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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"<!-- Syson Caroline Scott -->
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions Photographer of the Lost by Lydia SysonCaroline Scott]]===
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On May 1921. Edie receives a remote volcanic island off photograph through the coast post. There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the back of New Zealand, the photograph. It is a family picture of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a homeher husband, Francis. Francis has been missing for four years. When a ship appears Technically, they feel that their wishes have he has been granted and their community reinvigorated – "missing, believed killed" but high hopes are swiftly dashed when that is not something that a vulnerable boy disappearsyoung widow can believe. As both settlers and newcomers come together in She hangs on the search for the child, they uncover farword 'missing', far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both disbelieving the island and those who inhabit itword killed. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions Photographer of the Lost by Lydia SysonCaroline Scott|Full Review]]
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[[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]]=== [[image:5star3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
The Tudor era Germany is split. Some of her is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth in favour of intrigueHitler and the Nazis, plots and machinationsbut much isn't. The regular cast Some of courtly characters are usually rich and powerfulher is stuck to the east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have to be on the other front, with so many against the Americans coming into the continent to choose from put things right as they see it. Finding out that the well never seems war to run dry and the characters are often those high up in the circles of powereast isn't working, or those prepared due to do anything Hitler's tactical ineptitude and inability to get thereheed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. This book The only way to shore things up, howeverand repair the splits, is totally differentto kill Hitler, and luckily Baron Nicholas is the man to do it. Set He's aristocratic enough, he knows enough people in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes industry, society and other circles of Agnes Peppinpower, so once he's succeeded he might be able to keep a young, poor womanGerman presence in Europe. As a woman she can either marry, or join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, But will he still be able to keep the "predatory American capitalists" and she is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the middle? [[The Butcher's Daughter Man Who Killed Hitler by Victoria GlendinningAndre Pronovost|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 Just Another Girl 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 Haunted Queen Road by Alison WeirS Kensington]]===
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When it comes to Jane Seymour, the third wife Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from a farmhouse and a group of Henry VIII, popular opinion is dividedGerman deserters who had raped her. Some see her Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in she got when Farr and Valentine intervened and finished the king's eyesgroup off. Others view her as a pious It was 1944 and God-fearing woman who brought calm Farr and stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are trueValentine were part of the Jedburgh unit, EDMOND, to an extentlead by Major Willoughby Nye. In Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on her father'The Haunted Queen,'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author s merchant ship and historian Alison Weir puts flesh Katrinka had once had a crush on the bones of Nye. When he offered her a Queen haunted by the shadow of a formidable predecessorjob with his unit, she accepted. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Just Another Girl on the Road by Alison WeirS Kensington|Full Review]]
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It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed Berlin, 1989. Miriam is in the end middle of a city freshly united, with the Aztec Empire Wall newly broken down and the inhabitants were people able to some extent conditioned to accept cross at liberty for the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlersfirst time in decades. Some thought She is in the Spaniards were godsmiddle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. Antonio Vega was no godOne standard bed-bath, however, is very different, but when he was essentially a decent man, particularly by gasps the standards of name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and she sees for the first timeever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. He was the finest marksman One bombshell outside, then, and two inside. And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on, as he has a first-person narrative alternating with his harquebus on the forceher story? What will we find happened, but at the age of twenty three as he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and remembers back to convert the local inhabitants real Frieda, a young woman that shook him to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. core when he was her literature professor? HeThat'd joined the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naives right, he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. more bombshells… [[In Gold's Name The Rabbit Girls by Marcus DalrympleAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[The Industry of Human Happiness Long Flight Home by James HallA L Hlad]]===
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''The Industry September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the homes and lives of Human Happiness'' first a people on the edge. In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd and foremost is her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a novel about musiccomfort for Susan following the loss of her parents. It is about human beings being able These pigeons are more than just birds to find music Susan though – in each one, and magic especially in Duchess, she sees a distinct personality and forms a close bond. Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to Britain and join the simplest of placesRoyal Air Force. Max Working with the National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and his younger cousin have realised their dream is tasked with air-dropping hundreds of opening a gramophone companyhoming pigeons into German-occupied France, where many will not survive. HoweverAs the mission is planned, their ambition the bond between Ollie and hubris soon puts them on a course towards LondonSusan grows stronger, but when Ollie's underworld. They will ascend broken plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a reunion for Susan and their lives changed forever. Ollie remains… [[The Industry of Human Happiness Long Flight Home by James HallA L Hlad|Full Review]]
