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{{newreview|author=Anne O'Brien|title=The Scandalous Duchess|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1372: Lady Katherine de Swynford is widowed and in reduced circumstances as a result. She remembers a more sumptuous life before her marriage; a life in the service of Queen Philippa, mother of John, Duke of Lancaster. In the hope of reprising her past lifestyle she goes to the Savoy Palace to beg the Duke for a role in his household. He willingly employs her to help his new wife, Constanza, the Princess of Castille, with her imminent birth but this is a dangerous move. As John and Katherine fall in love and Katherine becomes John's mistress they endanger more than their hearts; their attraction provides ammunition for their enemies, risking fatal results.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848452985 </amazonuk!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juliet GreenwoodTananarive Due|title=We That Are LeftThe Reformatory|rating=45

|summary=Hugo and Elin are settling down to life at home in Hiram Hall now Hugo is back from the Boer WarGracetown, Florida. He refuses to speak about his experiences in Africa but carries the psychological effectsJune 1950. HoweverAfter a scuffle with a white boy, appearances count for a lot so they both continue twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to run six months at the houseGracetown School for Boys, gardens and staff while Elin tries to ignore otherwise known as the deficiencies in their marriageReformatory. She succeeds as well but then two things change her outlook: the arrival of daring adventurer Lady Margaret (It'Mouse' to her friends) s a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the less welcome outbreak segregated reformatory is a chamber of World War I. Both will leave their indelible mark so thathorrors, for Hugo, Elin and many others around haunted by the boys that time, have died there'll be no going back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190678499X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes|author=George Mann (Editor)|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=Hot on the heels of [[Encounters of Sherlock Holmes by George Mann (Editor)|Encounters of Sherlock Holmes]] comes another collection of brand-new tales written by some of the brightest creative minds from the genres of science fiction and crime. In this anthology, Holmes and Watson are pitched headlong into twelve different mysterious scenarios and invited order to unravel secrets survive the school governor and unmask villains as only they know how. During their adventures they come face to face with a mountain monsterhis Funhouse, take a murderous boat trip, meet Moriarty’s siblings and even indulge in a little space travel. The game is afoot!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178116004X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simon Sebag Montefiore|title=One Night in Winter|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In June 1945 two school students are shot dead in Moscow. These aren't just any Robert must enlist the help of the school students; they attended Josef Stalin School 801, the academy that taught Stalin's own children and the current educational establishment of choice for the offspring of many government and army grandees. Why did ghosts – only they die? Did the seemingly innocent Fatal Romantics Club have anything to do with it? For the children the club is a way of living their love of Pushkin's literature but to others it seems a little differentown motivations.. Stalin himself is determined to have it investigated and what Stalin wants, Stalin gets no matter how wide the ultimate spider's web of suspicion is cast and no matter whom it catches.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099580330</amazonuk>1803366532}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher RushKatherine Howe|title=WillA True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=It's March 1616 and William ShakespeareHannah Masury is living in Boston, not having long been sent to livewith a family who run an inn, sends for his lawyer and old friend Francis Collins being made to draw up his willwork there from a young age. While Francis works (at both When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the will town, she decides to go and eating Shakespeare out of house watch. Enthralled and home) Williamhorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's mind meandersdeath at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, regaling Francis with stories and opinions from then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a life well-lived in boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a nation in turmoilcabin boy. After allShe soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, Mr S could never resist an audienceand from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846972787</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Last Quarter of the MoonSarah Marsh|authortitle=Chi ZijianA Sign of Her Own

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=An old woman has been left alone in the mountain campAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Not totally aloneSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her grandson An'tsaur has stayed with herlife changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to do the chores that lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she no longer ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the physical strength to dodeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555654</amazonuk>1035401614

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Valerie MartinClaire North|title=The Ghost House of the Mary CelesteOdysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=On 5th December 1872 the merchant brig Mary Celeste was found devoid of human life (or death), floating aimlessly in the Atlantic. Many, including Sherlock Holmes author [[:Category:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]], are intrigued by the mysterious absence of all crew and Captain Benjamin Briggs' family (keeping the Captain company for the trip). Meanwhile investigative journalist Phoebe Grant wants to reveal the charlatans behind the popularity of spiritualist mediums and chooses Violet Petra as her study sample. Does Violet have the powers she claims and why is she getting so upset about Conan Doyle's Mary Celeste storyWhat could matter more than love? Phoebe is determined to find out and, in doing so, will be pulled into a maritime conundrum that may never be completely solved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297870327</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=James Scott|title=The Kept|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Elspeth 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 her 12 year old son Caleb have been beset then by one of the worst types of tragedydivine intervention never returned home. As a result, fuelled ever she remains surrounded by Caleb's need suitors vying for revenge the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and Elspethphysical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's motherly loveshores, they set out Queen Penelope is on the brink of a journey fragile peace. One that brings them to shatters however with the small Lake Erie town return of Watersbridge. With their new setting comes a greater understanding Orestes, King of their past which is a mixed blessing that must be met head on before they have to face their futureMycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091944503</amazonuk>0356516075

