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[[Category:New Reviews|Historical Fiction]]==Historical fiction==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle LovricLivi Michael|title=The Book of Human SkinElizabeth and Ruth|rating=3.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=''Ye canElizabeth and Ruth''t take is a work of historical fiction wrought from the life of the slither out ovva snake.'' So says GianniVictorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, valet in a wealthy eighteenth century Venetian household. The masterbest known for her first novel Mary Barton (1848), a merchant, divides his time between Italy and Peru, where he deals in silver. But radical critique of the merchant isn't treatment of the serpent - his son Minguillo isworking class published under a pseudonym. On the night an earthquake ripped through Peru and deposited fanatical nun Sor Loreta at the convent The ''Ruth'' from Livi Michael's title appears in Arequipaher novel as Pasley, Minguillo a young Irish prostitute who was born - abandoned as a serpent child and finds herself in his familyManchester's midstNew Bailey Prison after a difficult and unjust hand at life. His own mother couldn't bear to nurse him Set in Manchester between 1839 and his father went into denial1842, making more the novel examines the harsh conditions endured by the Victorian working poor and more frequent trips interrogates the extent to a South American home free of sociopathic progenywhich the wealthy (including Gaskell herself) were responsible for addressing these injustices. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140880588X</amazonuk>1784633682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elif ShafakTananarive Due|title=The Forty Rules of LoveReformatory|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This is a sixth novel from best-selling Turkish author, Elif Shafak. Set in twelfth century Anatolia, two famous characters from Islamic history meet in a gorgeously real world. A delicate contemporary US love story is wrapped around the rich, meaty historical fiction. Don't be misled by the dodgy-sounding title!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918733</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lawrence Hill|title=The Book of Negroes|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Although this is Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a work of fictionwhite boy, the whole distasteful and deeply upsetting subject of slavery twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is a fact, therefore, sentenced to six months at times I felt as if I were reading a true account. The narrative goes back and forththe Gracetown School for Boys, starting with Aminata (or Meena otherwise known as she is usually called) as a relatively old woman (what we would call middle-aged)the Reformatory. SheIt's in London, far from home, but she's there for an extremely important reason. The powers-that-be need her to tell her story, as a slave over many yearsplace with a brutal and dark reputation. The hope But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that other Meenas will not have died there. In order to suffer survive the same fate. On a lighter note (school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they are few and far between) Meena gets to visit some London schoolchildrenhave their own motivations. They think that she eats elephant. She is able to laugh at their naivety.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552775487</amazonuk>1803366532}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil RickmanKatherine Howe|title=The Bones of AvalonA True Account
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|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When Elizabeth I's most trusted men fear for her safety and think she hears there's is to be a possibly supernatural plot against herhanging of some pirates in the town, the obvious man she decides to investigate it is Dr John Dee, her astrologer go and consultant in the hidden artswatch. Aided by his former pupil – Enthralled and Elizabethhorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's reputed lover – Robert Dudley, he travels to Glastonbury to try and find death at the bones hands of King Arthurtwo vicious pirates. Glastonbury She hides away, howeverso that they don't find and kill her too, has never recovered from the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the execution of its beloved Abbot Richard Whitingthen to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and many residents view joining the pair with suspicionnotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. The exception to this She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is Nel Borrowa mutiny on board, who treats Dudley when he's ill and becomes from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the first woman Dee has ever been interested in romanticallyocean waves. Can the three stop the villainous plot? I'll leave you to find out…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848872704</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan FletcherSarah Marsh|title=Corrag|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=A small and dirty woman sits in a prison cell. With her bare feet and her matted hair and her damp, filthy clothes, she doesn't wonder at the word ''witch''. She has been called it all her life. Her mother called her ''witch'' before she named her. Sign of Her given name Corrag – was a corruption: for Cora (her mother) and Hag (which she'd get as used to as Cora had). She sits through the snow of the winter, knowing that the sound she hears outside is the dragging of the logs for her pyre. She was told, though, that a man would come. So she waits for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007321597</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Denning|title=The Amber TreasureOwn
