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{{newreview|author= Stephan Collishaw|title= The Song of the Stork|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Stephan Collishaw has achieved a rare feat – a novel set amidst the horrors of Nazi tyranny that does not shy away from human suffering, but does not drown in it either. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079190 </amazonuk!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan KennedyTananarive Due|title=A Time to Tell Lies|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical) |summary= Psychologist Alan Kennedy's fifth novel continues the story he began with [[Lucy by Alan Kennedy]]. In the autumn of 1942, Captain Alex Vere and Justine Perry are among the men and women picked up and taken to a stately home in Scotland, where they are trained in spy skills. After this first encounter, Alex is smitten yet uncertain if he will ever see Justine again. The spy's life is dangerous and unpredictable, after all. Six weeks later, though, they meet up again in southwest France, where they have been sent to collect Simone, a Special Operations Executive agent. It's Alex's first mission (Justine's fourth) and all goes horribly awry. Alex ends up in custody at the Gendarmerie, facing a German who knows he has a false passport.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993202322</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alex Nye|title=For My SinsReformatory

|summary=1586: Mary StuartGracetown, Queen of ScotsFlorida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, has time twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to look back over her past life six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as she sitsthe Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, incarcerated haunted by her second cousin Queen Elizabeth Ithe boys that have died there. MaryIn order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's life hasn't been one of totally pampered royaltyghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4. Growing up 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in FranceBoston, away from her motherhaving been sent to live with a family who run an inn, widowed and then returning being made to Scotland work there from a young age. When she hears there is to claim be a hanging of some pirates in the throne before town, she was even 19decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, her struggle with fate started earlyHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. The tensions between Mary the womanShe hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, Mary the Catholic and Mary the political force continue through three marriagesthen to escape them completely she runs away to sea, an unsolved murder dressing as a boy and joining the thwarted desire to serve her peoplenotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Now it's come to this prison cell but while She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there's lifeis a mutiny on board, and from there's still hope…we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905916787</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Grace MacallisterSarah Marsh|title= The Magician's LieA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= The Amazing Arden is the most famous female illusionist After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her dayhearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, renowned for everything about her notorious trick life changes. Living in a time when the use of sawing sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a man in half on stage. But one night school where she swaps her trademark saw for an axe. When Arden's husband is found dead later that nighttaught to lip read, the answer seems clear, most of all to young policeman Virgil Holtbut physically restrained from signing. Captured and taken into custody From here, all seems set for Arden's swift confession. But she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a different story to tellsystem called Visible Speech. Even handcuffed and alone At the same time, Arden Bell is far from powerlessworking on other inventions and ideas, and what she reveals is as unbelievable as it is spellbindingEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1787199967</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen DunmoreClaire North|title=Birdcage WalkHouse of Odysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married well. John Diner Tredevant is a property developer who has reached ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the zenith of his lifeexcellent ''Ithaca''s work: building picks up a terrace of prestigious houses overlooking the Avon Gorgefew months after where we left off. In a time of turbulence as France reaches the dawn palace of revolutionOdysseus, Britainwith delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, including Diner, fears it may spreadwho sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. This puts Lizzie in a difficult position since her mother and step-father both believe in propagating pamphlets and ideas of egalitarianism As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for and to all, including women. In other words, they think nothing of spreading ideas the throne of the sort that fanned Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the French flames. However, chaotic storm thatClytemnestra brought to Ithaca's not Lizzie's only problem… there shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a darkness in her husband's past fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of which she's unawareMycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091959403</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beth UnderdownB0C7J9D21B|title=The Witchfinder's SisterA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=England 1645: Matthew Hopkins When we first meet our hero, his name is good Ettore and he lives at his chosen career: seeking, testing and convicting those with the Devil in themThe House of Beautiful Swallows. His sisterIdyllic as this might sound, Alice, doesnit't realise the full connotations of his actions until, widowed s a bordello and pregnant, she returns homeEttore's mother died when he was born. Alice is grateful to be allowed to live under MatthewHe's roof not been short of mothers, though - but then watches for someone of his sinister finger background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of suspicion point in unexpected placesanchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. This is Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a man changed from the boy that Alice used to knowguide for visitors. She never then realised that he'd be capable of killing hundreds of people and making her the Witchfinder's SisterHe was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241978033</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma HendersonEssie Fox|title= The Valentine HouseFascination|rating= 4|genre= Literary Historical Fiction|summary= In June 1914, Sir Anthony Valentine, The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a keen mountaineersetting for historical fiction (matched only, arrives with his family to spend the summer in their chaletperhaps, high in by the French AlpsSecond World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. There, for the first time, fourteen-year-old foundling Mathilde starts work as one of the 'uglies' - village girls employed as servants and picked, it is believed, to ensure they don't catch Sir Anthony's roving eye. For Mathilde it is the start of such a life-long entanglement with les anglais - strange, exciting people, far removed from the hard grind glut of farming. Except she soon finds media set in the Valentines are less carefree than they appear, with a curiously absent daughter no one talks about. It will be decades - disrupted by war, accidents and a cruel betrayal - before Mathilde discovers the key to the mystery. And in 1976, era that the year Sir Anthonyhallmarks we's great-great grandson comes ve come to visit, she must decide whether to use associate with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444704028</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Polly Clark|title= Larchfield|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary=I It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves are familiar to Helensburgh on the west coast point of Scotland and her hopes are first challenged. Newly married, pregnant, she's excited by the prospect of a life that combines family and creativity. She thinks she knows what being a personcliched, a wife, a mother, meanshackneyed even. She All this is soon shown simply to illustrate that she is wrong. As the battle begins for her very sense of self, Dora comes to find the realities of small town life suffocating, and, eventually, terrifying; until she finds a way it would be an easy thing to escape reality altogetherdo poorly. Another poetBut despite that, she discovers, lived in Helensburgh once. Wystan H. Auden, brilliant something about it still grabs me – and awkward at 24, with his first something about this book of poetry published, should be embarking on success and society in London. Instead, in 1930, fleeing a broken engagement, he takes a teaching post at Larchfield School for boys where he is mocked for his Englishness and suspected - rightly - of homosexuality. Yet in this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in love for the first time, even 's description did as he fights his deepest fearswell.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786481928</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dinah JefferiesNicole Jarvis|title=Before the RainsA Portrait in Shadow

