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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Flower BookTananarive Due|authortitle=Catherine LawThe Reformatory

|summary=Violet’s flower book Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is her secret treasure; a way chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to glimpse inside her soulsurvive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4. So much more than 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a mere diaryfamily who run an inn, Violet uses and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the secret language of flowers town, she decides to convey her innermost thoughts go and feelingswatch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She takes inspiration from nature hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and uses it then to tell escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a story across cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the pages thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her private journalrip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves. |isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A simple pressed gorse flower brings back warm memories Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a carefree day at the cove with bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her best friendhearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a bold peony time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a bitter reminder of an unwelcome suitor school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a handful of poisonous tansy system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is the key to her biggest secret working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of all..espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749015829</amazonuk>1035401614

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen MacInnesClaire North|title=Home is the HunterHouse of Odysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Seventeen years after he left home to fight in the Trojan War (that's also seven years after it had finished!) Ulysses returns home. A lot has changed; his wife is at home with eleven men for a start! Penelope is being held under virtual house arrest by eleven strangers. How will Ulysses manage to free her and regain his hearth with only his son and a pig herd to help'What could matter more than love? Gods only knows! Meanwhile Penelope is visited by another man. His name's Homer and he wants to write an epic poem. Not a good time Homer, not a good time at all!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781163316</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Justin Go|title=The Steady Running of follow-up to the Hour|rating=4excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Tristan CampbellIn the palace of Odysseus, an American graduatewith delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, receives a phone call from an English law firm summoning him who sailed to London war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for a secret meetingthe throne of the Western Isles. Mountaineer Having survived – politically and adventurer Ashley Walsingham died in 1926 without any direct heirs. Since then his familyphysical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's legacy has been in limbo while an heir shores, Queen Penelope is traced. They believe Tristan could be that lucky person but there's a catch. He has to prove the family connection within 7 weeks (when the 80 year limitation on the fortune runs out)brink of a fragile peace. The clock is ticking while Tristan starts a hunt One that will take him across Europeshatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434022330</amazonuk>0356516075

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim WillocksB0C7J9D21B|title=The Twelve Children of ParisA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=Knight of the Order of St John the BaptistWhen we first meet our hero, Mattias Tannhauser, does as his name is Ettore and he has promisedlives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. After surviving the 1565 siege of MaltaIdyllic as this might sound, Mattias goes to Paris to look for Lady Carla (his heavily pregnant wife) it's a bordello and Orlandu, her child by birth and his by adoptionEttore's mother died when he was born. Carla went to sing and play at the royal wedding but seems to have disappeared. ItHe's definitely not a good time to sample Parisian hospitality: one been short of the city's bloodiest chapters is about to begin as the Catholics seek to cleanse the city of members of the Protestant Reformist Church of Francemothers, better known as Huguenots. It gets worse though: not only are all Huguenots (and anyone who gets - but for someone of his background in the way) being hunted down and killed grotesquelylate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, guess which church Carlait's hosts belong difficult to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578921</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=An Appetite for Violets|author=Martine Bailey|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Biddy 'Obedience' Leigh is the under-cook at Mawton Hall, but although she is passionate about cooking, her dearest wish is to marry her young manobtain decent employment. The date is set for her to leave stint working with the Hall for married life and she is looking forward to it. But the master preparation of the house surprises everyone when he gets himself a very young wife – anchovies didn't work out and Biddy’s world is rapidly changedbastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Lady Carinna takes a shine to Biddy, and when Biddy proves herself to be Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and entrepreneurial, her fate is sealed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444768727</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Fremantle|title=Sisters of Treason|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Now that their sister Lady Jane determined - and father, Henry 1st Duke of Suffolk, have been beheaded it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for treason, the remaining Grey sisters, Katherine and Mary have hidden all signs of their protestant reformist faithvisitors. Their mother Frances can escape court but Mary Tudor has other plans for the girls, keeping them under royal scrutiny. This is a dangerous spotlight to be subjected toHe was even saving some money. As the trademark heretic burning of the Spanish Inquisition comes to England, the Greys must work harder to impersonate good Catholics. Their lives depend on it. However Katherine is less than tactful and set on her own path. Is Mary strong enough to protect both of them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718177088</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzannah DunnEssie Fox|title=The May BrideFascination

