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{{newreview|author= Nicola Pryce|title= Pengelly's Daughter|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Rose Pengelly is only too aware that she is living in a man's world. Independent, strong and well <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--educated, she has dreams of running the family boatyard, but she knows that her dreams can never come true. A woman's job is to bear children and run the home; it is the way things have always been and the way that they always will be. Now, according to Rose's mother, it is particularly important that Rose secures a good marriage, as her father's poor business decisions have left the family bankrupt and on the verge of destitution. Wealthy timber merchant Mr Tregellas is only too happy to help the family out, in exchange for Rose's hand in marriage, but Rose despises him and suspects that he is responsible for the family's bad fortune. If only she can find evidence to implicate him, there may be a chance to escape from this seemingly hopeless situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398775</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rhona MartinTananarive Due|title=Gallows Wedding: A dark novel of witchcraft and forbidden love set against the backdrop of religious upheaval in Henry VIII's timesThe Reformatory

|summary=HazelGracetown, an orphaned peasant during the 16th century has had Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a tough time white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to say six months at the leastGracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. Therefore when she comes across Black JohnIt's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, an outlaw about to be hanged she sees her chancehaunted by the boys that have died there. By proposing In order to him she'll save survive the school governor and his life andFunhouse, marrying him, her Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their ownmotivations.. At least that's Hazel's theory but the fates will make it a bit more of a struggle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861515456</amazonuk>1803366532}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Valerie AnandKatherine Howe|title=King of the WoodA True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=A Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young William Rufus age. When she hears there is brought back to England from clergy training be a hanging of some pirates in France by his father William the Conquerortown, she decides to go and watch. England has changed Enthralled and needs horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a soldier more than a priest or monk, especially as Rufusyoung boy' brother Richard has died, leaving William to fill s death at the voidhands of two vicious pirates. Eventually King William I decides to split his inheritance between Rufus and eldest son RobertShe hides away, something so that doesnthey don't go down well with an heir who expected find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to get it allsea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. The brothers were never friends but this brings She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a new dimension to their hatred mutiny on board, and, when royal brothers fight, nations become involvedfrom there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861514573</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily HollemanSarah Marsh|title= Cleopatra's ShadowsA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= EgyptAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. 58 BC. Arsinoe has been abandoned by her father, Ptolemy XII Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, who has fled Alexandria and taken everything about her beloved sister Cleopatra with himlife changes. It is now Arsinoe's half-sister Berenice who has seized the throne, leaving the young princess to fight for survival Living in a time when the bloodthirsty and treacherous royal court. Berenice too has her own demons to face – having taken the throne from her weak-willed father she now has to prove herself worthy use of being queen, sign language was seen as the possibility of her father and Cleopatra's return forever threaten to crush her new found power.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751560170</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elizabeth Massie|title= Versailles|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=1667 – The civil wars are over. King Louis XIV crushed the nobility's rebellion against his fathersomething only savages do, leaving the throne his. But the aristocracy hounds his every step – and realises that if they will not be loyal, they will at least obey. So the King plants a trap Ellen is sent to ensnare them – building Versailles, a prison of opulence school where his power she is absolutetaught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Trapped by the palace From here, they have no choice but to play she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the King's game deaf and to obey his rule. And so the court becomes using a place of tactical liaisons and salacious passionssystem called Visible Speech. The Queen fights to keep At the King's attention from his mistress, and the King's brother struggles to keep his relationship alive. Versailes is not the paradise it appears to be; insteadsame time, it Bell is a labyrinth of treason working on other inventions and hushed secretsideas, of political schemes and deadly conspiracies. It is a place of passion and death, love and vengeance. The King will take what is rightfully his.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782399984</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Angus Donald|title= The King's Assassin|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=AD 1215: The year of Magna Carta - and Robin Hood's greatest battle. King John is scheming to reclaim his ancestral lands in Europe, raising the money for new armies by bleeding dry peasants and nobles alike, not least the Earl of Locksley - the former outlaw Robin Hood - and his loyal man Sir Alan Dale. As rebellion brews across the country and Robin Hood and his men are dragged into the war against the French Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in Flanders, a plan is hatched that will bring the former outlaws and their families to the brink of catastrophe - a plan to kill the King. England explodes into bloody civil war and Alan and Robin must decide who to trust - and who to slaughter. And while Magna Carta might be the answer to their prayers for peace, first they will have to force the King to submit to the will complicated tangle of his peopleespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751551988</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Conn IgguldenClaire North|title=Ravenspur: Rise House of the Tudors (The Wars of the Roses) Odysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Edward IV and his brother Richard of Gloucester aren't exactly accepting of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick deserting them 'What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to stand with the ailing Henry VI againexcellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. The sons In the palace of York are gathering support in Burgundy while Edward's wife Elizabeth (nee Woodville) gives birth Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to his son in war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the sanctuary throne of Westminster Abbeythe Western Isles. Meanwhile HenryHaving survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's wife Margaret shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of Anjou is also in France, drumming up resources for a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of their sonOrestes, EdwardKing of Mycenae, Prince of Wales. Elsewhere a 14 year old Henry Tudor is waiting at one of history's most important cross roadsand his sister Elektra, seeking refuge. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718181425</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CC HumphreysB0C7J9D21B|title=FireA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=Puritan/former Roundhead Pitman When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and former highwayman/Cavalier Captain William Coke have formed a deep respect for each otherhe lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Their first mission was to track down the Fifth MonarchistsIdyllic as this might sound, an organisation out to avenge those who were found guilty it's a bordello and hanged for signing Charles IEttore's death warrant. That mother died when he was then, during the Great Plagueborn. A mere year laterHe's not been short of mothers, the Plague has lessened though - but the Fifth Monarchists are backfor someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, taking Pitmanit's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and Coke's interventions personallybastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. We therefore find our heroes defending themselves, their families, the monarch, Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and, on top of that, it was not long before he had a successful business as a new disaster is about to hit the capitalguide for visitors. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891458</amazonuk>He was even saving some money.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Winston GrahamEssie Fox|title=The Grove of Eagles: A novel of Elizabethan England Fascination|rating=3.54

