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[[Category:New Reviews|Historical Fiction]]==Historical fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Geraldine Brooks|title=Caleb's Crossing|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Let's start, as Geraldine Brooks has, with a fact: in 1665 the first Native American, Caleb Cheeshateaumauk, graduated from Harvard College. Around this, Brooks has created a wholly fictional story (the known facts are so few that this is largely unavoidable). The stroke of genius here is to put the story into the words of the entirely fictitious Bethia Mayfield, the daughter of an English minister on what we now call Martha's Vinyard, where Caleb lived in the Wampanoag tribe. At various points in her life, Bethia sets down events concerning her early secret friendship with Caleb on the island, to accompanying him and her brother to Harvard and the subsequent events.|amazonuk=<amazonuk!-- Remove -->0007333536 </amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Claire Holden Rothman|title=The Heart Specialist|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=We first meet teenager Agnes at home !- dissecting a recently-dead squirrel in secret. She knows full well that her family would not approve of this unseemly behaviour, especially from a girl. She's expected to be a young lady and enjoying ladylike hobbies, like playing with dolls. Fat chance. Feisty Agnes is her father's daughter and she has an interest in medicine. It must be in the blood, in the genes. If that's the case it's skipped younger sister Laure. The two sisters are very different. Laure is a gentle and pretty girl but her health is rather delicate. Agnes is a bit of a tom-boy and a goINSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-getter. Their grandmother despairs of young Agnes - what's to become of her? The norm is marriage and a family, this medical nonsense must be stamped out. It's out of the question. This profession is strictly for the men. Try telling that to Agnes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851687947</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne O'BrienTananarive Due|title=Devil's ConsortThe Reformatory
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=In the year 1137 fifteen Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year -old Eleanor of Aquitaine Robbie Stephens Jr is an orphansentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. Just before her fatherIt's death he asked King Louis VI of France to take care a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of herhorrors, and haunted by the unscrupulous Louis took advantage of this request to marry her boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his pious son Louis VII. When her new father in law passes awayFunhouse, Robert must enlist the young woman becomes Queen help of France and is determined to safeguard her precious lands from all who want to take them the school's ghosts – even if it leads to conflict with her weak-willed husbandonly they have their own motivations... Then she meets the Count of Anjou, Geoffrey Plantagenet, and his son Henry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778304272</amazonuk>1803366532}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth SpellerKatherine Howe|title=The Strange Fate of Kitty EastonA True Account
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=I reviewed Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and thoroughly enjoyed Speller's [[The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller|The Return Of Captain John Emmett]] so I was really keen being made to get stuck into the follow-upwork there from a young age. The main character, officer Laurence Bartram When she hears there is also an important character to be a hanging of some pirates in the previous booktown, but both are stand-alone novels she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in their own righta young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. The front cover is evocative She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and is also then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as pretty a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a picture - literallycabin boy. With its intriguing title which had me asking all sorts She soon finds herself in the thick of questions before I'd even opened things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the book, it was a good startocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844086313</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carol BirchSarah Marsh|title=Jamrach's MenagerieA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=The novel is written in the first person by After a bout of scarlet fever as a young boy called Jaffychild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. He describes the poverty Suddenly plunged into a world of his silence, everything about her life at home which includes the delightful line 'We lived changes. Living in a time when the crow's nest use of Mrs Reagan's housesign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing.' He also describes his struggling mother From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and his absent fatherusing a system called Visible Speech. But I got At the sense that here was same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a bright and resilient boycomplicated tangle of espionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847676561</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen MaitlandClaire North|title=The Gallow's CurseHouse of Odysseus
