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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tananarive Due|title=Salt CreekThe Reformatory|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 a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Lucy TreloarKatherine Howe|title=A True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=The first chapter of ''Salt Creek'' opens Hannah Masury is living in ChichesterBoston, Englandhaving been sent to live with a family who run an inn, in 1874and being made to work there from a young age. Hester Finch When she hears there is to be a respected hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and reasonably wealthy member watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of her communitytwo vicious pirates. But she can She hides away, so that they don't stop find and kill her thoughts wandering back too, and then to her adolescenceescape them completely she runs away to sea, spent on Salt Creek Station in dressing as a boy and joining the remote South Australian Coorong region. Hester feels 'notorious Ned Low'has never felt so alive s pirate ship as thena cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, when and from there we had so little''are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910709417</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jamie FordSarah Marsh|title= Love and Other Consolation PrizesA Sign of Her Own|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=At the World's Fair in 1962After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, it seems that all eyes are focused on the futureEllen Lark loses her hearing. The Space Needle dominates the landscape Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, filling people with anticipation everything about things to comeher life changes. One visitor Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, however, has his mind firmly focused on the past. Ernest Young Ellen is helping his daughter Ju-ju with sent to a story school where she is writing for her newspaper; a story about a young immigrant boy taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who was given away as a prize in a raffle at has been teaching the World's Fair in 1909.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022752</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nicola Pryce|title= The Captain's Girl|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Last year, Bookbag reviewed, deaf and thoroughly enjoyed, [[Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's Daughter]], using a swashbuckling historical romance set in picturesque Cornwallsystem called Visible Speech. Now we have the pleasure of reading At the much-anticipated sequel. This same time, the story focuses Bell is working on a neighbour of the Polcarrow familyother inventions and ideas, Miss Celia Cavendish, who has been engaged to and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a cruel man that she does not love. One fateful night, she runs away to the Polcarrow house to beg them for help, and the pivotal events 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 freedomBeautiful Swallows.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But Idyllic as they are drawn togetherthis might sound, the world outside their forest haven is being torn apart. Old certainties are crumbling, and both must now make a life-defining choice.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762990</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jane Johnson|title= Court of Lions|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city of Granada a year ago. In the shadow of the Alhambra, one of the most beautiful places on earth, she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends sheit's happy with her new life – but how could she be? Katea bordello and Ettore's alone, afraid and hiding under a false name. 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, mother died when he was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of paperborn. The paper was folded and pressed into one of the Alhambra He's walls. There it has lain, undisturbed by the tides not been short of history – the Fall of Granadamothers, the expulsion though - but for someone of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of love, his background in a time of danger and desperationlate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kateit's life foreverdifficult to obtain decent employment. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694336</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Angus Watson|title= You Die When You Die|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Finnbogi The stint working with the Boggy preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and his tribe of mushroom men (Vikings) must take determined - and it was not long before he had a road trip through hostile territory whilst being hunted by the greatest fighting force ever seen (Amazonian Native Americans). Vikings meet Native Americans in successful business as a clash of cultures and potentially the end of the worldguide for visitors. When the Queen of the known world says your tribe has to be exterminated then your immediate future may not be so rosy 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 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 PartyMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating= 4.5|genre= General Historical Fiction |summary= In Set against the gloriously hot summer backdrop of 1936the English Civil War, 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 secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is clever and good-looking, but he resents discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the wealth and easy savoir-faire summer of fellow guest, Paul Latimer1642. Surely As a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through thatloyal servant of the King, wouldn't she? And what about Dianaand Head of the Secret Service, Paulit is Robert's beautiful sister, Charles Asher, duty to uncover the details of the Jewish outsider, Madeleine, restless plan and dissatisfied with her role as children's nanny? And artist Henry Haddon, their host, no longer young, but secure follow the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in his power as a practised seducer. As these guests gather, none has any inkling history—especially since the choices they make will have fateful consequences, lasting through plot could affect the war and beyondKing. Or that the first unforeseen event will be a shocking death… |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786691485</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Matthew Harffy1471187179|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>}}{{newreviewA Beautiful Spy|author=Antonia Senior|title=The Tyrant's ShadowRachel Hore

