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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tracey WarrTananarive Due|title=Conquest: Daughter The Reformatory|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 Last Kingschool's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Princess Nest ferch Rhys Hannah Masury is the only legitimate child of Rhys ap Tewdr (living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there's is to be a surname hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to make hist-fict addicts smile!)go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the last king hands of Deheubarth, Walestwo vicious pirates. Playing on the beach with She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her brother one day too, and then to escape them completely sheruns away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's captured by Norman soldierspirate ship as a cabin boy. From She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there she's held hostage by we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the noble Montgomery familyocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, loyal to King William RufusEllen Lark loses her hearing. The standard Suddenly plunged into a world of captivity silence, everything about her life changes. Living in which Nesta a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is kept isn't badsent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Lady Sybil is particularly kind to herFrom here, realising that Nest is still mourning she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaths of her father deaf and most of her siblings at using a system called Visible Speech. At the hands of men from that same household. There time, Bell is an ulterior motive thoughworking on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. The object |isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of SybilOdysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?''s attentions is  The follow-up to make Nest the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a suitable wife few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for English nobility but shethe throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's already promised to shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a Welsh princefragile peace. Who will Nest actually marry One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, andhis sister Elektra, more importantly, will Nest have any say in it?seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907605819</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John G SmithB0C7J9D21B|title=EugeneA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=Eugene When we first meet our hero, his name is the youngest Ettore and he lives at The House of 13 childrenBeautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born into a family . He's not been short of mothers, though - but for whom the future seems assured due to their parents' butchery business someone of his background in a smalllate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, close East Midlands communityit's difficult to obtain decent employment. But they canThe stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't see what lies ahead: war in the world work out and between the siblingsbastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. For Eugene, from his birth in the 1920s through the war in Burma Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and trying to settle down afterwards, the impact will last it was not long before he had a successful business as a lifetimeguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01LW2XPQP</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Irina RatushinskayaEssie Fox|title=The OdessansFascination|rating=4.5

|summary=The PetrovsVictorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, Geibers and Teselenkos may all live as friends in perhaps, by the Ukrainian town Second World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. There's such a glut of Odessa, but this is media set in the dawn of era that the 20th century: changes hallmarks we've come to associate with it are afoot that will test their friendship as well as their existence. Be they Russian establishment, Russian Jews or Polish, each family will see tragedy alongside familiar to the birth pangs point of a future Soviet statebeing cliched, not hackneyed even. All this is simply to mention the struggle for survival illustrate that will it would be more successful for some of them than for othersan easy thing to do poorly. But despite that, something about it still grabs me – and something about this book's description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473637260</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Clover MoonNicole Jarvis|authortitle=Jacqueline WilsonA Portrait in Shadow

|genre=Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary=Clover Moon lives in Cripps Alley''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, a slum street Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Victorian England. Her father works at the factory and the heavy work has taken a toll on his health. He likes to drink Florence seeking an ale or two after work, spending money the family oasis in which her art can barely afford. Clover's mother died giving birth to find a home and where her younger sister, Megs, a wispy, shy childfuture can thrive rather than stagnate. Father married again - to MildredBut as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, a sharpthe self-tongued woman who is free with a beating, particularly if proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the beating goes power to Cloverprotect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. Clover The all-male Accademia has another four half-siblings hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it's Clover, rather than Mildredabove all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who takes care of promises trouble and change – has no place amongst themand their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532731</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Graham MooreThomas D Lee|title= The Last Days of NightPerilous Times|rating= 53|genre= Historical FictionFantasy|summary=''The night-time of our ancestors Hate 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.path of least resistance''

Graham Moore's latest novel is set Set in 19th Century New York City following the War of the Currents immediately after the discovery of electricity. Paul Cravath is a young lawyernear-distant future, recently graduated from Columbia Law School, who finds himself at the centre of the biggest lawsuit in American history to date: who invented the light bulb. Enlisted to defend George Westinghouse against 312 lawsuits and a sum of one billion dollars, Paul embarks world on a seemingly impossible case to win. Going up against the incredibly intelligent and extremely resourceful Thomas Edison, who has newspapers at his disposal and the support verge of J.P. Morgan himselfclimate collapse, Paul Britain is nonetheless determined to win by any means necessaryin great peril. In his unwavering quest for victory, Paul encounters Nikola Tesla, the eccentric genius, who could have the power The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to stop Edison, Alexander Bell, save the inventor day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the telephone and only one to beat Edison before, as well as Agnes Huntington, Knights of the astonishingly beautiful opera singer. With Round Table would answer the stakes so high, Paul will discover that everyone is desperate to win, setting in motion their own plans with disastrous consequencescall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471156664</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula McLainG K Holloway|title=Circling In the SunShadows of Castles

