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===[[In Gold's Name The Turn of Midnight by Marcus DalrympleMinette Walters]]===
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It was about 1509 when At the beginning of 1349 there is a series glimmer of mystical events foreshadowed a hope that the end ravages of the Aztec Empire and the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlersBlack Death might be passing. Some thought In Devilish in Dorset the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no godpopulation is well, but he was essentially a decent manbecause of Lady Anne's strict rules about quarantine, particularly by which are regarded as heresy as they go against the standards strict rules of the time. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the forcechurch, but at the age their stores of twenty three he believed food are dwindling and they know that the expedition in October 1520 was when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to establish trade links and to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrificesleave. He'd joined What will they find on the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing outside? Are they the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. only survivors? [[In Gold's Name The Turn of Midnight by Marcus DalrympleMinette Walters|Full Review]]
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===[[The Industry of Human Happiness Frieda by James HallAnnabel Abbs]]===
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''The Industry Married to English Professor Ernest Weekley, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the confines of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about musicmarried life. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic Visiting family in Munich, she becomes captivated by the simplest ideas of placesrevolution and free love. Meeting the penniless writer D.H. Max Lawrence, she finds herself drawn into a passionate affair and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. Howevertempestuous relationship, changing the course of both their ambition lives, and hubris soon puts them on unleashing a creative outpouring that will change the course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed of literature forever. [[The Industry of Human Happiness Frieda by James HallAnnabel Abbs|Full Review]]
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===[[The Spirit Photographer House of Glass by Jon Michael VareseSusan Fletcher]]===
[[image:3star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Literary Fiction|Historical Literary 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:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical 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]]
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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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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]]===
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''Revenge'' opens with As the shadow of the news that Charles Stuart is to return to Second World War descends upon the throne as Charles II planet, four people are explored in a tale of Englandlove and friendship. A young womanHenri, Ruth Courtneyfulfilling a family tradition in joining the Foreign Legion, is returning home to her family's farmhouseBill, excited arriving at the prospect Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those of a new King. She arrives homehis upbringing, howeverand Elisabeth, to find her home ablaze crossing continents and surrounded changing names are all brought together by renegade soldiersstrife and turmoil. As the war rages, supporters of Cromwellthese men are tested like never before, with trust, her family nowhere loyalty and love leading to be founddecisions that affect both their lives and those all around them. [[Revenge Silence in the Desert by Mitchell & MitchellDavid Longridge|Full Review]]
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''The Baghdad Clock'' When it comes to Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, popular opinion is divided. Some see her as a tale of two friends growing up during scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the first and second Iraqi warking's eyes. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism to illustrate the displacement felt by Others view her as a young girl pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and her neighbourhood. The novel introduces us stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to the various characters surrounding the protagonistAnne Boleyn. They Perhaps both sides are full of life and yet never seem to add anything true, to the central narrativean extent. RawiIn ''The Haunted Queen, it would seem'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, has author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a problem with telling Queen haunted by the shadow of a storyformidable predecessor. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Baghdad Clock Haunted Queen by Shahad Al RawiAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path In Gold's Name by Katherine ClementsMarcus Dalrymple]]===
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Maybe you've heard It was about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the end of the old coffin path that winds from Aztec Empire and the village inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the moor toppale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a decent man, particularly by the villagers only speak standards of it in hushed tones - of how it's a foreboding place filled the time. He was the finest marksman with evil. Mercy Booth has lived there since birth, and she's always loved his harquebus on the grand house and its isolationforce, but a recurrence at the age of strange events begins twenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to convert the local inhabitants to unsettle herChristianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. From objects disappearing through to He'd joined the army from a shadowy presence sensed in the houseseminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, mysteries come he'd failed to light appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the Aztec gold and that can only any conversion would not be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secretswinning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path In Gold's Name by Katherine ClementsMarcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]
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===[[Walking Wounded The Industry of Human Happiness by Sheila LlewellynJames Hall]]===
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David Reece was called up in 1941 ''The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and sent foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to fight find music and magic in Burmathe simplest of places. On Max and his return in 1946, he finds a return to civilian life quite beyond him and, after a brawl, is sent to younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a military psychiatric hospitalgramophone company. There, he is treated by Daniel CarterHowever, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on 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 lobotomycourse towards London's underworld. ''Walking Wounded'' follows both men as they both try to come to terms with traumatic experiences They will ascend broken and find a place in a world moving on from WWIItheir lives changed forever. [[Walking Wounded The Industry of Human Happiness by Sheila LlewellynJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Spirit Photographer by Heather MorrisJon Michael Varese]]===
[[image:4star3star.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]]
So, you arrive 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 that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demand, to the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and get a job that means you're actually a Jew working in the political wing of the SS, answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the place, and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for you, under the eyes of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, and survived to tell the tale, but he also managed to do something even more daring, and unexpected – he dared to invest hope in a burgeoning love that he found in the camp. [[The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris|Full Review]]
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===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal by Rachel Halliburton]]===
===[[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in London in January 1797Ireland. Benjamin WestAnd even more excited that his Quaker father, President who is publishing the British edition of the Royal Academy''Narrative'', is reflecting on the past yearDouglass's scandal involving memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the Provisesfamous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, father who is a charismatic figure and daughter, and worries that he handled everything poorlya gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. From the start the bookWe watch him through Nathan's figurative language is appropriately full eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of colour and painterly techniques: 'He had intended to deal with them honourably, but now everyone in London was saying he had not. It was as if somebody had dropped a small amount the horrors of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – the more he prodded potato famine and meets and stirred befriends the memoryfamous Irish nationalist, the murkier it becameDaniel O'Connell.' [[The Optickal IllusionPrecept: A very eighteenth-century scandal Novel by Rachel HalliburtonMatthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]
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===[[W The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by John BanksDaniel Peltz]]===
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On When we first visit the slopes Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking Molly Cavendish who is discovered frozen a part- three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is inspired by what the ruins of the Viking discovery Chiesa - a chapel - three personal catastrophes having left him angryhave now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, unmoored a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young and with his world in turmoilold. Beginning a journey westward Molly uses the history to entertain the tourists, hebut there's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on more too it than she knows, particularly as the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini family, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the director of the individuals he finds morally corruptmuseum. [[W The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by John BanksDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[Christmas at Woolworths Lady Mary by Elaine EverestLucy Worsley]]===
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''Christmas at WoolworthsLady Mary'' is chronicles the sequel 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 wartime saga The Woolworths GirlsJane Seymour, and continues which finally produces the story where the first book left offmuch longed for birth of a male heir. Members of the close-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together and keep morale highThis time, even though the future story is uncertain. At told through the heart eyes of the neighbourhoodan important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, the home Mary. Mary's hopes of kindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and friends can gather for good food and conversation: she is treated terribly by a way to forget father under the troubles outside. Spirits remain high; even when influence of the bombs are falling so close to homeBoleyn faction. We catch up with Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you can't help but root for the three friends from little girl stuck in 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 romancemiddle of these tumultuous events. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas? [[Christmas at Woolworths Lady Mary by Elaine EverestLucy Worsley|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Hours My Lady's Choosing by Minette WaltersKitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionHumour|Historical FictionHumour]] 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. [[The Last Hours by Minette Walters:Category:Historical 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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