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|isbnauthor= B09F4CTKJRTananarive Due|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven BurgauerThe Reformatory|rating=4.5

|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 the later stages of World War I a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus segregated reformatory is a young American who has signed up and joined chamber of horrors, haunted by the 17 Aero Squadronboys that have died there. This company was the first US Aero Squadron In order to be trained in Canada, survive the first to be attached to the RAF school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the first to be sent into help of the skies to fight the Germans in active combatschool's ghosts – only they have their own motivations.. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|isbn=1803366532}}

|author= Christophe MedlerKatherine Howe|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretTrue Account|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary= Set against the backdrop of the English Civil WarHannah 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 secret plan (code-named Madrigal) young age. When she hears there is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642. As to be a loyal servant hanging of some pirates in the Kingtown, she decides to go and Head of the Secret Servicewatch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, it is RobertHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's duty to uncover death at the details hands of the plan two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and follow the clues then to escape them completely she runs away to uncover one of sea, dressing as a boy and joining the most guarded secrets notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in history—especially since the plot could affect 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 Kingocean waves.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ0861547438

|isbnauthor=1471187179Sarah Marsh|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel HoreSign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting 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 in a leafy provincial suburbchanges. The book is set Living in a time when the 1930s and Minnie use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is expected to live up sent to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man school where she is taught to marrylip read, produce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their homebut physically restrained from signing. UnfortunatelyFrom here, this isn't what she wants to do at all ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and neither does she want to continue working as using a secretarysystem called Visible Speech. As a result of a chance meetingAt the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, she and Ellen finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living unwittingly caught up in a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party complicated tangle 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 Partyespionage.|isbn=1035401614

|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Claire North|title=Kokoschka's DollHouse of Odysseus|rating=2.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Well, this looked very much like a book I ''What could matter more than love from the get?'' The follow-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a chapter whose number was in few months after where we left off. In the 20palace of Odysseus,000s, letters used as narrative formwith delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and so onthen by divine intervention never returned home. It intrigued with As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew throne of it mentioned, toothe Western Isles. But youHaving survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca've seen s shores, Queen Penelope is on the star rating brink of a fragile peace. One that comes shatters however with this reviewthe return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and can tell that if love was on these pageshis sister Elektra, it was not actually caused by themseeking refuge. So what happened?|isbn=15294026970356516075

|authorisbn=Christina Hammonds ReedB0C7J9D21B|title=The Black KidsA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|genre=Teens Historical Fiction|summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel When we first meet our hero, his name is set against the backdrop Ettore and he lives at The House of the 1992 Los Angeles riotsBeautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a reaction to the absolution bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not been short of four police officers mothers, though - but for beating a black mansomeone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, Rodney King, nearly it's difficult to deathobtain decent employment. Told from The stint working with the perspective preparation of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from 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 silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, to successful business as a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritageguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|isbn=1471188191

|author=Caroline ScottEssie Fox|title=When I Come Home AgainThe Fascination|rating=4.5

|summary=1918 and The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led to give more than a name, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he isfew writers mishandling it. Eventually they determine this isn't wilful obstinance, he doesnThere't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being on the road for s such a long time, and being frightened, and some glut of media set in the era that the faces from hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to the roadpoint of being cliched, but other than hackneyed even. All this is simply to illustrate that – everything it would be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite that came before has gone. They need a name for the forms and so they call him Adam and, because he was found in the Galilee Chapel, something about it becomes Adam Galilee. A fanciful name for a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesnstill grabs me – and something about this book't know who he is, where he is or how he got theres description did as well.|isbn=14711921721914585526

|isbnauthor=1405946172Nicole Jarvis|title=The Glass House|author=Eve ChaseA Portrait in Shadow

|summary=Rita lost both her parents in a car crash when she was just six years old: since then she's always craved a family. She'd lived with her grandmother I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Torquay until she got a job as a nanny with the Harrington family Florence seeking an oasis in London. Soon which her engagement to Fred, art can find a Torquay butcher, fell through home and the Harringtons became where her familyfuture can thrive rather than stagnate. In 1971But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, after a fire at the London house, Jeannie Harrington, her children, 13self-yearproclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-old Hera male Accademia has hoarded power over art and 6-year-old Teddy, along with Rita went to the family's house in the Forest of Deanarchitecture for centuries and guard it above all else. It wasn't ''quite'' dilapidatedTo them, but it certainly wasn't the same standard as the London house had been before the fireArtemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|isbn=1803362340