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=The Three MusketeersA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Alexandre Dumas and Will Hobson (translator)A J Lewis

|summary=Leaving When we first meet our hero, his home to try name is Ettore and join the famous musketeers in Parishe lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, young Gascon dit'Artagnan encounters troubles on the way s a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not been short of mothers, though - but quickly falls for someone of his background in with title characters Athoslate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, Aramis and Porthosit's difficult to obtain decent employment. Soon, The stint working with the quartet preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are caught up in a diabolical plot of the wicked Cardinal Richelieu considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and his accomplice Milady de Winter determined - can they save the Queen's honour?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907498</amazonuk>and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.

 {{newreview|title=WakeFrontpage|author=Anna Hope|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Wake: 1 Emerge or cause to emerge from sleep<br>2 Ritual for the dead<br>3 Consequence or aftermath We often hear the term ''Broken Britain'' in reference to modern society, but the Britain presented in ''Wake'' epitomises the term completely. This is a country reeling from the aftermath of the Great War. Unemployment is rife, food scarce and every family has been touched and scarred forever by the events of the preceding years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857521942</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewEssie Fox|title=Keane's Company|author=Iain GaleThe Fascination

|summary=There The Victorian era is one fictionalised character that straddles recent historic incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction set during (matched only, perhaps, by the Napoleonic Wars like Second World War) which has often led to more than a Colossus and that man is Bernard Cornwell’s Richard Sharpefew writers mishandling it. To take on this level There's such a glut of success is no easy task, but media set in the era that the hallmarks we've come to associate with Sharpe books no longer it are familiar to the point of being releasedcliched, there hackneyed even. All this is room for a new mansimply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. Is But despite that man James Keane, star of Iain Gale’s ‘Keane’s Company’? This is a something about it still grabs me – and something about this book that forgoes some of the deeper literary elements in favour of action and thrills's description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782064524</amazonuk>1914585526

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James McBrideNicole Jarvis|title=The Good Lord BirdA Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5

|summary=Henry 'The Onion' Shackleford lives as Henrietta (or just plain Onion) until he's 17 due I want all of Florence to a misunderstanding that may prove too dangerous for him to correct. The reason is that the person under this misapprehension is the fiercely well-meaning slavery abolitionist (with the emphasis on the know my name'fiercely') John Brown. As Onion accompanies him on his quest to free every slave they encounter, he discovers that Brown's philanthropy only stretches so far. Meanwhile it's that time of the 19th century when a shadow spreads over America, one that will cause a historic scar almost as great as that of slavery but Brown is oblivious to this. He doesn't; want to start a civil war, just an armed slave revolt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594486344</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Custard Tarts Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and Broken Hearts|author=Mary Gibson|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the tinderself-dry summer proclaimed guardians of 1911 the factory workers of Bermondsey are about to ignite healing magics that through paintings have the flame of change, leading power to protect the great ''Summer of Unrest''city and its citizens from plagues and curses. Inspired by the dock workers’ strike, scores of dissatisfied female workers take to the streets in protest, demanding better working conditions The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and equal payguard it above all else. Nellie ClarkTo them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who works in Duff’s custard factory, is entranced by the charismatic revolutionary Ted Bosher promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and is swept along in the fervour, enthusiastically joining her workmates in the protesttheir society. When the heat of the day dies down, however, she is reminded of the stark reality that her wages are needed to feed her starving siblings. How will her drunken, violent father react when he finds out what she has done?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855773</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Sue Monk Kidd|title=The Invention Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of Wings|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=On her 11th birthday Sarah Grimké climate collapse, Britain is given a special presentin great peril. It walks towards her decorated with The British Isles desperately needs a purple ribbon for 'it' is Hetty, Sarah's new personal slavehero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little remains. They grow up together on What no-one expected was that one of the Grimkés' Charleston plantation separated by conventions thought to be set in stone. However each in their own way will rebel; Hetty empowered by her seamstress mother's ancient African tales Knights of resistance and Sarah (alongside her sister Angelina) empowered by defiant dreamsthe Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472212754</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda MitchelmoreG K Holloway|title=Emma|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Emma Le Goff was determined that she and her childhood sweetheart, Seth Jago, would get married but the vicar seemed strangely reluctant to oblige. Their pasts were against them. Seth’s brother had been hung and his father and brother were in prison. No one could - or would - quite believe that Seth had kept himself above the criminality. Then there were In the deaths Shadows of Emma’s mother and brother, which might not have been an accident. To top it all Emma had lived with Matthew Caunter - the vicar wasn’t prepared to accept that she was simply his housekeeper. No - there was no question of his marrying them, but Emma came up with a novel solution to the problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781890935</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rebecca Mascull|title=The VisitorsCastles|rating=4.5

