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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea ChapinTananarive Due|title=The TutorReformatory|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Historical Fiction|summary=Katherine de L'Isle comes to live Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with her uncle Sir Edward's family at Lufanwal Hall when she's widowed after only a white boy, twelve year of marriage. A fine home and -old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the bosom of Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the family should be Reformatory. It's a place of safety but not in this casewith a brutal and dark reputation. This But the segregated reformatory is 1590 in Queen Elizabeth's protestant England and Katherine's family are Roman Catholics; something they thought was a secret till their priest is found murdered on their landchamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. Life must go on though. The children of In order to survive the household are raised school governor and educated almost on his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the periphery help of Katherinethe school's vision until she meets ghosts – only they have their tutor, a certain Midlands' glove maker's son called William Shakespeareown motivations... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024196816X</amazonuk>1803366532}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fannie FlaggKatherine Howe|title=The All-Girl Filling Station's Last ReunionA True Account

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=2005 Alabama: Sookie Earle awakes one morning Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a 59 year old happily married female Methodist with American roots that go way back in history family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a wonderfully steadfast dentist husbandyoung age. However before When she goes hears there is to bed that night all that (apart from be a hanging of some pirates in the married town, she decides to go and female bits) will changewatch. 1940s Wisconsin: a Polish immigrant family lose their men to wartime conscription Enthralled and so have to make horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a go young boy's death at the hands of their family gas station alonetwo vicious pirates. Fritzi She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her sisters rise too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the challenge notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and then take from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on another more dangerous adventure, taking to the skies for the war effortocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593149</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate WilliamsSarah Marsh|title=The Storms A Sign of WarHer Own

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=England - 1914. The de Witt family live in Stoneythorpe HallAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, an English manor that allows them to lead lives of relative luxuryEllen Lark loses her hearing. Behind the ornate doors and heavy drapes Suddenly plunged into a world of the house thoughsilence, things are less than ideal - everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the approaching shadow use of war makes things increasingly difficult for German born Rudolfsign language was seen as something only savages do, and Verena struggles Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to find her role lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in both another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the home deaf and societyusing a system called Visible Speech. With their sons studying At the same time, one daughter marrying Bell is working on other inventions and one fast growing up, war will change all that these people knowideas, and force them to either adapt, or suffer untold consequencesEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409144887</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Place Called WinterClaire North|authortitle=Patrick GaleHouse of Odysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=''A Place called WinterWhat could matter more than love?'' is the story of Harry Cane, a young man in Edwardian England. Left with a sizeable inheritance, Harry follows tradition, marrying and raising a young child. A passionate affair, however, forces Harry into exile, separated from all that he knows, and forced to try his hand as a farmer in the plains of Canada.

The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In Canada he finds love 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 acceptancephysical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, although Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile happiness is soon threatened by peace. One that shatters however with the return of an old enemyOrestes, warKing of Mycenae, and madnesshis sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472205294</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen MaitlandB0C7J9D21B|title=The Raven's Head|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In 13th century England, Gisa, niece and ward of an apothecary attracts the attention of one of his more sinister clients. Elsewhere Wilky, a small child, is taken from his parents in lieu of a debt and then taken to a monastery which is a cover for something less than Christian. Meanwhile A Captive in France, Vincent, a scribe's apprentice, is framed for a theft and has to run for his life. The three will meet but under circumstances that turn out to be the stuff of dark, bloody nightmares.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472215060</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAlgiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Berlie Doherty|title=Far From HomeA J Lewis

