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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eowyn IveyTananarive Due|title=To The Reformatory|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the Bright Edge help of the Worldschool's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=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 age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, 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 mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5

|summary=If you're going to go pioneering across unexplored landsAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, at least be prepared to accept what you seek – namelyEllen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, what you've never seen beforeeverything about her life changes. That lesson seems quite obvious, but back Living in a time when the time use of 1885 Allen Forrester sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a little too naïve school where she is taught to heed itlip read, but physically restrained from signing. A career soldierFrom here, he is tasked with scouring the potential of the Wolverine River that threads south to the shores of Alaska, even though the Russians (she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who of course used to own has been teaching the Territory) have had all manner of lethal encounters with those already living there, deaf and even though using a major stretch of the river has to be traversed in winter when entirely frozen over, as the cliffs either side are too impenetrablesystem called Visible Speech. Allen leaves a much youngerAt the same time, new bride behind – Bell is working on other inventions and right from the get-go his journals force him to pen words about strange happeningsideas, strange encounters and things Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of legend coming to lifeespionage. Like I say, what he's never seen before…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472208609</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna MazzolaClaire North|title=The UnseeingHouse of Odysseus

|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction |summary=1837: Sarah Gale is found guilty of aiding and abetting James Greenwood in the murder of Hannah, his fiancée. It's particularly gruesome as the body was brutally dismembered and left in various locations around London. Bound for the gallows and fearing for the future of her young son George, Sarah petitions for mercy from the Home Office and, as a result, the Home Secretary appoints barrister Edmund Fleetwood to re-investigate the case. Edmund approaches it with an open mind but nothing prepares him for what he'll discover and not just in the professional realm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472234731</amazonuk>}}What could matter more than love?''

{{newreview|author= Robyn Young|title= Sons of The follow-up to the Blood|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Bastard son, mercenary soldier, protector of the rightful king and seeker of excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a treacherous secret, Jack Wynter lives in dangerous timesfew months after where we left off. In England, the Wars palace of the Roses ended a decade agaoOdysseus, 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 victory throne of King Edward of York. But an uneasy peace is fast broken when the King dies, and feuds old and new are awokenWestern Isles. When Jack is sent from his life in Seville to gloomy Having survived – politically and dangerous England, he must uncover physical – the truth behind the secret chaotic storm that he has been guarding, and the reason for his FatherClytemnestra brought to Ithaca's fall. As shores, Queen Penelope is on the new Prince Edward readies himself to be king, his uncle Richard makes brink of a move for fragile peace. One that shatters however with the throne - leading him and Jack on paths return of intrigueOrestes, corruptionKing of Mycenae, mystery and war. The old world is turning. A new world is risinghis sister Elektra, seeking refuge. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444777718</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David DunhamB0C7J9D21B|title=The Silent LandA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5

|summary=RebeccaWhen we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's mother dies just as 1903 turns over to 1904, triggering a move bordello and total change Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not been short of life mothers, though - but for Rebecca and her father. They reluctantly (someone of his background in Rebeccalate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's case) leave village life behind them difficult to enter obtain decent employment. The stint working with the spotlight preparation of London societyanchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. This will influence the young lady Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as she becomes a woman, falls in love and marriesguide for visitors. However these changes are nothing compared to the conflict bubbling under the surface in Europe. The hot summer of 1914 is the prelude to loss in many lives, including Rebecca'sHe was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785892541</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue GeeEssie Fox|title=TrioThe Fascination

|summary=In The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the winter of 1936, Steven CoulterSecond World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. There's wife, Margaret, dies such a glut of tuberculosis, leaving their Northumberland cottage cold and empty. His work as a history teacher at Kirkhoughton Boys' School isnmedia set in the era that the hallmarks we't enough ve come to distract him from his grief; he spends his long evenings writing letters associate with it are familiar to Margaretthe point of being cliched, hackneyed even. Gradually, though, as spring arrives he starts All this is simply to take illustrate that it would be an interest in other thingseasy thing to do poorly. His colleague Frank Embleton invites him to a performance by the Hepplewick Trio: FrankBut despite that, something about it still grabs me – and something about this book's sister Diana on cello; pianist Margot Heslop, whose mother died when she was young and who looks after her father, a coal mine manager, at Hepplewick Hall; and their friend George Liddell, the violinist and leader, who is a Royal College of Music graduatedescription did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630616</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= William SuttonNicole Jarvis|title= Lawless and the Flowers of Sin|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Much of this book centres on, as we are accustomed to in tales of Victorian London, dastardly deeds done on a foggy night. Indeed the fog runs thick through this novel, draping the seedy events A Portrait in a soupy broth of vice. Our hero, Lawless, rather ironically, is that most rare of birds, an honest detective, although as we learn he, himself, is not without his vices. What becomes clear however is that he is something of a social crusader when his eyes are opened to the misery and degradation faced by 'fallen' women. At its heart, the Flowers of Sin is a detective story, with Lawless given an impossible task to complete alongside solving a seemingly impossible crime. Along the way he meets a rag tag bunch of misfits who help, hurt and hinder our hero. There is romance and intrigue along the way as well as a sensational public trial, murder and episodes of mayhem. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650114</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toby Clements|title=Kingmaker: Divided SoulsShadow

