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<!-- 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" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Lock Caroline Scott -->
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===[[Murmuration Photographer of the Lost by Robert LockCaroline Scott]]===
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''Murmuration'' follows the lives of May 1921. Edie receives a host of characters from 1863 to photograph through the present daypost. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller, we see There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the birth back of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamourthe photograph. There It is a hint picture of mysticism to the taleher husband, Francis. Francis has been missing for four years. Technically, he has been "missing, with believed killed" but that is not something that a young widow can believe. She hangs on the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives hereword 'missing', drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by disbelieving the seaword killed. [[Murmuration Photographer of the Lost by Robert LockCaroline Scott|Full Review]]
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In an isolated Louisiana townGermany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the Nazis, but much isn't. Some of her is stuck to the east fighting the Soviets, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cellbut some will soon have to be on the other front, staring at against the shadow of Americans coming into the window bars cast onto continent to put things right as they see it. Finding out that the concrete wall by war to the eveningeast isn't working, due to Hitler's dying sun raystactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. At midnight The only way to shore things up, he will be dead; strapped to a chair and electrocuted for repair the rape of a white girlsplits, who later committed suicide. He is resigned to his fate; it kill Hitler, and luckily Baron Nicholas is futile the man to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after alldo it. He's aristocratic enough, he knows enough people in industry, love between a black man society and a white woman was never going other circles of power, so once he's succeeded he might be able to have keep a happy ending German presence in a small town filled with small-minded peopleEurope. But will he still be able to keep the "predatory American capitalists" and the blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the middle? [[The Mercy Seat Man Who Killed Hitler by Elizabeth H WinthropAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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===[[A Gathering of Ghosts Just Another Girl on the Road by Karen MaitlandS Kensington]]===
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Witchcraft, the supernatural When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from a farmhouse and the will to survive at all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the darker side group of human natureGerman deserters who had raped her. The land is unhappy, Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she got when Farr and Valentine intervened and finished the old spirits want revenge group off. It was 1944 and Farr and famine is kindling a resurgence Valentine were part of the old faithJedburgh unit, EDMOND, lead by Major Willoughby Nye. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on her father's merchant ship and strangers are blowing in Katrinka had once had a crush on Nye. When he offered her a wind of changejob with his unit, she accepted. [[A Gathering of Ghosts Just Another Girl on the Road by Karen MaitlandS Kensington|Full Review]]
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On a remote volcanic island off Berlin, 1989. Miriam is in the coast middle of New Zealanda city freshly united, a family 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 settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a homeeuphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. When a ship appears One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, they feel when he gasps the name ''Frieda'' that their wishes have been granted she does not recognise – and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when she sees for the first time ever a vulnerable boy disappearstattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. As both settlers One bombshell outside, then, and newcomers come together in two inside. 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 search for real Frieda, a young woman that shook him to the childcore when he was her literature professor? That's right, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit it. bombshells… [[Mr Peacock's Possessions The Rabbit Girls by Lydia SysonAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[The Story Keeper Long Flight Home by Anna MazzolaA L Hlad]]===
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AudreySeptember 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the homes and lives of a complex mix of flights of fancy people on the edge. In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd and seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a comfort for Susan following the straightjacket loss of her homeparents. Where every actionThese pigeons are more than just birds to Susan though – in each one, every thoughtand especially in Duchess, every yearning is controlled by her fathershe sees a distinct personality and forms a close bond. Meanwhile, who only once in his life threw caution young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to Britain and join the wind and married way beneath him for loveRoyal Air Force. Now a widower and remarriedWorking with the National Pigeon Service, he has rigorously returned to upholding what soon meets Susan and is righttasked with air-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German-occupied France, what where many will not survive. As the mission is properplanned, the bastion bond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of doing what is expected. a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[The Story Keeper Long Flight Home by Anna MazzolaA L Hlad|Full Review]]
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===[[The Butcher's Daughter Brightfall by Victoria GlendinningJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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The Tudor era Robin Hood is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth of intriguegone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, plots and machinationsretreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerfulMarion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, with so many Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to choose from that break the well never seems to run dry curse surrounding them and the characters are often those high up in the circles of power, or those prepared to do anything to get theresave their lives. This bookSetting off with a soldier, howevera Fey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, is totally different. Set she becomes tangled in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes a maze of Agnes Peppinbetrayals, a youngcomplicated relationships, poor woman. As and 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 vicious struggle for the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. throne…[[The Butcher's Daughter Brightfall by Victoria GlendinningJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[Silence in the Desert A Perfect Explanation by David LongridgeEleanor Anstruther]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Literary Fiction|Historical Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:ThrillersHistorical Fiction|ThrillersHistorical Fiction]]
As Enid Campbell was a woman who, on the shadow face of the Second World War descends upon the planetit, four people are explored in a tale of love and friendshiphad everything. Henri, fulfilling a family tradition in joining Leading the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on life of an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those aristocrat – full of his upbringinginherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and Elisabethhigh expectations. Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, crossing continents untreated and changing names are all brought together by strife threatening both Enid and turmoilthose close to her. As After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the war ragestrue story of her own grandmother, these men are tested like never before, with trustEleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject for an explosive, loyalty moving and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around thembeautifully well-written debut. [[Silence in the Desert A Perfect Explanation by David LongridgeEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Equator by Alison WeirAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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When it comes to Jane Seymour, It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the third wife walls of Henry VIII, popular opinion is divideda theme park. Some Our agent to see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who would stop bristles at nothing to gain favour in the kingindignity of white man against Native 's eyes. Others view her as Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a pious buffalo hunt, and God-fearing woman who brought calm hates the way man – and stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleynwoman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelid. Perhaps both sides are true But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, and the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to an extent. In find this book''The Haunted Queens version of Utopia,'' namely the third book Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the ''Six Tudor Queens'' seriesground to counter the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, author things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of there's a Queen haunted by the shadow whole adventure full of a formidable predecessor. Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Equator by Alison WeirAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[In Gold's Name Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Marcus DalrympleAlison Weir]]===
