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|summary=England 1813: When Venetia's father dies suddenlyGracetown, Venetia receives Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a bigger shock than white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is customary on such occasions. The wonderful rural idyll and family life sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for VenetiaBoys, her mother otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and brother has been based on dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a liechamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. This means VenetiaIn order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's family has to go to London ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a half-sister family who run an inn, and adopted brother she didn't know existedbeing made to work there from a young age. No one When she hears there is happy about it and now Venetia has to learn be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to live on her wits go and watch. Enthralled and her father's lessons horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a position that not even her father had envisaged for her. Venetiayoung boy's brother becomes more unruly among death at the temptations hands of the city while Captain Jack Chamberlainetwo vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her fathertoo, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's step son, makes his annoyance at having Venetia around all too clearpirate ship as a cabin boy. But these will become She soon finds herself in the least thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her worries…rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349404534</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= James BenmoreSarah Marsh|title= Dodger A Sign of the RevolutionHer Own|rating= 3.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Once the undisputed 'Top Sawyer' and most artful After a bout of thievesscarlet fever as a child, events have taken Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a sharp downturn for Dodger world of latesilence, everything about her life changes. His recent close brush with death has left him agitated and disturbed, seeking solace Living in a time when the murky opium dens beneath the cityuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. His dependence on From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the poppy has left him clumsy deaf and shaky, no longer the light-fingered pickpocket he used to beusing a system called Visible Speech. Even At the local youthssame time, who used to respect Bell is working on other inventions and emulate himideas, enjoy playing pranks on him and laughing behind his back. There is no doubt about it: Dodger is Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a mere shadow of his former self and at risk complicated tangle of becoming an opium fiendespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784292885</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonia HodgsonClaire North|title=A Death at Fountains Abbey (Thomas Hawkins 3)House of Odysseus

|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction |summary=John Aislabie thinks that Thomas Hawkins has arrived at Aislabie's country mansion 'What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to investigate murder threats. Thatthe excellent ''Ithaca's part of it but Thomas' main reason is to carry out picks up a command from few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Caroline connected 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 recent South Sea Bubble scandalWestern Isles. The command was phrased nicely enough, but Having survived – politically and physical – the sinister intent was clear: Tomchaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's failure or refusal means loss of Kittyshores, Queen Penelope is on the person he loves most in brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the worldreturn of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge. Those murder threats are a little concerning though…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473615097</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Natasha FarrantB0C7J9D21B|title= Lydia: The Wild Girl of Pride and PrejudiceA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre=Teens Historical Fiction|summary=Lydia Bennet has just turned fifteen When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and has received, amongst other giftshe lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a diary from her bookish older sister Marybordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. She He'd rather have received some ribbon or some lace; after alls not been short of mothers, writing though - but for someone of his background in a diary every day seems such a tedious pastime. But when a handsome regiment of scarletlate-eighteenth-coats arrives in Merytoncentury Amalfi, Lydia decides that there just might be something exciting it's difficult to write about after allobtain decent employment.The stint working with the preparation of 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 successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910002976</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A N WilsonEssie Fox|title=ResolutionThe Fascination

|genre=Literary Historical Fiction|summary=In 1772 Reinhold Forster and his son George were hired The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as ship's naturalists a setting for the ''Resolution''historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the vessel Captain James Cook piloted Second World War) which has often led to New Zealand and back on a three-year voyage of discovery. Once more than a Lutheran pastor near Danzig, Reinhold seemed unable to settle to one line of work and had a higher opinion of himself than was prudentfew writers mishandling it. In WilsonThere's vision such a glut of life on media set in the era that the hallmarks we''Resolution'', Reinhold seems fussyve come to associate with it are familiar to the point of being cliched, argumentative and rather heartless, as when he offers George's dog up as fresh meat when the captain is desperately illhackneyed even. George, just 18 when he joins the expedition, All this is a self-taught illustrator and botanist with a keen ear for languagessimply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. Though precociously intelligentBut despite that, he is emotionally immature something about it still grabs me – and cannot keep a handle on his masturbation habit or deal with their servant Nallysomething about this book's crush on himdescription did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398279</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael HughesNicole Jarvis|title= The Countenance DivineA Portrait in Shadow|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Historical Fiction|summary=In 1999, a programmer is trying ''I want all of Florence to fix the millennium bug, but canknow my name'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 Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in 1666Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, poet the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and revolutionary John Milton completes the epic its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for which he will be remembered centuries laterand guard it above all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|isbn=1803362340}}{{Frontpage|author=Thomas D Lee|title=Perilous Times|rating=3|genre= Fantasy|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''

