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{{newreview|author=Meelis Friedenthal and Matthew Hyde (translator)|title=The Willow King|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Meet Laurentius. He's a scholar newly arrived in Estonia in the seventeenth century, aiming to study more. But things aren't going well for him – a long <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--standing illness seems to be returning, the weather and roads are awful, he's late – and his only friend, a parakeet, won't even survive the first two days ashore. He's entering a weird world, what's more – one imbued with evil smells, peopled by strange characters with stranger ideas. Can his modern ideas, and thinking about the soul, bear him through his course?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271740</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian RossTananarive Due|title=The Mask of Command (Twilight of Empire)Reformatory

|summary= Warning: spoilers ahead 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 previous books in Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the seriesboys that have died there. 305AD: Castus AureliusIn order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, following Robert must enlist the death help of his predecessorthe 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, has having been promoted sent to commander (or vir perfecctissiums) live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the Roman forces at the Rhinetown, she decides to go and watch. He's also been ordered to take CrispusEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, ConstantineHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's son and heir, for death at the character-building experiencehands of two vicious pirates. That complicates matters as when Castus isnShe hides away, so that they don't trying find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to keep Crispus alivesea, hedressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's finding it difficult to increase his own chance pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of survivalthings when there is a mutiny on board, especially considering how and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the last Rhine commander met his endocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784975257</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sophia TobinSarah Marsh|title= The VanishingA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=1814After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. In the middle Suddenly plunged into a world of the Yorkshire Moors in an isolated spot lies White Windowssilence, a house shadowed in mystery and intrigueeverything about her life changes. Living in this desolate household is Marcus Twentyman, a hard drinking and complicated man and his sistertime when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, the hardened widow Hester. Brought Ellen is sent to White Windows a school where she is Annaleightaught to lip read, a young runaway but physically restrained from London signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has come to Yorkshire to be been teaching the new housekeeper to the Twentyman's with the hope of leaving her painful past behind herdeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At firstthe same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, Annaleigh believes she may have found sanctuary but soon realises she has become entangled and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a web complicated tangle of conspiracy and danger, leaving her trapped and more alone than everespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471151603</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary GibsonClaire North|title=Bourbon Creams and Tattered Dreams (The Factory Girls)House of Odysseus|rating= 45|genre= Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Where did it all go wrong''What could matter more than love? Only '' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a short time agofew months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, Matty Gilbie was a star of the silver screen with a glittering future predicted for delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without herhusband, who sailed to war at Troy and 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'Cockney Canary's shores, her melodic singing voice and stunning good looks had ensured that her first foray into movies was Queen Penelope is on the brink of a runaway successfragile peace. Unfortunately One that success came shatters however with a price: Matty's business partner Frank Rossi frittered away their money and turned violent and controlling. Bruised and battered from a particularly vicious beating from Frank, Matty secretly makes her escape back to her home in Bermondsey, and the comfort return of family and friends. Frank is not one to be crossedOrestes, howeverKing of Mycenae, and vows to do whatever it takes to win Matty backhis sister Elektra, seeking refuge. Can she ever be truly free?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784973335</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley McKayB0C7J9D21B|title=1588: A Calendar of Crime Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A Hew Cullan Mystery)J Lewis

|summary=In 1936 in Chalfont Hall in Dorset young Kit Algernon-Waters can't really understand what's going on: When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at thirteen years old she's been banished to have supper in the nursery whilst everyone else is dining downstairs with the guestsThe House of Beautiful Swallows. Even her elder sisterIdyllic as this might sound, Lily, whoit's sixteen is dining with these unnamed 'guestsa bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. Kit has tapped all her usual sources to find out who the visitors areHe's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to no availobtain decent employment. All sheThe stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn's managed to t work out (well, let's be honest 'find out by eavesdropping' is closer to the truth) is that the visitors and bastards are Germanconsidered bad luck on fishing boats. Kit's parents, Lord Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and Lady Wharton, are short of money determined - and it's important that at least one of their daughters makes was not long before he had a good marriage. Six months later Lily is married to one of the German, living in some style in Germany. Within successful business as a couple of years she's mixing with some dubious company, including Unity Mitfordguide for visitors. It He was even rumoured that she'd met Hitlersaving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140914254X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stef PenneyEssie Fox|title=Under a Pole StarThe Fascination

