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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= M J TjiaTananarive Due|title= She Be DamnedThe Reformatory|rating= 45|genre= Crime (Historical) Fiction|summary= LondonGracetown, 1863: prostitutes in Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Waterloo area are turning up deadGracetown School for Boys, their sexual organs mutilated otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and removeddark reputation. When another girl goes missingBut the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, fears grow haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the killer may help of the school's ghosts – only they have claimed their latest victimown motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4. The police are at 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a loss family who run an inn, and so it falls being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chanceybe a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to investigatego and watch. With Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the assistance hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her trusty Chinese maidtoo, Amah Li Leenand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, Heloise inches closer to dressing as a boy and joining the truthnotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. But She soon finds herself in the thick of things when Amah there is implicated a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes againocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah FranklinMarsh|title= ShelterA Sign of Her Own|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Connie Granger has escaped After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her bombed-out city homehearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, finding refuge everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the Women's Timber Corps. For heruse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, this remote community must now serve Ellen is sent to a secret purposeschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing.<br>Seppe From here, an Italian prisoner of war, is haunted by his memories. In she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the forest camp, he finds deaf and using a strange kind of freedomsystem called Visible Speech.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are drawn together At the same time, the world outside their forest haven Bell is being torn apart. Old certainties are crumblingworking on other inventions and ideas, and both must now make Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a life-defining choicecomplicated tangle of espionage.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762990</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane JohnsonClaire North|title= Court House of LionsOdysseus|rating= 5|genre= Historical Literary Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived in ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the sunlit city of Granada excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a year agofew months after where we left off. In the shadow palace of the AlhambraOdysseus, one of the most beautiful places on earth, she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends she's happy with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her new life – but how could she be? Kate's alonehusband, afraid who sailed to war at Troy and hiding under a false namethen by divine intervention never returned home. And fate is about to bring her face-to-face with her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, a message, in a hand few could read, was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of paperthe Western Isles. The paper was folded Having survived – politically and pressed into one of physical – the Alhambrachaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's walls. There it has lainshores, undisturbed by Queen Penelope is on the tides brink of history – a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the Fall return of GranadaOrestes, the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born King of loveMycenae, in a time of danger and desperationhis sister Elektra, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life foreverseeking refuge. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786694336</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Angus WatsonB0C7J9D21B|title= You Die When You DieA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Finnbogi the Boggy When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and his tribe he lives at The House of mushroom men (Vikings) must take Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a road trip through hostile territory whilst being hunted by the greatest fighting force ever seen (Amazonian Native Americans)bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. Vikings meet Native Americans in a clash He's not been short of cultures and potentially the end mothers, though - but for someone of the worldhis background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. When The stint working with the Queen preparation of the known world says your tribe has to be exterminated then your immediate future may anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not be so rosylong before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356507564</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alison WeirEssie Fox|title=Six Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession: Six Tudor Queens 2The Fascination

|summary=Thomas Boleyn sends his daughters abroad The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led to be trained at the courts more than a few writers mishandling it. There's such a glut of European royalty. Not only does this give them an education media set in the ways of era that the elite, hallmarks we've come to associate with it could also ensure a good marriage. Unfortunately he hasn't reckoned on are familiar to the ideas that one point of thembeing cliched, Anne, picks up and as for marriage… Anne hackneyed even. All this is determined simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to marry for love not through some paternal arrangementdo poorly. Yet the reality turns out to be differentBut despite that, driving a wedge through her family on a road leading to dark tragedysomething about it still grabs me – and something about this book's description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147222762X</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Martha ConwayNicole Jarvis|title= The Floating TheatreA Portrait in Shadow|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=When young seamstress May Bedloe is left alone and penniless on the shore of the Ohio, she finds work on the famous floating theatre that plies its trade along the river. Her creativity and needlework skills quickly become invaluable and she settles into life among the colourful troupe of actors. She finds friends, and possibly the promise of more. But cruising the border between the Confederate South and the 'free' North is fraught with danger. For the sake I want all of a debt that must be repaid, May is compelled Florence to transport secret passengers, under cover of darkness, across the river and on, along the underground railroad. But as Mayknow my name''s secrets become harder to keep, she learns she must endanger those now dear to her.

And Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to save protect the lives of others, she must risk her owncity 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.To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762907</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenny AshcroftThomas D Lee|title= Beneath a Burning SkyPerilous Times|rating= 43|genre= Historical FictionFantasy|summary=Young bride Olivia Sheldon finds returning to her childhood home ''Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in Egypt a bitterthe near-sweet experience. On the one handdistant future, she has been reunited with her estranged sister Clara, and the pair have formed in a deep and loving bond. On world on the otherverge of climate collapse, she has an unhappy marriage to her domineering husband Alistair, who only married her Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to spite Clara, who had refused him previously. Life with save the sadistic Alistair is unbearable, with Olivia subjected to horrific abuse at his hands, dailyday and rescue what little remains. As a lady with What no means of supporting herself, Olivia seems trapped without any means -one expected was that one of escape, only finding solace in the company Knights of her sister and friends. But when her dear sister goes mysteriously missing in the bustling streets of Alexandria, it is up to Olivia to try and solve Round Table would answer the mystery of her disappearance before it is too latecall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751565032</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Conn IgguldenG K Holloway|title=Dunstan: One Man Will Change In the Fate Shadows of EnglandCastles

|summary=The young Dunstan shows no sign We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of the sainthood heWilliam of Normandy'll later attains coronation as King of England. Son of a Wessex thane and sent to a monastery for education, this isnWilliam't a lad who responds to discipline. However an enquiring, intelligent mind begins to emerge s position is not secure and then comes the big breaknew king has many challenges. Lady Elflaed calls to put Imposing authority through a proposal coronation is important. And William is right to him after hearing about what she considers to be a miracle worry. While the previous king, Harold, is dead and the monks consider another in a long line likelihood of excuses. Yet Dunstan will outshine all his teachers as well as knowing seven kings and holding responsible positions in their courtsmore pitched battles is over, as the book's title suggests. Whether we believe in rebels are stirring and much of the miracles or country does not, Dunstan certainly had quite wish to recognise a life!new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718181441</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon Edge3949666079|title= The Hopkins ConundrumNoema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Tim Cleverley inherits ''This is a failing pub in Wales, which he plans to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist story about some things that happened to concoct an entirely fabricated mystery me about Gerard Manley Hopkins, who composed twelve thousand years ago.''The Wreck of the Deutschland'' nearby.

In Victorian EnglandMaya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life full the Sea of confusion Grass encroaches further and contradictionfurther into Maya's forest home, but discovers a calling for poetry that threatens and food is becoming more and more scarce. What to overrule his calling do? Can the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to God. Andcope? Can the Traveller, speaking a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of GodAll Life, Five nuns leave persecution to travel to a new world – only to find themselves in more trouble that they could ever have imagined… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785630334</amazonuk>provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne O'Brien1529125898|title=The Shadow QueenGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating=4.5

