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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--><!-- Caroline Scott -->
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===[[A Treachery Photographer of Spies the Lost by Manda Caroline Scott]]===
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When Inspector Inès Picaut May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There is called to investigate no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the horrific murder back of the photograph. It is a strikingly beautiful elderly ladypicture of her husband, she's puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman Francis. Francis has been erasedmissing for four years. Technically, it's clear that she he has been "missing, believed killed in the same way " but that is not something that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Twoa young widow can believe. Solving She hangs on the mystery will lead Inès deep into word 'missing', disbelieving the history of this woman – and back to a time when the men and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressorsword killed. As more and more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[A Treachery Photographer of Spies the Lost by Manda Caroline Scott|Full Review]]
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Germany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the Nazis, but much isn''Murmuration'' follows the lives t. Some of a host of characters from 1863 her is stuck to the present day. From a risqué comic east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have to a fortune tellerbe on the other front, we against the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. Finding out that the war to the birth of Blackpool east isn't working, due to Hitler's tactical ineptitude and its steadily fading glamourinability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. There The only way to shore things up, and repair the splits, is a hint of mysticism to kill Hitler, and luckily Baron Nicholas is the taleman to do it. He's aristocratic enough, with the mesmerising dance he knows enough people in industry, society and other circles of starlings over power, so once he's succeeded he might be able to keep a German presence in Europe. But will he still be able to keep the pier acting as an anchor throughout "predatory American capitalists" and the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the sea. middle? [[Murmuration The Man Who Killed Hitler by Robert LockAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mercy Seat Just Another Girl on the Road by Elizabeth H WinthropS Kensington]]===
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In an isolated Louisiana town, When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from a farmhouse and a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at group of German deserters who had raped her. Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she got when Farr and Valentine intervened and finished the shadow group off. It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall Jedburgh unit, EDMOND, lead by the eveningMajor Willoughby Nye. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on her father's dying sun raysmerchant ship and Katrinka had once had a crush on Nye. At midnight, When he will be dead; strapped to offered her a chair and electrocuted for the rape of a white girl, who later committed suicide. He is resigned to job with his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after allunit, love between a black man and a white woman was never going to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded peopleshe accepted. [[The Mercy Seat Just Another Girl on the Road by Elizabeth H WinthropS Kensington|Full Review]]
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WitchcraftBerlin, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly united, with the supernatural Wall newly broken down and the will people able to survive cross at all costs collide liberty for the first time in decades. She is in a story that never shies away from the darker side middle of human naturesuch euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. The land One standard bed-bath, however, is unhappyvery different, when he gasps the old spirits want revenge name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and famine is kindling she sees for the first time ever a resurgence of the old faithtattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. As fear risesOne bombshell outside, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken rootthen, and two inside. The sacred well And inside her father, Henryk, what is taintedgoing on, its healing waters run red as he has a first-person narrative alternating with blood and strangers are blowing in on her story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to the real Frieda, a wind of change. young woman that shook him to the core when he was her literature professor? That's right, more bombshells… [[A Gathering of Ghosts The Rabbit Girls by Karen MaitlandAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions The Long Flight Home by Lydia SysonA L Hlad]]===
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On September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the homes and lives of a remote volcanic island off people on the coast of New Zealandedge. In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a family comfort for Susan following the loss of settlers struggle her parents. These pigeons are more than just birds to make such an unforgiving place Susan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, she sees a distinct personality and forms a homeclose bond. When a ship appearsMeanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to Britain and join the Royal Air Force. Working with the National Pigeon Service, they feel that their wishes have been granted he soon meets Susan and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappearsis tasked with air-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German-occupied France, where many will not survive. As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for mission is planned, the childbond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, they uncover farbut when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, far more than they were looking it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a reunion for – discovering dark secrets about both the island Susan and those who inhabit it. Ollie remains… [[Mr Peacock's Possessions The Long Flight Home by Lydia SysonA L Hlad|Full Review]]
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===[[The Story Keeper Brightfall by Anna MazzolaJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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AudreyRobin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, retreating to be more than a monastery – although no-one knows quite what everyone expects of her, escapes from the straightjacket of led him to abandon all that he had built. Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her home. Where every actionfriends start dying, every thought, every yearning Marion is controlled tasked by her father, who only once in his life threw caution Father Tuck to break the wind curse surrounding them and married way beneath him for loveto save their lives. Now Setting off with a soldier, a widower Fey Lord and remarrieda sullen Robin Hood, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is rightshe becomes tangled in a maze of betrayals, what is propercomplicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the bastion of doing what is expected. throne…[[The Story Keeper Brightfall by Anna MazzolaJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[The Butcher's Daughter A Perfect Explanation by Victoria GlendinningEleanor Anstruther]]===
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The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such Enid Campbell was a wealth woman who, on the face of intrigueit, plots and machinationshad everything. The regular cast Leading the life of an aristocrat – full of courtly characters are usually rich inherited wealth and powerfulsplendour, with so many to choose from that the well never seems to run dry glamourous locales and the characters are often those high up in the circles of powerexpectations. Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, or untreated and threatening both Enid and those prepared close to do anything to get thereher. This bookAfter losing custody of her children, howeverEnid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, is totally different. Set in or an act of desperation? Exploring the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes true story of Agnes Peppin, a young, poor woman. As a woman she can either marryher own grandmother, or join a convent. Since Agnes Eleanor Anstruther has disgraced herself then she has no choice at allfound the perfect subject for an explosive, moving and she is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbeybeautifully well-written debut. [[The Butcher's Daughter A Perfect Explanation by Victoria GlendinningEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[Silence in the Desert Equator by David LongridgeAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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As It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the shadow walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the Second World War descends upon the planetindignity of white man against Native 'Indian', four people are explored who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a tale of love buffalo hunt, and friendship. Henri, fulfilling a family tradition in joining who hates the Foreign Legionway man – and woman, Bill, arriving of course – can turn against fellow man at Cambridge on the bat of an RAF scholarshipeyelid. But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, Leoand the attendant problems with gold rushes, struggling pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to align his beliefs with those find this book's version of his upbringingUtopia, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. As namely the war ragesEquator, these men are tested like never beforewhere everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with trustrocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravity, loyalty and love leading to decisions where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that affect both their lives equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and those all around them. it… [[Silence in the Desert Equator by David LongridgeAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane SeymourAnna of Kleve, The Haunted Queen of Secrets by Alison Weir]]===
