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===[[Precept: A Novel The Turn of Midnight by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonMinette Walters]]===
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Nathan Whyte At the beginning of 1349 there is tremendously excited about a glimmer of a hope that the arrival ravages of Frederick Douglass the Black Death might be passing. In Devilish in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker fatherDorset the population is well, who is publishing the British edition because of Lady Anne''Narrative''s strict rules about quarantine, Douglass's memoir which are regarded as heresy as they go against the strict rules of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglasschurch, who is a charismatic figure but their stores of food are dwindling and a gifted orator. But Ireland they know that when they are exhausted they will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass no choice but to leave. What will have they find on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of outside? Are they the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connell. only survivors? [[Precept: A Novel The Turn of Midnight by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonMinette Walters|Full Review]]
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Frieda by Daniel PeltzAnnabel Abbs]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa MariaMarried to English Professor Ernest Weekley, which is what aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the ruins confines of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now becomemarried life. Crowds flock to see its centrepieceVisiting family in Munich, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs she becomes captivated by the attention ideas of young revolution and oldfree love. Molly uses Meeting the history to entertain the touristspenniless writer D.H. Lawrence, but there's more too it than she knowsfinds herself drawn into a passionate affair and a tempestuous relationship, particularly as changing the history course of the building is also the history of the Vannini familyboth their lives, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is unleashing a creative outpouring that will change the director course of the museumliterature forever. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Frieda by Daniel PeltzAnnabel Abbs|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary House of Glass by Lucy WorsleySusan 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;''|===[[Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley]]===
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Flitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, ''Lady MaryBellewether'' chronicles tells the famous story fascinating tale of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleynthe Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, his divorce the Wilde House is being turned into a museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is told from Katherine the perspective of AragonCharley, Anne's execution for adulterythe museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and Henrytheir story; a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymoursister, Lydia, which finally produces the much longed for birth of and a male heir. This timeFrench-Canadian lieutenant, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player Jean- Henry's young daughter, MaryPhilippe who was sent to live there. Mary's hopes The perspective of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and she is treated terribly by a father under the influence of the Boleyn factionJean-Philippe. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you can't help but root for The latter two tell the little girl stuck truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in the middle of these tumultuous eventshistory, just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself. [[Lady Mary Bellewether by Lucy WorsleySusanna Kearsley|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing A Treachery of Spies by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisManda Scott]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
[[image:4starWhen 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]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… [[:Category:Historical FictionA Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott|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 Lock -->
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In eighteenth century London, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with ''Murmuration'' follows the Fowler family - and charged with protecting lives of a mysterious childhost of characters from 1863 to the present day. Fast forward From a risqué comic to a fortune teller, we see the London birth of 2015, Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. There is a hint of mysticism to the sisters are still waiting - tale, with no way the mesmerising dance of knowing if starlings over the boy is alive or dead. Far awaypier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, 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 drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by, those who were granted immortality find that it's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging in the absence of deathsea. [[The Parentations Murmuration by Kate MayfieldRobert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Mercy Seat by David LawsElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in publicIn an isolated Louisiana town, you know – a full one-line young black prisoner sits in a ''Beyond his dingy cell, staring at the shadow of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the Fringeevening'' sketchs dying sun rays. At midnight, where he says he has a piece of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded will be dead; strapped to prove it was a paper bag, in fact, by blowing it up chair and immediately bursting it. That is what that paper was to many – electrocuted for the indicator rape of a lot of hot airwhite girl, and only leading who later committed suicide. He is resigned to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anyway. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with the Nazis, and this book opens with the first-person reportage of one such man, keen on showing proof fate; it is futile to Chamberlain that he should not sign the Sudetenland away. But he only got so far before protest his story was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-daughterinnocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, Emma, at Cambridge but under love between a cloud of ignominy, to pick the last, barest threads of the story up black man and see just what did happen a white woman was never going to himhave a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Mercy Seat by David LawsElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin A Gathering of Ghosts by Snorri KristjanssonKaren Maitland]]===
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Unnthor Reginsson is Witchcraft, the uncrowned king of supernatural and the valley; retired Viking farmer and rumoured owner of will to survive at all costs collide in a large hoard story that never shies away from the darker side of goldhuman nature. He The land is gathering his clanunhappy, the old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a grand reunion after ten years resurgence of absencethe old faith. It As fear rises, it is time increasingly difficult for strengthening family bondsPrioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, feasting, telling tall tales its healing waters run red with blood and remembering shared historystrangers are blowing in on a wind of change. [[Kin A Gathering of Ghosts by Snorri KristjanssonKaren Maitland|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks Mr Peacock's Possessions by Elizabeth ChadwickLydia Syson]]===