|summary=Lizzie When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and Emily Jarvis can no longer be in the care he lives at The House of their Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother as she has become severely illdied when he was born. She leaves them in the care He's not been short of her best friend, a cookmothers, though - but when things go wrongfor someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, the girls are sent it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the Victorian mills where they preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are worked each day till they are beyond exhausted considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and the only thing that keeps them going is counting down the days till they are able to leaveit was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007578822</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily BullockEssie Fox|title=The Longest Fight|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Jack Munday is a retired boxer who, even in his prime, wasn’t quite good enough, so now older and wiser Jack hopes to hit the big time as a manager and believes that in Frank he has found a fighter who could get him there. Frank is young, naïve, eager to learn with a lot of talent and Jack discovers him just in time to take him under his wing before any other more established managers could sign him up. The pair make a pretty good team and Frank starts to build up an impressive boxing record and fan base and Jack sees his dreams and hard graft about to reach fruition but things are rarely simple and life, love and shady characters get in the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434538</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK Wilson|title=The Traitor's MarkFascination

|summary=When war The Victorian era is declared and her brother joins incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the RAF, young Carolyn Maddison makes Second World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it clear . There's such a glut of media set in the era that she plans to follow in his footsteps and join the WAAF as soon as she turns eighteen. Despite her parentshallmarks we' objections, she stays true ve come to her word and soon receives an invitation to report associate with it are familiar to the Air Ministry for trainingpoint of being cliched, hackneyed even. In her first weeks with the WAAF, Carolyn experiences heartbreaking loss and witnesses All this is simply to illustrate that it would be an horrific accident that causes her to make a rash vow: never easy thing to get emotionally involved with a pilotdo poorly. However, as a pretty young girl stationed at a base full of dashing young airmenBut despite that, she finds something about it increasingly difficult to keep her resolve, especially when fun-loving Vera arrives at the base still grabs me – and starts flirting with Rick, the man that she just turned downsomething about this book's description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349402698</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hermione EyreNicole Jarvis|title=Viper WineA Portrait in Shadow

|summary=Venetia Stanley lives ''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Seventeeth century LondonFlorence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. A celebrated beauty, But as some as she enters Florentine society she has had poems written in honour of herfaces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, and portraits painted by one the self-proclaimed guardians of the leading artists of healing magics that through paintings have the time. Married power to a handsome, kind protect the city and adventurous man, Venetia is kept in a life of luxury, its citizens from plagues and, at first glance curses. The all- male Accademia has everything she could ever have dreamed ofhoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. Except Venetia is not happy. A To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has made her name no place amongst them and fortune because of her beauty, she is convinced that her allure is quickly slipping through her fingers. Signing a pact with an apothecary for his famed restorative 'Viper Wine', Venetia is set on a dangerous paththeir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581663</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lesley J NickellThomas D Lee|title=The White Queen of Middleham: Sprigs of Broom 1Perilous Times|rating=43|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary= Anne Neville, as youngest daughter ''Hate is the path of least resistance'Kingmaker' Richard Earl of Warwick Set in the near-distant future, grows up with all in a world on the advantages verge of 15th century aristocracy. Unfortunately Anne is also female so her life climate collapse, Britain is used to expedite her father's plansin great peril. The dreams and innocent affections of the delicate child are dashed as she faces exile and British Isles desperately needs a loveless marriage hero (or several) to save the son of domineering Margaret of Anjouday and rescue what little remains. It doesn't get better straight after What no-one expected was that either as virtual imprisonment and then slavery follow his death. While England is tossed and turned by one of the houses Knights of York and Lancaster, all Anne wants is the peaceful solitude of holy ordersRound Table would answer the call. That may be what she wants, but her God still has other ideas…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861512082</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David ChurchillG K Holloway|title=The Leopards In the Shadows of Normandy: Devil: Leopards of Normandy 1Castles

