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===[[Lady Mary Frieda by Lucy WorsleyAnnabel Abbs]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage Married to Jane SeymourEnglish Professor Ernest Weekley, which finally produces aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the much longed for birth confines of a male heirmarried life. This timeVisiting family in Munich, she becomes captivated by the story is told through the eyes ideas of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Maryrevolution and free love. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by Meeting the divorce penniless writer D.H. Lawrence, she finds herself drawn into a passionate affair and she is treated terribly by a father under tempestuous relationship, changing the influence course of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years both their lives, and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in unleashing a creative outpouring that will change the middle course of these tumultuous eventsliterature forever. [[Lady Mary Frieda by Lucy WorsleyAnnabel Abbs|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing House of Glass by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisSusan Fletcher]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
[[imageClara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'':4starthese days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no cure, treatments have advanced.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] At the beginning of the twentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her home, living life through a window and the tales her mother, Charlotte, brought home. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones and the sounds they made on breaking. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents''. Clara would only escape the house after her mother's death - of a tumour at the age of thirty nine - and in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to the offer of a job stocking a newly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershire. [[:Category:Historical FictionHouse of Glass by Susan Fletcher|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 Kearsley -->
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===[[Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Flitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, the Wilde House is being turned into a museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is told from the perspective of Charley, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, Lydia, and a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to live there. The Parentations perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself. [[Bellewether by Kate MayfieldSusanna Kearsley|Full Review]] <!-- Scott -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0593072286.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0593072286/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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In eighteenth century London, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family | style="vertical- and charged with protecting a mysterious child. Fast forward to the London of 2015, and the sisters are still waiting align: top; text- with no way of knowing if the boy is alive or dead. Far away, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life, but 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 far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging in the absence of death. align: left;"|===[[The Parentations A Treachery of Spies by Kate Mayfield|Full ReviewManda Scott]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman has been erased, it's clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – and back to a time when the men and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott|Full Review]] <!-- Laws Lock -->
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Murmuration by David LawsRobert Lock]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in public, you know – a full one-line in a 'Murmuration''Beyond follows the Fringe'' sketch, where he says he has lives of a piece host of paper characters from Hitler1863 to the present day. I then proceeded From a risqué comic to prove it was a paper bagfortune teller, in fact, by blowing it up we see the birth of Blackpool and immediately bursting itits steadily fading glamour. That There is what that paper was to many – the indicator of a lot hint of hot air, and only leading mysticism to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anyway. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with the Nazistale, and this book opens with the first-person reportage mesmerising dance of one such man, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign starlings over the Sudetenland away. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominy, to pick pier acting as an anchor throughout the lastdistinct narratives here, barest threads drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the story up and see just what did happen to himsea. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Murmuration by David LawsRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin The Mercy Seat by Snorri KristjanssonElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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Unnthor Reginsson is In an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the uncrowned king shadow of the valleywindow bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun rays. At midnight, he will be dead; retired Viking farmer strapped to a chair and rumoured owner electrocuted for the rape of a large hoard of goldwhite girl, who later committed suicide. He is gathering resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his claninnocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, love between a grand reunion after ten years of absence. It is time for strengthening family bonds, feasting, telling tall tales black man and remembering shared historya white woman was never going to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. [[Kin The Mercy Seat by Snorri KristjanssonElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks A Gathering of Ghosts by Elizabeth ChadwickKaren 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]] <!-- Syson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Syson_Peacock.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785761862/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, a family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit it. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson|Full Review]] <!-- Mazolla -->|-| 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;"|===[[The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Audrey, 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. Now a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expected. [[The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola|Full Review]] <!-- Glendinning -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0715652915.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0715652915/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning]]===
