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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lynn GuestTananarive Due|title= The Sword of HachimanReformatory|rating= 45|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Set Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the dawn of Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Shogun era, Reformatory. It''The Sword s a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of Hachiman'' follows two warrior clanshorrors, haunted by the Minamoto boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the Taira, as help of the school's ghosts – only they struggle for power under the Emperorhave their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4. At first the Taira are 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in uneasy controlBoston, but the three Minamoto sonshaving been sent to live with a family who run an inn, separated at birth, plan and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to secretly reunite be a hanging of some pirates in order the town, she decides to defeat the Taira go and watch. Enthralled and avenge their Fatherhorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's deathat the hands of two vicious pirates. The youngest She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, Yoshitsuneand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, is deemed most worthy dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is granted the family heirlooma mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the Sword ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of HachimanHer Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, the War GodEllen Lark loses her hearing. Initiated Suddenly plunged into love and espionage by a young Taira noblewomanworld of silence, and tested everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the ferocious hand use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to hand combat that lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is his birthrightworking on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we follow Yoshitsune as he meets his faithful retainerleft off. In the palace of Odysseus, Benkeiwith delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and as he goes behind then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the scenes brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the Cloister courtreturn of Orestes, where two extraordinary women enter King of Mycenae, and his life…sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861515634</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey WarrB0C7J9D21B|title=Conquest: Daughter of the Last KingA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=Princess Nest ferch Rhys When we first meet our hero, his name is the only legitimate child Ettore and he lives at The House of Rhys ap Tewdr (thereBeautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a surname to make hist-fict addicts smile!), the last king of Deheubarth, Wales. Playing on the beach with her brother one day shebordello and Ettore's captured by Norman soldiersmother died when he was born. From there sheHe's held hostage by the noble Montgomery familynot been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, loyal it's difficult to King William Rufusobtain decent employment. The standard stint working with the preparation of captivity in which Nesta is kept isnanchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered badluck on fishing boats. Lady Sybil is particularly kind to her, realising that Nest is still mourning the deaths of her father Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and most of her siblings at the hands of men from that same household. There is an ulterior motive though. The object of Sybil's attentions is to make Nest it was not long before he had a successful business as a suitable wife guide for English nobility but she's already promised to a Welsh princevisitors. Who will Nest actually marry and, more importantly, will Nest have any say in it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907605819</amazonuk>He was even saving some money.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John G SmithEssie Fox|title=EugeneThe Fascination|rating=4.5

|summary=Eugene The Victorian era is the youngest of 13 children, born into incredibly over-romanticised as a family setting for whom historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the future seems assured due Second World War) which has often led to their parents' butchery business in more than a small, close East Midlands communityfew writers mishandling it. But they canThere't see what lies ahead: war s such a glut of media set in the world and between era that the hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to the siblingspoint of being cliched, hackneyed even. All this is simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. For EugeneBut despite that, from his birth in the 1920s through the war in Burma something about it still grabs me – and trying to settle down afterwards, the impact will last a lifetimesomething about this book's description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B01LW2XPQP</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Irina RatushinskayaNicole Jarvis|title=The OdessansA Portrait in Shadow

|summary=The Petrovs''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Geibers Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and Teselenkos may all live where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as friends in she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the Ukrainian town of Odessapowerful Accademia, but this is the dawn self-proclaimed guardians of the 20th century: changes are afoot healing magics that will test their friendship as well as their existence. Be they Russian establishment, Russian Jews or Polish, each family will see tragedy alongside through paintings have the birth pangs of a future Soviet state, not power to mention protect the struggle city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for survival that will be more successful for some of centuries and guard it above all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them than for othersand their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473637260</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|title=Clover Moon|author=Jacqueline Wilson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Clover Moon lives in Cripps Alley, a slum street in Victorian England. Her father works at the factory and the heavy work has taken a toll on his health. He likes to drink an ale or two after work, spending money the family can barely afford. Clover's mother died giving birth to her younger sister, Megs, a wispy, shy child. Father married again - to Mildred, a sharp-tongued woman who is free with a beating, particularly if the beating goes to Clover. Clover has another four half-siblings and it's Clover, rather than Mildred, who takes care of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857532731</amazonuk>}}{{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 is ending. Electric light Hate 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 the undisputed 'Top Sawyer' and most artful of thieves, events have taken Robin Blyth is nudged into a sharp downturn for Dodger of late. His recent close brush with death has left him agitated and disturbed, seeking solace job 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 to be. Even the local youthsCivil Service, who used much to respect and emulate him, enjoy playing pranks on him and laughing behind his backchagrin. There is no doubt about it: Dodger is a mere shadow of his former self he meets Edwin Courcey and at risk of becoming an opium fiend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784292885</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Antonia Hodgson|title=A Death at Fountains Abbey (Thomas Hawkins 3)|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=John Aislabie thinks learns 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 streets of Kitty, the person he loves most in the world. Those murder threats London 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 Marythreaded with magic. 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 Desperate to remove a handsome regiment of scarlet-coats arrives in Meryton, Lydia decides curse that there just might be something exciting threatens 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 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 Danzigswallow him, Reinhold seemed unable Robin follows Edwin 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''countryside, Reinhold seems fussy, argumentative and rather heartless, as when he offers George's dog up as fresh meat when where the captain is desperately ill. George, just 18 when he joins the expedition, is a self-taught illustrator and botanist hedgegrows bristle with a keen ear for languages. Though precociously intelligent, he is emotionally immature incantations and cannot keep a handle on his masturbation habit or deal the people shimmer with their servant Nally's crush on himpower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398279</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Hughes|title= The Countenance Divine|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=In 1999, There they uncover a programmer is trying to fix sinister plot that threatens 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 lives of all magicians in 1666, poet and revolutionary John Milton completes the epic for which he will be remembered centuries laterBritish Isles.  But where does the feeling come from that the world is about to end?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473636507</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Adrien BoscB09F4CTKJR|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>}}{{newreviewFlights for Freedom|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 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 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 get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of 1936it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, Steven Coulter's wifea chapter whose number was in the 20, Margaret000s, dies of tuberculosisletters used as narrative form, leaving their Northumberland cottage cold and emptyso on. His work as It intrigued with the subterranean voice a history teacher at Kirkhoughton Boysman hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But you' School isn't enough to distract him from his grief; he spends his long evenings writing letters to Margaret. Graduallyve seen the star rating that comes with this review, thoughand can tell that if love was on these pages, as spring arrives he starts to take an interest in other thingsit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697}}{{Frontpage|author=Christina Hammonds Reed|title=The Black Kids|rating=4. His colleague Frank Embleton invites him to a performance by the Hepplewick Trio: Frank5|genre=Teens |summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's sister Diana on cello; pianist Margot Heslop, whose mother died when she was young and who looks after her fatherdebut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a coal mine managerreaction to the absolution of four police officers for beating a black man, at Hepplewick Hall; and their friend George LiddellRodney King, nearly to death. Told from the violinist and leaderperspective of Ashley Bennett, who is the novel follows her evolution from a Royal College silent bystander when confronted with matters of Music graduaterace, to a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630616</amazonuk>1471188191