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|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=John Aislabie thinks that Thomas Hawkins has arrived Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at Aislabiethe Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's country mansion a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to investigate murder threats. Thatsurvive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's part of it but Thomas' main reason ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to carry out live with a command family who run an inn, and being made to work there from Queen Caroline connected a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the recent South Sea Bubble scandaltown, she decides to go and watch. The command was phrased nicely enoughEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, but Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the sinister intent was clear: Tomhands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's failure or refusal means loss pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of Kittythings when there is a mutiny on board, the person he loves most and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the worldocean waves. Those murder threats are a little concerning though…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473615097</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Natasha FarrantSarah Marsh|title= Lydia: The Wild Girl A Sign of Pride and PrejudiceHer Own|rating= 3.5|genre=Teens General Fiction|summary=Lydia Bennet has just turned fifteen and has receivedAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, amongst other giftsEllen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, a diary from everything about her bookish older sister Marylife changes. She'd rather have received some ribbon or some lace; after all, writing Living in a diary every day seems such a tedious pastime. But time when a handsome regiment the use of scarlet-coats arrives in Merytonsign language was seen as something only savages do, Lydia decides that there just might be something exciting Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to write about after alllip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002976</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A N WilsonClaire North|title=ResolutionHouse of Odysseus|rating=45|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-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 What could matter more 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>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Hughes|title= The Countenance Divine|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=In 1999, a programmer is trying to fix the millennium bug, but canlove?'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.

But The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where does the feeling come from that we left off. In the world 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 palace of good weather and visibility onOdysseus, the pilot makes contact; the flight has reach 3with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband,000 feet, he has the airport in sight, he is preparing who sailed to land. The estimated time of arrival came war at Troy and went, the landing had not happenedthen by divine intervention never returned home. A search is initiated, which eventually establishes that As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the carrier had crashed into a mountainside in the Azores, killing all 37 of its passengers and all 11 throne 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 (a.k.a. novels). Sometimes, however, you need to know the history before you have a context in which to sit the storyWestern Isles. Portugal is one of those countries about which I know quite literally nothing, Having survived – politically and in 1975 I was about twelve years old physical – old enough the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to register that there was a war going on in somewhere called AngolaIthaca's shores, but back then, there were wars going Queen Penelope is on all over the placebrink of a fragile peace. Western European empires around One that shatters however with the world were in their death throes. Some went more peacefully than othersreturn of Orestes, albeit none King of them trailing much glory in their wakeMycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857054325</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David SnellB0C7J9D21B|title=Sing to Silent Stones: Violet's War A Captive in Algiers (Sing to Silent Stones 1Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=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 chooses. Her choice is Frank Balfour, one of her fatherEttore's employees which is not without its problemsmother died when he was born. Encouragingly for some people around Violet, as war darkens the nationHe's moodnot been short of mothers, Frank goes to do though - but for someone of his bit. This leaves Violet with more than memories of their fond farewell; Frank leaves her a son. What follows feels like the end of her life to Violet but background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's just the beginning of adventures that will take her to war too; behind enemy lines difficult to witness dark days and amazing braveryobtain decent employment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993435343</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Angus Donald|title= The Death of Robin Hood|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=War rages across the land. In stint working with the wake preparation of Magna Carta, King Johnanchovies didn's treachery is revealed t work out and the barons rise against him once morebastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Fighting with them is the Earl of Locksley Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - 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 determined - 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 it was not long before he had a successful business as England needs him most?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751551996</amazonuk>a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eowyn IveyEssie Fox|title=To the Bright Edge of the WorldThe Fascination

|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 A Marvellous Light|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the countryside, where 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 WoodBritish Isles. |isbn=1529080886}}{{Frontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=A young William Rufus is brought back to England from clergy training in France by his father William It's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the Conquerorconflict. England Petrol Petronus is a young American who has changed signed up and needs a soldier more than a priest or monk, especially as Rufus' brother Richard has died, leaving William to fill joined the void17 Aero Squadron. Eventually King William I decides This company was the first US Aero Squadron to split his inheritance between Rufus and eldest son Robertbe trained in Canada, something that doesn't go down well with an heir who expected the first to get it all. The brothers were never friends but this brings a new dimension be attached to their hatred the RAF and, when royal brothers the first to be sent into the skies to fightthe Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, nations become involvedPetrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861514573</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily HollemanChristophe Medler|title= Cleopatra's ShadowsMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= EgyptSet against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642. 