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|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Cerdic is the younger son After a bout of scarlet fever as a minor lord living child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a quiet Anglo Saxon village in sixth century Northumbria. His people are settled and time when the Welsh (Romano-Britons) seem contained behind the Pennines. Cedric fully expects use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to live out his live as a gentleman farmerschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, hopefully with she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the beautiful Aidith by his sidedeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. But as he listens to At the tales told by Lilla the bardsame time, he can't help but dream of following after his uncle, the great warrior CynricBell is working on other inventions and ideas, and finding glory Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in battlea complicated tangle of espionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849140235</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{Frontpage
|author=Claire North
|title=House of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''What could matter more than love?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Debbie ElliottB0C7J9D21B|title=Tesla & TwainA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=34.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=History remembers nineteenth century inventor Nikola Tesla When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a mad scientist, bordello and Ettore's mother died when he did indulge was born. He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in some very peculiar experiments, most notably the directedlate-energy weapon, or deatheighteenth-raycentury Amalfi, as the press of the time gleefully dubbed it's difficult to obtain decent employment. But The stint working with the truth is that his preparation of anchovies didn't work was of groundbreaking importance: he developed the electrical alternating current and the AC motor, out and much morebastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. The average person probably has a better awareness of Samuel Clemens Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - who wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn under his pen name Mark Twain, determined - and who it was known not long before he had a successful business as one of the foremost satirists of his daya guide for visitors. But perhaps they don't know that Twain He was fascinated by scientific inquiry, or that these two seemingly disparate men were great friendseven saving some money. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906146756</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=E V ThompsonEssie Fox|title=The Dream TradersFascination|rating=34
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=In The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the nineteenth century, when European nations are scrabbling Second World War) which has often led to colonise as many territories as possible, more than a young Englishman sails into Chinese waters seeking fame and fortunefew writers mishandling it. Unlike There's such a glut of media set in the rest of his countrymen however, Luke Trewarne refuses era that the hallmarks we've come to get rich selling opium associate with it are familiar to the Chinesepoint of being cliched, hackneyed even. All very noble but the fact this is simply to illustrate that Luke is a passenger on board a ship laden with the stuff it would be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite that, something about it still grabs me – and there are Chinese gunships on the horizonsomething about this book's description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>070908885X</amazonuk>1914585526
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janet MullanyNicole Jarvis|title=Improper RelationsA Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Unlucky in love Charlotte Hayden has just lost her best friend and confidante Ann in marriage ''I want all of Florence to the Earl of Beresford. At the wedding she encounters Lord Shadderly, Beresfordknow my name''s best friend, a broodingly handsome man whom she takes an immediate dislike to. Before she knows it Charlotte is caught in a compromising situation with Shadderly and he is forced to propose to her or risk both their reputations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347803</amazonuk>}}
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{{Frontpage
|author=Thomas D Lee
|title=Perilous Times
|rating=3
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy Marie Buchanan G K Holloway|title=The Day The Falls Stood StillIn the Shadows of Castles
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=I imagined this title We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. William's position is not secure and the new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a 'Gone With coronation is important. And William is right to worry. While the Wind' sort of novelprevious king, a saga-esque historical romanceHarold, with a characterful heroine is dead and page-turning story line that necessitates reading late into the night. Welllikelihood of more pitched battles is over, I wasn't disappointed in this paperback edition the rebels are stirring and much of the hardback, already country does not wish to recognise a best-seller in the U.Snew overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091925967</amazonuk>1800422466
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=3949666079
|title=Noema
|author=Dael Akkerman