|summary=Eliza has tragically punctuated childhood memories ''I want all of India that have feed her desire Florence to return. Therefore know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in 1930, following the death of which her husband, when the British government commission art can find a home and where her to photograph scenes of Indian life, she jumps at the chancefuture can thrive rather than stagnate. What But as some as she doesn't realise is that not everyone enters Florentine society she comes across is delighted with the idea. Living within faces great opposition from the Sultana's opulent palace complex is definitely an attraction for her, as is Jaypowerful Accademia, an Indian price who shows Eliza the real India. However, attractions are sometimes dangerous and even deadly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241287081</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Otto de Kat and Laura Watkinson (translator)|title=The Longest Night|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Emma has a philosophy – ''let self-proclaimed guardians of the dead rest, and love the living''. The problem with that, as a 96-year-old, is healing magics 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 paintings have the major events of her life. Starting in wartime Berlin with one husband, who gets snatched from her at work, fleeing power to another place to wait for peace, protect the city and wait for him in vain, moving to Holland and finding new love, and so on – this wispy journey will show all the impacts of war, its citizens from rationing right up to exile, death plagues and survivalcurses. The memories are coming strongly here all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and now, as Emma is waiting architecture for at least one of her two sons to visit, centuries and then she will die…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056085</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Adrian Goldsworthy|title= Vindolanda|rating= 3guard it above all else.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= AD 98: in the northern fields of Britannia lies VindolandaTo them, a Roman auxiliary base situated on the edge of the Roman world. Far from the prosperity Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and decadence of Rome, the wild and untamed lands around Vindolanda are ripe with rebel tribes and druids set against the destruction of Rome and its armies. In the midst of this destruction is Flavius Ferox; a Briton and Roman Centurion who change – has been given the task of keeping the peace in this desolate edge of the world. But life in Roman Britain is full of danger and betrayal at every turn, no place amongst them and Ferox knows it will take more than courage to overcome what lies aheadtheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784974684</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeroen Blokhuis and Asja Novak (translator)Thomas D Lee|title=The Yellow HousePerilous Times

|genre=Literary FictionFantasy|summary=If you were ''Hate is the needy kind, would you really join path of least resistance'' Set in the drummingnear-out of town of two people accused of murder purely because of their nationality? Would you get distant future, in a feeling world on the verge of belonging just because you were there when someone carried a dead dog down off a mountain? The main character climate collapse, Britain is in this novel doesgreat peril. But he has something that will really get him noted, well-thought-of, included. He has come The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the south of France to set up an artists' collective, where he can live and work alongside his counterparts, who can inspire each other day and best each other to create wonderful artrescue what little remains. In fact a muchWhat no-respected guest is on his way now, so surely he can find kinship? The guest's name is, after all, Gauguinone expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call. The main character is, of course, Vincent van Gogh…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907320563</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)G K Holloway|title=Retribution RoadIn the Shadows of Castles

