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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|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingtitle=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary="15" 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- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HEREeighteenth-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.<!-- Curran -->}}{{Frontpage|author=Essie Fox|-title=The Fascination| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"4|genre=Historical Fiction[[image:1683690133.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwThe Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it.amazonThere'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.coAll 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.uk/dp/1683690133/ref5|genre=nosim?tagHistorical Fiction|summary=thebookbag-21]]''I want all of Florence to know my name''

Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|isbn=0356518523}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"G K Holloway|title=In the Shadows of Castles|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=[[My LadyWe begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. William's Choosing by Kitty Curran position is not secure and the new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. And William is right to worry. While the previous king, Harold, is dead and Larissa Zageris]]the likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to recognise a new overlord.|isbn=1800422466}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3949666079|title=Noema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago.''

[[image:4starMaya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era.jpgClimate change is occurring, the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce. What to do? Can the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions? }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529125898|linktitle=Category:{{{Godmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour=5|Humour]], [[:Category:genre=Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]summary=''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.''

You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor Anne Sharpe was thirty- or else doom yourself one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make take up the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't going position of governess to be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]<!twelve-year- Mayfield -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1786072424old Fanny Austen.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786072424/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Parentations by Kate Mayfield]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] In eighteenth century London, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - and charged with protecting a mysterious child. Fast forward to the London of 2015, and the sisters are still waiting - with She had no way experience of knowing if the boy is alive or dead. Far away, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life, teaching but also forces them to keep this was a secret for two hundred yearscase of necessity. As those years pass by, those who were granted immortality find that it's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging in Until the absence death of death. [[The Parentations by Kate Mayfield|Full Review]] <!-- Laws -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Laws_Munich.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178803788X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] I've played Neville Chamberlain in publicher mother, you know – Anne had a full one-line in a ''Beyond the Fringe'' sketch, where he says he has a piece of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded to prove it comfortable life and was a paper bag, in fact, loved by blowing it up and immediately bursting it. That is what that paper both parents although her father was to many – frequently absent from the indicator of a lot of hot airhousehold. When her mother died, her father cast her off and only leading would have nothing more to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anywaydo with her. Certainly, not everyone No explanation was keen on his appeasement with the Nazis, and this book opens with the first-person reportage offered but she would receive an annuity of one such man, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign the Sudetenland away£35 a year. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-daughter Her maid, EmmaAgnes, at Cambridge would receive nothing but under a cloud of ignominy, to pick the last, barest threads of the story up and see just what did happen to himwas fortunately taken in by some neighbours. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws|Full Review]]}}<!-- Kristjansson -->{{Frontpage|-author=Melissa Fu | styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Peach Blossom Spring [[image:Kristjansson_Kin.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon3.co.uk/dp/1786489937/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Historical Fiction ===[[Kin by Snorri Kristjansson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Unnthor Reginsson is I loved the uncrowned king of the valley; retired Viking farmer and rumoured owner of a large hoard of gold. He is gathering his clanprelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a grand reunion after ten years of absence. It is time for strengthening family bonds, feasting, telling tall tales and remembering shared history. [[Kin by Snorri Kristjansson|Full Review]] <!-- Chadwick -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0751564974.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751564974/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Templar Silks by Elizabeth Chadwick]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] short chapter entitled ''Templar SilksOrigins'' . Unfortunately it is a great example of historical fiction done well. It's a fictitious account of William Marshal's time in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell only truly poetic part of calm before the death of King Baldwin to leprosy in 1185. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack of research. In this book she goes back to fill in the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of his life. Her main problem, as she acknowledges at the end of the book, is that virtually nothing is known of Marshal's time in Jerusalem. We know when and why he went, we know who the major power players were, we know when he came back and that is about itI expected more from. So understandably, this book is probably more fiction than Covering Chinese history but it is brilliantly written none the less. [[Templar Silks by Elizabeth Chadwick|Full Review]] <!-- Mitchell -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:MandM_Revenge.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1520973179/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Revenge by Mitchell & Mitchell]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''Revenge'' opens with the news that Charles Stuart is from 1938 to return to the throne 2005 as Charles II of England. A young woman, Ruth Courtney, is returning home to her viewed through one family's farmhouse, excited at the prospect of a new Kingperspective. She arrives home, however, to find her When their home city is set ablaze and surrounded by renegade soldiers, supporters of Cromwell, her family nowhere to be found. [[Revenge by Mitchell & Mitchell|Full Review]] <!-- Rawi -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rawi_Baghdad.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786073226/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]   | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi]]=== [[image:2.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''The Baghdad Clock'' is 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 with Japan, a young girl mother (Meilin) and her neighbourhoodfour-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The novel introduces us to the various characters surrounding the protagonist. They are full of life story follows them on their journey across China, and yet never seem to add anything in Renshu's case eventually to the central narrativeAmerica. Rawi, it would seem, has a problem with telling a story. [[The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi|Full Review]] <!-- Clements -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"| [[image:Clements_Coffin.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472204271/refisbn=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]1472277538}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"1916072038|title===[[The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=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 the old coffin path that winds from the village to the moor top, the villagers only speak of it House in hushed tones - of how it'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? [[Hollow (The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements|Full Review]] <!-- Llewellyn -->|-Talbot Saga)| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Allie Cresswell*[[image:Llewellyn-Walking.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473663075?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473663075]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Historical Fiction===[[Walking Wounded by Sheila Llewellyn]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] David Reece was called up We meet part of the Talbot family in 1941 and sent to fight Yorkshire in BurmaNovember 1811. 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 David, 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]] <! Twenty-seven- Morris year-->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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, old Jocelyn Talbot 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 her mother have travelled 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 some discomfort 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 thattheir home at Ecklington, 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 house in the camphollow. [[ The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris|Full Review]] <!-- Halliburton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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 of the Royal Academy, is reflecting on the past year's scandal involving the Provises, father two women are angry with each other and daughter, and worries that he handled everything poorly. From the start the book's figurative language Jocelyn is appropriately full well aware of colour and painterly techniques: her mother'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 s strengths and stirred the memory, the murkier it became.' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal by Rachel Halliburton|Full Review]] <!-- Banks -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-alignweaknesses: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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''She is practiced at subterfuge, 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 angryat concealing, unmoored and with his world in turmoil. Beginning beneath a journey westwardfacade of respectability, hethe deplorable truth''s filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupt. [[W by John Banks|Full Review]]

