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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenny AshcroftTananarive Due|title= Beneath a Burning SkyThe Reformatory|rating= 45|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Young bride Olivia Sheldon finds returning to her childhood home in Egypt Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a bitterwhite boy, twelve year-sweet experience. On old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the one handGracetown School for Boys, she has been reunited otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a place with her estranged sister Clara, and the pair have formed a deep brutal and loving bonddark reputation. On But the othersegregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, she has an unhappy marriage haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to her domineering husband Alistairsurvive the school governor and his Funhouse, who Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only married her to spite Clara, who had refused him previouslythey have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4. Life with the sadistic Alistair 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is unbearableliving in Boston, having been sent to live with Olivia subjected a family who run an inn, and being made to horrific abuse at his hands, dailywork there from a young age. As When she hears there is to be a lady with no means hanging of supporting herselfsome pirates in the town, Olivia seems trapped without any means of escapeshe decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, only finding solace Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the company hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her sister too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and friendsjoining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. But when her dear sister goes mysteriously missing She soon finds herself in the bustling streets thick of Alexandriathings when there is a mutiny on board, it is and from there we are caught up to Olivia to try and solve in her rip roaring tale of life on the mystery of her disappearance before it is too lateocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751565032</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Conn IgguldenSarah Marsh|title=Dunstan: One Man Will Change the Fate A Sign of EnglandHer Own|rating=43.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=The young Dunstan shows no sign After a bout of the sainthood he'll later attainscarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Son Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a Wessex thane and time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a monastery for educationschool where she is taught to lip read, this isn't a lad who responds to disciplinebut physically restrained from signing. However an enquiringFrom here, intelligent mind begins to emerge and then comes she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the big break. Lady Elflaed calls to put a proposal to him after hearing about what she considers to be a miracle deaf and the monks consider another in using a long line of excusessystem called Visible Speech. Yet Dunstan will outshine all his teachers as well as knowing seven kings At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and holding responsible positions in their courtsideas, as the book's title suggests. Whether we believe and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in the miracles or not, Dunstan certainly had quite a life!complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718181441</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon EdgeClaire North|title= The Hopkins ConundrumHouse of Odysseus|rating= 5|genre= General Literary Fiction |summary= Tim Cleverley inherits a failing pub in Wales, which he plans to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist to concoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard Manley Hopkins, who composed ''The Wreck of the DeutschlandWhat could matter more than love?'' nearby.

The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In Victorian Englandthe palace of Odysseus, Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life full with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of confusion the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and contradictionphysical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, but discovers Queen Penelope is on the brink of a calling for poetry fragile peace. One that threatens to overrule his calling to God. Andshatters however with the return of Orestes, speaking King of GodMycenae, and his sister Elektra, Five nuns leave persecution to travel to a new world – only to find themselves in more trouble that they could ever have imagined… seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785630334</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne O'BrienB0C7J9D21B|title=The Shadow QueenA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=Born in 1328When we first meet our hero, Joan his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Kent may be of royal blood but sheBeautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's from a family tainted by treacherybordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. Her father Edmund Woodstock, 1st Earl He's not been short of Kentmothers, was executed though - but for someone of his part background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the infamous Montague plotpreparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. However Joan has grown up under the protection of her cousin, King Edward III with all the advantages Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and attributes of it was not long before he had a successful business as a princessguide for visitors. YetHe was even saving some money.}}{{Frontpage|author=Essie Fox|title=The Fascination|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, much perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led to her mothermore than a few writers mishandling it. There's chagrin, obedience isnsuch a glut of media set in the era that the hallmarks we't one ve come to associate with it are familiar to the point of these attributesbeing cliched, hackneyed even. Joan's head strong feist takes her on a varied journey in lifeAll this is simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. Having said But despite that, three husbands, five marriages (technically) something about it still grabs me – and a son destined for the English throne means that itsomething about this book's also been one heck of a life!description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848455070</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia FalveyNicole Jarvis|title=The Girls of Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish SagaPortrait in Shadow

