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{{newreview|author= Matthew Harffy|title= The Serpent Sword|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= It's AD 633 and Albion is a divided island made up of petty warlords who want to be treated like honourable royalty but act like gangsters. Romans are a memory that have entered into myth and the souls of Albion are torn between the old Gods and the new Christ. It is in this world that we follow the adventures of Beobrand as he undertakes the classic hero’s journey. Beobrand moves from wide <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--eyed teenager to hardened and honourable warrior through a brutal rite of passage as he hunts the killer of his brother and seeks to become a true warrior.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786692406</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonia SeniorTananarive Due|title=The Tyrant's ShadowReformatory|rating=45

|summary=Warning: spoilers ahead Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for ''TreasonBoys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's Daughter''a place with a brutal and dark reputation.Patience lives with her widowed brotherBut the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, William, helping haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to care for survive the school governor and his son Richard (nicknamed Blackberry). Despite Funhouse, Robert must enlist the Civil war ending, help of the times are still uncertainschool's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4. Cromwell 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is increasingly annoyed living in Boston, having been sent to live with a parliament of rebels refusing family who run an inn, and being made to go to the electorate for ratificationwork there from a young age. William sees this problem at close quarters once he's effectively forced When she hears there is to become Cromwell's legal advisor be a hanging of some pirates in an atmosphere poisoned by espionage the town, she decides to go and religious factionswatch. However when Patience comes across Shadrick SimpsonEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a charismatic preacher, all becomes clearer for her young boy's death at leastthe hands of two vicious pirates. Meanwhile Sam ChallonerShe hides away, Williamso that they don's brother in lawt find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, comes home after privateering with Prince Rupert dressing as a boy and realises that joining the fight at sea is better than peace at homenotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. At least She soon finds herself in the thick of things when you're privateering you know who your enemy there isa mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782396616</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David BarbareeSarah Marsh|title= DeposedA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= A.D 68. A deposed emperor lies in After a bout of scarlet fever as a prison cellchild, betrayed and newly blinded by those who were sworn to protect himEllen Lark loses her hearing. He is now crippled and deprived Suddenly plunged into a world of powersilence, left completely on everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the edge use of despair with a frightened young slave named Marcus sign language was seen as his something only companion. Ten years later and it savages do, Ellen is Emperor Vespasian who wears the purple. Things may have settled since the civil war but Vespasian's son Titus sent to a school where she is plagued by worry about plots taught to murder his fatherlip read, but physically restrained from signing. Gruesome atrocities From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and mysterious disappearances are rife throughout Rome; it is using a city full of falsehoods and intrigues with the fear of rebellion lurking beneath system called Visible Speech. At the surface. Furthermoresame time, a man who used to be emperor still lives – a blind man who everyone believes to be dead. His name Bell is Nero working on other inventions and ideas, and he seeks revenge against those who wronged himEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762672</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Diney CosteloeClaire North|title= The Married GirlsHouse of Odysseus|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Wynsdown, 1949''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the small Somerset village palace of WynsdownOdysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, Charlotte Shepherd is happily married who sailed to farmer Billy. She arrived from Germany on the Kindertransport as a child during the war at Troy and now feels settled in her adopted then by divine intervention never returned home. Meanwhile, As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the squire's fighter pilot son, Felix, has returned to throne of the village with a fiancée in tow. Daphne is beautiful, charming..Western Isles. Having survived – politically and harbouring secrets. After meeting during physical – the war, Felix knows some of Daphnechaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's pastshores, but she has worked hard to conceal that which could unravel her carefully built life. For Charlotte, too, a dangerous past Queen Penelope is coming back in on the shape brink of fellow refugee, bad boy Harry Blacka fragile peace. Forever bound by their childhoodsOne that shatters however with the return of Orestes, Charlotte will always care for himKing of Mycenae, but Harry's return disrupts the village quiet and it's not long before gossip spreads. The war may have endedhis sister Elektra, but for these girls, trouble is only just beginning..seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784976121</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip KerrB0C7J9D21B|title= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939, he was stationed in Berlin as a police officer handling murder cases and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking Nazis. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he was a known member of the Social Democratic Party), he understood that the best thing he could do for himself at that time was to make himself indispensable to men like Reinhard Heydrich and Martin Bormann. So when he is assigned to solve a murder that has occurred at Hitler's Berghof A Captive in the Bavarian mountains, he knows that he needs to do it quickly and discreetly – not just for justice's sake, but for his own. He is given exactly one week to apprehend the suspect, and he hopes that with the help of his friend Friedrich Korsch, an investigator with the Krimialpolizei Algiers (or Kripo, for shortMuhammed Amalfi Mysteries) he just might get lucky. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296481</amazonuk>}}{{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>}}{{newreview|author=Alan Kennedy|title=A Time to Tell LiesJ Lewis|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 Sins|rating=5

