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<!-- Morris INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->[[image:Morris_Auschwitz.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785763644?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785763644]] ===[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] So, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see the horror there, and immediately swear to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind it, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demand, to the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and get a job that means you're actually a Jew working in the political wing of the SS, answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the place, and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for you, under the eyes of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, and survived to tell the tale, but he also managed to do something even more daring, and unexpected – he dared to invest hope in a burgeoning love that he found in the camp. [[The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel HalliburtonTananarive Due|title=The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandalReformatory|rating=3.5

|summary=Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens in London in January 1797. Benjamin West, President of the Royal AcademyGracetown, is reflecting on the past year's scandal involving the Provises, father and daughter, and worries that he handled everything poorlyFlorida. From the start the book's figurative language is appropriately full of colour and painterly techniques: 'He had intended to deal with them honourably, but now everyone in London was saying he had notJune 1950. It was as if somebody had dropped After a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on scuffle with a palette – the more he prodded and stirred the memorywhite boy, the murkier it became.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715651978</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Banks|title= W|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction |summary=On the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000twelve year-year old Viking Robbie Stephens Jr is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is inspired by as the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored and with his world in turmoilReformatory. Beginning a journey westward, heIt's filled a place with a desire to wreak vengeance on brutal and dark reputation. But the individuals he finds morally corrupt. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0983333416</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Elaine Everest|title= Christmas at Woolworths|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=''Christmas at Woolworths'' segregated reformatory is the sequel to wartime saga ''The Woolworths Girlsa chamber of horrors,'' and continues haunted by the story where the first book left offboys that have died there. Members of In order to survive the close-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together school governor and keep morale highhis Funhouse, even though Robert must enlist the future is uncertain. At the heart help of the neighbourhood, the home of kindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where family and friends can gather for good food and conversation: a way to forget the troubles outsideschool's ghosts – only they have their own motivations. Spirits remain high; even when the bombs are falling so close to home. We catch up with the three friends from the first book: Sarah yearns for peace and an end to the war, Maisie is desperate for a child and Freda would love to find romance. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509843655</amazonuk>1803366532}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Minette WaltersKatherine Howe|title=The Last HoursA True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port of Melcombe Hannah Masury is living in DorsetBoston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. Ignorant When she hears there is to be a hanging of many rules of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years latersome pirates in the town, the disease rages through the countryshe decides to go and watch. On Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the estate hands of Develishtwo vicious pirates. She hides away, Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of the people who lived in the demesne after so that they don't find and kill her husband had ridden off too, and then to try escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and secure joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a marriage for his daughtercabin boy. Two hundred bonded serfs lived on She soon finds herself in the estate and thick of things when Lady Anne realised the virulence of the plague she ordered that the estate refuse entry to anyonethere is a mutiny on board, including and from there we are caught up in her husband and his entourage, for fear that they would bring rip roaring tale of life on the disease to her peopleocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760632139</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Sarah Marsh|title=The Sixteen Trees A Sign of the SommeHer Own|rating=43.5

|summary=While his grandfather lived the past was an area After a bout of certainty for Edvardscarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with his grandparentsSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, having survived the accident that killed his parentseverything about her life changes. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to light showing Edvard his family history a school where she is different taught to lip read, but physically restrained from what he'd believed… his mother's birthplace, his mother's namesigning. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… deaf and that's without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itselfusing a system called Visible Speech. Edvard At the same time, Bell is determined to solve the puzzleworking on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a determination that will take him away from his native Norway to an area complicated tangle of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secretsespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857056069</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toby ClementsClaire North|title=Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)House of Odysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=1470 dawns and ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the next chapters palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the War throne of the Roses are ready to play outWestern Isles. King Edward thinks Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the future has been settled but treachery is still lurkingbrink of a fragile peace. Meanwhile Katherine and Thomas also have their world turned upside down when One that ledger shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and a chance comment threaten all they havehis sister Elektra, including their livesseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178089466X</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P F ChisholmB0C7J9D21B|title=Guns A Captive in the North Algiers (The Sir Robert Carey Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries Omnibus)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=1592: Sir Robert Carey flees the strictures of Elizabethan court – When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and his creditors – in order to become Deputy Warden he lives at The House of the West March in CarlisleBeautiful Swallows. The Scottish/English borders Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and those who inhabit them are different from the world Ettore's mother died when hewas born. He's left behind not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it will have to become his world. It's now his job to bring law difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the lawless. This isnpreparation of anchovies didn't easy when every local he comes across has an affinity work out and a heritage of crime to some degreebastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. For Robert the best thing about the job is its proximity to the woman Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he loves but he doesn't know what he'll do about that yet eitherhad a successful business as a guide for visitors. Meanwhile he soon realises that those who are supposed to be on his side are plotting against him but they don't realise what they're up against He was even saving some money. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694719</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Essie Fox|title=The House with the Stained-Glass WindowFascination