But where does the feeling come from that Set in the near-distant future, in a 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 of good weather and visibility on, the pilot makes contact; the flight has reach 3verge of climate collapse,000 feet, he has the airport Britain is in sight, he is preparing to landgreat peril. The estimated time of arrival came British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and went, the landing had not happenedrescue what little remains. A search is initiated, which eventually establishes What no-one expected was that one of the carrier had crashed into a mountainside in Knights of the Round Table would answer the Azores, killing all 37 of its passengers and all 11 of its crewcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781255369</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dulce Maria CardosoG K Holloway|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 In the history before you have a context in which to sit the story. Portugal is one Shadows 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)Castles

|summary= Although born to Victorian parents, Violet is a modern Edwardian young woman. She believes We begin after the momentous battle in women1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's suffrage and the right to fall in love with whomever she choosescoronation as King of England. Her choice is Frank Balfour, one of her fatherWilliam's employees which position is not without its problems. Encouragingly for some people around Violet, as war darkens secure and the nation's mood, Frank goes to do his bitnew king has many challenges. This leaves Violet with more than memories of their fond farewell; Frank leaves her Imposing authority through a soncoronation is important. What follows feels like And William is right to worry. While the previous king, Harold, is dead and the end likelihood of her life to Violet but it's just more pitched battles is over, the beginning rebels are stirring and much of adventures that will take her the country does not wish to war too; behind enemy lines to witness dark days and amazing braveryrecognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993435343</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Angus Donald3949666079|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>}}{{newreviewNoema|author=Eowyn Ivey|title=To the Bright Edge of the WorldDael Akkerman|rating=4.5

