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{{newreview <!-- 26/8 INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{Frontpage|titleauthor=The Leopard of DramoorTananarive Due|authortitle=P De V HencherThe Reformatory|rating=45

|summary=StephenGracetown, Earl of NorthumbriaFlorida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, known twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to popular legend as six months at the Leopard of DramoorGracetown School for Boys, is past his best fighting days. But warfare is never far away in medieval England, particularly in otherwise known as the border countryReformatory. And itIt's not far away now. A combined force of Scottish a place with a brutal and French troops are massing and intend to attack one of Stephen's castlesdark reputation. Stephen's son David But the segregated reformatory is captain a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the castle but he's spoiled and lazy school governor and his father knows he wonFunhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school't defend it successfully without helps ghosts – only they have their own motivations... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1493588192</amazonuk>1803366532}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen MaitlandKatherine Howe|title=The Vanishing WitchA True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=More Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and higher taxes are being levied on the English by teenage King Richard II and his uncle/advisor John of Gaunt made to pay for the wars against Francework there from a young age. They may cause annoyance When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the rich but they're breaking the poortown, people like Lincolnshire river boat man Gunter she decides to go and his familywatch. Meanwhile some Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of the better off are facing problems from other quarterstwo vicious pirates. Cloth merchant Robert of Bassingham is losing his stock before it arrives due She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to theft sea, dressing as a boy and unrest among joining the weavers in Flandersnotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. It's not She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a good time to be English mutiny on board, and eventually something will snap; from there we're heading towards 1831 and are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the peasants will be revoltingocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147221501X</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven GallowaySarah Marsh|title=The ConfabulistA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Martin Strauss has an unusual affliction that causes him to reinvent his life from false memoriesAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, convincing even himselfEllen Lark loses her hearing. As Suddenly plunged into a confabulist he's unsure world of his past and whether he actually had a happy relationship with the woman he lovedsilence, everything about her life changes. But there is one thing of which he's convinced: he killed Living in a time when the famous Ehrich Weiss twice. You've not heard use of Ehrich Weiss? Oh but you have for Ehrich sign language was Harry Houdiniseen as something only savages do, the best escapologist (among other things) that the world has ever known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782393994</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Shadow of War|author=Stewart Binns|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary='The Shadow of War' Ellen is the first book in sent to a sprawling series with a new book being released once a year for each year of the First World Warschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Binns writes about five British communities, all very different – an aristocratic Scottish family From here, a family of working class Welshfolk, a group of friends she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a Lancashire factory town, a pair of Cockney soldiers, and Winston Churchill, alongside his wife Clemmie and various government figuressystem called Visible Speech. The groups interact at various points in At the booksame time, which leads to some very genuine Bell is working on other inventions and touching relationships formingideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in particular the one between Margaret, a nurse, and Bronwyn, youngest daughter complicated tangle of the Welsh communityespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718179978</amazonuk>1035401614

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=CC HumphreysClaire North|title=PlagueHouse of Odysseus

|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction |summary=Highwayman Captain William Coke stops a carriage in the line of his chosen career and soon discovers he's not the first to have assailed it. The driver is dead and all those within have been brutally skewered. He flees the scene but unfortunately leaves a pistol behind. This is all thief-taker Pitman needs to arouse his interest and attempt to track the Captain down with a noose in mind. Meanwhile nature has an equally random mode of death that's soon to be let loose on London. This is 1665 and the Great Plague is about to begin.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891423</amazonuk>}}What could matter more than love?''

{{newreview|title=The Windsor Faction|author=D J Taylor|rating=2follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=I jumped at In the chance palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to review this novelrule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. I enjoy reading books based within this period and was fascinated As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the premise throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca''what if?'' proposed s shores, Queen Penelope is on the back coverbrink of a fragile peace. The prologue was beautifully written and I hoped One that was an indicator for shatters however with the rest return of the bookOrestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578891</amazonuk>0356516075

