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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Morgan McCarthyTananarive Due|title= The House of BirdsReformatory|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Oliver has spent years trying Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to convince himself that hesix months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's suited to a life place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of money making in horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the city, school governor and that he doesn't miss a childhood spent in pursuit of mysteryhis Funhouse, when he cycled around Robert must enlist the cobbled lanes help of Oxfordthe school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, exploring its most intriguing corners. When his girlfriend Kate inherits having been sent to live with a derelict house - family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a fierce family feud - young age. When she's determined hears there is to strip itbe a hanging of some pirates in the town, sell it she decides to go and move onwatch. For Oliver though Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the house has an allurehands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and amongst the shelves of a discardedkill her too, leather bound and gilded volumesthen to escape them completely she runs away to sea, he discovers one that conceals dressing as a hidden diary from boy and joining the 1920snotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. So begins a quest to discover She soon finds herself in the identity thick of the author, Sophia Louis. It things when there is a portrait of war and marriagemutiny on board, isolation and longing and a story that will shape the future from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the abandoned house - and of Oliver - foreverocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472205847</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jacquelyn BensonSarah Marsh|title= The Smoke HunterA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= Eleanora Mallory is an educated young woman living in Victorian London but she is restricted by the strict social codes After a bout of the late nineteenth-century. She's scarlet fever as a historianchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a suffragetteworld of silence, and is years ahead of everything about her life changes. Living in a time much to when the chagrin use of her male work colleagues at the Public Records Office. After losing her job and finding a mysterious map abandoned on her former employer's desksign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellie decides Ellen is sent to take a chance at an adventureschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. She packs her bags and sets off on a journey to Central America From here, where she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the map shows the way to deaf and using a legendary historical citysystem called Visible Speech. It's At the expedition of a life same time, but little does Ellie know that Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a team complicated tangle of fortune hunters are hot on her trailespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472238346</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Angus MacDonaldClaire North|title= Ardnish Was Home: A NovelHouse of Odysseus|rating= 45|genre= Historical Literary Fiction|summary=A tiny peninsular lying on ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the west coast palace of ScotlandOdysseus, Ardnish provides a beautiful setting for a book that entices the reader with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to devour it all in one sitting. Duncan Peter Gillies (DP rule without her husband, who sailed to friends war at Troy and family) leaves Ardnish as a young man to sign up then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the Lovat Scouts in 1915. What a tragically sweet story is to follow! Posted to Gallipoli, brutal scenes of the realities throne of the First World War face the reader from page oneWestern Isles. Tragically, the young DP is desperately wounded Having survived – politically and physical – the medical support is woefully poor. The Gallipoli Campaign seems doomed to fail. DP learns chaotic storm that the order has been given for the allied troops to withdraw Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the safety brink of Maltaa fragile peace. Distressingly, the rescue boats are unreliable and DP One that shatters however with other casualties and nurses, find themselves in an impossible position stranded in enemy territory. This fast paced story charts DP's progress in escaping from the war zonereturn of Orestes, in recovering from his injuriesKing of Mycenae, andhis sister Elektra, in the most desperate of circumstances, finding loveseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780274262</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lynn GuestB0C7J9D21B|title= The Sword of Hachiman|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Set at the dawn of the Shogun era, ''The Sword of Hachiman'' follows two warrior clans, the Minamoto and the Taira, as they struggle for power under the Emperor. At first the Taira are A Captive in uneasy control, but the three Minamoto sons, separated at birth, plan to secretly reunite in order to defeat the Taira and avenge their Father's death. The youngest, Yoshitsune, is deemed most worthy and is granted the family heirloom, the Sword of Hachiman, the War God. Initiated into love and espionage by a young Taira noblewoman, and tested in the ferocious hand to hand combat that is his birthright, we follow Yoshitsune as he meets his faithful retainer, Benkei, and as he goes behind the scenes of the Cloister court, where two extraordinary women enter his life…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861515634</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAlgiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Tracey Warr|title=Conquest: Daughter of the Last KingA 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 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|authorisbn=Antonia HodgsonB09F4CTKJR|title=A Death at Fountains Abbey (Thomas Hawkins 