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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jamie FordTananarive Due|title= Love and Other Consolation PrizesThe Reformatory|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=At 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 WorldReformatory. It's Fair in 1962a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, it seems haunted by the boys that all eyes are focused on the futurehave died there. The Space Needle dominates In order to survive the landscapeschool governor and his Funhouse, filling people with anticipation about things to comeRobert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations... One visitor, however, has his mind firmly focused on the past|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4. Ernest Young 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is helping his daughter Ju-ju living in Boston, having been sent to live with a story family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is writing for her newspaper; to be a story about hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young immigrant boy who was given 's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a prize in a raffle at boy and joining the Worldnotorious Ned Low's Fair pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in 1909the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749022752</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nicola PryceSarah Marsh|title= The Captain's GirlA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Last yearAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Bookbag reviewed, and thoroughly enjoyed, [[Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's Daughter]]Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a swashbuckling historical romance set in picturesque Cornwall. Now we have time when the pleasure use of reading the much-anticipated sequel. This timesign language was seen as something only savages do, the story focuses on Ellen is sent to a neighbour of the Polcarrow familyschool where she is taught to lip read, Miss Celia Cavendishbut physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been engaged to teaching the deaf and using a cruel man that she does not lovesystem called Visible Speech. One fateful night At the same time, she runs away to the Polcarrow house to beg them for helpBell is working on other inventions and ideas, and the pivotal events Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of that night have far-reaching consequences for all involvedespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398856</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreview|author=Hawa L Crickmore|title=Across The follow-up to the Ocean|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=A young cage fighter, Martin Grandson, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder which required a bone-marrow transplant, preferably from excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a siblingfew months after where we left off. Only recently he'd been a fit young man, in In the prime palace of lifeOdysseus, but now he was suffering from a rare type of bone cancer: with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without the transplant he would be paralysed 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 life and might be dead within the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive throne of the transplant within Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the next fourteen days. Unfortunately Martinchaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's parents had died in shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a car crash and there were no siblings or other close relativesfragile peace. His girlfriendOne that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, Celiaand his sister Elektra, was not a matchseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M J TjiaB0C7J9D21B|title= She Be Damned|rating= 4|genre= Crime A Captive in Algiers (HistoricalMuhammed Amalfi Mysteries) |summary= London, 1863: prostitutes in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, 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 a loss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigate. With the assistance of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the truth. But when Amah is implicated in the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Franklin|title= ShelterA J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Connie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge in the Women's Timber Corps. For her, this remote community must now serve a secret purpose.<br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner of warWhen we first meet our hero, his name is haunted by his memories. In the forest camp, Ettore and he finds a strange kind lives at The House of freedom.Their meeting signals new beginningsBeautiful Swallows. But Idyllic as they are drawn togetherthis might sound, the world outside their forest haven is being torn apartit's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. Old certainties are crumbling He's not been short of mothers, and both must now make a lifethough -defining choice.<br>What price will they pay but for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762990</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jane Johnson|title= Court someone of Lions|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived his background in the sunlit city of Granada a year ago. In the shadow of the Alhambralate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, one of the most beautiful places on earth, 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 wallseven saving some money. 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 forever. |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 GirlsLanguage of Food|rating= 45|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Fresh-faced Molly Missons Eliza Acton is a poet who has just arrived in Skegness never had the slightest inclination to start her new job as boil an egg. When tasked with writing a Butlins auntie. Behind the smiles and confident appearancecookery book, she hides recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a secret; she has taken the job to escape escalating problems at troubled homelife. She soon finds good friends in her chalet-mates Bunty and PlumTogether, and it turns out that they each have their own reasons for wanting a fresh start. Meanwhiletest, craft, Molly is shocked to discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at refine and reshape the camp. Is he really as suave as his on-screen persona? And why is he working at world of domestic cookery, reinventing the camp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, Molly recipe book and her new friends changing the face new threats and dangers that may threaten their new-found freedomof cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447295536</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Geraint JonesFreya Marske|title= Blood ForestA Marvellous Light|rating= 54|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Felix. The lucky one. He doesn't feel especially lucky when he staggers out Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the grove and finds twelve of Civil Service, much to his comrades butchered chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and mutilated in learns that the worst possible waysstreets of London are threaded with magic. He felt even less lucky when Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the soldiers arrivedcountryside, Roman cavalrywhere the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. He might have run, but he knew he'd never make itThere they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles. He stepped out to face whatever came next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718184815</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dominic SmithB09F4CTKJR|title= The Last Painting of Sara de VosFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= If you find It's 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 later stages. Framing the novel as the story of a seventeenth century Dutch painting, Dominic Smith vividly sketches out the main contours of his characters World War I and the three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of