|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard man, he was something else: a dangerous man.'' If, indeed, there was someone who was ideal for a suicide mission, it was him. Working as a soldier for We begin after the East India Company momentous battle in 1066 and on the rural, remote, outlaw hotbeds day of William of Asia in the 1850s, heNormandy's tasked with taking a boat coronation as King of unknown prospects up England. William's position is not secure and the Irrawaddy new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. And William is right to try and combat local warlord Pagan Minworry. It doesn't go well – to start withWhile the previous king, Harold, he's supposed to run is dead and the rule likelihood of more pitched battles is over ruffians saved from the gallows, but can't command them until he's forced his way to having the knowledge rebels are stirring and much of the mission he needs first, only for all hell country does not wish to break looserecognise a new overlord. But get back he does, only to find that while his nightmares about what really happened are met with equally dark goings-on, the official record suggests the mission never actually existed…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857053744</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Theodore Brun3949666079|title=A Mighty Dawn (The Wanderer Chronicles)Noema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating=34.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= A ''This is a story like this needs about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is a strong central character; it needs young girl living in a warrior who has convictionhunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, heart and honourfood is becoming more and more scarce. Hakan has all these What to do? Can the law givers in abundance, but he didn't get them easily. In this coming the federation of age talevillages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, he goes on a quest to find himself after experiencing spiritual figure who interprets the most tremendous wisdom of betrayals. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782399941</amazonuk>All Life, provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S J Hardman Lea1529125898|title=The Sins of SoldiersGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=Anson Scott wants to join ''If it were not for the British army and World War I for a different reason than most casual dereliction of his fellow Americansthe odd gentleman's duty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all. He's a journalist wanting ' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the uncensored inside story position of governess to send back home; twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was a deadly enterprise as, if case of necessity. Until the Germans don't get himdeath of her mother, Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the Brits may deem him a spyhousehold. Unperturbed he carries his plan through When her mother died, her father cast her off and finds himself on the French front in 1916would have nothing more to do with her. He has No explanation was offered but she would receive an ally in British officer David Alexander, which is just as well since not all his enemies are across no man's landannuity of £35 a year. The two men have a lot Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in common, more than they know and perhaps more than is good for them as the Somme approachesby some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785890182</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GilmanMelissa Fu |title=ViperPeach 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 Blood case eventually to America. |isbn=1472277538}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1916072038|title=The House in the Hollow (Master of WarThe Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell|rating=4.5

|summary=Bowman and commander Thomas Blackstone is one We meet part of Edward III's greatest weapons, bringing him potentially head to head against the Dauphin once againTalbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. HoweverTwenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, faced with an elongated stale mate, Thomas' role becomes that of scavenger leader as to the chances of victory make way for a greater chance of starvation amongst house in the armieshollow. There The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a light at the end facade of respectability, the tunnel thoughdeplorable truth''. Blackstone  Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to go on a trip: an escort mission to Italydo as she was asked, delivering the French Kingwhich has precipitated ''s daughter Isabelle to Milan this violent and her weddingunexpected removal''. Having said that, the light at the end  Then we are told of the tunnel may be an oncoming lance. Isabelle's prospective groom is one birth of the brothers who killed Thomas' wife a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and daughterisolation in Yorkshire. Death is definitely on the cards… but whose?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784974463</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rory ClementsAnnabel Abbs|title=CorpusThe Language of Food

|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=A suicidal overdose and Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the murder of upper class Cecil Langley and his wife are two events that may be unconnectedslightest inclination to boil an egg. However this is England in 1936When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a magnet for opposing forces local woman with a troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine and their first moves in preparation for reshape the coming conflictworld of domestic cookery, assisted or prevented by a royal crisis (depending on which side you're on). Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into reinventing the recipe book and changing the middle face of this accidentally to begin with but his curiosity has been piqued enough to ensure he's not walking awaycookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762613</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|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 RaybournFreya Marske|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 CostMarvellous Light

