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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diney CosteloeTananarive Due|title=The Sisters of St CroixReformatory

|genre=Women's Historical Fiction|summary=On her 21st birthday Adelaide discovers Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a family she wasnwhite boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It't aware of: s a Mother Superior aunt in place with a French convent brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a father who chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died in WWI rather than Richard - her motherthere. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's husband 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 family who run an inn, and the man who raised herbeing made to work there from a young age. Adeline decides When she hears there is to go to France for be a short holiday hanging of some pirates in order the town, she decides to learn more from her aunt that her family knew as Sarah Huntgo and watch. Both Sarah Enthralled and Adelaide parthorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, hoping so that they will see each other again soon don't find and they willkill her too, but in circumstances that neither of and then to escape them envisagedcompletely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. As She soon finds herself in the Second World War begins thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and Germany captures France, from there's danger ahead for each we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of themlife on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784972606</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna HopeSarah Marsh|title= The BallroomA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Ella Fay does not know how After a simple impulsive act landed her in the strict confines bout of scarlet fever as a Yorkshire asylumchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. She does not know the stories Suddenly plunged into a world of the other women theresilence, or why everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the strange doctor plays them the pianouse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, or Ellen is sent to a school where the patients go before they are never seen again. But there are two things she does know: she is not insanetaught to lip read, and she will never stop struggling for freedombut physically restrained from signing. Her spirit of escape ignites a spark of life within fellow patient John Mulligan From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a courtship flares into being as the couple are thrown together weekly in the ballroom for the Friday night dancesystem called Visible Speech. Yet with At the odds stacked against themsame time, Bell is working on other inventions and hope as fragile as the eggshells on which they have to treadideas, they find themselves and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in equal fear a complicated tangle of what it is they are running away from, and what it is they are running towardsespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552779474</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=J D DaviesClaire North|title=Death's Bright Angel (Matthew Quinton’s Journals 6)House of Odysseus

|summary=Captain Sir Matthew Quinton When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of King Charles IIBeautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's navy sets out for another day at worka bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He and 's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his men are charged background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with helping to subdue the Dutch town preparation of Westerschelling. Itanchovies didn's only afterwards that the true consequences hit him, along with some other consequences that t work out and bastards are and will be open to conjectureconsidered bad luck on fishing boats. For the year is 1666 Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and London is about to face it was not long before he had a successful business as a disaster that will be discussed and theorised over guide for centuries… visitors. Fire!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910400467</amazonuk>He was even saving some money.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlotte BettsEssie Fox|title=The House in Quill CourtFascination|rating=54

|summary=England 1813: When Venetia's father dies suddenly, Venetia receives The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a bigger shock than is customary on such occasions. The wonderful rural idyll and family life setting for Venetiahistorical fiction (matched only, her mother and brother perhaps, by the Second World War) which has been based on often led to more than a liefew writers mishandling it. This means VenetiaThere's family has such a glut of media set in the era that the hallmarks we've come to go associate with it are familiar to London to live with a half-sister and adopted brother she didn't know existedthe point of being cliched, hackneyed even. No one All this is happy about simply to illustrate that it and now Venetia has would be an easy thing to learn to live on her wits and her father's lessons in a position do poorly. But despite that not even her father had envisaged for her. Venetia's brother becomes more unruly among the temptations of the city while Captain Jack Chamberlaine, her fathersomething about it still grabs me – and something about this book's step son, makes his annoyance at having Venetia around all too cleardescription did as well. But these will become the least of her worries…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349404534</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= James BenmoreNicole Jarvis|title= Dodger of the RevolutionA Portrait in Shadow|rating= 4.5

