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[[Category:New Reviews|Historical Fiction]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->==Historical fiction==__NOTOC__ <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma DonoghueTananarive Due|title=The Sealed LetterReformatory|rating=4.5
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|summary=If you are in the mood for a deliciously scandalous Victorian page-turnerGracetown, look no further than Emma Donoghue's ''The Sealed Letter''Florida. June 1950. Set in 1864After a scuffle with a white boy, it's based on twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the real life story of secrets and scandal surrounding Helen Codrington's divorce from her older husbandGracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the rather dull Vice Admiral CodringtonReformatory. ThereIt's added spice a place with a brutal and intrigue provided by dark reputation. But the unwitting involvement in events segregated reformatory is a chamber of Emily 'Fido' Faithfullhorrors, an early mover in haunted by the rights of women movement boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and that good old standardhis Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the Victorian spinsterschool's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447205987</amazonuk>1803366532}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer McVeighKatherine Howe|title=The Fever TreeA True Account
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|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Frances Irvine enjoys a privileged lifestyle Hannah Masury is living in Victorian England: Boston, having been sent to live with a beautiful housefamily who run an inn, servants, rich gowns and all the trappings her position as the daughter of an industrialist demandsbeing made to work there from a young age. However, Frances' lifestyle proves When she hears there is to be a precarious house hanging of cards balanced on her father's investment some pirates in the Northern Pacific Railroad in North Americatown, she decides to go and watch. When the Canadian terrain proves too much for the railroad construction to continueEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, her fatherHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's shares are rendered worthlessdeath at the hands of two vicious pirates. As this occurs just before his sudden deathShe hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, Frances is forced and then to escape them completely she runs away to make sea, dressing as a choice boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as her finery and home are auctioned offa cabin boy. Does she throw She soon finds herself on in the mercy thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her lower class relatives or commit herself to a loveless marriage to distant cousin Dr Edwin Matthews? rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670920894</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sax RohmerSarah Marsh|title=Fu Manchu - The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=A couple Sign of years after their encounter with the villainous Dr Fu Manchu, Dr Petrie and Nayland Smith are reunited once more to take on the returning evil genius. When the Rev JD Eltham vanishes after conversing with Petrie, the two realise that Fu Manchu has returned and must risk life and limb to save their friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686046</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Margaret Dickinson|title=Jenny's WarHer Own
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|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Jenny's home 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 East End use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is an uncomfortable onetaught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Her mother Dot cares little for her From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and thinks nothing of giving her using a slap to make sure she knows her placesystem called Visible Speech. Dot's boyfriend At the same time, ArthurBell is working on other inventions and ideas, tries to show Jenny some kindness but has issues and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of his ownespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330544306</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tan Twan EngClaire North|title=The Garden House of Evening MistsOdysseus
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|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Malay Chinese Teoh Yun Ling travels to the Cameron Highlands of Malaya to meet the legendary Japanese garden designer and expert, Nakamura Aritomo. As the sole survivor of a World War II Japanese slave labour camp, Yun Ling has many reasons to hate the Japanese but some things are stronger than hatred. For, whilst in the camp, she promised her sister a Japanese garden. When life became difficult during interment, the sisters discussed and visualised the finished result to keep them hanging on. Ling's sister perished but the dream of a memorial garden drives her on. Nothing is that straightforward, though. The designer refuses the commission. Instead he suggests that she stays, as his apprentice, learning the art in order to become her own designer. Yun Ling agrees and discovers 'What could matter more than horticultural finesse. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905802625</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Meg Clothier|title=The Girl King|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=King Giorgi, King of Georgia, is without an heir so he does the unthinkable. He names his eldest daughter, Tamar, as 'King' on his death. Tamar is strong, feisty and a total tomboy but, the fact remains, shelove?'s female. Therefore when Giorgi passes away the kingdom he's held together starts to crack as the opportunists equate the fairer sex with weakness and possibilities. If Tamar is to gain united lands, she must lose something in return. Is this a sacrifice too far?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553139</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Victoria LambB0C7J9D21B|title=The Queen's SecretA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=34.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=It was July 1575 When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and the court had left the unpleasant atmosphere of London for its annual progress round the homes he lives at The House of the more prominent noblesBeautiful Swallows. It was to stay at Kenilworth Castle, home of the Earl of Leicester (better known Idyllic as Robert Dudleythis might sound, the queenit's a bordello and Ettore's favourite) for some three weeksmother died when he was born. The expenditure on the stay was enormousHe's not been short of mothers, though - but Leicester was determined for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to persuade Queen Elizabeth to marry himobtain decent employment. The fact that he was also having an affair stint working with Lettice Knollys, wife of the Earl preparation of Essex, was beside the pointanchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Lucy Morgan, a black entertainer of Moorish descent, Ettore was drawn into the midst of this intrigue nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and found herself on the edge of it was not long before he had a successful business as a plot to assassinate the queenguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593067991</amazonuk>