|summary=The year Robin Blyth is 1794 and we meet our young protagonistnudged into a job in the Civil Service, Maria, in desperate circumstancesmuch to his chagrin. Alone There he meets Edwin Courcey and terrified, she has concluded learns that her only option is to take her own life by throwing herself into the surging river watersstreets of London are threaded with magic. Months previouslyDesperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, she was cruelly violated by Robin follows Edwin to the master of countryside, where the house where she worked hedgegrows bristle with incantations and now, in the advanced stages of her pregnancy, the future seems bleakpeople shimmer with power. Luckily, There they uncover a pair sinister plot that threatens the lives of gypsy women find Maria and take her all magicians in. Following a traumatic labour, Maria becomes desperately ill and when she recovers, her baby is gone. Alone again, Maria is free to start a new life. With a clever disguise, she becomes the dowdy 'Miss Dinchope' and takes a position as a housekeeper for the village rectorBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785899139</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven BurgauerB09F4CTKJR|title=The Night of The Eleventh SunFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=The word 'NeanderthalIt' s the later stages of World War I and the United States has become equated with people deemed to have just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a backward attitude young American who has signed up and outlookjoined the 17 Aero Squadron. But what do we know of This company was the original Neanderthals from over 200first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada,000 years ago? Here American author [[:Category:Steven Burgauer|Steven Burgauer]] melds the knowledge of anthropologists, archaeologists first to be attached to the RAF and historians with the story of Strong Arms, his family and their struggle first to be sent into the skies to survive fight the Germans in a very effectiveactive combat. But before that can happen, and informative wayPetrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419671545</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meelis Friedenthal and Matthew Hyde (translator)Christophe Medler|title=The Willow KingMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=34

|summary=Meet Laurentius. He's Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a scholar newly arrived in Estonia secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the seventeenth century, aiming to study moresummer of 1642. But things aren't going well for him – As a long-standing illness seems to be returningloyal servant of the King, and Head of the weather and roads are awfulSecret Service, heit is Robert's late – duty to uncover the details of the plan and his only friend, a parakeet, won't even survive follow the first two days ashore. He's entering a weird world, what's more – clues to uncover one imbued with evil smells, peopled by strange characters with stranger ideasof the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King. Can his modern ideas, and thinking about the soul, bear him through his course?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271740</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Ross1471187179|title=The Mask of Command (Twilight of Empire)A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=54

|summary= Warning: spoilers ahead for previous books Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in the seriesa leafy provincial suburb. 305AD: Castus Aurelius, following The book is set in the death of his predecessor, has been promoted 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to commander (or vir perfecctissiums) of the Roman forces at the Rhine. Heher mother's also been ordered expectations and find a nice young man to take Crispusmarry, Constantine's son produce children and heir, for spend the character-building experiencerest of her days looking after her husband and their home. That complicates matters as when Castus Unfortunately, this isn't trying what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to keep Crispus alivecontinue working as a secretary. As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, he's finding it difficult working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to increase his own chance infiltrate the Communist Party of survival, especially considering how Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the last Rhine commander met his endCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784975257</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sophia TobinAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title= The VanishingKokoschka's Doll|rating=32.5|genre= Historical Literary Fiction|summary=1814Well, 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. In I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle of the Yorkshire Moors in an isolated spot lies White Windowson darker stock paper, a house shadowed chapter whose number was in mystery the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and intrigueso on. Living in this desolate household is Marcus Twentyman, It intrigued with the subterranean voice a hard drinking and complicated man and his sisterhears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, the hardened widow Hestertoo. Brought to White Windows is Annaleigh, a young runaway from London who has come to Yorkshire to be But you've seen the new housekeeper to the Twentyman's star rating that comes with the hope of leaving her painful past behind her. At firstthis review, Annaleigh believes she may have found sanctuary but soon realises she has become entangled in a web of conspiracy and dangercan tell that if love was on these pages, leaving her trapped and more alone than everit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471151603</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary GibsonChristina Hammonds Reed|title=Bourbon Creams and Tattered Dreams (The Factory Girls)|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)Black Kids

|genre=Crime (Historical)Teens |summary=A lot of crime happens in St Andrews during 1588 and therefore in Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the life backdrop of law lecturer and local investigator Hew Cullen too. As we travel through the year with him, his recently wedded English wife Frances, doctor brother in law Giles and his sister Meg1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to the wise woman, we also encounter some absolution of his most interesting cases. In fact there's one to match each of the year's big festivals: Candlemas, Whitsunfour police officers for beating a black man, LammasRodney King, Martinmas and Yule.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973635</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lesley Lokko|title=The Last Debutante|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|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 nearly to have supper in the nursery whilst everyone else is dining downstairs with the guestsdeath. Even her elder sister, Lily, who's sixteen is dining with these unnamed 'guests'. Kit has tapped all her usual sources to find out who Told from the visitors areperspective of Ashley Bennett, but to no avail. All she's managed to work out (well, let's be honest 'find out by eavesdropping' is closer to the truth) is that the visitors are German. Kit's parents, Lord and Lady Wharton, are short of money and it's important that at least one of their daughters makes novel follows her evolution from a good marriage. Six months later Lily is married to one silent bystander when confronted with matters of the Germanrace, living in some style in Germany. Within to a couple of years she's mixing with some dubious company, including Unity Mitford. It was even rumoured that she'd met Hitlerwoman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140914254X</amazonuk>1471188191