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jacqueline WinspearB0C7J9D21B|title=The Care and Management of LiesA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=34.5

|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The long hot July House of 1914 is a good one for friends Kezia and TheaBeautiful Swallows. Kezia marries TheaIdyllic as this might sound, it's brother, Tom, bringing them even closer as life-long friends. Kezia then learns how to be a farmerbordello and Ettore's wife, translating her love into imaginative meals – sometimes overly somother died when he was born. Out He's not been short of the two friendsmothers, Thea is the passionate onethough - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, fighting for womenit's universal suffrage difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and, bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as war approaches, pacifisma guide for visitors. However, when war starts, Thea goes to the front as well as Tom, leaving Kezia at home to be more than the farmer's wife; necessity dictates she's now the farmerHe was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749016833</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert WiltonEssie Fox|title=The Spider of SarajevoFascination|rating=54

|summary=Four enterprising free thinking people are invited to speak to the military in London: James Cade The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (fiercely independent business man)matched only, perhaps, David Duval (ladies' man and occasional cadby the Second World War), Fiona Hathaway (which has often led to more than a young woman too intelligent to squander in marriage) and Ronald Ballentyne (anthropologist and Balkans expert)few writers mishandling it. ItThere's spring 1914 and their military hosts are actually recruiting spies on behalf such a glut of media set in the Comptroller General for Scrutiny and Survey. The four think era that theythe hallmarks we're serving their country and they ve come to associate with it arefamiliar to the point of being cliched, but not in the way they think: they're baithackneyed even. They are the flies All this is simply to illustrate that the high-ups hope will lead British intelligence it would be an easy thing to the anonymous phantom figure do poorly. But despite that is the Spider of Sarajevo, something about it still grabs me – and something about this book's description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782391916</amazonuk>1914585526

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Livi MichaelNicole Jarvis|title=SuccessionA Portrait in Shadow

|summary=15 year old Margaret ''I want all of Anjou is brought to England Florence to marry King Henry VI, little realising she'll rule in his stead in all but know my name. Then little 3-year-old Margaret Beaufort marries John de la Pole, son of the Duke of Suffolk. This is the first of three marriages she'll embark on by the time she's 14, one of which will produce a king and all will produce suffering. The War of the Roses and the Tudor dynasty are both waiting in the wings; these are the women who will raise the curtain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241146240</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Shirley McKay|title=Friend Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and Foe (A Hew Cullan Mystery)|rating=4where her future can thrive rather than stagnate.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=1583 and King James VI of Scotland is paranoid andBut as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, after the events self-proclaimed guardians of the Ruthven raid healing magics that through paintings have the year before, who can blame him? Surely this won't affect humble academic lawyer Hew Cullen? Oh but it will, eventually causing more turmoil than even he is used power toprotect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. Back at the beginning though, while Hew continues, unaware of what's to come, he The all-male Accademia has more pressing domestic worries that, hoarded power over art and architecture for once, don't affect his herbalist sister Meg or his doctor brother-in-law Gilescenturies and guard it above all else. IndeedTo them, this time the concern is the love of Hew's own heartArtemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846972175</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|title=ISet in the near-distant future, Hogarth|author=Michael Dean|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=How similar in many ways was Hogarth’s London in a world on the middle verge of the Eighteenth Century climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the London of todayday and rescue what little remains. A city where it What no-one expected was easy enough to end up in debtor’s prison, as indeed did Hogarth’s beloved and unworldly father, having been condemned to that one of the Fleet; a sad fate for a brilliant Latin scholar and writer Knights of erudite texts. He opened a Latin speaking coffee house in St John’s Gate. Here the governor and authorities were open to high levels of corruption, as later in Dickens time and very reminiscent of Round Table would answer the scandals of G4S todaycall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715647512</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=P S DuffyG K Holloway|title=The Cartographer In the Shadows of No Man's LandCastles