|summary=Born in 1328''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, Joan 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 Kent may be governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of royal blood teaching but she's from this was a family tainted by treacherycase of necessity. Her father Edmund Woodstock, 1st Earl Until the death of Kenther mother, Anne had a comfortable life and was executed for his part in loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the infamous Montague plothousehold. However Joan has grown up under the protection of When her cousinmother died, King Edward III her father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with all the advantages and attributes her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a princessyear. YetHer maid, much Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.}}{{Frontpage|author=Melissa Fu |title=Peach Blossom Spring |rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction |summary= I loved the prelude to her motherPeach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Origins's chagrin, obedience isn't one . Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of these attributesa book that I expected more from. JoanCovering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's head strong feist takes her on a varied journey in lifeperspective. Having said thatWhen their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japan, three husbands, five marriages a young mother (technicallyMeilin) and a her four-year-old son destined for the English throne means that it(Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, and in Renshu's also been one heck of a life!case eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848455070</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Falvey1916072038|title=The Girls of Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary=Ireland 1900: Ennismore House's young heiress Victoria had hoped that she and Rosie Killeen would be friends foreverWe meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Rosie soon comes Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to know better as there's a social chasm between those who live the house in the House hollow. The two women are angry with each other and those, like RosieJocelyn is well aware of her mother's familystrengths and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, who have been brought up merely to serve them. The days beneath a facade of innocence are coming to an end in many ways. Soonrespectability, as the cry for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, theredeplorable truth''ll be more than steps on society. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's ladder between them refusal to do as each must discover their own way she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''. Then we are told of the birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in a nation that will never be the same againYorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786490625</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elaine EverestAnnabel Abbs|title= The Butlins Girls|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness to start her new job as a Butlins auntie. Behind the smiles and confident appearance, she hides a secret; she has taken the job to escape escalating problems at home. She soon finds good friends in her chalet-mates Bunty and Plum, and it turns out 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 the camp. Is he really as suave as his on-screen persona? And why is he working at the camp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, Molly and her new friends face new threats and dangers that may threaten their new-found freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447295536</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Geraint Jones|title= Blood Forest|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Felix. The lucky one. He doesn't feel especially lucky when he staggers out into the grove and finds twelve of his comrades butchered and mutilated in the worst possible ways. He felt even less lucky when the soldiers arrived, Roman cavalry. He might have run, but he knew he'd never make it. He stepped out to face whatever came next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718184815</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Dominic Smith|title= The Last Painting Language of Sara de VosFood|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= If you find the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinating, ''The Last Painting of Sara de Vos'' provides a masterclass 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 the main contours of his characters and the three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of the way through. Sara is one of the few women artists of the period and her painting Eliza Acton is of children skating on a frozen canal, her now dead daughter its central figure. The painting poet who has been in Marty de Groot's family since before Isaac Newton was born and he is never had the patent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattan. Ellie Shipley forged a copy of the painting in her postgraduate student years and in 2000 finds herself at the centre of a gathering storm which threatens slightest inclination to destroy her reputation as one of Sydney's foremost fine art academicsboil an egg. Satisfying though those first descriptions are, we then understand these are merely the author's equivalent 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>}}{{newreview|author= Caro Fraser|title= The Summer House Party|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= In the gloriously hot summer of 1936, When tasked with writing a group of people meet at a country house party. Within three yearscookery book, England will be at war, but for now, time stands still. Dan Ranscombe is clever and good-lookingshe recruits Ann Kirby, but he resents the wealth and easy savoir-faire of fellow guest, Paul Latimer. Surely a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through that, wouldn't she? And what about Diana, Paul's beautiful sister, Charles Asher, the Jewish outsider, Madeleine, restless and dissatisfied local woman with her role as children's nanny? And artist Henry Haddon, their host, no longer young, but secure in his power as a practised seducertroubled home life. As these guests gatherTogether, none has any inkling the choices they make will have fateful consequencestest, lasting through the war and beyond. Or that the first unforeseen event will be a shocking death… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786691485</amazonuk>}}{{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 craft, refine and reshape 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 domestic cookery, reinventing the classic hero’s journey. Beobrand moves from wide-eyed teenager to hardened recipe book and honourable warrior through a brutal rite of passage as he hunts changing the killer face of his brother and seeks to become a true warriorcookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786692406</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonia SeniorFreya Marske|title=The Tyrant's ShadowA Marvellous Light

|summary=Warning: spoilers ahead for ''Treason's Daughter''.Patience lives with her widowed brother, WilliamRobin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, helping much to care for his son Richard (nicknamed Blackberry)chagrin. Despite There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the Civil war ending, the times streets of London are still uncertainthreaded with magic. Cromwell is increasingly annoyed with Desperate to remove a parliament of rebels refusing curse that threatens to go swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the electorate for ratification. William sees this problem at close quarters once he's effectively forced to become Cromwell's legal advisor in an atmosphere poisoned by espionage countryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and religious factionsthe people shimmer with power. However when Patience comes across Shadrick Simpson, There they uncover a charismatic preacher, sinister plot that threatens the lives of all becomes clearer for her at least. Meanwhile Sam Challoner, William's brother magicians in law, comes 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 isBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782396616</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David BarbareeB09F4CTKJR|title= Deposed|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= A.D 68. A deposed emperor lies in a prison cell, 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 the purple. 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 are rife throughout Rome; it is a city full of falsehoods 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 is Nero and he seeks revenge against those who wronged him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762672</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFlights for Freedom|author= Diney Costeloe|title= The Married GirlsSteven Burgauer|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Wynsdown, 1949. In the small Somerset village 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 squireIt's fighter pilot son, Felix, has returned to the village with a fiancée in tow. Daphne is beautiful, charming... later stages of World War I and harbouring secrets. After meeting during the war, Felix knows some of Daphne's past, but she United States has worked hard to conceal that which could unravel her carefully built life. For Charlotte, too, a dangerous past is coming back in just entered the shape of fellow refugee, bad boy Harry Blackconflict. Forever bound by their childhoods, Charlotte will always care for him, but Harry's return disrupts the village quiet and it's not long before gossip spreads. The war may have ended, but for these girls, trouble Petrol Petronus 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 is not your typical hero. In 1939, he was stationed in Berlin as a police officer handling murder cases young American who has signed up and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking Nazisjoined the 17 Aero Squadron. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he This company was a known member of the Social Democratic Party)first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, he understood that the best thing he could do for himself at that time was first to make himself indispensable be attached to men like Reinhard Heydrich the RAF and Martin Bormann. So when he is assigned the first to solve a murder that has occurred at Hitler's Berghof in be sent into the Bavarian mountains, he knows that he needs skies to do it quickly and discreetly – not just for justice's sake, but for his ownfight the Germans in active combat. He is given exactly one week to apprehend the suspect, and he hopes But before that with the help of his friend Friedrich Korsch, an investigator with the Krimialpolizei (or Kripocan happen, 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 Petrol has achieved a rare feat – a novel set amidst to master flying the horrors of Nazi tyranny that does not shy away from human suffering, notoriously difficult but does not drown in it eithermajestic Sopwith Camel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079190</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan KennedyChristophe Medler|title=Madrigal: A Time to Tell LiesClosely Guarded Secret