|summary=Ireland 1900: Ennismore House's young heiress Victoria had hoped that she and Rosie Killeen would be friends forever. Rosie soon comes 'I want all of Florence to know better as theremy name''s  Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a social chasm between those who live in home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the House and thosepowerful Accademia, like Rosie's family, who the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have been brought up merely the power to serve themprotect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The days of innocence are coming to an end in many waysall-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. SoonTo them, as the cry for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, there'll be more than steps on society's ladder between Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them as each must discover and their own way in a nation that will never be the same againsociety.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786490625</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elaine EverestThomas D Lee|title= The Butlins GirlsPerilous Times|rating= 43|genre= Historical FictionFantasy|summary=Fresh''Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in the near-faced Molly Missons has just arrived distant future, in Skegness to start her new job as a Butlins auntie. Behind world on the smiles and confident appearanceverge of climate collapse, she hides Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a secret; she has taken hero (or several) to save the job to escape escalating problems at homeday and rescue what little remains. She soon finds good friends in her chaletWhat no-mates Bunty and Plum, and it turns out one expected was that they each have their own reasons for wanting a fresh start. Meanwhile, Molly is shocked to discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at one of the Knights of the camp. Is he really as suave as his on-screen persona? And why is he working at Round Table would answer the camp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, Molly and her new friends face new threats and dangers that may threaten their new-found freedomcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447295536</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Geraint JonesG K Holloway|title= Blood ForestIn the Shadows of Castles|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Felix. The lucky one. He doesn't feel especially lucky when he staggers out into We begin after the grove momentous battle in 1066 and finds twelve on the day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of his comrades butchered England. William's position is not secure and mutilated in the worst possible waysnew king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. And William is right to worry. He felt even less lucky when While the soldiers arrivedprevious king, Roman cavalry. He might have runHarold, is dead and the likelihood of more pitched battles is over, but he knew he'd never make it. He stepped out the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to face whatever came nextrecognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718184815</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dominic Smith3949666079|title= The Last Painting of Sara de VosNoema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= If you find the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinating, ''The Last Painting of Sara de VosThis is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago.'' provides  Maya is a masterclass young girl living in how to work up a canvas in stages. Framing the novel as the story of a seventeenth century Dutch painting, Dominic Smith vividly sketches out hunter gatherer village during the main contours of his characters and the three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of the way throughMesolithic era. Sara Climate change is one of occurring, the few women artists Sea of the period Grass encroaches further and her painting is of children skating on a frozen canal, her now dead daughter its central figure. The painting has been in Marty de Grootfurther into Maya's family since before Isaac Newton was born forest home, and he food is the patent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattanbecoming more and more scarce. Ellie Shipley forged a copy of What to do? Can the painting law givers in her postgraduate student years and in 2000 finds herself at the centre federation of a gathering storm which threatens villages muster peaceful ways to destroy her reputation as one of Sydney's foremost fine art academics. Satisfying though those first descriptions arecope? Can the Traveller, we then understand these are merely a spiritual figure who interprets the author's equivalent wisdom of the delicate chalk lines used by painters of the Dutch Golden Age to mark out the composition which will follow. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>192526680X</amazonuk>All Life, provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caro Fraser1529125898|title= The Summer House PartyGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating= 4.5|genre= General Historical Fiction |summary= In ''If it were not for the gloriously hot summer casual dereliction of 1936the odd gentleman's duty, a group of people meet there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at a country house partyall. Within three '' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years, England will be old when she arrived at war, Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but for now, time stands stillthis was a case of necessity. Dan Ranscombe is clever and good-looking, but he resents Until the wealth and easy savoir-faire death of fellow guesther mother, Paul Latimer. Surely Anne had a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through that, wouldn't she? And what about Diana, Paul's beautiful sister, Charles Asher, comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the Jewish outsiderhousehold. When her mother died, Madeleine, restless her father cast her off and dissatisfied would have nothing more to do with her role as children's nanny? And artist Henry Haddon, their host, no longer young, . No explanation was offered but secure in his power as she would receive an annuity of £35 a practised seduceryear. As these guests gather Her maid, none has any inkling the choices they make will have fateful consequencesAgnes, lasting through the war and beyondwould receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours. Or that the first unforeseen event will be a shocking death… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786691485</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Matthew HarffyMelissa Fu |title= The Serpent SwordPeach Blossom Spring |rating= 43.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= It's AD 633 and Albion is a divided island made up of petty warlords who want I loved the prelude to be treated like honourable royalty but act like gangsters. Romans are Peach Blossom Spring, a memory that have entered into myth and the souls of Albion are torn between the old Gods and the new Christshort chapter entitled ''Origins''. It Unfortunately it is in this world that we follow the adventures only truly poetic part of Beobrand as he undertakes the classic hero’s journeya book that I expected more from. Beobrand moves Covering Chinese history from wide-eyed teenager 1938 to hardened and honourable warrior 2005 as viewed through one family's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japan, a brutal rite of passage as he hunts the killer of his brother 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 seeks in Renshu's case eventually to become a true warriorAmerica. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786692406</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonia Senior1916072038|title=The Tyrant's ShadowHouse in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell|rating=4.5

|summary=Warning: spoilers ahead for ''Treason's Daughter''.Patience lives with her widowed brother, William, helping to care for his son Richard (nicknamed Blackberry). Despite the Civil war ending, the times are still uncertain. Cromwell is increasingly annoyed with a parliament We meet part of rebels refusing to go to the electorate for ratificationTalbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. William sees this problem at close quarters once he's effectively forced to become Cromwell's legal advisor in an atmosphere poisoned by espionage Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and religious factions. However when Patience comes across Shadrick Simpson, a charismatic preacher, all becomes clearer for her at least. Meanwhile Sam Challoner, William's brother mother have travelled in law, comes some discomfort from their home after privateering with Prince Rupert and realises that the fight at sea is better than peace at home. At least when you're privateering you know who your enemy is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396616</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= David Barbaree|title= Deposed|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= A.D 68. A deposed emperor lies in a prison cellEcklington, betrayed and newly blinded by those who were sworn to protect him. He is now crippled and deprived of power, left completely on the edge of despair with a frightened young slave named Marcus as his only companion. Ten years later and it is Emperor Vespasian who wears house in the purplehollow. Things may have settled since the civil war but Vespasian's son Titus is plagued by worry about plots to murder his father. Gruesome atrocities and mysterious disappearances The two women are rife throughout Rome; it is a city full of falsehoods angry with each other and intrigues with the fear of rebellion lurking beneath the surface. Furthermore, a man who used to be emperor still lives – a blind man who everyone believes to be dead. His name Jocelyn is Nero and he seeks revenge against those who wronged him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762672</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Diney Costeloe|title= The Married Girls|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Wynsdown, 1949. In the small Somerset village well aware of Wynsdown, Charlotte Shepherd is happily married to farmer Billy. She arrived from Germany on the Kindertransport as a child during the war and now feels settled in her adopted home. Meanwhile, the squiremother's fighter pilot son, Felix, has returned to the village with a fiancée in tow. Daphne is beautiful, charming... strengths and harbouring secrets. After meeting during the war, Felix knows some of Daphneweaknesses: ''s pastShe is practiced at subterfuge, but she has worked hard to conceal that which could unravel her carefully built life. For Charlotte, tooat concealing, beneath a dangerous past is coming back in the shape facade of fellow refugeerespectability, bad boy Harry Black. Forever bound by their childhoods, Charlotte will always care for him, but Harrythe deplorable truth's return disrupts the village quiet and it's not long before gossip spreads. The war may have ended, but for these girls, trouble is only just beginning...