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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Adrian GoldsworthyTananarive Due|title= VindolandaThe Reformatory|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= AD 98: in the northern fields of Britannia lies VindolandaGracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a Roman auxiliary base situated on scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the edge of Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Roman worldReformatory. Far from the prosperity and decadence of Rome, the wild and untamed lands around Vindolanda are ripe It's a place with rebel tribes a brutal and druids set against the destruction of Rome and its armiesdark reputation. In But the midst of this destruction segregated reformatory is Flavius Ferox; a Briton and Roman Centurion who has been given the task of keeping the peace in this desolate edge of the world. But life in Roman Britain is full chamber of danger and betrayal at every turn, and Ferox knows it will take more than courage to overcome what lies ahead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784974684</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jeroen Blokhuis and Asja Novak (translator)|title=The Yellow House|rating=3|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=If you were the needy kindhorrors, would you really join in haunted by the drumming-out of town of two people accused of murder purely because of their nationality? Would you get a feeling of belonging just because you were boys that have died there when someone carried a dead dog down off a mountain? The main character in this novel does. But he has something that will really get him noted, well-thought-of, included. He has come In order to survive the south of France to set up an artists' collective, where he can live school governor and work alongside his counterpartsFunhouse, who can inspire each other and best each other to create wonderful art. In fact a much-respected guest is on his way now, so surely he can find kinship? The guestRobert must enlist the help of the school's name is, after all, Gauguinghosts – only they have their own motivations... The main character is, of course, Vincent van Gogh…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907320563</amazonuk>1803366532}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Katherine Howe|title=Retribution RoadA True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction |summary=''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard manHannah Masury is living in Boston, he was something else: having been sent to live with a dangerous man.'' If, indeedfamily who run an inn, and being made to work there was someone who was ideal for from a suicide mission, it was himyoung age. Working as When she hears there is to be a soldier for the East India Company in the rural, remote, outlaw hotbeds hanging of Asia some pirates in the 1850stown, he's tasked with taking a boat of unknown prospects up the Irrawaddy she decides to try go and combat local warlord Pagan Minwatch. It doesn't go well – to start withEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, heHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's supposed to run death at the rule over ruffians saved from the gallowshands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, but canso that they don't command find and kill her too, and then to escape them until hecompletely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's forced his way to having pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the knowledge thick of the mission he needs firstthings when there is a mutiny on board, only for all hell to break loose. But get back he does, only to find that while his nightmares about what really happened and from there we are met with equally dark goings-caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on, the official record suggests the mission never actually existed…ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857053744</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Theodore BrunSarah Marsh|title=A Mighty Dawn (The Wanderer Chronicles)Sign of Her Own

|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= A story like this needs After a strong central character; it needs bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a warrior who has convictionworld of silence, heart and honoureverything about her life changes. Hakan has all these Living in abundancea time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but he didn't get them easilyphysically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. In this coming of age tale At the same time, he goes Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a quest to find himself after experiencing the most tremendous complicated tangle of betrayalsespionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782399941</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=S J Hardman LeaClaire North|title=The Sins House of SoldiersOdysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Anson Scott wants ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to join the British army excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and World War I then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for a different reason than most the throne of his fellow Americansthe Western Isles. He's a journalist wanting Having survived – politically and physical – the uncensored inside story chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to send back home; a deadly enterprise as, if the Germans donIthaca't get hims shores, Queen Penelope is on the Brits may deem him brink of a spyfragile peace. Unperturbed he carries his plan through and finds himself on One that shatters however with the French front in 1916. He has an ally in British officer David Alexanderreturn of Orestes, King of Mycenae, which is just as well since not all and his enemies are across no man's land. The two men have a lot in commonsister Elektra, more than they know and perhaps more than is good for them as the Somme approachesseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785890182</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David GilmanB0C7J9D21B|title=Viper's Blood A Captive in Algiers (Master of WarMuhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5

