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|summary= MariannaGracetown, an opera singer in the soonFlorida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to-be Ukrainian city of Lvivsix 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 mistakenly shot dead at a political rally in the dying days chamber of horrors, haunted by the Soviet Unionboys that have died there. This novel begins with both anger In order to survive the school governor and hopehis Funhouse, as MariannaRobert must enlist the help of the school's coffin 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 covered living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the illegal blue town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and yellow flaghorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her death seems too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to herald sea, dressing as a boy and joining the birth of notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a new nationcabin boy. But She soon finds herself in the day thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her funeral is also rip roaring tale of life on the day ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her daughter's first period – hearing. Suddenly plunged into a girl who must learn how to be world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a woman in this time when the use of drastic changesign language was seen as something only savages do, with no mother Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to guide her along lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the waysame time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857057138</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= K J WhittakerClaire North|title= False LightsHouse of Odysseus|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Cornwall, 1817.''What could matter more than love?''

What if your worst mistake changed The follow-up to the course of history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of Wellington at excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the Battle palace of Waterloo, and his ex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied England. Cornwall erupts into open rebellionOdysseus, and young heiress Hester escapes with Crowdelicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, Wellington's former intelligence officer, a half-French aristocrat haunted by his part in the catastrophic defeat. Together, they become embroiled in a web of treachery and espionage as plans are laid who sailed to free Wellington from secret captivity in the Scilly Isles war at Troy and lead an uprising against the French occupationthen by divine intervention never returned home. In a country rife with traitors, Hester and Crow know it is impossible to play such a game as this As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for long...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786695340</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= J Jefferson Farjeon|title= Seven Dead|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Ted Lyte was petty criminal, but not usually the housebreaking type. He lacked the courage. However, needs must, and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with a shuttered window. ''...he might find a bit throne of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the shutters, but it definitely isn't what he'd hopedWestern Isles. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men Having survived – politically and a woman. Fleeing physical – the house in horror, he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to be a journalist. Fascinated by TedIthaca's story (and a possible scoop)shores, Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and its assortment Queen Penelope is on the brink of odd clues, including a portrait shot through fragile peace. One that shatters however with the heartreturn of Orestes, King of Mycenae, an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one of the victimshis sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0712356886</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=Salt CreekA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Lucy TreloarA J Lewis

|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The first chapter House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore'Salt Creeks mother died when he was born. He'' opens s not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in Chichesterlate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, England, in 1874it's difficult to obtain decent employment. Hester Finch is a respected and reasonably wealthy member The stint working with the preparation of her community. But she cananchovies didn't stop her thoughts wandering back to her adolescence, spent work out and bastards are considered bad luck on Salt Creek Station in the remote South Australian Coorong regionfishing boats. Hester feels ''has never felt so alive Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as then, when we had so little''a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709417</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jamie FordEssie Fox|title= Love and Other Consolation PrizesThe Fascination|rating= 54|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=At The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Second WorldWar) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. There's Fair such a glut of media set in 1962, the era that the hallmarks we've come to associate with it seems that all eyes are focused on familiar to the futurepoint of being cliched, hackneyed even. The Space Needle dominates the landscape, filling people with anticipation about things All this is simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to comedo poorly. One visitorBut despite that, however, has his mind firmly focused on the past. Ernest Young is helping his daughter Ju-ju with a story she is writing for her newspaper; a story something about it still grabs me – and something about a young immigrant boy who was given away as a prize in a raffle at the Worldthis book's Fair in 1909description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749022752</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nicola PryceNicole Jarvis|title= The Captain's GirlA Portrait in Shadow|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Last year, Bookbag reviewed, and thoroughly enjoyed, [[Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's Daughter]]I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a swashbuckling historical romance set in picturesque Cornwallhome and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. Now we have But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the pleasure of reading powerful Accademia, the muchself-anticipated sequel. This time, the story focuses on a neighbour proclaimed guardians of the Polcarrow family, Miss Celia Cavendish, who has been engaged to a cruel man healing magics that she does not love. One fateful night, she runs away through paintings have the power to protect the Polcarrow house to beg them for help, city and its citizens from plagues and the pivotal events of that night have farcurses. The all-reaching consequences male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all involvedelse. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398856</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Hawa L Crickmore|title=Across Set in the Ocean|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=A young cage fighter, Martin Grandson, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder which required a bonenear-marrow transplantdistant future, preferably from a sibling. Only recently he'd been in a fit young man, in world on the prime verge of lifeclimate collapse, but now he was suffering from Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a rare type of bone cancer: without hero (or several) to save the transplant he would be paralysed for life day and might be dead within rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive Knights of the transplant within Round Table would answer the next fourteen days. Unfortunately Martin's parents had died in a car crash and there were no siblings or other close relatives. His girlfriend, Celia, was not a matchcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= M J TjiaG K Holloway|title= She Be DamnedIn the Shadows of Castles|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical) Fiction|summary= London, 1863: prostitutes We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. William's position is not secure and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victimnew king has many challenges. The police are at Imposing authority through a loss and so it falls coronation is important. And William is right to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigateworry. With While the assistance of her trusty Chinese maidprevious king, Amah Li LeenHarold, Heloise inches closer to is dead and the truth. But when Amah likelihood of more pitched battles is implicated in over, the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before rebels are stirring and much of the killer strikes againcountry does not wish to recognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah Franklin3949666079|title= Shelter|rating= 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 war, is haunted by his memories. In the forest camp, he finds a strange kind of freedom.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are drawn together, 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>}}{{newreviewNoema|author= Jane Johnson|title= Court of LionsDael Akkerman|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city of Granada ''This is a year story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years 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 she's happy with her new life – but how could she be? Kate's alone, afraid and hiding under a false name. And fate  Maya is about to bring her face-to-face with her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, a message, young girl living in a hand few could readhunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap the Sea of paper. The paper was folded Grass encroaches further and pressed further into one of the AlhambraMaya's walls. There it has lainforest home, 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 foreverfood is becoming more and more scarce. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694336</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Angus Watson|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 What to do? Can the greatest fighting force ever seen (Amazonian Native Americans). Vikings meet Native Americans law givers in a clash of cultures and potentially the end federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the world. When Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the Queen wisdom of the known world says your tribe has to be exterminated then your immediate future may not be so rosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356507564</amazonuk>All Life, provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Weir1529125898|title=Six Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession: Six Tudor Queens 2Godmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating=45