|summary=Once the undisputed 'Top Sawyer' and most artful I want all of thieves, events have taken a sharp downturn for Dodger of late. His recent close brush with death has left him agitated and disturbed, seeking solace in the murky opium dens beneath the city. His dependence on the poppy has left him clumsy and shaky, no longer the light-fingered pickpocket he used Florence to be. Even the local youths, who used to respect and emulate him, enjoy playing pranks on him and laughing behind his back. There is no doubt about it: Dodger is a mere shadow of his former self and at risk of becoming an opium fiend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784292885</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewknow my name''|author=Antonia Hodgson|title=A Death at Fountains Abbey (Thomas Hawkins 3)|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=John Aislabie thinks that Thomas Hawkins has arrived at Aislabie's country mansion to investigate murder threats. That's part of it but Thomas' main reason is to carry Cast out a command from Queen Caroline connected to the recent South Sea Bubble scandal. The command was phrased nicely enoughRome, but the sinister intent was clear: Tom's failure or refusal means loss of Kitty, the person he loves most Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in the world. Those murder threats are which her art can find a little concerning though…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473615097</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Natasha Farrant|title= Lydia: The Wild Girl of Pride and Prejudice|rating= 5|genre=Teens |summary=Lydia Bennet has just turned fifteen home and has received, amongst other gifts, a diary from where her bookish older sister Mary. She'd future can thrive rather have received some ribbon or some lace; after all, writing in a diary every day seems such a tedious pastimethan stagnate. But when a handsome regiment of scarlet-coats arrives in Meryton, Lydia decides that there just might be something exciting to write about after all...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910002976</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=A N Wilson|title=Resolution|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=In 1772 Reinhold Forster and his son George were hired as ship's naturalists for some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the ''Resolution''powerful Accademia, the vessel Captain James Cook piloted to New Zealand and back on a threeself-year voyage proclaimed guardians of discovery. Once a Lutheran pastor near Danzig, Reinhold seemed unable the healing magics that through paintings have the power to settle to one line of work protect the city and had a higher opinion of himself than was prudent. In Wilson's vision of life on the ''Resolution'', Reinhold seems fussy, argumentative its citizens from plagues and rather heartless, as when he offers George's dog up as fresh meat when the captain is desperately illcurses. George, just 18 when he joins the expedition, is a selfThe all-taught illustrator male Accademia has hoarded power over art and botanist with a keen ear architecture for languagescenturies and guard it above all else. Though precociously intelligentTo them, he is emotionally immature Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and cannot keep a handle on his masturbation habit or deal with their servant Nally's crush on himsociety.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398279</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael HughesThomas D Lee|title= The Countenance DivinePerilous Times|rating= 4.53|genre= Literary FictionFantasy|summary=In 1999, a programmer ''Hate is trying to fix the millennium bug, but canpath of least resistance'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 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 3,000 feet, he has the airport in sight, he is preparing to land. The estimated time verge of arrival came and wentclimate collapse, the landing had not happened. A search Britain is initiated, which eventually establishes that the carrier had crashed into a mountainside in the Azores, killing all 37 of its passengers and all 11 of its crewgreat peril.|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 British Isles desperately needs a hero (a.k.a. novelsor several). Sometimes, however, you need to know save the history before you have a context in which to sit the storyday and rescue what little remains. Portugal is What no-one of those countries about which I know quite literally nothing, and in 1975 I expected 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 one of the Knights of the place. Western European empires around Round Table would answer the world were in their death throes. Some went more peacefully than others, albeit none of them trailing much glory in their wakecall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857054325</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David SnellG K Holloway|title=Sing to Silent Stones: Violet's War (Sing to Silent Stones 1)In the Shadows of 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

