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{{newreview|author=A N Wilson|title=Resolution|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=In 1772 Reinhold Forster and his son George were hired as ship's naturalists for the ''Resolution'', the vessel Captain James Cook piloted to New Zealand and back on a three <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-year voyage of discovery. Once a Lutheran pastor near Danzig, Reinhold seemed unable to settle to one line of work and had a higher opinion of himself than was prudent. In Wilson's vision of life on the ''Resolution'', Reinhold seems fussy, argumentative and rather heartless, as when he offers George's dog up as fresh meat when the captain is desperately ill. George, just 18 when he joins the expedition, is a self-taught illustrator and botanist with a keen ear for languages. Though precociously intelligent, he is emotionally immature and cannot keep a handle on his masturbation habit or deal with their servant Nally's crush on him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398279</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael HughesTananarive Due|title= The Countenance DivineReformatory|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Historical Fiction|summary=In 1999Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a programmer scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is trying sentenced to fix six months at the millennium bugGracetown School for Boys, but can't shake otherwise known as the sense heReformatory. It's been chosen for something. In 1888, five women are brutally murdered in the East End by a troubled young man in thrall to a mysterious master. In 1777, an apprentice engraver called William Blake has place with a defining spiritual experience; thirteen years later this vision returns.  And in 1666, poet brutal and revolutionary John Milton completes the epic for which he will be remembered centuries laterdark reputation.  But where does the feeling come from that the world segregated reformatory is about to end?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473636507</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Adrien Bosc|title= Constellation|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= October 28, 1949. 02:51, following reports a chamber of good weather and visibility onhorrors, haunted by the pilot makes contact; the flight has reach 3,000 feet, he has the airport in sight, he is preparing to land. The estimated time of arrival came and went, the landing had not happened. A search is initiated, which eventually establishes boys that the carrier had crashed into a mountainside in the Azores, killing all 37 of its passengers and all 11 of its crewhave died there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781255369</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Dulce Maria Cardoso|title= The Return|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= I often claim to know most of my history from reading story books (a.k.a. novels). Sometimes, however, you need to know the history before you have a context in which In order to sit survive the story. Portugal is one of those countries about which I know quite literally nothing, school governor and in 1975 I was about twelve years old – old enough to register that there was a war going on in somewhere called Angola, but back thenhis Funhouse, there were wars going on all over Robert must enlist the place. Western European empires around help of the world were in school's ghosts – only they have their death throesown motivations.. Some went more peacefully than others, albeit none of them trailing much glory in their wake.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857054325</amazonuk>1803366532}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David SnellKatherine Howe|title=Sing to Silent Stones: Violet's War (Sing to Silent Stones 1)A True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary= Although born Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to Victorian parentslive with a family who run an inn, Violet is and being made to work there from a modern Edwardian young womanage. She believes When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in women's suffrage and the right town, she decides to fall in love with whomever she choosesgo and watch. Her choice is Frank BalfourEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, one of her fatherHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's employees which is not without its problemsdeath at the hands of two vicious pirates. Encouragingly for some people around VioletShe 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 war darkens a boy and joining the nationnotorious Ned Low's mood, Frank goes to do his bit. This leaves Violet with more than memories of their fond farewell; Frank leaves her pirate ship as a soncabin boy. What follows feels like She soon finds herself in the end thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life to Violet but it's just on the beginning of adventures that will take her to war too; behind enemy lines to witness dark days and amazing braveryocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993435343</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Angus DonaldSarah Marsh|title= The Death A Sign of Robin HoodHer Own|rating= 43.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=War rages across the land. In the wake of Magna Carta, King John's treachery is revealed and the barons rise against him once more. Fighting with them is the Earl of Locksley - the former outlaw Robin Hood, and his right hand man Sir Alan Dale. When the French enter the fray, Robin and Alan must decide where their loyalties lie - with the king or their land. Death may wait for us all, but can Robin Hood pull off his greatest ever trick and cheat the Grim Reaper one last time just as England needs him most?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751551996</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eowyn Ivey|title=To the Bright Edge of the World|rating=4

|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 ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the murder of Hannah, his fiancée. Itexcellent ''Ithaca''s particularly gruesome as the body was brutally dismembered and picks up a few months after where we left in various locations around Londonoff. Bound for In the gallows palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and fearing then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the future throne of her young son George, Sarah petitions for mercy from the Home Office Western Isles. Having survived – politically and, as a result, physical – the Home Secretary appoints barrister Edmund Fleetwood chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to re-investigate Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the casebrink of a fragile peace. Edmund approaches it One that shatters however with an open mind but nothing prepares him for what he'll discover the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and not just in the professional realmhis sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472234731</amazonuk>0356516075

