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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Natasha FarrantTananarive Due|title= Lydia: The Wild Girl of Pride and PrejudiceReformatory|rating= 5|genre=Teens Historical Fiction|summary=Lydia Bennet has just turned fifteen and has receivedGracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, amongst other giftstwelve 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 diary from her bookish older sister Marychamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. SheIn order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school'd rather s ghosts – only they have received some ribbon or some lace; after alltheir 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, writing in having been sent to live with a diary every day seems such family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a tedious pastimeyoung age. But when When she hears there is to be a handsome regiment hanging of scarlet-coats arrives some pirates in Merytonthe town, Lydia 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 there just might be something exciting they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to write about after all.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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002976</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A N WilsonSarah Marsh|title=ResolutionA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=In 1772 Reinhold Forster and his son George were hired After a bout of scarlet fever as ship's naturalists for the ''Resolution''a child, the vessel Captain James Cook piloted to New Zealand and back on Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a three-year voyage world of discoverysilence, everything about her life changes. Once Living in a Lutheran pastor near Danzigtime when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Reinhold seemed unable Ellen is sent to settle a school where she is taught to one line of work and had a higher opinion of himself than was prudentlip read, but physically restrained from signing. In Wilson's vision of life on the ''Resolution'', Reinhold seems fussy, argumentative and rather heartless From here, as when he offers George's dog she ends up as fresh meat when in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the captain is desperately illdeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. George, just 18 when he joins At the expeditionsame time, Bell is a self-taught illustrator working on other inventions and botanist with a keen ear for languages. Though precociously intelligentideas, he is emotionally immature and cannot keep Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a handle on his masturbation habit or deal with their servant Nally's crush on himcomplicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398279</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael HughesClaire North|title= The Countenance DivineHouse of Odysseus|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=In 1999, a programmer is trying to fix the millennium bug, but can't shake the sense he'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 a defining spiritual experience; thirteen years later this vision returns.  And in 1666, poet and revolutionary John Milton completes the epic for which he will be remembered centuries later. What could matter more than love?''

But The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where does we left off. In the feeling come from palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the world is about to end?return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473636507</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Adrien BoscB0C7J9D21B|title= Constellation|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= October 28, 1949. 02:51, following reports of good weather and visibility on, 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 that the carrier had crashed into a mountainside Captive in the Azores, killing all 37 of its passengers and all 11 of its crew.|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 Algiers (a.k.a. novelsMuhammed Amalfi Mysteries). Sometimes, however, you need to know the history before you have a context in which to sit the story. Portugal is one of those countries about which I know quite literally nothing, 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 then, there were wars going on all over the place. Western European empires around the world were in their death throes. Some went more peacefully than others, albeit none of them trailing much glory in their wake.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857054325</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Snell|title=Sing to Silent Stones: Violet's War (Sing to Silent Stones 1)A J Lewis

|summary= Although born to Victorian parentsWhen we first meet our hero, Violet his name is a modern Edwardian young womanEttore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. She believes in womenIdyllic as this might sound, it's suffrage a bordello and the right to fall in love with whomever she choosesEttore's mother died when he was born. Her choice is Frank Balfour, one of her fatherHe's employees which is not without its problems. Encouragingly been short of mothers, though - but for some people around Violetsomeone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, as war darkens the nationit's mood, Frank goes difficult to do his bitobtain decent employment. This leaves Violet The stint working with more than memories the preparation of their fond farewell; Frank leaves her anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a sonsuccessful business as a guide for visitors. What follows feels like the end of her life to Violet but it's just the beginning of adventures that will take her to war too; behind enemy lines to witness dark days and amazing braveryHe was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993435343</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Angus DonaldEssie Fox|title= The Death of Robin Hood|rating= 4.5|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 WorldFascination

