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|summary=In Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the winter of 1936Gracetown School for Boys, Steven Coulterotherwise known as the Reformatory. It's wifea place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, Margarethaunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, dies Robert must enlist the help of tuberculosis, leaving the school's ghosts – only they have their Northumberland cottage cold and emptyown motivations... His work as a history teacher at Kirkhoughton Boys' School isn't enough to distract him from his grief; he spends his long evenings writing letters to Margaret|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4. Gradually5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, thoughhaving been sent to live with a family who run an inn, as spring arrives he starts and being made to take an interest in other thingswork there from a young age. His colleague Frank Embleton invites him When she hears there is to be a performance by hanging of some pirates in the Hepplewick Trio: Frank's sister Diana on cello; pianist Margot Hesloptown, whose mother died when she was young decides to go and watch. Enthralled and who looks after her fatherhorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a coal mine manageryoung boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, at Hepplewick Hall; so that they don't find and their friend George Liddellkill her too, the violinist and leaderthen to escape them completely she runs away to sea, who dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a Royal College mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of Music graduatelife on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630616</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= William SuttonSarah Marsh|title= Lawless and the Flowers A Sign of SinHer Own|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary= Much After a bout of this book centres onscarlet fever as a child, as we are accustomed to in tales Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of Victorian Londonsilence, dastardly deeds done on a foggy nighteverything about her life changes. Indeed the fog runs thick through this novel, draping the seedy events Living in a soupy broth time when the use of vice. Our hero, Lawless, rather ironically, is that most rare of birds, an honest detective, although sign language was seen as we learn he, himselfsomething only savages do, Ellen is not without his vices. What becomes clear however is that he sent to a school where she is something of a social crusader when his eyes are opened taught to the misery and degradation faced by 'fallen' womenlip read, but physically restrained from signing. At its heart From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the Flowers of Sin is deaf and using a detective story, with Lawless given an impossible task to complete alongside solving a seemingly impossible crimesystem called Visible Speech. Along At the way he meets a rag tag bunch of misfits who helpsame time, hurt and hinder our hero. There Bell is romance working on other inventions and intrigue along the way as well as a sensational public trialideas, murder and episodes Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of mayhemespionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785650114</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toby ClementsClaire North|title=Kingmaker: Divided SoulsHouse of Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=Thomas When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and Katherine Everingham he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and their son Rufus are enjoying a time of contentment working on Sir John FakenhamEttore's Marton Hall estatemother died when he was born. HoweverHe's not been short of mothers, this peace is just the eye though - but for someone of the stormhis background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. Tragedy strikes the Fakenhams almost at The stint working with the same time that the Plantagenet Wars preparation of the Roses hots up againanchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Richard Earl of Warwick is challenging King Edward IV, leaving the Everinghams with Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a serious dilemma… or twoguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780894651</amazonuk>

 {{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-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 MartinEssie Fox|title=Gallows Wedding: A dark novel of witchcraft and forbidden love set against the backdrop of religious upheaval in Henry VIII's timesThe Fascination|rating=54

|summary=HazelThe Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, an orphaned peasant during perhaps, by the 16th century Second World War) which has had often led to more than a tough time few writers mishandling it. There's such a glut of media set in the era that the hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to say the leastpoint of being cliched, hackneyed even. Therefore when she comes across Black John, an outlaw about All this is simply to illustrate that it would be hanged she sees her chance. By proposing an easy thing to him she'll save his life and, marrying him, her owndo poorly. At least But despite that, something about it still grabs me – and something about this book's Hazel's theory but the fates will make it a bit more of a struggledescription did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861515456</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Valerie AnandNicole Jarvis|title=King of the WoodA Portrait in Shadow