|summary=Robert, We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the youngest son day of the 4th Duke William of Normandy, follows his father's bequest to the letter rather than the spirit coronation as King of England. William's position is not secure and claims the castle at Falaise which should have gone new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. And William is right to Richardworry. While the previous king, his elder brother. This will be a decision that will shape Harold, is dead and the rest likelihood of his life but the legacy that he and his low-born lover Herleva will be remembered for more pitched battles is their sonover, William the Bastard. An unfamiliar name perhaps until we realise that history will call him William rebels are stirring and much of the Conquerorcountry does not wish to recognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472219171</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toby Clements3949666079|title=Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims (Kingmaker 1)Noema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=February 1460: Canon Thomas and Sister Katherine have always equated their priory with values like piety and safety''This is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago. However when soldiers on horseback arrive this '' Maya is proven to be a misconception and young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the two flee for their livesMesolithic era. This Climate change is occurring, the first time they've been in the outside world since childhood but soon realise thereSea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce. What to it than they bargained for. It's naturally a dangerous place at any time but this is 15th century England - do? Can the law givers in the War federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the Roses is about to begin. Survival depends on worldly wisdomof All Life, something they don’t actually teach nuns or monks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099585871</amazonuk>provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Gilman1529125898|title=Master of War: Defiant Unto DeathGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary= Spoilers straight ahead ''If it were not for the first book, [[Master of War by David Gilman|Master casual dereliction of War]] so go read that first…Ready?Ok…It's been 10 years since the young Thomas Blackstone chose military service over hanging and faced the French at Crecy, coming away from the battle knighted. Timeodd gentleman's passing now finds him and his wife Christiana living with their two children in Normandy castle. Meanwhile in French held Franceduty, the current king, John II, is proving unpopular, starving the country with taxes and spreading fear with his cruel capricious nature. He sees betrayal everywhere and will execute those he perceives there would no women to be against himteach well-bred daughters at all. However, now he's right and there is a plot brewing and French royalist Simon Bucy has a plan to put it down: remove its cornerstone. His perceived cornerstone is none other than Sir Thomas Blackstone. This isn't going to be a clean fight; bring on the Savage Priest!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William NicholsonMelissa Fu |title=The Lovers of AmherstPeach Blossom Spring |rating=43.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=2013: Alice Dickinson has decided I loved the prelude to write Peach Blossom Spring, a screenplay about the 19th century affair between Mabel Todd and Austin Dickinson (no relation)short chapter entitled ''Origins''. 1881: Austin, brother Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, has an unhappy marriage but isna book that I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family't looking for happiness outside it till he meets Mabels perspective. The very liberated Mabel may be married tooWhen their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japan, but a young mother (Meilin) and her husband believes in freedom within wedlockfour-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. There The story follows one of the most scandalous relationships them on their journey across China, and in Renshu's case eventually to face small town New England; a relationship that Alice wants to research on-siteAmerica. While there, Alice discovers that inappropriate romance still exists but this is the 21st century so she feels ready for the consequences.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848666470</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hazel Gaynor1916072038|title=A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower SellersThe House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary=The year is 1876 and two little orphaned flower girls wander barefoot through the crowded London streets selling posies We meet part of violets to the people passing byTalbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. The older sister, Florrie, walks with a stick for support, but keeps a tight grip on her little sister's hand at all times. Rosie, 'little sister', is blind and views eight Twenty-seven-year-old Florrie as Jocelyn Talbot and her 'little mother' have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to the house in the hollow. The two women are inseparable angry with each other and share a deep bond that carries them through the hardships they face on a daily basis. Everything changes one fateful day when Florrie has her stick knocked from beneath Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and little Rosie weaknesses: ''She is snatched by one practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the deplorable truth'bad men'. Florrie searches frantically for Rosie Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as she was asked, but she seems to have vanishedwhich has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''. As  Then we are told of the years passbirth of a child and, Florrie never gives up her searchsoon after, Hester Talbot departs, eventually dying of a broken heartleaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062316893</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alison LoveAnnabel Abbs|title=The Girl from the Paradise BallroomLanguage of Food|rating=4.5