|summary=Maugan Killigrew grows up in material comfort The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as the acknowledged illegitimate son of Sir Johna setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Governor of CornwallSecond World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. There's Pendennis Castle. Yet, despite such a glut of media set in the era that the comparative comfort and because of otherhallmarks we's austere attitudes, Maugan never feels quite as accepted as his many half-brothers and sisters but there's little time ve come to consider that. Times associate with it are changingfamiliar to the point of being cliched, hackneyed even. Queen Elizabeth I All this is getting older and the English are still at war with the Spanish, a nation simply to illustrate that will have quite it would be an effect on Maugan's lifeeasy thing to do poorly. Romance, conflict and imprisonmentBut despite that, Maugan will experience something about it all still grabs me – and, hopefully survive it all but we shall see.something about this book's description did as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509818618</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1509818618</amazonus>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzanne RindellNicole Jarvis|title=Three-Martini LunchA Portrait in Shadow

|summary=In 2013 we loved [[The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell|The Other Typist]] for its gripping plot''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, terrific characters Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and effortless recreation of where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the Jazz Age. Wellpowerful Accademia, Rindell has done it again, though this time her chosen time period is the late 1950s. She brings self-proclaimed guardians of the bustling, cutthroat New York City publishing world to life healing magics that through paintings have the connections between three main characters whose first-person voices fit together like a dream: Cliff Nelson, a Columbia dropout who plans power to be protect the next Hemingway city and also happens to be the son of a premier editor at Bonwright; Eden Katz, who moved its citizens from Indiana to be a secretary at a publishing house but plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has ambitions of becoming an editor; hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and Miles Tillmanguard it above all else. To them, a black man Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who works as a bicycle messenger for Eden's publisher but promises trouble and change – has literary hopes of his ownno place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749020822</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyThomas D Lee|title=These Shallow GravesPerilous Times|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Fantasy|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my all-time favourite books, ''A Gathering Light'', so I was very excited to read her latest novel and see how it compared. Like ''A Gathering Light'', ''These Shallow Graves'' Hate is a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart and a feisty heroine who challenges the standards path of the day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Victoria Whitworthleast resistance''|title= Daughter of the Wolf|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= We're Set in the Dark Ages near-distant future, in an England ruled by rival Kings served by Lords. One of the lords is Radmer of Donmouth, a world on the King's Wolf, guardian verge of the estuary gateway to Northumbria. When the king sends Radmer on a mission to Romeclimate collapse, Donmouth Britain is left in the safekeeping of his only daughter, Elfrun, whose formidable grandmother wants her to take the veil, while treacherous Tilmon of Illingham covets her for his songreat peril. This is the story of daughters in The British Isles desperately needs a man's world: Wynn, determined hero (or several) to take over from her father, save the smith, Saethryth, wilful daughter day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the village steward, whose longing for passion will set off a tragic sequence Knights of events and Auli, whose merchant venturer father plies his trade up and down the coast, spying for Round Table would answer the Danescall. Above all, it is the story of Elfrun of Donmouth, uncertain of her father's fate and not knowing whom she can trust, or love…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784975737</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alison WeirG K Holloway|title=Six Tudor Queens: Katherine In the Shadows of Aragon, The True Queen: Six Tudor Queens 1Castles

