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===[[Templar Silks The Phoenix of Florence by Elizabeth ChadwickPhilip Kazan]]===

[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Deep in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone in the forest, she meets a band of soldiers who, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoria, in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to rest, before it's too late... [[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan|Full Review]] <!-- d'Eramo -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1782273883.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782273883/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Deviation by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] For those of you who have read books of life in the Nazi camps – and of course, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a next step. It begins, after all, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and you'd not blame her one minute, as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the Germans. In Munich, she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raised. [[Deviation by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Gardner -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785656341.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785656341/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''The Count of 9'' is a hardboiled detective story written in the 1950s. It revolves around the detective duo of Donald Lam and Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve the theft of priceless Bornean artefacts. However, their case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]] <!-- Chamberlain -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786076446.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786076446/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]

When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother''Templar Silks'' is a great example of historical fiction done wells possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. It's a fictitious account of William Marshal's Revisiting their time in Jerusalem during on the late 1100s Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a brief spell of calm before the death of King Baldwin to leprosy in 1185. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack of research. In this book she goes back to fill in the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of his life. Her main problem, as when she acknowledges at the end of the bookconcealed her Jewish identity, is that virtually nothing is known of Marshal's time in Jerusalem. We know when and why he wentJoe, we know who the major power players werea Catholic Priest, we know remembers a time when he came back hid something very different. In this story of love, loss and that is about it. So understandablybetrayal, this book is probably more fiction than history but it is brilliantly written none remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the less. darkest shadows of war… [[Templar Silks The Hidden by Elizabeth ChadwickMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]

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===[[Revenge The Turn of Midnight by Mitchell & MitchellMinette Walters]]===

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''Revenge'' opens with s strict rules about quarantine, which are regarded as heresy as they go against the strict rules of the news church, but their stores of food are dwindling and they know that Charles Stuart is when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to return leave. What will they find on the outside? Are they the only survivors? [[The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters|Full Review]] <!-- 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 throne as Charles II confines of Englandmarried life. A young womanVisiting family in Munich, Ruth Courtneyshe becomes captivated by the ideas of revolution and free love. Meeting the penniless writer D.H. Lawrence, is returning home to her family's farmhouseshe finds herself drawn into a passionate affair and a tempestuous relationship, excited at changing the prospect course of both their lives, and unleashing a new Kingcreative outpouring that will change the course of literature forever. [[Frieda by Annabel Abbs|Full Review]] <!-- Susan Fletcher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0349007640. She arrives homejpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349007640/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[House of Glass by Susan Fletcher]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], however[[: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 find her home ablaze , living life through a window and surrounded by renegade soldiersthe tales her mother, Charlotte, supporters 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 Cromwell, thirty nine - and in her family nowhere wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to be foundthe offer of a job stocking a newly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershire. [[Revenge House of Glass by Mitchell & MitchellSusan 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]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]]

Flitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, the Wilde House is being turned into a museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is told from the perspective of Charley, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, Lydia, and a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to live there. The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself. [[Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley|Full Review]] <!-- Rawi Scott -->

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===[[The Baghdad Clock A Treachery of Spies by Shahad Al RawiManda Scott]]===

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''The Baghdad Clock'' When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a tale strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's puzzled – whilst the identity of two friends growing up during the first and second Iraqi war. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism woman has been erased, it's clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to illustrate the displacement felt by a young girl and her neighbourhoodresistance were executed in World War Two. The novel introduces us to Solving the various characters surrounding mystery will lead Inès deep into the protagonist. They are full history of life this woman – and yet never seem to add anything back to a time when the central narrativemen and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. RawiAs more and more secrets come to light, it Inès discovers that there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would seem, has a problem with telling a story. kill to keep secrets safe… [[The Baghdad Clock A Treachery of Spies by Shahad Al RawiManda Scott|Full Review]]

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===[[The Coffin Path Murmuration by Katherine ClementsRobert Lock]]===

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Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on 'Murmuration'' follows the old coffin path that winds lives of a host of characters from 1863 to the village present day. From a risqué comic to the moor topa fortune teller, we see the villagers only speak birth of it in hushed tones - of how it's a foreboding place filled with evil. Mercy Booth has lived there since birth, and she's always loved the grand house Blackpool and its isolation, but steadily fading glamour. There is a recurrence hint of strange events begins mysticism to unsettle her. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed in the housetale, with the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, mysteries come to light that can only be solved drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by Mercy unearthing long-buried secretsthe sea. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path Murmuration by Katherine ClementsRobert Lock|Full Review]]

