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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Otto de Kat and Laura Watkinson (translator)Tananarive Due|title=The Longest NightReformatory|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Historical Fiction|summary=Emma has a philosophy – ''let the dead restGracetown, and love the living''Florida. June 1950. The problem After a scuffle with thata white boy, as a 96-twelve year-old, Robbie Stephens Jr is that there are too few living left, and so while the love remains she will go through her memories, taking a woozy, diaphanous path through all sentenced to six months at the major events of her life. Starting in wartime Berlin with one husband, who gets snatched from her at work, fleeing to another place to wait Gracetown School for peaceBoys, and wait for him in vain, moving to Holland and finding new love, and so on – this wispy journey will show all otherwise known as the impacts of war, from rationing right up to exile, death and survivalReformatory. The memories are coming strongly here and now, as Emma is waiting for at least one of her two sons to visit, and then she will die…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056085</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Adrian Goldsworthy|title= Vindolanda|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= AD 98: in the northern fields of Britannia lies Vindolanda, It's a Roman auxiliary base situated on the edge of the Roman world. Far from the prosperity and decadence of Rome, the wild and untamed lands around Vindolanda are ripe 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 turnhorrors, 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 haunted by the needy kind, would you really join in 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 and commander Thomas Blackstone is one of Edward III's greatest weaponsWhen we first meet our hero, bringing him potentially head to head against the Dauphin once again. However, faced with an elongated stale mate, Thomas' role becomes that of scavenger leader as the chances of victory make way for a greater chance of starvation amongst the armies. There his name is a light Ettore and he lives at the end The House of the tunnel thoughBeautiful Swallows. Blackstone is to go on a trip: an escort mission to ItalyIdyllic as this might sound, delivering the French Kingit's daughter Isabelle to Milan a bordello and her wedding. Having said that, the light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming lanceEttore's mother died when he was born. IsabelleHe's prospective groom is one not been short of the brothers who killed Thomas' wife and daughter. Death is definitely on the cards… mothers, though - but whose?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784974463</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rory Clements|title=Corpus|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=A suicidal overdose and the murder for someone of upper class Cecil Langley and his wife are two events that may be unconnected. However this is England background in 1936, a magnet for opposing forces and their first moves in preparation for the coming conflictlate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, assisted or prevented by a royal crisis (depending on which side youit're on)s difficult to obtain decent employment. Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into The stint working with the middle preparation of this accidentally to begin with but his curiosity has been piqued enough to ensure heanchovies didn'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, t work out and work bastards are considered bad luck on the foundations of Eiffel's daring tower is about to beginfishing boats. Engineer Emile Nouguier, taking photographs of the site from Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a tethered hot air balloon guide for tourists nearby, chances to meet a young widow from Glasgow named Caitriona Wallace, and his own foundations start to shiftvisitors. 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 He was even saving some money. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Deanna RaybournEssie Fox|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 1938 to Yorkshire 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 danger, leaving her trapped and more alone than ever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471151603</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mary Gibson|title=Bourbon Creams and Tattered Dreams four-year-old son (The Factory GirlsRenshu)|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 herare among those who flee. As the 'Cockney Canary'The story follows them on their journey across China, 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: Mattyin Renshu'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 case eventually to be crossed, however, and vows to do whatever it takes to win Matty backAmerica. Can she ever be truly free? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784973335</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley McKay1916072038|title=1588: A Calendar of Crime The House in the Hollow (A Hew Cullan MysteryThe Talbot Saga)|author=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 job in the Civil Service, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the North Pole; streets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a trip curse that takes her back through her life. Flora remembers her childhood with her father on whaling ships in threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the seas around Greenlandcountryside, her marriage born of ambition and misaligned lust where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the result: people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the Arctic exploration team she led lives of all magicians in the late 19th century. This was a trip that had many knock-on effects including death and loveBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786481162</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Morgan McCarthyB09F4CTKJR|title= The House of BirdsFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Oliver