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''This is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terence Morgan1529125898|title=The Master of BrugesGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Belgium, the fifteenth century. Hans is apprenticed to a master painter in ''If it were not for the city casual dereliction of Brussels, until the old curmudgeon diesodd gentleman's duty, and his studio falls apart. Luckily for Hans, a mistakenly drawn sketch, and a bizarre rescue from the gallows gives him a major boost - patronage, for both portraits and many religious images. With what might seem there would no women to be a patchy diary teach well- some years have five pages only, concerning but one month - we see his startling life journey, covering beguiling models, ghostly war scenes, and even the biggest intrigues of English royal courtbred daughters at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230744125</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eloisa James|title=When the Duke Returns|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''When the Duke Returns'', the newest volume in the 'Desperate Duchesses' series, continues the regency celebrity romp saga where [[Duchess by Night by Eloisa James|Duchess by Night]] left off.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam WilliamsMelissa Fu |title=The Book of the AlchemistPeach 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= ''The Book We meet part of the Alchemist'' is a story within a story. It opens Talbot family in Yorkshire in 1938 during the Spanish Civil WarNovember 1811. Pinzon, a Spanish politician who resigns for moral reasons, is taken hostage by a group of Republican soldiers, along with his young Grandson. A group of villagers are also taken captive Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and locked her mother have travelled in a cathedral as part of the soldiers' desperate plan to protect themselves some discomfort from the Fascist forces that are hunting them. A cavernous mosque built inside the mountain under the cathedral's crypt is discoveredtheir home at Ecklington, and in it, a book. As Pinzon reads to the book, another story unfolds, set house in the eleventh centuryhollow. This The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is the story well aware of Samuel the Jew.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340899131</amazonuk>}}her mother's strengths and weaknesses:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robyn Young Annabel Abbs|title=Requiem (Brethren Trilogy)The Language of Food|rating=45
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=It's December 1295, and Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the bedraggled remnants of the Third Crusade are returning homeslightest inclination to boil an egg. Not all have given up the dream of When tasked with writing a Christian Jerusalemcookery book, and Jacques de Molayshe recruits Ann Kirby, the Grand Master of the Templars, is eager to find patrons to fund a fresh invasionlocal woman with a troubled home life. But the West has turned inwardTogether, andthey test, with the Order's reason for existence vanished with the Crusader statescraft, factions within both the English refine and French courts covet reshape the wealth and military might world of domestic cookery, reinventing the Temple. With his homeland of Scotland under assault by his old rival Edward, recipe book and his position usurped by former comrades who wish to turn changing the Order to sinister ends, peace for series protagonist Will Campbell seems far awayface of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340921420</amazonuk>1398502227
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony RichesFreya Marske|title=Wounds of Honour (Empire)A Marvellous Light
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Riding Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the Northern outpost streets of the Roman Empire London are threaded with magic. Desperate to deliver remove a messagecurse that threatens to swallow him, Marcus Valerius Aquila is seemingly attacked by a band of barbariansRobin follows Edwin to the countryside, but is rescued by a group of Tungrian irregulars, fighting as part of where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the Roman armypeople shimmer with power. Arriving at his destination, it soon becomes clear There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the attack was deliberate, as his father has been condemned as a traitor back lives of all magicians in Rome by Emperor Commodus and his whole family have been put to the swordBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340920300</amazonuk>1529080886
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Freda Lightfoot B09F4CTKJR|title=House of AngelsFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=The novel focuses on It's the Angel family who live in later stages of World War I and the Lake District in United States has just entered the late 1900sconflict. Josiah Angel Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the head of 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the family and appears first US Aero Squadron to be a respectable business mantrained in Canada, bringing up his three daughters after the death of his wife. The family live in a beautiful house first to be attached to the RAF and – the first to outsiders – be sent into the daughters seem skies to have everything – comfort, money, beauty and an easy lifefight the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, in great contrast Petrol has to master flying the poverty around them. Not far from Josiah's department store are the workhouse with its brutality and the blocks of slum flats infested with ratsnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007125</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Faye L Booth Christophe Medler|title=Trades of the FleshMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=I read Trades Set against the backdrop of the Flesh in about 2 hours, speeding through it, and think I've spent about double that time figuring out how to review it! Apart from anything elseEnglish Civil War, it's taken me well over an hour to settle on a genre secret plan (and I reserve the right to change that code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the end summer of the review, although if I do I guess I could just delete this part…)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743412</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith |title=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies|rating=41642.5|genre=Humour|summary=Ah, the benefits to As a good book loyal servant of a classic first line. 