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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Irina RatushinskayaTananarive Due|title=The OdessansReformatory|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve 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 chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=The PetrovsHannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, Geibers and Teselenkos may all live as friends being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the Ukrainian town of Odessa, but this is she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the dawn hands of the 20th century: changes are afoot two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that will test their friendship they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as well a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as their existencea cabin boy. Be they Russian establishment, Russian Jews or Polish, each family will see tragedy alongside She soon finds herself in the birth pangs thick of things when there is a future Soviet statemutiny on board, not to mention and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the struggle for survival that will be more successful for some of them than for othersocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473637260</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Clover MoonSarah Marsh|authortitle=Jacqueline WilsonA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Clover Moon lives in Cripps AlleyAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, a slum street in Victorian EnglandEllen Lark loses her hearing. Her father works at the factory and the heavy work has taken Suddenly plunged into a toll on his health. He likes to drink an ale or two after workworld of silence, spending money the family can barely affordeverything about her life changes. Clover's mother died giving birth to her younger sister, Megs, Living in a wispytime when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, shy child. Father married again - Ellen is sent to Mildred, a sharp-tongued woman who school where she is free with a beatingtaught to lip read, particularly if the beating goes to Cloverbut physically restrained from signing. Clover From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has another four half-siblings been teaching the deaf and it's Cloverusing a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, rather than MildredBell is working on other inventions and ideas, who takes care and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of themespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532731</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Graham MooreClaire North|title= The Last Days House of NightOdysseus|rating= 5|genre= Historical Literary Fiction|summary=''The night-time of our ancestors is ending. Electric light is our future. The man who controls it will not simply make an unimaginable fortune. He will not simply dictate politics… The man who controls electricity will control the very sun in the sky.What could matter more than love?''

Graham MooreThe follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca''s latest novel is set in 19th Century New York City following the War of the Currents immediately picks up a few months after the discovery of electricitywhere we left off. Paul Cravath is a young lawyer, recently graduated from Columbia Law School, who finds himself at the centre of the biggest lawsuit in American history to date: who invented In the light bulb. Enlisted to defend George Westinghouse against 312 lawsuits and a sum palace of one billion dollarsOdysseus, Paul embarks on a seemingly impossible case with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to win. Going up against the incredibly intelligent and extremely resourceful Thomas Edisonrule without her husband, who has newspapers sailed to war at his disposal Troy and the support of Jthen by divine intervention never returned home.P. Morgan himself, Paul is nonetheless determined to win As ever she remains surrounded by any means necessary. In his unwavering quest suitors vying for victory, Paul encounters Nikola Tesla, the eccentric genius, who could have the power to stop Edison, Alexander Bell, the inventor throne of the telephone Western Isles. Having survived – politically and only one physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to beat Edison before, as well as Agnes HuntingtonIthaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the astonishingly beautiful opera singerbrink of a fragile peace. With One that shatters however with the stakes so highreturn of Orestes, Paul will discover that everyone is desperate to winKing of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, setting in motion their own plans with disastrous consequencesseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471156664</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula McLainB0C7J9D21B|title=Circling the SunA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=Beryl Clutterbuck was just two when she was taken by her parents from Abingdon in England to KenyaWhen we first meet our hero, to a farm his name is Ettore and he lives at Njoro in the Rongai Valley in what was then the British East African Protectorate and which would become KenyaThe House of Beautiful Swallows. Her Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was dismayed born. He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late- amazed that her father would have sold everything to get little more than a few mud huts eighteenth- and century Amalfi, it was only a couple 's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of years before she returned home with Dickie, Berylanchovies didn's brother, leaving Beryl t work out and her father to cope as best they couldbastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Beryl grew up wild Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - largely brought up by the local tribespeople and determined - and it was catapulted into not long before he had a successful business as a disastrous marriage when she was just sixteenguide for visitors. It taught her one thing, though - she needed to take charge of her own destinyHe was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844088308</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon Scarrow and T J AndrewsEssie Fox|title=InvaderThe Fascination|rating=34