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===[[Walking Wounded The Mercy Seat by Sheila LlewellynElizabeth H Winthrop]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] In 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. [[The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]] <!-- Maitland -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1472235878.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472235878/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Witchcraft, the supernatural and the will to survive at all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the darker side of human nature. The land is unhappy, the old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence of the old faith. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a wind of change. [[A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland|Full Review]] <!-- Syson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Syson_Peacock.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785761862/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, a family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit it. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson|Full Review]] <!-- Mazolla -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1472234782.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472234782/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Audrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the straightjacket of her home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in his life threw caution to the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expected. [[The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola|Full Review]] <!-- Glendinning -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0715652915.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0715652915/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning]]===

David Reece was called up in 1941 The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth of intrigue, plots and machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and sent powerful, with so many to choose from that the well never seems to fight in Burma. On his return run dry and the characters are often those high up in 1946the circles of power, he finds a return or those prepared to do anything to civilian life quite beyond him andget there. This book, after a brawlhowever, is sent to a military psychiatric hospitaltotally different. ThereSet in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes Peppin, he is treated by Daniel Cartera young, poor woman. As a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies woman she can work with men like Davideither marry, but who is working in or join a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, and lobotomy. ''Walking Wounded'' follows both men as they both try she is sent to come to terms with traumatic experiences and find a place in a world moving on from WWIIjoin the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. [[Walking Wounded The Butcher's Daughter by Sheila LlewellynVictoria Glendinning|Full Review]]

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===[[Silence in the Desert by David 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 Tattooist of Auschwitz Haunted Queen by Heather MorrisAlison Weir]]===

SoWhen it comes to Jane Seymour, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitzthe third wife of Henry VIII, and 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 horror there, king's eyes. Others view her as a pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and immediately swear stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind itAnne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demandan extent. In ''The Haunted Queen, to '' the extent you get third book in the word ''collaboratorSix Tudor Queens'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out series, author and get a job that means you're actually a Jew working in historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the political wing bones of a Queen haunted by 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 shadow 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 campformidable predecessor. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Tattooist of Auschwitz Haunted Queen by Heather MorrisAlison Weir|Full Review]]

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===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal In Gold's Name by Rachel HalliburtonMarcus Dalrymple]]===

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Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens in London in January 1797. Benjamin West, President It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the Royal Academy, is reflecting on end of the past year's scandal involving the Provises, father Aztec Empire and daughter, and worries that he handled everything poorly. From the start inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the book's figurative language is appropriately full of colour and painterly techniques: 'He had intended to deal pale faces who arrived many years later with them honourablytheir deer-without-antlers. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but now everyone in London was saying he had not. It was as if somebody had dropped essentially a small amount decent man, particularly by the standards of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment the time. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on a palette – the more force, but at the age of twenty three he prodded believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and stirred to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. He'd joined the memoryarmy from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the murkier it becameAztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture.' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal In Gold's Name by Rachel HalliburtonMarcus Dalrymple|Full Review]]

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===[[W The Industry of Human Happiness by John BanksJames Hall]]===

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On the slopes ''The Industry of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking Human Happiness'' first and foremost is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationa novel about music. Josh Kinninger It is inspired by about human beings being able to find music and magic in the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored simplest of places. Max and with his world in turmoilyounger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. Beginning However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a journey westward, hecourse towards London's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corruptunderworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[W The Industry of Human Happiness by John BanksJames Hall|Full Review]]