|summary=1586: Mary StuartWhen we first meet our hero, Queen his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Scots, has time to look back over her past life Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as she sitsthis might sound, incarcerated by her second cousin Queen Elizabeth Iit's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. MaryHe's life hasn't not been one short of totally pampered royalty. Growing up mothers, though - but for someone of his background in Francelate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, away from her mother, widowed and then returning it's difficult to Scotland to claim obtain decent employment. The stint working with the throne before she was even 19, her struggle with fate started earlypreparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. The tensions between Mary the woman, Mary the Catholic Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and Mary the political force continue through three marriages, an unsolved murder determined - and the thwarted desire to serve her peopleit was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. Now it's come to this prison cell but while there's life, there's still hope…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905916787</amazonuk>He was even saving some money.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Grace MacallisterEssie Fox|title= The Magician's LieFascination

|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married well. John Diner Tredevant The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a property developer who setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has reached the zenith of his lifeoften led to more than a few writers mishandling it. There's work: building such a terrace glut of prestigious houses overlooking media set in the era that the Avon Gorge. In a time of turbulence as France reaches hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to the dawn point of revolutionbeing cliched, Britain, including Diner, fears hackneyed even. All this is simply to illustrate that it may spread. This puts Lizzie in a difficult position since her mother and step-father both believe in propagating pamphlets and ideas of egalitarianism for and would be an easy thing to all, including womendo poorly. In other words, they think nothing of spreading ideas of the sort But despite that fanned the French flames. However, thatsomething about it still grabs me – and something about this book's not Lizzie's only problem… there is a darkness in her husband's past of which she's unawaredescription did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091959403</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Beth UnderdownNicole Jarvis|title=The Witchfinder's SisterA Portrait in Shadow

|summary=England 1645: Matthew Hopkins is good at his chosen career: seeking, testing and convicting those with the Devil in them. His sister, Alice, doesn't realise the full connotations 'I want all of his actions until, widowed and pregnant, she returns home. Alice is grateful Florence to be allowed to live under Matthewknow my name''s roof but then watches his sinister finger of suspicion point  Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in unexpected placeswhich her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. This is a man changed But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the boy powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that Alice used through paintings have the power to knowprotect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. She never then realised that he'd be capable of killing hundreds of people To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and making her the Witchfinder's Sistertheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241978033</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma HendersonThomas D Lee|title= The Valentine HousePerilous Times|rating= 43|genre= Literary FictionFantasy|summary= In June 1914, Sir Anthony Valentine, a keen mountaineer, arrives with his family to spend ''Hate is the summer path of least resistance'' Set in their chaletthe near-distant future, high in a world on the French Alps. There, for the first time, fourteen-year-old foundling Mathilde starts work as one verge of the 'uglies' - village girls employed as servants and pickedclimate collapse, it Britain is believed, to ensure they don't catch Sir Anthony's roving eyein great peril. For Mathilde it is the start of The British Isles desperately needs a life-long entanglement with les anglais - strange, exciting people, far removed from hero (or several) to save the hard grind of farmingday and rescue what little remains. Except she soon finds the Valentines are less carefree than they appear, with a curiously absent daughter What no -one expected was that one talks about. It will be decades - disrupted by war, accidents and a cruel betrayal - before Mathilde discovers of the key to Knights of the mystery. And in 1976, Round Table would answer the year Sir Anthony's great-great grandson comes to visit, she must decide whether to use itcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444704028</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Polly ClarkG K Holloway|title= LarchfieldIn the Shadows of Castles|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Historical Fiction |summary=I ItWe begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the west coast coronation as King of Scotland and her hopes are first challengedEngland. Newly married, pregnant, sheWilliam's excited by position is not secure and the prospect of a life that combines family and creativitynew king has many challenges. She thinks she knows what being Imposing authority through a person, a wife, a mother, meanscoronation is important. She And William is soon shown that she is wrongright to worry. As the battle begins for her very sense of self, Dora comes to find While the realities of small town life suffocatingprevious king, andHarold, eventually, terrifying; until she finds a way to escape reality altogether. Another poet, she discovers, lived in Helensburgh once. Wystan H. Auden, brilliant is dead and awkward at 24, with his first book the likelihood of poetry publishedmore pitched battles is over, should be embarking on success the rebels are stirring 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 - much of homosexuality. Yet in this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in love for the first time, even as he fights his deepest fearscountry does not wish to recognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786481928</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dinah Jefferies3949666079|title=Before the RainsNoema|author=Dael Akkerman