|genre=General Historical Fiction|summary=If you're going to go pioneering across unexplored landsThe Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, at least be prepared to accept what you seek – namelyperhaps, what you've never seen before. That lesson seems quite obvious, but back in by the time of 1885 Allen Forrester is Second World War) which has often led to more than a little too naïve to heed few writers mishandling it. A career soldier, he is tasked with scouring the potential There's such a glut of media set in the Wolverine River era that threads south the hallmarks we've come to the shores of Alaska, even though the Russians (who of course used associate with it are familiar to own the Territory) have had all manner point of lethal encounters with those already living therebeing cliched, and hackneyed even though a major stretch of the river has . All this is simply to illustrate that it would be traversed in winter when entirely frozen over, as the cliffs either side are too impenetrablean easy thing to do poorly. Allen leaves a much youngerBut despite that, new bride behind something about it still grabs me – and right from the get-go his journals force him to pen words something about strange happenings, strange encounters and things of legend coming to life. Like I say, what hethis book's never seen before…description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472208609</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna MazzolaNicole Jarvis|title=The UnseeingA Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=1837: Sarah Gale is found guilty ''I want all of aiding Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and abetting James Greenwood in the murder of Hannah, his fiancéewhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate. It's particularly gruesome But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the body was brutally dismembered and left in various locations around London. Bound for powerful Accademia, the gallows and fearing for the future self-proclaimed guardians of her young son George, Sarah petitions for mercy from the Home Office and, as a result, healing magics that through paintings have the Home Secretary appoints barrister Edmund Fleetwood power to re-investigate protect the casecity and its citizens from plagues and curses. Edmund approaches The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it with above all else. To them, Artemisia – an open mind but nothing prepares him for what he'll discover ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and not just in the professional realmtheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472234731</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author= Robyn Young|title= Sons of Set in the Blood|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Bastard sonnear-distant future, mercenary soldier, protector of in a world on the rightful king and seeker verge of a treacherous secretclimate collapse, Jack Wynter lives Britain is in dangerous timesgreat peril. In England, the Wars of the Roses ended The British Isles desperately needs a decade agao, with hero (or several) to save the victory of King Edward of York. But an uneasy peace is fast broken when the King dies, day and feuds old and new are awokenrescue what little remains. When Jack is sent from his life in Seville to gloomy and dangerous England, he must uncover the truth behind the secret What no-one expected was that he has been guarding, and one of the reason for his Father's fall. As Knights of the new Prince Edward readies himself to be king, his uncle Richard makes a move for Round Table would answer the throne - leading him and Jack on paths of intrigue, corruption, mystery and war. The old world is turning. A new world is risingcall. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444777718</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David DunhamG K Holloway|title=The Silent LandIn the Shadows of Castles|rating=4.5

|summary=RebeccaWe begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's mother dies just coronation as 1903 turns over to 1904, triggering a move and total change King of life for Rebecca and her fatherEngland. They reluctantly (in RebeccaWilliam's case) leave village life behind them to enter position is not secure and the spotlight of London societynew king has many challenges. This will influence the young lady as she becomes Imposing authority through a woman, falls in love and marriescoronation is important. However these changes are nothing compared And William is right to worry. While the conflict bubbling under previous king, Harold, is dead and the surface in Europe. The hot summer likelihood of 1914 more pitched battles is over, the rebels are stirring and much of the prelude country does not wish to loss in many lives, including Rebecca'srecognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785892541</amazonuk>1800422466

Maya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce. What to do? Can the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions? }}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Gee1529125898|title=TrioGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating=45

|summary=In ''If it were not for the winter casual dereliction of 1936, Steven Coulterthe odd gentleman's wifeduty, Margaret, dies of tuberculosis, leaving their Northumberland cottage cold and emptythere would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all. His work as a history teacher at Kirkhoughton Boys' School isn't enough  Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to distract him from his grief; he spends his long evenings writing letters take up the position of governess to Margarettwelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessity. Gradually Until the death of her mother, though, as spring arrives he starts to take an interest in other things. His colleague Frank Embleton invites him to Anne had a performance comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the Hepplewick Trio: Frank's sister Diana on cello; pianist Margot Heslop, whose household. When her mother died when she was young , her father cast her off and who looks after would have nothing more to do with her father, . No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a coal mine manageryear. Her maid, at Hepplewick Hall; and their friend George LiddellAgnes, the violinist and leader, who is a Royal College of Music graduatewould receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= William SuttonMelissa Fu |title= Lawless and the Flowers of SinPeach Blossom Spring |rating= 43.5|genre= Crime (Historical)Fiction |summary= Much of this book centres on, as we are accustomed I loved the prelude to in tales of Victorian LondonPeach Blossom Spring, dastardly deeds done on a foggy nightshort chapter entitled ''Origins''. Indeed Unfortunately it is the fog runs thick through this novel, draping the seedy events in only truly poetic part of a soupy broth of vice. Our hero, Lawless, rather ironically, is book that most rare of birds, an honest detective, although as we learn he, himself, is not without his vicesI expected more from. What becomes clear however is that he is something of a social crusader when his eyes are opened Covering Chinese history from 1938 to the misery and degradation faced by 2005 as viewed through one family'fallen' womens perspective. At its heart, When their home city is set ablaze during the Flowers of Sin is a detective storywar with Japan, 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 young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who help, hurt and hinder our heroflee. There is romance and intrigue along the way as well as a sensational public trialThe story follows them on their journey across China, murder and episodes of mayhemin Renshu's case eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785650114</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toby Clements1916072038|title=Kingmaker: Divided SoulsThe House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary=Thomas and Katherine Everingham and their son Rufus are enjoying a time of contentment working on Sir John Fakenham's Marton Hall estate. However, this peace is just the eye We meet part of the stormTalbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Tragedy strikes the Fakenhams almost Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to the same time that house in the Plantagenet Wars of the Roses hots up againhollow. Richard Earl The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of Warwick her mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She is challenging King Edward IVpracticed at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, leaving the Everinghams with a serious dilemma… or twodeplorable truth''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780894651</amazonuk>}}Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''.

