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===[[The Butcher's Daughter Turn of Midnight by Victoria GlendinningMinette Walters]]===
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The Tudor era At the beginning of 1349 there is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth glimmer of intrigue, plots and machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many to choose from a hope that the well never seems to run dry and ravages of the characters are often those high up Black Death might be passing. In Devilish in Dorset the circles population is well, because of powerLady Anne's strict rules about quarantine, or those prepared to do anything to get there. This book, however, is totally different. Set in which are regarded as heresy as they go against the mid–to–late 1500s we see strict rules of the world through the eyes church, but their stores of Agnes Peppin, a young, poor woman. As a woman she can either marry, or join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has food are dwindling and they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice at all, and she is sent but to join leave. What will they find on the outside? Are they the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. only survivors? [[The Butcher's Daughter Turn of Midnight by Victoria GlendinningMinette Walters|Full Review]]
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===[[Silence in the Desert Frieda by David LongridgeAnnabel Abbs]]===
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As Married to English Professor Ernest Weekley, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the shadow confines of married life. Visiting family in Munich, she becomes captivated by the Second World War descends upon the planet, four people are explored in a tale ideas of revolution and free love and friendship. HenriMeeting the penniless writer D.H. Lawrence, fulfilling she finds herself drawn into 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, passionate affair and Elisabetha tempestuous relationship, 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 course of both their lives , and those all around themunleashing a creative outpouring that will change the course of literature forever. [[Silence in the Desert Frieda by David LongridgeAnnabel Abbs|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen House of Glass by Alison WeirSusan Fletcher]]===
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When Clara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'': these days it comes to Jane Seymourwould probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no cure, treatments have advanced. At the third wife beginning of Henry VIIIthe twentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her home, popular opinion is divided. Some see her as living life through a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in window and the king's eyes. Others view tales her as a pious and God-fearing woman who mother, Charlotte, brought calm home. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones and stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleynthe sounds they made on breaking. Perhaps both sides are true, to an extent. In Charlotte would ''The Haunted Queen,list bones like continents'' . Clara would only escape the third book in house after her mother's death - of a tumour at the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author age of thirty nine - and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to the bones offer of a Queen haunted by the shadow of job stocking a formidable predecessornewly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershire. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen House of Glass by Alison WeirSusan Fletcher|Full Review]]
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It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed Flitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the end fascinating tale of the Aztec Empire Wilde House and the all its inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Some thought In the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no godpresent tense aspects, but he was essentially the Wilde House is being turned into a decent man, particularly museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is told from the standards perspective of Charley, the time. He was museum curator, who is intrigued by the finest marksman with his harquebus on ghost who haunts the force, but at the age of twenty three he believed house and their story; a tale that the expedition ends in October 1520 tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, Lydia, and a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to establish trade links live there. The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrificesJean-Philippe. He'd joined The latter two tell the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naivetruth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, he'd failed just as Charley is beginning to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and tortureunravel it herself. [[In Gold's Name Bellewether by Marcus DalrympleSusanna Kearsley|Full Review]]
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===[[The Industry A Treachery of Human Happiness Spies by James HallManda Scott]]===
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When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she''The Industry s puzzled – whilst the identity of Human Happinessthe woman has been erased, it'' first and foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able s clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to find music and magic the resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the simplest mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of places. Max this woman – and back to a time when the men and his younger cousin have realised their dream women of opening 1940s France were engaged in a gramophone company. Howeverdesperate, brutal fight for survival against their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworldNazi oppressors. They will ascend broken As more and more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are many in the present who would rather their lives changed forever. past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[The Industry A Treachery of Human Happiness Spies by James HallManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[The Spirit Photographer Murmuration by Jon Michael VareseRobert Lock]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the life story of the real-life father of spirit photography, William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-in here is Edward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in Boston. Moody is dismissive of spiritualism, yet considers himself to be doing a service to the bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the ghost of a departed loved one appears. This involves getting hold of an [[image of the loved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, so that it seems to appear hazily in the background:3star. Looking back from today's high-tech perspective, it's hard to see how anyone could have been fooledjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], but suffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for séances. [[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
''Murmuration'' follows the lives of a host of characters from 1863 to the present day. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller, we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. There is a hint of mysticism to the tale, with the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. [[Murmuration by Robert Lock|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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[[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. 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H Winthrop|Historical FictionFull Review]]
