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===[[Photographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott]]===
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[[image:4starMay 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the back of the photograph. It is a picture of her husband, Francis. Francis has been missing for four years. Technically, he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something that a young widow can believe. She hangs on the word 'missing', disbelieving the word killed.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionPhotographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott|Historical FictionFull Review]]
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]] <!-- Clark Andre Pronovost -->
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In 1930Germany 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, but some will soon have to be on the other front, against the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. Finding out that the war to the east isn't working, due to Hitler's Berlintactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, three some people obsessed with art find themselves swept reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. The only way to shore things up into a scandal. Emmeline, a wayward young studentand repair the splits, Julius, an anxious middle-aged art expertis to kill Hitler, and Rachmannluckily Baron Nicholas is the man to do it. He's aristocratic enough, a mysterious art dealer, live he knows enough people in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlinindustry, society and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery other circles of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Goghpower, so once he's succeeded he might be able to keep a German presence in Europe. Based on a true story and unfolding through But will he still be able to keep the subsequent rise of Hitler "predatory American capitalists" and the Nazis, blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the discovery of the art allows these characters to explore authenticity, vanity and self-delusion. middle? [[In The Full Light of the Sun Man Who Killed Hitler by Clare ClarkAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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===[[The Phoenix of Florence Just Another Girl on the Road by Philip KazanS Kensington]]===
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Deep in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from a massacre that destroys her family farmhouse and home. Alone in the forest, she meets a band group of soldiers German deserters who, believing had raped her to be a boy train . Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she got when Farr and develop her – Valentine intervened and finished the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable againgroup off. Along It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part of the wayJedburgh unit, she meets ex-soldier CelaviniEDMOND, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murderslead by Major Willoughby Nye. As Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he digs further 'd worked on her father's merchant ship and uncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the past Katrinka had once had a crush on Nye. When he shares offered her a job with Onoriahis unit, in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to rest, before it's too late..she accepted. [[The Phoenix of Florence Just Another Girl on the Road by Philip KazanS Kensington|Full Review]]
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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[Deviation The Rabbit Girls by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Anna Ellory]]===
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For those Berlin, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of you who have read books of life a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and people able to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. She is in the Nazi camps – and middle of coursesuch euphoria, but cannot feel it, for those of you who have she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps the name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – this can be considered and she sees for the first time ever a next steptattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. It begins One bombshell outside, after allthen, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing two inside. And inside her work assignment during father, Henryk, what is going on, as he has a bombing raid, and you'd not blame first-person narrative alternating with her one minutestory? What will we find happened, as her career was deemed he remembers back to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the Germans. In Munichreal Frieda, she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians young woman that shook him to look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees core when he was her going back into the camp next to Dachau once literature professor? That's right, more, and by then eyebrows are being raised. bombshells… [[Deviation The Rabbit Girls by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Anna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[The Count of 9 Long Flight Home by Erle Stanley GardnerA L Hlad]]===
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''The Count September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the homes and lives of 9'' is a hardboiled detective story written in people on the 1950sedge. It revolves around In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a comfort for Susan following the detective duo loss of Donald Lam her parents. These pigeons are more than just birds to Susan though – in each one, and Bertha Cool as they attempt especially in Duchess, she sees a distinct personality and forms a close bond. Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to solve Britain and join the theft of priceless Bornean artefactsRoyal Air Force. HoweverWorking with the National Pigeon Service, their case quickly turns he soon meets Susan and is tasked with air-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into something darker German- occupied France, where many will not survive. As the mission is planned, the bond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an impossible murder. unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[The Count of 9 Long Flight Home by Erle Stanley GardnerA L Hlad|Full Review]]
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When Barbara Hummel arrivesRobin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, determined and retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she abandon all that he had built. Marion's life since has found among been relatively quiet - but when her mother's possessionsfriends start dying, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break the curse surrounding them and are swiftly forced to confront save their pastslives. Revisiting their time on the Channel Islands during World War IISetting off with a soldier, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, Fey Lord and Joe, a Catholic Priestsullen Robin Hood, remembers she becomes tangled in a time when he hid something very different. In this story maze of lovebetrayals, complicated relationships, loss and betrayal, it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse vicious struggle for the darkest shadows of war… throne…[[The Hidden Brightfall by Mary ChamberlainJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[The Turn of Midnight A Perfect Explanation by Minette Walters]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] At the beginning of 1349 there is a glimmer of a hope that the ravages of the Black Death might be passing. In Devilish in Dorset the population is well, because of Lady Anne's strict rules about quarantine, which are regarded as heresy as they go against the strict rules of the church, but their stores of food are dwindling and they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to leave. What will they find on the outside? Are they 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]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Married to English Professor Ernest Weekley, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the confines of married life. Visiting family in Munich, she becomes captivated by the ideas of revolution and free love. Meeting the penniless writer D.H. Lawrence, 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 forever. [[Frieda by Annabel Abbs|Full Review]] <!-- Susan Fletcher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0349007640.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349007640/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[House of Glass by Susan FletcherEleanor Anstruther]]===