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|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Flora Avery's schoolmaster husband dies suddenly, leaving her three daughters and a dilemma: how does she find the money to raise them? Her answer The Victorian era is to return to her preincredibly over-marital professionromanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the one of Second World War) which her husband disapproved so vocally. Flora decides has often led to put her family on the stage as more than a vaudeville actfew writers mishandling it. So begins There's such a new life as they tour glut of media set in the era that the hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to the backwater theatres point of America and their native Canadabeing cliched, dreaming of a big future whilst weathering the presenthackneyed even. Set prior All this is simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to and during World War Ido poorly. But despite that, something about it wasnstill grabs me – and something about this book't just the Averys who faced changes and uncertaintys description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091944023</amazonuk>1914585526
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen HarperNicole Jarvis|title=Shakespeare's Mistress|rating=2|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The conceit of ''Shakespeare's Mistress'' is that Shakespeare was married to Anne Whateley the day before he was married to Anne Hathaway, and Anne W remained the love of his life, with an affair (if you can have an affair with your 'wife') continued A Portrait in London where the same Anne was also the famed ''dark lady'' of his sonnets. There is some basis for this theory in that the parish records do show a mysterious entry into the register for just such a contract the day before the Hathaway marriage but although the author claims this is 'faction', it's very much at the fiction end of that scale and is really a 'what if?' piece.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091940427</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robin Wasserman|title=The Book of Blood and Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Nora is an unusual heroine. She is sharp, snarky and funny, and her wry tone and contemporary references will resonate with her readers. But she is also uncompromisingly geeky, and she opts to complete her independent study assignment by joining her three friends at the local university in a research project on the Voynich Manuscript by Edward Kelley (This manuscript actually exists, and has taxed the abilities of some of the greatest code-breakers in the world in the last hundred years.). However Professor Hoffpauer does not consider Nora mature enough to work on the manuscript itself, despite the fact that her linguistic ability is far superior to that of the others, and instead he gives her the lesser task of translating the letters of Kelley's step-daughter Elizabeth Weston. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411445</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt|title=Noah's Child|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Joseph, a young Belgian Jew, is sent away by his parents when they grow nervous about the treatment of Jews during World War Two. He is taken in by a village priest, Father Pons, and given a new identity and a place in Father Pons' school along with an assortment of other children, some of whom are genuine pupils and others who are, like Joseph, seeking sanctuary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848874189</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Lyndon|title=Hawk Quest
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=''Hawk QuestI want all of Florence to know my name'' is an epic of a historic novel set in the 11th century. A band of companions led by Vallon, the mysterious Frankish warrior, travel from England to Scandinavia and on to Anatolia in order to capture and deliver four rare pure white falcons as a ransom for Sir Walter, the son of a Norman nobleman held by the Seljuk Turks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847444970</amazonuk>}}
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|title=Perilous Times
|rating=3
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric OrsennaG K Holloway|title=The Indies EnterpriseIn the Shadows of Castles
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=As soon We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's coronation as you pick up a novel about ColumbusKing of England. William's discovery of position is not secure and the Americas, certain expectations come to mindnew king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. Orsenna however And William is much more than your average writer and he manages right to subvert almost all of these by delivering a quietworry. While the previous king, scholarly account of what seems at first a diversionHarold, is dead and the art likelihood of map making. But this book more pitched battles is not about Columbus himselfover, but rather his brother Bartholomew, and how he is swept into the excitement rebels are stirring and ambition much of his older siblingthe country does not wish to recognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906598932</amazonuk>1800422466
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louisa Young3949666079|title=My Dear I Wanted to Tell YouNoema|author=Dael Akkerman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=It takes a while for the full power of Louisa Young's remarkable ''My Dear I Wanted To Tell You'' to become apparent, but when it does, it can hardly fail to move you. Set just before and during World War One, it's This is a story of love and human spirit against the odds. The impact of the book is in what happens to the characters, so I don't want to give too much away, but it's worth pointing out that it's not for the overly squeamish reader particularly in about some of the descriptions of surgical procedures, which have clearly been meticulously researched by Young. The title itself it taken from the opening words of the standard letters things that the wounded were given happened to send to loved ones back homeme about twelve thousand years ago. The wounded were required to fill in the blanks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007361432</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Marsh1529125898|title=The House of Eliott|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Evangeline and Beatrice's father dies, the two sisters discover that he has left them with very little money and without any qualifications with which to support themselves. They struggle to find suitable employment before accidentally discovering their talents as seamstresses and fashion designers. The book follows their journey of independence after their father's death, and the new relationships they begin to build without him dominating their lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144720008X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGodmersham Park|author=Lesley Pearse|title=The PromiseGill Hornby|rating=45