|summary=In Soho in 1937Eliza 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, Italian singer Antonio has found himself a wealthy patronlocal woman with a troubled home life. His patron’s wifeTogether, Oliviathey test, is known to Antonio from a chance encounter at the Paradise Ballroom - craft, refine and reshape the spark they felt on that meeting starts to deepen as war begins to creep up on them. In an uncertain worldof domestic cookery, everything about their lives is under threat – reinventing the government perceives foreigners as threats recipe book and changing the war wreaks havoc with nerves and relationshipsface of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373785</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura AndersenFreya Marske|title=The Boleyn Deceit (Anne Boleyn Trilogy Book 2) A Marvellous Light|rating=4.5

|summary=Even after her deathRobin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, George Boleyn continues much to fashion his sister Anne's son into a king in George's imagechagrin. However, now 18, matters of state aren’t There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the only concerns streets of Henry IXLondon are threaded with magic. He has Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to decide between the French Princess Elizabeth countryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and commoner, childhood friend Minuette although Minuette is secretly betrothed to Henry's advisor Dominicthe people shimmer with power. Minuette also has another quest: to find out who killed her friend Alyce but sleuthing is becoming more dangerous. Meanwhile Henry's Catholic sister Mary and very intelligent sister Elizabeth are not going to be happy remaining merely decorative for longThere they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091956498</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate RiordanB09F4CTKJR|title=The Girl in the PhotographFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=Alice Eveleigh is sent to Fiercombe Manor in 1933 as It's the result later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a scandalyoung American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. Back This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the 1890s RAF and the Manor had been home first to Elizabeth and Charles Stanton and their little girl Isabel but it doesn't feel like a house that's seen much happiness. The stones are drenched be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in tragedy and secrets that have remained locked away since thenactive combat. What sort of secrets? Will Alice be too nosey for her own good or will the secrets remain just But before thatcan happen, with Petrol has to master flying the added threat of history repeating itself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917423</amazonuk>notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert BauschChristophe Medler|title=Far As the Eye Can See|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''It was a bit slow'' was probably my Mam's worst condemnation of film… but I'm going to forgive her for not appreciating slowness, because it was she that got me into appreciating westerns. Of course she preferred the all-action kind, but through watching those with her, I started to watch and enjoy the long, slow, ones and to appreciate the back-drop to all of that action… and then somewhere along the line I got interested in what might really have happenedMadrigal: not just in the West but the whole of what became the U.S. in the early days of settlement.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408844303</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mary Gibson|title=Jam and Roses: The Lives and Loves of 1920s Factory Girls|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The year is 1923 and 'jam-girl' Millie Colman is eagerly awaiting the arrival of a letter inviting her family to go 'hopping' in Kent. The annual trip provides desperately needed respite from the oppressive atmosphere at home, as well as a much-needed dose of fresh air and open space. For Millie, the invitation symbolises escape; albeit for only a few precious weeks of the year. Life in the Colman household is uncomfortable, to say the least. Millie and her two sisters bicker constantly and the whole family live under the shadow of a drunken father who is prone to violent rages. Unfortunately for Millie, this year's hopping trip is anything but an escape, when she makes a foolish decision which will have dire repercussions for the whole family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855927</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Ross|title=The War at the Edge of the World: Twilight of Empire: Book One (Rome Reborn)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Centurion Aurelius Castus has risen through the ranks from the crack legions of the Danube but now finds himself in a Roman army on the very edge of the world – 4th century Britain, near Eboracum. Although his men are kept at battle fitness, his latest mission is one of peace. He must take a cohort to escort an envoy on a visit to the barbarian Picts. The local tribes are in the process of picking a new leader and, as the area's future is resting on it, the Romans want to influence the choice with diplomacy. However not everyone has been honest with Castus; people as well as situations are not all they seem. Castus must depend on his own initiative and ability to survive as he soon realises he can trust no one. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081124</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Erin Knightley|title=The Earl I AdoreA Closely Guarded Secret

