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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kate QuinnTananarive Due|title= The Alice NetworkReformatory|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= 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 Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's 1947. The Second World War has ended a place with a brutal and American socialite Charlie Stdark reputation. Clair But the segregated reformatory is unmarried a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and pregnant. After shehis Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's shipped off ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to Europe by her live with a family to have her 'little problem' taken care ofwho run an inn, Charlie decides to take matters in to her own hands and head being made to Londonwork there from a young age. She When she hears there is clinging on to be a small hope that her beloved cousin Rosehanging of some pirates in the town, who disappeared she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in Nazi occupied Franceequal measure, may still be alive and she thinks sheHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's found death at the person who will have the answershands of two vicious pirates. Meanwhile She hides away, former British spy Evelyn Gardiner spends so that they don't find and kill her days drunk too, and alonethen to escape them completely she runs away to sea, still haunted by what she endured during her espionage dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the First War. That thick of things when there is until a young American shows mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up at in her door uttering a name Eve hasn't heard in years. This meeting forces two unlikely women together as they go in search rip roaring tale of life on the truth, no matter what the costocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0062654195</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= M J TjiaSarah Marsh|title= She Be DamnedA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime (Historical) General Fiction|summary= LondonAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, 1863: prostitutes everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the Waterloo area are turning up deaduse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at Ellen is sent to a loss and so it falls school where she is taught to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chanceylip read, to investigatebut physically restrained from signing. With the assistance of her trusty Chinese maid From here, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the truthdeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. But when Amah is implicated in At the brutal plotsame time, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trustBell is working on other inventions and ideas, before the killer strikes againand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah FranklinClaire North|title= ShelterHouse of Odysseus|rating= 5|genre= Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Connie Granger has escaped her bombed''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-out city home, finding refuge in up to the Womenexcellent ''Ithaca''s Timber Corpspicks up a few months after where we left off. For In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without herhusband, this remote community must now serve a secret purpose.<br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner of who sailed to war, is haunted at Troy and then by his memoriesdivine intervention never returned home. In As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the forest camp, he finds a strange kind throne of freedomthe Western Isles.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are drawn togetherHaving survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the world outside their forest haven is being torn apartbrink of a fragile peace. Old certainties are crumblingOne that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and both must now make a life-defining choicehis sister Elektra, seeking refuge.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762990</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane JohnsonB0C7J9D21B|title= Court of LionsA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Granada Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a year agobordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. In the shadow He's not been short of the Alhambramothers, one though - but for someone of the most beautiful places on earthhis background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends sheit's happy difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with her new life – but how could she be? Katethe preparation of anchovies didn's alone, afraid t work out and hiding under a false namebastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. And fate is about to bring her face Ettore was nothing if not resourceful -toand determined -face with her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, and it was not long before he had a message, in successful business as a hand few could read, was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of paperguide for visitors. The paper He was folded and pressed into one of the Alhambra's walls. There it has lain, undisturbed by the tides of history – the Fall of Granada, the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of love, in a time of danger and desperation, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life forevereven saving some money. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694336</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Angus WatsonEssie Fox|title= You Die When You Die|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Finnbogi the Boggy and his tribe of mushroom men (Vikings) must take a road trip through hostile territory whilst being hunted by the greatest fighting force ever seen (Amazonian Native Americans). Vikings meet Native Americans in a clash of cultures and potentially the end of the world. When the Queen of the known world says your tribe has to be exterminated then your immediate future may not be so rosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356507564</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alison Weir|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, Joan ''If it were not for the casual dereliction of Kent may be of royal blood but shethe odd gentleman's from a family tainted by treacheryduty, 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 governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. Her father Edmund Woodstock, 1st Earl She had no experience of Kent, teaching but this was executed for his part in the infamous Montague plota case of necessity. However Joan has grown up under Until the protection death of her cousinmother, King Edward III with all Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the advantages and attributes of a princesshousehold. YetWhen her mother died, much her father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her mother's chagrin, obedience isn't one of these attributes. Joan's head strong feist takes her on No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a varied journey in lifeyear. Having said thatHer maid, three husbandsAgnes, five marriages (technically) and a son destined for the English throne means that it's also been one heck of a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848455070</amazonuk>would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia FalveyMelissa Fu |title=The Girls Peach Blossom Spring |rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction |summary= I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''. Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of Ennismore: A Hearta book that I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japan, a young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-Rending Irish old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, and in Renshu's case eventually to America. |isbn=1472277538}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1916072038|title=The 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= DeposedFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|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 It's the edge later stages of despair with a frightened young slave named Marcus as his only companion. Ten years later World War I and it is Emperor Vespasian who wears the purple. Things may have settled since United States has just entered the civil war but Vespasian's son Titus is plagued by worry about plots to murder his fatherconflict. Gruesome atrocities and mysterious disappearances are rife throughout Rome; it Petrol Petronus is a city full of falsehoods young American who has signed up and intrigues with joined the fear of rebellion lurking beneath 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the surface. Furthermorefirst US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, a man who used the first to be emperor still lives – a blind man who everyone believes attached to the RAF and the first to be deadsent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. His name is Nero and he seeks revenge against those who wronged himBut before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762672</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Diney CosteloeChristophe Medler|title= The Married Girls|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 squire's fighter pilot son, Felix, has returned to the village with a fiancée in tow. Daphne is beautiful, charming... and harbouring secrets. After meeting during the war, Felix knows some of Daphne's past, but she has worked hard to conceal that which could unravel her carefully built life. For Charlotte, too, a dangerous past is coming back in the shape of fellow refugee, bad boy Harry Black. 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 is only just beginning...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784976121</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Philip Kerr|title= Prussian BlueMadrigal: 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 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 (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 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 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 Told from the start perspective of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from a life-long entanglement silent bystander when confronted with les anglais - strange, exciting people, far removed from the hard grind matters of farming. Except she soon finds the Valentines are less carefree than they appearrace, with to a curiously absent daughter no one talks about. It will be decades - disrupted by war, accidents woman finding her voice and a cruel betrayal - before Mathilde discovers the key to the mystery. And in 1976, the year Sir Anthony's great-great grandson comes to visit, she must decide whether to use itembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444704028</amazonuk>1471188191