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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel HalliburtonTananarive Due|title=The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandalReformatory|rating=3.5

|summary=Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens in London in January 1797. Benjamin West, President of the Royal AcademyGracetown, is reflecting on the past year's scandal involving the Provises, father and daughter, and worries that he handled everything poorlyFlorida. From the start the book's figurative language is appropriately full of colour and painterly techniques: 'He had intended to deal with them honourably, but now everyone in London was saying he had notJune 1950. It was as if somebody had dropped After a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on scuffle with a palette – the more he prodded and stirred the memorywhite boy, the murkier it became.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715651978</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Banks|title= W|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction |summary=On the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, 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 haunted by the story where 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 We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy''Salt Creek'' opens in Chichester, s coronation as King of England, in 1874. Hester Finch William's position is not secure and the new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a respected and reasonably wealthy member of her communitycoronation is important. But she can't stop her thoughts wandering back And William is right to her adolescenceworry. While the previous king, Harold, spent on Salt Creek Station in is dead and the remote South Australian Coorong region. Hester feels ''has never felt so alive as thenlikelihood of more pitched battles is over, when we had so little''the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to recognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910709417</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jamie Ford3949666079|title= Love and Other Consolation PrizesNoema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=At the World's Fair in 1962, it seems that all eyes are focused on the future. The Space Needle dominates the landscape, filling people with anticipation 'This is a story about some things that happened to comeme about twelve thousand years ago. One visitor, however, has his mind firmly focused on the past. Ernest Young '' Maya is helping his daughter Ju-ju with a story she is writing for her newspaper; a story about a young immigrant boy who was given away as a prize girl living in a raffle at hunter gatherer village during the World's Fair in 1909Mesolithic era.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022752</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nicola Pryce|title= The Captain's Girl|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Last year, Bookbag reviewedClimate change is occurring, the Sea of Grass encroaches further and thoroughly enjoyed, [[Pengelly's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengellyfurther into Maya's Daughter]]forest home, a swashbuckling historical romance set and food is becoming more and more scarce. What to do? Can the law givers in picturesque Cornwall. Now we have the pleasure federation of reading villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the much-anticipated sequel. This timeTraveller, the story focuses on a neighbour of the Polcarrow family, Miss Celia Cavendish, spiritual figure who has been engaged to a cruel man that she does not love. One fateful night, she runs away to interprets the Polcarrow house to beg them for helpwisdom of All Life, and the pivotal events of that night have far-reaching consequences for all involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398856</amazonuk>provide solutions?

{{newreview|author=Hawa L Crickmore|title=Across Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the Ocean|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=A young cage fighter, Martin Grandson, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder which required a boneposition of governess to twelve-year-marrow transplant, preferably from a siblingold Fanny Austen. Only recently he'd been a fit young man, in the prime She had no experience of life, teaching but now he this was suffering from a rare type case of bone cancer: without necessity. Until the transplant he would be paralysed for death of her mother, Anne had a comfortable life and might be dead within the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the transplant within the next fourteen dayshousehold. Unfortunately Martin's parents had When her mother died in , her father 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 car crash and there were no siblings or other close relativesyear. His girlfriendHer maid, CeliaAgnes, would receive nothing but was not a matchfortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= M J TjiaMelissa Fu |title= She Be DamnedPeach Blossom Spring |rating= 43.5|genre= Crime (Historical) Fiction |summary= London, 1863: prostitutes in I loved the Waterloo area are turning up deadprelude to Peach Blossom Spring, their sexual organs mutilated and removeda short chapter entitled ''Origins''. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that Unfortunately it is the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at only truly poetic part of a loss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigatebook that I expected more from. With the assistance of her trusty Covering Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer history from 1938 to the truth2005 as viewed through one family's perspective. But when Amah When their home city is implicated in set ablaze during the brutal plotwar with Japan, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trusta young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, before the killer strikes againand in Renshu's case eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah Franklin1916072038|title= ShelterThe House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Connie Granger has escaped We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her bombed-out city mother have travelled in some discomfort from their homeat Ecklington, finding refuge to the house in the Womenhollow. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's Timber Corps. For herstrengths and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, this remote community must now serve beneath a secret purpose.<br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner facade of warrespectability, is haunted by his memories. In the forest camp, he finds a strange kind of freedomdeplorable truth''.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But  Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as they are drawn togethershe was asked, the world outside their forest haven is being torn apartwhich has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''. Old certainties  Then we are crumblingtold of the birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and both must now make a life-defining choiceisolation in Yorkshire.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762990</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane JohnsonAnnabel Abbs|title= Court The Language of LionsFood|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city of Granada Eliza Acton is a year ago. In poet who has never had the shadow of the Alhambra, one of the most beautiful places on earth, she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy barslightest inclination to boil an egg. She pretends she's happy When tasked with her new life – but how could writing a cookery book, she be? Kate's alonerecruits Ann Kirby, afraid and hiding under a false name. And fate is about to bring her face-to-face local woman with her greatest feara troubled home life. Five centuries agoTogether, a messagethey test, in a hand few could readcraft, was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of paper. The paper was folded refine and pressed into one of the Alhambra's walls. There it has lain, undisturbed by the tides of history – reshape the Fall world of Granadadomestic cookery, reinventing the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of love, in a time of danger recipe book and desperation, changing the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life face of cookery writing forever. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786694336</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Angus WatsonFreya Marske|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 2Marvellous Light

