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===[[The Phoenix Photographer of Florence the Lost by Philip KazanCaroline Scott]]===
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Deep in May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the Tuscan countryside back of fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and homethe photograph. Alone in the forest, she meets It is a band picture of soldiers whoher husband, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable againFrancis. Along the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders Francis has been missing for four years. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family history Technically, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoriahas been "missing, in the hope believed killed" but that is not something that they a young widow can lay believe. She hangs on the ghosts of their shared history to restword 'missing', before it's too late..disbelieving the word killed. [[The Phoenix Photographer of Florence the Lost by Philip KazanCaroline Scott|Full Review]]
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For those Germany is split. Some of you who have read books her is in favour of life in Hitler and the Nazi camps – and Nazis, but much isn't. Some of courseher is stuck to the east fighting the Soviets, for those of you who but some will soon have not – this can to be considered a next stepon the other front, against the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. It begins Finding out that the war to the east isn't working, after alldue to Hitler's tactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raidsome people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. The only way to shore things up, and you'd not blame her one minuterepair the splits, as her career was deemed is to be cess-tank cleaner kill Hitler, and sewage unblocker by luckily Baron Nicholas is the Germansman to do it. In Munich He's aristocratic enough, she stumbles on help he knows enough people in industry, society and other circles of power, so once he's succeeded he might be able to get her to what seems to be keep a camp for non-native civilians to look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwiseGerman presence in Europe. But then will he still be able to keep the next chapter sees her going back into "predatory American capitalists" and the blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the camp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raised. middle? [[Deviation The Man Who Killed Hitler by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Andre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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===[[The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''The Count of 9'' is a hardboiled detective story written in the 1950s. It revolves around the detective duo of Donald Lam and Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve the theft of priceless Bornean artefacts. However, their case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]] <!-- Chamberlain -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786076446.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786076446/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time Just Another Girl on the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a time when he hid something very different. In this story of love, loss and betrayal, it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain|Full Review]] <!-- Minette Walters -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1760632163.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760632163/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Turn of Midnight Road by Minette WaltersS Kensington]]===
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At the beginning of 1349 there is When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from a glimmer of farmhouse and a hope that the ravages group of the Black Death might be passingGerman deserters who had raped her. In Devilish in Dorset the population is well, because of Lady Anne's strict rules Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about quarantine, which are regarded as heresy good as they go against the strict rules of she got when Farr and Valentine intervened and finished the church, but their stores of food are dwindling and they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to leavegroup off. What will they find on the outside? Are they It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part of the only survivors? [[The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters|Full Review]] <!-- Abbs -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473691206.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473691206/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Frieda by Annabel Abbs]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]Jedburgh unit, [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Married to English Professor Ernest WeekleyEDMOND, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled lead by the confines of married lifeMajor Willoughby Nye. Visiting family in Munich, she becomes captivated by the ideas of revolution Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on her father's merchant ship and free loveKatrinka had once had a crush on Nye. Meeting the penniless writer D.H. LawrenceWhen he offered her a job with his unit, she finds herself drawn into a passionate affair and a tempestuous relationship, changing the course of both their lives, and unleashing a creative outpouring that will change the course of literature foreveraccepted. [[Frieda Just Another Girl on the Road by Annabel AbbsS Kensington|Full Review]]
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===[[Bellewether The Rabbit Girls by Susanna KearsleyAnna Ellory]]===
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Flitting between the present day and mid 16thcenturyBerlin, ''Bellewether'' tells 1989. Miriam is in the fascinating tale middle of a city freshly united, with the Wilde House Wall newly broken down and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, the Wilde House is being turned into a museum due people able to cross at liberty for the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wildefirst time in decades. It She is told from in the perspective middle of Charleysuch euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, the museum curatorhowever, who is intrigued by very different, when he gasps the ghost who haunts name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and she sees for the house and their story; first time ever a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sistertattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. One bombshell outside, Lydiathen, and two inside. And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on, as he has a Frenchfirst-Canadian lieutenantperson narrative alternating with her story? What will we find happened, Jean-Philippe who was sent as he remembers back to live there. The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charleyreal Frieda, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell a young woman that shook him to the truth about what core when he was happening during this chaotic time in historyher literature professor? That's right, just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself. more bombshells… [[Bellewether The Rabbit Girls by Susanna KearsleyAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[The Long Flight Home by A Treachery of Spies by Manda ScottL Hlad]]===
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When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the horrific murder homes and lives of a strikingly beautiful elderly ladypeople on the edge. In Epping Forest, she's puzzled – whilst Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a comfort for Susan following the identity loss of the woman has been erasedher parents. These pigeons are more than just birds to Susan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, it's clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors sees a distinct personality and forms a close bond. Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to Britain and join the resistance were executed in World War TwoRoyal Air Force. Solving Working with the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and back to a time when the men and women is tasked with air-dropping hundreds of 1940s homing pigeons into German-occupied France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressorswhere many will not survive. As more the mission is planned, the bond between Ollie and more secrets come to lightSusan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, Inès discovers it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – hope of a reunion for Susan and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… Ollie remains… [[The Long Flight Home by A Treachery of Spies by Manda ScottL Hlad|Full Review]]
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===[[Murmuration Brightfall by Robert LockJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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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''Murmuration'' follows 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 of . Setting off with a host of characters from 1863 to the present day. From soldier, a risqué comic to Fey Lord and a fortune tellersullen Robin Hood, we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. There is she becomes tangled in a hint maze of mysticism to the talebetrayals, with the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives herecomplicated relationships, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by and a vicious struggle for the sea. throne…[[Murmuration Brightfall by Robert LockJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mercy Seat A Perfect Explanation by Elizabeth H WinthropEleanor Anstruther]]===
