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<!-- Llewellyn -->{{Frontpage*[[image:Llewellyn-Walking.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473663075?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINauthor=1473663075]]Livi Michael===[[Walking Wounded by Sheila Llewellyn]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] David Reece was called up in 1941 and sent to fight in Burma. On his return in 1946, he finds a return to civilian life quite beyond him Elizabeth and, after a brawl, is sent to a military psychiatric hospital. There, he is treated by Daniel Carter, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies can work with men like David, but who is working in a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT and lobotomy. ''Walking Wounded'' follows both men as they both try to come to terms with traumatic experiences and find a place in a world moving on from WWII. [[Walking Wounded by Sheila Llewellyn|Full Review]]<br><!-- Morris -->Ruth*[[image:Morris_Auschwitz.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www3.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785763644?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785763644]]5 ===[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=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 summary=''collaboratorElizabeth and Ruth'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and get is a job that means you're actually a Jew working in work of historical fiction wrought from the political wing life of the SSVictorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, 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 best known for youher first novel Mary Barton (1848), under a radical critique of the eyes treatment 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 working class published under a burgeoning love that he found in the camppseudonym. [[The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Halliburton -->*[[image:Halliburton_Optickal.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0715651978?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0715651978]] ===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal by Rachel Halliburton]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Rachel Halliburton''Ruth'' from Livi Michael's debut title appears in her novel opens as Pasley, a young Irish prostitute who was abandoned as a child and finds herself in London in January 1797. Benjamin West, President of the Royal Academy, is reflecting on the past yearManchester's scandal involving the Provises, father New Bailey Prison after a difficult and daughter, and worries that he handled everything poorlyunjust hand at life. 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 Set in London was saying he had not. It was as if somebody had dropped a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – the more he prodded Manchester between 1839 and stirred the memory1842, the murkier it became.' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal by Rachel Halliburton|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= John Banks|title= W|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction |summary=On novel examines the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is inspired harsh conditions endured by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored Victorian working poor and with his world in turmoil. Beginning a journey westward, he's filled with a desire interrogates the extent to wreak vengeance on which the individuals he finds morally corruptwealthy (including Gaskell herself) were responsible for addressing these injustices. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0983333416</amazonuk>1784633682

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elaine EverestTananarive Due|title= Christmas at WoolworthsThe Reformatory|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=''Christmas Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at Woolworths'' is the sequel to wartime saga ''The Woolworths GirlsGracetown School for Boys,otherwise known as the Reformatory. It'' s a place with a brutal and continues dark reputation. But the story where the first book left off. Members segregated reformatory is a chamber of the close-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together and keep morale highhorrors, even though haunted by the future is uncertainboys that have died there. At In order to survive the heart of the neighbourhoodschool governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the home help 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''Salt Creek'' opens in Chichester, s coronation as King of England, in 1874. Hester Finch William's position is not secure and the new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a respected and reasonably wealthy member of her communitycoronation is important. But she can't stop her thoughts wandering back And William is right to her adolescenceworry. While the previous king, Harold, spent on Salt Creek Station in is dead and the remote South Australian Coorong region. Hester feels ''has never felt so alive as thenlikelihood of more pitched battles is over, when we had so little''the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to recognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910709417</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=3949666079|title=Noema|author= Jamie FordDael Akkerman|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce. 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? }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529125898|title= Love and Other Consolation PrizesGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=At ''If it were not for the Worldcasual dereliction of the odd 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. One visitor She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessity. 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

Then we are told of the birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hawa L CrickmoreAnnabel Abbs|title=Across The Language of Food|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine and reshape the world of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book and changing the Oceanface of cookery writing forever.|isbn=1398502227}}{{Frontpage|author=Freya Marske|title=A Marvellous Light

|genre=General Historical Fiction|summary=A young cage fighter, Martin Grandson, was diagnosed with Robin Blyth is nudged into a rare genetic disorder which required a bone-marrow transplantjob in the Civil Service, preferably from a siblingmuch to his chagrin. Only recently There he'd been meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a fit young mancurse that threatens to swallow him, in Robin follows Edwin to the prime of lifecountryside, but now he was suffering from where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a rare type sinister plot that threatens the lives of bone cancer: without all magicians in the transplant he would be paralysed British Isles. |isbn=1529080886}}{{Frontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title= Flights for life Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's the later stages of World War I and might be dead within the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive United States has just entered the transplant within conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the next fourteen days17 Aero Squadron. Unfortunately Martin's parents had died This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in a car crash Canada, the first to be attached to the RAF and there were no siblings or other close relativesthe first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. His girlfriendBut before that can happen, Celia, was not a matchPetrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= M J TjiaChristophe Medler|title= She Be DamnedMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical) Fiction|summary= LondonSet against the backdrop of the English Civil War, 1863: prostitutes a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the Waterloo area are turning up deadsummer of 1642. As a loyal servant of the King, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missingHead of the Secret Service, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a loss and so it falls is Robert's duty to courtesan uncover the details of the plan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, follow the clues to investigate. With the assistance uncover one of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the truth. But when Amah is implicated most guarded secrets in history—especially since the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before could affect the killer strikes againKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah Franklin1471187179|title= ShelterA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating= 54|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Connie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the Women1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's Timber Corpsexpectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their home. For her Unfortunately, this remote community must now serve isn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secret purposesecretary.<br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner As a result of wara chance meeting, is haunted by his memories. In the forest camp, he she finds a strange kind of freedom.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are herself drawn togetherinto espionage, working for the world outside their forest haven is being torn apart. Old certainties are crumbling, secret service and both must now make effectively living a double life-defining choiceattempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain.<br>What price will they pay Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762990</amazonuk>the Communist Party.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane JohnsonAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title= Court of LionsKokoschka's Doll|rating= 2.5|genre= Historical Literary Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city of Granada Well, this looked very much like a year ago. In book I could love from the shadow of the Alhambraget-go, one which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the most beautiful places middle on earthdarker stock paper, she works as a waitress serving tourists chapter whose number was in a busy bar. She pretends she's happy with her new life – but how could she be? Kate's alonethe 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, afraid and hiding under a false nameso on. And fate is about to bring her face-to-face It intrigued with her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, the subterranean voice a message, man hears in a hand few could readwartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of papertoo. The paper was folded and pressed into one of the Alhambra But you's walls. There it has lain, undisturbed by ve seen the tides of history – the Fall of Granadastar rating that comes with this review, the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of and can tell that if lovewas on these pages, in a time of danger and desperation, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life foreverit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786694336</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Angus WatsonChristina Hammonds Reed|title= You Die When You DieThe Black Kids|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical FictionTeens |summary= Finnbogi Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the Boggy and his tribe backdrop of mushroom men (Vikings) must take a road trip through hostile territory whilst being hunted by the greatest fighting force ever seen (Amazonian Native Americans). Vikings meet Native Americans in 1992 Los Angeles riots, a clash of cultures and potentially reaction to the end absolution of the worldfour police officers for beating a black man, Rodney King, nearly to death. When Told from the Queen perspective of Ashley Bennett, the known world says your tribe has novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, to be exterminated then your immediate future may not be so rosya woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356507564</amazonuk>1471188191