|summary= Modern technology gives The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a writer far setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led to more options on how to present their book. They are no longer bound by a yearly cycle of releasing a book in hardback and then waiting than a few months for writers mishandling it to be released in paperback. The e-book gives you license to play with the format; how about There's such a glut of media set of regular instalments? These segmented books worked for in the era that the likes of Charles Dickens, but pleasing a modern crowd used hallmarks we've come to quick thrills, as well as those used associate with it are familiar to the longer drawn out formatpoint of being cliched, hackneyed even. All this is not simply to illustrate that it would be an easything to do poorly. Did Simon Scarrow But despite that, something about it still grabs me – and T J Andrews achieve their goals in the combined novel something about this book''Invader''?s description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472213696</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diney CosteloeNicole Jarvis|title=The Sisters of St CroixA Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Historical Fiction|summary=On her 21st birthday Adelaide discovers a family she wasn't aware 'I want all of: a Mother Superior aunt Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a French convent home and a father who died in WWI where her future can thrive rather than Richard stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self- her mother's husband and proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the man who raised her. Adeline decides power to go to France for a short holiday in order to learn more protect the city and its citizens from her aunt that her family knew as Sarah Huntplagues and curses. Both Sarah The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and Adelaide partarchitecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, hoping that they will see each other again soon Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and they will, but in circumstances that neither of change – has no place amongst them envisaged. As the Second World War begins and Germany captures France, there's danger ahead for each of themtheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784972606</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna HopeThomas D Lee|title= The BallroomPerilous Times|rating= 43|genre= Historical FictionFantasy|summary=Ella Fay does not know how a simple impulsive act landed her ''Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in the strict confines of near-distant future, in a Yorkshire asylum. She does not know world on the stories verge of the other women thereclimate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or why the strange doctor plays them the piano, or where several) to save the patients go before they are never seen again. But there are two things she does know: she is not insane, day and she will never stop struggling for freedomrescue what little remains. Her spirit What no-one expected was that one of escape ignites a spark the Knights of life within fellow patient John Mulligan, and a courtship flares into being as the couple are thrown together weekly in the ballroom for the Friday night dance. Yet with Round Table would answer the odds stacked against them, and hope as fragile as the eggshells on which they have to tread, they find themselves in equal fear of what it is they are running away from, and what it is they are running towardscall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552779474</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=J D DaviesG K Holloway|title=Death's Bright Angel (Matthew Quinton’s Journals 6)In the Shadows of Castles|rating=4.5

|summary=Captain Sir Matthew Quinton We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of King Charles IINormandy's navy sets out for another day at work. He and his men are charged with helping to subdue the Dutch town coronation as King of WesterschellingEngland. ItWilliam's only afterwards that position is not secure and the true consequences hit him, along with some other consequences that are and will be open new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. And William is right to conjectureworry. For While the year previous king, Harold, is 1666 dead and London the likelihood of more pitched battles is about over, the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to face recognise a disaster that will be discussed and theorised over for centuries… Fire!new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910400467</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=3949666079|title=Noema|author=Charlotte BettsDael Akkerman|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago.'' 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? }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529125898|title=The House in Quill CourtGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=England 1813: When Venetia''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's father dies suddenlyduty, Venetia receives there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was a bigger shock than is customary on such occasionscase of necessity. The wonderful rural idyll Until the death of her mother, Anne had a comfortable life and family life for Venetiawas loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the household. When her mother died, her mother father cast her off and brother has been based on would have nothing more to do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a lieyear. This means Venetia's family has Her maid, Agnes, 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 prelude to go to London to live with Peach Blossom Spring, a half-sister and adopted brother she didnshort chapter entitled ''Origins''t know existed. No one Unfortunately it is happy about it and now Venetia has to learn to live on her wits and her father's lessons in the only truly poetic part of a position book that not even her father had envisaged for herI expected more from. VenetiaCovering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's brother becomes more unruly among perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the temptations of the city while Captain Jack Chamberlainewar with Japan, a young mother (Meilin) and her fatherfour-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, and in Renshu's step son, makes his annoyance at having Venetia around all too clearcase eventually to America. But these will become the least of her worries…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349404534</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= James Benmore1916072038|title= Dodger of The House in the RevolutionHollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell|rating= 4.5