3)Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=John Aislabie thinks that Thomas Hawkins has arrived at AislabieIt's country mansion to investigate murder threatsthe later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. That's part of it but Thomas' main reason Petrol Petronus is to carry out a command from Queen Caroline connected to young American who has signed up and joined the recent South Sea Bubble scandal17 Aero Squadron. The command This company was phrased nicely enoughthe first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, but the sinister intent was clear: Tom's failure or refusal means loss of Kitty, first to be attached to the RAF and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the person he loves most Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the worldnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. Those murder threats are a little concerning though…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473615097</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Natasha FarrantChristophe Medler|title= LydiaMadrigal: The Wild Girl of Pride and PrejudiceA Closely Guarded Secret|rating= 54|genre=Teens Historical Fiction|summary=Lydia Bennet has just turned fifteen and has received, amongst other giftsSet against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a diary from her bookish older sister Mary. She'd rather have received some ribbon or some lace; after all, writing secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in a diary every day seems such a tedious pastimethe summer of 1642. But when As a handsome regiment loyal servant of scarlet-coats arrives in Merytonthe King, and Head of the Secret Service, Lydia decides that there just might be something exciting it is Robert's duty to uncover the details of the plan and follow the clues to write about after all..uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002976</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1471187179|title=A N WilsonBeautiful Spy|titleauthor=ResolutionRachel Hore

|summary=In 1772 Reinhold Forster and his son George were hired as ship's naturalists for the ''Resolution''Well, the vessel Captain James Cook piloted to New Zealand and back on this looked very much like 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 book I could love from the captain is desperately ill. George, just 18 when he joins the expedition, is a selfget-taught illustrator and botanist with a keen ear for languages. Though precociously intelligentgo, he which is emotionally immature why I picked my review copy up and cannot keep a handle on his masturbation habit or deal with their servant Nally's crush on himflipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it.|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 I found things to potentially delight me each time – a mysterious master. In 1777, an apprentice engraver called William Blake has a defining spiritual experience; thirteen years later this vision returns.  And weird section 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 middle ondarker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the pilot makes contact; the flight has reach 320,000 feet000s, he has the airport in sightletters used as narrative form, he is preparing to land. The estimated time of arrival came and went, the landing had not happenedso on. A search is initiated, which eventually establishes that It intrigued with the carrier had crashed into subterranean voice a mountainside man hears 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= wartorn Dresden that what little I often claim to know most knew of my history from reading story books (a.k.a. novels)it mentioned, too. Sometimes, however, But you need to know 've seen 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 nothingstar rating that comes with this review, and in 1975 I was about twelve years old – old enough to register can tell that there if love was a war going on in somewhere called Angolathese pages, but back then, there were wars going on all over the placeit was not actually caused by them. 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.So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857054325</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David SnellChristina Hammonds Reed|title=Sing to Silent Stones: Violet's War (Sing to Silent Stones 1)The Black Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary= Although born to Victorian parents, Violet is a modern Edwardian young woman. She believes in womenChristina Hammonds Reed's suffrage and debut novel is set against the right to fall in love with whomever she chooses. Her choice is Frank Balfour, one backdrop of her father's employees which is not without its problems. Encouragingly for some people around Violet, as war darkens the nation's mood1992 Los Angeles riots, Frank goes to do his bit. This leaves Violet with more than memories of their fond farewell; Frank leaves her a son. What follows feels like the end of her life to Violet but it's just the beginning of adventures that will take her reaction to war too; behind enemy lines 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 and the barons rise against him once more. Fighting with them is the Earl absolution 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 four police officers 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 beating a little too naïve to heed it. A career soldierblack man, 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 thereRodney King, and even though a major stretch of the river has nearly to be traversed in winter when entirely frozen over, as the cliffs either side are too impenetrabledeath. Allen leaves a much younger, new bride behind – and right Told 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=1837: Sarah Gale is found guilty of aiding and abetting James Greenwood in the murder perspective of HannahAshley Bennett, 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 novel follows her young son George, Sarah petitions for mercy evolution from the Home Office and, as a resultsilent bystander when confronted with matters of race, 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 a woman finding her voice and not just in the professional realmembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472234731</amazonuk>1471188191