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{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{Frontpage|isbn=1405946172|title=The Glass House|author=Eve Chase|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Rita lost both her parents in a car crash when she was just six years old: since then she's always craved a family. She'd lived with her grandmother in Torquay until she got a job as a nanny with the Harrington family in London. Soon her engagement to Fred, a Torquay butcher, fell through and the Harringtons became her family. In 1971, after a fire at the London house, Jeannie Harrington, her children, 13-year-old Hera and 6-year-old Teddy, along with Rita went to the family's house in the Forest of Dean. It wasn't ''quite'' dilapidated, but it certainly wasn't the same standard as the London house had been before the fire.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sally Magnusson|title=The Sealwoman's Gift|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= There is a legend that God came to visit Adam & Eve in the Garden. Eve had not finished bathing her children and ashamed of those still not cleansed, she attempted to hide them from the eyes of God, denying that she had more children than those, already bathed, that she willing paraded for him. God was not to be deceived, however, and decreed that what was sought to be hidden from the eyes of God would henceforth be hidden from the eyes of man, and so the Elves were born: the hidden folk. They can see man, but man can only see them if they so choose.|isbn=1473638984}}{{Frontpage|author=Wendy Cheyne |title=From the Auld Rock to a Hard Place|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= After the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Culloden, many Scottish estates were given to English lords. They were not kind to their crofting tenants. Many on the mainland were cleared and while this did not happen much on the islands such as Shetland, the new exploitative conditions led many Shetlanders to leave - to port cities on the mainland, to North America and even to Australia and New Zealand. |isbn= 1838591753}}{{Frontpage|author= Alison Weir|title= Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard The Tainted Queen|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= ''Katheryn was seven when her mother died'', thus we are thrust into this tumultuous time in young Katheryn's life, trying to find a home, both figuratively and literally, where she can grow and grieve. Unfortunately, Katheryn is followed by bad luck and she learns an important lesson, she is too young, too poor and too unimportant to be of any value to anyone, but she is beautiful and surely, that will count for something in the end, won't it?|isbn=1472227778}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529123763|title=Miss Austen|author=Gill Hornby|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most of the letters which she and other members of the extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Jane. What is not known is ''why'' she did this and at this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's death - a definitive answer is unlikely to forthcoming. Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expecting.}}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"<!-- de Lacey Davidson Caroline Scott -->
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===[[Photographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott]]===
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Nathan Whyte May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There is tremendously excited about no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the arrival back of Frederick Douglass in Irelandthe photograph. And even more excited that his Quaker father, who It is publishing the British edition a picture of ''Narrative''her husband, Douglass's memoir of his life as a slaveFrancis. Francis has been missing for four years. Technically, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglasshe has been "missing, who believed killed" but that is not something that a charismatic figure and a gifted oratoryoung widow can believe. But Ireland will have as big an impact She hangs on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathanthe word 'missing's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of , disbelieving the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connellword killed. [[Precept: A Novel Photographer of the Lost by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonCaroline Scott|Full Review]]
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're Germany is split. Some of her is in the company favour of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at Hitler and the Museo di Santa MariaNazis, which but much isn't. Some of her is what stuck to the ruins of east fighting the Chiesa - a chapel - Soviets, but some will soon have now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiecebe on the other front, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs against the Americans coming into the attention of young and oldcontinent to put things right as they see it. Molly uses Finding out that the history war to entertain the touristseast isn't working, but theredue to Hitler's more too it than she knowstactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. The only way to shore things up, particularly as and repair the history of the building splits, is to kill Hitler, and luckily Baron Nicholas is also the history man to do it. He's aristocratic enough, he knows enough people in industry, society and other circles of the Vannini familypower, who helped so once he's succeeded he might be able to keep a German presence in building Europe. But will he still be able to keep the chapel some six hundred years ago "predatory American capitalists" and one of whose descendants is the director of blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the museum. middle? [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Man Who Killed Hitler by Daniel PeltzAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary Just Another Girl on the Road by Lucy WorsleyS Kensington]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from Katherine a farmhouse and a group of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, German deserters who had raped her. Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she got when Farr and Valentine intervened and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces finished the much longed for birth group off. It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part of a male heirthe Jedburgh unit, EDMOND, lead by Major Willoughby Nye. This time, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - Henryhe's young daughter, Mary. Maryd worked on her father's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce merchant ship and she is treated terribly by Katrinka had once had a father under the influence of the Boleyn factioncrush on Nye. Lady Mary follows When he offered her through these awful years and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous eventsa job with his unit, she accepted. [[Lady Mary Just Another Girl on the Road by Lucy WorsleyS Kensington|Full Review]]
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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[My Lady's Choosing The Rabbit Girls by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisAnna Ellory]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