{{newreview|author=Elaine Everest|title= Christmas at Woolworths|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=''Christmas at Woolworths'' is the sequel to wartime saga ''The Woolworths Girls,'' and continues the story where the first book left off. Members of the close-knit community in Erith Then we are doing their best to pull together and keep morale high, even though the future is uncertain. At the heart told of the neighbourhood, the home birth of kindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where family child and friends can gather for good food and conversation: a way to forget the troubles outside. 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 soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and Freda would love to find romanceisolation in Yorkshire. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509843655</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Minette WaltersAnnabel Abbs|title=The Last HoursLanguage of Food|rating=4.5

|summary=In June 1348 Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the Black Death came into the country through the port of Melcombe in Dorsetslightest inclination to boil an egg. Ignorant of many rules of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years laterWhen tasked with writing a cookery book, the disease rages through the country. On the estate of Develishshe recruits Ann Kirby, Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of the people who lived in the demesne after her husband had ridden off to try and secure a marriage for his daughterlocal woman with a troubled home life. Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the estate Together, they test, craft, refine and when Lady Anne realised reshape the virulence world of domestic cookery, reinventing the plague she ordered that the estate refuse entry to anyone, including her husband recipe book and his entourage, for fear that they would bring changing the disease to her peopleface of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760632139</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Freya Marske|title=The Sixteen Trees of the SommeA Marvellous Light|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=While his grandfather lived the past was an area of certainty for Edvard. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with his grandparents, having survived the accident that killed his parents. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family history is different from what he'd believed… his mother's birthplace, his mother's name, the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and that's without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itself. Edvard is determined to solve the puzzle, a determination that will take him away from his native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secrets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056069</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toby Clements|title=Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)|rating=5