|summary=Bowman When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and commander Thomas Blackstone is one he lives at The House of Edward III's greatest weapons, bringing him potentially head to head against the Dauphin once againBeautiful Swallows. HoweverIdyllic as this might sound, faced with an elongated stale mate, Thomasit' role becomes that of scavenger leader as the chances of victory make way for s a greater chance of starvation amongst the armiesbordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. There is a light at the end He's not been short of the tunnel mothers, though. Blackstone is to go on a trip: an escort mission to Italy- but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, delivering the French Kingit's daughter Isabelle difficult to Milan and her weddingobtain decent employment. Having said that, the light at The stint working with the end preparation of the tunnel may be an oncoming lanceanchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Isabelle's prospective groom is one of the brothers who killed Thomas' wife Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and daughterit was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. Death is definitely on the cards… but whose?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784974463</amazonuk>He was even saving some money.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rory ClementsEssie Fox|title=Corpus|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=A suicidal overdose and the murder of upper class Cecil Langley and his wife are two events that may be unconnected. However this is England in 1936, a magnet for opposing forces and their first moves in preparation for the coming conflict, assisted or prevented by a royal crisis (depending on which side you're on). Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into the middle of this accidentally to begin with but his curiosity has been piqued enough to ensure he's not walking away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762613</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Beatrice Colin|title= To Capture What We Cannot Keep|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Paris, February 1887, and work on the foundations of Eiffel's daring tower is about to begin. Engineer Emile Nouguier, taking photographs of the site from a tethered hot air balloon for tourists nearby, chances to meet a young widow from Glasgow named Caitriona Wallace, and his own foundations start to shift. Over the next two years as the tower slowly rises in the Champ de Mars, what began as an impossible dream becomes solid reality – Cait and Emile's love for each other. In a world where more than bustles and corsets hem her in, will Cait be able to break free of her oppressive future, and given their different social strata, can Emile re-shape his?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760291722</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Deanna Raybourn|title= A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell Mystery)|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Veronica Speedwell did not choose to be an investigator by profession. She was, first and foremost, a scientist; a lepidopterist and adventuress who travelled the world looking for exciting butterfly specimens. However, when her latest expedition was cancelled due to an unfortunate incident with a giant tortoise, Veronica and her taxidermist friend Stoker took up the challenge of a murder investigation as an interesting diversion. The case seemed to an open-and-shut one; Miles Ramsforth, an art patron, had been accused of murdering his pregnant mistress, Artemisia. He was discovered at the scene, covered in her blood and had both the motive and circumstances to commit the crime. He would hang by the end of the week if Veronica and Stoker could not find the 'real' killer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0451476158</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jemima Brigges|title=Counting the CostFascination

|summary=The year Victorian era is 1794 and we meet our young protagonistincredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, Mariaperhaps, in desperate circumstances. Alone and terrified, she by the Second World War) which has concluded that her only option is often led to take her own life by throwing herself into the surging river watersmore than a few writers mishandling it. Months previously, she was cruelly violated by the master There's such a glut of media set in the house where she worked and now, in era that the advanced stages of her pregnancy, hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to the future seems bleak. Luckily, a pair point of gypsy women find Maria and take her in. Following a traumatic labourbeing cliched, Maria becomes desperately ill and when she recovers, her baby is gonehackneyed even. Alone again, Maria All this is free simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to start a new lifedo poorly. With a clever disguiseBut despite that, she becomes the dowdy 'Miss Dinchopesomething about it still grabs me – and something about this book' and takes a position s description did as a housekeeper for the village rectorwell.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785899139</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven BurgauerNicole Jarvis|title=The Night of The Eleventh SunA Portrait in Shadow

|summary=The word 'Neanderthal' has become equated with people deemed I want all of Florence to have know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a backward attitude home and outlookwhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But what do we know as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of the original Neanderthals healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over 200art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them,000 years ago? Here American author [[:Category:Steven Burgauer|Steven Burgauer]] melds the knowledge of anthropologists, archaeologists Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and historians with the story of Strong Arms, his family change – has no place amongst them and their struggle to survive in a very effective, and informative waysociety.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419671545</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meelis Friedenthal and Matthew Hyde (translator)Thomas D Lee|title=The Willow KingPerilous Times

