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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian RossTananarive Due|title=The War at the Edge of the World: Twilight of Empire: Book One (Rome Reborn)Reformatory
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Centurion Aurelius Castus has risen through Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the ranks from Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the crack legions of Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the Danube but now finds himself in segregated reformatory is a Roman army on the very edge chamber of horrors, haunted by the world – 4th century Britain, near Eboracumboys that have died there. Although In order to survive the school governor and his men are kept at battle fitnessFunhouse, his latest mission is one Robert must enlist the help of peacethe school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4. He must take 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a cohort family who run an inn, and being made to escort an envoy on work there from a visit young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the barbarian Pictstown, she decides to go and watch. The local tribes are Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the process hands of picking a new leader two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, andthen to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the areanotorious Ned Low's future pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is resting a mutiny on itboard, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the Romans want ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to influence the choice with diplomacya school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. However not everyone From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been honest with Castus; people as well as situations are not all they seemteaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. Castus must depend At the same time, Bell is working on his own initiative other inventions and ideas, and ability to survive as he soon realises he can trust no oneEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784081124</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?''
The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the 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 throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin KnightleyB0C7J9D21B|title=The Earl I AdoreA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Poor Sophie Wembley has been placed in a desperate situation thanks to her sister PenelopeWhen we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, who has eloped with the it'hired helps a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. Once news He's not been short of the scandal reaches the gossipmothers, though -mongers but for someone of the 'ton'his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, Sophie and her family will be ousted from polite society and her hopes of finding an eligible husband will be ruined. It is therefore up to Sophieit's scheming mother difficult to persuade her to snare herself a man before obtain decent employment. The stint working with the gossip becomes public knowledgepreparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Time is clearly of the essence Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and when it comes to suitable husbands, Sophie knows only one man will do: the handsome Earl of Evansleigh, for whom she has been harbouring was not long before he had a successful business as a 'tendre' guide for the past yearvisitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349405441</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tracey WarrEssie Fox|title=The Viking HostageFascination
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Sigrid and her brothers are taken from their native Norseland and sold The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as slaves separately. Sigrid then begins her life alone as maid to Ainaa setting for historical fiction (matched only, daughter of Ademarperhaps, Viscount of Segur in Limoges. Her life could be by the Second World War) which has often led to more than a lot worsefew writers mishandling it. SigridThere's pagan beliefs could condemn her to such a tough time glut of media set in Christian France but shethe era that the hallmarks we's fallen on her feet, forming a close friendship ve come to associate with Ainait are familiar to the point of being cliched, albeit a servile onehackneyed even. Meanwhile elsewhere in the region, Adalmode, daughter of the Viscount of Limoges All this is about simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to become a marriage pawn in a power struggledo poorly. Although she loves her familyBut despite that, she disagrees with their choice something about it still grabs me – and has another in mind – one of her fathersomething about this book's prisoners. This is a tough world where love takes second place to survival and having it all is generally not an option compatible with staying alivedescription did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907605592</amazonuk>1914585526
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{{Frontpage
|author=Nicole Jarvis
|title=A Portrait in Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=''I want all of Florence to know my name''