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=This is the eagerly anticipated, and long awaited third novel by the immensely talented author Karen Maitland. It seems as if her ever expanding and permanently loyal fan base will not be disappointed in any way by her latest offering. It's rare (if ever), that I would be moved to give a 5 star rating to any novel - but this one richly deserves the highest of accolades.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718156358</amazonuk>}}'What could matter more than love?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C BeatonB0C7J9D21B|title=The Travelling Matchmaker: Emily Goes to ExeterA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=34.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Emily Goes to Exeter When we first meet our hero, his name is by way Ettore and he lives at The House of 'Being the First Volume of the Travelling Matchmaker' Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as the subheading has this might sound, it on the frontispiece: the beginning of 's a new series obviouslybordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. If like me you have come to Beaton by way He's not been short of Hamish Macbeth this might seem like something mothers, though - but for someone of a diversion. A little research shows you that his background in fact Marion Chesneylate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, who writes under a number it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of pseudonyms (including Beaton) has a prolific anchovies didn't workout and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined -rateand it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. Having produced upwards of 130 books since starting writing full time in the 1980s, focussing on crime and historical romance, there can be few avenues down which she has yet to wanderHe was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849014795</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret DickinsonEssie Fox|title=Forgive and Forget|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Straight away I got the sense of this book because of its language and style. Lots of adjectives such as Polly has a ' ... fiery personality' and 'Cold fear ran through the girl's slim body.' This book is very easy to read, to get into as the tone is conversational. There are lines like 'The young girl's eyes widened and her mouth dropped open in a horrified gasp. She clutched her throat as she uttered hoarsely, 'no, oh, no!' ' This book will appeal to those readers who like a rather uncomplicated yarn but also with a good dash of romance. True escapism. Personally, the title is too slushy for me but I appreciate that it fits in nicely with the genre and also with Dickinson's style. But, I have to say, there's an awful lot of 'hearts thumping' and 'eyes blazing' - too many for me, I'm afraid.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033051623X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sylvia Broady|title=The Yearning Heart|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It is 1941 so when an unmarried Frances Bewholme becomes pregnant she is shunned by her family and sent to an isolated farm to live and work. To add to her shame and disgrace Fran's unborn baby is not just any man's; it is her brother-in-law's. Victor Renton, home on leave from the war takes advantage of Fran one night when she comes home, upset and heartbroken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709092113</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maaza Mengiste|title=Beneath the Lion's GazeFascination
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Ethiopia 1974. Emperor Haile Selassie The Victorian era is an old man barely clinging on to power. Still thought of, even by those rebelling against him, incredibly over-romanticised as a demi-god that they daren't disrespect let alone challenge he has held the country in thrall to his aristocratic government supported by the violence and repression of the army and the police.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099539926</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alma Katsu|title=The Taker|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=When Dr Luke Findley begins his nightshift at Aroostook County Hospital in St Andrewssetting for historical fiction (matched only, Maineperhaps, things are quiet until Lanny McIlvrae is brought in by the police. Lanny is covered in blood and claims she Second World War) which has killed often led to more than a man and left him in the woodsfew writers mishandling it. Desperate to escape, Lanny quickly asks for LukeThere's help, but he is not sure at first, so Lanny decides to tell Luke her life story, such a story glut of media set in the era that begins in the early Puritan settlement hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to the point of St Andrews in 1809 and spans nearly two hundred yearsbeing cliched, taking Lanny from her home hackneyed even. All this is simply to Boston and beyondillustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. A story But despite that is rich, imaginative and entirely authentic, filling the majority of the novel, something about it still grabs me – and there wasnsomething about this book't a moment when I questioned her reliability s description did as she tells Luke everything, chapter by chapter, as he helps her to escape, slowly drawing him and the reader into her worldwell. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846058171</amazonuk>1914585526