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===[[The Spirit Photographer Brightfall by Jon Michael VareseJaime Lee Moyer]]===
[[image:3star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionFantasy|Historical FictionFantasy]] Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the life story of the real-life father of spirit photography, William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-in here is Edward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in Boston. Moody is dismissive of spiritualism, yet considers himself to be doing a service to the bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the ghost of a departed loved one appears. This involves getting hold of an image of the loved one and superimposing it on the negative being developed, so that it seems to appear hazily in the background. Looking back from today's high-tech perspective, it's hard to see how anyone could have been fooled, but suffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for séances. [[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, and retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is tasked 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 maze of betrayals, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the throne…[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther]]===
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Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about Enid Campbell was a woman who, on the arrival face of Frederick Douglass in Irelandit, had everything. And even more excited that his Quaker father, who is publishing Leading the British edition life of ''Narrative''an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, Douglassglamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enid's memoir of his life as a slavehas been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking touruntreated and threatening both Enid and those close to her. Nathan After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is deeply impressed by Douglassthis an act of greed, who is a charismatic figure and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big or an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings act of desperation? Exploring the horrors true story of her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the potato famine and meets perfect subject for an explosive, moving and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connellbeautifully well-written debut. [[Precept: A Novel Perfect Explanation by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Equator by Daniel PeltzAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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When we first visit It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in Wild West outside the company walls of Molly Cavendish a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who is a part-time guide bristles at the Museo di Santa Mariaindignity of white man against Native 'Indian', which is what who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates the ruins way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the Chiesa - a chapel - have now becomebat of an eyelid. Crowds flock to see its centrepieceBut this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, a renaissance fresco and the attendant problems with a history which grabs the attention of young gold rushes, pioneer spirits and oldracial genocide. Molly uses the history He finds himself trying to entertain the tourists, but therefind this book's more too it than she knowsversion of Utopia, particularly as namely the history of the building Equator, where everything is also upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the history of ground to counter the Vannini familyanti-gravity, and where, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and one there's a whole adventure full of whose descendants is the director of the museum. Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Equator by Daniel PeltzAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Lucy WorsleyAlison Weir]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles Poor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets a raw deal by history, of all the famous story wives of Henry VIII's love affair with she is the one who is known for being rejected. Anne Boleynand Katheryn Howard were the sexy ones, Jane the dutiful one who delivered a son, his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, clung on to her crown and Henry's subsequent marriage Katharine Parr clung on to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of a male heir. This time, the story is told through the eyes of an important her life but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary. Mary's hopes poor frumpy Anne of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce Cleaves just rolled over and she is treated terribly by moved along. Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with a father under the influence different view of this young woman who saw the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years opportunity to live an independent life and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous eventstook it. [[Lady Mary Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Lucy WorsleyAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing Liberation Square by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] 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 -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1786072424.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786072424/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Parentations by Kate MayfieldGareth Rubin]]===
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In eighteenth century Londonan alternate 1952, sisters FitzgeraldSoviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - and charged with protecting a mysterious child. Fast forward Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the London of 2015East, and Americans from the sisters are still waiting - with no way of knowing if west. Dividing the boy is alive or dead. Far awaynation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a hidden pool grants those who sup from wall running through it eternal lifelike a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, but also forces them Jane is determined to keep a secret for two hundred yearsclear his name. As those years pass byIn doing so, those who were granted immortality find Jane follows a trail of corruption that it's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging in leads her right to the highest levels of the absence state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of death. the murderous secret police… [[The Parentations Liberation Square by Kate MayfieldGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws]]===