|summary=Eliza has tragically punctuated childhood memories ''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of India that have feed her desire governess to returntwelve-year-old Fanny Austen. Therefore in 1930, following She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessity. Until the death of her husbandmother, when the British government commission Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her to photograph scenes of Indian life, she jumps at father was frequently absent from the chancehousehold. What she doesn't realise is that not everyone she comes across is delighted When her mother died, her father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with the ideaher. Living within the Sultana's opulent palace complex is definitely No explanation was offered but she would receive an attraction for her, as is Jay, an Indian price who shows Eliza the real Indiaannuity of £35 a year. HoweverHer maid, Agnes, attractions are sometimes dangerous and even deadlywould receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241287081</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Otto de Kat and Laura Watkinson (translator)Melissa Fu |title=The Longest NightPeach Blossom Spring

|genre=Literary Historical Fiction|summary=Emma has I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a philosophy – short chapter entitled ''let the dead rest, and love the livingOrigins''. The problem 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 thatJapan, as a 96young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old, is that there son (Renshu) are too few living left, and so while the love remains she will go through her memories, taking a woozy, diaphanous path through all the major events of her lifeamong those who flee. Starting in wartime Berlin with one husband, who gets snatched from her at work, fleeing to another place to wait for peaceThe story follows them on their journey across China, and wait for him in vain, moving Renshu's case eventually to Holland and finding new love, and so on – this wispy journey will show all the impacts of war, from rationing right up to exile, death and survivalAmerica. 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857056085</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Adrian Goldsworthy|title= Vindolanda|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= AD 98: in the northern fields of Britannia lies Vindolanda, 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 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 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, 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)1916072038|title=The Yellow House|rating=3|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=If you were 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 there when someone carried a dead dog down off a mountain? Hollow (The main character in this novel does. But he has something that will really get him noted, well-thought-of, included. He has come to the south of France to set up an artists' collective, where he can live and work alongside his counterparts, 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 guest's name is, after all, Gauguin. The main character is, of course, Vincent van Gogh…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907320563</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTalbot Saga)|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|title=Retribution RoadAllie Cresswell

|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard man, he was something else: a dangerous manWe meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811.'' IfTwenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, indeed, there was someone who was ideal for a suicide mission, it was him. Working as a soldier for to the East India Company house in the rural, remote, outlaw hotbeds hollow. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of Asia in the 1850s, heher mother's tasked with taking strengths and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a boat facade of unknown prospects up respectability, the Irrawaddy to try and combat local warlord Pagan Mindeplorable truth''. It doesn Hester is furious about Jocelyn't go well – s refusal to start withdo as she was asked, hewhich has precipitated ''s supposed to run the rule over ruffians saved from the gallows, but canthis violent and unexpected removal't command them until he's forced his way to having . Then we are told of the knowledge birth of the mission he needs firsta child and, only for all hell to break loose. But get back he doessoon after, only to find that while his nightmares about what really happened are met with equally dark goings-onHester Talbot departs, the official record suggests the mission never actually existed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857053744</amazonuk>leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Theodore BrunAnnabel Abbs|title=A Mighty Dawn (The Wanderer Chronicles)|rating=3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= A story like this needs a strong central character; it needs a warrior who has conviction, heart and honour. Hakan has all these in abundance, but he didn't get them easily. In this coming of age tale, he goes on a quest to find himself after experiencing the most tremendous of betrayals. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782399941</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=S J Hardman Lea|title=The Sins Language of SoldiersFood

|summary=Anson Scott wants to join the British army and World War I for Eliza Acton is a different reason than most of his fellow Americans. He's a journalist wanting poet who has never had the uncensored inside story slightest inclination to send back home; boil an egg. When tasked with writing a deadly enterprise ascookery book, if the Germans don't get himshe recruits Ann Kirby, the Brits may deem him a spylocal woman with a troubled home life. Unperturbed he carries his plan through Together, they test, craft, refine and finds himself on reshape the French front in 1916. He has an ally in British officer David Alexanderworld of domestic cookery, which is just as well since not all his enemies are across no man's land. The two men have a lot in common, more than they know reinventing the recipe book and perhaps more than is good for them as changing the Somme approachesface of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785890182</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GilmanFreya Marske|title=Viper's Blood (Master of War)A Marvellous Light|rating=54