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Belle has a lovely London life, a good career and a happy marriage. But she has a murky past, and although it’s shaped her kind heart and character, ''If it isn’t something she wants to come face to face with again. But some people are were not able to forget the past, for reasons good and bad, and against the dramatic backdrop casual dereliction of the Great Warodd gentleman's duty, Belle is about there would no women to come face to face with teach well-bred daughters at all sorts of things she thought she had forgotten. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718157044</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Conny BraamMelissa Fu |title=The Cocaine SalesmanPeach Blossom Spring |rating=43.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Picture I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a world of hellish exclusion, nightmarish noise and images, and horrid violenceshort chapter entitled ''Origins''. Picture one person trying to live through the sleepless nights, the isolation among his peers, Unfortunately it is the permanent sense only truly poetic part of dreadful threata book that I expected more from. Picture him needing drugsCovering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's perspective. His best friend might even be called Charlie. But don't picture an inner When their home city slum, 2012is set ablaze during the war with Japan, but a man young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on the front their journey across China, and in World War OneRenshu's case eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907822054</amazonuk>1472277538
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Mustian1916072038|title=The GendarmeHouse in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=There are times when you will want to shut 'The Gendarme' We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and just walk away her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to the house in the despair hollow. The two women are angry with each other and disgust that this account Jocelyn is well aware of genocide engenders. Donher mother't. Ultimately this tale of an old Turk revisiting his terrible past is both touching s strengths and important - an exploration of memory and forgiveness that shouldn't be missed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851688390</amazonuk>}}weaknesses:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gabrielle KimmAnnabel Abbs|title=The Courtesan's LoverLanguage of Food|rating=45
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=This Eliza Acton is a big thumping poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book running to almost 500 pages, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home life. We're in sixteenth century ItalyTogether, Naples to be precise they test, craft, refine and reshape the scene is set for the entrance world of domestic cookery, reinventing the main character, courtesan Francesca. And what an exotic creature she is. But also charming, thoughtful recipe book and intelligentchanging the face of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751544558</amazonuk>1398502227
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christina CourtenayFreya Marske|title=Highland StormsA Marvellous Light
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=In was Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the end of the nineteenth century and the family at Fiennders Abbey might lead Civil Service, much more leisurely lives than the staff who kept the house running as it should, but their fortunes were inextricably linkedto his chagrin. Mary Bowden was the tweenie when we first met her – she did all the dirty jobs which were beneath those higher up the ladder – as well as being There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the daughter streets of the gamekeeper. She was also intelligent, ambitious and very attractive London are threaded with her straight, milk-blonde hairmagic. As Desperate to remove a child she'd always been very friendly with Richardcurse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the son of the housecountryside, but it's not a friendship which either of their mothers wishes to foster.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447200071</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Titania Hardie|title=The House of where the Wind|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=I loved the intriguing title of the book hedgegrows bristle with incantations and was hoping that Hardie explains it. She does: not only that but the wind element (no pun intended) is mentioned throughout at regular intervalspeople shimmer with power. A nice touch, I thought and not over-played either. The short Prologue describes There they uncover a young girl on sinister plot that threatens the eve of her 'terrible fate.' But fate seems to have changed its mind at the very last minute. And this strange/weird/scary event happens at the Casa al Vento - 'The House lives of all magicians in the WindBritish Isles.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755346297</amazonuk>1529080886
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane SandersonB09F4CTKJR|title=Netherwood|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The cover of Netherwood features a bold promise - 'Perfect for fans of Downton Abbey'. The basic features of a reliable 'upstairs/downstairs' saga are all present; the landed gentry enjoying their estate, the staff servicing it and the locals, all relying on the fortunate family Flights for their own income.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751547638</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFreedom|author=Colin Falconer|title=Silk RoadSteven Burgauer
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Falconer presents his readers with a handy map It's the later stages of World War I and the famous (or perhaps that should be infamous) ''Silk Road'' which stretches from Europe all United States has just entered the way to Chinaconflict. The story opens with Petrol Petronus is a charismatic young princess American who lives with her extended family in an area of Mongoliahas signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. She is clearly This company was the apple of her father's eye. So much sofirst US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, that he will often take advice from her, rather than from his two older sons. She would the first to be a prize catch indeed as a wife for any man, but attached to the feisty Khutelun has other plans. She wants plenty of adventure RAF and glory the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in her lifeactive combat. She doesn't want to be a baby machine and besidesBut before that can happen, no man Petrol has caught her eye. Yetto master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857891081</amazonuk>
