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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John BanksTananarive Due|title= WThe Reformatory|rating= 45|genre= General Historical Fiction |summary=On the slopes of Mt Hood in OregonGracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, an 1000twelve year-year old Viking Robbie Stephens Jr is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is inspired by as the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored and with his world in turmoilReformatory. Beginning a journey westward, heIt's filled a place with a desire to wreak vengeance on brutal and dark reputation. But the individuals he finds morally corrupt. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0983333416</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Elaine Everest|title= Christmas at Woolworths|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=''Christmas at Woolworths'' segregated reformatory is the sequel to wartime saga ''The Woolworths Girlsa chamber of horrors,'' and continues the story where haunted by the first book left offboys that have died there. Members of In order to survive the close-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together school governor and keep morale highhis Funhouse, even though Robert must enlist the future is uncertain. At the heart help of the neighbourhood, the home of kindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where family and friends can gather for good food and conversation: a way to forget the troubles outsideschool's ghosts – only they have their own motivations. Spirits remain high; even when the bombs are falling so close to home. We catch up with the three friends from the first book: Sarah yearns for peace and an end to the war, Maisie is desperate for a child and Freda would love to find romance. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509843655</amazonuk>1803366532}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Minette WaltersKatherine Howe|title=The Last HoursA True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port of Melcombe Hannah Masury is living in DorsetBoston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. Ignorant When she hears there is to be a hanging of many rules of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years latersome pirates in the town, the disease rages through the countryshe decides to go and watch. On Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the estate hands of Develishtwo vicious pirates. She hides away, Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of the people who lived in the demesne after so that they don't find and kill her husband had ridden off too, and then to try escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and secure joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a marriage for his daughtercabin boy. Two hundred bonded serfs lived on She soon finds herself in the estate and thick of things when Lady Anne realised the virulence of the plague she ordered that the estate refuse entry to anyonethere is a mutiny on board, including and from there we are caught up in her husband and his entourage, for fear that they would bring rip roaring tale of life on the disease to her peopleocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760632139</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Sarah Marsh|title=The Sixteen Trees A Sign of the SommeHer Own|rating=43.5

|summary=While his grandfather lived the past was an area After a bout of certainty for Edvardscarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with his grandparentsSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, having survived the accident that killed his parentseverything about her life changes. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to light showing Edvard his family history a school where she is different taught to lip read, but physically restrained from what he'd believed… his mother's birthplace, his mother's namesigning. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… deaf and that's without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itselfusing a system called Visible Speech. Edvard At the same time, Bell is determined to solve the puzzleworking on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a determination that will take him away from his native Norway to an area complicated tangle of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secretsespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857056069</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toby ClementsClaire North|title=Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)House of Odysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=1470 dawns and ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the next chapters palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without 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 the War throne of the Roses are ready to play outWestern Isles. King Edward thinks Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the future has been settled but treachery is still lurkingbrink of a fragile peace. Meanwhile Katherine and Thomas also have their world turned upside down when One that ledger shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and a chance comment threaten all they havehis sister Elektra, including their livesseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178089466X</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P F ChisholmB0C7J9D21B|title=Guns A Captive in the North Algiers (The Sir Robert Carey Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries Omnibus)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=1592: Sir Robert Carey flees the strictures of Elizabethan court – When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and his creditors – in order to become Deputy Warden he lives at The House of the West March in CarlisleBeautiful Swallows. The Scottish/English borders Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and those who inhabit them are different from the world Ettore's mother died when hewas born. He's left behind not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it will have to become his world. It's now his job to bring law difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the lawless. This isnpreparation of anchovies didn't easy when every local he comes across has an affinity work out and a heritage of crime to some degreebastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. For Robert the best thing about the job is its proximity to the woman Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he loves but he doesn't know what he'll do about that yet eitherhad a successful business as a guide for visitors. Meanwhile he soon realises that those who are supposed to be on his side are plotting against him but they don't realise what they're up against He was even saving some money. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694719</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Essie Fox|title=The House with the Stained-Glass WindowFascination

|summary= MariannaThe Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, an opera singer in by the soon-Second World War) which has often led to-be Ukrainian city of Lviv, is mistakenly shot dead at more than a political rally in the dying days of the Soviet Unionfew writers mishandling it. This novel begins with both anger and hope, as MariannaThere's coffin is covered such a glut of media set in the illegal blue and yellow flag, and her death seems era that the hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to herald the birth point of a new nationbeing cliched, hackneyed even. But the day of her funeral All this is also the day of her daughter's first period – a girl who must learn how simply to illustrate that it would be a woman in an easy thing to do poorly. But despite that, something about it still grabs me – and something about this time of drastic change, with no mother to guide her along the waybook's description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857057138</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= K J WhittakerNicole Jarvis|title= False LightsA Portrait in Shadow|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Cornwall, 1817.''I want all of Florence to know my name''