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Glenn TaylorNicole Jarvis|title=The Marrowbone Marble CompanyA Portrait in Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Glenn Taylor tells a big story with a deft lightness of touch. Covering the period from the early 1940s to the late 1960s, The Marrowbone Marble Company (and it's marble in the form of the glass marble game for children rather than the stone variety) tells the story of Loyal Ledford, a hard working man in West Virginia who marries the daughter of the glass factory where he works. Returning from a traumatic World War two, he decides to start his own business manufacturing marbles. If that sounds dull, it's far from it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007359071</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ellen Bryson|title=The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno: A Love Story|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=Set in the days and months following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno is an inventive and highly entertaining story of the life of the ''curiosities'' performing in the great PT Barnum's great American Museum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330533819</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jean Teule|title=Monsieur Montespan|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The Marquis de Montespan is totally in love with his new wife Athénaïs and she with him, so much so that when she becomes a lady in waiting at the palace of Versailles, she begs her husband to remove her in case she falls for the charms of the famous Sun King. The Marquis refuses because of the prestige and fortune her position brings them – but it's a decision he quickly regrets, as Louis XIVindeed manages to cuckold him. With I want all of France talking about the new woman in the king's life, Montespan is expected to take the rewards offered to him in exchange for his wife and leave the couple alone. But many years before the French Revolution, instead he takes the unprecedented step of standing up Florence to the king, ignoring his offers and proclaiming his cuckoldry by adding horns to his coat of arms. Can the man who's become a figure of fun throughout the country win back his wife?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906040303</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paul R Spiring and Hugh Cooke|title=Wheels of Anarchy by Max Pemberton|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=This mystery-adventure book was written and published around 100 years ago. Will it stand the test of time? The back cover blurb says confidently that this '' adventure story ... makes James Bond look like a stay at home ...'' Before you get into the story proper thereknow my name's quite a lot of information in the introductory pages. Some of it I did find interesting (the page about Max Pemberton and Sherlock Holmes for instance) but some readers may feel a little bogged down before they've even started to read chapter one. Both Pemberton and Holmes belonged to a small, elite criminology society in London. I got the impression that the two co-compilers felt as if they had to justify themselves somehow. I ploughed on ...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685316</amazonuk>}}
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|rating=3
|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=Summer 1266, Nancheng in Central China and Doctor Shih is struggling to cope with the monsoon season, when he gets a midnight summons to Peacock Hill: ancient palace complex and now home to the Pacification Commissioner, his wife, concubines and various officials and hangers on. Wang Ting-bo's only son and heir 'Hate is apparently dying and all the great and good path of the medical guild are unable to save him. They recommend the employment of magicians in the hope of driving out the evil spirits. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905802382</amazonuk>}}least resistance''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernhard Schlink and Carol Brown JanewayG K Holloway|title=The ReaderIn the Shadows of Castles
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=ItWe begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's West Germany, 1958coronation as King of England. A 15-year-old schoolboy, Michael Berg, William's position is suffering not secure and the new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a long bout of hepatitiscoronation is important. When he recovers he returns And William is right to worry. While the flat of a tram conductorprevious king, 36-year-old Hanna SchmitzHarold, to thank her for taking care of him is dead and the day he fell sick. The two likelihood of them begin a secret affair that becomes a routine for months: after school and work, Michael would read to hermore pitched battles is over, the rebels are stirring and then they would make love and bathe each other. Both much of them fall in lovethe country does not wish to recognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0753804700</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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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529125898
|title=Godmersham Park
|author=Gill Hornby
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth AshworthMelissa Fu |title=The de Lacy InheritancePeach Blossom Spring
|rating=3.5
|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Set in England in 1192, I loved the novel is full of details of life in this period, and resists the temptation prelude to get overtly bogged down in excessive political detailPeach Blossom Spring, which makes this a very accessible read to those (like myself) who are not too knowledgeable about this particular historical periodshort chapter entitled ''Origins''. Returning from the Crusades, Richard Unfortunately it is forced to leave his family and atone for the sins which he believes has lead to him being afflicted with leprosyonly truly poetic part of a book that I expected more from. Undertaking a quest Covering Chinese history from 1938 to his grandmother2005 as viewed through one family's nearby cousin (who perspective. When their home city is childlessset ablaze during the war with Japan, so grandmother wants Richard to present a young mother (Meilin) and her case for inheriting his lands), Richard finds refuge here. This point struck me as odd four-year- almost jarring in it's unlikelihood. Not only does Richard find help/support/refuge here old son (whilst remaining unknown to all except the cousin and his wifeRenshu)are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, but heand in Renshu's virtually welcomed with open arms. Would an itinerant leper be treated in this way? It did add a note of discord case eventually to the narrative - as if the quest for inheritance was more important that his trials as a leperAmerica. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905802366</amazonuk>1472277538