[[image:4star4.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] When it comes to Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, popular opinion is divided. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the king's eyes. Others view her as a pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, to an extent. In ''The Haunted Queen,'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a Queen haunted by the shadow of a formidable predecessor. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir|Full Review]] <!-- Dalrymple -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:140886553X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/140886553X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In Gold's Name by Marcus Dalrymple]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
It was about 1509 when Poor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets a series raw deal by history, of mystical events foreshadowed all the end wives of Henry VIII she is the Aztec Empire one who is known for being rejected. Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard were the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept sexy ones, Jane the pale faces dutiful one 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 delivered a decent manson, particularly by the standards Katherine of the time. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus Aragon clung on to her crown and Katharine Parr clung on the force, to her life but at the age poor frumpy Anne of twenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links Cleaves just rolled over and to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrificesmoved along. He'd joined Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with a different view of this young woman who saw the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed opportunity 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 live an independent life and torturetook it. [[In Gold's Name Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Marcus DalrympleAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[The Industry of Human Happiness Liberation Square by James HallGareth Rubin]]===
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''The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about musicIn an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. It After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is about human beings being able first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to find music be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and magic in Americans from the simplest of placeswest. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. HoweverDividing the nation between them, their ambition and hubris London soon puts them on finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a course towards Londonscar. When Jane Cawson's underworldhusband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. They will ascend broken In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of the state – and their lives changed forever. soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[The Industry of Human Happiness Liberation Square by James HallGareth 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]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage 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 but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by a father under the influence of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous events. [[Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley|Full Review]] <!-- Curran -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Literary Fiction|Historical Literary 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 Mayfield]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
In eighteenth century London1930's Berlin, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandal. Emmeline, a wayward young student, sisters FitzgeraldJulius, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family an anxious middle- aged art expert, and charged with protecting Rachmann, a mysterious child. Fast forward to art dealer, live in the London of 2015politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the sisters are still waiting surprise discovery of thirty- with no way two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of knowing if Hitler and the boy is alive or dead. Far awayNazis, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life, but also forces them the discovery of the art allows these characters to keep a secret for two hundred years. As those years pass byexplore authenticity, those who were granted immortality find that it's far from a blessing vanity and self- with true darkness emerging in the absence of deathdelusion. [[In The Parentations Full Light of the Sun by Kate MayfieldClare Clark|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Phoenix of Florence by David LawsPhilip Kazan]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain Deep in publicthe Tuscan countryside of fifteenth-century Italy, you know – Onoria survives a full one-line massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone in a ''Beyond the Fringe'' sketchforest, where he says he has she meets a piece band of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded soldiers who, believing her to prove it was be a paper bag, in fact, by blowing it up boy train and immediately bursting it. That is what that paper was to many develop her – and the indicator of determined Onoria becomes a lot of hot air, and only leading mercenary – desperate to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anywayavoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with Along the Nazisway, and this book opens with the firstshe meets ex-person reportage of one such mansoldier Celavini, keen on showing proof whose journey to Chamberlain that he should not sign the Sudetenland awayFlorence sees him investigating two brutal murders. But As he only got so far before digs further and uncovers links to his story was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-daughterown family history, EmmaCelavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoria, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominy, to pick in the hope that they can lay the last, barest threads ghosts of the story up and see just what did happen their shared history to himrest before it's too late... Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Phoenix of Florence by David LawsPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin Deviation by Snorri KristjanssonLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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Unnthor Reginsson is the uncrowned king For those of you who have read books of life in the valley; retired Viking farmer Nazi camps – and rumoured owner of course, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a large hoard of goldnext step. He is gathering his clanIt begins, after all, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a grand reunion after ten years of absencebombing raid, and you'd not blame her one minute, as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the Germans. It is time In Munich, she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for strengthening family bondswork, or company, feastingor transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to Dachau once more, telling tall tales and remembering shared historyby then eyebrows are being raised. [[Kin Deviation by Snorri KristjanssonLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks The Count of 9 by Elizabeth ChadwickErle Stanley Gardner]]===
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''Templar SilksThe Count of 9'' is a great example of historical fiction done well. It's a fictitious account of William Marshal's time hardboiled detective story written in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before the death of King Baldwin to leprosy in 11851950s. 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 It revolves around the gaps having spent time studying this particular period detective duo of his life. Her main problem, Donald Lam and Bertha Cool as she acknowledges at the end of they attempt to solve the book, is that virtually nothing is known theft of Marshal's time in Jerusalempriceless Bornean artefacts. We know when and why he wentHowever, 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 lesstheir case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[Templar Silks The Count of 9 by Elizabeth ChadwickErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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