|summary=Warning: spoilers ahead for Minnie is an 'ordinary'Treason's Daughter''.Patience lives with her widowed brother, William, helping to care for his son Richard (nicknamed Blackberry)girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. Despite The book is set in the Civil war ending, the times are still uncertain. Cromwell 1930s and Minnie is increasingly annoyed with expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a parliament of rebels refusing to go nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the electorate for ratificationrest of her days looking after her husband and their home. William sees Unfortunately, this problem at close quarters once heisn's effectively forced t what she wants to become Cromwell's legal advisor in an atmosphere poisoned by espionage do at all and religious factionsneither does she want to continue working as a secretary. However when Patience comes across Shadrick SimpsonAs a result of a chance meeting, a charismatic preachershe finds herself drawn into espionage, all becomes clearer working for her at leastthe secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Meanwhile Sam Challoner, William's brother in law, comes home after privateering with Prince Rupert Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and realises that likes - whilst working for the fight at sea is better than peace at home. At least when you're privateering you know who your enemy isCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David BarbareeAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title= DeposedKokoschka's Doll|rating= 42.5|genre= Historical Literary Fiction|summary= A.D 68. A deposed emperor lies in Well, this looked very much like a prison cellbook I could love from the get-go, betrayed and newly blinded by those who were sworn to protect him. He which is now crippled why I picked my review copy up and deprived flipped pages over several times before actually reading any 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 I found things to murder his father. Gruesome atrocities and mysterious disappearances are rife throughout Rome; it is potentially delight me each time – a city full of falsehoods and intrigues with weird section in the fear of rebellion lurking beneath middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the surface. Furthermore20,000s, a man who letters used to be emperor still lives – as narrative form, and so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a blind man who everyone believes to be deadhears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. His name is Nero But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and he seeks revenge against those who wronged himcan tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762672</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Diney CosteloeChristina Hammonds Reed|title= The Married GirlsBlack Kids|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical FictionTeens |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 squireChristina Hammonds Reed's fighter pilot son, Felix, has returned to the village with a fiancée in tow. Daphne debut novel is beautiful, charming... and harbouring secrets. After meeting during set against the war, Felix knows some backdrop of Daphne's pastthe 1992 Los Angeles riots, but she has worked hard a reaction to conceal that which could unravel her carefully built life. For Charlotte, too, a dangerous past is coming back in the shape absolution 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 four police officer handling murder cases and occasionally doing work officers for some high-ranking Nazis. Although never beating a Nazi party member himself (he was a known member of the Social Democratic Party)black man, 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 mountainsRodney King, he knows that he needs nearly to do it quickly and discreetly – not just for justice's sake, but for his owndeath. He is given exactly one week to apprehend Told from the suspect, and he hopes that with the help perspective of his friend Friedrich KorschAshley Bennett, 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 follows her evolution from human suffering, but does not drown in it either. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079190</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alan Kennedy|title=A Time to Tell Lies|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical) |summary= Psychologist Alan Kennedy's fifth novel continues the story he began a silent bystander when confronted with [[Lucy by Alan Kennedy]]. In the autumn matters of 1942race, Captain Alex Vere and Justine Perry are among the men and women picked up and taken to a stately home in Scotland, where they are trained in spy skills. After this first encounter, Alex is smitten yet uncertain if he will ever see Justine again. The spy's life is dangerous and unpredictable, after all. Six weeks later, though, they meet up again in southwest France, where they have been sent to collect Simone, a Special Operations Executive agent. It's Alex's first mission (Justine's fourth) and all goes horribly awry. Alex ends up in custody at the Gendarmerie, facing a German who knows he has a false passport.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993202322</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alex Nye|title=For My Sins|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1586: Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has time to look back over woman finding her past life as she sits, incarcerated by her second cousin Queen Elizabeth I. Mary's life hasn't been one of totally pampered royalty. Growing up in France, away from her mother, widowed and then returning to Scotland to claim the throne before she was even 19, her struggle with fate started early. The tensions between Mary the woman, Mary the Catholic voice and Mary the political force continue through three marriages, an unsolved murder and the thwarted desire to serve embracing her peopleheritage. Now it's come to this prison cell but while there's life, there's still hope…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905916787</amazonuk>1471188191