|summary= MariannaThe Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, an opera singer in by the soon-Second World War) which has often led to-be Ukrainian city of Lviv, is mistakenly shot dead at more than a political rally in the dying days of the Soviet Unionfew writers mishandling it. This novel begins with both anger and hope, as MariannaThere's coffin is covered such a glut of media set in the illegal blue and yellow flag, and her death seems era that the hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to herald the birth point of a new nationbeing cliched, hackneyed even. But the day of her funeral All this is also the day of her daughter's first period – a girl who must learn how simply to illustrate that it would be a woman in an easy thing to do poorly. But despite that, something about it still grabs me – and something about this time of drastic change, with no mother to guide her along the waybook's description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857057138</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= K J WhittakerNicole Jarvis|title= False LightsA Portrait in Shadow|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Cornwall, 1817.''I want all of Florence to know my name''

What if your worst mistake changed the course of history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of WaterlooCast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and his ex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied Englandwhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate. Cornwall erupts into open rebellionBut as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, and young heiress Hester escapes with Crow, Wellington's former intelligence officer, a halfthe self-French aristocrat haunted by his part in proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the catastrophic defeat. Together, they become embroiled in a web of treachery city and espionage as plans are laid to free Wellington its citizens from secret captivity in the Scilly Isles plagues and lead an uprising against the French occupationcurses. In a country rife with traitors, Hester The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and Crow know guard it is impossible to play such a game as this for long.above all else.To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786695340</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= J Jefferson FarjeonThomas D Lee|title= Seven DeadPerilous Times|rating= 43|genre= Historical FictionFantasy|summary=Ted Lyte was petty criminal, but not usually the housebreaking type. He lacked the courage. However, needs must, and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with a shuttered window. ''...he might find a bit Hate is the path of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?least resistance'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind  Set in the shuttersnear-distant future, but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In in a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman. Fleeing world on the house in horrorverge of climate collapse, he Britain is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a journalist. Fascinated by Ted's story hero (and a possible scoopor several), Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case save the day and its assortment rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of odd clues, including a portrait shot through the heart, an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one Knights of the victimsRound Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0712356886</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Salt CreekG K Holloway|authortitle=Lucy TreloarIn the Shadows of Castles