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robyn YoungB0C7J9D21B|title= Sons of the BloodA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Bastard sonWhen we first meet our hero, mercenary soldier, protector of the rightful king his name is Ettore and seeker he lives at The House of a treacherous secret, Jack Wynter lives in dangerous timesBeautiful Swallows. In England Idyllic as this might sound, the Wars of the Roses ended it's a decade agao, with the victory of King Edward of York. But an uneasy peace is fast broken bordello and Ettore's mother died when the King dies, and feuds old and new are awokenhe was born. When Jack is sent from his life in Seville to gloomy and dangerous England, he must uncover the truth behind the secret that he has He's not been guardingshort of mothers, and the reason though - but for someone of his Fatherbackground in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's falldifficult to obtain decent employment. As The stint working with the new Prince Edward readies himself to be king, his uncle Richard makes a move for the throne preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - leading him and Jack on paths of intrigue, corruption, mystery determined - and war. The old world is turningit was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. A new world is rising He was even saving some money. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444777718</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David DunhamEssie Fox|title=The Silent LandFascination

|summary=Rebecca's mother dies just The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as 1903 turns over to 1904, triggering a move and total change of life setting for Rebecca and her father. They reluctantly historical fiction (in Rebecca's casematched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) leave village life behind them which has often led to enter the spotlight of London societymore than a few writers mishandling it. This will influence the young lady as she becomes There's such a woman, falls glut of media set in love and marries. However these changes the era that the hallmarks we've come to associate with it are nothing compared familiar to the conflict bubbling under the surface in Europepoint of being cliched, hackneyed even. The hot summer of 1914 All this is the prelude simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to loss in many livesdo poorly. But despite that, including Rebeccasomething about it still grabs me – and something about this book'sdescription did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785892541</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreview|author=Sue Gee|title=Trio|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In the winter of 1936Cast out from Rome, Steven Coulter's wife, Margaret, dies of tuberculosis, leaving their Northumberland cottage cold Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and emptywhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate. His work But as a history teacher at Kirkhoughton Boys' School isn't enough some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to distract him protect the city and its citizens from his grief; he spends his long evenings writing letters to Margaretplagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. GraduallyTo them, though, as spring arrives he starts to take Artemisia – an interest in other things. His colleague Frank Embleton invites him to a performance by the Hepplewick Trio: Frank's sister Diana on cello; pianist Margot Heslop, whose mother died when she was ambitious young woman who promises trouble and who looks after her father, a coal mine manager, at Hepplewick Hall; change – has no place amongst them and their friend George Liddell, the violinist and leader, who is a Royal College of Music graduatesociety.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630616</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= William SuttonThomas D Lee|title= Lawless and the Flowers of SinPerilous Times|rating= 43|genre= Crime (Historical)Fantasy|summary= Much ''Hate is the path of this book centres on, as we are accustomed to least resistance'' Set in tales of Victorian London, dastardly deeds done on a foggy night. Indeed the fog runs thick through this novelnear-distant future, draping the seedy events in a soupy broth world on the verge of vice. Our hero, Lawless, rather ironicallyclimate collapse, Britain is that most rare of birds, an honest detective, although as we learn he, himself, is not without his vicesin great peril. What becomes clear however is that he is something of The British Isles desperately needs a social crusader when his eyes are opened hero (or several) to save the misery day and degradation faced by 'fallen' womenrescue what little remains. At its heart, What no-one expected was that one of the Flowers Knights 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 Round Table would answer the way as well as a sensational public trial, murder and episodes of mayhemcall. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785650114</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toby ClementsG K Holloway|title=Kingmaker: Divided SoulsIn the Shadows of Castles