|summary=1586: Mary Stuart, Queen Set against the backdrop of Scots, has time to look back over her past life as she sitsthe English Civil War, incarcerated a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by her second cousin Queen Elizabeth ISir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642. Mary's life hasn't been one As a loyal servant of totally pampered royalty. Growing up in Francethe King, away from her mother, widowed and then returning to Scotland to claim Head of the throne before she was even 19Secret Service, her struggle with fate started early. The tensions between Mary it is Robert's duty to uncover the woman, Mary details of the Catholic plan and Mary follow the political force continue through three marriages, an unsolved murder and clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the thwarted desire to serve her peopleKing. Now it's come to this prison cell but while there's life, there's still hope…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905916787</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Grace Macallister1471187179|title= The Magician's LieA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore

|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary= Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The Amazing Arden book is set in the most famous female illusionist of 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her daymother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, renowned for produce children and spend the rest of her notorious trick of sawing a man in half on stage. But one night she swaps days looking after her trademark saw for an axehusband and their home. When Arden Unfortunately, this isn's husband is found dead later that night, the answer seems clear, most of t what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to young policeman Virgil Holtcontinue working as a secretary. Captured and taken As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into custodyespionage, all seems set working for Arden's swift confession. But she has the secret service and effectively living a different story double life - attempting to tellinfiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Even handcuffed and alone, Arden is far from powerless, and Minnie finds herself torn between what she reveals is perceives as unbelievable as it is spellbindingher duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787199967</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen DunmoreAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Birdcage WalkKokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married well. John Diner Tredevant is Well, this looked very much like a property developer who has reached book I could love from the zenith get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of his life's work: building it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a terrace of prestigious houses overlooking weird section in the Avon Gorge. In middle on darker stock paper, a time of turbulence as France reaches chapter whose number was in the dawn of revolution20, Britain000s, including Dinerletters used as narrative form, fears it may spreadand so on. This puts Lizzie in It intrigued with the subterranean voice a difficult position since her mother and step-father both believe man hears in propagating pamphlets and ideas wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of egalitarianism for and to allit mentioned, including womentoo. In other words, they think nothing of spreading ideas of But you've seen the sort star rating that fanned the French flames. Howevercomes with this review, and can tell that's if love was on these pages, it was not Lizzie's only problem… there is a darkness in her husband's past of which she's unawareactually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091959403</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Beth UnderdownChristina Hammonds Reed|title=The Witchfinder's SisterBlack Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |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 of his actions until, widowed and pregnant, she returns home. Alice is grateful to be allowed to live under MatthewChristina Hammonds Reed's roof but then watches his sinister finger of suspicion point in unexpected places. This debut novel is a man changed from set against the boy that Alice used to know. She never then realised that he'd be capable of killing hundreds backdrop of people and making her the Witchfinder's Sister.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241978033</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Emma Henderson|title= The Valentine House|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= In June 1914, Sir Anthony Valentine1992 Los Angeles riots, a keen mountaineer, arrives with his family reaction to spend the summer in their chalet, high in the French Alps. There, absolution of four police officers for the first time, fourteen-year-old foundling Mathilde starts work as one of the 'uglies' - village girls employed as servants and pickedbeating a black man, it is believedRodney King, nearly to ensure they don't catch Sir Anthony's roving eyedeath. For Mathilde it is the start of a life-long entanglement with les anglais - strange, exciting people, far removed Told from the hard grind perspective 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 and a cruel betrayal - before Mathilde discovers the key to the mystery. And in 1976Ashley Bennett, the year Sir Anthony's great-great grandson comes to visit, she must decide whether to use 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 to Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland and novel follows her hopes are first challenged. Newly married, pregnant, she's excited by the prospect of evolution from 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 silent bystander when confronted with matters of selfrace, 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 woman finding her voice 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 fearsembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786481928</amazonuk>1471188191