|summary=Poor Sophie Wembley has been placed in a desperate situation thanks to her sister Penelope, who has eloped with Set against the 'hired help'. Once news backdrop of the scandal reaches English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the gossip-mongers summer of 1642. As a loyal servant of the 'ton'King, Sophie and her family will be ousted from polite society and her hopes Head of finding an eligible husband will be ruined. It the Secret Service, it is therefore up to SophieRobert's scheming mother to persuade her duty to snare herself a man before uncover the gossip becomes public knowledge. Time is clearly details of the essence plan and when it comes follow the clues to suitable husbands, Sophie knows only uncover one man will do: of the handsome Earl of Evansleigh, for whom she has been harbouring a 'tendre' for most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the past yearKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349405441</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Warr1471187179|title=The Viking HostageA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore

|summary=Sigrid Minnie 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 brothers are taken from their native Norseland mother's expectations and sold as slaves separately. Sigrid then begins her life alone as maid find a nice young man to Ainamarry, daughter produce children and spend the rest of Ademar, Viscount of Segur in Limogesher days looking after her husband and their home. Her life could be a lot worse. SigridUnfortunately, this isn's pagan beliefs could condemn her t what she wants to a tough time in Christian France but do at all and neither does she's fallen on her feet, forming a close friendship with Aina, albeit want to continue working as a servile onesecretary. Meanwhile elsewhere in the regionAs a result of a chance meeting, Adalmodeshe finds herself drawn into espionage, daughter of working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Viscount Communist Party of Limoges is about to become a marriage pawn in a power struggleGreat Britain. Although Minnie finds herself torn between what she loves perceives as her family, duty and the friends she disagrees with their choice and has another in mind – one of her father's prisoners. This is a tough world where love takes second place to survival made - and having it all is generally not an option compatible with staying alivelikes - whilst working for the Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907605592</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil Foglio Afonso Cruz and Kaja FoglioRahul Bery (translator)|title=Girl Genius: Agatha H and the Voice of the CastleKokoschka's Doll|rating=42.5|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=''Agatha H and the Voice of the Castle'' is the third novel in the Girl Genius seriesWell, adapted this looked very much like a book I could love from the awardget-winning steampunk-style webcomicgo, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. Following I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the dramatic events of middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the previous two books20, this volume sees Agatha returning to her family home in Mechanicsburg in order to claim her place 000s, letters used as 'The Heterodyne'narrative form, and so on. She also needs to restore her war-damaged ancestral castle, which is in poor condition following It intrigued with the subterranean voice a devastating attack by “The Other.” Of course, man hears in the world wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of Girl Geniusit mentioned, nothing is straightforward and Agathatoo. But you's mission is complicated by several things: ve seen the castle is a sadistic sentient being star rating that comes with a fractured personality; Agatha has a copy of her evil mother locked away inside her brain this review, and can tell that could reappear at any moment AND a huge pink airship has just appeared in Mechanicsburg heralding the arrival of a fake Heterodyne heiressif love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178116651X</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonin Varenne and Frank Wynne (translator)Christina Hammonds Reed|title=Loser's Corner|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Georges Crozat. He's a policeman in Paris, who boxes on the side. After a bout that leads to an almost embarrassing victory, he is made two offers – one from a clearly corrupt man behind the scenes in the sport, who seems to offer 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'' (or an unkind abbreviation of that), 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 the latter. In alternating chapters, however, we're in the 1950s, 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 France. Like Georges, he finds his situation 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 one of the most exclusive brothels in Trinidad, Colorado. At the time, 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 chilling.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007431775</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joanna Hickson|title=Red Rose, White RoseBlack Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=Cecily Neville, daughter Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of Ralphthe 1992 Los Angeles riots, Earl a reaction to the absolution of Westmorland and Joan Beaufortfour police officers for beating a black man, puts her obligations above all else which is why she marries Richard PlantagenetRodney King, third Duke of York and her father's wardnearly to death. Together they will start a royal line that will go down Told from the centuries but not without pain, conflict and, perspective of courseAshley Bennett, the Wars novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of the Rosesrace, to a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007447019</amazonuk>1471188191