|summary=Meet LaurentiusWe begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. HeWilliam's position is not secure and the new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a scholar newly arrived in Estonia in coronation is important. And William is right to worry. While the seventeenth centuryprevious king, Harold, aiming to study is dead and the likelihood of more. But things aren't going well for him – a long-standing illness seems to be returningpitched battles is over, the weather and roads rebels are awful, he's late – stirring and his only friend, much of the country does not wish to recognise a parakeet, wonnew overlord.|isbn=1800422466}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3949666079|title=Noema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''t even survive the first two days ashoreThis is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago. He's entering ' Maya is a young girl living in a weird worldhunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, whatthe Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, and food is becoming more and more – one imbued with evil smells, peopled by strange characters with stranger ideasscarce. What to do? Can his modern ideasthe law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, and thinking about a spiritual figure who interprets the soulwisdom of All Life, bear him through his courseprovide solutions?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271740</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Ross1529125898|title=The Mask of Command (Twilight of Empire)Godmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary= Warning: spoilers ahead ''If it were not for previous books in the seriescasual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all. '' 305AD: Castus Aurelius, following Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the death position of his predecessor, has been promoted governess to commander (or vir perfecctissiums) twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of the Roman forces at the Rhineteaching but this was a case of necessity. He's also been ordered to take CrispusUntil the death of her mother, Constantine's son Anne had a comfortable life and heir, for was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the character-building experiencehousehold. That complicates matters as when Castus isn't trying to keep Crispus aliveWhen her mother died, he's finding it difficult her father cast her off and would have nothing more to increase his own chance do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of survival£35 a year. Her maid, especially considering how the last Rhine commander met his endAgnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784975257</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sophia TobinMelissa Fu |title= The VanishingPeach Blossom Spring |rating=3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=1814. In I loved the middle of the Yorkshire Moors in an isolated spot lies White Windowsprelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a house shadowed in mystery and intrigueshort chapter entitled ''Origins''. Living in this desolate household Unfortunately it is Marcus Twentyman, the only truly poetic part of a hard drinking and complicated man and his sister, the hardened widow Hesterbook that I expected more from. Brought to White Windows is Annaleigh, a young runaway Covering Chinese history from London who has come to Yorkshire 1938 to be the new housekeeper to the Twentyman2005 as viewed through one family's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the war with the hope of leaving her painful past behind her. At firstJapan, Annaleigh believes she may have found sanctuary but soon realises she has become entangled in a web of conspiracy young mother (Meilin) and dangerher four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, leaving her trapped and more alone than everin Renshu's case eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471151603</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Gibson1916072038|title=Bourbon Creams and Tattered Dreams The House in the Hollow (The Factory GirlsTalbot Saga)|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Where did it all go wrong? Only a short time ago, Matty Gilbie was a star of the silver screen with a glittering future predicted for her. As the 'Cockney Canary', her melodic singing voice and stunning good looks had ensured that her first foray into movies was a runaway success. Unfortunately that success came 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 of family and friends. Frank is not one to be crossed, however, and vows to do whatever it takes to win Matty back. Can she ever be truly free?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784973335</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Shirley McKay|title=1588: A Calendar of Crime (A Hew Cullan Mystery)Allie Cresswell

|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=A lot We meet part of crime happens the Talbot family in Yorkshire in St Andrews during 1588 November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and therefore her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to the life of law lecturer and local investigator Hew Cullen toohouse in the hollow. As we travel through the year The two women are angry with himeach other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, his recently wedded English wife Francesat concealing, doctor brother in law Giles and his sister Megbeneath a facade of respectability, the wise woman, we also encounter some of his most interesting casesdeplorable truth''. In fact there Hester is furious about Jocelyn's one refusal to match each do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''. Then we are told of the year's big festivals: Candlemasbirth of a child and, Whitsunsoon after, LammasHester Talbot departs, Martinmas leaving Jocelyn in shame and Yuleisolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973635</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lesley LokkoAnnabel Abbs|title=The Last DebutanteLanguage of Food|rating=45

|summary=In 1936 in Chalfont Hall in Dorset young Kit Algernon-Waters can't really understand what's going on: at thirteen years old she's been banished to have supper in the nursery whilst everyone else Eliza Acton is dining downstairs with a poet who has never had the guestsslightest inclination to boil an egg. Even her elder sisterWhen tasked with writing a cookery book, Lilyshe recruits Ann Kirby, who's sixteen is dining a local woman with these unnamed 'guests'a troubled home life. Kit has tapped all her usual sources to find out who the visitors areTogether, but to no avail. All she's managed to work out (wellthey test, let's be honest 'find out by eavesdropping' is closer to the truth) is that the visitors are German. Kit's parentscraft, Lord refine and Lady Whartonreshape the world of domestic cookery, are short of money reinventing the recipe book and it's important that at least one of their daughters makes a good marriage. Six months later Lily is married to one of changing the German, living in some style in Germany. Within a couple face of years she's mixing with some dubious company, including Unity Mitford. It was even rumoured that she'd met Hitlercookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140914254X</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stef PenneyFreya Marske|title=Under a Pole StarA Marvellous Light

