that killed his parents. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family history virtually nothing is different from what he'd believed… his motherknown of Marshal's birthplacetime in Jerusalem. We know when and why he went, his mother's namewe know who the major power players were, the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… we know when he came back and that's without looking is about it. So understandably, this book is probably more deeply into the fatal accident itself. Edvard fiction than history but it is determined to solve brilliantly written none 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 secretsless. [[The Sixteen Trees of the Somme Templar Silks by Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Elizabeth Chadwick|Full Review]]
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===[[Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4) Revenge by Toby ClementsMitchell & Mitchell]]===
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1470 dawns and ''Revenge'' opens with the news that Charles Stuart is to return to the next chapters throne as Charles II of England. A young woman, Ruth Courtney, is returning home to her family's farmhouse, excited at the War prospect of the Roses are ready to play out. a new King Edward thinks that the future has been settled but treachery is still lurking. Meanwhile Katherine She arrives home, however, to find her home ablaze and Thomas also have their world turned upside down when that ledger and a chance comment threaten all they havesurrounded by renegade soldiers, supporters of Cromwell, including their livesher family nowhere to be found. [[Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4) Revenge by Toby ClementsMitchell & Mitchell|Full Review]]
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