|summary=1948: Elderly Flora Mackie The Victorian era is invited on incredibly over-romanticised as a press trip to the North Pole; a trip that takes her back through her life. Flora remembers her childhood with her father on whaling ships in the seas around Greenlandsetting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, her marriage born of ambition and misaligned lust and by the result: the Arctic exploration team she Second World War) which has often led in the late 19th century. This was to more than a trip that had many knock-on effects including death and lovefew writers mishandling it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786481162</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Morgan McCarthy|title= The House of Birds|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Oliver has spent years trying to convince himself that heThere's suited to such a life glut of money making media set in the city, and era that he doesn't miss a childhood spent in pursuit of mystery, when he cycled around the cobbled lanes of Oxford, exploring its most intriguing corners. When his girlfriend Kate inherits a derelict house - and a fierce family feud - shehallmarks we's determined ve come to strip associate with it, sell it and move on. For Oliver though, the house has an allure, and amongst the shelves of a discarded, leather bound and gilded volumes, he discovers one that conceals a hidden diary from the 1920s. So begins a quest are familiar to discover the identity point of the authorbeing cliched, Sophia Louishackneyed even. It All this is a portrait of war and marriage, isolation and longing and a story simply to illustrate that will shape the future of the abandoned house - and of Oliver - forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205847</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jacquelyn Benson|title= The Smoke Hunter|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Eleanora Mallory is it would be an educated young woman living in Victorian London but she is restricted by the strict social codes of the late nineteenth-century. She's a historian, a suffragette, and is years ahead of her time much 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 employer's desk, Ellie decides to take a chance at an adventure. She packs her bags and sets off on a journey easy thing to Central America, where the map shows the way to a legendary historical citydo poorly. It's the expedition of a life time, but little does Ellie know But despite that a team of fortune hunters are hot on 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 Scotland, Ardnish provides a beautiful setting for a book that entices the reader to devour something about it all in one sitting. Duncan Peter Gillies (DP to friends still grabs me – and family) leaves Ardnish as a young man to sign up for the Lovat Scouts in 1915. What a tragically sweet story is to follow! Posted to Gallipoli, brutal scenes of the realities of the First World War face the reader from page one. Tragically, the young DP is desperately wounded and the medical support is woefully poor. The Gallipoli Campaign seems doomed to fail. DP learns that the order has been given for the allied troops to withdraw 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 DPsomething about this book's progress in escaping from the war zone, in recovering from his injuries, and, in the most desperate of circumstances, finding lovedescription did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780274262</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lynn GuestNicole Jarvis|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 in uneasy control, but the three Minamoto sons, separated at birth, plan to secretly reunite A Portrait 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>}}{{newreview|author=Tracey Warr|title=Conquest: Daughter of the Last KingShadow

|summary=Princess Nest ferch Rhys is the only legitimate child ''I want all of Rhys ap Tewdr (thereFlorence to know my name''s  Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a surname to make hist-fict addicts smile!), the last king of Deheubarth, Waleshome and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. Playing on the beach with her brother one day But as some as she's captured by Norman soldiers. From there enters Florentine society she's held hostage by faces great opposition from the noble Montgomery familypowerful Accademia, loyal to King William Rufus. The standard the self-proclaimed guardians of captivity in which Nesta is kept isn't bad. Lady Sybil is particularly kind the healing magics that through paintings have the power to her, realising that Nest is still mourning protect the deaths of her father city and most of her siblings at the hands of men its citizens from that same householdplagues and curses. There is an ulterior motive though. The object of Sybil's attentions is to make Nest a suitable wife all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for English nobility but she's already promised to a Welsh princecenturies and guard it above all else. Who will Nest actually marry To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and, more importantly, will Nest have any say in it?change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907605819</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John G SmithThomas D Lee|title=EugenePerilous Times|rating=4.53|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=Eugene ''Hate is the youngest path of 13 children, born into a family for whom least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future seems assured due to their parents' butchery business , in a smallworld on the verge of climate collapse, close East Midlands communityBritain is in great peril. But they can't see what lies ahead: war in The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the world day and between the siblingsrescue what little remains. For Eugene, from his birth in What no-one expected was that one of the 1920s through Knights of the war in Burma and trying to settle down afterwards, Round Table would answer the impact will last a lifetimecall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B01LW2XPQP</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Irina RatushinskayaG K Holloway|title=The OdessansIn the Shadows of Castles

|summary=The Petrovs, Geibers We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and Teselenkos may all live on the day of William of Normandy's coronation as friends in the Ukrainian town King of Odessa, but this England. William's position is not secure and the dawn of new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. And William is right to worry. While the 20th century: changes are afoot that will test their friendship as well as their existence. Be they Russian establishmentprevious king, Russian Jews or PolishHarold, each family will see tragedy alongside is dead and the birth pangs likelihood of a future Soviet statemore pitched battles is over, the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to mention the struggle for survival that will be more successful for some of them than for othersrecognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473637260</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=3949666079|title=Clover MoonNoema|author=Jacqueline WilsonDael Akkerman