{{newreview|author= Nicola Pryce|title= Pengelly's Daughter|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Rose Pengelly is only too aware that she is living in a man's world. Independent, strong and well-educated, she has dreams Then we are told of running the family boatyard, but she knows that her dreams can never come true. A woman's job is to bear children birth of a child and run the home; it is the way things have always been and the way that they always will be. Now, according to Rose's mothersoon after, it is particularly important that Rose secures a good marriageHester Talbot departs, as her father's poor business decisions have left the family bankrupt leaving Jocelyn in shame and on the verge of destitution. Wealthy timber merchant Mr Tregellas is only too happy to help the family out, isolation in exchange for Rose's hand in marriage, but Rose despises him and suspects that he is responsible for the family's bad fortune. If only she can find evidence to implicate him, there may be a chance to escape from this seemingly hopeless situationYorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398775</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rhona MartinAnnabel Abbs|title=Gallows Wedding: A dark novel The Language of witchcraft and forbidden love set against the backdrop of religious upheaval in Henry VIII's timesFood

|summary=Hazel, an orphaned peasant during the 16th century Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had a tough time the slightest inclination to say the leastboil an egg. Therefore when When tasked with writing a cookery book, she comes across Black Johnrecruits Ann Kirby, an outlaw about to be hanged she sees her chancea local woman with a troubled home life. By proposing to him she'll save his life Together, they test, craft, refine andreshape the world of domestic cookery, marrying him, her own. At least that's Hazel's theory but reinventing the recipe book and changing the fates will make it a bit more face of a strugglecookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861515456</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Valerie AnandFreya Marske|title=King of the WoodA Marvellous Light|rating=4.5

|summary=A young William Rufus Robin Blyth is brought back to England from clergy training nudged into a job 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 diedCivil Service, leaving William much to fill the voidhis chagrin. Eventually King William I decides to split his inheritance between Rufus There he meets Edwin Courcey and eldest son Robert, something learns that doesn't go down well the streets of London are threaded with an heir who expected magic. Desperate to get it all. The brothers were never friends but this brings remove a new dimension curse that threatens to their hatred andswallow him, when royal brothers fightRobin follows Edwin to the countryside, nations become involvedwhere the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861514573</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily HollemanB09F4CTKJR|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 Flights 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>}}{{newreviewFreedom|author= Elizabeth Massie|title= VersaillesSteven Burgauer|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 arenIt't exactly accepting s the later stages of Richard NevilleWorld War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, Earl of Warwick deserting them the first to be attached to the RAF and the first to stand with be sent into the ailing Henry VI again. The sons of York are gathering support in Burgundy while Edward's wife Elizabeth (nee Woodville) gives birth skies to his son fight the Germans in the sanctuary of Westminster Abbeyactive combat. Meanwhile Henry's wife Margaret of Anjou is also in FranceBut before that can happen, drumming up resources for Petrol has to master flying the return of their son, Edward, Prince of Wales. Elsewhere a 14 year old Henry Tudor is waiting at one of history's most important cross roadsnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181425</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=CC HumphreysChristophe Medler|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 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'' I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, ''These Shallow Graves'' is a historical novel chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a murder mystery at its heart and a feisty heroine who challenges the standards man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the daystar 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Victoria WhitworthChristina Hammonds Reed|title= Daughter of the WolfThe Black Kids|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical FictionTeens |summary= WeChristina Hammonds Reed're in the Dark Ages in an England ruled by rival Kings served by Lords. One of s debut novel is set against the lords is Radmer backdrop of Donmouth, the King's Wolf1992 Los Angeles riots, guardian of the estuary gateway to Northumbria. When the king sends Radmer on a mission reaction to Rome, Donmouth is left in the safekeeping absolution of his only daughter, Elfrun, whose formidable grandmother wants her to take the veil, while treacherous Tilmon of Illingham covets her four police officers for his son. This is the story of daughters in beating a black man's world: Wynn, determined Rodney King, nearly to take over death. Told from her father, the smith, Saethrythperspective of Ashley Bennett, wilful daughter of the village steward, whose longing for passion will set off novel follows her evolution from a tragic sequence silent bystander when confronted with matters of events and Aulirace, whose merchant venturer father plies his trade up to a woman finding her voice and down the coast, spying for the Danesembracing her heritage. Above all, it is the story of Elfrun of Donmouth, uncertain of her father's fate and not knowing whom she can trust, or love…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784975737</amazonuk>1471188191