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===[[Lady Mary The Phoenix of Florence by Lucy WorsleyPhilip Kazan]]===

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''Lady Mary'' chronicles Deep in the famous story Tuscan countryside of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleynfifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone in the forest, his divorce from Katherine she meets a band of Aragon, Anne's execution for adulterysoldiers who, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and Henry's subsequent marriage the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to Jane Seymour, avoid any situation in which finally produces she may feel vulnerable again. Along the much longed for birth of a male heir. This timeway, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player she meets ex- Henry's young daughtersoldier Celavini, Marywhose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. Mary's hopes of her As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family staying together are crushed by history, Celavini must revisit the divorce and she is treated terribly by a father under the influence of past he shares with Onoria, in the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you hope that they can't help but root for lay the little girl stuck in the middle ghosts of these tumultuous eventstheir shared history to rest, before it's too late... [[Lady Mary The Phoenix of Florence by Lucy WorsleyPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]

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===[[My LadyDeviation by Luce d's Choosing by Kitty Curran Eramo and Larissa ZagerisAnne Milano Appel (translator)]]===

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You are 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 lass of twenty eightnext step. PluckyIt begins, penniless 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 in Regency era London sewage unblocker by the race is Germans. In Munich, she stumbles on help to find get her to what seems to be a suitable suitor camp for non- native civilians to look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or else doom yourself otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to life 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 eternal spinsterimpossible murder. Along your journey you'll be accompanied [[The Count of 9 by Lady Evangeline Youngblood 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- a fiesty noble eager 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's possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to save you from confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a life alonetime when she concealed her Jewish identity, and fired by Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a rogueish sense for adventuretime when he hid something very different. When In this story of love, loss and betrayal, it comes remains to suitors thoughbe seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain|Full Review]] <!-- Minette Walters -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1760632163.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760632163/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] At the beginning of 1349 there is a glimmer of a hope that the ravages of the Black Death might be passing. In Devilish in Dorset the population is well, youbecause of Lady Anne'll s strict rules about quarantine, which are regarded as heresy as they go against the strict rules of the church, but their stores of food are dwindling and they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to make leave. What will they find on the ultimate decision between wittyoutside? 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, pretty aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the confines of married life. Visiting family in Munich, she becomes captivated by the ideas of revolution and wealthy Sir Benedict Granvillefree love. Meeting the penniless writer D.H. Lawrence, wholesome, rugged she finds herself drawn into a passionate affair and caring Captain Angus MacTaggarta tempestuous relationship, or changing the madcourse of both their lives, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Cravenunleashing a creative 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.jpg|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. With orphansjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Clara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'': these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no cure, werewolvestreatments have advanced. At the beginning of the twentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her home, long lost lovers living life through a window and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the waytales her mother, itCharlotte, brought home. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones and the sounds they made on breaking. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision. 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. [[My Lady's Choosing House of Glass by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisSusan Fletcher|Full Review]] <!-- Mayfield Kearsley -->

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===[[The Parentations Bellewether by Kate MayfieldSusanna Kearsley]]===

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Flitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In eighteenth century Londonthe present tense aspects, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - and charged with protecting Wilde House is being turned into a mysterious childmuseum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. Fast forward to It is told from the London perspective of 2015Charley, and the sisters are still waiting - with no way of knowing if the boy is alive or dead. Far awaymuseum curator, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life, but also forces them to keep a secret for two hundred years. As those years pass is intrigued by, those the ghost who were granted immortality find haunts the house and their story; a tale that itends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's far from sister, Lydia, and a blessing 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- with true darkness emerging Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in the absence of deathhistory, just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself. [[The Parentations Bellewether by Kate MayfieldSusanna Kearsley|Full Review]]

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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! A Treachery of Spies by David LawsManda Scott]]===

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IWhen Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she've played Neville Chamberlain in public, you know s puzzled – a full one-line in a ''Beyond whilst the identity of the Fringewoman has been erased, it'' sketch, where he says he s clear that she has a piece of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded been killed in the same way that traitors to prove it was a paper bag, the resistance were executed in fact, by blowing it up and immediately bursting itWorld War Two. That is what that paper was to many – Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the indicator history of a lot of hot air, this woman – and only leading back to an unwelcome noise, a time when WW2 actually struck anyway. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with the Nazis, men and this book opens with the first-person reportage women of one such man1940s France were engaged in a desperate, keen on showing proof brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to Chamberlain light, Inès discovers that he should not sign there are many in the Sudetenland away. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely present who would rather their past stay buried – leaving a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominy, to pick the last, barest threads of the story up and see just what did happen many who would kill to him. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… keep secrets safe… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! A Treachery of Spies by David LawsManda Scott|Full Review]]

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===[[Kin Murmuration by Snorri KristjanssonRobert Lock]]===

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Unnthor Reginsson is ''Murmuration'' follows the uncrowned king lives of a host of characters from 1863 to the valley; retired Viking farmer and rumoured owner of present day. From a risqué comic to a large hoard fortune teller, we see the birth of goldBlackpool and its steadily fading glamour. He There is gathering his clan, a grand reunion after ten years hint of absence. It is time for strengthening family bondsmysticism to the tale, feastingwith the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, telling tall tales and remembering shared historydrawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. [[Kin Murmuration by Snorri KristjanssonRobert Lock|Full Review]]