{{newreview|author=Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio|title=Girl Genius: Agatha H Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the Voice of powerful Accademia, the Castle|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Agatha H and the Voice self-proclaimed guardians of the Castle'' is healing magics that through paintings have the third novel in power to protect the Girl Genius series, adapted city and its citizens from the award-winning steampunk-style webcomicplagues and curses. Following the dramatic events of the previous two books, this volume sees Agatha returning to her family home in Mechanicsburg in order to claim her place as 'The Heterodyne'. She also needs to restore her warall-damaged ancestral castle, which is in poor condition following a devastating attack by “The Othermale Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else.” Of course, in the world of Girl GeniusTo them, nothing is straightforward Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and Agatha's mission is complicated by several things: the castle is a sadistic sentient being with a fractured personality; Agatha change – has a copy of her evil mother locked away inside her brain that could reappear at any moment AND a huge pink airship has just appeared in Mechanicsburg heralding the arrival of a fake Heterodyne heiressno place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178116651X</amazonuk>1803362340
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{{Frontpage
|author=Thomas D Lee
|title=Perilous Times
|rating=3
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''
{{newreview|author=Antonin Varenne and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Loser's Corner|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Georges Crozat. He's a policeman Set in Paristhe near-distant future, who boxes in a world on the side. After a bout that leads to an almost embarrassing victoryverge of climate collapse, he Britain is made two offers – one from a clearly corrupt man behind the scenes in the sport, who seems to offer great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a few thrown fights for Georges, then some kind of status as assistant – training, guiding, profiteering; the other comes from a man known always as ''the Pakistani'' hero (or an unkind abbreviation of thatseveral), who has a friend of a friend who wants someone to do an enemy a mischief with their fists. Georges doesn't take too long to choose save the latter. In alternating chapters, however, we're in the 1950s, day and a rookie to the forces, Pascal Verini, is being shipped out to Algeria to work on the civil war causing the republic to break away and become independent from Francerescue what little remains. Like Georges, he finds his situation What no-one which also causes what may be misguided violence, even if he has a very different attitude to it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052276</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daisy Waugh|title=Honeyville|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The story is told by Dora Whitworth, a call girl in expected was that one of the most exclusive brothels in Trinidad, Colorado. At Knights of the time, Round Table would answer the town was the only place in the West where prostitution was legal and it was infamous for its red-light district. Dora’s voice rings true and her life is convincingly described. The sumptuous brothel in Plum Street, with its smells of perfume and disinfectant, is as claustrophobic as a prison and Phoebe, the madam, particularly chillingcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007431775</amazonuk>0356518523
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanna HicksonG K Holloway|title=Red Rose, White RoseIn the Shadows of Castles
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Cecily Neville, daughter We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of Ralph, Earl William of Westmorland and Joan Beaufort, puts her obligations above all else which is why she marries Richard Plantagenet, third Duke Normandy's coronation as King of York and her fatherEngland. William's wardposition is not secure and the new king has many challenges. Together they will start Imposing authority through a royal line that will go down coronation is important. And William is right to worry. While the centuries but not without painprevious king, Harold, conflict is dead and, the likelihood of coursemore pitched battles is over, the Wars rebels are stirring and much of the Rosescountry does not wish to recognise a new overlord. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007447019</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.''
{{newreview|title=The Man Who Loved Dogs|author=Leonardo Padura|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In Cuba, Maya is a young girl living in a mysterious man walks on hunter gatherer village during the beach, always with two Russian wolfhoundsMesolithic era. Watched by a writerClimate change is occurring, he soon comes to share his storythe Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, and it becomes clear that he food is Ramon Mercader - becoming more and more scarce. What to do? Can the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the man Traveller, a spiritual figure who killed Trotsky.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524448</amazonuk>interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Priestley1529125898|title=The Last of the SpiritsGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Teenage Sam and his little sister Lizzie are starving on the streets of London, which is gripped by terrible cold. Asking an old businessman for money, a man who looks at them with such sheer contempt that Sam's heart fills with hate. He swears that he will seek vengeance and rob the old man, not caring whether his victim will live or die. But before he can do so, a strange spirit appears to him, and warns him about the terrible path he will put himself on with this violent act. Can Sam resist the temptation to gain revenge? Several more spirits show him the possible consequences of his action, as we see Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol from a new viewpoint.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408854139</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Edric
|title=Sanctuary
|rating=3