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Winifred Holtby1916072038|title=South RidingThe House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=The central character is a single woman We meet part of the Talbot family in her middle years who relishes the chance to return to her roots Yorkshire in the tight-knit South Riding communityNovember 1811. She's ambitious Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and well-her mother have travelled and has tasted life and work in bustling, cosmopolitan London. So it would appear that her pull back some discomfort from their home is very strong indeed. Butat Ecklington, you have to ask yourself the question, who would choose to give up this stimulating life down south and return up north? One Sarah Burton, schoolteacher with promotion house in her mind, that's who. Everything depends on Sarah actually getting this job. And straight away, Holtby gives us the low-down on the collective mentality of local governmenthollow. Yes, narrow-minded, parochial, dull - it's all of those things The two women are angry with each other and more. But not everyone Jocelyn is a political 'sheep'. Therewell aware of her mother's one or two who can see the bigger picture strengths and can look beyond personal gain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849902038</amazonuk>}}weaknesses:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda TaylorAnnabel Abbs|title=The Chinaman's Bastard|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=I found the title Language of the book excellent and I was keen to find out more. The blurb on the back cover does its job - until the last bit, which becomes a bit irritating. It claims the book 'is very captivating'. Well, to be brutally honest, it's either captivating or it's not. The word 'very' is not needed. And sadly, no, I didn't find the book captivating at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843865440</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christina Courtenay|title=Trade WindsFood|rating=3.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=It Eliza Acton is 1731 a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine and Killian Kinross, disgraced heir to the estate is making his way as best he can through reshape the gambling dens world of Edinburghdomestic cookery, trading on his skill, ability to hold his drink reinventing the recipe book and changing the smiling fickle fortunes face of lady luck. The Lady is smiling at the moment, although she hasn't always done socookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906931232</amazonuk>1398502227
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret JamesFreya Marske|title=The Silver LocketA Marvellous Light
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=It Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the eve of the First World War and Rose Courtenay's parents are keen Civil Service, much to marry her off to well-bred Michael Eastonhis chagrin. But Rose is certain a life of domesticity in Dorset is not for her There he meets Edwin Courcey and so instead she takes learns that the bold step streets of running away London are threaded with magic. Desperate to London where she volunteers as remove a nurse for the war effort. Posted curse that threatens to Franceswallow him, Rose meets injured soldier Alex Denham who she has known since childhoodRobin follows Edwin to the countryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and is the only man who has ever made her blushpeople shimmer with power. Romance soon blossoms between Rose and Alex, despite Rose fighting against her feelings as Alex is already married, and also disapproved There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives of by her parents due to his dubious backgroundall magicians in the British Isles. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906931283</amazonuk>1529080886
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon ScarrowB09F4CTKJR|title=The Legion (Roman Legion 9)Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=34.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Ajax and his crew It's the later stages of fellow renegade gladiators have been stirring things up in Egypt. Attacking small naval bases, merchant ships World War I and villages along the coast, they're successfully stirring some unrestUnited States has just entered the conflict. Because Ajax isn't silly. Not only Petrol Petronus is he a skilled fighter young American who has signed up and capable commanderjoined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, he's also full of guilethe first to be attached to the RAF and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. The band pose as Roman soldiers when raidingBut before that can happen, so their victims are left with anti-Roman sentiment in addition Petrol has to their lossesmaster flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755353749</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pamela EvansChristophe Medler|title=Harvest NightsMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=3.54