|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=1837: Sarah Gale is found guilty ''If it were not for the casual dereliction of aiding and abetting James Greenwood in the murder of Hannahodd gentleman's duty, his fiancéethere would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all. It's particularly gruesome as ' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the body position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was brutally dismembered and left in various locations around Londona case of necessity. Bound for Until the gallows and fearing for the future death of her young son Georgemother, Sarah petitions for mercy Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the Home Office household. When her mother died, her father cast her off andwould have nothing more to do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a year. Her maid, as a resultAgnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.}}{{Frontpage|author=Melissa Fu |title=Peach Blossom Spring |rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction |summary= I loved the Home Secretary appoints barrister Edmund Fleetwood prelude to re-investigate the casePeach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''. Edmund approaches Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of a book that I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the war with an open mind but nothing prepares him for what he'll discover Japan, a young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, and not just in the professional realmRenshu's case eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472234731</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreview|author= Robyn Young|title= Sons of the Blood|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Bastard son, mercenary soldier, protector of the rightful king and seeker of a treacherous secret, Jack Wynter lives in dangerous times. In England, the Wars of the Roses ended a decade agao, with the victory of King Edward of York. But an uneasy peace Hester is fast broken when the King dies, and feuds old and new are awoken. When Jack is sent from his life in Seville furious about Jocelyn's refusal to gloomy and dangerous Englanddo as she was asked, he must uncover the truth behind the secret that he which has been guarding, precipitated ''this violent and the reason for his Fatherunexpected removal''s fall. As  Then we are told of the new Prince Edward readies himself to be king, his uncle Richard makes birth of a move for the throne - leading him child and Jack on paths of intrigue, corruptionsoon after, Hester Talbot departs, mystery leaving Jocelyn in shame and war. The old world is turningisolation in Yorkshire. A new world is rising. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444777718</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David DunhamAnnabel Abbs|title=The Silent LandLanguage of Food|rating=45

|summary=Rebecca's mother dies just as 1903 turns over Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to 1904boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, triggering a move and total change of local woman with a troubled home life for Rebecca . Together, they test, craft, refine and her father. They reluctantly (in Rebecca's case) leave village life behind them to enter reshape the spotlight world of London society. This will influence domestic cookery, reinventing the young lady as she becomes a woman, falls in love recipe book and marries. However these changes are nothing compared to the conflict bubbling under changing the surface in Europe. The hot summer face of 1914 is the prelude to loss in many lives, including Rebecca'scookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785892541</amazonuk>1398502227

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue GeeFreya Marske|title=TrioA Marvellous Light

|summary=In Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the winter of 1936Civil Service, Steven Coulter's wife, Margaret, dies much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of tuberculosis, leaving their Northumberland cottage cold and emptyLondon are threaded with magic. His work as Desperate to remove a history teacher at Kirkhoughton Boys' School isn't enough curse that threatens to distract swallow him from his grief; he spends his long evenings writing letters to Margaret. Gradually, though, as spring arrives he starts to take an interest in other things. His colleague Frank Embleton invites him Robin follows Edwin to a performance by the Hepplewick Trio: Frank's sister Diana on cello; pianist Margot Heslopcountryside, whose mother died when she was young where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and who looks after her father, the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a coal mine manager, at Hepplewick Hall; and their friend George Liddell, sinister plot that threatens the violinist and leader, who is a Royal College lives of Music graduateall magicians in the British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630616</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= William SuttonB09F4CTKJR|title= Lawless and the Flowers of Sin|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Much of this book centres on, as we are accustomed to in tales of Victorian London, dastardly deeds done on a foggy night. Indeed the fog runs thick through this novel, draping the seedy events in a soupy broth of vice. Our hero, Lawless, rather ironically, is that most rare of birds, an honest detective, although as we learn he, himself, is not without his vices. What becomes clear however is that he is something of a social crusader when his eyes are opened to the misery and degradation faced by 'fallen' women. At its heart, the Flowers of Sin is a detective story, with Lawless given an impossible task to complete alongside solving a seemingly impossible crime. Along the way he meets a rag tag bunch of misfits who help, hurt and hinder our hero. There is romance and intrigue along the way as well as a sensational public trial, murder and episodes of mayhem. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650114</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFlights for Freedom|author=Toby Clements|title=Kingmaker: Divided SoulsSteven Burgauer

|summary=Thomas and Katherine Everingham and their son Rufus are enjoying a time of contentment working on Sir John FakenhamIt's Marton Hall estatethe later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. However, this peace Petrol Petronus is just a young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the eye of first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the storm. Tragedy strikes first to be attached to the Fakenhams almost at RAF and the same time that first to be sent into the Plantagenet Wars of skies to fight the Roses hots up againGermans in active combat. Richard Earl of Warwick is challenging King Edward IVBut before that can happen, leaving Petrol has to master flying the Everinghams with a serious dilemma… or twonotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780894651</amazonuk>