|summary=Canadian sailing boat captain Angus McGrath joins We begin after the army momentous battle in 1917 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's coronation as a cartographerKing of England. However, the cosy London war offices are full of map makers and artists and whatWilliam's more the career choice position is a luxury when not secure and the high mortality rates at the front means the infantry needs constant replenishmentnew king has many challenges. Angus therefore finds himself in France as Imposing authority through a 1st lieutenant in the Canada Corpscoronation is important. And William is right to worry. Meanwhile his family continue their life in While the small fishing village back home in Nova Scotiaprevious king, Harold, his wife worrying about her brother who has been declared missing in action. Angus is ideally placed to look for him but there dead and the likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the rebels are also other things demanding his attention, staying alive being only one stirring and much of themthe country does not wish to recognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905802986</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreview|author=Cynthia Harrod-Eagles|title=Goodbye Piccadilly|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's July 1914 and the world Maya is becoming unsettled. There's fierce unrest brewing a young girl living in Ireland and Sarajevo is being put on a hunter gatherer village during the map for all the wrong reasonsMesolithic era. Back in England life Climate change is continuing as usual – at occurring, the moment. Viscount Dene, Charles Wroughton wants to marry for love rather than materialism. Laura Hunter is fighting for womenSea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's suffrage. As for Beattie Cazaletforest home, her main worry and food is becoming more and more scarce. What to do? Can the rumour concerning law givers in the manner in which her servant Ethel is carrying on in public. All fears are about federation of villages muster peaceful ways to deepen and worries put in sharp relief though: war is coming and cope? Can the Traveller, a war like none spiritual figure who interprets the world has fought before.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751556262</amazonuk>wisdom of All Life, provide solutions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Weir1529125898|title=The Marriage GameGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating=45

|summary=Elizabeth I ruled England ''If it were not for 45 years and she is widely regarded as one of our most successful monarchs. Yet controversy surrounds her. Was she legitimate or illegitimate? Why did she never marry? What was her relationship with Lord Robert Dudley? Alison Weir follows the story of her reign and gives us her own theories about the Virgin Queen and her motivations and intentions, whilst describing the colour and pageantry casual dereliction of the English court. Itodd gentleman's going duty, there would no women to be a mustteach well-read for bred daughters at all Tudor fanatics.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091926254</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=The Wedding Gift|author=Marlen Suyapa Bodden|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=HalfAnne Sharpe was thirty-sisters Clarissa and Sarah couldn’t lead more different livesone years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. Clarissa is She had no experience of teaching but this was a typical 'Southern Belle'; the apple case of her daddy's eye with every whim dutifully indulgednecessity. Sarah, Until the daughter death of a slaveher mother, lives in Anne had a cabin on comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the plantation with household. When her mother died, her father cast her off and has been born into would have nothing more to do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a life of servitudeyear. Their father is plantation owner Cornelius Allen Her maid, a man prone to violent mood swings: at one moment a benevolent patronAgnes, the next, a cruel tyrantwould receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099579987</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dodger of the DialsMelissa Fu |authortitle=James BenmorePeach Blossom Spring |rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Dodger is back! And oh, how I’ve missed him! Benmore’s excellent debut novel [[Dodger by James Benmore|Dodger]] left me hungry for more Dickensian escapades and it was with greedy anticipation that I began loved the sequelprelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Dodger of the DialsOrigins'', eager to see what our eponymous hero had been up to in the two years since his last adventure. Quite a lot, Unfortunately it would seem, as Dodger has reclaimed is the coveted spot only truly poetic part of ‘'Top Sawyer' and has a gang of his very own, as well book that I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the heart of the fair Lilywar with Japan, a young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, the new lady and in his lifeRenshu's case eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780874685</amazonuk>1472277538