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Clover Moon lives ''This is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is a young girl living in Cripps Alley, a slum street in Victorian England. Her father works at the factory and hunter gatherer village during the heavy work has taken a toll on his healthMesolithic era. He likes to drink an ale or two after workClimate change is occurring, spending money the family can barely afford. CloverSea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's mother died giving birth to her younger sisterforest home, Megs, a wispy, shy childand food is becoming more and more scarce. Father married again - What to Mildreddo? Can the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, a sharp-tongued woman spiritual figure who is free with a beating, particularly if interprets the beating goes to Clover. Clover has another four half-siblings and it's Cloverwisdom of All Life, rather than Mildred, who takes care of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857532731</amazonuk>provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Graham Moore1529125898|title= The Last Days of NightGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=''The night-time of our ancestors is ending. Electric light is our future. The man who controls If it will not simply make an unimaginable fortune. He will were not simply dictate politics… The man who controls electricity will control for the very sun in casual dereliction of the skyodd gentleman's duty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.''

Graham Moore's latest novel is set in 19th Century New York City following the War of the Currents immediately after the discovery of electricity. Paul Cravath is a young lawyer, recently graduated from Columbia Law School, who finds himself Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the centre position of the biggest lawsuit in American history governess to date: who invented the light bulbtwelve-year-old Fanny Austen. Enlisted to defend George Westinghouse against 312 lawsuits and a sum She had no experience of one billion dollars, Paul embarks on teaching but this was a seemingly impossible case to winof necessity. Going up against Until the incredibly intelligent and extremely resourceful Thomas Edisondeath of her mother, who has newspapers at his disposal Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the support of Jhousehold.P. Morgan himself When her mother died, Paul is nonetheless determined her father cast her off and would have nothing more to win by any means necessarydo with her. In his unwavering quest for victory, Paul encounters Nikola Tesla, the eccentric genius, who could have the power to stop Edison, Alexander Bell, the inventor No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of the telephone and only one to beat Edison before£35 a year. Her maid, as well as Agnes Huntington, the astonishingly beautiful opera singer. With the stakes so high, Paul will discover that everyone is desperate to win, setting would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in motion their own plans with disastrous consequencesby some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471156664</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula McLainMelissa Fu |title=Circling Peach Blossom Spring |rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction |summary= I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''. Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of a book that I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japan, a young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, and in Renshu's case eventually to America. |isbn=1472277538}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1916072038|title=The House in the SunHollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary=Beryl Clutterbuck was just two when she was taken by We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her parents mother have travelled in some discomfort from Abingdon in England to Kenyatheir home at Ecklington, to a farm at Njoro in the Rongai Valley house in what was then the British East African Protectorate and which would become Kenyahollow. Her The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother was dismayed - amazed that her father would have sold everything to get little more than a few mud huts - 's strengths and it was only weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a couple facade of years before she returned home with Dickierespectability, Berylthe deplorable truth''. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's brotherrefusal to do as she was asked, leaving Beryl which has precipitated ''this violent and her father to cope as best they couldunexpected removal''. Beryl grew up wild - largely brought up by  Then we are told of the local tribespeople - birth of a child and was catapulted into a disastrous marriage when she was just sixteen. It taught her one thing, though - she needed to take charge of her own destinysoon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844088308</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon Scarrow and T J AndrewsAnnabel Abbs|title=InvaderThe Language of Food|rating=35

|summary= Modern technology gives Eliza Acton is a writer far more options on how poet who has never had the slightest inclination to present their bookboil an egg. They are no longer bound by a yearly cycle of releasing When tasked with writing a cookery book in hardback and then waiting , she recruits Ann Kirby, a few months for it to be released in paperback. The e-book gives you license to play local woman with the format; how about a set of regular instalments? These segmented books worked for troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine and reshape the likes world of Charles Dickens, but pleasing a modern crowd used to quick thrillsdomestic cookery, as well as those used to reinventing the longer drawn out format, is not easy. Did Simon Scarrow recipe book and T J Andrews achieve their goals in changing the combined novel ''Invader''?face of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472213696</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diney CosteloeFreya Marske|title=The Sisters of St CroixA Marvellous Light|rating=54|genre=Women's Historical Fiction|summary=On her 21st birthday Adelaide discovers Robin Blyth is nudged into a family she wasn't aware of: a Mother Superior aunt job in a French convent and a father who died in WWI rather than Richard - her mother's husband the Civil Service, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the man who raised herstreets of London are threaded with magic. Adeline decides Desperate to go remove a curse that threatens to France for a short holiday in order swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to learn more from her aunt that her family knew as Sarah Hunt. Both Sarah and Adelaide partthe countryside, hoping that they will see each other again soon where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. There they will, but in circumstances uncover a sinister plot that neither threatens the lives of them envisaged. As all magicians in the Second World War begins and Germany captures France, there's danger ahead for each of themBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784972606</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anna HopeB09F4CTKJR|title= The Ballroom|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Ella Fay does not know how a simple impulsive act landed her in the strict confines of a Yorkshire asylum. 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 again. But there are two things she does know: she is not insane, and she will never stop struggling Flights for freedom. Her spirit of escape ignites a spark of life within fellow patient John Mulligan, and a courtship flares into being as the couple are thrown together weekly in the ballroom for the Friday night dance. Yet with the odds stacked against them, and hope as fragile as the eggshells on which they have to tread, they find themselves in equal fear of what it is they are running away from, and what it is they are running towards.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552779474</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFreedom|author=J D Davies|title=Death's Bright Angel (Matthew Quinton’s Journals 6)Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5