[[image:4star4.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the end of the Aztec Empire and the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a decent man, particularly by the standards of the time. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the force, but at the age of twenty three he believed 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 sacrifices. He'd joined the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. [[In Gold's Name by Marcus Dalrymple|Full Review]] <!-- Hall -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785630806.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785630806/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
''The Industry Poor, frumpy Anne of Human Happiness'' first and foremost Cleaves always gets a raw deal by history, of all the wives of Henry VIII she is a novel about music. It the one who is about human beings known for being able to find music rejected. Anne Boleyn and magic in Katheryn Howard were the sexy ones, Jane the simplest dutiful one who delivered a son, Katherine of places. Max Aragon clung on to her crown and his younger cousin have realised their dream Katharine Parr clung on to her life but poor frumpy Anne of opening a gramophone companyCleaves just rolled over and moved along. However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with a course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken different view of this young woman who saw the opportunity to live an independent life and their lives changed forevertook it. [[The Industry Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Human Happiness Secrets by James HallAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[The Spirit Photographer Liberation Square by Jon Michael VareseGareth Rubin]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
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:5star. Looking back from today's high-tech perspectivejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], it's hard to see how anyone could have been fooled[[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], but suffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for séances. [[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral Fiction]]
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 East, and Americans from the west. Dividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Liberation Square by Gareth Rubin|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 The Boy 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 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 Turban by Daniel PeltzJoseph Hucknall]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the ruins of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young and old. Molly uses the history to entertain the tourists, 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 museum[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz: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]] <!-- Worsley Clark -->
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===[[Lady Mary In The Full Light of the Sun by Lucy WorsleyClare Clark]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIIIIn 1930's love affair Berlin, three people obsessed with Anne Boleynart find themselves swept up into a scandal. Emmeline, a wayward young student, his divorce from Katherine of AragonJulius, Anne's execution for adulteryan anxious middle-aged art expert, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane SeymourRachmann, which finally produces the much longed for birth of a male heir. This timemysterious art dealer, live in the story is told through politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the eyes surprise discovery of an important but often neglected player thirty- Henry's young daughter, Marytwo previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce Based on a true story and she is treated terribly by a father under unfolding through the influence subsequent rise of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years Hitler and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in Nazis, the middle discovery of the art allows these tumultuous eventscharacters to explore authenticity, vanity and self-delusion. [[Lady Mary In The Full Light of the Sun by Lucy WorsleyClare Clark|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing The Phoenix of Florence by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisPhilip Kazan]]===
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You are a lass Deep in the Tuscan countryside of twenty eight. Pluckyfifteenth-century Italy, penniless Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone in Regency era London the race is on to find forest, she meets a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself band of soldiers who, believing her 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, boy train and develop her – and fired by the determined Onoria becomes a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes mercenary – desperate 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 Cravenavoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along Along the way, it's clear this isn't going she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to be an easy decisionFlorence sees him investigating two brutal murders... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran As he digs further 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 Mayfield]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]uncovers links to his own family history, [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] In eighteenth century London, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with Celavini must revisit the Fowler family - and charged past he shares with protecting a mysterious child. Fast forward to Onoria, in the London of 2015, and hope that they can lay the sisters are still waiting - with no way ghosts of knowing if the boy is alive or dead. Far away, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life, but also forces them their shared history to keep a secret for two hundred years. As those years pass by, those who were granted immortality find that rest before it's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging in the absence of deathtoo late... [[The Parentations Phoenix of Florence by Kate MayfieldPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Deviation by David LawsLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain For those of you who have read books of life in publicthe Nazi camps – and of course, for those of you know who have not – this can be considered a full one-line in a ''Beyond the Fringe'' sketch, where he says he has a piece of paper from Hitlernext step. I then proceeded to prove it was a paper bagIt begins, in factafter all, by blowing it up with someone escaping Dachau and immediately bursting it. That is what that paper was to many – the indicator of fleeing her work assignment during a lot of hot airbombing raid, and only leading to an unwelcome noiseyou'd not blame her one minute, when WW2 actually struck anyway. Certainly, not everyone as her career was keen on his appeasement with the Nazis, deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and this book opens with sewage unblocker by the first-person reportage of one such manGermans. In Munich, keen she stumbles on showing proof help to get her to what seems to Chamberlain that he should not sign the Sudetenland away. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving be a grandcamp for non-daughternative civilians to look for work, Emmaor company, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominyor transport elsewhere, to pick either official or otherwise. But then the last, barest threads of next chapter sees her going back into the story up and see just what did happen camp next to him. OhDachau once more, and her help has just come out of prison… by then eyebrows are being raised. [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Deviation by David LawsLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin The Count of 9 by Snorri KristjanssonErle Stanley Gardner]]===
[[image:4.5star.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 Fiction|Historical 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]]
''RevengeThe Count of 9'' opens with is a hardboiled detective story written in the news that Charles Stuart is to return to 1950s. It revolves around the throne detective duo of Donald Lam and Bertha Cool as Charles II of England. A young woman, Ruth Courtney, is returning home they attempt to her family's farmhouse, excited at solve the prospect theft of a new Kingpriceless Bornean artefacts. She arrives home, however, to find her home ablaze and surrounded by renegade soldiers, supporters of CromwellHowever, her family nowhere to be foundtheir case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[Revenge The Count of 9 by Mitchell & MitchellErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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