|summary=Thomas and Katherine Everingham and their son Rufus are enjoying a time ''I want all of contentment working on Sir John FakenhamFlorence to know my name''s Marton Hall estate Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. HoweverBut as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, this peace is just the eye self-proclaimed guardians of the storm. Tragedy strikes the Fakenhams almost at the same time healing magics that through paintings have the Plantagenet Wars of power to protect the Roses hots up againcity and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. Richard Earl of Warwick is challenging King Edward IVTo them, leaving the Everinghams with a serious dilemma… or twoArtemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780894651</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author= Nicola Pryce|title= Pengelly's Daughter|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Rose Pengelly is only too aware that she is living Set in the near-distant future, in a man's world. Independent, strong and well-educated, she has dreams on the verge of running the family boatyardclimate collapse, but she knows that her dreams can never come trueBritain is in great peril. A woman's job is The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to bear children and run save the home; it is the way things have always been day and the way that they always will berescue what little remains. Now, according to Rose's mother, it is particularly important What no-one expected was that Rose secures a good marriage, as her father's poor business decisions have left the family bankrupt and on one of the verge Knights 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 Round Table would answer 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 situationcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398775</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rhona MartinG K Holloway|title=Gallows Wedding: A dark novel of witchcraft and forbidden love set against In the backdrop Shadows of religious upheaval in Henry VIII's timesCastles|rating=4.5

|summary=Hazel, an orphaned peasant during We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. William's position is not secure and the 16th century new king has had many challenges. Imposing authority through a tough time to say the leastcoronation is important. Therefore when she comes across Black John, an outlaw about And William is right to be hanged she sees her chanceworry. By proposing to him she'll save his life andWhile the previous king, marrying himHarold, her own. At least that's Hazel's theory but is dead and the fates will make it a bit likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to recognise a strugglenew overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861515456</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Valerie Anand3949666079|title=King of the WoodNoema|author=Dael Akkerman

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=A young William Rufus ''This is brought back a story about some things that happened to England from clergy training me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is a young girl living in France by his father William a hunter gatherer village during the ConquerorMesolithic era. England has changed Climate change is occurring, the Sea of Grass encroaches further and needs a soldier more than a priest or monk, especially as Rufusfurther into Maya' brother Richard has dieds forest home, leaving William and food is becoming more and more scarce. What to fill do? Can the law givers in the void. Eventually King William I decides federation of villages muster peaceful ways to split his inheritance between Rufus and eldest son Robertcope? Can the Traveller, something that doesn't go down well with an heir a spiritual figure who expected to get it all. The brothers were never friends but this brings a new dimension to their hatred andinterprets the wisdom of All Life, when royal brothers fight, nations become involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861514573</amazonuk>provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Holleman1529125898|title= Cleopatra's Shadows|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|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 is now Arsinoe's half-sister Berenice who has seized the throne, leaving the young princess to fight for survival in 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 of being queen, as the possibility of her father and Cleopatra's return forever threaten to crush her new found power.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751560170</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGodmersham Park|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 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 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 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 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) Gill Hornby

