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|author= Alison WeirTananarive Due|title= Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard The Tainted QueenReformatory|rating= 45|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''Katheryn was seven when her mother 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, thus we are thrust into this tumultuous time in young KatherynRobert must enlist the help of the school's lifeghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, trying having been sent to find live with a homefamily who run an inn, both figuratively and literallybeing made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, where she can grow decides to go and grievewatch. Unfortunately, Katheryn is followed by bad luck Enthralled and she learns an important lessonhorrified in equal measure, she is too Hannah finds herself embroiled in a youngboy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too poor , and too unimportant then to be of any value escape them completely she runs away to anyonesea, but she dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is beautiful a mutiny on board, and surely, that will count for something from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the end, won't it?ocean waves.|isbn=14722277780861547438

|isbnauthor=1529123763Sarah Marsh|title=Miss AustenA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After 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=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|author=Gill HornbyClaire North|title=House of Odysseus

|summary=ItWhen 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 long not been known that Cassandra Austen burned most 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 letters which she preparation of anchovies didn't work out and other members of the extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Janebastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. What is Ettore was nothing if not known is ''why'' she did this resourceful - and at this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's death determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a definitive answer is unlikely to forthcomingguide for visitors. Gill Hornby has provided us with He was even saving some possible answers in a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expectingmoney.

{{Frontpage|author=Essie Fox|title=The Fascination|rating=4|class-"wikitable" cellpaddinggenre="15"Historical Fiction<!|summary= The Victorian era is incredibly over-- Caroline Scott -->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. 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| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Nicole Jarvis|title=A Portrait in Shadow[[image:1471186393.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471186393/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.| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"0356518523}}{{Frontpage|author=G K Holloway|title=In the Shadows of Castles|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=[[Photographer We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. William's 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 the likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the Lost by Caroline Scott]]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:4Maya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era.5starClimate change is occurring, the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce.jpgWhat 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|linkisbn=Category:{{{1529125898|title=Godmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:=5|genre=Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]summary=''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.''

May 1921Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. Edie receives She had no experience of teaching but this was a photograph through the post. There is no letter or note with itcase of necessity. There is nothing written on Until the back death of her mother, Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the photographhousehold. It is a picture of When her husbandmother died, Francisher father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her. Francis has been missing for four yearsNo explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a year. TechnicallyHer maid, he has been "missingAgnes, believed killed" would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.}}{{Frontpage|author=Melissa Fu |title=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 not something that set ablaze during the war with Japan, a young widow can believemother (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. She hangs on |isbn=1472277538}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1916072038|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=We meet part of the word 'missing'Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, disbelieving to the house in the word killedhollow. [[Photographer The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of the Lost by Caroline Scott|Full Review]]her mother's strengths and weaknesses:

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| style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Man Who Killed Hitler by Andre Pronovost]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Germany is split. Some Then we are told of her is in favour the birth of Hitler a child and the Nazis, but much isn't. Some of her is stuck to the east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have to be on the other front, against the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. Finding out that the war to the east isn't working, due to Hitler's tactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. The only way to shore things upafter, and repair the splits, is to kill Hitler, and luckily the Baron Nicholas is the man to do it. He's aristocratic enoughHester Talbot departs, he knows enough people leaving Jocelyn in industry, society shame and other circles of power, so once he's succeeded he might be able to keep a German presence isolation in EuropeYorkshire. But will he still be able to keep the "predatory American capitalists" and the blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the middle? [[The Man Who Killed Hitler by Andre Pronovost|Full Review]]}}<!-- S Kensington -->|-{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Annabel Abbs[[image:1789018625.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789018625/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] The Language of Food| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Just Another Girl on the Road by S Kensington]]==rating=5 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from summary=Eliza Acton is a farmhouse and a group of German deserters poet who has never had raped her. Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she got when Farr and Valentine intervened and finished the group offslightest inclination to boil an egg. It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part of the Jedburgh unitWhen tasked with writing a cookery book, EDMONDshe recruits Ann Kirby, lead by Major Willoughby Nye. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on her father's merchant ship and Katrinka had once had a crush on Nye. When he offered her local woman with a job with his unit, she accepted. [[Just Another Girl on the Road by S Kensington|Full Review]] <!-- Ellory -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1542007232.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1542007232/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory]]=== [[image:3startroubled home life.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]Together, [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Berlinthey test, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly unitedcraft, with the Wall newly broken down refine and people able to cross at liberty for reshape the first time in decades. She is in the middle world of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeksdomestic cookery, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps reinventing the name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – recipe book and she sees for changing the first time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watchface of cookery writing forever. One bombshell outside, then, and two inside. And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on, as he has a first person narrative alternating with her story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to the real Frieda, a young woman that shook him to the core when he was her literature professor? That's right, more bombshells… [[The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory|Full Review]]isbn=1398502227}}<!-- Hlad -->|-{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Freya Marske[[image:1529311446.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529311446/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] A Marvellous Light| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|4===[[The Long Flight Home by A L Hlad]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the homes and lives of summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into a people on job in the edgeCivil Service, much to his chagrin. In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd There he meets Edwin Courcey and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a comfort for Susan following learns that the loss streets of her parentsLondon are threaded with magic. These pigeons are more than just birds Desperate to Susan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, she sees remove a distinct personality and forms a close bond. Meanwhilecurse that threatens to swallow him, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine Robin follows Edwin to head to Britain and join the Royal Air Force. Working with the National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and is tasked with air-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German-occupied Francecountryside, where many will not survive. As the mission is planned, hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the bond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[The Long Flight Home by A L Hlad|Full Review]] <!-- Moyer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:178747920Xpeople shimmer with power.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178747920X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, and retreating to There they uncover a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all sinister plot that he had built. Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break threatens the curse surrounding them and to save their lives. Setting off with a soldier, a Fey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled of all magicians in a maze of betrayals, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the throne…[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]] <!-- Anstruther -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1784631647British Isles.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784631647/refisbn=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]1529080886}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|B09F4CTKJR===[[A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Enid Campbell was a woman who, on the face of it, had everything. Leading the life of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to her. After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to her sister Flights for £500 – but is this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the true story of her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject for an explosive, moving and beautifully well written debut. [[A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther|Full Review]] <!-- Varenne -->|-Freedom| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Steven Burgauer[[image:0857058738.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co4.uk/dp/0857058738/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Historical Fiction===[[Equator by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] It strikes me that nobody can speak well 's the later stages of World War I and the Wild West outside United States has just entered the walls of a theme parkconflict. Our agent to see how bad it was here Petrol Petronus is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and young American who hates the way man – has signed up and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at joined the bat of an eyelid17 Aero Squadron. But this book is about so much more than This company was the 1870s USAfirst US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, and the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits first to be attached to the RAF and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of Utopia, namely the Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets first to keep them on be sent into the ground skies to counter fight the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be betterGermans in active combat. But before that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[Equator by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.}}<!-- Weir -->{{Frontpage|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Christophe Medler[[image:1472227727.jpg|linktitle=httpMadrigal://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472227727/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] A Closely Guarded Secret| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Alison Weir]]===4[[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Poor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets a raw deal by history, of all summary= Set against the wives backdrop of Henry VIII she is the one who English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is known for being rejected. Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard were discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the sexy ones, Jane the dutiful one who delivered a son, Katherine summer of Aragon clung on to her crown and Katharine Parr clung on to her life but poor frumpy Anne of Cleaves just rolled over and moved along1642. Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with As a different view loyal servant of this young woman who saw the opportunity to live an independent life King, and took it. [[Six Tudor Queens: Anna Head of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Alison Weir|Full Review]] <!-- Rubin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0718187091.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0718187091/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Liberation Square by Gareth Rubin]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. Dividing the nation between themSecret Service, London soon finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawsonis Robert's husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right duty to uncover the highest levels details of the state – plan and soon finds herself desperate follow the clues to stay uncover one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Liberation Square by Gareth Rubinmost guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|Full Review]]isbn=B095HY8SXQ}}<!-- Hucknall -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1471187179| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|A Beautiful Spy[[image:191236266X.jpg|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/191236266X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Rachel Hore| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|4===[[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]  You might not think that Georgian London contained many black people. But it contained more than you think. You may have heard of Francis Barber, the black African slave who became the friend of lexicographer Samuel Johnson and was a beneficiary of his will. summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary'The Boy girl living an unexciting life in a Turban'' tells the story of a fictional black character, James, in Georgian Londonleafy provincial suburb. James, then Quaccoe, The book is brought to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughters. [[The Boy set in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall|Full Review]] <!-- Clark -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:034901082X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/034901082X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In The Full Light of the Sun by Clare Clark]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] In 19301930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's Berlin, three people obsessed with art expectations and find themselves swept up into a scandal. Emmeline, a wayward nice young student, Julius, an anxious middle-aged art expert, and Rachmann, a mysterious art dealer, live in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, the discovery of the art allows these characters man to explore authenticitymarry, vanity produce children and self-delusion. [[In The Full Light of spend the Sun by Clare Clark|Full Review]] <!-- Kazan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0749024801.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0749022132/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Phoenix rest of Florence by Philip Kazan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Deep in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family days looking after her husband and their home. Alone in the forest Unfortunately, this isn't what she meets a band of soldiers who, believing her wants to be a boy train do at all and develop her – and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which neither does she may feel vulnerable again. Along the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey want to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murderscontinue working as a secretary. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family historya result of a chance meeting, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoriashe finds herself drawn into espionage, in working for the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to rest, before it's too late... [[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan|Full Review]] <!-- d'Eramo -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1782273883.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782273883/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Deviation by Luce d'Eramo secret service and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] For those of you who have read books of effectively living a double life in - attempting to infiltrate the Nazi camps – and Communist Party of course, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a next stepGreat Britain. It begins, after all, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and you'd not blame her one minute, Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner duty and sewage unblocker by the Germans. In Munich, friends she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a camp for nonhas made - and likes -native civilians to look whilst working for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raisedCommunist Party. [[Deviation by Luce d'Eramo }}{{Frontpage|author=Afonso Cruz and Anne Milano Appel Rahul Bery (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Gardner -->|-| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Kokoschka's Doll[[image:1785656341.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co2.uk/dp/1785656341/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner]]===Literary Fiction[[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]Well, [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''The Count of 9'' is this looked very much like a hardboiled detective story written in book I could love from the 1950s. It revolves around the detective duo of Donald Lam get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve the theft flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of priceless Bornean artefacts. However, their case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murderit. [[The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]] <!-- Chamberlain -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786076446.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786076446/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has I found among her mother's possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced things to confront their pasts. Revisiting their potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the Channel Islands during World War II20,000s, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identityletters used as narrative form, and Joe, so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a Catholic Priestman hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, remembers a time when he hid something very differenttoo. In But you've seen the star rating that comes with this story of lovereview, loss and betrayalcan tell that if love was on these pages, it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[The Hidden was not actually caused by Mary Chamberlainthem. So what happened?|Full Review]]isbn=1529402697}}<!-- Minette Walters -->{{Frontpage|-author=Christina Hammonds Reed| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Black Kids[[image:1760632163.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760632163/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]5  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters]]==genre=Teens  [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] At the beginning of 1349 there is a glimmer of a hope that the ravages of the Black Death might be passing. In Devilish in Dorset the population is well, because of Lady AnneChristina Hammonds Reed's strict rules about quarantine, which are regarded as heresy as they go debut novel is set against the strict rules backdrop of the church1992 Los Angeles riots, but their stores of food are dwindling and they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but a reaction to leave. What will they find on the outside? Are they the only survivors? [[The Turn absolution of Midnight by Minette Walters|Full Review]] <!-- Abbs -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473691206.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473691206/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Frieda by Annabel Abbs]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]four police officers for beating a black man, Rodney King, [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Married nearly to English Professor Ernest Weekley, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by death. Told from the confines perspective of married life. Visiting family in MunichAshley Bennett, she becomes captivated by the ideas novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of revolution and free love. Meeting the penniless writer D.H. 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