|summary=Adeliza Golding is comfortably off by Victorian standards. She lives We begin after the momentous battle in a not insignificant house, her parents can afford servants, Liza1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's father owns and runs a hop farm, but..coronation as King of England. The but is considerable as Liza is different from most: sheWilliam's deaf/blind position is not secure and isolated from the world with only 'the visitors' for company and communication in her mindnew king has many challenges. Almost in desperation when Liza Imposing authority through a coronation is six, her father calls on Charlotte Crowe for helpimportant. Lottie penetrates Liza's lonely world by teaching her finger writingAnd William is right to worry. HoweverWhile the previous king, Harold, in doing so she unlocks revelations that Lottie would rather be kept secret. For not everything changes; is dead and the visitors remainlikelihood of more pitched battles is over, whoever they the rebels are stirring and whatever they wantmuch of the country does not wish to recognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444765205</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreview|title=The Pursuit Maya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, the Sea of Mary Bennet: A Pride Grass encroaches further and Prejudice Novel|author=Pamela Mingle|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Mary Bennet seems to have a serious case of 'middle child syndromefurther into Maya's forest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce. The third What to do? Can the law givers in the federation of five sistersvillages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, she has always been isolated, lacking a spiritual figure who interprets the close bonds formed between her older and younger siblings. As a result, Mary has become bookishwisdom of All Life, withdrawn and socially awkward.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062274244</amazonuk>provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Lyndon1529125898|title=Imperial FireGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=Nine years after his return from the perilous trek to the Middle East, Frankish mercenary Vallon is now a general in the Byzantine army. He leads the 'Outlanders', a Babel of a mercenary force from every corner If it were not for the casual dereliction of the known world fighting those threatening the Empire. However, The Emperor has plans for them. On hearing about the [[Hawk Quest by Robert Lyndon|Hawk Quest]] expeditionodd gentleman's duty, the Emperor wants there would no women to send Vallon and his men on a more challenging trip: to bring a new wonder weapon back from far off Chinateach well-bred daughters at all. The good news is that this 'fire drug' is more destructive than anything they already have. The bad news is that they could be away for at least 3 years and that Lucas, a young stranger accompanying them, has a secret that could prove as dangerous as the journey.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847444997</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Meg Clothier|title=The Empress|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's 1179 and Agnes, daughter Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of King Louis VII is sent governess to Byzantium to marry the young son and heir twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of the Emperornecessity. However Until the chap in question, young Alexiosdeath of her mother, is more Anne had a drip than a chip off his comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father's blockwas frequently absent from the household. This leaves Agnes When her mother died, her father cast her off and would have nothing more to work on do with her own strategy for survival. For this is No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a world where everyone is paranoidyear. Her maid, and with good reason as everyone is a target and Agnes isn't just a woman, she's a stepping stone to powerwould receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553147</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Web and the WingMelissa Fu |authortitle=Teresa RafteryPeach Blossom Spring

|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=I love loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a good family saga, donshort chapter entitled 't you? 'Origins'The Web and the Wing'' begins at . Unfortunately it is the end only truly poetic part of World War a book that Iexpected more from. Claire returns Covering Chinese history from 1938 to her pre-war job 2005 as a maid at Ardleagh Hall, viewed through one family's perspective. When their home of city is set ablaze during the Earl of Eglinton. But Claire wants more than war with Japan, a life in service. She wants education young mother (Meilin) and independence. And she wants away from Ardleagh for another reason too her four- rigid social rules mean that she can never declare her love for James, heir to the Eglinton title. James feels the same about Claire but he too has personal reasons for wanting to escape year- his father will not countenance his musical ambitionsold son (Renshu) are among those who flee. After the disastrous minersThe story follows them on their journey across China, and in Renshu' strike of 1926, James leaves for Berlin s case eventually to become a concert pianist. From here, he observes the rise of Hitler with mounting concernAmerica. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178088561X</amazonuk>1472277538