|summary=1948: Elderly Flora Mackie Robin Blyth is invited on nudged into 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 job in the seas around GreenlandCivil Service, her marriage born of ambition and misaligned lust and the result: the Arctic exploration team she led in the late 19th centurymuch to his chagrin. This was a trip that had many knock-on effects including death and love.|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 There he's suited to a life of money making in the city, meets Edwin Courcey and learns that he doesn't miss a childhood spent in pursuit of mystery, when he cycled around the cobbled lanes streets of Oxford, exploring its most intriguing cornersLondon are threaded with magic. When his girlfriend Kate inherits Desperate to remove a derelict house - and a fierce family feud - she's determined curse that threatens to strip it, sell it and move on. For Oliver thoughswallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the house has an allurecountryside, and amongst where the shelves of a discarded, leather bound hedgegrows bristle with incantations and gilded volumes, he discovers one that conceals a hidden diary from the 1920speople shimmer with power. So begins There they uncover a quest to discover the identity of the author, Sophia Louis. It is a portrait of war and marriage, isolation and longing and a story sinister plot that will shape threatens the future lives of all magicians in the abandoned house - and of Oliver - foreverBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472205847</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jacquelyn Benson|title= The Smoke Hunter|rating= 4|genre= Historical 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-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 to Central America, where the map shows the way to a legendary historical city. It's the expedition of a life time, but little does Ellie know 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|genreisbn= 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 it all in one sitting. Duncan Peter Gillies (DP to friends 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 DP's progress in escaping from the war zone, in recovering from his injuries, and, in the most desperate of circumstances, finding love.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780274262</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lynn GuestB09F4CTKJR|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 Flights 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 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>}}{{newreviewFreedom|author=Tracey Warr|title=Conquest: Daughter of the Last KingSteven Burgauer

|summary=Princess Nest ferch Rhys is the only legitimate child of Rhys ap Tewdr (thereIt's a surname to make hist-fict addicts smile!), the last king later stages of Deheubarth, WalesWorld War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Playing on Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the beach with her brother one day she's captured by Norman soldiers17 Aero Squadron. From there she's held hostage by This company was the noble Montgomery familyfirst US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, loyal the first to King William Rufus. The standard of captivity in which Nesta is kept isn't bad. Lady Sybil is particularly kind be attached to her, realising that Nest is still mourning the deaths of her father RAF and most of her siblings at the hands of men from first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But before that same household. There is an ulterior motive though. The object of Sybil's attentions is can happen, Petrol has to make Nest a suitable wife for English nobility master flying the notoriously difficult but she's already promised to a Welsh princemajestic Sopwith Camel. Who will Nest actually marry and, more importantly, will Nest have any say in it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907605819</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John G SmithChristophe Medler|title=EugeneMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=4.5

|summary=Eugene is Set against the youngest backdrop of 13 childrenthe English Civil War, born into a family for whom secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the future seems assured due to their parents' butchery business in summer of 1642. As a smallloyal servant of the King, close East Midlands community. But they can't see what lies ahead: war in the world and between Head of the siblings. For EugeneSecret Service, from his birth in it is Robert's duty to uncover the 1920s through details of the war in Burma plan and trying follow the clues to settle down afterwards, uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the impact will last a lifetimeKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B01LW2XPQP</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Irina Ratushinskaya1471187179|title=The OdessansA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=4.5

|summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The Petrovsbook is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, Geibers produce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and Teselenkos may their home. Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to do at all live and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends in she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Ukrainian town of OdessaCommunist Party.}}{{Frontpage|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Kokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Well, but 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. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the dawn of middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the 20th century: changes are afoot that will test their friendship 20,000s, letters used as well as their existencenarrative form, and so on. Be they Russian establishment, Russian Jews or Polish, each family will see tragedy alongside It intrigued with the birth pangs subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of a future Soviet stateit mentioned, not to mention too. But you've seen the struggle for survival star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that will be more successful for some of if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them than for others. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473637260</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Clover MoonChristina Hammonds Reed|authortitle=Jacqueline WilsonThe Black Kids

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Clover Moon lives in Cripps AlleyChristina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a slum street in Victorian England. Her father works at reaction to the factory and the heavy work has taken absolution of four police officers for beating a toll on his healthblack man, Rodney King, nearly to death. He likes to drink an ale or two after workTold from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, spending money the family can barely afford. Clover's mother died giving birth to novel follows her younger sister, Megs, evolution from a wispysilent bystander when confronted with matters of race, 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 finding her voice and it's Clover, rather than Mildred, who takes care of themembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532731</amazonuk>1471188191