|summary=Thomas Boleyn sends his daughters abroad to be trained at the courts of European royalty. Not only does this give them an education in the ways of the elite, ''If it could also ensure a good marriage. Unfortunately he hasn't reckoned on the ideas that one of them, Anne, picks up and as for marriage… Anne is determined to marry were not for love not through some paternal arrangement. Yet the reality turns out to be different, driving a wedge through her family on a road leading to dark tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147222762X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Martha Conway|title= The Floating Theatre|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=When young seamstress May Bedloe is left alone and penniless on the shore casual dereliction 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 odd gentleman'free' North is fraught with danger. For the sake of a debt that must be repaids duty, May is compelled there would no women to transport secret passengers, under cover of darkness, across the river and on, along the underground railroadteach well-bred daughters at all. But as May's secrets become harder to keep, she learns she must endanger those now dear to her. '

And Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to save take up the lives position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of othersteaching but this was a case of necessity. Until the death of her mother, Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the household. When her mother died, she must risk her ownfather cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a year. Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762907</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenny AshcroftMelissa Fu |title= Beneath a Burning SkyPeach Blossom Spring |rating= 43.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Young bride Olivia Sheldon finds returning I loved the prelude to her childhood home in Egypt Peach Blossom Spring, a bitter-sweet experienceshort chapter entitled ''Origins''. On Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of a book that I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one hand, she has been reunited family's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the war with her estranged sister ClaraJapan, and the pair have formed a deep young mother (Meilin) and loving bond. On the other, she has an unhappy marriage to her domineering husband Alistair, four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who only married her to spite Clara, who had refused him previouslyflee. Life with the sadistic Alistair is unbearableThe story follows them on their journey across China, with Olivia subjected to horrific abuse at his hands, daily. As a lady with no means of supporting herself, Olivia seems trapped without any means of escape, only finding solace in the company of her sister and friends. But when her dear sister goes mysteriously missing in the bustling streets of Alexandria, it is up to Olivia Renshu's case eventually to try and solve the mystery of her disappearance before it is too lateAmerica. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751565032</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Conn Iggulden1916072038|title=Dunstan: One Man Will Change The House in the Fate of EnglandHollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary=The young Dunstan shows no sign We meet part of the sainthood he'll later attainTalbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Son of a Wessex thane Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and sent to a monastery for educationher mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, this isn't a lad who responds to disciplinethe house in the hollow. However an enquiringThe two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, intelligent mind begins to emerge and then comes the big breakdeplorable truth''. Lady Elflaed calls to put a proposal to him after hearing  Hester is furious about what she considers Jocelyn's refusal to be a miracle and the monks consider another in a long line of excuses. Yet Dunstan will outshine all his teachers do as well as knowing seven kings she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and holding responsible positions in their courts, as the bookunexpected removal''s title suggests. Whether  Then we believe in are told of the miracles or notbirth of a child and, Dunstan certainly had quite a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181441</amazonuk>soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon EdgeAnnabel Abbs|title= The Hopkins ConundrumLanguage of Food|rating= 5|genre= General Historical Fiction |summary= Tim Cleverley inherits Eliza Acton is a failing pub in Wales, which he plans poet who has never had the slightest inclination to rescue by enlisting boil an American pulp novelist to concoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard Manley Hopkinsegg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, who composed ''The Wreck of the Deutschland'' nearby. In Victorian Englandshe recruits Ann Kirby, Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a local woman with a troubled home life full of confusion and contradiction. Together, they test, but discovers a calling for poetry that threatens to overrule his calling to God. Andcraft, speaking refine and reshape the world of Goddomestic cookery, Five nuns leave persecution to travel to a new world – only to find themselves in more trouble that they could ever have imagined… reinventing the recipe book and changing the face of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785630334</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne O'BrienFreya Marske|title=The Shadow QueenA Marvellous Light|rating=4.5