 {{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 of running the family boatyard, but she knows that her dreams can never come true. A woman's job is to bear children 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 mother, it is particularly important that Rose secures a good marriage, as her father's poor business decisions have left the family bankrupt and on the verge of destitution. Wealthy timber merchant Mr Tregellas is only too happy to help the family out, in exchange for Rose's hand in marriage, but Rose despises him and suspects that he is responsible for 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 situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398775</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rhona MartinChristophe Medler|title=Gallows WeddingMadrigal: A dark novel of witchcraft and forbidden love set against the backdrop of religious upheaval in Henry VIII's timesClosely Guarded Secret|rating=54

|summary=HazelSet against the backdrop of the English Civil War, an orphaned peasant during a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the 16th century has had summer of 1642. As a tough time to say loyal servant of the least. Therefore when she comes across Black JohnKing, an outlaw about to be hanged she sees her chance. By proposing to him she'll save his life andHead of the Secret Service, marrying him, her own. At least thatit is Robert's Hazel's theory but duty to uncover the details of the plan and follow the fates will make it a bit more clues to uncover one of a strugglethe most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861515456</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Valerie Anand1471187179|title=King of the WoodA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=4.5

|summary=A young William Rufus Minnie is brought back to England from clergy training an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in France by his father William the Conquerora leafy provincial suburb. England has changed The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and needs find a soldier more than a priest or monknice young man to marry, especially as Rufus' brother Richard has died, leaving William to fill produce children and spend the voidrest of her days looking after her husband and their home. Eventually King William I decides to split his inheritance between Rufus and eldest son RobertUnfortunately, something that doesnthis isn't go down well with an heir who expected what she wants to get it do at alland neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. The brothers were never friends but this brings As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a new dimension double life - attempting to their hatred infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and, when royal brothers fight, nations become involvedlikes - whilst working for the Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861514573</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily HollemanAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title= CleopatraKokoschka's ShadowsDoll|rating= 42.5|genre= Historical Literary Fiction|summary= Egypt. 58 BC. Arsinoe has been abandoned by her fatherWell, Ptolemy XIIthis looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, who has fled Alexandria which is why I picked my review copy up and taken her beloved sister Cleopatra with himflipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. It is now Arsinoe's half-sister Berenice who has seized I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the thronemiddle on darker stock paper, leaving the young princess to fight for survival a chapter whose number was in the bloodthirsty 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and treacherous royal courtso on. Berenice too has her own demons to face – having taken It intrigued with the throne from her weak-willed father she now has to prove herself worthy subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of being queenit mentioned, as too. But you've seen the possibility of her father star rating that comes with this review, and Cleopatra's return forever threaten to crush her new found powercan tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751560170</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elizabeth MassieChristina Hammonds Reed|title= VersaillesThe Black Kids|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical FictionTeens |summary=1667 – The civil wars are over. King Louis XIV crushed the nobilityChristina Hammonds Reed's rebellion debut novel is set against his father, leaving the throne his. But backdrop of the aristocracy hounds his every step – and realises that if they will not be loyal1992 Los Angeles riots, they will at least obey. So the King plants a trap reaction to ensnare them – building Versailles, the absolution of four police officers for beating a prison of opulence where his power is absolute. Trapped by the palaceblack man, they have no choice but to play the Rodney King's game and , nearly to obey his ruledeath. And so Told from the court becomes a place perspective of tactical liaisons and salacious passions. The Queen fights to keep Ashley Bennett, the King's attention novel follows her evolution 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 silent bystander when confronted with matters of passion and deathrace, 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 woman finding her voice 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 peopleembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751551988</amazonuk>1471188191