|summary=A young William Rufus is brought back ''I want all of Florence to England know my name'' Cast out from clergy training Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in France by his father William the Conqueror. England has changed which her art can find a home and needs a soldier more where her future can thrive rather than a priest or monk, especially stagnate. But as some as Rufus' brother Richard has diedshe enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, leaving William the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to fill protect the voidcity and its citizens from plagues and curses. Eventually King William I decides to split his inheritance between Rufus The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and eldest son Robertguard it above all else. To them, something that doesn't go down well with Artemisia – an heir ambitious young woman who expected to get it all. The brothers were never friends but this brings a new dimension to promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their hatred and, when royal brothers fight, nations become involvedsociety.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861514573</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily HollemanThomas D Lee|title= Cleopatra's ShadowsPerilous Times|rating= 4.53|genre= Historical FictionFantasy|summary= Egypt. 58 BC. Arsinoe has been abandoned by her father, Ptolemy XII, who has fled Alexandria and taken her beloved sister Cleopatra with him. It ''Hate is now Arsinoethe path of least resistance''s half Set in the near-sister Berenice who has seized distant future, in a world on the throneverge of climate collapse, leaving the young princess Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to fight for survival in save the bloodthirsty day and treacherous royal courtrescue what little remains. Berenice too has her own demons to face – having taken the throne from her weakWhat no-willed father she now has to prove herself worthy one expected was that one of being queen, as the possibility Knights of her father and Cleopatra's return forever threaten to crush her new found powerthe Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751560170</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elizabeth MassieG K Holloway|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 father, 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 to ensnare them – building Versailles, a prison of opulence where his power is absolute. Trapped by the palace, they have no choice but to play the King's game and to obey his rule. And so the court becomes a place of tactical liaisons and salacious passions. The Queen fights to keep the King's attention from his mistress, and the King's brother struggles to keep his relationship alive. Versailes is not In the paradise it appears to be; instead, it is a labyrinth of treason and hushed secrets, of political schemes and deadly conspiracies. It is a place Shadows 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 AssassinCastles|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 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 of his people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751551988</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Conn Iggulden|title=Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors (The Wars of the Roses) |rating=5

|summary=Edward IV We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and his brother Richard on the day of William of Gloucester arenNormandy't exactly accepting s coronation as King of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick deserting them to stand with the ailing Henry VI againEngland. The sons of York are gathering support in Burgundy while EdwardWilliam's wife Elizabeth (nee Woodville) gives birth to his son in position is not secure and the sanctuary of Westminster Abbeynew king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. Meanwhile Henry's wife Margaret of Anjou And William is also in Franceright to worry. While the previous king, Harold, drumming up resources for is dead and the return likelihood of their sonmore pitched battles is over, Edward, Prince the rebels are stirring and much of Wales. Elsewhere the country does not wish to recognise a 14 year old Henry Tudor is waiting at one of history's most important cross roadsnew overlord. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718181425</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CC Humphreys3949666079|title=FireNoema|author=Dael Akkerman

|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Puritan/former Roundhead Pitman and former highwayman/Cavalier Captain William Coke have formed ''This is a deep respect for each otherstory about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago. Their first mission was to track down the Fifth Monarchists, an organisation out to avenge those who were found guilty and hanged for signing Charles I's death warrant. That was then, ' Maya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the Great PlagueMesolithic era. A mere year laterClimate change is occurring, the Plague has lessened but the Fifth Monarchists are back, taking PitmanSea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, and food is becoming more and Coke's interventions personallymore scarce. We therefore find our heroes defending themselves, their families, What to do? Can the law givers in the monarch, and, on top federation of thatvillages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, a new disaster is about to hit spiritual figure who interprets the capital. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891458</amazonuk>wisdom of All Life, provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Winston Graham1529125898|title=The Grove of Eagles: A novel of Elizabethan England Godmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating=3.5

|summary=Maugan Killigrew grows up in material comfort as ''If it were not for the acknowledged illegitimate son casual dereliction of Sir John, the Governor of Cornwallodd gentleman's Pendennis Castleduty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all. Yet, despite '' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the comparative comfort and because position of other's austere attitudes, Maugan never feels quite as accepted as his many halfgoverness to twelve-year-brothers and sisters but there's little time to consider thatold Fanny Austen. Times are changingShe had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessity. Queen Elizabeth I is getting older and Until the English are still at war with the Spanishdeath of her mother, Anne had a nation that will have quite an effect on Maugan's comfortable life. Romance, conflict and imprisonment, Maugan will experience it all and, hopefully survive it all but we shall see..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509818618</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1509818618</amazonus>}}{{newreview|author=Suzanne Rindell|title=Three-Martini Lunch|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In 2013 we was loved [[The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell|The Other Typist]] for its gripping plot, terrific characters and effortless recreation of both parents although her father was frequently absent from the Jazz Agehousehold. Well When her mother died, Rindell has done it again, though this time her chosen time period is the late 1950s. She brings the bustling, cutthroat New York City publishing world to life through the connections between three main characters whose first-person voices fit together like a dream: Cliff Nelson, a Columbia dropout who plans to be the next Hemingway father cast her off and also happens would have nothing more to be the son do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a premier editor at Bonwright; Eden Katzyear. Her maid, who moved from Indiana to be a secretary at a publishing house but has ambitions of becoming an editor; and Miles TillmanAgnes, a black man who works as a bicycle messenger for Eden's publisher would receive nothing but has literary hopes of his ownwas fortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749020822</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyMelissa Fu |title=These Shallow GravesPeach Blossom Spring