'Call me Ishmael.' 'It was a bright cold day in Aprilthe King, and Head of the clocks were striking thirteen.' Who can forget Iain Banks' 'It was the day my grandmother exploded'? Or those timeless words by Jane AustenSecret Service, 'It it is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594743347</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chandra Prasad|title=Breathe the Sky: A Novel Inspired by the Life of Amelia Earhart|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=PrasadRobert's first novel [[On Borrowed Wings by Chandra Prasad|On Borrowed Wings]] followed a young girl entering duty to uncover the male-dominated arena details of Yale in the 1930s. Her heroine took inspiration from plan and follow the likes clues to uncover one of Amelia Earhart (who has a walk-on part in the book), women who were finding their way most guarded secrets in history—especially since the world on their own terms and refusing to let their womanhood get in plot could affect the way of itKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1932279393</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilary Mantel1471187179|title=Wolf Hall|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=A revisionist look at Henry VIII's minister, Thomas Cromwell. Rich, absorbing and intelligent, it's a beautiful, beautiful book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007230184</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shandi Mitchell |title=Under This Unbroken Sky|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=A photograph opens the story. A black and white picture of a family, husband, wife and their three children, smiling for the camera. Thin, underfed, in their summer clothes despite the four inches of snow, they smile. Partly they smile because they do not know what is to come. A page and five years later we catch up with the Mykolayenkos. In the Spring of 1938 Ivan and his cousin are catching mice in the barn and taking bets on which of the farm cats will pounce on the individually released rodents first. The game is interrupted by a man with a loaded .22 rifle. It takes a while for it to sink in, that this is Ivan's father, Teodor, free after a prison sentence for stealing his own grain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297856588</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBeautiful Spy|author=Kate Furnivall|title=The Concubine's Secret|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=As a sequel to Kate Furnivall's first book, ''The Russian Concubine'', The Concubine's Secret helps to tie up some hanging storylines and in general provides an entertaining follow-up. In the first book, we watched Chang An Lo and Lydia Ivanova fall in love against all the odds. Here, they must remain in love despite being separated by most of a continent. As you might expect, the reader spends most of the book hoping for them to find a way to finally be together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751540455</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philippa Gregory|title=The White QueenRachel Hore
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=ItMinnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's 1464 expectations and find a nice young widow stands at the side of the roadman to marry, clutching produce children and spend the hands rest of her two young sonsdays looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately, waiting for the new King this isn't what she wants to ride past. She is Elizabeth Woodville do at all and the King is Edward IVneither does she want to continue working as a secretary. What happens is As a matter result of history: a secret marriagechance meeting, a shocking revealshe finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a vicious contest for double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the young King's ear (friends she has made - and purse) that forces civil war to drag on in England likes - whilst working for much longer than perhaps it would have. Without this meeting, English history would have been critically differentthe Communist Party. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847374557</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate Pullinger Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The Mistress of Nothing|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Lucie, Lady Duff Gordon was a well-known figure in Victorian London when tuberculosis forced her to move to a hot climate. She travelled to Egypt, accompanied only by her Lady's Maid, Sally Naldrett and left her husband and children in London, not knowing if she would ever see them again. Lady Duff Gordon's story is told in ''The Mistress of Nothing'' but itKokoschka's Sally Naldrett who is the focus of the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687098</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Irène Némirovsky |title=All Our Worldly GoodsDoll|rating=2.