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===[[In Gold's Name Photographer of the Lost by Marcus DalrympleCaroline Scott]]===
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It was about 1509 when May 1921. Edie receives a series of mystical events foreshadowed photograph through the end of the Aztec Empire and the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later post. There is no letter or note with their deer-without-antlersit. Some thought There is nothing written on the Spaniards were godsback of the photograph. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially It is a decent manpicture of her husband, particularly by the standards of the timeFrancis. Francis has been missing for four years. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the forceTechnically, but at the age of twenty three he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrificesa young widow can believe. HeShe hangs on the word 'd joined the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldnmissing't call him naive, he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing disbelieving the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and tortureword killed. [[In Gold's Name Photographer of the Lost by Marcus DalrympleCaroline Scott|Full Review]]
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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] ''The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the simplest of places. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall|Full Review]] <!-- Varese -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0715653008.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0715653008/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Spirit Photographer Man Who Killed Hitler by Jon Michael VareseAndre Pronovost]]===
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Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the life story Germany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the real-life father of spirit photographyNazis, William Hbut much isn't. Mumler. His fictional stand-in here Some of her is Edward Moodystuck to the east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have to be on the other front, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in Bostonagainst the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. Moody is dismissive of spiritualism Finding out that the war to the east isn't working, yet considers himself due to be doing a service Hitler's tactical ineptitude and inability to the bereaved by fabricating family photographs heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in which the ghost of a departed loved one appearsBerlin. This involves getting hold of an image of the loved one The only way to shore things up, and superimposing it on repair the negative being developedsplits, so that it seems is to appear hazily in kill Hitler, and luckily Baron Nicholas is the backgroundman to do it. Looking back from today He's high-tech perspectivearistocratic enough, he knows enough people in industry, society and other circles of power, itso once he's hard succeeded he might be able to see how anyone could have been fooled, but suffering people keep a German presence in desperate situations often want Europe. But will he still be able to believe; keep the "predatory American capitalists" and the blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the same goes for séances. middle? [[The Spirit Photographer Man Who Killed Hitler by Jon Michael VareseAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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 ===[[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker father, who is publishing the British edition of ''Narrative'', Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have Just Another Girl on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connell. [[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]] <!-- Daniel Peltz -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912083779.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912083779/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Road by Daniel PeltzS Kensington]]===
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When we Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from a farmhouse and a group of Molly Cavendish German deserters who is a had raped her. Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she got when Farr and Valentine intervened and finished the group off. It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part-time guide at of the Museo di Santa MariaJedburgh unit, which is what the ruins of the Chiesa EDMOND, lead by Major Willoughby Nye. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on her father's merchant ship and Katrinka had once had a chapel - have now becomecrush on Nye. Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, When he offered her a renaissance fresco job with a history which grabs the attention of young and old. Molly uses the history to entertain the touristshis unit, but there's more too it than she knows, particularly as the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini family, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the director of the museumaccepted. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Just Another Girl on the Road by Daniel PeltzS Kensington|Full Review]]
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===[[The Parentations Rabbit Girls by Kate MayfieldAnna Ellory]]===
[[image:4.5star3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyGeneral Fiction|FantasyGeneral Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
In eighteenth century LondonBerlin, sisters Fitzgerald1989. Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly united, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - Wall newly broken down and charged with protecting a mysterious childpeople able to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. Fast forward to She is in the London middle of 2015such 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 sisters are still waiting - with no way of knowing if the boy is alive or deadfirst time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. Far away One bombshell outside, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal lifethen, but also forces them to keep a secret for and two hundred yearsinside. As those years pass by And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on, those who were granted immortality 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 itshook him to the core when he was her literature professor? That's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging in the absence of death. right, more bombshells… [[The Parentations Rabbit Girls by Kate MayfieldAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Long Flight Home by David LawsA L Hlad]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in publicSeptember 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, you know – destroying the homes and lives of a full one-line in a ''Beyond people on the Fringe'' sketchedge. In Epping Forest, where he says he has Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a piece comfort for Susan following the loss of paper from Hitlerher parents. I then proceeded These pigeons are more than just birds to prove it was a paper bagSusan though – in each one, and especially in factDuchess, by blowing it up she sees a distinct personality and immediately bursting itforms a close bond. That is what that paper was Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to many – Britain and join the indicator of a lot of hot air, and only leading to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anywayRoyal Air Force. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement Working with the NazisNational Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and this book opens is tasked with the firstair-person reportage dropping hundreds of one such manhoming pigeons into German-occupied France, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should where many will not sign the Sudetenland awaysurvive. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominy, to pick As the lastmission is planned, barest threads of the story up bond between Ollie and see just what did happen to him. OhSusan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and her help has just come out ensures that hope of prison… a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Long Flight Home by David LawsA L Hlad|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin Brightfall by Snorri KristjanssonJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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Unnthor Reginsson Robin Hood is the uncrowned king of the valley; retired Viking farmer gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, and rumoured owner of retreating to a large hoard of goldmonastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. He Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is gathering his clantasked by Father Tuck to break the curse surrounding them and to save their lives. Setting off with a soldier, a Fey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in a grand reunion after ten years maze of absence. It is time for strengthening family bondsbetrayals, feastingcomplicated relationships, telling tall tales and remembering shared history. a vicious struggle for the throne…[[Kin Brightfall by Snorri KristjanssonJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks A Perfect Explanation by Elizabeth ChadwickEleanor Anstruther]]===
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''Templar Silks'' is Enid Campbell was a great example woman who, on the face of historical fiction done wellit, had everything. It's a fictitious account Leading the life of an aristocrat – full of William Marshalinherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enid's time in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before the death of King Baldwin life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to leprosy in 1185her. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack After losing custody of research. In this book she goes back her children, Enid sells her son to fill in the gaps having spent time studying her sister for £500 – but is this particular period an act of his life. Her main problemgreed, as she acknowledges at the end or an act of desperation? Exploring the book, is that virtually nothing is known true story of Marshal's time in Jerusalem. We know when and why he wenther own grandmother, we know who Eleanor Anstruther has found the major power players wereperfect subject for an explosive, we know when he came back moving and that is about it. So understandably, this book is probably more fiction than history but it is brilliantly beautifully well-written none the lessdebut. [[Templar Silks A Perfect Explanation by Elizabeth ChadwickEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge Equator by Mitchell & MitchellAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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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 Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of white man against Native 'Indian'Revenge'' opens with , who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates the news that Charles Stuart is to return to way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the throne as Charles II bat of Englandan eyelid. A young womanBut this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, Ruth Courtneyand the attendant problems with gold rushes, is returning home pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to her familyfind this book's farmhouseversion of Utopia, excited at namely the prospect of a new King. She arrives homeEquator, howeverwhere everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to find her home ablaze counter the anti-gravity, and surrounded by renegade soldierswhere, supporters of Cromwellwho knows, her family nowhere to things might actually be foundbetter. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[Revenge Equator by Mitchell & MitchellAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Shahad Al RawiAlison Weir]]===
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''The Baghdad Clock'' is Poor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets a tale raw deal by history, of all the wives of two friends growing up during Henry VIII she is the first one who is known for being rejected. Anne Boleyn and second Iraqi war. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism to illustrate Katheryn Howard were the sexy ones, Jane the displacement felt by dutiful one who delivered a young girl son, Katherine of Aragon clung on to her crown and Katharine Parr clung on to her neighbourhoodlife but poor frumpy Anne of Cleaves just rolled over and moved along. The novel introduces Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with a different view of this young woman who saw the opportunity to the various characters surrounding the protagonist. They are full of live an independent life and yet never seem to add anything to the central narrative. Rawi, took it would seem, has a problem with telling a story. [[The Baghdad Clock Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Shahad Al RawiAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path Liberation Square by Katherine ClementsGareth Rubin]]===
