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<!-- Rawi INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->*[[image:Rawi_Baghdad{{Frontpage|author=Tananarive Due|title=The Reformatory|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations..jpg.|leftisbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|linkauthor=http://wwwKatherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is 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 town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates.amazon She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy.co She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.uk/gp/product/1786073226/ref|isbn=as_li_tl?ie0861547438}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=UTF8&campAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to 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 same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1634&creative1035401614}}{{Frontpage|author=6738&creativeASINClaire North|title=1786073226&linkCodeHouse of Odysseus|rating=as2&tag5|genre=thebookbag-21&linkIdLiterary Fiction |summary=6245c9160510471e2771ab88fd40a18d]]''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 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 throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.}}{{Frontpage|author=Essie Fox|title=[[The Baghdad Clock Fascination|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by Shahad Al Rawi]]the Second World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. There's such a glut of media set in the era that the hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to the point of being cliched, hackneyed even. All this is simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite that, something about it still grabs me – and something about this book's description did as well.|isbn=1914585526}}{{Frontpage|author=Nicole Jarvis|title=A Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''I want all of Florence to know my name''

[[image:Xstar.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]Cast out from Rome, [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''The Baghdad Clock'' is Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a tale of two friends growing up during the first and second Iraqi war. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism to illustrate the displacement felt by a young girl home and where her neighbourhoodfuture can thrive rather than stagnate. The novel introduces us to But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the various characters surrounding powerful Accademia, the protagonist. They are full self-proclaimed guardians of life and yet never seem to add anything the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the central narrativecity and its citizens from plagues and curses. Rawi, The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it would seemabove all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has a problem with telling a storyno place amongst them and their society. [[The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi|Full Review]]isbn=1803362340<br>}}<!-- Clements -->{{Frontpage*[[image:Clements_Coffin.jpg|leftauthor=Thomas D Lee|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1472204271?iePerilous Times|rating=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1472204271]]3 ===[[The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements]]==|genre=Fantasy [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on 'Hate is the old coffin path that winds from the village to the moor top, the villagers only speak of it in hushed tones - of how itleast resistance's a foreboding place filled with evil. Mercy Booth has lived there since birth, and she's always loved the grand house and its isolation, but a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle her. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed in the house, mysteries come to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secrets. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? [[The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Llewellyn -->*[[image:Llewellyn-Walking.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473663075?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473663075]] ===[[Walking Wounded by Sheila Llewellyn]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]

David Reece was called up Set in 1941 and sent to fight in Burma. On his return in 1946, he finds a return to civilian life quite beyond him and, after a brawl, is sent to a military psychiatric hospital. There, he is treated by Daniel Carter, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies can work with men like Davidthe near-distant future, but who is working in a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT and lobotomy. ''Walking Wounded'' follows both men as they both try to come to terms with traumatic experiences and find a place in a world moving on from WWII. [[Walking Wounded by Sheila Llewellyn|Full Review]]<br><!-- Morris -->*[[image:Morris_Auschwitz.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785763644?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785763644]] ===[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] So, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see the horror there, and immediately swear to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind it, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demand, to the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and get a job that means you're actually a Jew working in the political wing of the SS, answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the place, and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for you, under the eyes of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, and survived to tell the tale, but he also managed to do something even more daring, and unexpected – he dared to invest hope in a burgeoning love that he found in the camp. [[The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Halliburton -->*[[image:Halliburton_Optickal.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0715651978?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0715651978]] ===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal by Rachel Halliburton]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens in London in January 1797. Benjamin West, President verge of the Royal Academy, is reflecting on the past year's scandal involving the Provises, father and daughterclimate collapse, and worries that he handled everything poorly. From the start the book's figurative language Britain 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 not. It was as if somebody had dropped a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – the more he prodded and stirred the memory, the murkier it becamegreat peril.' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal by Rachel Halliburton|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Banks -->*[[image:Banks_W.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0983333416?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0983333416]] ===[[W by John Banks]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] On the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored and with his world in turmoil. Beginning a journey westward, he's filled with British Isles desperately needs a desire hero (or several) to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupt. [[W by John Banks|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author=Elaine Everest|title= Christmas at Woolworths|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=''Christmas at Woolworths'' is save the sequel to wartime saga ''The Woolworths Girls,'' day and continues the story where the first book left offrescue what little remains. Members of the closeWhat no-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together and keep morale high, even though the future is uncertain. At the heart one expected was that one of the neighbourhood, the home Knights of kindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where family and friends can gather for good food and conversation: a way to forget the troubles outside. Spirits remain high; even when Round Table would answer 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 romancecall. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509843655</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Minette WaltersG K Holloway|title=The Last HoursIn the Shadows of Castles