|summary=If you're going 'This is a story about some things that happened to go pioneering across unexplored lands, at least be prepared to accept what you seek – namely, what youme about twelve thousand years ago.''ve never seen before Maya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. That lesson seems quite obviousClimate change is occurring, but back in the time Sea of 1885 Allen Forrester Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, and food is a little too naïve to heed itbecoming more and more scarce. A career soldier, he is tasked with scouring the potential of the Wolverine River that threads south What to do? Can the shores of Alaska, even though law givers in the Russians (who federation of course used villages muster peaceful ways to own cope? Can the Territory) have had all manner of lethal encounters with those already living thereTraveller, and even though a major stretch of the river has to be traversed in winter when entirely frozen over, as the cliffs either side are too impenetrable. Allen leaves a much younger, new bride behind – and right from spiritual figure who interprets the get-go his journals force him to pen words about strange happenings, strange encounters and things wisdom of legend coming to life. Like I sayAll Life, what he's never seen before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472208609</amazonuk>provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Mazzola1529125898|title=The UnseeingGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=Rebecca's mother dies just as 1903 turns over to 1904, triggering a move and total change of life 'If it were not for Rebecca and her father. They reluctantly (in Rebecca's case) leave village life behind them to enter the spotlight casual dereliction of London society. This will influence the young lady as she becomes a womanodd gentleman's duty, falls in love and marries. However these changes are nothing compared there would no women to the conflict bubbling under the surface in Europeteach well-bred daughters at all. The hot summer of 1914 is the prelude to loss in many lives, including Rebecca's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785892541</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Sue Gee|title=Trio|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the winter position of 1936, Steven Coulter's wife, Margaret, dies governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of tuberculosis, leaving their Northumberland cottage cold and empty. His work as teaching but this was a history teacher at Kirkhoughton Boys' School isn't enough to distract him from his grief; he spends his long evenings writing letters to Margaretcase of necessity. Gradually, though Until the death of her mother, 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 manager, at Hepplewick Hall; and their friend George Liddellyear. Her maid, the violinist and leaderAgnes, 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 the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a tough time to say cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine and reshape the world of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book and changing the leastface of cookery writing forever. Therefore when she comes across Black John|isbn=1398502227}}{{Frontpage|author=Freya Marske|title=A Marvellous Light|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, an outlaw about much to be hanged she sees her chancehis chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded with magic. By proposing Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him she'll save his life and, marrying himRobin follows Edwin to the countryside, her ownwhere the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. At least There they uncover a sinister plot that's Hazel's theory but threatens the fates will make it a bit more lives of a struggleall magicians in the British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861515456</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Valerie AnandB09F4CTKJR|title=King of the WoodFlights 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= VersaillesA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=1667 – The civil wars are over. King Louis XIV crushed the nobilityMinnie is an 'ordinary's rebellion against his father, leaving the throne hisgirl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. But The book is set in the aristocracy hounds his every step – 1930s and realises that if they will not be loyal, they will at least obey. So the King plants a trap Minnie is expected to ensnare them – building Versailles, a prison of opulence where his power is absolute. Trapped by the palace, they have no choice but live up to play the Kingher mother's game expectations and find a nice young man to obey his rule. And so marry, produce children and spend the court becomes a place rest of tactical liaisons her days looking after her husband and salacious passionstheir home. The Queen fights Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to keep the King's attention from his mistress, do at all and the King's brother struggles neither does she want to keep his relationship alivecontinue working as a secretary. Versailes is not the paradise it appears to be; instead, it is As a labyrinth result of treason and hushed secretsa chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, of political schemes working for the secret service and deadly conspiracies. It is effectively living a place double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of passion Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and death, love the friends she has made - and vengeancelikes - whilst working for the Communist Party. The King will take what is rightfully his.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782399984</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Angus DonaldAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title= The KingKokoschka's AssassinDoll|rating= 42.5|genre= Historical Literary 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 EuropeWell, raising the money for new armies by bleeding dry peasants and nobles alike, not least this looked very much like a book I could love from the Earl of Locksley get- 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 Flandersgo, a plan which is hatched that will bring the former outlaws why I picked my review copy up and their families to the brink flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of catastrophe - a plan to kill the Kingit. England explodes into bloody civil war and Alan and Robin must decide who I found things to trust - and who to slaughter. And while Magna Carta might be potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the answer to their prayers for peacemiddle on darker stock paper, first they will have to force a chapter whose number was in the King to submit to the will of his people20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751551988</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Conn Iggulden|title=Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors (The Wars of the Roses) |rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Edward IV and his brother Richard of Gloucester aren't exactly accepting of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick deserting them to stand It intrigued with the ailing Henry VI again. The sons of York are gathering support subterranean voice a man hears in Burgundy while Edward's wife Elizabeth (nee Woodville) gives birth to his son in the sanctuary wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of Westminster Abbeyit mentioned, too. Meanwhile HenryBut you's wife Margaret of Anjou is also in France, drumming up resources for ve seen the return of their sonstar rating that comes with this review, Edwardand can tell that if love was on these pages, Prince of Wales. Elsewhere a 14 year old Henry Tudor is waiting at one of history's most important cross roadsit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718181425</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=CC HumphreysChristina Hammonds Reed|title=FireThe Black Kids

|genre=Crime (Historical)Teens |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 IChristina Hammonds Reed's death warrant. That was then, during debut novel is set against the Great Plague. A mere year later, the Plague has lessened but backdrop of the Fifth Monarchists are back, taking Pitman's and Coke's interventions personally. We therefore find our heroes defending themselves, their families1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to the monarch, andabsolution of four police officers for beating a black man, on top of thatRodney King, a new disaster is about nearly to hit the capital. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891458</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Winston Graham|title=The Grove of Eagles: A novel of Elizabethan England |rating=3death.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Maugan Killigrew grows up in material comfort as Told from the acknowledged illegitimate son perspective of Sir JohnAshley Bennett, the Governor novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of Cornwall's Pendennis Castle. Yetrace, despite 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 that. Times are changing. Queen Elizabeth I is getting older and the English are still at war with the Spanish, a nation that will have quite an effect on Maugan's life. Romance, conflict and imprisonment, Maugan will experience it all woman finding her voice and, hopefully survive it all but we shall see.embracing her heritage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509818618</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1509818618</amazonus>1471188191