|summary=1470 dawns Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the next chapters of the War streets of the Roses London are ready threaded with magic. Desperate to play out. King Edward thinks remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the future has been settled but treachery is still lurkingcountryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. Meanwhile Katherine and Thomas also have their world turned upside down when There they uncover a sinister plot that ledger and a chance comment threaten threatens the lives of all they have, including their livesmagicians in the British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178089466X</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P F ChisholmB09F4CTKJR|title=Guns in the North (The Sir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=1592: Sir Robert Carey flees It's the strictures later stages of Elizabethan court – World War I and his creditors – in order to become Deputy Warden of the West March in CarlisleUnited States has just entered the conflict. The Scottish/English borders Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and those who inhabit them are different from joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the world he's left behind but it will have first US Aero Squadron to become his world. It's now his job be trained in Canada, the first to bring law be attached to the lawless. This isn't easy when every local he comes across has an affinity RAF and a heritage of crime the first to some degree. For Robert the best thing about be sent into the job is its proximity skies to fight the woman he loves but he doesn't know what he'll do about that yet eitherGermans in active combat. Meanwhile he soon realises But before that those who are supposed can happen, Petrol has to be on his side are plotting against him master flying the notoriously difficult but they don't realise what they're up againstmajestic Sopwith Camel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694719</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Christophe Medler|title=The House with the Stained-Glass WindowMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret

|summary= Marianna, an opera singer in Set against the soon-to-be Ukrainian city backdrop of Lvivthe English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is mistakenly shot dead at a political rally discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the dying days summer of 1642. As a loyal servant of the Soviet Union. This novel begins with both anger King, and hopeHead of the Secret Service, as Mariannait is Robert's coffin is covered in the illegal blue and yellow flag, and her death seems duty to herald uncover the birth details of a new nation. But the day plan and follow the clues to uncover one of her funeral is also the day of her daughter's first period – a girl who must learn how to be a woman most guarded secrets in this time of drastic change, with no mother to guide her along history—especially since the plot could affect the wayKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857057138</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= K J Whittaker1471187179|title= False LightsA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Cornwall, 1817Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. What if your worst mistake changed The book is set in the course of history? Napoleon has crushed 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 Duke rest of Wellington her days looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to do at the Battle all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. As a result of Waterlooa chance meeting, and his ex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied England. Cornwall erupts she finds herself drawn into open rebellionespionage, working for the secret service and young heiress Hester escapes with Crow, Wellington's former intelligence officer, effectively living a halfdouble life -French aristocrat haunted by his part in attempting to infiltrate the catastrophic defeatCommunist Party of Great Britain. Together, they become embroiled in a web of treachery and espionage Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as plans are laid to free Wellington from secret captivity in the Scilly Isles her duty and lead an uprising against the French occupation. In a country rife with traitors, Hester friends she has made - and Crow know it is impossible to play such a game as this likes - whilst working for longthe Communist Party...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786695340</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= J Jefferson FarjeonAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title= Seven DeadKokoschka's Doll|rating= 42.5|genre= Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Ted Lyte was petty criminalWell, but not usually the housebreaking type. He lacked this looked very much like a book I could love from the courage. However, needs mustget-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to try his chances at an isolated house with potentially delight me each time – a shuttered window. ''...he might find a bit of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind weird section in the shuttersmiddle on darker stock paper, but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman. Fleeing chapter whose number was in the house in horror20, he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman000s, Thomas Hazeldeanletters used as narrative form, who also happens to be a journalistand so on. Fascinated by Ted's story (and It intrigued with the subterranean voice a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and its assortment man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of odd cluesit mentioned, including a portrait shot through too. But you've seen the heartstar rating that comes with this review, an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by one of the victimsthem. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0712356886</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Salt CreekChristina Hammonds Reed|authortitle=Lucy TreloarThe Black Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=The first chapter Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to the absolution of ''Salt Creek'' opens in Chichesterfour police officers for beating a black man, EnglandRodney King, in 1874nearly to death. Hester Finch is Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from a respected and reasonably wealthy member silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, to a woman finding her community. But she can't stop her thoughts wandering back to voice and embracing her adolescence, spent on Salt Creek Station in the remote South Australian Coorong region. Hester feels ''has never felt so alive as then, when we had so little''heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910709417</amazonuk>1471188191