|summary=Thomas We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and Katherine Everingham and their son Rufus are enjoying a time on the day of William of contentment working on Sir John FakenhamNormandy's Marton Hall estatecoronation as King of England. However, this peace William's position is just not secure and the eye of the stormnew king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. And William is right to worry. Tragedy strikes While the Fakenhams almost at previous king, Harold, is dead and the same time that the Plantagenet Wars likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the Roses hots up again. Richard Earl rebels are stirring and much of Warwick is challenging King Edward IV, leaving the Everinghams with country does not wish to recognise a serious dilemma… or twonew overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780894651</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreview|author= Nicola Pryce|title= Pengelly's Daughter|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Rose Pengelly is only too aware that she Maya is a young girl living in a man's worldhunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. IndependentClimate change is occurring, strong the Sea of Grass encroaches further and well-educated, she has dreams of running the family boatyard, but she knows that her dreams can never come true. A womanfurther into Maya's job is to bear children forest home, and run the home; it food is the way things have always been becoming more and the way that they always will bemore scarce. Now, according What to Rose's mother, it is particularly important that Rose secures a good marriage, as her father's poor business decisions have left do? Can the family bankrupt and on law givers in the verge federation of destitution. Wealthy timber merchant Mr Tregellas is only too happy villages muster peaceful ways to help cope? Can the family outTraveller, in exchange for Rose's hand in marriage, but Rose despises him and suspects that he is responsible for a spiritual figure who interprets the family's bad fortune. If only she can find evidence to implicate himwisdom of All Life, there may be a chance to escape from this seemingly hopeless situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398775</amazonuk>provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rhona Martin1529125898|title=Gallows Wedding: A dark novel of witchcraft and forbidden love set against the backdrop of religious upheaval in Henry VIII's timesGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=Hazel''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, an orphaned peasant during there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessity. Until the 16th century has death of her mother, Anne had a tough time to say comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the leasthousehold. Therefore when she comes across Black JohnWhen her mother died, an outlaw about her father cast her off and would have nothing more to be hanged she sees do with her chance. By proposing to him No explanation was offered but she'll save his life andwould receive an annuity of £35 a year. Her maid, Agnes, marrying himwould receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.}}{{Frontpage|author=Melissa Fu |title=Peach Blossom Spring |rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction |summary= I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, her owna short chapter entitled ''Origins''. At least Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of a book thatI expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's Hazelperspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japan, a young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, and in Renshu's theory but the fates will make it a bit more of a strugglecase eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861515456</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Valerie Anand1916072038|title=King of The House in the WoodHollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary=A young William Rufus is brought back We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to England from clergy training the house in France by his father William the Conquerorhollow. England has changed The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and needs a soldier more than weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a priest or monkfacade of respectability, especially as Rufusthe deplorable truth'' brother Richard has died, leaving William to fill the void. Eventually King William I decides  Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to split his inheritance between Rufus do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and eldest son Robert, something that doesnunexpected removal''t go down well with an heir who expected to get it all. The brothers were never friends but this brings  Then we are told of the birth of a new dimension to their hatred child and, when royal brothers fightsoon after, Hester Talbot departs, nations become involvedleaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861514573</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily HollemanAnnabel Abbs|title= Cleopatra's ShadowsThe Language of Food|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= EgyptEliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an egg. 58 BC. Arsinoe has been abandoned by her fatherWhen tasked with writing a cookery book, Ptolemy XIIshe recruits Ann Kirby, who has fled Alexandria and taken her beloved sister Cleopatra a local woman with hima troubled home life. It is now Arsinoe's half-sister Berenice who has seized the throneTogether, they test, craft, leaving the young princess to fight for survival in the bloodthirsty refine and treacherous royal court. Berenice too has her own demons to face – having taken reshape the throne from her weak-willed father she now has to prove herself worthy world of being queendomestic cookery, as reinventing the recipe book and changing the possibility face of her father and Cleopatra's return cookery writing forever threaten to crush her new found power.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751560170</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elizabeth MassieFreya Marske|title= VersaillesA Marvellous Light|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) |rating=5