|summary=The first chapter We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. William'Salt Creek'' opens in Chichesters position is not secure and the new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. And William is right to worry. While the previous king, EnglandHarold, in 1874. Hester Finch is a respected dead and the likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the rebels are stirring and reasonably wealthy member much of her communitythe country does not wish to recognise a new overlord. But she can|isbn=1800422466}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3949666079|title=Noema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''t stop her thoughts wandering back This is a story about some things that happened to her adolescence, spent on Salt Creek Station me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the remote South Australian Coorong regionMesolithic era. Hester feels 'Climate change is occurring, the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya'has never felt so alive as thens forest home, when we had so little''and food is becoming more and more scarce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709417</amazonuk>What to do? Can the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jamie Ford1529125898|title= Love and Other Consolation PrizesGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=At ''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the Worldodd gentleman's Fair in 1962duty, it seems that there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all eyes are focused on the future. The Space Needle dominates '' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the landscape, filling people with anticipation about things position of governess to cometwelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessity. One visitor Until the death of her mother, however, has his mind firmly focused on Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the pasthousehold. Ernest Young is helping his daughter Ju-ju When her mother died, her father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with a story her. No explanation was offered but she is writing for her newspaper; would receive an annuity of £35 a story about a young immigrant boy who year. Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was given away as a prize fortunately taken in a raffle at the World's Fair in 1909by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022752</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nicola PryceMelissa Fu |title= The Captain's GirlPeach Blossom Spring |rating= 43.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Last yearI loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, Bookbag reviewed, and thoroughly enjoyed, [[Pengellya short chapter entitled ''Origins's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's Daughter]], a swashbuckling historical romance set in picturesque Cornwall. Now we have Unfortunately it is the pleasure only truly poetic part of reading a book that I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the much-anticipated sequel. This timewar with Japan, the story focuses on a neighbour of the Polcarrow family, Miss Celia Cavendish, young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who has been engaged to a cruel man that she does not loveflee. One fateful night, she runs away to the Polcarrow house to beg The story follows them for helpon their journey across China, and the pivotal events of that night have far-reaching consequences for all involvedin Renshu's case eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398856</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreview|author=Hawa L Crickmore|title=Across the Ocean|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=A young cage fighter''She is practiced at subterfuge, Martin Grandsonat concealing, was diagnosed with beneath a rare genetic disorder which required a bone-marrow transplantfacade of respectability, preferably from a siblingthe deplorable truth''. Only recently he Hester is furious about Jocelyn'd been a fit young mans refusal to do as she was asked, in the prime of life, but now he was suffering from a rare type of bone cancer: without the transplant he would be paralysed for life which has precipitated ''this violent and might be dead within the next twelve weeks if he didnunexpected removal''t receive . Then we are told of the transplant within the next fourteen days. Unfortunately Martin's parents had died in birth of a car crash child and there were no siblings or other close relatives. His girlfriend, Celiasoon after, Hester Talbot departs, was not a matchleaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= M J TjiaAnnabel Abbs|title= She Be DamnedThe Language of Food|rating= 45|genre= Crime (Historical) Fiction|summary= London, 1863: prostitutes in Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removedslightest inclination to boil an egg. When another girl goes missingtasked with writing a cookery book, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victimshe recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home life. The police are at a loss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detectiveTogether, they test, Heloise Chanceycraft, to investigate. With refine and reshape the assistance world of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leendomestic cookery, Heloise inches closer to reinventing the truth. But when Amah is implicated in recipe book and changing the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes againface of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah FranklinFreya Marske|title= ShelterA Marvellous Light|rating= 54|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Connie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Women's Timber Corps. For herCivil Service, this remote community must now serve a secret purpose.<br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner of war, is haunted by much to his memorieschagrin. In There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the forest camp, he finds a strange kind streets of freedomLondon are threaded with magic.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are drawn togetherDesperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the world outside their forest haven is being torn apart. Old certainties are crumblingcountryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and both must now make the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a life-defining choicesinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762990</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane JohnsonB09F4CTKJR|title= Court of LionsFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived in It's the sunlit city later stages of Granada a year ago. In World War I and the shadow of United States has just entered the Alhambra, one of the most beautiful places on earth, she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy barconflict. She pretends she's happy with her new life – but how could she be? Kate's alone, afraid and hiding under a false name. And fate Petrol Petronus is about to bring her face-to-face with her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, a message, in a hand few could read, was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of paperyoung American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. The paper This company was folded and pressed into one of the Alhambra's walls. There it has lainfirst US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, undisturbed by the tides of history – first to be attached to the Fall of Granada, the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of love, in a time of danger RAF and desperation, the fragment will first to be sent into the catalyst skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But before that changes Kate's life forevercan happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694336</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Angus WatsonChristophe Medler|title= You Die When You DieMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Finnbogi Set against the Boggy and his tribe backdrop of mushroom men the English Civil War, a secret plan (Vikingscode-named Madrigal) must take a road trip through hostile territory whilst being hunted is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the greatest fighting force ever seen (Amazonian Native Americans)summer of 1642. Vikings meet Native Americans in As a clash loyal servant of cultures the King, and potentially Head of the end Secret Service, it is Robert's duty to uncover the details of the world. When plan and follow the Queen clues to uncover one of the known world says your tribe has to be exterminated then your immediate future may not be so rosymost guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356507564</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Weir1471187179|title=Six Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession: Six Tudor Queens 2Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore

|summary=Thomas Boleyn sends his daughters abroad to be trained at the courts of European royaltyMinnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. Not only does this give them an education The book is set in the ways 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the rest of the elite, it could also ensure a good marriageher days looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately he hasn, this isn't reckoned on the ideas that one what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. As a result of thema chance meeting, Anneshe finds herself drawn into espionage, picks up working for the secret service and as for marriage… Anne is determined effectively living a double life - attempting to marry for love not through some paternal arrangementinfiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Yet Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the reality turns out to be different, driving a wedge through her family on a road leading to dark tragedyfriends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147222762X</amazonuk>