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Everyone knows Charlotte, Emily and Anne. Not many know that this famous trio ''If it were not for the casual dereliction of literary sisters also had a brother, Patrick Branwell Brontë, born the year after Charlotte and a year before Emily. Like his sisters, he had literary ambitions: he wrote juvenile stories, poems and translations from the Greek; he also trained as a painter (you have most likely seen his famous painting of his sisters). Again like his sisters, howeverodd gentleman's duty, he was destined there would no women to die youngteach well-bred daughters at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522876</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Krishna Bhatt|title=The Royal Enigma|rating=2|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=There is absolutely nothing wrong with books that cross genresAnne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. The best historical novels are as much history as fictionShe had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessity. HoweverUntil the death of her mother, it is Anne had a golden rule that a book must know who comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the household. When her mother died, her father cast her off and what it iswould have nothing more to do with her. One No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of the problems with The Royal Enigma is that it suffers from £35 a serious identity crisisyear. Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005Q8QCTY</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Erin KnightleyMelissa Fu |title=The Baron Next DoorPeach Blossom Spring
|rating=3.5
|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Charity is hoping I loved the prelude to enjoy Peach Blossom Spring, a relaxing break in Bath, attending the music festival with her beloved grandmother, Lady Effington. Charity doesnshort chapter entitled 't just love music, she 'Origins'lives'' music; . Unfortunately it is an intrinsic the only truly poetic part of her very being and she is never happier than when playing her latest compositions on her pianofortea book that I expected more from. She cannot understand why anyone would hate music, so when her new neighbour Baron Cadgwith turns up on her doorstep, demanding that she keep the ''infernal racket Covering Chinese history from 1938 to a minimum2005 as viewed through one family'', she declares war on the insufferably rude Baron next doors perspective. The result When their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japan, a lightyoung mother (Meilin) and her four-year-hearted old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, and sweet Regency romance that sees the most unlikely pair begin in Renshu's case eventually to bond, despite their differencesAmerica. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349405417</amazonuk>1472277538
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Hill1916072038|title=Black SheepThe House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Mount of Zeal is a mining village, and no mistake. Three concentric semi-circular streets align across the side of a hill, like the rows of seats in an amphitheatre, with little thought at all allowed for the life above the crest of the hill, and a lot of effort and dreams focused on the coal mine at the village's core. The Howker family (and how evocative that name is, so akin to the noise of hawking coal dust from one's lungs), and Ted and Rose, the youngest of the clan, in particular, will face the destiny the environment they grow up in gives them – with only the merest glimmers of hope and the faintest of sparks to latch on to as regards a likeable future. But if that is a faint spark, then how safe is it so close to the tinderbox of a coal mine?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009953956X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Katherine Webb
|title=The Night Falling
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=In the summer of 1921, Leandro returns to his birthplace in Italy. He has made his fortune, and his aim is to transform a crumbling palazzo into an opulent mansion. But the outside world is still reeling from the Great War, and Leandro’s nephew, Ettore, is one of those most in need of help. Reluctantly, Ettore asks his uncle for assistance. But Ettero could not have foreseen what was to come from that request…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409131491</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rory Clements
|title=The Queen's Man
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Elizabethan England - a murky, dirty world full of religious strife and violent, short lives. Queen Elizabeth sits on the throne, but her seat is by no means safe - her first cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, is locked up in Sheffield Castle. Unable to leave, but by no means unable to plot and scheme with her supporters, Mary wishes to reclaim what she believes is rightfully hers - the throne. But even she cannot be prepared for the dark twists and new plots that arise.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548486</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Barbara Ewing
|title=The Petticoat Men
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=In 1871 Ernest Boulton (aged 22) We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and Frederick Park (aged 23) were arrested her mother have travelled in London; an arrest that shook society all some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to the way to house in the tophollow. Their crime? They dressed as The two women, which hinted at homosexuality, then a crime that carried a heinous prison tariff. Their infamous trial was watched closely by society because Stella and Fanny (as they were known when frocked) performed regularly at house parties are angry with each other and soirees attended by the higher echelons Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and so if these performers should fall, who would go down with them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781859965</amazonuk>}}weaknesses:
''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the deplorable truth''.