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Colossus1916072038|authortitle=Alexander Cole|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=I would not want to be in the front line of any army, but one that is facing a row of battle worn elephants must be the worst These huge beasts, that don’t smell particularly nice, are charging towards you, their tusks tipped in armour. You’ll find me cowering somewhere near the baggage train. Not Gajendra, he is an ambitious young man The House in Alexander’s all conquering army. He has a special relationship with the largest elephant in Alex’s army, Colossus. This close relationship between man and beast will lead Gajendra to a higher level than he could ever have imagined for a poor boy from India.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857891154</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Hollow (The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for GirlsTalbot Saga)|author= Anton DiSclafaniAllie Cresswell|rating=4.5

|summary=Theodora Atwell is torn away from We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her much-loved brother at the age of 15, to be sent far mother have travelled in some discomfort from her their home in Florida to Yonahlosseeat Ecklington, where she's to have a fresh start after a mysterious event she blames herself for. Set the house in the 1930s to the backdrop hollow. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of the Depression, we follow Thea as she tries to navigate her new surroundings and come to terms with the damage shemother's caused to her family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755395190</amazonuk>}}strengths and weaknesses:

{{newreview|title=Lionheart|author=Stewart Binns|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Richard ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the First. Richard the Lionheartdeplorable truth''.

Even those of us who didnHester is furious about Jocelyn't pay attention much in history lessonss refusal to do as she was asked, those of us who are pretty dodgy on which King came when, will be familiar with some of them has precipitated ''this violent and be able to put them more or less in their time contextunexpected removal''. We know William the Conqueror, we know Henry the Eighth…

… Then we are told of the birth of a child and, up to a pointsoon after, Hester Talbot departs, we know about the Lionheartleaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405913606</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Black VenusAnnabel Abbs|authortitle=James MacManusThe Language of Food|rating=2.5

|summary=Anyone familiar with Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the numerous biographies of Charles Baudelaire will know there is slightest inclination to boil an absence in the middle of his life: Jeanne Duvalegg. The facts about this mysterious woman are rather sparseWhen tasked with writing a cookery book, although it is commonly agreed that she was recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a Haitian cabaret singer - and Baudelaire's perennial musetroubled home life. And it is Baudelaire's fascination with Duval that continues to haunt the books published by his critics and admirers alike: just whatTogether, they ask themselvestest, was the great man's obsession with the woman he dubbed his Black Venus? But if there's little more to say on the biographical frontcraft, what about in refine and reshape the realms world of fiction? What about using domestic cookery, reinventing the scattered facts to build a three-dimensional Duval, one with a backstory, hopes, recipe book and feelings? If you think this is a bad idea, then you're too late, because this is changing the 'eureka!' moment that spawned James MacManus's exasperating new novel, ''Black Venus''face of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715647423</amazonuk>1398502227

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sebastian FaulksFreya Marske|title=Jeeves and the Wedding BellsA Marvellous Light

|summary=Bertie Wooster had Robin Blyth is nudged into a glorious time job in Cannes, not least because of the presence of Georgiana Meadowes. He wondered if she should be allowed out at allCivil Service, 'such a hazard did she pose much to male shipping' - his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that was before he'd experienced her drivingthe streets of London are threaded with magic. But, being Desperate to remove a gentlemancurse that threatens to swallow him, Wooster's hands were tied: Georgiana is soon Robin follows Edwin to become engaged to another. The two would meet again before too long as Woosterthe countryside, along where the hedgegrows bristle with his gentleman's gentleman, were invited to stay at incantations and the home of Georgiana's uncle - but, for reasons which you'll need to read for yourself, ''Jeeves'' was there as people shimmer with power. There they uncover a member sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the aristocracy and Wooster was his gentleman's gentlemanBritish Isles. Confused? Oh, excellent!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091954045</amazonuk>1529080886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda SpaldingB09F4CTKJR|title=The PurchaseFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5