|summary=1501: A ship comes into port We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the English coast with an important passenger. The Spanish Infanta Catalina steps ashore to become the wife day of William of Normandy's coronation as King Henry VIIof England. William's heir, Prince Arthur position is not secure and produce future heirs for the English crownnew king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. That's And William is right to worry. While the plan but that's not how previous king, Harold, is dead and the story actually goes, on any level. For Catalina will be likelihood of more famous as Katherine of Aragonpitched battles is over, wife the rebels are stirring and much of Arthur's brother, Henry VIIIthe country does not wish to recognise a new overlord. As for producing heirs…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472227476</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1472227476</amazonus>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lloyd Shepherd3949666079|title=The Detective and the Devil (Charles Horton 4)Noema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=1855: Only ''This is a few story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years after the notorious Highways Murderer left his mark on Londonago.''s docks, Constable Charles Horton  Maya is called back to a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the areaMesolithic era. The disturbing murder Climate change is occurring, the Sea of a clerk Grass encroaches further and his family bears the trademark of the serial killer but Hortonfurther into Maya's sure he's already dead; Horton saw him die. At this point the hunt for a devil incarnate beginsforest home, taking Horton and his wife Abigail food is becoming more and more scarce. What to do? Can the law givers in the other side federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the world and Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the darker side wisdom of an untouchable Victorian institution: The East India Company.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136124</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1471136124</amazonus>All Life, provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Aliya Whiteley|title= The Arrival of Missives|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=In the aftermath of the Great War, Shirley Fearn dreams of challenging the conventions of rural England, where life is as unchanging as the seasons. The scarred veteran Mr Tiller, left disfigured by an impossible accident on the battlefields of France, brings with him a message: part prophecy, part warning. As Shirley's village prepares for the annual May Day celebrations, where a new queen will be crowned and the future reborn, she must choose between change and renewal – will the missives Mr Tiller brings prevent her mastering her identity?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907389377</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn=Diney Costeloe1529125898|title=The Lost Soldier|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Rachel is a journalist covering a local conflict between a land developer and the small village community of Charlton Ambrose. The developer wants to level Ashgrove, a group of nine trees planted to commemorate those in the village who died serving in World War I. As she investigates, Rachel realises that only eight of the trees have corresponding names of the fallen. The ninth is for a mysterious unknown soldier. Why unknown? Rachel is determined to discover his story and, in so doing, she also discovers part of her own.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972576</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1784972576</amazonus>}}{{newreviewGodmersham Park|author=David Churchill|title=The Leopards of Normandy: Duke: Leopards of Normandy 2Gill Hornby

|summary=Normandy 1037: Duke William at 9 years old is surrounded by guardians and advisors but ''If it were not all of them have his interests at heart. In fact whether he lives or dies will have more to do with William's resilience than the custodial duty of those around him. Meanwhile the fight for the English throne across the channel seems remote and none casual dereliction of his business as the sons of Queen Emma jostle for Canuteodd gentleman's old crownduty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all. It's getting closer though; one day William Duke of Normandy will be William the Conqueror.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472219228</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1472219228</amazonus>}}'