[[image:4starBerlin, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and people able to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. She is in the middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps the name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and she sees for the first time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. One bombshell outside, then, and two inside.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on, as he has a first-person narrative alternating with her story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to the real Frieda, a young woman that shook him to the core when he was her literature professor? That's right, more bombshells… [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory|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 Hlad -->
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September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the homes and lives of a people on the edge. In eighteenth century LondonEpping Forest, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance Susan Shepherd and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the Fowler family - birds proving a comfort for Susan following the loss of her parents. These pigeons are more than just birds to Susan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, she sees a distinct personality and charged with protecting forms a mysterious childclose bond. Fast forward Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to Britain and join the London of 2015Royal Air Force. Working with the National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and the sisters are still waiting is tasked with air- with no way dropping hundreds of knowing if homing pigeons into German-occupied France, where many will not survive. As the boy mission is alive or dead. Far awayplanned, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal lifethe bond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, but also forces them to keep a secret for two hundred years. As those years pass bywhen Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, those it may be Duchess who were granted immortality find provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that it's far from hope of a blessing - with true darkness emerging in the absence of death. reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[The Parentations Long Flight Home by Kate MayfieldA L Hlad|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Brightfall by David LawsJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in public, you know – a full one-line in a ''Beyond the Fringe'' sketch, where he says he has a piece of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded to prove it was a paper bag, in fact, by blowing it up and immediately bursting it. That Robin Hood is what that paper was to many gone – the indicator of a lot of hot air, denouncing both his former life and only leading to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anyway. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with the Nazislove Marian, and this book opens with the firstretreating to a monastery – although no-person reportage of one such man, keen on showing proof knows quite what led him to Chamberlain abandon all that he should not sign the Sudetenland awayhad built. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving a grandMarion's life since has been relatively quiet -daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominywhen her friends start dying, Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to pick the last, barest threads of break the story up curse surrounding them and see just what did happen to himsave their lives. OhSetting off with a soldier, a Fey Lord and her help has just come out a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in a maze of prison… betrayals, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the throne…[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Brightfall by David LawsJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin A Perfect Explanation by Snorri KristjanssonEleanor Anstruther]]===
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Unnthor Reginsson is Enid Campbell was a woman who, on the uncrowned king face of it, had everything. Leading the valley; retired Viking farmer and rumoured owner life of a large hoard an aristocrat – full of goldinherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and high expectations. He Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to her. After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is gathering his clanthis an act of greed, a grand reunion after ten years or an act of desperation? Exploring the true story of absence. It is time her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject for strengthening family bonds, feastingan explosive, telling tall tales moving and remembering shared historybeautifully well-written debut. [[Kin A Perfect Explanation by Snorri KristjanssonEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks Equator by Elizabeth ChadwickAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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''Templar Silks'' It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is a great example Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of historical fiction done well. Itwhite man against Native 's a fictitious account of William MarshalIndian's time , who spends days being physically sick while indulging in Jerusalem during a buffalo hunt, and who hates the late 1100s during a brief spell way man – and woman, of calm before course – can turn against fellow man at the death bat of King Baldwin to leprosy in 1185an eyelid. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous But this book is about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack of researchso much more than the 1870s USA, and the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. In He finds himself trying to find this book she goes back to fill in the gaps having spent time studying this particular period 's version of his life. Her main problemUtopia, as she acknowledges at the end of namely the bookEquator, where everything is that virtually nothing is known of Marshal's time upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in Jerusalem. We know when their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravity, and why he wentwhere, we know who the major power players wereknows, we know when he came back and things might actually be better. But that equator is about it. So understandably, this book is probably more fiction than history but it is brilliantly written none the less. a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[Templar Silks Equator by Elizabeth ChadwickAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Mitchell & MitchellAlison Weir]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
''Revenge'' opens with Poor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets a raw deal by history, of all the news that Charles Stuart wives of Henry VIII she is to return to the throne as Charles II of Englandone who is known for being rejected. A young womanAnne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard were the sexy ones, Ruth CourtneyJane the dutiful one who delivered a son, is returning home Katherine of Aragon clung on to her family's farmhouse, excited at the prospect of a new King. She arrives home, however, crown and Katharine Parr clung on to find her home ablaze life but poor frumpy Anne of Cleaves just rolled over and surrounded by renegade soldiers, supporters moved along. Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with a different view of Cromwell, her family nowhere this young woman who saw the opportunity to be foundlive an independent life and took it. [[Revenge Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Mitchell & MitchellAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock Liberation Square by Shahad Al RawiGareth Rubin]]===