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 ''Narrative'', Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connell. [[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]] <!-- Daniel Peltz Maitland -->
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria A Gathering of Ghosts by Daniel PeltzKaren Maitland]]===
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When we first visit Witchcraft, the supernatural and the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're will to survive at all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the company darker side of Molly Cavendish who human nature. The land is a part-time guide at unhappy, the Museo di Santa Maria, which old spirits want revenge and famine is what the ruins kindling a resurgence of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young and oldfaith. Molly uses the history to entertain the touristsAs fear rises, but there's more too it than she knows, particularly as the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini familyincreasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, who helped its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one on a wind of whose descendants is the director of the museumchange. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria A Gathering of Ghosts by Daniel PeltzKaren Maitland|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lucy WorsleyLydia Syson]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles On a remote volcanic island off the famous story coast of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne BoleynNew Zealand, his divorce from Katherine a family of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage settlers struggle to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of make such an unforgiving place a male heirhome. This timeWhen a ship appears, the story is told through the eyes of an important they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary. Mary's high hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by swiftly dashed when a father under the influence of the Boleyn factionvulnerable boy disappears. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years As both settlers and you can't help but root newcomers come together in the search for the little girl stuck in child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the middle of these tumultuous eventsisland and those who inhabit it. [[Lady Mary Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lucy WorsleyLydia Syson|Full Review]]
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[[image:4starAudrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the straightjacket of her home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in his life threw caution to the wind and married way beneath him for love.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]Now a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expected. [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola|Historical FictionFull Review]]
You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]<!-- Mayfield Glendinning -->
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In eighteenth century London, sisters FitzgeraldThe Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth of intrigue, Constance plots and Verity machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - usually rich and charged powerful, with protecting a mysterious child. Fast forward so many to choose from that the London of 2015, well never seems to run dry and the sisters characters are still waiting - with no way often those high up in the circles of knowing if the boy power, or those prepared to do anything to get there. This book, however, is alive or deadtotally different. Far awaySet in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes Peppin, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal lifeyoung, but also forces them to keep a secret for two hundred yearspoor woman. As those years pass bya woman she can either marry, those who were granted immortality find that it's far from or join a blessing - with true darkness emerging in convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, and she is sent to join the absence nuns of deathShaftesbury Abbey. [[The Parentations Butcher's Daughter by Kate MayfieldVictoria Glendinning|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Silence in the Desert by David LawsLongridge]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in publicAs the shadow of the Second World War descends upon the planet, you know – a full one-line four people are explored in a ''Beyond the Fringe'' sketch, where he says he has a piece tale of paper from Hitlerlove and friendship. I then proceeded to prove it was Henri, fulfilling a paper bag, family tradition in factjoining the Foreign Legion, by blowing it up and immediately bursting it. That is what that paper was to many – the indicator of a lot of hot airBill, and only leading to arriving at Cambridge on an unwelcome noiseRAF scholarship, when WW2 actually struck anyway. CertainlyLeo, not everyone was keen on struggling to align his appeasement beliefs with the Nazisthose of his upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and this book opens with changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. As the first-person reportage of one such manwar rages, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign the Sudetenland away. But he only got so far these men are tested like never before his story was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominywith trust, loyalty and love leading to pick the last, barest threads of the story up decisions that affect both their lives and see just what did happen to himthose all around them. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Silence in the Desert by David LawsLongridge|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Snorri KristjanssonAlison Weir]]===
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Unnthor Reginsson When it comes to Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, popular opinion is divided. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the uncrowned king of the valley; retired Viking farmer 's eyes. Others view her as a pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and rumoured owner of a large hoard of goldstability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. He is gathering his clanPerhaps both sides are true, a grand reunion after ten years of absenceto an extent. It is time for strengthening family bondsIn ''The Haunted Queen, feasting'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, telling tall tales author and remembering shared historyhistorian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a Queen haunted by the shadow of a formidable predecessor. [[Kin Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Snorri KristjanssonAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks In Gold's Name by Elizabeth ChadwickMarcus Dalrymple]]===
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''Templar Silks'' is a great example of historical fiction done well. It's was about 1509 when a fictitious account series of William Marshal's time in Jerusalem during mystical events foreshadowed the late 1100s during a brief spell end of calm before the death of King Baldwin Aztec Empire and the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to leprosy in 1185accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Elizabeth Chadwick has written Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack decent man, particularly by the standards of researchthe time. In this book she goes back to fill in He was the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of finest marksman with his life. Her main problemharquebus on the force, as she acknowledges but at the end age of twenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to convert the booklocal inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. He'd joined the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, is he'd failed to appreciate that virtually nothing is known of Marshal's time in Jerusalem. We know when establishing trade links' meant finding and why he went, we know who removing the major power players were, we know when he came back Aztec gold and that is about it. So understandably, this book is probably more fiction than history any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but it is brilliantly written none the lessby threats and torture. [[Templar Silks In Gold's Name by Elizabeth ChadwickMarcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge The Industry of Human Happiness by Mitchell & MitchellJames Hall]]===