{{newreview|author=Emily Purdy|title=The Boleyn Bride|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Howard wants a noble marriage but at 16 sheHester is furious about Jocelyn's married off refusal to Thomas Boleyndo as she was asked, a jumped up nouveau riche who tries to hide his humble roots any way he can. Itwhich has precipitated 's not a love match on either side. So to compensate for her husband's shortcomings, Elizabeth throws herself into a collection of lovers this violent and the lives of two of her three children. Yes, she dreams of rosy futures for Mary and George, but for the third child Anne, born as ugly as a monkey, Elizabeth canunexpected removal''t envisage any future so wastes neither dreams nor love on her. However when Henry VII dies and his second son eventually takes the throne, Elizabeth realises she may not be right. Having Henry VIII as a son-in-law may do both Anne and the family a lot of good.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349405956</amazonuk>}}
 {{newreview|author=L C Tyler|title=A Cruel Necessity (A John Grey Historical Mystery)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Essex 1657: Cromwell's Republic is 8 years old. While John Grey sleeps off a good night Then we are told of drink under the eaves birth of a cottagechild and, a Royalist spy is murdered down the road. A trainee lawyersoon after, Hester Talbot departs, John also enjoys the science of investigation and so starts looking for clues that will lead him to the murderer. Although it's not easy: strange happenings occurred that night leaving Jocelyn in shame and Grey is having trouble persuading others of what he saw. Meanwhile his mother has the perfect match for himisolation in Yorkshire. Unfortunately their ideas of perfection differ somewhat!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472115031</amazonuk>
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  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine HallAnnabel Abbs|title=The RepercussionsLanguage of Food
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Once home from her role as Eliza Acton is a photo-journalist in Afghanistan, Jo decides to move into the Brighton flat that her great aunt Elizabeth poet who has bequeathed her. While searching through the belongings that go with never had the home, she finds Elizabeth's WWI diaries from the time that she nursed wounded servicemen from the Indian Corps at the Brighton Pavilion. These entries cause her slightest inclination to reflect on her time recording the more current war and enables her to open up to her ex-lover Susie in a series of letters, telling her how it was, the lives of those she met out there, what it did to them and, indeed, to herboil an egg.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883342</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Lucy|author=Alan Kennedy|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Lucy is When tasked with writing a painter. Hiding away in Dundee on VE Daycookery book, she returns from a disaster of an exhibition to a letter from a figure from her past. Uncle Albertrecruits Ann Kirby, still in France, wants to sort out his affairs - who will get what after he's dead. The letter sends Lucy on a voyage of discovery - about local woman with a past full of art, lost love, found love, grief, war and about what could possibly come nexttroubled home life. Set in pre-war LondonTogether, pre-war and wartime France and windythey test, rainy Dundeecraft, Lucy is a love story, but it's also a kind of coming-home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956469663</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anne O'Brien|title=The King's Sister|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It's England in 1380 and 17 year old Elizabeth of Lancaster has always dreamt of her betrothal refine and reshape the sort of love world of which balladeers sing. So when she meets the person her father has lined updomestic cookery, her face drops to say reinventing the least. The Earl of Pembroke is eight years old so she's not pleased. However one day love will find her recipe book and cruelly cause her to choose between changing the love face of her life and family with fatal consequencescookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848453469</amazonuk>1398502227
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Lives of Stella BainFreya Marske|authortitle=Anita ShreveA Marvellous Light
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=The opening of this book Robin Blyth is nudged into a brilliant onejob in the Civil Service, being thrust into much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the midst streets of Stella’s confusion as she wakes London are threaded with no memory in magic. Desperate to remove a first aid station near curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the front line. She knows nothing other than countryside, where the fact that she can drive an ambulance, hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the reader knows nothing more than herpeople shimmer with power. She soon discovers There they uncover a sinister plot that she can draw, too, and this is a really nice angle to help learn about her and her past without having to unveil everything all at once. I think threatens the use lives of present tense within this novel works incredibly well all magicians in order to keep the reader at the same speed as the character, and it’s also a writing style I enjoy as a whole because it’s a little bit unusual and brings a different pace to the textBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349123578</amazonuk>1529080886