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|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=I must admit that I think Set against the title a little cheekybackdrop of the English Civil War, a little too near secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the bone as far as summer of 1642. As a loyal servant of the iconic Baker Street King, and equally iconic Sherlock Holmes Head of the Secret Service, it is concerned. The sepia front cover suggests a rather sugary, romantic read so I wasnRobert't off s duty to uncover the best details of startsthe plan and follow the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780920121</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Buchan1471187179|title=A Lost Lady of Old YearsBeautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=54
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=While I normally start with a plot description IMinnie is an 'd better justify the summary first. (Translated, it reads - Warning - you must understand Scots dialect really well if you hope to like this book from the start. Well worth reading though, itordinary's such girl living an unexciting life in a good storyleafy provincial suburb.) Basically, this The book is a tale set during in the Jacobite Rising of 1745-6 with authentic dialogue of that time; which 1930s and Minnie is expected to say, rather hard live up to follow if youher mother're anything like me. Most bookss expectations and find a nice young man to marry, I can read in a couple produce children and spend the rest of her days maximumlooking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately, this took me nearly isn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. As a result of a month chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and at some points I was reduced effectively living a double life - attempting to asking my Scottish colleague to translate it infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for methe Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972035</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian Ruckley|title=The Edinburgh Dead|rating=5|genre=Crime Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (Historicaltranslator)|summarytitle=The phrase 'jack of all trades and master of none' can apply to writers as well as anything else and I've always been suspicious of authors who switch genres, as they often prove less effective when they do so. Sometimes, however, it does work and having enjoyed Brian Ruckley's fantasy writings such as [[Fall of Thanes by Brian Ruckley|Fall of Thanes]], I found that heKokoschka's equally as enjoyable when writing a crime thriller.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498653</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Fiona Mountain|title=Cavalier QueenDoll|rating=42.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=We sweep back in time to a young Henrietta. Living the spoilt and pampered life of a pretty, little princess whom everyone (even her dog) loves and adores. She spends delightfully carefree days singing and dancing and playing with her little dog. But the subject of marriage is on the horizon. She's fourteen after all. Time to put away those childish things. Who has her family decided will be her future husband? The young princess has no say in the matter but hopes he will be just a little handsome and be gentle with her. It's not only a marriage of two individuals (that's almost inconsequential) it's a marriage of two nations - with strategy and long-term thinking in mind. In short, the French Royal Family want to do everything to appease other countries and hopefully keep war at bay.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848091672</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Barry Unsworth|title=The Quality of Mercy|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='The Quality of Mercy' picks up the story of Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the author's Booker Prizeget-winning 'Sacred Hunger' although if you haven't read the first bookgo, you won't be greatly disadvantaged as the relevant story lines are explained. What you might miss out on which is some why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of the feeling for it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a few of weird section in the main charactersmiddle on darker stock paper, most notably the Irish fiddler, Sullivan who, when this book picks up a chapter whose number was in spring 1767, has just escaped from prison where the remaining shipmates of the slave ship20, the 'Liverpool Merchant' await their trial of piracy. Slavery and abolition thereof remains a central theme of this sequel000s, but the book draws some poignant similarities with those in bondage due to povertyletters used as narrative form, and particularly those working in the coal mines of County Durhamso on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091937124</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James Aitcheson|title=Sworn Sword|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The novel is set in It intrigued with the turbulent years following the Battle of Hastings. We follow the Normans as they set out to quell the restless and rebellious factions subterranean voice a man hears in the North wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of Englandit mentioned, too. An ambush in Durham sees But you've seen the Normans decimated star rating that comes with this review, and determined can tell that if love was on revenge - this precipitates the events which followthese pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848093241</amazonuk>1529402697
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa SeeChristina Hammonds Reed|title=Dreams of JoyThe Black Kids
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=ItChristina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the late 1950sbackdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and America's teenagers (a reaction to the very idea absolution of four police officers for beating a brand new concept) are beginning black man, Rodney King, nearly to live death. Told from the all-American dream. For some perspective of them however it isn't all 'Happy Days' diners and rock'n'roll. For Ashley Bennett, the second generation Chinese immigrants there's an alternative: back 'home' there's novel follows her evolution from a brave new world being forgedsilent bystander when confronted with matters of race, to a world where 'we'd work in the fields and sing songs. We'd do exercises in the park. We'd help clean the neighbourhood woman finding her voice and share mealsembracing her heritage. We wouldn't be poor and we wouldn't be rich. We'd all be equal.' |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408822296</amazonuk>1471188191
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