{{newreview|author= Diney Costeloe|title= The Girl With No Name|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction |summary= Thirteen Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve-year -old Lisa escapes from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport and arrives in England in August 1939Fanny Austen. She can't speak had no experience of teaching but this was a word case of English and her only belongings are crammed into a small suitcasenecessity. Among them is one precious photograph Until the death of the family she has left behind in Germany. Lonely and homesick, not knowing if she will ever see her family againmother, Lisa is adopted by Anne had a childless couple, comfortable life and then bullied at school for being Germanwas loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the household. But worse is to come when the Blitz blows When her new home apartmother died, her father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her. No explanation was offered but she wakes up in hospital with no memory would receive an annuity of who she is, or where she came from. The authorities give her £35 a new name and despatch her to a children's homeyear. With the war Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in full swing, what will become of Lisa now?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784970050</amazonuk>by some neighbours.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris CleaveMelissa Fu |title= Everyone Brave Is ForgivenPeach Blossom Spring |rating= 43.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= War was declared at 11:15. Mary North signed up at noon. When war is declared, Mary North leaves her finishing school, travels back I loved the prelude to LondonPeach Blossom Spring, and immediately signs upa short chapter entitled ''Origins''. Expecting to be given a position Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of high importance or excitement, she is instead placed as a school teacherbook that I expected more from. Tom Shaw decides Covering Chinese history from 1938 to give war a miss – happy in his role organising education. It2005 as viewed through one family's only when his flatmate Alistair enlists, that Tom and Mary are drawn into perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the war in ways they never could have imagined. As Mary grows to protect with Japan, a young mother (Meilin) and defend her small band of pupils, Tom struggles to decide whether he should join the war effortfour-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. And Alistair? Many, many miles away, Alistair battles both the enemyThe story follows them on their journey across China, and his own feelings for one out of his reachin Renshu's case eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147361869X</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Dyer1916072038|title=The Midnight WatchHouse in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell|rating=4.5

|summary=In the early hours We meet part of April 15th 1912, the RMS Titanic sank causing the death of over 1,500 peopleTalbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. The Californian, commanded by Captain Stanley Lord was the nearest ship to itTwenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, near enough for anyone on deck that night to see the Titanic's distress rockets. This means it was near enough to go to its aid but it remained inactive while witnessing house in the unfolding eventshollow. Why? Within a day or The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of the disaster American journalist John Steadman is sent to cover the Titanicher mother's sinking but the story strengths and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the Californiandeplorable truth''. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's inaction intrigues him even morerefusal to do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782397795</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1782397795</amazonus>Then we are told of the birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David SangerAnnabel Abbs|title=All Their Minds In TandemThe Language of Food

|summary=October 1879: A stranger walks into New Georgetown, West Virginia Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to keep boil an appointmentegg. He calls himself 'The Maker' and has When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a gift that gives him access to people's mindstroubled home life. Gradually he'll become deeply acquainted with Together, they test, craft, refine and reshape the townsfolk but it mustn't sway him from what he's here to accomplish. One manworld of domestic cookery, one mission reinventing the recipe book and no guarantee how it will endchanging the face of cookery writing forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784293954</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1784293954</amazonus>1398502227

