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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Angus DonaldTananarive Due|title= The Death of Robin HoodReformatory|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=War rages across 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 landboys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the wake help of Magna Carta, King Johnthe school's treachery 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 revealed living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and the barons rise against him once morebeing made to work there from a young age. Fighting with them When she hears there is the Earl to be a hanging of Locksley - some pirates in the former outlaw Robin Hoodtown, she decides to go and his right hand man Sir Alan Dalewatch. When Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the French enter the frayhands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, Robin and Alan must decide where their loyalties lie - with then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the king or their landnotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Death may wait for us all She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, but can Robin Hood pull off his greatest ever trick and cheat from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the Grim Reaper one last time just as England needs him most?ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751551996</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eowyn IveySarah Marsh|title=To the Bright Edge A Sign of the WorldHer Own|rating=43.5
|genre=General Fiction
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna MazzolaClaire North|title=The UnseeingHouse of Odysseus
|rating=5
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David DunhamB0C7J9D21B|title=The Silent LandA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|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>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue GeeEssie Fox|title=TrioThe Fascination
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=In the winter of 1936, Steven Coulter's wife, Margaret, dies of tuberculosis, leaving their Northumberland cottage cold and empty. His work The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised 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. Graduallysetting for historical fiction (matched only, thoughperhaps, as spring arrives he starts by the Second World War) which has often led to take an interest in other thingsmore than a few writers mishandling it. His colleague Frank Embleton invites him to a performance by the Hepplewick Trio: FrankThere's sister Diana on cello; pianist Margot Heslop, whose mother died when she was young and who looks after her father, such a coal mine manager, at Hepplewick Hall; and their friend George Liddell, glut of media set in the violinist and leader, who is a Royal College of Music graduate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630616</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= William Sutton|title= Lawless and era that the Flowers of Sin|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Much of this book centres on, as hallmarks we 've come to associate with it are accustomed familiar to in tales the point of Victorian Londonbeing cliched, dastardly deeds done on a foggy nighthackneyed even. Indeed the fog runs thick through All this novel, draping the seedy events in a soupy broth of vice. Our hero, Lawless, rather ironically, is simply to illustrate that most rare of birds, it would be an honest detective, although as we learn he, himself, is not without his viceseasy thing to do poorly. What becomes clear however is But despite that he is , something of a social crusader when his eyes are opened to the misery about it still grabs me – and degradation faced by something about this book'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 s description did as well as a sensational public trial, murder and episodes of mayhem. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785650114</amazonuk>1914585526
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toby ClementsNicole Jarvis|title=Kingmaker: Divided SoulsA Portrait in Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|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
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{{Frontpage
|author=Thomas D Lee
|title=Perilous Times
|rating=3
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''
{{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
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{{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
|genre=Historical Fiction
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Valerie Anand3949666079|title=King of the WoodNoema|author=Dael Akkerman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=A young William Rufus ''This is brought back to England from clergy training in France by his father William the Conqueror. England has changed and needs a soldier more than a priest or monk, especially as Rufus' brother Richard has died, leaving William story about some things that happened to fill the voidme about twelve thousand years ago. Eventually King William I decides to split his inheritance between Rufus and eldest son Robert, something that doesn't go down well with an heir who expected to get it all. The brothers were never friends but this brings a new dimension to their hatred and, when royal brothers fight, nations become involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861514573</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Emily Holleman|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 Maya is now Arsinoe's half-sister Berenice who has seized the throne, leaving the a young princess to fight for survival girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the bloodthirsty and treacherous royal courtMesolithic era. 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 queenClimate change is occurring, as the possibility Sea of her father Grass encroaches further and Cleopatrafurther into Maya'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 fatherforest home, 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 food is absolute. Trapped by the palace, they have no choice but to play the King's game becoming more and to obey his rulemore scarce. And so the court becomes a place of tactical liaisons and salacious passions. The Queen fights What to keep do? Can the King's attention from his mistress, and the King's brother struggles to keep his relationship alive. Versailes is not law givers in the paradise it appears to be; instead, it is a labyrinth federation 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 villages muster peaceful ways to reclaim his ancestral lands in Europe, raising cope? Can 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 FlandersTraveller, a plan is hatched that will bring the former outlaws and their families to spiritual figure who interprets the brink wisdom 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 peaceAll Life, first they will have to force the King to submit to the will of his people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751551988</amazonuk>provide solutions?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Conn Iggulden1529125898|title=Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors (The Wars of the Roses) Godmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|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.