|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction |summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my all-time favourite books, ''A Gathering Light'', so I was very excited loved the prelude to read her latest novel and see how it compared. Like ''A Gathering Light''Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''These Shallow GravesOrigins'' . Unfortunately it is a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart and a feisty heroine who challenges the standards only truly poetic part of the daya book that I expected more from. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Victoria Whitworth|title= Daughter of the Wolf|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= We're in the Dark Ages in an England ruled by rival Kings served by Lords. One of the lords is Radmer of Donmouth, the KingCovering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's Wolf, guardian of the estuary gateway to Northumbriaperspective. When the king sends Radmer on a mission to Rome, Donmouth their home city is left in set ablaze during the safekeeping of his only daughterwar with Japan, Elfrun, whose formidable grandmother wants a young mother (Meilin) and her to take the veil, while treacherous Tilmon of Illingham covets her for his four-year-old son(Renshu) are among those who flee. This is the The story of daughters follows them on their journey across China, and in a manRenshu's world: Wynn, determined case eventually to take over from her father, the smith, Saethryth, wilful daughter of the village steward, whose longing for passion will set off a tragic sequence of events and Auli, whose merchant venturer father plies his trade up and down the coast, spying for the DanesAmerica. 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>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Weir1916072038|title=Six Tudor Queens: Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen: Six Tudor Queens 1House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary=1501: A ship comes into port on We meet part of the English coast with an important passengerTalbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. The Spanish Infanta Catalina steps ashore Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to become the wife house in the hollow. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of King Henry VIIher mother's heir, Prince Arthur strengths and produce future heirs for the English crown. Thatweaknesses: 's the plan but that's not how the story actually goesShe is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, on any level. For Catalina will be more famous as Katherine beneath a facade of Aragonrespectability, wife of Arthurthe deplorable truth''. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's brotherrefusal to do as she was asked, Henry VIIIwhich has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''. As for producing heirs…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472227476</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1472227476</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=Lloyd ShepherdAnnabel Abbs|title=The Detective and the Devil (Charles Horton 4)Language of Food

|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=1855: Only Eliza Acton is a few years after poet who has never had the notorious Highways Murderer left his mark on London's docks, Constable Charles Horton is called back slightest inclination to the areaboil an egg. The disturbing murder of When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a clerk and his family bears the trademark of the serial killer but Horton's sure he's already dead; Horton saw him dietroubled home life. At this point the hunt for a devil incarnate beginsTogether, they test, craft, taking Horton refine and his wife Abigail to reshape the other side world of domestic cookery, reinventing the world recipe book and changing the darker side face of an untouchable Victorian institution: The East India Companycookery writing forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136124</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1471136124</amazonus>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Aliya WhiteleyFreya Marske|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|author=Diney Costeloe|title=The Lost SoldierA Marvellous Light

|summary=Rachel Robin Blyth is nudged into a journalist covering a local conflict between a land developer job in the Civil Service, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the small village community streets of Charlton AmbroseLondon are threaded with magic. The developer wants Desperate to level Ashgroveremove a curse that threatens to swallow him, a group of nine trees planted Robin follows Edwin to commemorate those in the village who died serving in World War I. As she investigatescountryside, Rachel realises that only eight of where the trees have corresponding names of hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the fallenpeople shimmer with power. The ninth is for There they uncover a mysterious unknown soldier. Why unknown? Rachel is determined to discover his story and, sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in so doing, she also discovers part of her ownthe British Isles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972576</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1784972576</amazonus>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David ChurchillB09F4CTKJR|title=The Leopards of Normandy: Duke: Leopards of Normandy 2Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5