What if your worst mistake changed the course of history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of WaterlooCast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and his ex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied Englandwhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate. Cornwall erupts into open rebellionBut as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, and young heiress Hester escapes with Crow, Wellington's former intelligence officer, a halfthe self-French aristocrat haunted by his part in proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the catastrophic defeat. Together, they become embroiled in a web of treachery city and espionage as plans are laid to free Wellington its citizens from secret captivity in the Scilly Isles plagues and lead an uprising against the French occupationcurses. In a country rife with traitors, Hester The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and Crow know guard it is impossible to play such a game as this for long.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>1786695340</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= J Jefferson FarjeonThomas D Lee|title= Seven DeadPerilous Times|rating= 43|genre= Historical FictionFantasy|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 Hate is the path of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?least resistance'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind  Set in the shuttersnear-distant future, but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In in a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman. Fleeing world on the house in horrorverge of climate collapse, he Britain is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a journalist. Fascinated by Ted's story hero (and a possible scoopor several), Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case save the day and its assortment rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of odd clues, including a portrait shot through the heart, an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one Knights of the victimsRound Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0712356886</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Salt CreekG K Holloway|authortitle=Lucy TreloarIn the Shadows of Castles

|summary=The first chapter of ''Salt Creek'' opens in Chichester, England, We begin after the momentous battle in 1874. Hester Finch is a respected 1066 and reasonably wealthy member of her community. But she can't stop her thoughts wandering back to her adolescence, spent on Salt Creek Station in the remote South Australian Coorong region. Hester feels day of William of Normandy''has never felt so alive s coronation as then, when we had so little''King of England.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709417</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jamie Ford|title= Love and Other Consolation Prizes|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=At the WorldWilliam's Fair in 1962, it seems that all eyes are focused on the future. The Space Needle dominates position is not secure and the landscape, filling people with anticipation about things to come. One visitor, however, new king has his mind firmly focused on the pastmany challenges. Ernest Young Imposing authority through a coronation is helping his daughter Ju-ju with a story she important. And William is writing for her newspaper; a story about a young immigrant boy who was given away as a prize in a raffle at right to worry. While 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 yearprevious king, Bookbag reviewedHarold, is dead and thoroughly enjoyed, [[Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's Daughter]], a swashbuckling historical romance set in picturesque Cornwall. Now we have the pleasure likelihood of reading more pitched battles is over, the rebels are stirring and much-anticipated sequel. This time, the story focuses on a neighbour of the Polcarrow family, Miss Celia Cavendish, who has been engaged to a cruel man that she country does not love. One fateful night, she runs away wish to the Polcarrow house to beg them for help, and the pivotal events of that night have far-reaching consequences for all involvedrecognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398856</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreview|author=Hawa L Crickmore|title=Across the Ocean|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=A Maya is a young cage fighter, Martin Grandson, was diagnosed with girl living in a rare genetic disorder which required a bone-marrow transplant, preferably from a siblinghunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Only recently he'd been a fit young manClimate change is occurring, in the prime Sea of lifeGrass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, but now he was suffering from a rare type of bone cancer: without the transplant he would be paralysed for life and might be dead within food is becoming more and more scarce. What to do? Can the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive law givers in the transplant within federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the next fourteen days. Unfortunately Martin's parents had died in Traveller, a car crash and there were no siblings or other close relatives. His girlfriend, Celiaspiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, was not a match.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk>provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= M J Tjia|title= She Be Damned|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical) |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|authorisbn= Sarah Franklin1529125898|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>}}{{newreviewGodmersham Park|author= Jane Johnson|title= Court of LionsGill Hornby|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 she's happy with her new life – but how could she be? Kate'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, was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of paper. The paper was folded and pressed into one of the Alhambra's walls. There it has lain, undisturbed by the tides of history – the Fall of Granada, the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of love, in a time of danger and desperation, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life forever. |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 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 2|rating=4

|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|authorisbn= Geraint Jones1471187179|title= Blood ForestA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating= 54|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= FelixMinnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The lucky onebook is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their home. He doesnUnfortunately, this isn't feel especially lucky when he staggers out what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the grove secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds twelve of his comrades butchered herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and mutilated in the worst possible ways. He felt even less lucky when friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the soldiers arrived, Roman cavalry. He might have run, but he knew he'd never make it. He stepped out to face whatever came nextCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718184815</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dominic SmithAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title= The Last Painting of Sara de VosKokoschka's Doll|rating= 2.5|genre= Historical Literary Fiction|summary= If you find Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the techniques used by Rembrandt get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and Vermeer fascinating, ''The Last Painting flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of Sara de Vos'' provides it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a masterclass weird section in how to work up the middle on darker stock paper, a canvas chapter whose number was in stages. Framing the novel 20,000s, letters used as the story of a seventeenth century Dutch paintingnarrative form, 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 throughso on. Sara is one of the few women artists of It intrigued with the period and her painting is of children skating on subterranean voice a frozen canal, her now dead daughter its central figure. The painting has been man hears in Marty de Groot's family since before Isaac Newton was born and he is the patent lawyer from whom wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it is stolen in 1950s Manhattanmentioned, too. Ellie Shipley forged a copy of But you've seen the painting in her postgraduate student years star rating that comes with this review, 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 arecan tell that if love was on these pages, we then understand these are merely the author's equivalent of the delicate chalk lines used it was not actually caused by painters of the Dutch Golden Age to mark out the composition which will followthem. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>192526680X</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Caro FraserChristina Hammonds Reed|title= The Summer House PartyBlack Kids|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction Teens |summary= In Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the gloriously hot summer backdrop of 1936the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a group reaction to the absolution of people meet at four police officers for beating a country house party. Within three yearsblack man, England will be at warRodney King, but for now, time stands stillnearly to death. Dan Ranscombe is clever and good-looking, but he resents Told from the wealth and easy savoir-faire perspective of fellow guestAshley Bennett, Paul Latimer. Surely the novel follows her evolution from 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 silent bystander when confronted with her role as children's nanny? And artist Henry Haddonmatters of race, their host, no longer young, but secure in his power as to a practised seducer. As these guests gather, none has any inkling the choices they make will have fateful consequences, lasting through the war woman finding her voice and beyondembracing her heritage. Or that the first unforeseen event will be a shocking death… |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786691485</amazonuk>1471188191