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''Templar Silks'' is On a great example remote volcanic island off the coast of historical fiction done well. It's New Zealand, a fictitious account family of William Marshal's time in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a brief spell of calm before the death of King Baldwin to leprosy in 1185home. Elizabeth Chadwick has written When a previous book about William Marshal ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but glossed over this period in his life for lack of researchhigh hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. In this book she goes back to fill As both settlers and newcomers come together in the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of his life. Her main problem, as she acknowledges at the end of search for the bookchild, is that virtually nothing is known of Marshal's time in Jerusalem. We know when and why he wentthey uncover far, we know who far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the major power players were, we know when he came back island and that is about it. So understandably, this book is probably more fiction than history but those who inhabit it is brilliantly written none the less. [[Templar Silks Mr Peacock's Possessions by Elizabeth ChadwickLydia Syson|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge The Story Keeper by Mitchell & MitchellAnna Mazzola]]===
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''Revenge'' opens with the news that Charles Stuart is to return Audrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the throne as Charles II straightjacket of Englandher home. A young womanWhere every action, Ruth Courtneyevery thought, every yearning is returning home to controlled by her family's farmhousefather, excited at who only once in his life threw caution to the prospect of wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a new King. She arrives homewidower and remarried, howeverhe has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, to find her home ablaze and surrounded by renegade soldierswhat is proper, supporters the bastion of Cromwell, her family nowhere to be founddoing what is expected. [[Revenge The Story Keeper by Mitchell & MitchellAnna Mazzola|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock Butcher's Daughter by Shahad Al RawiVictoria Glendinning]]===
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''The Baghdad Clock'' Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a tale wealth of two friends growing up during the first intrigue, plots and second Iraqi warmachinations. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many to illustrate choose from that the displacement felt by a young girl well never seems to run dry and her neighbourhood. The novel introduces us to the various characters surrounding are often those high up in the protagonist. They are full circles of life and yet never seem power, or those prepared to add do anything to get there. This book, however, is totally different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the central narrative. Rawieyes of Agnes Peppin, it would seema young, has poor woman. As a problem with telling woman she can either marry, or join a storyconvent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, and she is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. [[The Baghdad Clock Butcher's Daughter by Shahad Al RawiVictoria Glendinning|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path Silence in the Desert by Katherine ClementsDavid Longridge]]===
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Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on As the old coffin path that winds from shadow of the village to Second World War descends upon the moor topplanet, the villagers only speak of it four people are explored in hushed tones - a tale of how it's love and friendship. Henri, fulfilling a foreboding place filled family tradition in joining the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with evil. Mercy Booth has lived there since birththose of his upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and she's always loved the grand house changing names are all brought together by strife and its isolation, but a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle herturmoil. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed in As the housewar rages, these men are tested like never before, with trust, mysteries come loyalty and love leading to light decisions that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secretsaffect both their lives and those all around them. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path Silence in the Desert by Katherine ClementsDavid Longridge|Full Review]]
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===[[Walking Wounded Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Sheila LlewellynAlison Weir]]===
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David Reece was called up in 1941 and sent to fight in Burma. On his return in 1946, he finds a return When it comes to civilian life quite beyond him andJane Seymour, after a brawlthe third wife of Henry VIII, popular opinion is sent to a military psychiatric hospitaldivided. There, he is treated by Daniel Carter, Some see her as a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies can work with men like David, but scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who is working would stop at nothing to gain favour in the king's eyes. Others view her as a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and lobotomystability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, to an extent. In ''Walking WoundedThe Haunted Queen,'' follows both men as they both try to come to terms with traumatic experiences the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and find historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a place in Queen haunted by the shadow of a world moving on from WWIIformidable predecessor. [[Walking Wounded Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Sheila LlewellynAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz In Gold's Name by Heather MorrisMarcus Dalrymple]]===
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So, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the end of the horror there, Aztec Empire and immediately swear to survive the ordeal inhabitants were to see retribution dealt on those behind it, but what do you do some extent conditioned to see that oath out? accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Do you get to work diligently as Some thought the Nazis demandSpaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, to the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and get but he was essentially a job that means you're actually a Jew working in decent man, particularly by the political wing standards of the SS, answerable to Berlin? time. Do you dare get contacts He was the finest marksman with civilian workers building his harquebus on the placeforce, but at the age of twenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and trade to convert the loot purloined local inhabitants to Christianity from the incoming victimslocal religions which required human sacrifices. He' belongings with food they smuggle in for d joined the army from a seminary and whilst youwouldn't call him naive, under he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the eyes of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all Aztec gold and that, any conversion would not be by winning hearts and survived to tell the tale, minds but he also managed to do something even more daring, by threats and unexpected – he dared to invest hope in a burgeoning love that he found in the camptorture. [[The Tattooist of Auschwitz In Gold's Name by Heather MorrisMarcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]