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Pierre Hardelot and Agnes Florent were in Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and had been since they were children, but there were problems - not the least flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of which was that Pierre was engaged to marry Simone Renaudinit. Simone was an appropriate match for I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the grandson of middle on darker stock paper, a mill owner and member of chapter whose number was in the bourgeoisie20,000s, letters used as narrative form, but Agnes was descended from brewers and lower middle classso on. In northern France, just before It intrigued with the outbreak subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of the First World Warit mentioned, such distinctions matteredtoo. But Pierre and Agnes meet alone and rather than ruin her reputation Pierre proposes. In doing so he alienates his grandfather and you've seen the wealthy Renaudins. Pierre and Agnes' marriage and its consequences would reverberate for decades.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520443</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mary Hoffman |title=Troubadour|star rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=In ''Troubadour'', 13-year-old noblewoman, Elinor de Sévignan, flees from her parents' choice of suitor by posing as a boy singer that comes with a group of travelling minstrels in 13th century Southern France. As her transition from her pampered but restricted existence to roaming troubadour takes place on the roads of Provence, so begins the Albigensian Crusade. Forces from Northern France attempt to crush the Cathars, whose religious beliefs are seen as hereticalthis review, making their lands and wealth fair game for both fanatical followers of the Popecan tell that if love was on these pages, and opportunistic mercenariesit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747592519</amazonuk>1529402697
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret RedfernChristina Hammonds Reed|title=FlintThe Black Kids
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=Will and his brother Ned have been plucked from their home in the Fens. They're on their way to Flint, ditch diggers for Edward I's new castle. Will is unwilling to go, and he's only eleven, but he can't abandon his strange older brother to strangers. Ned can't talk and most people dismiss him as an idiot, but he has skills. He can whisper to horses and calm them, he's a skilled herbalist, and he can make music that moves menChristina Hammonds Reed's hearts. Ned debut novel is glad to be on this journey because he hopes to be reunited with Ieuan ap y Gof, an exiled bard and set against the man who taught him music. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784043</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James McCreet|title=The Incendiary's Trail|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=This book opens with a bang and except for brief slow-downs in backdrop of the middle1992 Los Angeles riots, is an exciting and riveting read. It's both a historical mystery and a thriller, teaching the reader a little bit about Victorian London while still making the book an immersive experience that can be hard reaction to leave. The policemen really have very little idea who is behind the initial murder, much less the ones that follow, and I loved learning what happened along with them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230736270</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Matthew Pearl|title=The Last Dickens|rating=4.5|genre=Crime |summary=In Bengal, India on a June day in 1870 two young mounted policemen are hot on the trail of dacoit suspected of the recent daylight robbery absolution of four police officers for beating a train of bullock carts. The chests taken from the carts were full of Opium. Meanwhile a few thousand miles away in Bostonblack man, USARodney King, a young office boy is chased through the docks by a dark stranger of ''Hindoo'' appearance wielding a walking stick topped by a ferociously fanged idol.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655084X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Angus Donald |title=Outlaw|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=When Alan Dale is caught stealing from a market stall in Nottingham he narrowly escapes with his life and limbs in tactnearly to death. To protect him Told from the justice perspective of Sir Ralph MurdacAshley Bennett, Alan's mother begs the mercy of the great outlaw, Robin Hood. Robin agrees to take Alan into his protection, and so begins Alan's life as an outlaw.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751542083</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Borodale |title=The Book of Fires|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=Agnes Trussel leaves her home to save novel follows her family evolution from the disgrace a silent bystander when confronted with matters of learning that she has been raped and is carrying an illegitimate child. With limited options and in despair at her situation she takes money from the home of a neighbour to pay her way to London. Once thererace, her life as assistant to the dour John Blacklock, a firework maker, gives woman finding her security voice and a sense of worth. But she is sure that all she values is likely to be lost once her pregnancy and her status as a thief becomes known. The crux of her situation, and that of many women like her at the time, is well summarised in embracing her thoughts: ''the child is almost all I have, I think. And its'' ''existence will ensure that anything else will be taken away from meheritage.''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007305729</amazonuk>1471188191
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