has spent years trying to convince himself that heIt's suited to a life the later stages of money making in World War I and the city, and that he doesn't miss a childhood spent in pursuit of mystery, when he cycled around United States has just entered the cobbled lanes of Oxford, exploring its most intriguing cornersconflict. When his girlfriend Kate inherits Petrol Petronus is a derelict house - young American who has signed up and a fierce family feud - she's determined joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to strip it, sell it and move on. For Oliver thoughbe trained in Canada, the house has an allure, and amongst first to be attached to the shelves of a discarded, leather bound RAF and gilded volumes, he discovers one that conceals a hidden diary from the 1920s. So begins a quest first to discover be sent into the identity of skies to fight the author, Sophia LouisGermans in active combat. It is a portrait of war and marriageBut before that can happen, isolation and longing and a story that will shape Petrol has to master flying the future of the abandoned house - and of Oliver - forevernotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205847</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jacquelyn BensonChristophe Medler|title= The Smoke HunterMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Eleanora Mallory Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is an educated young woman living discovered by Sir Robert Douse in Victorian London but she is restricted by the strict social codes summer of the late nineteenth-century1642. She's As a historianloyal servant of the King, a suffragetteand Head of the Secret Service, and it is years ahead of her time much Robert's duty to uncover the chagrin details of her male work colleagues at the Public Records Office. After losing her job plan and finding a mysterious map abandoned on her former employer's desk, Ellie decides follow the clues to take a chance at an adventure. She packs her bags and sets off on a journey to Central America, where uncover one of the map shows most guarded secrets in history—especially since the way to a legendary historical city. It's plot could affect the expedition of a life time, but little does Ellie know that a team of fortune hunters are hot on her trailKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472238346</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Angus MacDonald1471187179|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 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 Guest|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 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>}}{{newreviewBeautiful Spy|author=Tracey Warr|title=Conquest: Daughter of the Last KingRachel Hore|rating=4.5

|summary=Princess Nest ferch Rhys Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the only legitimate child of Rhys ap Tewdr (there1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a surname nice young man to make hist-fict addicts smile!)marry, produce children and spend the last king rest of Deheubarth, Wales. Playing on the beach with her brother one day she's captured by Norman soldiersdays looking after her husband and their home. From there she's held hostage by the noble Montgomery familyUnfortunately, loyal to King William Rufus. The standard of captivity in which Nesta is kept this isn't badwhat she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. Lady Sybil is particularly kind to herAs a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, realising that Nest is still mourning working for the deaths of her father secret service and most of her siblings at effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the hands Communist Party of men from that same householdGreat Britain. There is an ulterior motive though. The object of Sybil's attentions is to make Nest a suitable wife Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for English nobility but she's already promised to a Welsh princethe Communist Party. Who will Nest actually marry and, more importantly, will Nest have any say in it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907605819</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John G SmithAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=EugeneKokoschka's Doll|rating=42.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Eugene Well, 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 youngest of 13 childrenmiddle on darker stock paper, born into a family for whom chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. It intrigued with the future seems assured due to their parents' butchery business subterranean voice a man hears in a smallwartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, close East Midlands communitytoo. But they canyou't see what lies ahead: war in ve seen the world and between the siblings. For Eugenestar rating that comes with this review, from his birth in the 1920s through the war in Burma and trying to settle down afterwardscan tell that if love was on these pages, the impact will last a lifetimeit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B01LW2XPQP</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Irina RatushinskayaChristina Hammonds Reed|title=The OdessansBlack Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=The Petrovs, Geibers and Teselenkos may all live as friends in Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the Ukrainian town backdrop of Odessathe 1992 Los Angeles riots, but this is a reaction to the dawn absolution of the 20th century: changes are afoot that will test their friendship as well as their existence. Be they Russian establishmentfour police officers for beating a black man, Russian Jews or PolishRodney King, each family will see tragedy alongside nearly to death. Told from the birth pangs perspective of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from a future Soviet statesilent bystander when confronted with matters of race, not to mention the struggle for survival that will be more successful for some of them than for othersa woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473637260</amazonuk>1471188191