|summary=1798: Daniel Dickinson moves his five children It's the later stages of World War I and 15-year-old second wife away from the Pennsylvanian Quaker community he used to call home, towards VirginiaUnited States has just entered the conflict. While on an equipment-buying trip he comes across Petrol Petronus is a slave auction young American who has signed up and decides joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be true to his abolitionist beliefs trained in an unusual way. He buys OnesimusCanada, a young slave boy, in order the first to be attached to the RAF and the first to change be sent into the lad's life, intending skies to offer him a home and fairness fight the Germans in place of captivityactive combat. HoweverBut before that can happen, reality is more Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult and the Dickinsons find that their new servant will actually change their lives insteadbut majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908737514</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kent WascomChristophe Medler|title=The Blood of HeavenMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=3.54

|summary=1799 in America and Angel Woolsack is Set against the son backdrop of an itinerant preacherthe English Civil War, travelling around Louisiana. Life isn't easy as Angel a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is torn between discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the puritanical fire and brimstone upbringing summer of Preacher-Father and his desire to be 1642. As a normal young man within loyal servant of the confines King, and Head of a religious community. Eventually Angel's desire to express himself leads to tragedy andthe Secret Service, with his only friend Samuel Kemper for company, he it is cast out by those he loves. Angel and Samuel decide to search for SamuelRobert's elder brother, Reuben, duty to uncover the details of the plan and thus begins follow the adventure that will take them clues to Florida, bring Angel a feisty bride and provide a place uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the history books for the Kemper brothers as they grapple for land against plot could affect the SpanishKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1611855713</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471187179|title=The Ice-Cold HeavenA Beautiful Spy|author=Mirko BonneRachel Hore

|summary=They say that if you fall off Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a horse you should get back on one right away, but even so… leafy provincial suburb. I don't think many people who had only just left their first love – a shopgirl The book is set in their village – for their second – exploring the world on sailing cargo ships – would leap 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a further voyage having been wrecked nice young man to marry, produce children and stranded off spend the coast rest of South America for well over a weekher days looking after her husband and their home. But Merce here does – he Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to follow his best friend on do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. As a result of a ship called ''The Endurance'' chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and head with Shackleton effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the AntarcticCommunist Party of Great Britain. But Merce is only seventeen, Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and is rejected – causing him to stow away onto one of likes - whilst working for the world's worst ever journeysCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715645846</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Reluctant BrideAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|authortitle=Beverly EikliKokoschka's Doll|rating=42.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Scarred soldier Major Angus McCartney cuts Well, this looked very much like a lonely figure as he rides toward Micklen House bearing tragic newsbook I could love from the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. He knows that his presence will be unwelcome and that I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the report he must deliver will devastate middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the entire household20, especially the beautiful000s, letters used as narrative form, unobtainable daughter of and so on. It intrigued with the family whom he has secretly been subterranean voice a man hears in love with for many yearswartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. Surely she will forever associate him with But you've seen the bombshell star rating that brought her world crashing down. There seems no way comes with this review, and can tell that she could ever if love him the way that he loves herwas on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781890862</amazonuk>1529402697

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Conn IgguldenChristina Hammonds Reed|title=Wars of the Roses: Stormbird (Wars of the Roses 1)The Black Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=England in 1437: Henry VI Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is now old enough to take set against the throne after backdrop of the untimely death of his father 15 years earlier. However 'The Lamb' (as young Henry is known) doesn't take after his robust1992 Los Angeles riots, dominant father as enemies and allies alike are wont a reaction to mention. Religiously devoutthe absolution of four police officers for beating a black man, peace-loving and often illRodney King, Henry VI relies on his right-hand men nearly to take death. Told from the load. While a privileged role for people like William de la Pole (Duke perspective of Suffolk) and spymaster Derry BrewsterAshley Bennett, it's also very dangerous. They're the final line novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of defence before the King can be toppled race, to a woman finding her voice and not all the malevolent powers are beyond the English Channel. A lot of hope is pinned on Henry's marriage to Margaret of Anjou healing the rifts but unfortunately there are unforeseen effectsembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718159837</amazonuk>1471188191

{{newreview|author=Elaine Neil Orr|title=A Different Sun: A Novel of Africa|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Emma Davis, daughter of a Georgian plantation owner has never been happy about the slave system. People just shouldn't be owned like merchandise. Whenever possible she slinks away Move on to hear African stories from elderly slave Uncle Eli, sparking her imagination and love for a far off continent about which she's determined to do more than dream. Emma is going to theological college and she ''will'' be a missionary out there. Her resolve pays off when she meets and marries Henry, clergyman and missionary to Yoruba. Once there Emma discovers a local culture richer and more rewarding than she imagined, but, then again, so is the cost.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0425261301</amazonuk>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]