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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stef PenneyTananarive Due|title=Under a Pole StarThe Reformatory|rating=45

|summary=1948: Elderly Flora Mackie 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 invited on a press trip 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 North Pole; 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, having been sent to live with a trip that takes her back through her lifefamily who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. Flora remembers her childhood with her father on whaling ships When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the seas around Greenlandtown, her marriage born she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of ambition two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and misaligned lust kill her too, and the result: the Arctic exploration team then to escape them completely she led in runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the late 19th centurynotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. This was She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a trip that had many knock-mutiny on effects including death board, and lovefrom there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786481162</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Morgan McCarthySarah Marsh|title= The House A Sign of BirdsHer Own|rating= 43.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Oliver has spent years trying to convince himself that he's suited to After a life bout of money making in the cityscarlet fever as a child, and that he doesn't miss Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a childhood spent in pursuit world of mysterysilence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when he cycled around the cobbled lanes use of Oxfordsign language was seen as something only savages do, exploring its most intriguing corners. When his girlfriend Kate inherits a derelict house - and Ellen is sent to a fierce family feud - school where she's determined is taught to strip itlip read, sell it and move onbut physically restrained from signing. For Oliver though From here, the house she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has an allure, and amongst been teaching the shelves of a discarded, leather bound deaf and gilded volumes, he discovers one that conceals using a hidden diary from the 1920ssystem called Visible Speech. So begins a quest to discover the identity of At the authorsame time, Sophia Louis. It Bell is a portrait of war working on other inventions and marriageideas, isolation and longing and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a story that will shape the future of the abandoned house - and complicated tangle of Oliver - foreverespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472205847</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jacquelyn BensonClaire North|title= The Smoke HunterHouse of Odysseus|rating= 45|genre= Historical Literary Fiction|summary= Eleanora Mallory is an educated young woman living in Victorian London but she is restricted by the strict social codes of the late nineteenth''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-century. She's a historian, a suffragette, and is years ahead of her time much up to the chagrin of her male work colleagues at the Public Records Office. After losing her job and finding a mysterious map abandoned on her former employerexcellent ''Ithaca''s desk, Ellie decides to take picks up a chance at an adventure. She packs her bags and sets few months after where we left off on a journey to Central America, where the map shows the way to a legendary historical city. It's In the expedition palace of a life timeOdysseus, but little does Ellie know that a team of fortune hunters are hot on with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her trail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472238346</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Angus MacDonald|title= Ardnish Was Home: A Novel|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=A tiny peninsular lying on the west coast of Scotlandhusband, Ardnish provides a beautiful setting for a book that entices the reader who sailed to devour it all in one sittingwar at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. Duncan Peter Gillies (DP to friends and family) leaves Ardnish as a young man to sign up 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 the safety of Malta. Distressingly, the rescue boats are unreliable and DP with other casualties and nurses, find themselves in an impossible position stranded in enemy territory. This fast paced story charts DPIthaca's progress in escaping from the war zoneshores, in recovering from his injuries, and, in Queen Penelope is on the most desperate brink of circumstances, finding lovea fragile peace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780274262</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lynn Guest|title= The Sword of Hachiman|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Set at One that shatters however with the dawn return of the Shogun eraOrestes, ''The Sword King of Hachiman'' follows two warrior clansMycenae, the Minamoto and the Taira, as they struggle for power under the Emperor. At first the Taira are in uneasy control, but the three Minamoto sons, separated at birthhis sister Elektra, plan to secretly reunite in order to defeat the Taira and avenge their Father's deathseeking refuge. 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…|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 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 Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the ''Resolution''get-go, the vessel Captain James Cook piloted to New Zealand which is why I picked my review copy up and back on a three-year voyage flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of discoveryit. Once I found things to potentially delight me each time – a Lutheran pastor near Danzigweird section in the middle on darker stock paper, Reinhold seemed unable to settle to one line of work and had a higher opinion of himself than chapter whose number was prudent. In Wilson's vision of life on in the ''Resolution'', Reinhold seems fussy20, argumentative and rather heartless000s, letters used as when he offers George's dog up as fresh meat when the captain is desperately ill. Georgenarrative form, 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 so 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 It intrigued with the East End by subterranean voice a troubled young man hears in thrall to a mysterious masterwartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. In 1777, an apprentice engraver called William Blake has a defining spiritual experience; thirteen years later this vision returns.  And in 1666, poet and revolutionary John Milton completes the epic for which he will be remembered centuries later.  But where does you've seen the feeling come from star rating 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. 02:51comes with this review, following reports of good weather and visibility can tell that if love was onthese pages, the pilot makes contact; the flight has reach 3,000 feet, he has the airport in sight, he is preparing to landit was not actually caused by them. The estimated time of arrival came and went, the landing had not So what 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.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781255369</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dulce Maria CardosoChristina Hammonds Reed|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)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 reaction to Violet but it's just the beginning absolution of adventures that will take her 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 Cartafour police officers for beating a black man, Rodney 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 Dalenearly to death. 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 Told from 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 perspective 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 – namelyAshley Bennett, what you've never seen before. That lesson seems quite obvious, but back in the time of 1885 Allen Forrester is novel follows her evolution from a little too naïve to heed it. A career soldier, he is tasked silent bystander when confronted with scouring the potential matters of the Wolverine River that threads south to the shores of Alaskarace, even though the Russians (who of course used to own the Territory) have had all manner of lethal encounters with those already living there, and even though a major stretch of the river has to be traversed in winter when entirely frozen over, as the cliffs either side are too impenetrable. Allen leaves a much younger, new bride behind – woman finding her voice and right from the get-go his journals force him to pen words about strange happenings, strange encounters and things of legend coming to lifeembracing her heritage. Like I say, what he's never seen before…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472208609</amazonuk>1471188191