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784976121</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Philip Kerr|title= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= Bernie Gunther Hester is not your typical hero. In 1939, he was stationed in Berlin furious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as a police officer handling murder cases and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking Nazis. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he she was a known member of the Social Democratic Party)asked, 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 which has occurred at Hitlerprecipitated ''s Berghof in the Bavarian mountains, he knows that he needs to do it quickly this violent and discreetly – not just for justiceunexpected removal''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 (or Kripo, for short) 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 Then we are told 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 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 birth 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 child and unpredictable, soon after all. Six weeks later, thoughHester Talbot departs, they meet up again leaving Jocelyn 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) shame and all goes horribly awry. Alex ends up isolation in custody at the Gendarmerie, facing a German who knows he has a false passportYorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993202322</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex NyeAnnabel Abbs|title=For My SinsThe Language of Food

|summary=1586: Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, Eliza Acton is a poet who has time never had the slightest inclination to look back over her past life as boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she sitsrecruits Ann Kirby, incarcerated by her second cousin Queen Elizabeth I. Mary's a local woman with a troubled home life hasn't been one of totally pampered royalty. Growing up in FranceTogether, they test, away from her mothercraft, widowed refine and then returning to Scotland to claim reshape the throne before she was even 19, her struggle with fate started early. The tensions between Mary the womanworld of domestic cookery, Mary reinventing the Catholic recipe book and Mary changing the political force continue through three marriages, an unsolved murder and the thwarted desire to serve her peopleface of cookery writing forever. Now it's come to this prison cell but while there's life, there's still hope…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905916787</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Grace MacallisterFreya Marske|title= The Magician's LieA Marvellous Light

|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married well. John Diner Tredevant Robin Blyth is nudged into a property developer who has reached job in the zenith of Civil Service, much to his life's work: building a terrace of prestigious houses overlooking the Avon Gorgechagrin. In a time of turbulence as France reaches There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the dawn streets of revolution, Britain, including Diner, fears it may spreadLondon are threaded with magic. This puts Lizzie in Desperate to remove a difficult position since her mother and step-father both believe in propagating pamphlets and ideas of egalitarianism for and curse that threatens to allswallow him, including women. In other wordsRobin follows Edwin to the countryside, they think nothing of spreading ideas of where the sort that fanned hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the French flamespeople shimmer with power. However, There they uncover a sinister plot that's not Lizzie's only problem… there is a darkness threatens the lives of all magicians in her husband's past of which she's unawarethe British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091959403</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beth UnderdownB09F4CTKJR|title=The Witchfinder's SisterFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=England 1645: Matthew Hopkins It's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is good at his chosen career: seeking, testing a young American who has signed up and convicting those with joined the Devil 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in them. His sisterCanada, Alice, doesn't realise the full connotations of his actions until, widowed first to be attached to the RAF and pregnant, she returns home. Alice is grateful the first to be allowed sent into the skies to live under Matthew's roof but then watches his sinister finger of suspicion point fight the Germans in unexpected placesactive combat. This is a man changed from the boy But before that Alice used can happen, Petrol has to know. She never then realised that he'd be capable of killing hundreds of people and making her master flying the Witchfinder's Sisternotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241978033</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma HendersonChristophe Medler|title= The Valentine HouseMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating= 4|genre= Literary Historical Fiction|summary= In June 1914Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Anthony Valentine, a keen mountaineer, arrives with his family to spend Robert Douse in the summer in their chalet, high in the French Alpsof 1642. There, for As a loyal servant of the first timeKing, fourteen-year-old foundling Mathilde starts work as one and Head of the 'uglies' - village girls employed as servants and pickedSecret Service, it is believed, to ensure they don't catch Sir AnthonyRobert's roving eye. For Mathilde it is duty to uncover the start details of a life-long entanglement with les anglais - strange, exciting people, far removed from the hard grind of farming. Except she soon finds 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 plan and a cruel betrayal - before Mathilde discovers follow the key clues to uncover one of the mystery. And most guarded secrets in 1976, history—especially since the plot could affect the year Sir Anthony's great-great grandson comes to visit, she must decide whether to use itKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444704028</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Polly Clark1471187179|title= Larchfield|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary=I It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the west coast 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 person, a wife, a mother, means. She is soon shown 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 to escape reality altogether. Another poet, she discovers, lived in Helensburgh once. Wystan H. Auden, brilliant and awkward at 24, with his first 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 as he fights his deepest fears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786481928</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewA Beautiful Spy|author=Dinah Jefferies|title=Before the RainsRachel Hore|rating=4.5