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''Templar Silks'' The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a great example wealth of historical fiction done wellintrigue, plots and machinations. It's a fictitious account The regular cast of William Marshal's time courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many to choose from that the well never seems to run dry and the characters are often those high up in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before the death circles of King Baldwin power, or those prepared to leprosy in 1185do anything to get there. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous This book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack of research, however, is totally different. In this book she goes back to fill Set in the gaps having spent time studying this particular period mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of his lifeAgnes Peppin, a young, poor woman. Her main problemAs a woman she can either marry, as or join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she acknowledges has no choice at the end of the bookall, 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 she is about it. So understandably, this book is probably more fiction than history but it is brilliantly written none sent to join the lessnuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. [[Templar Silks The Butcher's Daughter by Elizabeth ChadwickVictoria Glendinning|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge Silence in the Desert by Mitchell & MitchellDavid Longridge]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] As 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. 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. [[Silence in the Desert by David Longridge|Full Review]] <!-- Weir -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1472227670.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472227670/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir]]===
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''Revenge'' opens with the news that Charles Stuart is to return When it comes to Jane Seymour, the throne as Charles II third wife of England. A young woman, Ruth CourtneyHenry VIII, popular opinion is returning home 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 familyas a pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and stability into Henry's farmhouselife following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, excited at the prospect of a new Kingto an extent. She arrives homeIn ''The Haunted Queen, however'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, to find her home ablaze author and surrounded historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a Queen haunted by renegade soldiers, supporters the shadow of Cromwell, her family nowhere to be founda formidable predecessor. [[Revenge Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Mitchell & MitchellAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock In Gold's Name by Shahad Al RawiMarcus Dalrymple]]===
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''The Baghdad Clock'' is It was about 1509 when a tale series of two friends growing up during mystical events foreshadowed the first end of the Aztec Empire and second Iraqi warthe inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism to illustrate Some thought the displacement felt Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a decent man, particularly by a young girl and her neighbourhoodthe standards of the time. The novel introduces us to He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the various characters surrounding force, but at the protagonist. They are full age of life twenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and yet never seem to add anything convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the central narrativelocal religions which required human sacrifices. Rawi He'd joined the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, it he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the Aztec gold and that any conversion would seem, has a problem with telling a storynot be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. [[The Baghdad Clock In Gold's Name by Shahad Al RawiMarcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path Industry of Human Happiness by Katherine ClementsJames Hall]]===
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Maybe you've heard 'The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on the old coffin path that winds from the village music. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the moor top, the villagers only speak simplest of it in hushed tones - places. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of how it's opening a foreboding place filled with evilgramophone company. Mercy Booth has lived there since birthHowever, their ambition and shehubris soon puts them on a course towards London's always loved the grand house underworld. They will ascend broken and its isolation, but a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle her. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed in the house, mysteries come to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secretstheir lives changed forever. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path Industry of Human Happiness by Katherine ClementsJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Walking Wounded The Spirit Photographer by Sheila LlewellynJon Michael Varese]]===
[[image:5star3star.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. 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. [[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese|Full Review]]
David Reece was called up in 1941 and sent to fight in Burma. On his return in 1946, he finds a return to civilian life quite beyond him and, after a brawl, is sent to a military psychiatric hospital. There, he is treated by Daniel Carter, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies can work with men like David, but who is working in a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT and lobotomy. ''Walking Wounded'' follows both men as they both try to come to terms with traumatic experiences and find a place in a world moving on from WWII. [[Walking Wounded by Sheila Llewellyn|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Precept: A Novel by Heather MorrisMatthew de Lacey Davidson]]===
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So, you arrive Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see the horror there, and immediately swear to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind it, but what do you do to see Ireland. And even more excited that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demandhis Quaker father, to who is publishing the extent you get the word British edition of ''collaboratorNarrative'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and get a job that means you, Douglass're actually s memoir of his life as a Jew working in the political wing of the SSslave, answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building will be accompanying the placefamous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victimsa 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' belongings with food they smuggle in s eyes as he sees for you, under himself the beginnings of the eyes horrors of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, potato famine and meets and survived to tell befriends the talefamous Irish nationalist, 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 campDaniel O'Connell. [[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Precept: A Novel by Heather MorrisMatthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Rachel HalliburtonDaniel Peltz]]===