58 BC. Arsinoe has been abandoned by her fatherAs a loyal servant of the King, Ptolemy XIIand Head of the Secret Service, who has fled Alexandria and taken her beloved sister Cleopatra with him. It it is now ArsinoeRobert's half-sister Berenice who has seized duty to uncover the throne, leaving details of the young princess to fight for survival in the bloodthirsty plan and treacherous royal court. Berenice too has her own demons to face – having taken follow the throne from her weak-willed father she now has clues to prove herself worthy uncover one of being queen, as the possibility of her father and Cleopatra's return forever threaten to crush her new found powermost guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751560170</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elizabeth Massie1471187179|title= Versailles|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=1667 – The civil wars are over. King Louis XIV crushed the nobility's rebellion against his father, leaving the throne his. But the aristocracy hounds his every step – and realises that if they will not be loyal, they will at least obey. So the King plants a trap to ensnare them – building Versailles, a prison of opulence where his power is absolute. Trapped by the palace, they have no choice but to play the King's game and to obey his rule. And so the court becomes a place of tactical liaisons and salacious passions. The Queen fights to keep the King's attention from his mistress, and the King's brother struggles to keep his relationship alive. Versailes is not the paradise it appears to be; instead, it is a labyrinth of treason and hushed secrets, of political schemes and deadly conspiracies. It is a place of passion and death, love and vengeance. The King will take what is rightfully his.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782399984</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewA Beautiful Spy|author= Angus Donald|title= The King's AssassinRachel Hore|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 arenMinnie is an 'ordinary't exactly accepting of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick deserting them to stand with the ailing Henry VI againgirl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The sons of York are gathering support book is set in Burgundy while Edwardthe 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's wife Elizabeth (nee Woodville) gives birth expectations and find a nice young man to his son in marry, produce children and spend the sanctuary rest of Westminster Abbeyher days looking after her husband and their home. Meanwhile HenryUnfortunately, this isn's wife Margaret t what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. As a result of Anjou is also in Francea chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, drumming up resources working for the return secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of their son, Edward, Prince of WalesGreat Britain. Elsewhere a 14 year old Henry Tudor is waiting at one of history's most important cross roadsMinnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181425</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=CC HumphreysAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=FireKokoschka's Doll|rating=42.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=Puritan/former Roundhead Pitman and former highwayman/Cavalier Captain William Coke have formed Well, this looked very much like a deep respect for each other. Their first mission was to track down book I could love from the Fifth Monarchistsget-go, an organisation out to avenge those who were found guilty which is why I picked my review copy up and hanged for signing Charles I's death warrantflipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. That was then, during I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the Great Plague. A mere year latermiddle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the Plague has lessened but the Fifth Monarchists are back20, taking Pitman's and Coke's interventions personally. We therefore find our heroes defending themselves000s, their families, the monarchletters used as narrative form, and, so 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 |rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Maugan Killigrew grows up It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in material comfort as the acknowledged illegitimate son wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of Sir Johnit mentioned, the Governor of Cornwall's Pendennis Castletoo. Yet, despite But you've seen the comparative comfort and because of other's austere attitudes, Maugan never feels quite as accepted as his many half-brothers and sisters but there's little time to consider star rating that. Times are changing. Queen Elizabeth I is getting older and the English are still at war comes with the Spanishthis review, a nation and can tell that will have quite an effect if love was on Maugan's life. Romance, conflict and imprisonmentthese pages, Maugan will experience it all and, hopefully survive it all but we shall seewas not actually caused by them..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509818618</amazonuk> So what happened?|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1509818618</amazonus>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzanne RindellChristina Hammonds Reed|title=Three-Martini LunchThe Black Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=In 2013 we loved [[The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell|The Other Typist]] for its gripping plot, terrific characters and effortless recreation of the Jazz Age. Well, Rindell has done it again, though this time her chosen time period Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the late 1950s. She brings the bustling, cutthroat New York City publishing world to life through backdrop of the connections between three main characters whose first-person voices fit together like a dream: Cliff Nelson1992 Los Angeles riots, a Columbia dropout who plans to be the next Hemingway and also happens reaction to be the son absolution of a premier editor at Bonwright; Eden Katz, who moved from Indiana to be a secretary at a publishing house but has ambitions of becoming an editor; and Miles Tillman, four police officers for beating a black man who works as a bicycle messenger for Eden's publisher but has literary hopes of his own.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749020822</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jennifer Donnelly|title=These Shallow Graves|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my all-time favourite books, ''A Gathering Light''Rodney King, so I was very excited nearly to read her latest novel and see how it compareddeath. Like ''A Gathering Light''Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, ''These Shallow Graves'' is the novel follows her evolution from a historical novel silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, to a murder mystery at its heart woman finding her voice and a feisty heroine who challenges the standards of the dayembracing her heritage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>1471188191