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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Minette WaltersTananarive Due|title=The Last HoursReformatory|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account
|rating=4.5
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Sarah Marsh|title=The Sixteen Trees A Sign of the SommeHer Own|rating=43.5
|genre=General Fiction
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toby ClementsClaire North|title=Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)House of Odysseus
|rating=5
|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
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{{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
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Essie Fox|title=The House with the Stained-Glass WindowFascination
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|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
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{{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''
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{{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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Salt CreekG K Holloway|authortitle=Lucy TreloarIn the Shadows of Castles
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jamie Ford3949666079|title= Love and Other Consolation PrizesNoema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=At the World's Fair in 1962, it seems that all eyes are focused on the future. The Space Needle dominates the landscape, filling people with anticipation 'This is a story about some things that happened to comeme about twelve thousand years ago. One visitor, however, has his mind firmly focused on the past. Ernest Young is helping his daughter Ju-ju with a story she '' Maya is writing for her newspaper; a story about a young immigrant boy who was given away as a prize girl living in a raffle at hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, the WorldSea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's Fair forest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce. What to do? Can the law givers in 1909.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022752</amazonuk>the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nicola Pryce1529125898|title= The Captain's GirlGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating= 45|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Last year, Bookbag reviewed, and thoroughly enjoyed, [[Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly'If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's Daughter]]duty, a swashbuckling historical romance set in picturesque Cornwallthere would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all. Now we have '' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the pleasure position of reading the muchgoverness to twelve-year-anticipated sequelold Fanny Austen. This time, the story focuses on She had no experience of teaching but this was a neighbour case of necessity. Until the Polcarrow familydeath of her mother, Miss Celia CavendishAnne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the household. When her mother died, who has been engaged her father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a cruel man that she does not loveyear. One fateful night Her maid, she runs away to the Polcarrow house to beg them for helpAgnes, and the pivotal events of that night have far-reaching consequences for all involvedwould receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398856</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Melissa Fu
|title=Peach Blossom Spring
|rating=3.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary= I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''. Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of 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 war with Japan, a young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, and in Renshu's case eventually to America.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1916072038
|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)
|author=Allie Cresswell
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to the house in the hollow. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses:
''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the deplorable truth''.
Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''.
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
|rating=4
|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 a rare type of bone cancer: without where the transplant he would be paralysed for life hedgegrows bristle with incantations and might be dead within the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the transplant within lives of all magicians in the next fourteen daysBritish Isles. Unfortunately Martin's parents had died in a car crash and there were no siblings or other close relatives. His girlfriend, Celia, was not a match.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk>1529080886
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M J TjiaB09F4CTKJR|title= She Be DamnedFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical) Fiction|summary= London, 1863: prostitutes in It's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the Waterloo area are turning conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removedjoined the 17 Aero Squadron. When another girl goes missingThis company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a loss and so it falls first to be attached to courtesan the RAF and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, the first to investigate. With be sent into the assistance of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer skies to fight the truthGermans in active combat. But when Amah is implicated in the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she before that can trusthappen, before Petrol has to master flying the killer strikes againnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah FranklinChristophe Medler|title= ShelterMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating= 54|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Connie Granger has escaped her bombedSet against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a secret plan (code-out city homenamed Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642. As a loyal servant of the King, and Head of the Secret Service, finding refuge it is Robert's duty to uncover the details of the plan and follow the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the WomenKing.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471187179|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Minnie is an 's Timber Corpsordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. For The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her, this remote community must now serve mother's expectations and find a secret purpose.<br>Seppenice young man to marry, an Italian prisoner produce children and spend the rest of warher days looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately, is haunted by his memoriesthis isn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. In the forest camp, he finds As a strange kind result of freedom.Their a chance meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are , she finds 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.
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{{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
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{{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
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