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Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the old coffin path that winds East, and Americans from the village to west. Dividing the moor topnation between them, the villagers only speak of it London soon finds itself split in hushed tones - of how two, a wall running through it's like a foreboding place filled with evilscar. Mercy Booth has lived there since birth, and sheWhen Jane Cawson's always loved husband is arrested for the grand house and its isolationmurder of his former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. In doing so, but Jane follows a recurrence trail of strange events begins to unsettle corruption that leads her. From objects disappearing through right to a shadowy presence sensed in the house, mysteries come highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate 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? stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[The Coffin Path Liberation Square by Katherine ClementsGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris]]===
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So, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see the horror there, and immediately swear to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind it, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demand, to the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and get a job that means you're actually a Jew working in the political wing of the SS, answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the place, and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for you, under the eyes of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, and survived to tell the tale, but he also managed to do something even more daring, and unexpected – he dared to invest hope in a burgeoning love that he found in the camp[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris: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]] <!-- Halliburton Clark -->
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===[[In The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Full Light of the Sun by Rachel HalliburtonClare Clark]]===
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Rachel HalliburtonIn 1930's debut novel opens in London in January 1797Berlin, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandal. Benjamin WestEmmeline, President of the Royal Academya wayward young student, Julius, is reflecting on the past year's scandal involving the Provisesan anxious middle-aged art expert, father and daughterRachmann, a mysterious art dealer, live in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and worries that he handled everything poorly. From the start soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the book's figurative language is appropriately full surprise discovery of colour and painterly techniques: 'He had intended to deal with them honourably, but now everyone in London was saying he had notthirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. It was as if somebody had dropped a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment Based on a palette – true story and unfolding through the more he prodded subsequent rise of Hitler and stirred the memoryNazis, the murkier it becamediscovery of the art allows these characters to explore authenticity, vanity and self-delusion.' [[In The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Full Light of the Sun by Rachel HalliburtonClare Clark|Full Review]]
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===[[W The Phoenix of Florence by John BanksPhilip Kazan]]===
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On Deep in the slopes Tuscan countryside of Mt Hood fifteenth-century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone in Oregonthe forest, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than 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 previously known Viking explorationsituation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Josh Kinninger is inspired by Along the Viking discovery way, she meets ex- three personal catastrophes having left soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him angry, unmoored investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further and with uncovers links to his world in turmoil. Beginning a journey westwardown family history, Celavini must revisit the past heshares with Onoria, in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to rest before it's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupttoo late... [[W The Phoenix of Florence by John BanksPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[Christmas at Woolworths Deviation by Elaine EverestLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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''Christmas at Woolworths'' is the sequel to wartime saga The Woolworths Girls, and continues the story where the first book left off. Members For those of you who have read books of life in the close-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together Nazi camps – and keep morale high, even though the future is uncertain. At the heart of the neighbourhoodcourse, the home for those of kindly matriarch Ruby is you who have not – this can be considered a beacon where family next step. It begins, after all, with someone escaping Dachau and friends can gather for good food fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and conversation: a way you'd not blame her one minute, as her career was deemed to forget be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the troubles outsideGermans. Spirits remain high; even when the bombs are falling so close In Munich, she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to homelook for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. We catch up with But then the three friends from next chapter sees her going back into the first book: Sarah yearns for peace and an end camp next to the warDachau once more, Maisie is desperate for a child and Freda would love to find romanceby then eyebrows are being raised. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas? [[Christmas at Woolworths Deviation by Elaine EverestLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Hours Count of 9 by Minette WaltersErle Stanley Gardner]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port of Melcombe in Dorset[[image:4. Ignorant of many rules of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, the disease rages through the country5star. On the estate of Develishjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of the people who lived in the demesne after her husband had ridden off to try and secure a marriage for his daughter. Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the estate and when Lady Anne realised the virulence of the plague she ordered that the estate refuse entry to anyone, including her husband and his entourage, for fear that they would bring the disease to her people. [[The Last Hours by Minette Walters:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
''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]]
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