|summary=Eliza has tragically punctuated childhood memories of India that have feed her desire to return. Therefore in 1930, following the death of her husband, when the British government commission her to photograph scenes of Indian life, she jumps at the chance. What she doesn't realise is that not everyone she comes across is delighted with the idea. Living within the Sultana's opulent palace complex is definitely an attraction for her, as Minnie is Jay, 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 – 'ordinary'let the dead rest, and love the girl living''an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The problem with that, as a 96-year-old, book is that there are too few living left, set in the 1930s and so while the love remains she will go through her memories, taking a woozy, diaphanous path through all the major events of her life. Starting in wartime Berlin with one husband, who gets snatched from her at work, fleeing Minnie is expected to another place live up to wait for peace, her mother's expectations and wait for him in vain, moving find a nice young man to Holland and finding new lovemarry, produce children and so on – this wispy journey will show all spend the impacts rest of war, from rationing right up to exile, death her days looking after her husband and survivaltheir home. The memories are coming strongly here and nowUnfortunately, as Emma is waiting for this isn't what she wants to do at least one of her two sons to visit, all and then neither does she will die…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056085</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Adrian Goldsworthy|title= Vindolanda|rating= 3want to continue working as a secretary.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= AD 98: in the northern fields As a result of Britannia lies Vindolandaa chance meeting, a Roman auxiliary base situated on the edge of the Roman world. Far from the prosperity and decadence of Romeshe finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the wild secret service and untamed lands around Vindolanda are ripe with rebel tribes and druids set against effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the destruction Communist Party of Rome Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and its armies. In the midst of this destruction is Flavius Ferox; a Briton friends she has made - and Roman Centurion who has been given the task of keeping the peace in this desolate edge of likes - whilst working for 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 aheadCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784974684</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeroen Blokhuis Afonso Cruz and Asja Novak Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The Yellow HouseKokoschka's Doll|rating=32.5

|summary=If you were the needy kindWell, would you really join in this looked very much like a book I could love from the drummingget-out go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of town of two people accused of murder purely because of their nationality? it. Would you get I found things to potentially delight me each time – a feeling of belonging just because you were there when someone carried weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a dead dog down off a mountain? The main character chapter whose number was in this novel doesthe 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. But he has something It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that will really get him noted, well-thought-what little I knew ofit mentioned, includedtoo. He has come to But you've seen the south of France to set up an artists' collectivestar rating that comes with this review, 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 tell that if love was on his way now, so surely he can find kinship? The guest's name is, after allthese pages, Gauguinit was not actually caused by them. The main character is, of course, Vincent van Gogh…So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907320563</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Christina Hammonds Reed|title=Retribution RoadThe Black Kids

|genre=Historical Fiction Teens |summary=Christina Hammonds Reed''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard mans debut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, he was something else: a dangerous man.'' If, indeed, there was someone who was ideal reaction to the absolution of four police officers for beating a suicide missionblack man, it was him. Working as a soldier for the East India Company in the ruralRodney King, remote, outlaw hotbeds of Asia in the 1850s, he's tasked with taking a boat of unknown prospects up the Irrawaddy nearly to try and combat local warlord Pagan Mindeath. It doesn't go well – to start with, he's supposed to run the rule over ruffians saved Told from the gallowsperspective of Ashley Bennett, but can't command them until he's forced his way to having the knowledge novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of the mission he needs firstrace, only for all hell to break loosea woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage. 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>1471188191