|summary=Born Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in 1328the Civil Service, Joan of Kent may be of royal blood but she's from a family tainted by treachery. Her father Edmund Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, was executed for much to his part in the infamous Montague plotchagrin. However Joan has grown up under There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the protection streets of her cousin, King Edward III London are threaded with all the advantages and attributes of a princessmagic. Yet, much Desperate to her mother's chagrin, obedience isn't one of these attributes. Joan's head strong feist takes her on remove a varied journey in life. Having said curse thatthreatens to swallow him, three husbandsRobin follows Edwin to the countryside, five marriages (technically) where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a son destined for sinister plot that threatens the English throne means that it's also been one heck lives of a life!all magicians in the British Isles. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848455070</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia FalveyB09F4CTKJR|title=The Girls of Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish SagaFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=Ireland 1900: Ennismore HouseIt's young heiress Victoria had hoped that she the later stages of World War I and Rosie Killeen would be friends foreverthe United States has just entered the conflict. Rosie soon comes to know better as there's Petrol Petronus is a social chasm between those young American who live in has signed up and joined the House and those, like Rosie's family, who have been brought up merely to serve them17 Aero Squadron. The days of innocence are coming This company was the first US Aero Squadron to an end be trained in many ways. SoonCanada, as the cry for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, there'll first to be attached to the RAF and the first to be more than steps on society's ladder between them as each must discover their own way sent into the skies to fight the Germans in a nation active combat. But before that will never be can happen, Petrol has to master flying the same againnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786490625</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elaine EverestChristophe Medler|title= The Butlins GirlsMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|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 Set against the backdrop of the smiles and confident appearanceEnglish Civil War, she hides a secret; she has taken plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the job to escape escalating problems at homesummer of 1642. She soon finds good friends in her chalet-mates Bunty As a loyal servant of the King, and PlumHead of the Secret Service, and it turns out that they each have their own reasons for wanting a fresh start. Meanwhile, Molly is shocked Robert's duty to discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at uncover the details of the plan and follow the camp. Is he really as suave as his on-screen persona? And why is he working at clues to uncover one of the camp anyway? As hidden most guarded secrets become discovered, Molly and her new friends face new threats and dangers that may threaten their new-found freedomin history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447295536</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|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 of Sara de Vos|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 is of children skating on a frozen canal, her now dead daughter its central figure. The painting has been in Marty de Groot's family since before Isaac Newton was born and he is 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 to destroy her reputation as one of Sydney's foremost fine art academics. 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|authorisbn= Caro Fraser1471187179|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>}}{{newreviewA Beautiful Spy|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 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 Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the small Somerset village backdrop of Wynsdownthe 1992 Los Angeles riots, 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 reaction to the village with absolution of four police officers for beating a fiancée in tow. Daphne is beautiful, charming... and harbouring secrets. After meeting during the warblack man, Felix knows some of Daphne's pastRodney King, but she has worked hard nearly to conceal that which could unravel her carefully built lifedeath. For Charlotte, too, a dangerous past is coming back in Told from the shape perspective of fellow refugeeAshley Bennett, 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 novel follows her evolution from 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 silent bystander when confronted with matters of the Social Democratic Party)race, 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 woman finding her voice 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 luckyembracing her heritage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784296481</amazonuk>1471188191