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===[[The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] At the beginning of 1349 there is a glimmer of a hope that the ravages of the Black Death might be passing. In Devilish in Dorset the population is well, because of Lady Anne's strict rules about quarantine, which are regarded as heresy as they go against the strict rules of the church, but their stores of food are dwindling and they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to leave. What will they find on the outside? Are they the only survivors? [[The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters|Full Review]] <!-- de Lacey Davidson Abbs -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473691206.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473691206/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Frieda by Annabel Abbs]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Married to English Professor Ernest Weekley, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the confines of married life. Visiting family in Munich, she becomes captivated by the ideas of revolution and free love. Meeting the penniless writer D.H. Lawrence, she finds herself drawn into a passionate affair and a tempestuous relationship, changing the course of both their lives, and unleashing a creative outpouring that will change the course of literature forever. [[Frieda by Annabel Abbs|Full Review]] <!-- Susan Fletcher -->
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===[[House of Glass by Susan Fletcher]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Clara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'': these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no cure, treatments have advanced. 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. [[House of Glass by Susan Fletcher|Full Review]] <!-- Kearsley -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1492687863.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1492687863/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Precept: A Novel Bellewether by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonSusanna Kearsley]]===
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Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about Flitting between the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker fatherpresent day and mid 16thcentury, who is publishing the British edition of ''NarrativeBellewether''tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, Douglass's memoir of his life as the Wilde House is being turned into a slave, will be accompanying museum due to the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tourlegacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. Nathan It is deeply impressed by Douglasstold from the perspective of Charley, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; a charismatic figure tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, Lydia, and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on itFrench-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to live there. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings The perspective of the horrors of the potato famine book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and meets and befriends Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the famous Irish nationalisttruth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, Daniel O'Connelljust as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself. [[Precept: A Novel Bellewether by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonSusanna Kearsley|Full Review]]
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria A Treachery of Spies by Daniel PeltzManda Scott]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company of Molly Cavendish who Inspector Inès Picaut is a part-time guide at called to investigate the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the ruins horrific murder of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiecestrikingly beautiful elderly lady, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs she's puzzled – whilst the attention identity of young and old. Molly uses the history to entertain the touristswoman has been erased, but thereit's more too it than clear that she knows, particularly as has been killed in the same way that traitors to the history of resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the building is also mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – and back to a time when the Vannini familymen 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, who helped Inès discovers that there are many in building the chapel some six hundred years ago present who would rather their past stay buried – and one of whose descendants is the director of the museum. many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria A Treachery of Spies by Daniel PeltzManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary Murmuration by Lucy WorsleyRobert Lock]]===
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''Lady MaryMurmuration'' chronicles follows the famous story lives of a host of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce characters from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage 1863 to the present day. From a risqué comic to Jane Seymoura fortune teller, which finally produces we see the much longed for birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. There is a male heir. This timehint of mysticism to the tale, with the story is told through mesmerising dance of starlings over the eyes of pier acting as an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughteranchor throughout the distinct narratives here, Mary. Mary's hopes drawing together disparate stories of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly lives captivated 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 eventssea. [[Lady Mary Murmuration by Lucy WorsleyRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing The Mercy Seat by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisElizabeth H Winthrop]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
[[image:4starIn 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]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. [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H Winthrop|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 Maitland -->
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In eighteenth century LondonWitchcraft, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance the supernatural and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - and charged with protecting will to survive at all costs collide in a mysterious child. Fast forward to story that never shies away from the London darker side of 2015human nature. The land is unhappy, the old spirits want revenge and the sisters are still waiting - with no way famine is kindling a resurgence of knowing if the boy is alive or deadold faith. Far away As fear rises, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life, but also forces them is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to keep a secret for two hundred yearsignore that something rotten has taken root. As those years pass byThe sacred well is tainted, those who were granted immortality find that it's far from a blessing - its healing waters run red with true darkness emerging blood and strangers are blowing in the absence on a wind of deathchange. [[The Parentations A Gathering of Ghosts by Kate MayfieldKaren Maitland|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Mr Peacock's Possessions by David LawsLydia Syson]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in public, you know – On a full one-line in a ''Beyond remote volcanic island off the Fringe'' sketchcoast of New Zealand, where he says he has a piece family of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded settlers struggle to prove it was make such an unforgiving place a paper bag, in fact, by blowing it up and immediately bursting ithome. That is what that paper was to many – the indicator of When a lot of hot airship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and only leading to an unwelcome noise, their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when WW2 actually struck anywaya vulnerable boy disappears. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for the Nazischild, and this book opens with the first-person reportage of one such manthey uncover far, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign the Sudetenland away. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely more than they were looking for – leaving a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominy, to pick discovering dark secrets about both the last, barest threads of the story up island and see just what did happen to himthose who inhabit it. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Mr Peacock's Possessions by David LawsLydia Syson|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin The Story Keeper by Snorri KristjanssonAnna Mazzola]]===
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Unnthor Reginsson is the uncrowned king Audrey, a complex mix of flights of the valley; retired Viking farmer fancy and rumoured owner seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of a large hoard her, escapes from the straightjacket of goldher home. He Where every action, every thought, every yearning is gathering controlled by her father, who only once in his clanlife threw caution to the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower and remarried, a grand reunion after ten years of absence. It he has rigorously returned to upholding what is time for strengthening family bondsright, feastingwhat is proper, telling tall tales and remembering shared historythe bastion of doing what is expected. [[Kin The Story Keeper by Snorri KristjanssonAnna Mazzola|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks The Butcher's Daughter by Elizabeth ChadwickVictoria 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]]===
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On ''Lady Mary'' chronicles the slopes famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Katherine of Mt Hood in OregonAragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationwhich finally produces the much longed for birth of a male heir. Josh Kinninger This time, the story is inspired by told through the Viking discovery eyes of an important but often neglected player - three personal catastrophes having left him angryHenry's young daughter, unmoored and with his world in turmoilMary. Beginning a journey westward, heMary's filled with hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by a desire to wreak vengeance on 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 individuals he finds morally corruptmiddle of these tumultuous events. [[W Lady Mary by John BanksLucy Worsley|Full Review]]
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===[[Christmas at Woolworths My Lady's Choosing by Elaine EverestKitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]===
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''Christmas at Woolworths'' is the sequel to wartime saga The Woolworths GirlsYou are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and continues in Regency era London the story where the first book left offrace is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Members of the closeAlong your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood -knit community in Erith are doing their best a fiesty noble eager to pull together save you from a life alone, and keep morale highfired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, even though the future is uncertain. At the heart of you'll have to make the neighbourhoodultimate decision between witty, the home of kindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where family pretty and friends can gather for good food wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and conversation: a way to forget caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the troubles outsidemad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. Spirits remain high; even when the bombs are falling so close to home. We catch up with the three friends from the first book: Sarah yearns for peace With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and an end to ancient Egyptian artifcats along the warway, Maisie is desperate for a child and Freda would love it's clear this isn't going to find romancebe an easy decision... Will they all get their wishes this Christmas? [[Christmas at Woolworths My Lady's Choosing by Elaine EverestKitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]
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|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 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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|author=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)
|title=The Sixteen Trees of the Somme
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=While his grandfather lived the past was an area of certainty for Edvard. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with his grandparents, having survived the accident that killed his parents. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family history is different from what he'd believed… his mother's birthplace, his mother's 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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|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 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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