|summary=Beryl Clutterbuck was just two when she was taken by her parents from Abingdon in England to Kenya, to a farm at Njoro in We begin after the Rongai Valley momentous battle in what was then 1066 and on the British East African Protectorate and which would become Kenyaday of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. Her mother was dismayed - amazed that her father would have sold everything to get little more than a few mud huts - and it was only a couple of years before she returned home with Dickie, BerylWilliam's brother, leaving Beryl position is not secure and her father the new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. And William is right to cope as best they couldworry. Beryl grew up wild - largely brought up by While the local tribespeople - previous king, Harold, is dead and was catapulted into a disastrous marriage when she was just sixteen. It taught her one thingthe likelihood of more pitched battles is over, though - she needed the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to take charge of her own destinyrecognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844088308</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Scarrow and T J Andrews3949666079|title=InvaderNoema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating=34.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary= Modern technology gives ''This is a writer far more options on how story about some things that happened to present their bookme about twelve thousand years ago. They are no longer bound by '' Maya is a young girl living in a yearly cycle hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, the Sea of releasing a book in hardback Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, and food is becoming more and then waiting a few months for it more scarce. What to be released do? Can the law givers in paperback. The e-book gives you license to play with the format; how about a set federation of regular instalmentsvillages muster peaceful ways to cope? These segmented books worked for Can the likes of Charles DickensTraveller, but pleasing a modern crowd used to quick thrills, as well as those used to spiritual figure who interprets the longer drawn out formatwisdom of All Life, is not easy. Did Simon Scarrow and T J Andrews achieve their goals in the combined novel ''Invader''provide solutions?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472213696</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diney Costeloe1529125898|title=The Sisters of St CroixGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|genre=Women's Historical Fiction|summary=On her 21st birthday Adelaide discovers a family ''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she wasn't aware 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 Mother Superior aunt in case of necessity. Until the death of her mother, Anne had a French convent comfortable life and a was loved by both parents although her father who was frequently absent from the household. When her mother died in WWI rather than Richard - , her father cast her mother's husband off and the man who raised would have nothing more to do with her. Adeline decides to go to France for No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a short holiday in order to learn more from her aunt that her family knew as Sarah Huntyear. Both Sarah and Adelaide partHer maid, hoping that they will see each other again soon and they willAgnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in circumstances that neither of them envisaged. As the Second World War begins and Germany captures France, there's danger ahead for each of themby some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972606</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna HopeMelissa Fu |title= The BallroomPeach Blossom Spring |rating= 43.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Ella Fay does not know how I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a simple impulsive act landed her in short chapter entitled ''Origins''. Unfortunately it is the strict confines only truly poetic part of a Yorkshire asylumbook that I expected more from. She does not know the stories of the other women there, or why the strange doctor plays them the piano, or where the patients go before they are never seen againCovering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's perspective. But there are two things she does know: she When their home city is not insaneset ablaze during the war with Japan, and she will never stop struggling for freedom. Her spirit of escape ignites a spark of life within fellow patient John Mulligan, young mother (Meilin) and a courtship flares into being as the couple her four-year-old son (Renshu) are thrown together weekly in the ballroom for the Friday night danceamong those who flee. Yet with the odds stacked against The story follows themon their journey across China, and hope as fragile as the eggshells on which they have in Renshu's case eventually to tread, they find themselves in equal fear of what it is they are running away from, and what it is they are running towardsAmerica. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552779474</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=J D Davies1916072038|title=Death's Bright Angel The House in the Hollow (Matthew Quinton’s Journals 6The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell|rating=4.5