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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[[image:4star. I then proceeded to prove it was a paper bag, in fact, by blowing it up and immediately bursting it. That is what that paper was to many – the indicator of a lot of hot air, and only leading to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anyway. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with the Nazis, and this book opens with the first-person reportage of one such man, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign the Sudetenland away. 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 the last, barest threads of the story up and see just what did happen to him. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David LawsCategory: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]] <!-- Kristjansson Clark -->
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===[[Kin In The Full Light of the Sun by Snorri KristjanssonClare Clark]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]]
Unnthor Reginsson is the uncrowned king of the valley; retired Viking farmer and rumoured owner of a large hoard of gold. He is gathering his clan, a grand reunion after ten years of absence. It is time for strengthening family bonds, feasting, telling tall tales and remembering shared history. [[Kin by Snorri Kristjansson|Full Review]] <!-- Chadwick -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0751564974.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751564974/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Templar Silks by Elizabeth Chadwick]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Literary Fiction|Historical Literary Fiction]] ''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 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 she acknowledges at the end of the book, is that virtually nothing is known of Marshal's time in Jerusalem. We know when and why he went, we know who the major power players were, we know when he came back and that is about it. So understandably, this book is probably more fiction than history but it is brilliantly written none the less. [[Templar Silks by Elizabeth Chadwick|Full Review]] <!-- Mitchell -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:MandM_Revenge.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1520973179/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Revenge by Mitchell & Mitchell]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
In 1930''Revenge'' opens s Berlin, three people obsessed with the news that Charles Stuart is to return to the throne as Charles II of Englandart find themselves swept up into a scandal. A Emmeline, a wayward young womanstudent, Ruth CourtneyJulius, is returning home to her family's farmhousean anxious middle-aged art expert, and Rachmann, excited at the prospect of a new King. She arrives homemysterious art dealer, howeverlive in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, to and soon find her home ablaze themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a true story and surrounded by renegade soldiersunfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, supporters the discovery of Cromwellthe art allows these characters to explore authenticity, her family nowhere to be foundvanity and self-delusion. [[Revenge In The Full Light of the Sun by Mitchell & MitchellClare Clark|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock Phoenix of Florence by Shahad Al RawiPhilip Kazan]]===
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''The Baghdad Clock'' is Deep in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth-century Italy, Onoria survives a tale of two friends growing up during the first massacre that destroys her family and second Iraqi warhome. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism Alone in the forest, she meets a band of soldiers who, believing her to illustrate the displacement felt by be a young girl boy train and develop her neighbourhood– and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. The novel introduces us Along the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to the various characters surrounding the protagonistFlorence sees him investigating two brutal murders. They are full of life As he digs further and yet never seem to add anything uncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the central narrative. Rawipast he shares with Onoria, in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to rest before it would seem, has a problem with telling a story's too late... [[The Baghdad Clock Phoenix of Florence by Shahad Al RawiPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path Deviation by Katherine ClementsLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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Maybe For those of you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on who have read books of life in the old coffin path that winds from the village to the moor topNazi camps – and of course, the villagers only speak for those of it in hushed tones - of how it's you who have not – this can be considered a foreboding place filled next step. It begins, after all, with evil. Mercy Booth has lived there since birthsomeone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and sheyou's always loved d not blame her one minute, as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the grand house and its isolationGermans. In Munich, but a recurrence of strange events begins she stumbles on help to unsettle get her. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed in the house, mysteries come what seems to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing longa camp for non-buried secrets. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come native civilians to love look for work, or tear it from company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her grasp? going back into the camp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raised. [[The Coffin Path Deviation by Katherine ClementsLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Walking Wounded The Count of 9 by Sheila LlewellynErle Stanley Gardner]]===
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David Reece was called up in 1941 and sent to fight in Burma. On his return in 1946, he finds a return to civilian life quite beyond him and, after a brawl, ''The Count of 9'' is sent to a military psychiatric hospitalhardboiled detective story written in the 1950s. There, he is treated by Daniel Carter, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies can work with men like David, but who is working in a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT It revolves around the detective duo of Donald Lam and lobotomy. ''Walking Wounded'' follows both men Bertha Cool as they both try attempt to come to terms with traumatic experiences and find a place in a world moving on from WWIIsolve the theft of priceless Bornean artefacts. However, their case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[Walking Wounded The Count of 9 by Sheila LlewellynErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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