|summary=Dateline approximately 1527: Edward Seymour marries Katherine Filliol and takes her to live with his family at Wolf Hall. The days pass happily Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as coquettish Katherine proves to be a breath of fresh air setting for the household of Sir John and Lady Margery. Of all John's Seymour siblings she's drawn to young Jane the mosthistorical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the two developing a close friendship punctuated by fun and confidences. (Including some of Second World War) which Jane is too young has often led to understand fullymore than a few writers mishandling it.) However there is one secret that Katherine doesn't confide and thatThere's such a glut of media set in the secret era that will pull the Seymour family apart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704684</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephen Burke|title=The Good Italian|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Enzo is an Italian living in Eritrea, part of Mussolinihallmarks we's new Italian empire of 1935. In charge of the quiet Massawe Harbour he leads an equally quiet life, trying ve come to adhere to gentlemanly standards; being the good Italian. His friend Salvatore, a Colonel in the occupying Italian army, thinks Enzo should live a little and have some fun associate with the local women, just like his peers. Enzo isn't so sure but decides it are familiar to engage a local cook/cleaner - see how it goes. The streetwise Aatifa gets the job, both she and Enzo point of being surprised by things that weren't in the job description. Meanwhile Mussolini has plans for Massawe that will change Enzocliched, Aatifa (and everyone around them) forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848549148</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Poppy|author=Mary Hooper|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Poppy is a parlourmaid at the de Vere family's country house when World War I breaks outhackneyed even. Poppy All this is a very bright girl but had simply to enter service rather than continuing on illustrate that it would be an easy thing to college after school because her family is poordo poorly. But the war is changing everything - even for working class girls - despite that, something about it still grabs me – and Poppysomething about this book's old teacher sees an opportunity for her intelligent ex-pupil. She suggests that Poppy become a volunteer nurse, a VADdescription did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140882762X</amazonuk>1914585526

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela ThirkellNicole Jarvis|title=August FollyA Portrait in Shadow

|summary=Richard Tebben came down from Oxford in June with an undistinguished Third and little idea ''I want all of what he wanted Florence to do with himself. It was a pity that money dictated the need to remain in the Barsetshire village of Worsted (just a little way from Winter Overcotes) with his family and others who were not really up to scratch (his mother had taken a First...) particularly as there was little in the way of diversion other than Mrs Palmerknow my name''s Greek play, into which everyone was roped willy-nilly. Then the Dean family arrived for the summer, impossibly glamorous and accompanied by six of their nine children and Richard was immediately smitten by Rachel Dean, mother of the family and more than twice his age.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844089681</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Robin Lloyd|title=Rough Passage to London: A Sea Captain's TaleCast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a Novel|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Elisha Ely Morgan leaves his native Connecticut to go to sea, partially but not entirely to escape his father's crueltyhome and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. There's a second reason: But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the sea has been blamed for powerful Accademia, the loss self-proclaimed guardians of two of his brothers, the exact circumstances of his elder brother's disappearance never having been clearhealing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. But Ely The all-male Accademia has heard a rumour; a rumour that will take him as far away as London hoarded power over art and obsess him architecture for decadescenturies and guard it above all else. His brother Abraham may not be deadTo them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1574093207</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Kirsty Wark|title=The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Pringle bequeathed her house on Arran to Anna Morrison even though she didn't actually know her. Anna just happened to walk past and ask to buy Set in the house decades earlier. Elizabeth hadn't said yes but always remembered the young ladynear-distant future, walking past with the baby in a world on the pram. The baby, Marthaverge of climate collapse, Britain is now an adult visiting Elizabeth's house – Anna's house – after Elizabeth's deathin great peril. Through The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the belongings day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that Elizabeth left with it, Martha sees glimpses one of the Knights of a past life while hoping that that this refuge will now become a haven for her mother before it's too late and while she still has a mind to take her back to the good timesRound Table would answer the call. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444777602</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=After the BombingG K Holloway|authortitle=Clare MorrallIn the Shadows of Castles

|summary=On 28th March 1942, We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the city day of Lubeck was attacked by RAF bombersWilliam of Normandy's coronation as King of England. The medieval buildings were reduced to rubble William's position is not secure and hundreds of innocent people lost their livesthe new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. In retaliation, Hitler decided And William is right to bomb worry. While the most beautiful and culturally rich cities of Englandprevious king, using Baedeker’s tourist guide as a reference. The cities he chose were ExeterHarold, Bath, Norwich, York is dead and Canterbury. 'After the Bombing' follows likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the story of an Exeter schoolgirl rebels are stirring and her friends in the aftermath much of the attackcountry does not wish to recognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444736426</amazonuk>1800422466