|summary=In June 1348 We begin after the Black Death came into momentous battle in 1066 and on the country through the port day of Melcombe in Dorset. Ignorant William of many rules Normandy's coronation as King of hygiene which weEngland. William'd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, s position is not secure and the disease rages new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through the countrya coronation is important. On the estate of Develish, Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of the people who lived in the demesne after her husband had ridden off And William is right to try and secure a marriage for his daughterworry. Two hundred bonded serfs lived on While the estate previous king, Harold, is dead and when Lady Anne realised the virulence likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the plague she ordered that the estate refuse entry to anyone, including her husband rebels are stirring and his entourage, for fear that they would bring much of the disease country does not wish to her peoplerecognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760632139</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)3949666079|title=The Sixteen Trees of the SommeNoema|author=Dael Akkerman

|summary=While his grandfather lived the past was an area of certainty for Edvard''This is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with his grandparents, having survived ' Maya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the accident that killed his parentsMesolithic era. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family history Climate change is different from what he'd believed… his mother's birthplace, his mother's nameoccurring, the whereabouts Sea of late Great-Uncle Einar… Grass encroaches further and thatfurther into Maya's without looking forest home, and food is becoming more and more deeply into scarce. What to do? Can the law givers in the fatal accident itself. Edvard is determined federation of villages muster peaceful ways to solve cope? Can the puzzleTraveller, a determination that will take him away from his native Norway to an area spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secrets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056069</amazonuk>All Life, provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toby Clements1529125898|title=Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)Godmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=1470 dawns and ''If it were not for the next chapters casual dereliction of the War odd gentleman's duty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of the Roses are ready governess to play outtwelve-year-old Fanny Austen. King Edward thinks that She had no experience of teaching 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 future has been settled but treachery is still lurkinghousehold. Meanwhile Katherine When her mother died, her father cast her off and Thomas also would have their world turned upside down when that ledger and nothing more to do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a chance comment threaten all they haveyear. Her maid, Agnes, including their liveswould receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178089466X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=P F ChisholmMelissa Fu |title=Guns Peach Blossom Spring |rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction |summary= I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''. Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of a book that I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japan, a young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, and in Renshu's case eventually to America. |isbn=1472277538}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1916072038|title=The House in the North Hollow (The Sir Robert Carey Mysteries OmnibusTalbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary=1592: Sir Robert Carey flees We meet part of the strictures of Elizabethan court – Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and his creditors – her mother have travelled in order some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to become Deputy Warden of the West March house in Carlislethe hollow. The Scottish/English borders two women are angry with each other and those who inhabit them are different from the world heJocelyn is well aware of her mother's left behind but it will have to become his world. Itstrengths and weaknesses: 's now his job to bring law to the lawless. This isn't easy when every local he comes across has an affinity and She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a heritage facade of crime to some degreerespectability, the deplorable truth''. For Robert the best thing  Hester is furious about the job is its proximity Jocelyn's refusal to the woman he loves but he doesndo as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal't know what he'll do about that yet either. Meanwhile he  Then we are told of the birth of a child and, soon realises that those after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.}}{{Frontpage|author=Annabel Abbs|title=The Language of Food|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who are supposed has never had the slightest inclination to be on his side are plotting against him but boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home life. Together, they don't realise what they're up againsttest, craft, refine and reshape the world of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book and changing the face of cookery writing forever. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786694719</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Freya Marske|title=The House with the Stained-Glass WindowA Marvellous Light

|summary= Marianna, an opera singer Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the soon-Civil Service, much to-be Ukrainian city of Lviv, is mistakenly shot dead at a political rally in his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the dying days streets of the Soviet UnionLondon are threaded with magic. This novel begins with both anger and hopeDesperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, as Marianna's coffin is covered in Robin follows Edwin to the illegal blue and yellow flagcountryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and her death seems to herald the birth of people shimmer with power. There they uncover a new nation. But sinister plot that threatens the day lives of her funeral is also the day of her daughter's first period – a girl who must learn how to be a woman all magicians in this time of drastic change, with no mother to guide her along the wayBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857057138</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= K J WhittakerB09F4CTKJR|title= False Lights|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Cornwall, 1817. What if your worst mistake changed the course of history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo, and his ex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied England. Cornwall erupts into open rebellion, and young heiress Hester escapes with Crow, 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 to free Wellington from secret captivity in the Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the French occupation. In a country rife with traitors, Hester and Crow know it is impossible to play such a game as this Flights 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 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 hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman. Fleeing the house in horror, he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be a journalist. Fascinated by Ted's story (and a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and its assortment of odd clues, including a portrait shot through the heart, an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one of the victims.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356886</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Salt CreekFreedom|author=Lucy TreloarSteven Burgauer