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Rachel HalliburtonWhen we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we's debut novel opens re in London in January 1797. Benjamin West, President the company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Royal AcademyMuseo di Santa Maria, which is reflecting on what the past year's scandal involving ruins of the Provises, father and daughterChiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young and worries that he handled everything poorlyold. From Molly uses the start history to entertain the booktourists, but there's figurative language more too it than she knows, particularly as the history of the building is appropriately full also the history of colour and painterly techniques: 'He had intended to deal with them honourablythe Vannini family, but now everyone who helped in London was saying he had not. It was as if somebody had dropped a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – building the more he prodded chapel some six hundred years ago and stirred one of whose descendants is the memory, director of the murkier it becamemuseum.' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Rachel HalliburtonDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[W Lady Mary by John BanksLucy Worsley]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of a male heir. This time, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by a father under the influence of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous events. [[Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley|Full Review]] <!-- Curran -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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{{newreview|author=Elaine Everest|title= Christmas at Woolworths|rating= 3You are a lass of twenty eight.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=''Christmas at Woolworths'' is the sequel to wartime saga ''The Woolworths GirlsPlucky,'' penniless 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 Regency era London the future is uncertain. At the heart of the neighbourhood, the home of kindly matriarch Ruby race is on to find a beacon where family and friends can gather for good food and conversation: a way suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to forget the troubles outsidelife as an eternal spinster. Spirits remain high; even when the bombs are falling so close Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to home. We catch up with the three friends save you from the first book: Sarah yearns for peace and an end to the war, Maisie is desperate for a child and Freda would love to find romance. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509843655</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Minette Walters|title=The Last Hours|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port of Melcombe in Dorset. Ignorant of many rules of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years laterlife alone, 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 fired by a marriage rogueish sense for his daughteradventure. 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 When it comes to anyonesuitors though, including her husband and his entourage, for fear that they would bring the disease you'll have to her people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760632139</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)|title=The Sixteen Trees of the Somme|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=While his grandfather lived make the past was an area of certainty for Edvard. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with his grandparentsultimate decision between witty, 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 birthplacepretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, his mother's namewholesome, the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… rugged and that's without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itself. Edvard is determined to solve caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the puzzlemad, a determination that will take him away from his native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation bad and a remote Scottish island loaded with secretsterrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056069</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toby Clements|title=Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1470 dawns With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along 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 haveway, including their lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178089466X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=P F Chisholm|title=Guns in the North (The Sir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1592: Sir Robert Carey flees the strictures of Elizabethan court – and his creditors – in order to become Deputy Warden of the West March in Carlisle. The Scottish/English borders 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 clear this isn't going to be an 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 eitherdecision. Meanwhile he soon realises that those who are supposed to be on his side are plotting against him but they don't realise what they're up against. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694719</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Zanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title=The House with the Stained-Glass Window|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= 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[[My Lady's coffin is covered in the illegal blue and yellow flag, Choosing by Kitty Curran 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857057138</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= K J Whittaker|title= False Lights|rating= 4.5Larissa Zageris|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Cornwall, 1817.Full Review]]
What if your worst mistake changed the course of history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo, and his ex<!--wife Josephine presides over FrenchDO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -occupied England. Cornwall erupts into open rebellion, and young heiress Hester escapes with Crow, Wellington's former intelligence officer, a half-French aristocrat haunted by his part in the catastrophic defeat. Together, they become embroiled in a web of treachery and espionage as plans are laid to free Wellington from secret captivity in the Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the French occupation. In a country rife with traitors, Hester and Crow know it is impossible to play such a game as this for long...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786695340</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= J Jefferson Farjeon|title= Seven Dead|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Ted Lyte was petty criminal, but not usually the housebreaking type. He lacked the courage. However, needs must, and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with a shuttered window. ''...he might find a bit of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the shutters, but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman. Fleeing the house in horror, he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be a journalist. Fascinated by Ted's story (and a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and its assortment of odd clues, including a portrait shot through the heart, an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one of the victims.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356886</amazonuk>}}
