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|author=Diney Costeloe
|title=The Lost Soldier
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Rachel is a journalist covering a local conflict between a land developer and the small village community of Charlton Ambrose. The developer wants to level Ashgrove, a group of nine trees planted to commemorate those in the village who died serving in World War I. As she investigates, Rachel realises that only eight of the trees have corresponding names of the fallen. The ninth is for a mysterious unknown soldier. Why unknown? Rachel is determined to discover his story and, in so doing, she also discovers part of her own.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972576</amazonuk>
|amazonus=<amazonus>1784972576</amazonus>
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{{newreview
|author=David Churchill
|summary=Julia and Margaret are the Wood sisters, struggling to hoist themselves out of a life of poverty in Leeds just before the outbreak of the first world war. Well, Julia is struggling. Margaret sees her way out as being through marriage to a rich suffragette's son, Thomas. She's an apprentice milliner and beautiful, but both sisters have a disadvantage and it's one which grows bigger as war approaches: their father is German.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410704</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Antonia Senior
|title=The Winter Isles
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Scotland 1122: A son is born to a warlord on the Scottish Islands. The warlord GilleBride, is a man who doesn't realise his glory is receding. One day the realisation does hit him, along with a Viking raid. In the heat of invasion his son, although only 15, must take over. Can a lad actually lead a people? History will tell and legend will embellish for that boy is Somerled and this is his story.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396586</amazonuk>
}}