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===[[Templar Silks The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth ChadwickH Winthrop]]===

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''Templar Silks'' is a great example of historical fiction done well. It's a fictitious account of William Marshal's time in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before the death of King Baldwin to leprosy in 1185. Elizabeth Chadwick has written In an isolated Louisiana town, a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period young black prisoner sits 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 problemdingy cell, as she acknowledges staring at the end shadow of the book, is that virtually nothing is known of Marshalwindow bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's time in Jerusalemdying sun rays. We know when At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a chair and why he wentelectrocuted for the rape of a white girl, we know who the major power players were, we know when he came back and that is about itlater committed suicide. So understandably, this book He is probably more fiction than history but resigned to his fate; it is brilliantly written none the lessfutile 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. [[Templar Silks The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth ChadwickH Winthrop|Full Review]]

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===[[Revenge A Gathering of Ghosts by Mitchell & MitchellKaren Maitland]]===

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''Revenge'' opens with Witchcraft, the supernatural and the news will to survive at all costs collide in a story that Charles Stuart is to return to never shies away from the throne as Charles II darker side of Englandhuman nature. A young woman, Ruth Courtney, The land is returning home to her family's farmhouseunhappy, excited at the prospect old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence of a new Kingthe old faith. She arrives homeAs fear rises, howeverit is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, to find her home ablaze its healing waters run red with blood and surrounded by renegade soldiers, supporters strangers are blowing in on a wind of Cromwell, her family nowhere to be foundchange. [[Revenge A Gathering of Ghosts by Mitchell & MitchellKaren Maitland|Full Review]]

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===[[The Baghdad Clock Mr Peacock's Possessions by Shahad Al RawiLydia Syson]]===

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''The Baghdad Clock'' is On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, a tale family of two friends growing up during the first and second Iraqi warsettlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism to illustrate the displacement felt by When a young girl ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and her neighbourhoodtheir community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. The novel introduces us to As both settlers and newcomers come together in the various characters surrounding search for the protagonist. They are full of life child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and yet never seem to add anything to the central narrative. Rawi, those who inhabit it would seem, has a problem with telling a story. [[The Baghdad Clock Mr Peacock's Possessions by Shahad Al RawiLydia Syson|Full Review]]

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===[[The Coffin Path Story Keeper by Katherine ClementsAnna Mazzola]]===

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Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on the old coffin path that winds from the village Audrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to the moor topbe more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the villagers only speak straightjacket of it in hushed tones - of how it's a foreboding place filled with evilher home. Mercy Booth has lived there since birthWhere every action, and she's always loved the grand house and its isolationevery thought, but a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle every yearning is controlled by her. From objects disappearing through father, who only once in his life threw caution to a shadowy presence sensed in the house, mysteries come to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secretswind and married way beneath him for love. And will Now a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she widower and remarried, he has come rigorously returned to love or tear it from her grasp? upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expected. [[The Coffin Path Story Keeper by Katherine ClementsAnna Mazzola|Full Review]]

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===[[Walking Wounded The Butcher's Daughter by Sheila LlewellynVictoria Glendinning]]===

David Reece was called 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 powerful, with so many to choose from that the well never seems to run dry and the characters are often those high up in 1941 and sent the circles of power, or those prepared to do anything to fight in Burmaget there. This book, however, is totally different. On his return Set in 1946the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes Peppin, a young, he finds poor woman. As a return to civilian life quite beyond him andwoman she can either marry, after or join a brawlconvent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, and she is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. [[The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning|Full Review]] <!-- Longridge -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1788034503.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788034503/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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 military psychiatric hospitaltale of love and friendship. ThereHenri, 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, he is treated and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by Daniel Carterstrife and turmoil. As the war rages, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies can work with these men are tested like Davidnever before, with trust, but who is working in a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT loyalty and lobotomy. ''Walking Wounded'' follows love leading to decisions that affect both men as they both try to come to terms with traumatic experiences their lives and find a place in a world moving on from WWIIthose all around them. [[Walking Wounded Silence in the Desert by Sheila LlewellynDavid Longridge|Full Review]]

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===[[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= 3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Jon Michael Varese''Christmas at Woolworths'' is the sequel to wartime saga ''The Woolworths Girls,'' and continues s debut novel was inspired by the life story where the first book left off. Members of the closereal-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 life father of kindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where family and friends can gather for good food and conversation: 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 warspirit photography, Maisie is desperate for a child and Freda would love to find romanceWilliam H. 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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 battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his entourage, for fear that they would bring the disease to her peopleown photography studio in Boston.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760632139</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)|title=The Sixteen Trees Moody is dismissive 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 grandparentsspiritualism, having survived the accident that killed his parents. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming yet considers himself 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, be doing a determination that will take him away from his native Norway service 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=Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1470 dawns and the next chapters of bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the War ghost of the Roses are ready to play out. King Edward thinks that the future has been settled but treachery is still lurking. 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