|summary=Normandy 1037: Duke William at 9 years old is surrounded by guardians and advisors but not all of them have his interests at heart. In fact whether he lives or dies will have more to do with WilliamIt's resilience than the custodial duty later stages of those around himWorld War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Meanwhile Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the fight for 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the English throne across first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the channel seems remote first to be attached to the RAF and none of his business as the sons of Queen Emma jostle for Canute's old crownfirst to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. It's getting closer though; one day William Duke of Normandy will be William But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the Conquerornotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472219228</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1472219228</amazonus>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Diney CosteloeChristophe Medler|title= The Girl With No Name|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction |summary= Thirteen year old Lisa escapes from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport and arrives in England in August 1939. She can't speak a word of English and her only belongings are crammed into a small suitcase. Among them is one precious photograph of the family she has left behind in Germany. Lonely and homesick, not knowing if she will ever see her family again, Lisa is adopted by a childless couple, and then bullied at school for being German. But worse is to come when the Blitz blows her new home apart, and she wakes up in hospital with no memory of who she is, or where she came from. The authorities give her a new name and despatch her to a children's home. With the war in full swing, what will become of Lisa now?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784970050</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Chris Cleave|title= Everyone Brave Is ForgivenMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating= 4.5|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 to London, and immediately signs up. Expecting to be given a position of high importance or excitement, she is instead placed as a school teacher. Tom Shaw decides to give war a miss – happy in his role organising education. It's only when his flatmate Alistair enlists, that Tom and Mary are drawn into the war in ways they never could have imagined. As Mary grows to protect and defend her small band of pupils, Tom struggles to decide whether he should join the war effort. And Alistair? Many, many miles away, Alistair battles both the enemy, and his own feelings for one out of his reach.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147361869X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Dyer|title=The Midnight Watch|rating=5

|summary=In Set against the early hours backdrop of April 15th 1912the English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the RMS Titanic sank causing the death summer of over 1,500 people1642. The CalifornianAs a loyal servant of the King, commanded by Captain Stanley Lord was and Head of the nearest ship to Secret Service, it, near enough for anyone on deck that night to see the Titanicis Robert's distress rockets. This means it was near enough duty to go to its aid but it remained inactive while witnessing uncover the unfolding events. Why? Within a day or two details of the disaster American journalist John Steadman is sent plan and follow the clues to cover uncover one of the Titanic's sinking but most guarded secrets in history—especially since the story of plot could affect the Californian's inaction intrigues him even moreKing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782397795</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1782397795</amazonus>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Sanger1471187179|title=All Their Minds In TandemA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=54

|summary=October 1879: A stranger walks into New Georgetown, West Virginia to keep Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an appointmentunexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. He calls himself 'The Makerbook is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother' s expectations and has find a gift that gives him access nice young man to people's mindsmarry, produce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their home. Gradually he'll become deeply acquainted with the townsfolk but it mustnUnfortunately, this isn't sway him from what he's here she wants to do at all and neither does she want to accomplishcontinue working as a secretary. One manAs a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, one mission working for the secret service and no guarantee how it will endeffectively living a double 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784293954</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1784293954</amazonus>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Yves Jego, Denis Lepee, Afonso Cruz and Sue Dyson Rahul Bery (translator)|title= The Sun King ConspiracyKokoschka's Doll|rating= 32.5|genre= Historical Literary Fiction|summary=''Who can Well, this looked very much like a book I trust in this nest of vipers?'' The year could love from the get-go, which is 1661 why I picked my review copy up and Cardinal Mazarin, the Chief Minister to King Louis XIV flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of France, lies dyingit. As I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the health of the man who once governed France deterioratesmiddle on darker stock paper, the ambitions of those beneath him strive for power a chapter whose number was in order to succeed him. Secret papers have been stolen from the Cardinal20, papers that could change the course of France forever000s, letters used as narrative form, and have fallen so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in to the hands wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of Gabriel de Pontibrandit mentioned, a young actor who has become unwillingly involved in too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this strange conspiracy. Surrounded by scheming politicians review, and a secret brotherhoodcan tell that if love was on these pages, the contents of these coded papers will change Gabriel's life and have the power to change the future of Franceit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910477354</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elaine EverestChristina Hammonds Reed|title=The Woolworths GirlsBlack Kids|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=It Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is Christmas, 1938, and three young ladies are excited about starting their new jobs at Woolworths in Erith. For each one set against the backdrop of themthe 1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to the job is a means absolution of escape: Sarah wants 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 four police officers for her brotherbeating a black man, Rodney King, who has escaped nearly to death. Told from prison. The ''Woolworths Girls'' soon become close friends, but with the threat perspective of war looming largeAshley Bennett, and tragedy just around the cornernovel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, they are going to need to rely on each other more than ever beforea woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144729548X</amazonuk>1471188191