|summary=Once We meet part of the undisputed 'Top Sawyer' Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and most artful of thievesher mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, events have taken a sharp downturn for Dodger of lateto the house in the hollow. His recent close brush The two women are angry with death has left him agitated each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and disturbedweaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, seeking solace in the murky opium dens beneath a facade of respectability, the citydeplorable truth''. His dependence on the poppy  Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as she was asked, which has left him clumsy precipitated ''this violent and shaky, no longer the light-fingered pickpocket he used to beunexpected removal''. Even  Then we are told of the local youthsbirth of a child and, soon after, who used to respect and emulate himHester Talbot departs, enjoy playing pranks on him leaving Jocelyn in shame 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 fiendisolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784292885</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonia HodgsonAnnabel Abbs|title=A Death at Fountains Abbey (Thomas Hawkins 3)The Language of Food

|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=John Aislabie thinks that Thomas Hawkins Eliza Acton is a poet who has arrived at Aislabie's country mansion never had the slightest inclination to investigate murder threatsboil an egg. That's part of it but Thomas' main reason is to carry out When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a command from Queen Caroline connected to the recent South Sea Bubble scandaltroubled home life. The command was phrased nicely enoughTogether, they test, craft, but refine and reshape the sinister intent was clear: Tom's failure or refusal means loss world of Kittydomestic cookery, reinventing the person he loves most in recipe book and changing the world. Those murder threats are a little concerning though…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473615097</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Natasha Farrant|title= Lydia: The Wild Girl face of Pride and Prejudice|rating= 5|genre=Teens |summary=Lydia Bennet has just turned fifteen and has received, amongst other gifts, a diary from her bookish older sister Mary. She'd rather have received some ribbon or some lace; after all, cookery writing in a diary every day seems such a tedious pastime. 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..forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002976</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A N WilsonFreya Marske|title=ResolutionA Marvellous Light

|genre=Literary Historical Fiction|summary=In 1772 Reinhold Forster and his son George were hired as ship's naturalists for Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the ''Resolution''Civil Service, the vessel Captain James Cook piloted much to New Zealand his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and back on a three-year voyage learns that the streets of discoveryLondon are threaded with magic. Once Desperate to remove a Lutheran pastor near Danzigcurse that threatens to swallow him, Reinhold seemed unable to settle Robin follows Edwin to one line of work and had a higher opinion of himself than was prudent. In Wilson's vision of life on the ''Resolution''countryside, Reinhold seems fussy, argumentative where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations 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 people shimmer with a keen ear for languagespower. Though precociously intelligent, he is emotionally immature and cannot keep There they uncover a handle on his masturbation habit or deal with their servant Nally's crush on himsinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398279</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael HughesB09F4CTKJR|title= The Countenance Divine|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 Flights 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 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 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 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 (a.k.a. novels). 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>}}{{newreviewFreedom|author=David Snell|title=Sing to Silent Stones: Violet's War (Sing to Silent Stones 1)Steven Burgauer

|summary= Although born to Victorian parents, Violet It's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a modern Edwardian young womanAmerican who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. She believes in women's suffrage and This company was the right first US Aero Squadron to fall be trained in love with whomever she chooses. Her choice is Frank BalfourCanada, one of her father's employees which is not without its problems. Encouragingly for some people around Violet, as war darkens the nation's mood, Frank goes first to be attached to the RAF and the first to do his bit. This leaves Violet with more than memories of their fond farewell; Frank leaves her a son. What follows feels like be sent into the end of her life skies to Violet but it's just fight the beginning of adventures Germans in active combat. But before that will take her can happen, Petrol has to war too; behind enemy lines to witness dark days and amazing braverymaster flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993435343</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Angus DonaldChristophe Medler|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 World|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=If you're going to go pioneering across unexplored lands, at least be prepared to accept what you seek – namely, what you've never seen before. That lesson seems quite obvious, but back in the time of 1885 Allen Forrester is a little too naïve to heed it. A career soldier, he is tasked with scouring the potential of the Wolverine River that threads south to the shores of Alaska, even though the Russians (who of course used to own the Territory) have had all manner of lethal encounters with those already living there, 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 the get-go his journals force him to pen words about strange happenings, strange encounters and things of legend coming to life. Like I say, what he's never seen before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472208609</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anna Mazzola|title=The Unseeing|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=1837Madrigal: Sarah Gale is found guilty of aiding and abetting James Greenwood in the murder of Hannah, his fiancée. It's particularly gruesome as the body was brutally dismembered and left in various locations around London. Bound for the gallows and fearing for the future of her young son George, Sarah petitions for mercy from the Home Office and, as a result, the Home Secretary appoints barrister Edmund Fleetwood to re-investigate the case. Edmund approaches it with an open mind but nothing prepares him for what he'll discover and not just in the professional realm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472234731</amazonuk>}} {{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 is fast broken when the King dies, and feuds old and new are awoken. When Jack is sent from his life in Seville to gloomy and dangerous England, he must uncover the truth behind the secret that he has been guarding, and the reason for his Father's fall. As the new Prince Edward readies himself to be king, his uncle Richard makes a move for the throne - leading him and Jack on paths of intrigue, corruption, mystery and war. The old world is turning. A new world is rising. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444777718</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Dunham|title=The Silent LandClosely Guarded Secret