|summary=Edward IV and his brother Richard of Gloucester aren't exactly accepting of Richard NevilleRobin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, Earl of Warwick deserting them much to stand with his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the ailing Henry VI again. The sons streets of York London are gathering support in Burgundy while Edward's wife Elizabeth (nee Woodville) gives birth threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to his son in the sanctuary of Westminster Abbey. Meanwhile Henry's wife Margaret of Anjou is also in Francecountryside, drumming up resources for where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the return of their son, Edward, Prince of Walespeople shimmer with power. Elsewhere There they uncover a 14 year old Henry Tudor is waiting at one sinister plot that threatens the lives of history's most important cross roadsall magicians in the British Isles. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718181425</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CC HumphreysB09F4CTKJR|title=FireFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=Puritan/former Roundhead Pitman It's the later stages of World War I and former highwayman/Cavalier Captain William Coke have formed the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a deep respect for each otheryoung American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. Their This company was the first mission was US Aero Squadron to track down be trained in Canada, the Fifth Monarchists, an organisation out first to be attached to avenge those who were found guilty the RAF and hanged for signing Charles I's death warrant. That was then, during the Great Plague. A mere year later, first to be sent into the Plague has lessened but skies to fight the Fifth Monarchists are back, taking Pitman's and Coke's interventions personallyGermans in active combat. We therefore find our heroes defending themselves, their families, the monarch, and, on top of But before thatcan happen, a new disaster is about Petrol has to hit master flying the capitalnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891458</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Winston GrahamChristophe Medler|title=The Grove of EaglesMadrigal: A novel of Elizabethan England Closely Guarded Secret|rating=3.54

|summary=Maugan Killigrew grows up in material comfort as Set against the acknowledged illegitimate son backdrop of the English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir John, Robert Douse in the Governor summer of Cornwall's Pendennis Castle1642. YetAs a loyal servant of the King, despite the comparative comfort and because Head of other's austere attitudesthe Secret Service, Maugan never feels quite as accepted as his many half-brothers and sisters but thereit is Robert's little time duty to consider that. Times are changing. Queen Elizabeth I is getting older uncover the details of the plan and follow the English are still at war with clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the Spanish, a nation that will have quite an effect on Maugan's lifeKing. 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>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Rindell1471187179|title=Three-Martini LunchA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=4.5

|summary=In 2013 we loved [[Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell|The Other Typist]] for its gripping plot, terrific characters book is set in the 1930s and effortless recreation of the Jazz Age. Well, Rindell has done it again, though this time her chosen time period Minnie is the late 1950s. She brings the bustling, cutthroat New York City publishing world expected to live up to life through the connections between three main characters whose first-person voices fit together like her mother's expectations and find a dream: Cliff Nelsonnice young man to marry, a Columbia dropout who plans to be produce children and spend the next Hemingway rest of her days looking after her husband and also happens their home. Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to be the son of a premier editor do at Bonwright; Eden Katz, who moved from Indiana all and neither does she want to be continue working as a secretary at . As a publishing house but has ambitions result of becoming an editor; a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and Miles Tillman, effectively living a black man who works double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as a bicycle messenger her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for Eden's publisher but has literary hopes of his ownthe Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749020822</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=These Shallow GravesKokoschka's Doll|rating=32.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my allWell, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-time favourite booksgo, ''A Gathering Light'', so which is why I was very excited to read her latest novel picked my review copy up and see how flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it compared. Like ''A Gathering Light'', ''These Shallow Graves'' is a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart and I found things to potentially delight me each time – a feisty heroine who challenges the standards of the day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Victoria Whitworth|title= Daughter of the Wolf|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= We're weird section in the Dark Ages in an England ruled by rival Kings served by Lords. One of the lords is Radmer of Donmouth, the King's Wolfmiddle on darker stock paper, guardian of the estuary gateway to Northumbria. When the king sends Radmer on a mission to Rome, Donmouth is left chapter whose number was in the safekeeping of his only daughter20, Elfrun000s, whose formidable grandmother wants her to take the veilletters used as narrative form, while treacherous Tilmon of Illingham covets her for his sonand so on. This is It intrigued with the story of daughters in subterranean voice a man's world: Wynn, determined to take over from her father, the smith, Saethryth, wilful daughter hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew 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 coastit mentioned, spying for the Danestoo. Above all, it is But you've seen the story of Elfrun of Donmouthstar rating that comes with this review, uncertain of her father's fate and not knowing whom she can trusttell that if love was on these pages, or love…it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784975737</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alison WeirChristina Hammonds Reed|title=Six Tudor Queens: Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen: Six Tudor Queens 1Black Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=1501: A ship comes into port on Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of the English coast with an important passenger. The Spanish Infanta Catalina steps ashore 1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to become the wife absolution of four police officers for beating a black man, Rodney King Henry VII's heir, Prince Arthur and produce future heirs for the English crownnearly to death. That's the plan but that's not how Told from the story actually goes, on any level. For Catalina will be more famous as Katherine perspective of AragonAshley Bennett, wife the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of Arthur's brotherrace, Henry VIIIto a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage. As for producing heirs…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472227476</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1472227476</amazonus>1471188191