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{{newreview|author=Elaine Everest|title= Christmas at Woolworths|rating= 3[[image:3star.5jpg|genrelink= Historical Fiction|summary=''Christmas at Woolworths'' is the sequel to wartime saga ''The Woolworths Girls,'' and continues the story where the first book left off. Members of the close-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together and keep morale high, even though the future is uncertain. At the heart of the neighbourhood, the home of kindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where family and friends can gather for good food and conversationCategory: a way to forget the troubles outside. 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 and an end to the war, Maisie is desperate for a child and Freda would love to find romance. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509843655</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Minette Walters|title=The Last Hours|{rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port of Melcombe in Dorset. Ignorant of many rules of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760632139</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)|title=The Sixteen Trees of the Somme|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=While his grandfather lived 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056069</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toby Clements|title=KingmakerStar Reviews]] [[: Kingdom ComeCategory: (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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178089466X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=P F Chisholm|title=Guns in the North (The Sir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1592: Sir Robert Carey flees the strictures of Elizabethan court – and his creditors – in order to become Deputy Warden of the West March in Carlisle. The Scottish/English borders and those who inhabit them are different from the world he's left behind but it will have to become his world. It's now his job to bring law to the lawless. This 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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694719</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Zanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title=The House with the Stained-Glass Window|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Marianna, an opera singer in the soon-to-be Ukrainian city of Lviv, is mistakenly shot dead at a political rally in the dying days of the Soviet Union. This novel begins with both anger and hope, as Marianna'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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857057138</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= K J Whittaker|title= False Lights|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Cornwall, 1817.]]

What if your worst mistake changed Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the course life story of history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of Wellington at the Battle real-life father of Waterloospirit photography, and his ex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied EnglandWilliam H. Mumler. Cornwall erupts into open rebellion, and young heiress Hester escapes with Crow, Wellington's former intelligence officer, a halfHis fictional stand-French aristocrat haunted by his part in the catastrophic defeat. Togetherhere is Edward Moody, they become embroiled in who was a web of treachery battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and espionage as plans are laid to free Wellington from secret captivity now owns his own photography studio in the Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the French occupationBoston. In a country rife with traitorsMoody is dismissive of spiritualism, Hester and Crow know it is impossible yet considers himself to play such be doing a game as this for long...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786695340</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= J Jefferson Farjeon|title= Seven Dead|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Ted Lyte was petty criminal, but not usually service to the housebreaking type. He lacked bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the courage. However, needs must, and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with a shuttered window. ''...he might find a bit ghost of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the shutters, but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a womandeparted loved one appears. Fleeing the house in horror, he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be a journalist. Fascinated by Ted's story (and a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and its assortment This involves getting hold of odd clues, including a portrait shot through the heart, an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one image of the victims.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356886</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Salt Creek|author=Lucy Treloar|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The first chapter of ''Salt Creek'' opens in Chichester, England, in 1874. Hester Finch is a respected loved one and reasonably wealthy member of her community. But she can't stop her thoughts wandering back to her adolescence, spent superimposing it on Salt Creek Station in the remote South Australian Coorong region. Hester feels ''has never felt so alive as thennegative being developed, when we had so little''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709417</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jamie Ford|title= Love and Other Consolation Prizes|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=At the World's Fair in 1962, that it seems that all eyes are focused on the future. The Space Needle dominates the landscape, filling people with anticipation about things to come. One visitor, however, has his mind firmly focused on the past. Ernest Young is helping his daughter Ju-ju with a story she is writing for her newspaper; a story about a young immigrant boy who was given away as a prize appear hazily in a raffle at the World's Fair in 1909background.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022752</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nicola Pryce|title= The CaptainLooking back from today's Girl|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Last yearhigh-tech perspective, Bookbag reviewed, and thoroughly enjoyed, [[Pengellyit's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's Daughter]], a swashbuckling historical romance set in picturesque Cornwall. Now we hard to see how anyone could have the pleasure of reading the much-anticipated sequel. This time, the story focuses on a neighbour of the Polcarrow family, Miss Celia Cavendish, who has been engaged to a cruel man that she does not love. One fateful nightfooled, she runs away but suffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the Polcarrow house to beg them same goes for help, and the pivotal events of that night have far-reaching consequences for all involvedséances.[[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398856</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview|author=Hawa L Crickmore|title=Across the Ocean|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=A young cage fighter, Martin Grandson, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder which required a bone<!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE --marrow transplant, preferably from a sibling. Only recently he'd been a fit young man, in the prime of life, but now he was suffering from a rare type of bone cancer: without the transplant he would be paralysed for life and might be dead within the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive the transplant within the next fourteen days. Unfortunately Martin's parents had died in a car crash and there were no siblings or other close relatives. His girlfriend, Celia, was not a match.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= M J Tjia|title= She Be Damned|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= London, 1863: prostitutes in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a loss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigate. With the assistance of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the truth. But when Amah is implicated in the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>}}