|summary=The first chapter It's the later stages of ''Salt Creek'' opens in Chichester, England, in 1874World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Hester Finch Petrol Petronus is a respected young American who has signed up and reasonably wealthy member of her communityjoined the 17 Aero Squadron. But she can't stop her thoughts wandering back This company was the first US Aero Squadron to her adolescencebe trained in Canada, spent on Salt Creek Station the first to be attached to the RAF and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in the remote South Australian Coorong regionactive combat. Hester feels ''But before that can happen, Petrol has never felt so alive as then, when we had so little''to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709417</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jamie FordChristophe Medler|title= Love and Other Consolation PrizesMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating= 54|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=At Set against the World's Fair in 1962, it seems that all eyes are focused on the future. The Space Needle dominates backdrop of the landscapeEnglish Civil War, filling people with anticipation about things to come. One visitor, however, has his mind firmly focused on the past. Ernest Young is helping his daughter Jua secret plan (code-ju with a story she named Madrigal) is writing for her newspaper; a story about a young immigrant boy who was given away as a prize discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642. As a raffle at loyal servant of the World's Fair in 1909.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022752</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nicola Pryce|title= The Captain's Girl|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Last year, Bookbag reviewedKing, and thoroughly enjoyedHead of the Secret Service, [[Pengellyit is Robert's Daughter by Nicola Pryce|Pengelly's Daughter]], a swashbuckling historical romance set in picturesque Cornwall. Now we have duty to uncover the pleasure details of reading the much-anticipated sequel. This time, plan and follow the story focuses on a neighbour clues to uncover one of the Polcarrow family, Miss Celia Cavendish, who has been engaged to a cruel man that she does not love. One fateful night, she runs away to most guarded secrets in history—especially since the Polcarrow house to beg them for help, and plot could affect the pivotal events of that night have far-reaching consequences for all involvedKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398856</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hawa L Crickmore1471187179|title=Across the OceanA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore

|genre=General Historical Fiction|summary=A young cage fighter, Martin Grandson, was diagnosed with Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a rare genetic disorder which required a bone-marrow transplant, preferably from a siblingleafy provincial suburb. Only recently heThe book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother'd been s expectations and find a fit nice young manto marry, in produce children and spend the prime rest of life, but now he was suffering from a rare type of bone cancer: without the transplant he would be paralysed for life her days looking after her husband and might be dead within the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive the transplant within the next fourteen daystheir home. Unfortunately Martin, this isn's parents had died in t what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a car crash and there were no siblings or other close relativessecretary. His girlfriendAs a result of a chance meeting, Celiashe finds herself drawn into espionage, was not working for the secret service and effectively living a matchdouble life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= M J TjiaAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title= She Be DamnedKokoschka's Doll|rating= 42.5|genre= Crime (Historical) Literary Fiction|summary= LondonWell, 1863: prostitutes in this looked very much like a book I could love from the Waterloo area are turning get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removedflipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. When another girl goes missing I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, fears grow that a chapter whose number was in the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a loss 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigateon. With It intrigued with the assistance subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leenit mentioned, Heloise inches closer to the truthtoo. But when Amah is implicated in you've seen the brutal plotstar rating that comes with this review, Heloise must reconsider whom she and can trusttell that if love was on these pages, before the killer strikes againit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah FranklinChristina Hammonds Reed|title= ShelterThe Black Kids|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical FictionTeens |summary=Connie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge in the WomenChristina Hammonds Reed's Timber Corps. For herdebut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, this remote community must now serve a secret purpose.<br>Seppereaction to the absolution of four police officers for beating a black man, an Italian prisoner of warRodney King, is haunted by his memoriesnearly to death. In Told from the forest campperspective of Ashley Bennett, he finds the novel follows her evolution from a strange kind silent bystander when confronted with matters 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 crumblingrace, to a woman finding her voice and both must now make a life-defining choiceembracing her heritage.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762990</amazonuk>1471188191