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===[[A Gathering Photographer of Ghosts the Lost by Karen MaitlandCaroline Scott]]===
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Witchcraft, the supernatural and the will to survive at all costs collide in May 1921. Edie receives a story that never shies away from photograph through the darker side of human naturepost. There is no letter or note with it. The land There is unhappy, nothing written on the back of the old spirits want revenge and famine photograph. It is kindling a resurgence picture of the old faithher husband, Francis. Francis has been missing for four years. As fear risesTechnically, he has been "missing, it believed killed" but that is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore not something that something rotten has taken roota young widow can believe. The sacred well is tainted She hangs on the word 'missing', its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a wind of changedisbelieving the word killed. [[A Gathering Photographer of Ghosts the Lost by Karen MaitlandCaroline Scott|Full Review]]
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[[image:4star3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, a family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit it. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson|Full Review]] <!-- Mazolla -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1472234782.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472234782/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
Audrey, a complex mix Germany is split. Some of flights her is in favour of fancy Hitler and seriousnessthe Nazis, wanting, needingbut much isn't. Some of her is stuck to the east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have to be more than what everyone expects of heron the other front, escapes from against the Americans coming into the straightjacket of her homecontinent to put things right as they see it. Where every action Finding out that the war to the east isn't working, every thoughtdue to Hitler's tactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, every yearning some people reckon Stalin is controlled by her father, who five seasons away from being in Berlin. The only once in his life threw caution way to shore things up, and repair the wind splits, is to kill Hitler, and married way beneath him for loveluckily Baron Nicholas is the man to do it. Now a widower He's aristocratic enough, he knows enough people in industry, society and remarriedother circles of power, so once he has rigorously returned 's succeeded he might be able to upholding what is right, what is proper, keep a German presence in Europe. But will he still be able to keep the "predatory American capitalists" and the blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the bastion of doing what is expected. middle? [[The Story Keeper Man Who Killed Hitler by Anna MazzolaAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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===[[The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] 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 the circles of power, or those prepared to do anything to get there. This book, however, is totally different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes Peppin, a young, poor woman. As a woman she can either marry, or join a convent. 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 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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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] 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 an aristocrat – full of ''Narrative''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 perfect subject for an explosive, moving and meets 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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===[[My Lady's Choosing Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisAlison Weir]]=== [[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:17860724244.5star.jpg|link=httpCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786072424/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
Poor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets a raw deal by history, of all the wives of Henry VIII she is the one who is known for being rejected. Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard were the sexy ones, Jane the dutiful one who delivered a son, Katherine of Aragon clung on to her crown and Katharine Parr clung on to her life but poor frumpy Anne of Cleaves just rolled over and moved along. Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with a different view of this young woman who saw the opportunity to live an independent life and took it. [[Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Alison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Liberation Square by David LawsGareth Rubin]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in publicIn an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, you know Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – a full one-line in a ''Beyond only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the Fringe'' sketchEast, where he says he has a piece of paper and Americans from Hitlerthe west. I then proceeded to prove it was a paper bagDividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in facttwo, by blowing it up and immediately bursting a wall running through itlike a scar. That When Jane Cawson's husband is what that paper was to many – arrested for the indicator murder of a lot of hot airhis former wife, and only leading Jane is determined to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anyway. Certainly, not everyone was keen on clear 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 awayname. But he only got In doing so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under Jane follows a cloud trail of ignominy, corruption that leads her right to pick the last, barest threads highest levels of the story up state – and see just what did happen soon finds herself desperate to him. Oh, and her help has just come out stay one step ahead of prison… the murderous secret police… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Liberation Square by David LawsGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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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[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Kin by Snorri Kristjansson: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]] <!-- Chadwick Clark -->
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===[[Templar Silks In The Full Light of the Sun by Elizabeth ChadwickClare Clark]]===
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In 1930''Templar Silks'' is s Berlin, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a great example of historical fiction done wellscandal. It's Emmeline, a wayward young student, Julius, an anxious middle-aged art expert, and Rachmann, a fictitious account of William Marshal's time mysterious art dealer, live in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the death surprise discovery of King Baldwin to leprosy in 1185thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Elizabeth Chadwick has written Based on a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of research. In this book she goes back to fill in Hitler and the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of his life. Her main problemNazis, as she acknowledges at the end discovery of the bookart allows these characters to explore authenticity, is that virtually nothing is known of Marshal's time in Jerusalem. We know when vanity 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 lessself-delusion. [[Templar Silks In The Full Light of the Sun by Elizabeth ChadwickClare Clark|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge The Phoenix of Florence by Mitchell & MitchellPhilip Kazan]]===
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''Revenge'' opens with Deep in the news Tuscan countryside of fifteenth-century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that Charles Stuart is to return to destroys her family and home. Alone in the throne as Charles II forest, she meets a band of England. A young womansoldiers who, Ruth Courtney, is returning home believing her to be a boy train and develop her family's farmhouse, excited at – and the prospect of determined Onoria becomes a new Kingmercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. She arrives homeAlong the way, howevershe meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to find her home ablaze Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further and surrounded by renegade soldiersuncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoria, supporters in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of Cromwell, her family nowhere their shared history to be foundrest before it's too late... [[Revenge The Phoenix of Florence by Mitchell & MitchellPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock Deviation by Shahad Al RawiLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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''The Baghdad Clock'' is a tale For those of you who have read books of two friends growing up during life in the first Nazi camps – and second Iraqi warof course, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a next step. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism to illustrate the displacement felt by It begins, after all, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a young girl bombing raid, and you'd not blame her one minute, as her neighbourhood. The novel introduces us career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the various characters surrounding the protagonistGermans. They are full of life and yet never seem In Munich, she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to add anything be a camp for non-native civilians to look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the central narrative. Rawinext chapter sees her going back into the camp next to Dachau once more, it would seem, has a problem with telling a storyand by then eyebrows are being raised. [[The Baghdad Clock Deviation by Shahad Al RawiLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path Count of 9 by Katherine ClementsErle Stanley Gardner]]===
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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 'The Count of it in hushed tones - of how it9''s is a foreboding place filled with evilhardboiled detective story written in the 1950s. Mercy Booth has lived there since birth, It revolves around the detective duo of Donald Lam and she's always loved Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve the grand house and its isolation, but a recurrence theft of strange events begins to unsettle herpriceless Bornean artefacts. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed in the houseHowever, mysteries come to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing longtheir case quickly turns into something darker -buried secretsan impossible murder. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path Count of 9 by Katherine ClementsErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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