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{{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
|rating=3.5
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Rindell1916072038|title=Three-Martini LunchThe House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|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>
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{{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
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{{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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison WeirB09F4CTKJR|title=Six Tudor Queens: Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen: Six Tudor Queens 1Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=1501: A ship comes into port on It's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the English coast with an important passenger17 Aero Squadron. The Spanish Infanta Catalina steps ashore This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to become the wife of King Henry VII's heir, Prince Arthur RAF and produce future heirs for the English crown. That's first to be sent into the plan but that's not how skies to fight the story actually goes, on any levelGermans in active combat. For Catalina will be more famous as Katherine of AragonBut before that can happen, wife of Arthur's brother, Henry VIIIPetrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. As for producing heirs…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472227476</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1472227476</amazonus>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lloyd ShepherdChristophe Medler|title=The Detective and the Devil (Charles Horton 4)Madrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=1855: Only a few years after Set against the backdrop of the notorious Highways Murderer left his mark on London's docksEnglish Civil War, Constable Charles Horton a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is called back to discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the areasummer of 1642. The disturbing murder As a loyal servant of a clerk the King, and his family bears the trademark Head of the serial killer but HortonSecret Service, it is Robert's sure he's already dead; Horton saw him die. At this point the hunt for a devil incarnate begins, taking Horton and his wife Abigail duty to uncover the other side details of the world plan and follow the darker side clues to uncover one 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 the aftermath of the Great War, Shirley Fearn dreams of challenging the conventions of rural England, where life is as unchanging as most guarded secrets in history—especially since the seasons. The scarred veteran Mr Tiller, left disfigured by an impossible accident on plot could affect the battlefields of France, brings with him a message: part prophecy, part warningKing. 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907389377</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diney Costeloe1471187179|title=The Lost SoldierA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Rachel Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a journalist covering leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a local conflict between a land developer nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the small village community rest of Charlton Ambroseher days looking after her husband and their home. The developer Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to level Ashgrove, do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a group of nine trees planted to commemorate those in the village who died serving in World War Isecretary. As a result of a chance meeting, she investigatesfinds herself drawn into espionage, Rachel realises that only eight of working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the trees have corresponding names Communist Party of the fallenGreat Britain. The ninth is for a mysterious unknown soldier. Why unknown? Rachel is determined to discover his story Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and, in so doing, the friends she also discovers part of her ownhas made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972576</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1784972576</amazonus>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David ChurchillAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The Leopards of Normandy: Duke: Leopards of Normandy 2Kokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Normandy 1037: Duke William at 9 years old Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is surrounded by guardians why I picked my review copy up and advisors but not all flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of them have his interests at heartit. In fact whether he lives or dies will have more I found things to do with William's resilience than potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the custodial duty of those around him20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. Meanwhile the fight for the English throne across the channel seems remote and none of his business as It intrigued with the sons subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of Queen Emma jostle for Canute's old crownit mentioned, too. ItBut you's getting closer though; one day William Duke of Normandy will be William ve seen the Conquerorstar 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 happened?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472219228</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1472219228</amazonus>1529402697
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Diney CosteloeChristina Hammonds Reed|title= The Girl With No NameBlack Kids|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction Teens |summary= Thirteen year old Lisa escapes from Nazi Germany on Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of the Kindertransport and arrives in England in August 1939. She can't speak 1992 Los Angeles riots, a word reaction to the absolution of English and her only belongings are crammed into four police officers for beating a small suitcaseblack man, Rodney King, nearly to death. Among them is one precious photograph Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, the family she has left behind in Germany. Lonely and homesick, not knowing if she will ever see novel follows her family again, Lisa is adopted by evolution from a childless couple, and then bullied at school for being German. But worse is to come silent bystander when the Blitz blows her new home apart, and she wakes up in hospital confronted with no memory matters of who she israce, or where she came from. The authorities give to a woman finding her a new name voice and despatch embracing her to a children's homeheritage. With the war in full swing, what will become of Lisa now?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784970050</amazonuk>1471188191
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