|summary=Thomas Boleyn sends his daughters abroad to be trained at the courts of European royalty. Not only does this give them an education Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the ways of the eliteCivil Service, it could also ensure a good marriagemuch to his chagrin. Unfortunately There he hasn't reckoned on meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the ideas streets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a curse that one of themthreatens to swallow him, AnneRobin follows Edwin to the countryside, picks up where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and as for marriage… Anne is determined to marry for love not through some paternal arrangementthe people shimmer with power. Yet There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the reality turns out to be different, driving a wedge through her family on a road leading to dark tragedylives of all magicians in the British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147222762X</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martha ConwayB09F4CTKJR|title= The Floating Theatre|rating= 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 of a debt that must be repaid, May is compelled to transport secret passengers, under cover of darkness, across the river and on, along the underground railroad. But as May's secrets become harder to keep, she learns she must endanger those now dear to her.  And to save the lives of others, she must risk her own... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762907</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFlights for Freedom|author= Jenny Ashcroft|title= Beneath a Burning Sky|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Young bride Olivia Sheldon finds returning to her childhood home in Egypt a bitter-sweet experience. On the one hand, she has been reunited with her estranged sister Clara, and the pair have formed a deep and loving bond. On the other, she has an unhappy marriage to her domineering husband Alistair, who only married her to spite Clara, who had refused him previously. Life with the sadistic Alistair is unbearable, 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 to try and solve the mystery of her disappearance before it is too late.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751565032</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Conn Iggulden|title=Dunstan: One Man Will Change the Fate of EnglandSteven Burgauer

|summary=The young Dunstan shows no sign It's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the sainthood he'll later attainconflict. Son of Petrol Petronus is a Wessex thane young American who has signed up and sent joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to a monastery for educationbe trained in Canada, this isn't a lad who responds the first to discipline. However an enquiring, intelligent mind begins be attached to emerge the RAF and then comes the big break. Lady Elflaed calls first to put a proposal to him after hearing about what she considers be sent into the skies to be a miracle and fight the monks consider another Germans in a long line of excusesactive combat. Yet Dunstan will outshine all his teachers as well as knowing seven kings and holding responsible positions in their courtsBut before that can happen, as Petrol has to master flying the book's title suggestsnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. Whether we believe in the miracles or not, Dunstan certainly had quite a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181441</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon EdgeChristophe Medler|title= The Hopkins Conundrum|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Tim Cleverley inherits a failing pub in Wales, which he plans to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist to concoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard Manley Hopkins, who composed ''The Wreck of the Deutschland'' nearby. In Victorian England, Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life full of confusion and contradiction, but discovers a calling for poetry that threatens to overrule his calling to God. And, speaking of God, 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>}}{{newreview|author=Anne O'Brien|title=The Shadow QueenMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=4.5

|summary=Born in 1328Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, Joan of Kent may be of royal blood but she's from a family tainted secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by treachery. Her father Edmund Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, was executed for his part Sir Robert Douse in the infamous Montague plotsummer of 1642. However Joan has grown up under As a loyal servant of the protection of her cousinKing, King Edward III with all the advantages and attributes Head of a princess. Yetthe Secret Service, much to her motherit is Robert's chagrin, obedience isn't one duty to uncover the details of these attributes. Joan's head strong feist takes her on a varied journey in life. Having said that, three husbands, five marriages (technically) the plan and a son destined for follow the English throne means that it's also been clues to uncover one heck of a life!the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848455070</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Falvey1471187179|title=The Girls of Ennismore: A Heart-Rending Irish SagaBeautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=4.5

|summary=Ireland 1900: Ennismore HouseMinnie is an 's young heiress Victoria had hoped that she and Rosie Killeen would be friends foreverordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. Rosie soon comes The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to know better as therelive up to her mother's expectations and find a social chasm between those who live in nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the House rest of her days looking after her husband and thosetheir home. Unfortunately, like Rosiethis isn's family, who have been brought up merely t what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to serve themcontinue working as a secretary. The days As a result of innocence are coming a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to an end in many waysinfiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Soon, Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the cry friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for Irish Home Rule becomes louder, there'll be more than steps on society's ladder between them as each must discover their own way in a nation that will never be the same againCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786490625</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elaine EverestAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title= The Butlins GirlsKokoschka's Doll|rating= 42.5|genre= Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness to start her new job as a Butlins auntie. Behind the smiles and confident appearanceWell, she hides this looked very much like a secret; she has taken book I could love from the job to escape escalating problems at home. She soon finds good friends in her chaletget-mates Bunty and Plumgo, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it turns out that they . I found things to potentially delight me each have their own reasons for wanting time – a fresh start. Meanwhileweird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, Molly is shocked to discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working letters used as an entertainment adviser at narrative form, and so on. It intrigued with the campsubterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. Is he really as suave as his on-screen persona? And why is he working at But you've seen the camp anyway? As hidden secrets become discoveredstar rating that comes with this review, Molly and her new friends face new threats and dangers can tell that may threaten their new-found freedomif love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447295536</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Geraint JonesChristina Hammonds Reed|title= Blood ForestThe Black Kids|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical FictionTeens |summary= Felix. The lucky one. He doesnChristina Hammonds Reed't feel especially lucky when he staggers out into s debut novel is set against the grove and finds twelve backdrop of his comrades butchered and mutilated in the worst possible ways. He felt even less lucky when the soldiers arrived1992 Los Angeles riots, Roman cavalry. He might have run, but he knew he'd never make it. He stepped out a reaction 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 absolution of Sara de Vos'' provides four police officers for beating a masterclass in how black man, Rodney King, nearly to work up a canvas in stagesdeath. Framing the novel as Told from the story perspective of a seventeenth century Dutch paintingAshley Bennett, 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 novel follows her painting is evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of children skating on a frozen canalrace, 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 to a copy of the painting in woman finding her postgraduate student years voice and in 2000 finds herself at the centre of a gathering storm which threatens to destroy embracing 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 followheritage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>192526680X</amazonuk>1471188191