|summary=Captain Sir Matthew Quinton We meet part of King Charles II's navy sets out for another day at workthe Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. He Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and his men are charged with helping her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to subdue the Dutch town of Westerschellinghouse in the hollow. It's only afterwards that the true consequences hit him, along The two women are angry with some each other consequences that are and will be open to conjecture. For the year Jocelyn is 1666 well aware of her mother's strengths and London weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the deplorable truth''. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to face do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''. Then we are told of the birth of a disaster that will be discussed child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and theorised over for centuries… Fire!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910400467</amazonuk>isolation in Yorkshire.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlotte BettsAnnabel Abbs|title=The House in Quill CourtLanguage of Food

|summary=England 1813: When Venetia's father dies suddenly, Venetia receives a bigger shock than Eliza Acton is customary on such occasions. The wonderful rural idyll and family life for Venetia, her mother and brother has been based on a lie. This means Venetia's family poet who has never had the slightest inclination to go to London to live boil an egg. When tasked with writing a half-sister and adopted brother cookery book, she didn't know existedrecruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home life. No one is happy about it and now Venetia has to learn to live on her wits Together, they test, craft, refine and her father's lessons in a position that not even her father had envisaged for her. Venetia's brother becomes more unruly among reshape the temptations world of domestic cookery, reinventing the city while Captain Jack Chamberlaine, her father's step son, makes his annoyance at having Venetia around all too clear. But these will become recipe book and changing the least face of her worries…cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349404534</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= James BenmoreFreya Marske|title= Dodger of the RevolutionA Marvellous Light|rating= 54

|summary=Once Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the undisputed 'Top Sawyer' and most artful of thievesCivil Service, events have taken a sharp downturn for Dodger of latemuch to his chagrin. His recent close brush with death has left him agitated There he meets Edwin Courcey and disturbed, seeking solace in learns that the murky opium dens beneath the citystreets of London are threaded with magic. His dependence on the poppy has left Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him clumsy and shaky, no longer the light-fingered pickpocket he used Robin follows Edwin to be. Even the local youthscountryside, who used to respect where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and emulate him, enjoy playing pranks on him and laughing behind his backthe people shimmer with power. There is no doubt about it: Dodger is they uncover a mere shadow sinister plot that threatens the lives of his former self and at risk of becoming an opium fiendall magicians in the British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784292885</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|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 out a command from Queen Caroline connected to the recent South Sea Bubble scandal. The command was phrased nicely enough, but the sinister intent was clear: Tom's failure or refusal means loss of Kitty, the person he loves most in the world. Those murder threats are 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 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, 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...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910002976</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn=A N WilsonB09F4CTKJR|title=Resolution|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=In 1772 Reinhold Forster and his son George were hired as ship's naturalists for the ''Resolution'', the vessel Captain James Cook piloted to New Zealand and back on a three-year voyage of discovery. Once a Lutheran pastor near Danzig, Reinhold seemed unable to settle to one line of work and had a higher opinion of himself than was prudent. In Wilson's vision of life on the ''Resolution'', Reinhold seems fussy, argumentative and rather heartless, as when he offers George's dog up as fresh meat when the captain is desperately ill. George, just 18 when he joins the expedition, is a self-taught illustrator and botanist with a keen ear for languages. Though precociously intelligent, he is emotionally immature and cannot keep a handle on his masturbation habit or deal with their servant Nally's crush on him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398279</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Hughes|title= The Countenance Divine|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=In 1999, a programmer is trying to fix the millennium bug, but can't shake the sense he's been chosen for something. In 1888, five women are brutally murdered in the East End by a troubled young man in thrall to a mysterious master. In 1777, an apprentice engraver called William Blake has a defining spiritual experience; thirteen years later this vision returns.  And in 1666, poet and revolutionary John Milton completes the epic Flights 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>}}{{newreviewFreedom|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>}}{{newreview|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 is a modern Edwardian young woman. She believes in womenIt's suffrage the later stages of World War I and the right to fall in love with whomever she choosesUnited States has just entered the conflict. Her choice Petrol Petronus is Frank Balfour, one of her father's employees which is not without its problems. Encouragingly for some people around Violet, as war darkens a young American who has signed up and joined the nation's mood, Frank goes to do his bit17 Aero Squadron. This leaves Violet with more than memories of their fond farewell; Frank leaves her a son. What follows feels like company was the end of her life first US Aero Squadron to Violet but it's just be trained in Canada, the beginning of adventures that will take her first to war too; behind enemy lines be attached to witness dark days and amazing bravery.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993435343</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Angus Donald|title= The Death of Robin Hood|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=War rages across the land. In the wake of Magna Carta, King John's treachery is revealed RAF and the barons rise against him once more. Fighting with them is first to be sent into the Earl of Locksley - skies to fight the former outlaw Robin Hood, and his right hand man Sir Alan DaleGermans in active combat. When the French enter the frayBut before that can happen, Robin and Alan must decide where their loyalties lie - with Petrol has to master flying the king or their landnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eowyn IveyChristophe Medler|title=To the Bright Edge of the WorldMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret

|genre=General Historical 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 Set against the time backdrop 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 AlaskaEnglish Civil War, even though the Russians a secret plan (who of course used to own the Territorycode-named Madrigal) 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 is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in winter when entirely frozen over, as the cliffs either side are too impenetrablesummer of 1642. Allen leaves As a much younger, new bride behind – and right from loyal servant of the get-go his journals force him to pen words about strange happeningsKing, strange encounters and things Head of legend coming to life. Like I saythe Secret Service, what he's never seen before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472208609</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anna Mazzola|title=The Unseeing|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=1837: Sarah Gale it is found guilty of aiding and abetting James Greenwood in the murder of Hannah, his fiancée. ItRobert's particularly gruesome as the body was brutally dismembered and left in various locations around London. Bound for the gallows and fearing for duty to uncover the future details of her young son George, Sarah petitions for mercy from the Home Office plan and, as a result, follow the Home Secretary appoints barrister Edmund Fleetwood clues to re-investigate uncover one of the case. Edmund approaches it with an open mind but nothing prepares him for what he'll discover and not just most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the professional realmKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472234731</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robyn Young1471187179|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>}}{{newreviewBeautiful Spy|author=David Dunham|title=The Silent LandRachel Hore

|summary=RebeccaMinnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's mother dies just as 1903 turns over expectations and find a nice young man to 1904marry, triggering a move produce children and total change spend the rest of life for Rebecca her days looking after her husband and her fathertheir home. They reluctantly (in RebeccaUnfortunately, this isn's case) leave village life behind them t what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to enter the spotlight of London societycontinue working as a secretary. This will influence the young lady as As a result of a chance meeting, she becomes a womanfinds herself drawn into espionage, falls in love working for the secret service and marries. However these changes are nothing compared effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the conflict bubbling under the surface in EuropeCommunist Party of Great Britain. The hot summer of 1914 is Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the prelude to loss in many lives, including Rebecca'sCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785892541</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue GeeAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=TrioKokoschka's Doll|rating=42.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=In Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the winter of 1936get-go, Steven Coulter's wife, Margaret, dies which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of tuberculosis, leaving their Northumberland cottage cold and emptyit. His work as a history teacher at Kirkhoughton Boys' School isn't enough to distract 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 I found things. His colleague Frank Embleton invites him to potentially delight me each time – a performance by weird section in the Hepplewick Trio: Frank's sister Diana middle on cello; pianist Margot Heslopdarker stock paper, a chapter whose mother died when she number was young and who looks after her fatherin the 20,000s, a coal mine managerletters used as narrative form, at Hepplewick Hall; and their friend George Liddellso on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the violinist star rating that comes with this review, and leadercan tell that if love was on these pages, who is a Royal College of Music graduateit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630616</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= William SuttonChristina Hammonds Reed|title= Lawless and the Flowers of SinThe Black Kids|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)Teens |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 Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel, draping is set against the seedy events in a soupy broth backdrop of vice. Our herothe 1992 Los Angeles riots, 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 reaction to the misery and degradation faced by 'fallen' women. At its heart, the Flowers absolution of Sin is four police officers for beating a detective storyblack man, with Lawless given an impossible task Rodney King, nearly to complete alongside solving a seemingly impossible crimedeath. Along Told from the way he meets a rag tag bunch perspective of misfits who helpAshley Bennett, hurt and hinder our hero. There is romance and intrigue along the way as well as novel follows her evolution from a sensational public trialsilent bystander when confronted with matters of race, murder to a woman finding her voice and episodes of mayhemembracing her heritage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785650114</amazonuk>1471188191