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vanora Bennett3949666079|title=Midnight in St PetersburgNoema|author=Dael Akkerman

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Inna Feldman is in the Kiev theatre the night that Prime Minister Stolypin is assassinated in front of the Tsar. Fearing the retribution against the Jews in general and being picked out as a suspect in particular, Inna flees to St Petersburg and her landlord's cousin Yasha. Her arrival causes complications. Not only is she unexpected but Yasha 'This is a revolutionary, a dangerous occupation in Russia during 1911. The family story about some things that Yasha is living with takes her in anyway, unaware that darker times are ahead for all of themhappened to me about twelve thousand years ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780890036</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Rosie Thomas|title=The Illusionists|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Devil Wix Maya is a great Victorian illusionist. Admittedly Lady Luck hasn’t been too good to him lately and he may look young girl living in a little ragged but he's talented and repeatedly tells himself sohunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. One particular night as he's reassuring himself over a drink or threeClimate change is occurring, he runs the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Carlo Boldoni. (Or rather Carlo runs into him as heMaya's picking Devil's pocket at the timeforest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce.) Formerly Charlie Morris and a dwarf What to do? Can the Victorians/person law givers in the federation of restricted growth villages muster peaceful ways to uscope? Can the Traveller, Carlo was part of a performing troupe but now finds himself alone due to tragic circumstances. They join forces but little do they know spiritual figure who interprets the future nor the part that a certain young lady will play in it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007512015</amazonuk>wisdom of All Life, provide solutions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ayelet Waldman1529125898|title=Love and TreasureGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=Jack and his granddaughter Natalie are both ''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.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at a cross roads in their livesGodmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She is single again after had no experience of teaching but this was a short disastrous marriage and he is dyingcase of necessity. Natalie comes to stay Until the death of her mother, Anne had a comfortable life and during was loved by both parents although her visit Jack asks a favourfather was frequently absent from the household. He asks When her mother died, her father cast her off and would have nothing more to embark on do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a mission for him involving a peacock pendant and year. Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some unfinished business from nearly 70 years agoneighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444763091</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Eagle TrailMelissa Fu |authortitle=Robert RigbyPeach Blossom Spring |rating=43.5|genre=TeensHistorical Fiction |summary=The Nazis have occupied AntwerpI loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, where Paul lives with his English father and French mother. But Paul doesna short chapter entitled ''Origins''t think things are too bad. Life Unfortunately it is going on pretty much as normal if you are the only truly poetic part of a teenaged boy, Paul feelsbook that I expected more from. But Paul is wrong. In the space of an afternoon, PaulCovering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's world is turned upside downperspective. His father When their home city is shot in front of himset ablaze during the war with Japan, having been discovered as an early resistance organiser. His a young mother is arrested. And Paul finds himself fleeing for his life, hunted by the Nazis for what his father knew(Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey is a long across China, and dangerous one - through Belgium and France for the Pyrenees and Spain and then, hopefully, for England. Every stage is dangerous but the final one - the Eagle Trail across the mountains - is the most perilousin Renshu's case eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406346667</amazonuk>1472277538

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916072038|title=I Always Loved YouThe House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Robin OliveiraAllie Cresswell|rating=4.5

|summary=Mary Cassatt was an anomaly among the Impressionists: she was one We meet part of very few women, and also the only AmericanTalbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-born member. A Philadelphia native, she made Paris seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home for nearly five decades. Oliveira's novel opens in 1926at Ecklington, with Cassatt (now nearly blind) searching for to the letters Edgar Degas wrote her house in the 1870s-80shollow. Degas The two women are angry with each other and Cassatt had been subjects Jocelyn is well aware of Parisian gossip; no one knew for sure whether their friendship shaded into romance. Even Mary herself seems confused about what they meant to each other; her mother'she still didn't understand…whether there was room for love in two lives already consumed by passion of another sort.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670017191</amazonuk>}}s strengths and weaknesses:

{{newreview|author=Sally Wragg|title=Loxley|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Harry, the eleventh Duke of Loxley, fell in love with Bronwyn and they married. It wasn't the match that his mother would have chosen - Bronwyn was'She is practiced at subterfuge, after allat concealing, nothing more than the daughter beneath a facade of the local doctor and even Harry and Bronwyn wondered whether or not they'd done the right thing as they struggled to come to terms with married life. Katherinerespectability, the dowager Duchess, didn't make Bronwyndeplorable truth's life any easier - I mean, the girl wasn't above starting to clear the breakfast dishes when there were servants to do ''that'' sort of thing. And - to cap it all - she still wasn't pregnant and an heir for Loxley was of paramount importance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00EHMH5XC</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Antonia Hodgson|title=The Devil in the Marshalsea|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=1727: The Marshalsea prison Hester is hell on Earth and a Damoclesian sword over the heads of prospective debtors. Tom Hawkins, gambler and bon viveurfurious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as she was asked, which has always stayed one step ahead of it until, ironically, the day of his big win. Heprecipitated ''s mugged, his winnings are stolen this violent and Tomunexpected removal's hurled into the depths of Sheol itself. Is it as bad as he thought? Worse! Not only does he have to survive the cruel and brutal deprivations but a murderer walks the prison's corridors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444775413</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Octavia E Butler|title=Kindred|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Life is Then we are told of the birth of a nightmare for black women (child and indeed men) back in the southern USA in 1815. For Dana that's just history as she lives over a century away with her husband , soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in their new LA apartment. However one day everything changes: Dana starts to feel faint, the edges of her modern life blur shame and she's back isolation in the era that can take more than her liberty. She knows her time travel is somehow linked to plantation owner's son Rufus but that doesn't help. In fact its knowledge that could make matters worseYorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472214811</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca HuntAnnabel Abbs|title=EverlandThe Language of Food

|genre=General Historical Fiction|summary=There have been two expeditions Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to the Antarctic island of Everland boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a century aparttroubled home life. The ill-fated 1913 trip of DinnersTogether, they test, Napps and Millet-Bass is primitive by today's standards. The 2012 expedition is better equippedcraft, better prepared refine and arrives at a better time reshape the world of year so all bodes well for Deckerdomestic cookery, Brix reinventing the recipe book and Jess. But despite changing the differences both expeditions have things in common. Both groups carry secrets, some become obvious but others ''remain behind waiting to become discovered''face of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905490658</amazonuk>1398502227

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eva StachniakFreya Marske|title=Empress of the NightA Marvellous Light|rating=34

|summary=Russia, 1796 and the ruler Robin Blyth is dying from nudged into a stroke. As each new symptom hits and her life recedes a little further she remembers how she came this far. Her recollections begin when she was Sophiejob in the Civil Service, Princess of Anholt-Zerbst, sent much to young Russian Grand Duke Peter as a marriage prospecthis chagrin. The wedding plans go through There he meets Edwin Courcey and her new life is accompanied by a name change: Princess Sophie becomes Catherine Alekseyevna but history will christen her Catherine learns that the Greatstreets of London are threaded with magic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00J8KYE14</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=A Love Like Blood|author=Marcus Sedgwick|rating=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=One day towards the end of World War Two, Charles Jackson is dragged Desperate to remove a museum of antiquities just outside a newly liberated Paris by his commanding officer during their downtime. While the other looks at the unusual ancient artefacts, Jackson finds something much more horrific – a man in a wartime bunker in the grounds, squatting over a female figure, blood on his lips curse that could only have come from her neckline. Years laterthreatens to swallow him, Jackson returns to Paris for reasons Robin follows Edwin to do with his medical career, and finds the same man in the company of someone whocountryside, were he only aware of where the fact, is to become hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the first and possibly only love of his lifepeople shimmer with power. But There they uncover a sinister plot that's not the only time threatens the paths lives of Jackson and the mysterious male are destined to cross – the prologue was set all magicians in the late 1960s…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144475193X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lesley Glaister|title=Little Egypt|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Twins Isis and Osiris are now in their 90s, living together in Little Egypt, the English manor house where they were born and brought up. Their names are a clue to their parents' near fetish for everything Egyptian. In fact this near fetish leads their parents to Egypt itself, in search of a big discovery back in the 1920s, demonstrating more enthusiasm than savvy. Having left the twins in the care of the housekeeper, they never return. Isis and Osiris are now bound to the house, tied not by love or memories but dark secrets that won't let goBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190777372X</amazonuk>1529080886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne O'BrienB09F4CTKJR|title=The Scandalous DuchessFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=1372: Lady Katherine de Swynford It's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is widowed a young American who has signed up and in reduced circumstances as a resultjoined the 17 Aero Squadron. She remembers a more sumptuous life before her marriage; a life This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the service of Queen Philippa, mother of John, Duke of Lancaster. In first to be attached to the RAF and the hope of reprising her past lifestyle she goes first to be sent into the Savoy Palace skies to beg fight the Duke for a role Germans in his householdactive combat. He willingly employs her But before that can happen, Petrol has to help his new wife, Constanza, master flying the Princess of Castille, with her imminent birth notoriously difficult 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 resultsmajestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848452985</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juliet GreenwoodChristophe Medler|title=We That Are LeftMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret

|summary=Hugo and Elin are settling down to life at home in Hiram Hall now Hugo is back from Set against the backdrop of the Boer English Civil War. He refuses to speak about his experiences , a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in Africa but carries the psychological effectssummer of 1642. However, appearances count for As a lot so they both continue to run loyal servant of the houseKing, gardens and staff while Elin tries Head of the Secret Service, it is Robert's duty to ignore uncover the deficiencies in their marriage. She succeeds as well but then two things change her outlook: details of the arrival of daring adventurer Lady Margaret ('Mouse' to her friends) plan and follow the less welcome outbreak clues to uncover one of World War I. Both will leave their indelible mark so that, for Hugo, Elin and many others around that time, there'll be no going backthe most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190678499X</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471187179|title=Further Encounters of Sherlock HolmesA Beautiful Spy|author=George Mann (Editor)Rachel Hore

|genre=Short StoriesHistorical Fiction|summary=Hot on Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in 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 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the genres rest of science fiction her days looking after her husband and crimetheir home. In Unfortunately, this anthology, Holmes isn't what she wants to do at all and Watson are pitched headlong into twelve different mysterious scenarios and invited neither does she want to unravel secrets and unmask villains continue working as only they know howa secretary. During their adventures they come face to face with As a result of a mountain monsterchance meeting, take a murderous boat tripshe finds herself drawn into espionage, meet Moriarty’s siblings working for the secret service and even indulge in effectively living a little space traveldouble life - attempting to 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 the Communist Party. The game is afoot!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178116004X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon Sebag MontefioreAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=One Night in WinterKokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=In June 1945 two school students are shot dead in Moscow. These aren't just any school students; they attended Josef Stalin School 801Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the academy that taught Stalin's own children get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the current educational establishment of choice for middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the offspring of many government 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and army grandeesso on. Why did they die? Did the seemingly innocent Fatal Romantics Club have anything to do It intrigued with it? For the children the club is subterranean voice a way man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of living their love of Pushkin's literature but to others it seems a little differentmentioned, too. Stalin himself is determined to have it investigated But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and what Stalin wantscan tell that if love was on these pages, Stalin gets no matter how wide the ultimate spider's web of suspicion is cast and no matter whom it catcheswas not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099580330</amazonuk>1529402697

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher RushChristina Hammonds Reed|title=WillThe Black Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=ItChristina Hammonds Reed's March 1616 and William Shakespearedebut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, not having long a reaction to livethe absolution of four police officers for beating a black man, Rodney King, sends for his lawyer and old friend Francis Collins nearly to draw up his willdeath. While Francis works (at both Told from the will and eating Shakespeare out perspective of house and home) William's mind meandersAshley Bennett, regaling Francis with stories and opinions the novel follows her evolution from a life well-lived in silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, to a nation in turmoil. After all, Mr S could never resist an audiencewoman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846972787</amazonuk>1471188191

{{newreview|title=The Last Quarter of the Moon|author=Chi Zijian|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=An old woman has been left alone in the mountain camp. Not totally alone, her grandson An'tsaur has stayed with her, Move on to do the chores that she no longer has the physical strength to do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555654</amazonuk>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]