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=It is 1920 and London is struggling to deal with Set against the consequences backdrop of the Great English Civil War. Unemployment , a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is high and money is scarcediscovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642. Clara Tripp, As a former Land Girl has been forced to return to loyal servant of the city to work as a waitressKing, leaving behind and Head of the countryside which she loves so much. When Charlie FennerSecret Service, an acquaintance from Clarait is Robert's Land Army days, comes in duty to uncover the details of the teashop where she works, Clara can't help but feel overjoyed. He offers her temporary work on his parents' orchard in Kent plan and she gladly accepts. Yet a serious accident forces Clara follow the clues to stay longer than expected and it is then that she makes a shocking discovery which threatens to destroy uncover one of the Fenner family. Back most guarded secrets in London Clara struggles with her confused emotions and history—especially since the looming prospect of her marriage to local boy Arnold. When devastating news comes from Kent, Clara realises she can no longer keep her discovery a secret. But coming face-to-face with Charlie again means Clara must acknowledge her buried feelings and make a decision between doing plot could affect the right thing and following her heartKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755345452</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ross Laidlaw1471187179|title=Justinian: The Sleepless OneA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=34
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Born Uprauda Ystock, Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the son of a peasant, Justinian (as he was 1930s and Minnie is expected to become known) managed live up to change his life around when his her mother's brotherexpectations and find a nice young man to marry, Roderic, an important general in produce children and spend the Roman Army, paid for his educationrest of her days looking after her husband and their home. After a series of successes Unfortunately, Roderic became Emperor Justin this isn't what she wants to do at all and then passed the mantel on neither does she want to his nephew, who became known continue working as Justiniana secretary. When he came As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into powerespionage, working for the Roman Empire was under attack from all directions secret service and Justinian was forced effectively living a double life - attempting to battle for his right to remain Emperorinfiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Fortunately, he married Theodora, an ex Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes -courtesan, who helped to mould him into whilst working for the leader that he needed to beCommunist Party. Was this enough to remain in power, or would it all be snatched away from him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971586</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter CareyAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Parrot and Olivier in AmericaKokoschka's Doll|rating=42.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Olivier de Garmont is a young, French aristocrat who is drugged by the enigmatic Marquis de TilbotWell, this looked very much like a close friend of Olivier's monarchist mother, and dispatched to book I could love from the safety of the emerging United States to avoid the 1830 July Revolutionget-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and the threat flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of the dreaded guillotine, in his native Franceit. At least nominally his task while there is I found things to prepare potentially delight me each time – a report on weird section in the American penal system middle on behalf of the French governmentdarker stock paper, a task for which he has little interest or indeed talent. Tilbot also dispatches his servant, an older British manchapter whose number was in the 20, John Larrit000s, known to everyone letters used as Parrotnarrative form, to act as Oliver's secretary, servant, translator and to spy so on Olivier for both his mother and Tilbot. They are an ill-matched pair, from opposite sides of It intrigued with the social spectrum but subterranean voice a man hears in democratic Americawartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this relationship develops in ways review, and can tell that neither of if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them would expect. The story is told in alternating voices of these two main characters. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571253296</amazonuk>1529402697
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ross LaidlawChristina Hammonds Reed|title=TheodericThe Black Kids|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=This is a historical tale with a capital 'H'. A Glossary, Historical Note, Prologue plus a map entitled 'The Barbarian Kingdoms and the Roman Empire' are all for the readerChristina Hammonds Reed's maximum interest and (hopefully) maximum enjoyment and all before settling down to the first chapter. This very much sets debut novel is set against the tone backdrop of the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184697111X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shona Maclean|title=A Game of Sorrows|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Two years have passed since [[The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona Maclean|Alexander Seaton]] found his redemption. He is comfortably settled in his life at the University1992 Los Angeles riots, about a reaction to be sent on the academic expedition absolution of four police officers for beating a lifetimeblack man, and wondering how best Rodney King, nearly to ask death. Told from the woman he loves to be his wife. Then a case perspective of mistaken identityAshley Bennett, which almost costs him his love and the respect of his friends leads Alexander to discover he has novel follows her evolution from a cousin in town – the son silent bystander when confronted with matters of his late mother's brotherrace, come from Ireland to seek his helpa woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849162441</amazonuk>1471188191
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