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title=The English GirlFlights for Freedom|author=Margaret LeroySteven Burgauer|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Stella Whittaker moves from It's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a quiet English town young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to Vienna be trained in 1937 to improve her music skills. Staying with old family friendsCanada, the Krauses, she feels less comfortable than she expects as a sense of mysterious menace hangs over first to be attached to the household. Nevertheless, Stella enjoys her new life RAF and the sophistication of first to be sent into the skies to fight the city. More than anything, she enjoys falling Germans in love with Harri, a young Jewish doctoractive combat. And despite many warning signsBut before that can happen, Stella’s love for him blinds her Petrol has to master flying the possibility of trouble when it seems inevitable to othersnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751551775</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher BlandChristophe Medler|title=Ashes In The WindMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret
|rating=4
|genre=General Historical Fiction|summary=John Burke and Tomas Sullivan may go to Set against the backdrop of the same primary school English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in Kerry but even in 1908 they're on two sides the summer of 1642. As a great divide. John is Anglo Irish protestant loyal servant of the King, and comfortably offHead of the Secret Service, being the heir to Derriquin Castle whereas Tomas it is Irish Catholic, living in poverty and raised Robert's duty to feel uncover the resentment details of the oppressed. The fact that John has been brought up plan and follow the clues to believe uncover one of the most guarded secrets in Home Rule tragically makes no difference as John, Tomas and their future generations live with history—especially since the plot could affect the consequences of a centuries old struggleKing. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781859337</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Andersen1471187179|title=The Boleyn King (Anne Boleyn Trilogy 1)A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=In this alternative history, Anne BoleynMinnie is an 'ordinary's son William has become the king known as Henry IXgirl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. As he nears The book is set in the age of majority (18)1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, he also approaches produce children and spend the age at which he will rule solo rather than through his regent rest of her days looking after her husband and uncle, George Boleyntheir home. HoweverUnfortunately, hethis isn's inherited t what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a troubled kingdomsecretary. Not only are England's enemies knocking at As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the door, there are enemies within Will's own householdCommunist Party of Great Britain. It begins with Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the sudden death of one of friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the court's young ladies in waitingCommunist Party. Where will it end?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195648X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Valerie FitzgeraldAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=ZemindarKokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=1850s India: Laura Hewitt accompanies her newly married cousin Emily Flood and Emily's husband Charles to Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the exotic subget-continent for a visit to Charles' half-brother Oliver Erskinego, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. Although none of I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the travellers have ever met Olivermiddle on darker stock paper, many of a chapter whose number was in the people they encounter have heard of him 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and the way he rules his small fiefdom as its Zemindarso on. These stories tantalise Laura as It intrigued with the information conflicts and she's unable to develop subterranean voice a mental picture man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of the manit mentioned, too. ThatBut you's ve seen the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not all thatactually caused by them. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697}}{{Frontpage|author=Christina Hammonds Reed|title=The Black Kids|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's conflicting: there's an increasing feeling debut novel is set against the backdrop of unrest in this furthest outpost the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to the absolution of Queen Victoria's empire which will eventually lead four police officers for beating a black man, Rodney King, nearly to one death. Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, the bloodiest episodes in Indo-British history. Lauranovel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, Emily to a woman finding her voice and Charles are naïve, but that won't save them from what's to come – something beyond their worst nightmaresembracing her heritage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178185954X</amazonuk>1471188191
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{{newreview|author=Ken Follett|title=Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy)|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The story baton is passed to the next generation as the swinging 60s arrive for people like Dave Williams. For others such as Rebecca Hoffmann and Walli Franck, living in East Germany means other priorities and, indeed, worries. What the Hoffmann-Francks don't realise is that things are about to get a lot worse, partially due to the treacherous influence of someone they all once trusted. Meanwhile in America George Jakes has ideals and strong convictions that will take him past the metaphorical draw bridge into the echelons of a modern day Camelot. What of the Dvorkin twins in Russia? Tania and Dimka may have differing ideas Move on how to effect change but storm clouds are hanging over them - and the rest of the world - as an island off the coast of America gathers prominence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230710166</amazonuk>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]
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