 {{newreview|author= Yves Jego, Denis Lepee, and Sue Dyson (translator)|title= The Sun King Conspiracy|rating= 3|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=''Who can I trust in this nest of vipers?'' The year is 1661 and Cardinal Mazarin, the Chief Minister to King Louis XIV of France, lies dying. As the health of the man who once governed France deteriorates, the ambitions of those beneath him strive for power in order to succeed him. Secret papers have been stolen from the Cardinal, papers that could change the course of France forever, and have fallen in to the hands of Gabriel de Pontibrand, a young actor who has become unwillingly involved in this strange conspiracy. Surrounded by scheming politicians and a secret brotherhood, the contents of these coded papers will change Gabriel's life and have the power to change the future of France.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910477354</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elaine EverestFreya Marske|title=The Woolworths GirlsA Marvellous Light

|summary=It Robin Blyth is Christmas, 1938nudged into a job in the Civil Service, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and three young ladies learns that the streets of London are excited about starting their new jobs at Woolworths in Eriththreaded with magic. For each one of them, the job is Desperate to remove a means of escape: Sarah wants curse that threatens to escape her snobbish and controlling mother; newlywed Maisie can't abide her bullying mother in law; and shy Freda is running away from her abusive stepfather and searching for her brotherswallow him, who has escaped from prison. The ''Woolworths Girls'' soon become close friendsRobin follows Edwin to the countryside, but where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the threat lives of war looming large, and tragedy just around all magicians in the corner, they are going to need to rely on each other more than ever beforeBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144729548X</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip DentB09F4CTKJR|title=Mutable Passions: Charlotte Bronte: A Disquieting AffairFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=34.5|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=As It's the 200th anniversary later stages of Charlotte Brontë's birth approaches, it World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a perfect time for reading about heryoung American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. Philip Dent's second novel chooses a lesser known period of her life This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the RAF and the first to dramatize. All her siblings are now dead; during a hard winter when she is unable be sent into the skies to visit her best friend, Ellen Nussey, Charlotte spends her time finishing ''Villette'', her final novelfight the Germans in active combat. The family servantBut before that can happen, Tabby, ribs Charlotte about her romantic prospects – including Patrick Brontë's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls. Charlotte responds with indignation: 'I could no more kiss Petrol has to master flying the lips of a man with a beard as big as rooks' nests than I could yours, Tabbynotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178589093X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen SimonsonChristophe Medler|title=The Summer Before the WarMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=54

|summary=Summer 1914: Beatrice Nash arrives in Rye following Set against the death backdrop of her fatherthe English Civil War, hoping to earn a living as a Latin tutor. Despite being secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the sort summer of woman with ideas 1642. As a loyal servant of her ownthe King, she has allies in the family of local pillar and Head of the community Lady Agatha. Agatha may not have realised just how modern Beatrice Secret Service, it is but she'll stand by her after having been her sponsor for the post initially. Meanwhile AgathaRobert's nephew, medical student Hugh soon warms to Beatrice but his heart belongs duty to Lucy, his surgeon professor's daughter. Soon, though, uncover the events details of a small town summer will fade in importance; the Balkans will explode plan and Europe is thrown into a war that's far from follow the swift, romantic, consequence-free conflict clues to uncover one of which summer daydreams are madethe most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408837641</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1408837641</amazonus>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Smith1471187179|title=The Voyage of the DolphinA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=54

|summary=Dublin 1916: Among the unrest and anti-British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription into a war seen as nothing to do with the Irish, Trinity College faculty has other distractions. They'd like a trophy; the skeleton of Minnie is an Irish 'giantordinary' to be precisegirl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The only glitch book is that set in the main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeill1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's skeleton, is somewhere difficult to access expectations and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be hope though. They turn find a nice young man to Fitzmauricemarry, a student not good enough for anything elseproduce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their home. Fitzmaurice agreesUnfortunately, picking his friends Crozier this isn't what she wants to do at all and Rafferty neither does she want to go with himcontinue working as a secretary. So… ''GentlemenAs a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, lace up your strongest boots working for the secret service and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the bloody Arctic!'' Communist Party of Great Britain. Whether battle cry or epitaph, three men Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and a dog… the friends she has made - and an iguana… are going anywaylikes - whilst working for the Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>