|summary=Edward IV and his brother Richard ''If it were not for the casual dereliction of Gloucester arenthe odd gentleman't exactly accepting of Richard Nevilles duty, Earl of Warwick deserting them there would no women to stand with the ailing Henry VI againteach well-bred daughters at all. The sons of York are gathering support in Burgundy while Edward's wife Elizabeth (nee Woodville) gives birth ' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to his son in take up the sanctuary position of Westminster Abbeygoverness to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. Meanwhile Henry's wife Margaret She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of Anjou is also in France, drumming up resources for necessity. Until the return death of their sonher mother, EdwardAnne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the household. When her mother died, Prince of Walesher father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her. Elsewhere No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a 14 year old Henry Tudor is waiting at one of history's most important cross roads. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181425</amazonuk>Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=CC HumphreysMelissa Fu |title=Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Puritan/former Roundhead Pitman and former highwayman/Cavalier Captain William Coke have formed a deep respect for each other. 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, during the Great Plague. A mere year later, the Plague has lessened but the Fifth Monarchists are back, taking Pitman's and Coke's interventions personally. We therefore find our heroes defending themselves, their families, the monarch, and, on top of that, a new disaster is about to hit the capital. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891458</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Winston Graham|title=The Grove of Eagles: A novel of Elizabethan England Peach Blossom Spring

|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Maugan Killigrew grows up in material comfort as I loved the acknowledged illegitimate son of Sir Johnprelude to Peach Blossom Spring, the Governor of Cornwalla short chapter entitled ''Origins''s Pendennis Castle. Yet, despite Unfortunately it is the comparative comfort and because only truly poetic part of other's austere attitudes, Maugan never feels quite as accepted a book that I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as his many half-brothers and sisters but thereviewed through one family's little time to consider thatperspective. Times are changing. Queen Elizabeth I When their home city is getting older and set ablaze during the English are still at war with the SpanishJapan, a nation that will have quite an effect young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on Maugantheir journey across China, and in Renshu's lifecase eventually to America. Romance, conflict and imprisonment, Maugan will experience it all and, hopefully survive it all but we shall see..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509818618</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1509818618</amazonus>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Rindell1916072038|title=Three-Martini LunchThe House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary=In 2013 we loved [[The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell|The Other Typist]] for its gripping plot, terrific characters and effortless recreation We meet part of the Jazz AgeTalbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Well, Rindell has done it again, though this time Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her chosen time period is the late 1950s. She brings the bustlingmother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, 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 house in the next Hemingway hollow. The two women are angry with each other and also happens to be the son Jocelyn is well aware of a premier editor her mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at Bonwright; Eden Katzsubterfuge, who moved from Indiana to be a secretary at concealing, beneath a publishing house but has ambitions facade of becoming an editor; and Miles Tillmanrespectability, a black man who works as a bicycle messenger for Edenthe deplorable truth''. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's publisher but refusal to do as she was asked, which has literary hopes precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''. Then we are told of his ownthe birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749020822</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyAnnabel Abbs|title=These Shallow GravesThe Language of Food|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my all-time favourite books, ''A Gathering Light'', so I was very excited Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to read her latest novel and see how it comparedboil an egg. Like ''A Gathering Light''When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, ''These Shallow Graves'' is a historical novel local woman with a murder mystery at its heart troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine and a feisty heroine who challenges reshape the standards world of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book and changing the dayface of cookery writing forever. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Victoria WhitworthFreya Marske|title= Daughter of the WolfA Marvellous Light|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 Robin Blyth is Radmer of Donmouth, the King's Wolf, guardian of the estuary gateway to Northumbria. When the king sends Radmer on nudged into a mission to Rome, Donmouth is left job in the safekeeping of his only daughter, ElfrunCivil Service, whose formidable grandmother wants her much to take the veil, while treacherous Tilmon of Illingham covets her for his sonchagrin. This is There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the story streets of daughters in London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a man's world: Wynncurse that threatens to swallow him, determined Robin follows Edwin to take over from her father, the smithcountryside, Saethryth, wilful daughter of where the village steward, whose longing for passion will set off a tragic sequence of events hedgegrows bristle with incantations and Auli, whose merchant venturer father plies his trade up and down the coast, spying for people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the Danes. Above lives of all, it is magicians in the story of Elfrun of Donmouth, uncertain of her father's fate and not knowing whom she can trust, or love…British Isles. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784975737</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison WeirB09F4CTKJR|title=Six Tudor Queens: Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen: Six Tudor Queens 1Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=1501: A ship comes into port on the English coast with an important passenger. The Spanish Infanta Catalina steps ashore to become the wife of King Henry VII's heir, Prince Arthur and produce future heirs for the English crown. That's the plan but thatIt's not how the story actually goes, on any level. For Catalina will be more famous as Katherine later stages of Aragon, wife of Arthur's brother, Henry VIII. As for producing heirs…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472227476</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1472227476</amazonus>}}{{newreview|author=Lloyd Shepherd|title=The Detective World War I and the Devil (Charles Horton 4)|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=1855: Only a few years after United States has just entered the notorious Highways Murderer left his mark on London's docks, Constable Charles Horton conflict. Petrol Petronus is called back to the area. The disturbing murder of a clerk young American who has signed up and his family bears the trademark of joined the serial killer but Horton's sure he's already dead; Horton saw him die17 Aero Squadron. At this point This company was the hunt for a devil incarnate beginsfirst US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, taking Horton and his wife Abigail the first to be attached to the other side of the world RAF and the darker side of an untouchable Victorian institution: The East India Company.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136124</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1471136124</amazonus>}}{{newreview|author= Aliya Whiteley|title= The Arrival of Missives|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=In first to be sent into the aftermath of skies to fight the Great War, Shirley Fearn dreams of challenging the conventions of rural England, where life is as unchanging as the seasonsGermans in active combat. The scarred veteran Mr TillerBut before that can happen, left disfigured by an impossible accident on Petrol has to master flying the battlefields of France, brings with him a message: part prophecy, part warningnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diney CosteloeChristophe Medler|title=The Lost SoldierMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret

|summary=Rachel is a journalist covering a local conflict between a land developer and Set against the small village community backdrop of Charlton Ambrose. The developer wants to level Ashgrovethe English Civil War, a group of nine trees planted to commemorate those secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the village who died serving in World War Isummer of 1642. As she investigates, Rachel realises that only eight a loyal servant of the trees have corresponding names King, and Head of the fallen. The ninth Secret Service, it is for a mysterious unknown soldier. Why unknown? Rachel is determined Robert's duty to discover his story uncover the details of the plan and, follow the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in so doing, she also discovers part of her ownhistory—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972576</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1784972576</amazonus>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Churchill1471187179|title=The Leopards of Normandy: Duke: Leopards of Normandy 2A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=54

|summary=Normandy 1037: Duke William at 9 years old Minnie is surrounded by guardians and advisors but not all of them have his interests at heartan 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. In fact whether he lives or dies will have more The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to do with Williamlive up to her mother's resilience than expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the custodial duty rest of those around himher days looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. Meanwhile the fight As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the English throne across secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the channel seems remote and none Communist Party of his business Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the sons of Queen Emma jostle friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for Canute's old crown. It's getting closer though; one day William Duke of Normandy will be William the ConquerorCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472219228</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1472219228</amazonus>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Diney CosteloeAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title= The Girl With No NameKokoschka's Doll|rating= 42.5|genre= General Literary Fiction |summary= Thirteen year old Lisa escapes Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and arrives in England in August 1939flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. She can't speak I found things to potentially delight me each time – a word of English and her only belongings are crammed into weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a small suitcase. Among them is one precious photograph of chapter whose number was in the family she has left behind in Germany. Lonely and homesick20, not knowing if she will ever see her family again000s, Lisa is adopted by a childless coupleletters used as narrative form, and then bullied at school for being Germanso on. But worse is to come when It intrigued with the Blitz blows her new home apart, and she wakes up subterranean voice a man hears in hospital with no memory wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of who she isit mentioned, or where she came fromtoo. The authorities give her a new name and despatch her to a children But you's home. With ve seen the war in full swingstar rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what will become of Lisa nowhappened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784970050</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris CleaveChristina Hammonds Reed|title= Everyone Brave Is ForgivenThe Black Kids|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical FictionTeens |summary= War was declared at 11:15. Mary North signed up at noon. When war Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is declaredset against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Mary North leaves her finishing school, travels back a reaction to Londonthe absolution of four police officers for beating a black man, and immediately signs up. Expecting to be given a position of high importance or excitementRodney King, she is instead placed as a school teacher. Tom Shaw decides nearly to give war a miss – happy in his role organising educationdeath. It's only when his flatmate Alistair enlistsTold from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, that Tom and Mary are drawn into the war in ways they never could have imagined. As Mary grows to protect and defend novel follows her small band evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of pupilsrace, Tom struggles to decide whether he should join the war effort. And Alistair? Many, many miles away, Alistair battles both the enemy, a woman finding her voice and his own feelings for one out of his reachembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147361869X</amazonuk>1471188191