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Clara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'': these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no cureEnid Campbell was a woman who, treatments have advanced. At on the beginning face of the twentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her home, living had everything. Leading the life through a window of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and the tales her mothersplendour, Charlotte, brought home. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones glamourous locales and the sounds they made on breaking. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents''high expectations. Clara would only escape the house after her motherOnly Enid's death - of a tumour at the age of thirty nine - life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and in those close to her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Her growing knowledge After losing custody of tropical plants led 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 offer true story of a job stocking a newlyher own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject for an explosive, moving and beautifully well-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershirewritten debut. [[House of Glass A Perfect Explanation by Susan FletcherEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[A Treachery of Spies Equator by Manda ScottAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the horrific murder walls of a strikingly beautiful elderly ladytheme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, she's puzzled – whilst who bristles at the identity indignity of the woman has been erasedwhite man against Native 'Indian', it's clear that she has been killed who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates the same way that traitors to man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the resistance were executed in World War Twobat of an eyelid. Solving But this book is about so much more than the mystery will lead Inès deep into 1870s USA, and the history of this woman – attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and back racial genocide. He finds himself trying to a time when find this book's version of Utopia, namely the men and women of 1940s France were engaged Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in a desperatetheir pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravity, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to lightwhere, who knows, Inès discovers things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – 's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… it… [[A Treachery of Spies Equator by Manda ScottAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Murmuration by Robert Lock]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:CategorySix Tudor Queens:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''Murmuration'' follows the lives of a host of characters from 1863 to the present day. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller, we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. There is a hint of mysticism to the tale, with the mesmerising dance Anna of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives hereKleve, drawing together disparate stories Queen of lives captivated by the sea. [[Murmuration by Robert Lock|Full Review]] <!-- Winthrop -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Winthrop_Mercy.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147367249X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147367249X]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Mercy Seat Secrets by Elizabeth H WinthropAlison Weir]]===
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In an isolated Louisiana townPoor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cellraw deal by history, staring at of all the shadow wives of Henry VIII she is the window bars cast onto one who is known for being rejected. Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard were the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun rays. At midnightsexy ones, he will be dead; strapped to a chair and electrocuted for Jane the rape of dutiful one who delivered a white girlson, who later committed suicide. He is resigned Katherine of Aragon clung on to his fate; it is futile her crown and Katharine Parr clung on to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, love between a black man her life but poor frumpy Anne of Cleaves just rolled over and moved along. Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with a white different view of this young woman was never going who saw the opportunity to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded peoplelive an independent life and took it. [[The Mercy Seat Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Elizabeth H WinthropAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[A Gathering of Ghosts Liberation Square by Karen MaitlandGareth Rubin]]===
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WitchcraftIn 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 supernatural East, and Americans from the west. Dividing the will to survive at all costs collide nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a story that never shies away from the darker side of human naturescar. The land When Jane Cawson's husband is unhappy, arrested for the old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence murder of the old faith. As fear riseshis former wife, it Jane is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne determined to ignore that something rotten has taken rootclear his name. The sacred well is taintedIn doing so, its healing waters run red with blood Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of the state – and strangers are blowing in on a wind soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of change. the murderous secret police… [[A Gathering of Ghosts Liberation Square by Karen MaitlandGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson]]===
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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[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson: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]] <!-- Mazolla Clark -->
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===[[In The Story Keeper Full Light of the Sun by Anna MazzolaClare Clark]]===
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AudreyIn 1930's Berlin, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousnessscandal. Emmeline, wantinga wayward young student, needingJulius, to be more than what everyone expects of heran anxious middle-aged art expert, escapes from the straightjacket of her home. Where every actionand Rachmann, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her fathera mysterious art dealer, who only once live in his life threw caution to the wind politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and married way beneath him for lovesoon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Now Based on a widower true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and remarriedthe Nazis, he has rigorously returned the discovery of the art allows these characters to upholding what is rightexplore authenticity, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expectedvanity and self-delusion. [[In The Story Keeper Full Light of the Sun by Anna MazzolaClare Clark|Full Review]]
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===[[The Butcher's Daughter Phoenix of Florence by Victoria GlendinningPhilip Kazan]]===
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The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth Deep in the Tuscan countryside of intriguefifteenth-century Italy, plots Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and machinationshome. The regular cast Alone in the forest, she meets a band of courtly characters are usually rich and powerfulsoldiers who, with so many believing her to choose from that be a boy train and develop her – and the well never seems determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to run dry and the characters are often those high up avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the circles of powerway, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, or those prepared whose journey to do anything Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further and uncovers links to get there. This bookhis own family history, howeverCelavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoria, is totally different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through hope that they can lay the eyes ghosts of Agnes Peppin, a young, poor womantheir shared history to rest before it's too late. 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 Phoenix of Florence by Victoria GlendinningPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[Silence in the Desert Deviation by David LongridgeLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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As For those of you who have read books of life in the shadow Nazi camps – and of the Second World War descends upon the planetcourse, four people are explored in for those of you who have not – this can be considered a tale of love and friendshipnext step. HenriIt begins, fulfilling a family tradition in joining the Foreign Legionafter all, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those of his upbringingsomeone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and Elisabethyou'd not blame her one minute, crossing continents as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and changing names are all brought together sewage unblocker by strife and turmoilthe Germans. As the war ragesIn Munich, she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for work, these men are tested like never beforeor company, with trustor transport elsewhere, loyalty and love leading either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to decisions that affect both their lives Dachau once more, and those all around themby then eyebrows are being raised. [[Silence in the Desert Deviation by David LongridgeLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Count of 9 by Alison WeirErle Stanley Gardner]]===
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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,Count of 9'' the third book is a hardboiled detective story written 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.co1950s.uk/dp/140886553X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In Gold's Name by Marcus Dalrymple]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed revolves around the end detective duo of the Aztec Empire Donald Lam and the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned Bertha Cool as they attempt to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Some thought solve the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a decent man, particularly by the standards theft of the timepriceless Bornean artefacts. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the forceHowever, 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 sacrificestheir case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. 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 The Count of 9 by Marcus DalrympleErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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