|summary=Captain Sir Matthew Quinton of King Charles IIIt's navy sets out for another day at workthe later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. He Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and his men are charged with helping to subdue joined the Dutch town of Westerschelling17 Aero Squadron. It's only afterwards that This company was the true consequences hit himfirst US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, along with some other consequences that are and will the first to be open attached to conjecture. For the year is 1666 RAF and London is about the first to be sent into the skies to face a disaster fight the Germans in active combat. But before that will be discussed and theorised over for centuries… Fire!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910400467</amazonuk>can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlotte BettsChristophe Medler|title=The House in Quill CourtMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=54

|summary=England 1813: When Venetia's father dies suddenlySet against the backdrop of the English Civil War, Venetia receives a bigger shock than secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is customary on such occasionsdiscovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642. The wonderful rural idyll As a loyal servant of the King, and family life for VenetiaHead of the Secret Service, her mother and brother has been based on a lie. This means Venetiait is Robert's family has duty to go to London uncover the details of the plan and follow the clues to live with a half-sister and adopted brother she didn't know existed. No uncover one is happy about it and now Venetia has to learn to live on her wits and her father's lessons of the most guarded secrets in a position that not even her father had envisaged for her. Venetia's brother becomes more unruly among history—especially since the temptations of plot could affect the city while Captain Jack Chamberlaine, her father's step son, makes his annoyance at having Venetia around all too clearKing. But these will become the least of her worries…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349404534</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= James Benmore1471187179|title= Dodger of the RevolutionA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating= 54

|summary=Once the undisputed Minnie is an 'Top Sawyerordinary' and most artful of thieves, events have taken girl living an unexciting life in a sharp downturn for Dodger of lateleafy provincial suburb. His recent close brush with death has left him agitated and disturbed, seeking solace The book is set in the murky opium dens beneath the city. His dependence on the poppy has left him clumsy 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and shakyfind a nice young man to marry, no longer produce children and spend the light-fingered pickpocket he used to berest of her days looking after her husband and their home. Even the local youths Unfortunately, who used this isn't what she wants to respect do at all and emulate himneither does she want to continue working as a secretary. As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, enjoy playing pranks on him working for the secret service and laughing behind his back. There is no doubt about it: Dodger is effectively living a mere shadow double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of his former self Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and at risk of becoming an opium fiendlikes - whilst working for the Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784292885</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonia HodgsonAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=A Death at Fountains Abbey (Thomas Hawkins 3)Kokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=John Aislabie thinks that Thomas Hawkins has arrived at Aislabie's country mansion to investigate murder threatsWell, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. That's part of it but Thomas' main reason is I found things to carry out potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a command from Queen Caroline connected to chapter whose number was in the recent South Sea Bubble scandal20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. The command was phrased nicely enoughIt intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, but too. But you've seen the sinister intent star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was clear: Tom's failure or refusal means loss of Kittyon these pages, the person he loves most in the worldit was not actually caused by them. Those murder threats are a little concerning though…So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473615097</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Natasha FarrantChristina Hammonds Reed|title= Lydia: The Wild Girl of Pride and PrejudiceBlack Kids|rating= 4.5

|summary=Lydia Bennet has just turned fifteen and has received, amongst other gifts, a diary from her bookish older sister Mary. SheChristina Hammonds Reed'd rather have received some ribbon or some lace; after alls debut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, writing in a diary every day seems such a tedious pastime. But when a handsome regiment of scarlet-coats arrives in Meryton, Lydia decides that there just might be something exciting reaction 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 absolution of discovery. Once four police officers for beating a Lutheran pastor near Danzigblack man, Reinhold seemed unable Rodney King, nearly to settle to one line of work and had a higher opinion of himself than was prudentdeath. In Wilson's vision Told from the perspective of life on the ''Resolution''Ashley Bennett, Reinhold seems fussy, argumentative and rather heartless, as when he offers George's dog up as fresh meat when the captain is desperately ill. George, just 18 novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when he joins the expeditionconfronted with matters of race, is to a self-taught illustrator woman finding her voice and botanist with a keen ear for languages. Though precociously intelligent, he is emotionally immature and cannot keep a handle on his masturbation habit or deal with their servant Nally's crush on himembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398279</amazonuk>1471188191