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vanora Bennett1916072038|title=The White RussianHouse in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary=It's 1937 We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and Evie leaves her home and controlling mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to the US to look up her estranged grandmother, Constance, house in Paristhe hollow. Constance The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is a mystery no one talks about so Evie is distraught when she dies soon after Eviewell aware of her mother's arrival. However, Evie chooses to stay for a while to discover more about her grandmother strengths and carry out her last wishweaknesses: to track down a mystery man from her past. Not only is it a difficult mission, it'll expose Evie to danger in a city harbouring fierce enmities from the Russian ex-pat community that Constance nurtured.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780890044</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Patricia Watkins|title=DYFED ODYSSEY: Connell O'Keeffe and The Spider's Web|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Connell O'Keeffe looked to be settled. His stud was prospering. He was deeplyShe is practiced at subterfuge, enduringly happy with his wife who was expecting their second child and despite the loss of his arm some years before which had put an end to his acting careerat concealing, life was good. Then one morning Morgan, his manservant brought bad news before he was even out beneath a facade of bed. Khayrirespectability, one of his brood mares, was missing from her stable and there was a ransom demand. Reluctant to lose the mare - or to be beaten - Odeplorable truth'Keeffe and Morgan set off to retrieve Khayri, hoping to be back that night, or - at the worst - the next day. Little did O'Keeffe know that it would be many months before he saw his home again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957210469</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Michelle Lovric|title=The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The seven Swiney sisters are growing up during IrelandHester is furious about Jocelyn's 19th century potato famine so know what it is to go without. Therefore when their eldest sister Darcy works out a way for them refusal to earn money using their talent and longdo as she was asked, long hair, the other six follow on. (Theywhich has precipitated ''d be daft to cross the dangerous Darcy anyway.) Gradually their hair becomes their future this violent and the unexpected removal'Swiney Godivas' are created. However, fame doesn't always bring happiness with the adventure; in fact for the sisters it brings notoriety – a different thing altogether.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408833417</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The Flower Book|author=Catherine Law|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Violet’s flower book is her secret treasure; a way to glimpse inside her soul. So much more than a mere diary, Violet uses the secret language Then we are told of flowers to convey her innermost thoughts and feelings. She takes inspiration from nature and uses it to tell a story across the pages of her private journal. A simple pressed gorse flower brings back warm memories birth of a carefree day at the cove with her best friendchild and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, a bold peony is a bitter reminder of an unwelcome suitor leaving Jocelyn in shame and a handful of poisonous tansy is the key to her biggest secret of all..isolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749015829</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen MacInnesAnnabel Abbs|title=Home is the HunterThe Language of Food

|summary=Seventeen years after he left home Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to fight in the Trojan War (that's also seven years after it had finished!) Ulysses returns homeboil an egg. A lot has changed; his wife is at home When tasked with eleven men for writing a start! Penelope is being held under virtual house arrest by eleven strangers. How will Ulysses manage to free her and regain his hearth cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with only his son and a pig herd to help? Gods only knows! Meanwhile Penelope is visited by another mantroubled home life. His name's Homer Together, they test, craft, refine and reshape the world of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book and he wants to write an epic poemchanging the face of cookery writing forever. Not a good time Homer, not a good time at all!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781163316</amazonuk>1398502227

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin GoFreya Marske|title=The Steady Running of the HourA Marvellous Light|rating=4.5

|summary=Tristan Campbell, an American graduateRobin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, receives a phone call from an English law firm summoning him much to London for a secret meetinghis chagrin. Mountaineer There he meets Edwin Courcey and adventurer Ashley Walsingham died in 1926 without any direct heirslearns that the streets of London are threaded with magic. Since then his family's legacy has been in limbo while an heir is traced. They believe Tristan could be Desperate to remove a curse that lucky person but there's a catch. He has threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to prove the family connection within 7 weeks (when countryside, where the 80 year limitation on hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the fortune runs out)people shimmer with power. The clock is ticking while Tristan starts There they uncover a hunt sinister plot that will take him across Europethreatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434022330</amazonuk>1529080886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim WillocksB09F4CTKJR|title=The Twelve Children of ParisFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=Knight of It's the Order later stages of St John World War I and the Baptist, Mattias Tannhauser, does as he United States has promisedjust entered the conflict. After surviving Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the 1565 siege of Malta, Mattias goes 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to Paris to look for Lady Carla (his heavily pregnant wife) and Orlandube trained in Canada, her child by birth and his by adoption. Carla went to sing and play at the royal wedding but seems first to have disappeared. It's definitely not a good time be attached to sample Parisian hospitality: one of the city's bloodiest chapters is about RAF and the first to begin as be sent into the Catholics seek skies to cleanse fight the city of members of the Protestant Reformist Church of France, better known as HuguenotsGermans in active combat. It gets worse though: not only are all Huguenots (and anyone who gets in the way) being hunted down and killed grotesquelyBut before that can happen, guess which church Carla's hosts belong Petrol has to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578921</amazonuk>master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.