|summary=Bowman and commander Thomas Blackstone Robin Blyth is one of Edward III's greatest weaponsnudged into a job in the Civil Service, bringing him potentially head much to head against the Dauphin once againhis chagrin. However, faced with an elongated stale mate, Thomas' role becomes There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that of scavenger leader as the chances streets of victory make way for a greater chance of starvation amongst the armiesLondon are threaded with magic. There is Desperate to remove a light at the end of the tunnel though. Blackstone is curse that threatens to go on a trip: an escort mission swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to Italythe countryside, delivering where the French King's daughter Isabelle to Milan hedgegrows bristle with incantations and her weddingthe people shimmer with power. Having said There they uncover a sinister plot that, the light at threatens the end lives of all magicians in the tunnel may be an oncoming lanceBritish Isles. Isabelle's prospective groom is one of the brothers who killed Thomas' wife and daughter. Death is definitely on the cards… but whose?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784974463</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rory ClementsB09F4CTKJR|title=CorpusFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=A suicidal overdose and It's the murder later stages of upper class Cecil Langley World War I and his wife are two events that may be unconnectedthe United States has just entered the conflict. However this Petrol Petronus is England in 1936, a magnet for opposing forces young American who has signed up and their joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first moves US Aero Squadron to be trained in preparation for Canada, the first to be attached to the RAF and the coming conflict, assisted or prevented by a royal crisis (depending on which side you're on). Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall first to be sent into the middle of this accidentally skies to begin with but his curiosity fight the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has been piqued enough to ensure he's not walking awaymaster flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762613</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Beatrice ColinChristophe Medler|title= To Capture What We Cannot KeepMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=ParisSet against the backdrop of the English Civil War, February 1887a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642. As a loyal servant of the King, and work on Head of the foundations of EiffelSecret Service, it is Robert's daring tower is about duty to begin. Engineer Emile Nouguier, taking photographs uncover the details of the site from a tethered hot air balloon for tourists nearby, chances to meet a young widow from Glasgow named Caitriona Wallace, plan and his own foundations start follow the clues to shift. Over uncover one of the next two years as most guarded secrets in history—especially since the tower slowly rises in plot could affect the Champ de Mars, what began as an impossible dream becomes solid reality – Cait and Emile's love for each otherKing. 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760291722</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Deanna Raybourn1471187179|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>}}{{newreviewBeautiful Spy|author=Jemima Brigges|title=Counting the CostRachel Hore

|summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The year book is 1794 and we meet our young protagonist, Maria, set in desperate circumstances. Alone the 1930s and terrified, she has concluded that her only option Minnie is expected to live up to take her own life by throwing herself into the surging river waters. Months previouslymother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, she was cruelly violated by the master of the house where she worked produce children and now, in spend the advanced stages rest of her pregnancy, the future seems bleak. Luckily, a pair of gypsy women find Maria days looking after her husband and take her intheir home. Following a traumatic labour Unfortunately, Maria becomes desperately ill this isn't what she wants to do at all and when neither does she recovers, her baby is gone. Alone again, Maria is free want to start continue working as a new lifesecretary. With As a result of a clever disguisechance meeting, she becomes finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the dowdy 'Miss Dinchope' secret service and takes effectively living a position double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as a housekeeper her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the village rectorCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785899139</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven BurgauerAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The Night Kokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=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 middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697}}{{Frontpage|author=Christina Hammonds Reed|title=The Eleventh SunBlack Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=The word Christina Hammonds Reed'Neanderthal' has become equated with people deemed to have a backward attitude and outlook. But what do we know s debut novel is set against the backdrop of the original Neanderthals from over 2001992 Los Angeles riots,000 years ago? Here American author [[:Category:Steven Burgauer|Steven Burgauer]] melds a reaction to the knowledge absolution of anthropologists, archaeologists and historians with the story of Strong Arms, his family and their struggle to survive in four police officers for beating a very effectiveblack man, and informative way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419671545</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Meelis Friedenthal and Matthew Hyde (translator)|title=The Willow Rodney King|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Meet Laurentius. He's a scholar newly arrived in Estonia in the seventeenth century, aiming nearly to study moredeath. But things aren't going well for him – a long-standing illness seems to be returning, Told from the weather and roads are awful, he's late – and his only friendperspective of Ashley Bennett, a parakeet, won't even survive the first two days ashore. He's entering novel follows her evolution from a weird world, what's more – one imbued silent bystander when confronted with evil smellsmatters of race, peopled by strange characters with stranger ideasto a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage. Can his modern ideas, and thinking about the soul, bear him through his course?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271740</amazonuk>1471188191