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''The Baghdad Clock'' In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is a tale of two friends growing up during first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the first East, and second Iraqi warAmericans from the west. Dividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a scar. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, Jane is determined to illustrate the displacement felt by clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a young girl and trail of corruption that leads her neighbourhood. The novel introduces us right to the various characters surrounding highest levels of the protagonist. They are full of life state – and yet never seem to add anything soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the central narrative. Rawi, it would seem, has a problem with telling a story. murderous secret police… [[The Baghdad Clock Liberation Square by Shahad Al RawiGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical FictionThe Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall]]===
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]]
You might not think that Georgian London contained many black people. But it contained more than you think. You may have heard of Francis Barber, the black African slave who became the friend of lexicographer Samuel Johnson and was a beneficiary of his will. ''The Boy in a Turban'' tells the story of a fictional black character, James, in Georgian London. James, then Quaccoe, is brought to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughters. [[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall|Full Review]] <!-- Llewellyn Clark -->
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===[[Walking Wounded In The Full Light of the Sun by Sheila LlewellynClare Clark]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
David Reece was called In 1930's Berlin, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up in 1941 and sent to fight in Burmainto a scandal. On his return in 1946Emmeline, he finds a return to civilian life quite beyond him andwayward young student, after a brawlJulius, is sent to a military psychiatric hospital. Therean anxious middle-aged art expert, he is treated by Daniel Carterand Rachmann, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies can work with men like Davidmysterious art dealer, but who is working live in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and lobotomy. ''Walking Wounded'' follows both men as they both try the Nazis, the discovery of the art allows these characters to come to terms with traumatic experiences explore authenticity, vanity and find a place in a world moving on from WWIIself-delusion. [[Walking Wounded In The Full Light of the Sun by Sheila LlewellynClare Clark|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tattooist Phoenix of Auschwitz Florence by Heather MorrisPhilip Kazan]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
So, you arrive Deep in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see the horror thereTuscan countryside of fifteenth-century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and immediately swear to survive home. Alone in the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind itforest, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demandshe meets a band of soldiers who, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to stick your neck out and get a job that means you're actually a Jew working avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the political wing of the SSway, answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the placeshe meets ex-soldier Celavini, 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, journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further and survived uncovers links to tell his own family history, Celavini must revisit the tale, but past he also managed to do something even more daringshares with Onoria, and unexpected – he dared to invest in the hope in a burgeoning love that he found in they can lay the campghosts of their shared history to rest before it's too late... [[The Tattooist Phoenix of Auschwitz Florence by Heather MorrisPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Deviation by Rachel HalliburtonLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens For those of you who have read books of life in London in January 1797. Benjamin Westthe Nazi camps – and of course, President for those of the Royal Academyyou who have not – this can be considered a next step. It begins, is reflecting on the past year's scandal involving the Provisesafter all, father with someone escaping Dachau and daughterfleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and worries that he handled everything poorly. From the start the bookyou's figurative language is appropriately full of colour d not blame her one minute, as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and painterly techniques: 'He had intended 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 deal with them honourablylook for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, but now everyone in London was saying he had noteither official or otherwise. It was as if somebody had dropped a small amount of ivory black paint But then the next chapter sees her going back into yellow orpiment on a palette – the camp next to Dachau once more he prodded , and stirred the memory, the murkier it becameby then eyebrows are being raised.' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Deviation by Rachel HalliburtonLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[W The Count of 9 by John BanksErle Stanley Gardner]]===
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On the slopes ''The Count of Mt Hood 9'' is a hardboiled detective story written in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationthe 1950s. Josh Kinninger is inspired by It revolves around the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored detective duo of Donald Lam and with his world in turmoilBertha Cool as they attempt to solve the theft of priceless Bornean artefacts. Beginning a journey westwardHowever, he's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupttheir case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[W The Count of 9 by John BanksErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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|author=Elaine Everest
|title= Christmas at Woolworths
|rating= 3.5
|genre= 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 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 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>
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{{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>
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{{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>
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{{newreview
|author=Toby Clements
|title=Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (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>
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{{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>
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{{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>
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