|summary=Rebecca's mother dies just as 1903 turns over to 1904Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, triggering a move and total change of life for Rebecca and her father. They reluctantly secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in Rebecca's case) leave village life behind them to enter the spotlight summer of London society1642. This will influence As a loyal servant of the young lady as she becomes a womanKing, falls in love and marries. However these changes are nothing compared Head of the Secret Service, it is Robert's duty to uncover the conflict bubbling under details of the surface in Europe. The hot summer plan and follow the clues to uncover one of 1914 is the prelude to loss most guarded secrets in many lives, including Rebecca'shistory—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785892541</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Gee1471187179|title=TrioA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore

|summary=In Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the winter of 1936, Steven Coulter1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's wifeexpectations and find a nice young man to marry, Margaret, dies produce children and spend the rest of tuberculosis, leaving her days looking after her husband and their Northumberland cottage cold and emptyhome. His work as a history teacher at Kirkhoughton Boys' School Unfortunately, this isn't enough what she wants to distract him from his grief; he spends his long evenings writing letters do at all and neither does she want to Margaretcontinue working as a secretary. Gradually As a result of a chance meeting, thoughshe finds herself drawn into espionage, as spring arrives he starts working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to take an interest in other thingsinfiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. His colleague Frank Embleton invites him to a performance by the Hepplewick Trio: Frank's sister Diana on cello; pianist Margot Heslop, whose mother died when Minnie finds herself torn between what she was young and who looks after perceives as her father, a coal mine manager, at Hepplewick Hall; duty and their friend George Liddell, the violinist friends she has made - and leader, who is a Royal College of Music graduatelikes - whilst working for the Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= William SuttonAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title= Lawless and the Flowers of SinKokoschka's Doll|rating= 42.5|genre= Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary= Much of Well, this looked very much like a book centres onI could love from the get-go, as we are accustomed which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in tales of Victorian Londonthe middle on darker stock paper, dastardly deeds done on a foggy night. Indeed chapter whose number was in the fog runs thick through this novel20, draping the seedy events in a soupy broth of vice. Our hero, Lawless, rather ironically, is that most rare of birds000s, an honest detective, although letters used as we learn henarrative form, 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' womenso on. At its heart, the Flowers of Sin is a detective story, It intrigued with Lawless given an impossible task to complete alongside solving a seemingly impossible crime. Along the way he meets subterranean voice a rag tag bunch man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of misfits who helpit mentioned, hurt and hinder our herotoo. There is romance and intrigue along But you've seen the way as well as a sensational public trialstar rating that comes with this review, murder and episodes of mayhemcan tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785650114</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toby ClementsChristina Hammonds Reed|title=Kingmaker: Divided SoulsThe Black Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=Thomas and Katherine Everingham and their son Rufus are enjoying a time of contentment working on Sir John FakenhamChristina Hammonds Reed's Marton Hall estate. However, this peace debut novel is just set against the eye backdrop of the storm. Tragedy strikes 1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to the Fakenhams almost at the same time that the Plantagenet Wars absolution of the Roses hots up again. Richard Earl of Warwick is challenging King Edward IV, leaving the Everinghams with a serious dilemma… or two.|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 four police officers for beating a black man's world. Independent, strong and well-educatedRodney King, she has dreams nearly to death. Told from the perspective of running Ashley Bennett, the family boatyard, but she knows that novel follows 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. Nowevolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, according to Rose's mother, it is particularly important that Rose secures a good marriage, as woman finding her father's poor business decisions have left the family bankrupt voice 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 situationembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398775</amazonuk>1471188191