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===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Industry of Human Happiness by Rachel HalliburtonJames Hall]]===
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Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens in London in January 1797. Benjamin West, President 'The Industry of the Royal Academy, is reflecting on the past yearHuman Happiness''s scandal involving the Provises, father first and daughter, and worries that he handled everything poorlyforemost is a novel about music. From the start the book's figurative language It is appropriately full of colour about human beings being able to find music and painterly techniques: 'He had intended to deal with them honourably, but now everyone magic in London was saying he had notthe simplest of places. It was as if somebody had dropped Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment gramophone company. However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a palette – the more he prodded course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and stirred the memory, the murkier it becametheir lives changed forever.' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Industry of Human Happiness by Rachel HalliburtonJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[W The Spirit Photographer by John BanksJon 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:4starof the loved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, so that it seems to appear hazily in the background.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]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. [[:Category:General FictionThe Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese|General FictionFull Review]]
On the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored and with his world in turmoil. Beginning a journey westward, he's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupt. [[W by John Banks|Full Review]]
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===[[Christmas at Woolworths by Elaine Everest]]===
===[[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker father, who is publishing the British edition of ''Christmas at WoolworthsNarrative'' is the sequel to wartime saga The Woolworths Girls, and continues the story where the first book left off. Members Douglass's memoir of the close-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together and keep morale highhis life as a slave, even though will be accompanying the future famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is uncertain. At the heart of the neighbourhooddeeply impressed by Douglass, the home of kindly matriarch Ruby who is a beacon where family charismatic figure and friends can gather for good food and conversation: a way to forget the troubles outsidegifted orator. Spirits remain high; even when the bombs are falling so close to homeBut Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We catch up with watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the three friends from horrors of the first book: Sarah yearns for peace potato famine and meets and an end to befriends the warfamous Irish nationalist, Maisie is desperate for a child and Freda would love to find romanceDaniel O'Connell. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas? [[Christmas at Woolworths Precept: A Novel by Elaine EverestMatthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Hours Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Minette WaltersDaniel Peltz]]===
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In June 1348 When we first visit the Black Death came into Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the country through company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the port Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the ruins of Melcombe in Dorsetthe Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Ignorant of many rules of hygiene Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, grabs the disease rages through attention of young and old. Molly uses the country. On history to entertain the estate of Develishtourists, but there's more too it than she knows, Lady Anne Develish took control particularly as the history of the future building is also the history of the people Vannini family, who lived helped in building the demesne after her husband had ridden off to try and secure a marriage for his daughter. Two chapel some six hundred bonded serfs lived on the estate years ago and when Lady Anne realised one of whose descendants is the virulence director 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 peoplemuseum. [[The Last Hours Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Minette WaltersDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[The Sixteen Trees of the Somme Lady Mary by Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Lucy Worsley]]===
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While his grandfather lived ''Lady Mary'' chronicles the past was an area famous story of certainty for Edvard. At aged 4 heHenry VIII'd been taken to live s love affair with his grandparentsAnne Boleyn, 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 divorce from what he'd believed… his motherKatherine of Aragon, Anne's birthplaceexecution for adultery, his motherand Henry's namesubsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the whereabouts much longed for birth of a male heir. This time, the story is told through the eyes of late Greatan important but often neglected player -Uncle Einar… and thatHenry's young daughter, Mary. Mary's without looking more deeply into hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the fatal accident itself. Edvard divorce and she is determined to solve treated terribly by a father under the puzzle, a determination that will take him away from his native Norway to an area influence of France synonymous with devastation the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and a remote Scottish island loaded with secretsyou can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous events. [[The Sixteen Trees of the Somme Lady Mary by Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Lucy Worsley|Full Review]]
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===[[Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4) My Lady's Choosing by Toby ClementsKitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionHumour|Historical FictionHumour]] 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. [[Kingmaker: Kingdom ComeCategory: (Book 4) by Toby ClementsHistorical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]
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|summary=1592: Sir Robert Carey flees the strictures of Elizabethan court – and his creditors – in order to become Deputy Warden of the West March in Carlisle. The Scottish/English borders and those who inhabit them are different from the world he's left behind but it will have to become his world. It's now his job to bring law to the lawless. This isn't easy when every local he comes across has an affinity and a heritage of crime to some degree. For Robert the best thing about the job is its proximity to the woman he loves but he doesn't know what he'll do about that yet either. Meanwhile he soon realises that those who are supposed to be on his side are plotting against him but they don't realise what they're up against.
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|summary= Marianna, an opera singer in the soon-to-be Ukrainian city of Lviv, is mistakenly shot dead at a political rally in the dying days of the Soviet Union. This novel begins with both anger and hope, as Marianna's coffin is covered in the illegal blue and yellow flag, and her death seems to herald the birth of a new nation. But the day of her funeral is also the day of her daughter's first period – a girl who must learn how to be a woman in this time of drastic change, with no mother to guide her along the way.
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