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In an isolated Louisiana town, Enid Campbell was a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cellwoman who, staring at on the shadow face of it, had everything. Leading the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the eveninglife of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enid's dying sun rayslife has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to her. At midnightAfter losing custody of her children, he will be dead; strapped Enid sells her son to a chair and electrocuted her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the rape true story of a white girlher own grandmother, who later committed suicide. He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after allEleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject for an explosive, love between a black man moving and a white woman was never going to have a happy ending in a small town filled with smallbeautifully well-minded peoplewritten debut. [[The Mercy Seat A Perfect Explanation by Elizabeth H WinthropEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[A Gathering of Ghosts Equator by Karen MaitlandAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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Witchcraft, It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the supernatural and Wild West outside the will walls of a theme park. Our agent to survive see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at all costs collide the indignity of white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a story that never shies away from buffalo hunt, and who hates the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the darker side bat of human naturean eyelid. The land But this book is unhappyabout so much more than the 1870s USA, and the old attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence racial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of Utopia, namely the old faith. As fear risesEquator, it where everything is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to ignore counter the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well equator is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood a long way away – and strangers are blowing in on there's a wind whole adventure full of change. Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[A Gathering of Ghosts Equator by Karen MaitlandAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Lydia SysonAlison Weir]]===
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On Poor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets a remote volcanic island off raw deal by history, of all the coast wives of New ZealandHenry 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 family son, Katherine of settlers struggle Aragon clung on to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted her crown and their community reinvigorated – Katharine Parr clung on to her life but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappearspoor frumpy Anne of Cleaves just rolled over and moved along. As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for the child, they uncover far, far Not any more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both ! Alison Weir presents us with a different view of this young woman who saw the island opportunity to live an independent life and those who inhabit took it. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Lydia SysonAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[The Story Keeper Liberation Square by Anna MazzolaGareth Rubin]]===
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AudreyIn an alternate 1952, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needingSoviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be more than what everyone expects of herrescued by Russian soldiers from the East, escapes and Americans from the straightjacket of her homewest. Where every actionDividing the nation between them, every thoughtLondon soon finds itself split in two, every yearning a wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is controlled by her fatherarrested for the murder of his former wife, who only once in Jane is determined to clear his life threw caution name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower highest levels of the state – and remarried, he has rigorously returned soon finds herself desperate to upholding what is right, what is proper, stay one step ahead of the bastion of doing what is expected. murderous secret police… [[The Story Keeper Liberation Square by Anna MazzolaGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning]]===
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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[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning: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]] <!-- Longridge Clark -->
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===[[Silence in In The Full Light of the Desert Sun by David LongridgeClare Clark]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Literary Fiction|Historical Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:ThrillersHistorical Fiction|ThrillersHistorical Fiction]]
As the shadow of the Second World War descends upon the planetIn 1930's Berlin, four three people are explored in obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a tale of love and friendshipscandal. HenriEmmeline, fulfilling a family tradition in joining the Foreign Legionwayward young student, BillJulius, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarshipanxious middle-aged art expert, Leoand Rachmann, struggling to align his beliefs with those of his upbringinga mysterious art dealer, and Elisabethlive in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by strife Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and turmoil. As the war ragesNazis, the discovery of the art allows these men are tested like never beforecharacters to explore authenticity, with trust, loyalty vanity and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around themself-delusion. [[Silence in In The Full Light of the Desert Sun by David LongridgeClare Clark|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Phoenix of Florence by Alison WeirPhilip Kazan]]===
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When it comes to Jane Seymour, Deep in the third wife Tuscan countryside of Henry VIIIfifteenth-century Italy, popular opinion is divided. Some see Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour and home. Alone in the king's eyes. Others view forest, she meets a band of soldiers who, believing her as to be a pious boy train and God-fearing woman who brought calm develop her – and stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to Anne Boleynavoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Perhaps both sides are trueAlong the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to an extentFlorence sees him investigating two brutal murders. In ''The Haunted QueenAs he digs further and uncovers links to his own family history,'' Celavini must revisit the third book past he shares with Onoria, in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on hope that they can lay the bones ghosts of a Queen haunted by the shadow of a formidable predecessortheir shared history to rest before it's too late... [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Phoenix of Florence by Alison WeirPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[In GoldDeviation by Luce d's Name by Marcus DalrympleEramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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It was about 1509 when a series For those of mystical events foreshadowed the end you who have read books of life in the Aztec Empire Nazi camps – and the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces of course, for those of you who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlershave not – this can be considered a next step. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no godIt begins, after all, but he was essentially with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a decent manbombing raid, and you'd not blame her one minute, particularly as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the standards of the timeGermans. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus In Munich, she stumbles on the force, but at the age of twenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was help to get her to establish trade links and what seems to convert the local inhabitants be a camp for non-native civilians to Christianity from look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the local religions which required human sacrifices. He'd joined next chapter sees her going back into the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naivecamp next to Dachau once more, 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 torturethen eyebrows are being raised. [[In GoldDeviation by Luce d's Name by Marcus DalrympleEramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Industry Count of Human Happiness 9 by James HallErle Stanley Gardner]]===
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''The Industry Count of Human Happiness9'' first and foremost is a novel about musichardboiled detective story written in the 1950s. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in revolves around the simplest detective duo of places. Max Donald Lam and his younger cousin have realised their dream Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve the theft of opening a gramophone companypriceless Bornean artefacts. However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall|Full Review]] <!case quickly turns into something darker -- Varese -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0715653008.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.coan impossible murder.uk/dp/0715653008/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|=== [[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese]]=== [[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 Count 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 9 by Jon Michael VareseErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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