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''RevengeThe Industry of Human Happiness'' opens with the news that Charles Stuart first and foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to return to find music and magic in the throne as Charles II simplest of places. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of Englandopening a gramophone company. A young womanHowever, Ruth Courtney, is returning home to her familytheir ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's farmhouse, excited at the prospect of a new Kingunderworld. She arrives home, however, to find her home ablaze They will ascend broken and surrounded by renegade soldiers, supporters of Cromwell, her family nowhere to be foundtheir lives changed forever. [[Revenge The Industry of Human Happiness by Mitchell & MitchellJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock Spirit Photographer by Shahad Al RawiJon Michael Varese]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
[[Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the life story of the real-life father of spirit photography, William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-in here is Edward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in Boston. Moody is dismissive of spiritualism, yet considers himself to be doing a service to the bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the ghost of a departed loved one appears. This involves getting hold of an image:2of the loved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, so that it seems to appear hazily in the background.5starLooking back from today's high-tech perspective, it's hard to see how anyone could have been fooled, but suffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for séances.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese|Historical FictionFull Review]]
''The Baghdad Clock'' is a tale of two friends growing up during the first and second Iraqi war. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism to illustrate the displacement felt by a young girl and her neighbourhood. The novel introduces us to the various characters surrounding the protagonist. They are full of life and yet never seem to add anything to the central narrative. Rawi, it would seem, has a problem with telling a story. [[The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements]]===
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Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on the old coffin path that winds from the village to the moor top, the villagers only speak of it in hushed tones - of how it's a foreboding place filled with evil[[image:4star. Mercy Booth has lived there since birth, and she's always loved the grand house 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 secrets. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical 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 ''Narrative'', Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connell. [[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]] <!-- Llewellyn Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[Walking Wounded The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Sheila LlewellynDaniel Peltz]]===
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David Reece was called up When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in 1941 and sent to fight in Burma. On his return in 1946, he finds the company of Molly Cavendish who is a return to civilian life quite beyond him and, after a brawlpart-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is sent to what the ruins of the Chiesa - a military psychiatric hospitalchapel - have now become. There, he is treated by Daniel Carter Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies can work renaissance fresco with men like David, but who is working in a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT history which grabs the attention of young and lobotomyold. Molly uses the history to entertain the tourists, but there''Walking Wounded'' follows both men s more too it than she knows, particularly as they both try to come to terms with traumatic experiences the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini family, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and find a place in a world moving on from WWIIone of whose descendants is the director of the museum. [[Walking Wounded The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Sheila LlewellynDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Lady Mary by Heather MorrisLucy Worsley]]===
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So''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitzhis divorce from Katherine of Aragon, and see the horror thereAnne's execution for adultery, and immediately swear Henry's subsequent marriage to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind itJane Seymour, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as which finally produces the Nazis demandmuch longed for birth of a male heir. This time, to the extent you get story is told through the word eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary. Mary'collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out s hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and get she is treated terribly by a job that means you're actually a Jew working in father under the political wing influence of the SS, answerable to Berlin? Do Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the place, and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victimscan' belongings with food they smuggle in t help but root for you, under the eyes of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, and survived to tell the tale, but he also managed to do something even more daring, and unexpected – he dared to invest hope in a burgeoning love that he found little girl stuck in the campmiddle of these tumultuous events. [[The Tattooist of Auschwitz Lady Mary by Heather MorrisLucy Worsley|Full Review]]
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===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal My Lady's Choosing by Rachel HalliburtonKitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]===
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Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London in January 1797the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Benjamin WestAlong your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, President of the Royal Academyand fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, is reflecting on the past yearyou's scandal involving ll have to make the Provisesultimate decision between witty, father pretty and daughterwealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and worries that he handled everything poorlycaring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. From With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the start the bookway, it's figurative language is appropriately full of colour and painterly techniques: clear this isn'He had intended t going to deal with them honourably, but now everyone in London was saying he had notbe an easy decision.. It was as if somebody had dropped a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – the more he prodded and stirred the memory, the murkier it became.' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal My Lady's Choosing by Rachel HalliburtonKitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]
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