|author=Sally MagnussonThomas D Lee|title=The Sealwoman's GiftPerilous Times|rating=4.53|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary= There ''Hate is a legend that God came to visit Adam & Eve the path of least resistance'' Set in the Garden. Eve had not finished bathing her children and ashamed of those still not cleansednear-distant future, she attempted to hide them from in a world on the eyes verge of Godclimate collapse, denying that she had more children than those, already bathed, that she willing paraded for himBritain is in great peril. God was not The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to be deceived, however, save the day and decreed that rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was sought to be hidden from the eyes that one of God would henceforth be hidden from the eyes Knights of man, and so the Elves were born: Round Table would answer the hidden folk. They can see man, but man can only see them if they so choosecall.|isbn=14736389840356518523

|author=Wendy Cheyne G K Holloway|title=From In the Auld Rock to a Hard PlaceShadows of Castles|rating=4.5

|summary= After We begin after the Jacobite defeat at momentous battle in 1066 and on the Battle day of Culloden, William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. William's position is not secure and the new king has many Scottish estates were given to English lordschallenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. They were not kind And William is right to their crofting tenantsworry. Many on While the mainland were cleared previous king, Harold, is dead and while this did not happen much on the islands such as Shetlandlikelihood of more pitched battles is over, the new exploitative conditions led many Shetlanders to leave - to port cities on rebels are stirring and much of the mainland, country does not wish to North America and even to Australia and New Zealandrecognise a new overlord. |isbn= 18385917531800422466

|authorisbn= Alison Weir3949666079|title= Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard The Tainted QueenNoema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= ''Katheryn was seven when her mother diedThis is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, thus we are thrust the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into this tumultuous time in young KatherynMaya's life, trying to find a forest home, both figuratively and literally, where she can grow food is becoming more and grievemore scarce. Unfortunately, Katheryn is followed by bad luck and she learns an important lesson, she is too young, too poor and too unimportant What to be do? Can the law givers in the federation of any value villages muster peaceful ways to anyonecope? Can the Traveller, but she is beautiful and surely, that will count for something in a spiritual figure who interprets the endwisdom of All Life, won't itprovide solutions?|isbn=1472227778

|isbn=15291237631529125898|title=Miss AustenGodmersham Park

|summary=It''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's long been known that Cassandra 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 governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen burned most . She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessity. Until the letters which she and other members death of the extensive Austen family her mother, Anne had exchanged with or about a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her sister Janefather was frequently absent from the household. What is not known is ''why'' she did this When her mother died, her father cast her off and at this stage - would have nothing more than two hundred years after Jane's death - a definitive answer is unlikely to forthcomingdo with her. Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I year. Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was expectingfortunately taken in by some neighbours.

|isbnauthor=1471186393Melissa Fu |title=Photographer of the Lost|author=Caroline ScottPeach Blossom Spring |rating=43.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=May 1921I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There is no letter or note with Unfortunately it. There is nothing written on the back only truly poetic part of the photograph. It is a picture of her husband, Francisbook that I expected more from. Francis has been missing for four yearsCovering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's perspective. TechnicallyWhen their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japan, he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something that a young widow can believemother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. She hangs The story follows them on the word 'missingtheir journey across China, and in Renshu', disbelieving the word killeds case eventually to America. |isbn=1472277538

|isbn=099944235X1916072038|title=The Man Who Killed HitlerHouse in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Andre PronovostAllie Cresswell|rating=34.5

|summary=Germany is split. Some We meet part of her is the Talbot family in Yorkshire in favour of Hitler and the Nazis, but much isn'tNovember 1811. Some of Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her is stuck to the east fighting the Sovietsmother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, but some will soon have to be on the other front, against the Americans coming into house in the continent to put things right as they see ithollow. Finding out that the war to the east isn't working, due to HitlerThe two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's tactical ineptitude strengths and inability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin weaknesses: ''She is five seasons away from being in Berlin. The only way to shore things uppracticed at subterfuge, and repair the splitsat concealing, is to kill Hitlerbeneath a facade of respectability, and luckily Baron Nicholas is the man to do itdeplorable truth''. He Hester is furious about Jocelyn's aristocratic enoughrefusal to do as she was asked, he knows enough people in industry, society which has precipitated ''this violent and other circles unexpected removal''. Then we are told of the birth of powera child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, so once he's succeeded he might be able to keep a German presence leaving Jocelyn in Europe. But will he still be able to keep the "predatory American capitalists" shame and the blatantly communist Soviets from meeting isolation in the middle?Yorkshire.

