==Historical fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Jan Jones
|title=The Kydd Inheritance
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Nell's Kydd's father died in a hunting accident and her brother, Kit was uncontactable, seemingly lost, on his way back from India. This left her uncle, Jasper Kydd in charge of the family estate and he appeared to be doing all in his power to wreck Kydd Court and make Nell's life a misery. Her mother coped with it all by retreating into her own world, where she couldn't be reached either. When an unwelcome offer of marriage is forced upon her, Nell knows that she has to take action and that's when the very unsettling Captain Hugo Derringer arrives. He's an old friend of Kitt's, but what exactly is he doing in the area and can Nell trust him?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709091710</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elizabeth Ashworth
|summary=#Set in the traumatic and violent period leading up to the Magna Carta, Chadwick concentrates on the fortunes of two extended families. The Marshals, close to the throne for their expertise, political and military might, and the Bigods, who are directly related to King John, through their half brother Longespee, son of the family matriarch, and John’s father. Banished from Court, and forced to leave her son there, Ida marries Roger and founds a strong patriarchal dynasty. However, tension is never far from boiling point, with the two half brothers tolerating each other at best, loathing each other more often than not, due to their opposing natures.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442366</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anne O'Brien
|title=Virgin Widow
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=The mighty Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, is famous throughout England as one of King Edward IV’s most trusted advisors. But as Edward is lured towards another influential family when he falls in love with Elizabeth Woodville, Warwick responds by backing the alliance between Margaret of Anjou and King Louis XI of France, aiming to put Margaret’s husband Henry VI back on the English throne. A helpless pawn, Anne is torn away from the man she loves, who will grow up to become Richard III, to be used as political capital by her father and his allies as they try to regain the kingdom of England.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303756</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lynn Shepherd
|title=Murder at Mansfield Park
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Straight away the reader is plunged into the language of Austen's era, so dotted all over are such rather flowery phrases as ' ... conjugal felicity ...' and ' ... her family were not consumptive...' We are also introduced to a host of characters and although Shepherd has thoughtfully provided right at the beginning ''Names of the Principal Persons'', it does bombard and perhaps confuse the reader a little. I must admit to referring to this dratted list time and time again. It does break the flow at the beginning of the novel. But, several chapters in and you're right into the story thereafter.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905636792</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sara Stockbridge
|title=The Fortunes of Grace Hammer
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=The short prologue shares with the reader a childhood incident in the life of Grace Hammer. It had a dramatic effect on her and her life thereafter. She is a changed person. She's also driven. She grows into a desirable woman and turns men's heads wherever she goes. But she's also smart. Some would perhaps think at this point, why not go 'up west', bag a sugar-daddy and live in luxury for the rest of her days? But life is not as simple as that.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520958</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emily Purdy
|title=The Tudor Wife
|rating=3.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=From the moment she sets eyes on handsome George Boleyn, plain Lady Jane Parker falls madly in love and prays that George will be hers. As Jane and George's families negotiate the marriage Jane meets Anne Boleyn and quickly realises that George only has eyes for Anne, but remains determined that she can make George love her.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561942</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anne Perry
|title=The Sheen on the Silk
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Anna Zarides arrives in Constantinople, determined to find out why her twin brother Justinian has been convicted of murder. But it is 1273, and a woman cannot move about freely to ask questions. Anna is a skilled doctor, who uses Arab and Jewish medicine in secret as well as more accepted Christian remedies: in her quest for information she disguises herself as a eunuch and successfully treats a wide range of people from the very poorest right up to the emperor himself.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755339061</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Penny Ingham
|title=The King's Daughter
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=The central female character - 'The King's Daughter' is Elflaede. She's young, feisty and very pretty. She also has this unforgettable reddish hair. At this point in the story I was reminded a little of Queen Elizabeth I, I have to say. In Elflaede's own words she 'had never known a time without war .' The hordes of Pagan Norsemen are to blame. They've come to England with their own set of superstitions. And they've come with one aim. To conquer great swathes of England.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095559975X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Trevor Bloom
|title=The Half-Slave
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=At Samarobriva in Roman Gaul, a raiding Saxon tribe meets its match in the form of a division of the Franks, who have suborned the Roman authorities and are establishing their control throughout the region. A mysterious meeting with the Frankish Overlord persuades the leader of the Saxons to sign a treaty that will forever alter the fate of his people. In return for Frankish silver, he hands over to them his youngest son, Ascha the half-slave, as a perpetual hostage to guarantee the peace. But in the frozen north new powers are rising, and Ascha will soon be drawn into a web of lies and ambition as two very different worlds come into conflict.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955563062</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Seth Hunter
|title=The Tide of War
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=The Tide of War is the second book in a trilogy of historical fiction
novels by Seth Hunter, set in the 1790s and recounts the adventures of
British naval captain Nathan Peake. In this book newly-promoted Peake
is sent to the Caribbean to command a British frigate, the Unicorn,
to hunt for the French warship, the Virginie.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755357612</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michelle Lovric
|title=The Book of Human Skin
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=''Ye can't take the slither out ovva snake.''
So says Gianni, valet in a wealthy eighteenth century Venetian household. The master, a merchant, divides his time between Italy and Peru, where he deals in silver. But the merchant isn't the serpent - his son Minguillo is. On the night an earthquake ripped through Peru and deposited fanatical nun Sor Loreta at the convent in Arequipa, Minguillo was born - a serpent in his family's midst. His own mother couldn't bear to nurse him and his father went into denial, making more and more frequent trips to a South American home free of sociopathic progeny.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880588X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elif Shafak
|title=The Forty Rules of Love
|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>
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