United States has just entered the way throughconflict. Sara Petrol Petronus is one of the few women artists of the period and her painting is of children skating on a frozen canal, her now dead daughter its central figure. The painting young American who has been in Marty de Groot's family since before Isaac Newton was born signed up and he is joined the patent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattan17 Aero Squadron. Ellie Shipley forged a copy of This company was the painting first US Aero Squadron to be trained in her postgraduate student years Canada, the first to be attached to the RAF and in 2000 finds herself at the centre of a gathering storm which threatens first to be sent into the skies to destroy her reputation as one of Sydney's foremost fine art academicsfight the Germans in active combat. Satisfying though those first descriptions areBut before that can happen, we then understand these are merely the author's equivalent of the delicate chalk lines used by painters of the Dutch Golden Age Petrol has to mark out master flying the composition which will follownotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>192526680X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Caro FraserChristophe Medler|title= The Summer House Party|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= In the gloriously hot summer of 1936, a group of people meet at a country house party. Within three years, England will be at war, but for now, time stands still. Dan Ranscombe is clever and good-looking, 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 with her role as children's nanny? And artist Henry Haddon, their host, no longer young, but secure in his power as a practised seducer. As these guests gather, none has any inkling the choices they make will have fateful consequences, 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 and the souls of Albion are torn between the old Gods and the new Christ. It is in this world that we follow the adventures of Beobrand as he undertakes the classic hero’s journey. Beobrand moves from wide-eyed teenager to hardened and honourable warrior through a brutal rite of passage as he hunts the killer of his brother and seeks to become a true warrior.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786692406</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Antonia Senior|title=The Tyrant's ShadowMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret

|summary=Warning: spoilers ahead for ''Treason's Daughter''.Patience lives with her widowed brotherSet against the backdrop of the English Civil War, William, helping to care for his son Richard a secret plan (nicknamed Blackberrycode-named Madrigal)is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642. Despite As a loyal servant of the Civil war endingKing, and Head of the times are still uncertain. Cromwell Secret Service, it is increasingly annoyed with a parliament of rebels refusing to go to the electorate for ratification. William sees this problem at close quarters once heRobert's effectively forced duty to become Cromwell's legal advisor in an atmosphere poisoned by espionage uncover the details of the plan 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 follow the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in law, comes home after privateering with Prince Rupert and realises that history—especially since the plot could affect the fight at sea is better than peace at home. At least when you're privateering you know who your enemy isKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782396616</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Barbaree1471187179|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>}}{{newreview|author= Diney Costeloe|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 Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939, he was stationed in Berlin as a police officer handling murder cases and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking Nazis. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he was a known member of the Social Democratic Party), he understood that the best thing he could do for himself at that time was to make himself indispensable to men like Reinhard Heydrich and Martin Bormann. So when he is assigned to solve a murder that has occurred at Hitler's Berghof 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>}}{{newreviewBeautiful Spy|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 LiesRachel Hore

|genre=Crime (Historical) Fiction|summary= Psychologist Alan KennedyMinnie is an 's fifth novel continues the story he began with [[Lucy by Alan Kennedy]]ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. In The book is set in the autumn of 19421930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, Captain Alex Vere produce children and Justine Perry are among spend the men and women picked up rest of her days looking after her husband and taken to a stately their home in Scotland. Unfortunately, where they are trained in spy skills. After this first encounter, Alex is smitten yet uncertain if he will ever see Justine again. The spyisn's life is dangerous t what she wants to do at all and unpredictable, after allneither does she want to continue working as a secretary. Six weeks later As a result of a chance meeting, thoughshe finds herself drawn into espionage, they meet up again in southwest France, where they have been sent working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to collect Simone, a Special Operations Executive agentinfiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. It's Alex's first mission (Justine's fourth) Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and all goes horribly awry. Alex ends up in custody at the Gendarmerie, facing a German who knows he friends she has a false passportmade - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993202322</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex NyeAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=For My SinsKokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=1586: Mary StuartWell, Queen of Scotsthis looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, has time to look back which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over her past life as she sits, incarcerated by her second cousin Queen Elizabeth I. Mary's life hasn't been one several times before actually reading any of totally pampered royaltyit. Growing up I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in Francethe 20,000s, away from her motherletters used as narrative form, widowed and then returning to Scotland to claim so on. It intrigued with the throne before she was even 19subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, her struggle with fate started earlytoo. The tensions between Mary But you've seen the womanstar rating that comes with this review, Mary the Catholic and Mary the political force continue through three marriagescan tell that if love was on these pages, an unsolved murder and the thwarted desire to serve her peopleit was not actually caused by them. Now it's come to this prison cell but while there's life, there's still hope…So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905916787</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Grace MacallisterChristina Hammonds Reed|title= The Magician's LieBlack Kids|rating=4.5|genre= ThrillersTeens |summary= The Amazing Arden Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the most famous female illusionist backdrop of her daythe 1992 Los Angeles riots, renowned a reaction to the absolution of four police officers for her notorious trick of sawing beating a black man in half on stage. But one night she swaps her trademark saw for an axe. When Arden's husband is found dead later that night, the answer seems clearRodney King, most of all nearly to young policeman Virgil Holtdeath. Captured and taken into custodyTold from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, all seems set for Arden's swift confession. But she has the novel follows her evolution from a different story silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, to tell. Even handcuffed a woman finding her voice and alone, Arden is far from powerless, and what she reveals is as unbelievable as it is spellbindingembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1787199967</amazonuk>1471188191