|isbnauthor=1789018625Annabel Abbs|title=Just Another Girl on the Road|author=S KensingtonThe Language of Food|rating=4 5

|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau tasked with writing a cookery book, she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from recruits Ann Kirby, a farmhouse and local woman with a group of German deserters who had raped hertroubled home life. Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she got when Farr Together, they test, craft, refine and Valentine intervened and finished reshape the group off. It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part world of domestic cookery, reinventing the Jedburgh unit, EDMOND, lead by Major Willoughby Nye. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on her father's merchant ship recipe book and Katrinka had once had a crush on Nyechanging the face of cookery writing forever. When he offered her a job with his unit, she accepted|isbn=1398502227

|isbnauthor=1542007232Freya Marske|title=The Rabbit Girls|author=Anna ElloryA Marvellous Light|rating=34

|summary=Berlin, 1989. Miriam Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the middle of a city freshly unitedCivil Service, with the Wall newly broken down and people able much to cross at liberty for the first time in decadeshis chagrin. She is in There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the middle streets of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very differentRobin follows Edwin to the countryside, when he gasps where the name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – hedgegrows bristle with incantations and she sees for the first time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. One bombshell outside, then, and two insidepeople shimmer with power. And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on, as he has There they uncover a first-person narrative alternating with her story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to sinister plot that threatens the real Frieda, a young woman that shook him to lives of all magicians in the core when he was her literature professor? That's right, more bombshells… British Isles. |isbn=1529080886

|isbn=1529311446B09F4CTKJR|title=The Long Flight HomeFlights for Freedom|author=A L HladSteven Burgauer

|summary=September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying It's the homes later stages of World War I and lives of a people on the edgeUnited States has just entered the conflict. In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with joined the birds proving a comfort for Susan following 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the loss of her parents. These pigeons are more than just birds first US Aero Squadron to Susan though – be trained in each oneCanada, and especially in Duchess, she sees a distinct personality and forms a close bond. Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine the first to head be attached to Britain the RAF and join the Royal Air Force. Working with first to be sent into the skies to fight the National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and is tasked with air-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German-occupied France, where many will not surviveGermans in active combat. As the mission is plannedBut before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the bond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, notoriously difficult 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…majestic Sopwith Camel.

|isbnauthor=178747920XChristophe Medler|title=Brightfall |author=Jaime Lee MoyerMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=4.5

|summary=Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love MarianSet against the backdrop of the English Civil War, and retreating to a monastery – although nosecret plan (code-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion named Madrigal) is tasked discovered by Father Tuck to break Sir Robert Douse in the curse surrounding them and to save their livessummer of 1642. Setting off with As a soldierloyal servant of the King, a Fey Lord and a sullen Robin HoodHead of the Secret Service, she becomes tangled in a maze it is Robert's duty to uncover the details of betrayals, complicated relationships, the plan and a vicious struggle for follow the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the throne…King.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ

|isbn=17846316471471187179|title=A Perfect ExplanationBeautiful Spy|author=Eleanor AnstrutherRachel Hore|rating=54

|summary=Enid Campbell was Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a woman who, on leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the face of it1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, had everything. Leading produce children and spend the life rest of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth her days looking after her husband and splendourtheir home. Unfortunately, glamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enidthis isn's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated t what she wants to do at all and threatening both Enid and those close neither does she want to hercontinue working as a secretary. After losing custody As a result of her childrena chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, Enid sells her son working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring infiltrate the true story Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther duty and the friends she has found the perfect subject for an explosive, moving made - and beautifully welllikes -written debutwhilst working for the Communist Party. [[A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]

|isbn=0857058738|title=Equator|author=Antonin Varenne Afonso Cruz and Sam Taylor Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Kokoschka's Doll|rating=32.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=It strikes me that nobody can speak well of Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the Wild West outside the walls get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of a theme parkit. Our agent I found things to see how bad it potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was here is Pete Fergusonin the 20, who bristles at the indignity of the white man against Native 'Indian'000s, who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo huntletters used as narrative form, and who hates so on. It intrigued with the way subterranean voice a man – and womanhears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelidtoo. But this book is about so much more than you've seen the 1870s USA, and the attendant problems star rating that comes with gold rushesthis review, pioneer spirits 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 can tell that if love was on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravitythese pages, and where, who knows, things might it was not actually be bettercaused by them. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… So what happened?|isbn=1529402697

|isbnauthor=1472227727Christina Hammonds Reed|title=Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets|author=Alison WeirThe Black Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=PoorChristina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets a raw deal by history, of all reaction to the wives absolution of Henry VIII she is the one who is known four police officers for being rejectedbeating a black man, Rodney King, nearly to death. Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard were Told from the sexy onesperspective of Ashley Bennett, Jane the dutiful one who delivered novel follows her evolution from a sonsilent bystander when confronted with matters of race, Katherine of Aragon clung on to a woman finding her crown voice and Katharine Parr clung on to embracing her life but poor frumpy Anne of Cleaves just rolled over and moved along. Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with a different view of this young woman who saw the opportunity to live an independent life and took itheritage.|isbn=1471188191