 {{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 man. The date is set for her to leave the Hall for married life and she is looking forward to it. But the master of the house surprises everyone when he gets himself a very young wife – and Biddy’s world is rapidly changed. Lady Carinna takes a shine to Biddy, and when Biddy proves herself to be resourceful and entrepreneurial, her fate is sealed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444768727</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth FremantleChristophe Medler|title=Sisters of TreasonMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=54

|summary=Now that their sister Lady Jane and fatherSet against the backdrop of the English Civil War, Henry 1st Duke a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642. As a loyal servant of Suffolk, have been beheaded for treason, the remaining Grey sistersKing, Katherine and Mary have hidden all signs Head of their protestant reformist faith. Their mother Frances can escape court but Mary Tudor has other plans for the girlsSecret Service, keeping them under royal scrutiny. This it is a dangerous spotlight to be subjected Robert's duty to. As uncover the trademark heretic burning details of the Spanish Inquisition comes plan and follow the clues to England, uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect 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 pathKing. Is Mary strong enough to protect both of them?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718177088</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Suzannah Dunn1471187179|title=The May BrideA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore

|summary=Dateline approximately 1527: Edward Seymour marries Katherine Filliol Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the 1930s and takes her Minnie is expected to live with his family at Wolf Hall. The days pass happily as coquettish Katherine proves up to be her mother's expectations and find a breath of fresh air for nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the household rest of Sir John her days looking after her husband and Lady Margerytheir home. Of Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to do at all John's Seymour siblings and neither does she's drawn want to young Jane the most, the two developing continue working as a close friendship punctuated by fun and confidencessecretary. (Including some As a result of which Jane is too young a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to understand fullyinfiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain.) However there is one secret that Katherine doesn't confide Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and that's the secret that will pull friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Seymour family apartCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704684</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen BurkeAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The Good ItalianKokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Enzo Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is an Italian living in Eritrea, part why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of Mussolini's new Italian empire of 1935it. In charge of the quiet Massawe Harbour he leads an equally quiet life, trying I found things to adhere to gentlemanly standards; being potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the good Italian. His friend Salvatoremiddle on darker stock paper, a Colonel chapter whose number was in the occupying Italian army20,000s, letters used as narrative form, thinks Enzo should live a little and have some fun so on. It intrigued with the local women, just like his peers. Enzo isn't so sure but decides to engage subterranean voice a local cook/cleaner - see how man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it goesmentioned, too. The streetwise Aatifa gets the job, both she and Enzo being surprised by things that werenBut you't in ve seen the job description. Meanwhile Mussolini has plans for Massawe star rating that will change Enzocomes with this review, 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 out. Poppy is a very bright girl but had to enter service rather than continuing can tell that if love was on to college after school because her family is poor. But the war is changing everything - even for working class girls - and Poppy's old teacher sees an opportunity for her intelligent ex-pupil. She suggests that Poppy become a volunteer nursethese pages, a VADit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140882762X</amazonuk>1529402697

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela ThirkellChristina Hammonds Reed|title=August FollyThe Black Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=Richard Tebben came down from Oxford in June with an undistinguished Third and little idea Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of what he wanted to do with himself. It was a pity that money dictated the need to remain in the Barsetshire village of Worsted (just 1992 Los Angeles riots, a little way from Winter Overcotes) with his family and others who were not really up reaction to scratch (his mother had taken a First...) particularly as there was little in the way absolution of diversion other than Mrs Palmer's Greek play, into which everyone was roped willy-nilly. Then the Dean family arrived four police officers for the summerbeating a black man, impossibly glamorous and accompanied by six of their nine children and Richard was immediately smitten by Rachel DeanRodney King, 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 Tale, a Novel|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Elisha Ely Morgan leaves his native Connecticut to go to sea, partially but not entirely nearly to escape his father's crueltydeath. There's a second reason: Told from the sea has been blamed for the loss perspective of two of his brothersAshley Bennett, the exact circumstances novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of his elder brother's disappearance never having been clear. But Ely has heard race, to a rumour; a rumour that will take him as far away as London woman finding her voice and obsess him for decades. His brother Abraham may not be deadembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1574093207</amazonuk>1471188191

{{newreview|author=Kirsty Wark|title=The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Pringle bequeathed her house Move on Arran to Anna Morrison even though she didn't actually know her. Anna just happened to walk past and ask to buy the house decades earlier. Elizabeth hadn't said yes but always remembered the young lady, walking past with the baby in the pram. The baby, Martha, is now an adult visiting Elizabeth's house – Anna's house – after Elizabeth's death. Through the belongings that Elizabeth left with it, Martha sees glimpses 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 times. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444777602</amazonuk>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]