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|author=Oliver GreevesTananarive Due|title=Nelson's FollyThe Reformatory|rating=2.5

|summary=The story of Admiral Nelson – who never actually achieved that rankGracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, but only ascended twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to Vice Admiral – is one of six months at the best Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known in English historyas the Reformatory. Despite our history teachersIt' best efforts 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 are very few battles that most of us can name. DunkirkIn order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Battle Robert must enlist the help of Britainthe school's ghosts – 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, Hastings…if we 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 north then Floddentown, Bannockburnshe decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Culloden…it probably takes an interest Hannah finds herself embroiled in maritime things a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to know of sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the Battle thick of the Nile things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the siege ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Malta…but just 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 every English person knows about Trafalgarher life changes. They may not know Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where it she is and what it was abouttaught to lip read, but we know (if only physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the Square deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the Column) that it was a mighty victory same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and that Nelson was Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in commanda complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=06450237011035401614

|author=Freya MarskeClaire North|title=A Marvellous LightHouse of Odysseus|rating=45|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a job in few months after where we left off. In the Civil Servicepalace of Odysseus, much with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to his chagrinrule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the streets throne of London are threaded with magicthe Western Isles. Desperate to remove a curse Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that threatens Clytemnestra brought to swallow himIthaca's shores, Robin follows Edwin to Queen Penelope is on the countryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with powerbrink of a fragile peace. There they uncover a sinister plot One that threatens shatters however with the lives return of Orestes, King of all magicians in the British IslesMycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge. |isbn=15290808860356516075

|isbn= B09F4CTKJRB0C7J9D21B|title= Flights for FreedomA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author= Steven BurgauerA J Lewis

|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 the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up bordello and joined the 17 Aero SquadronEttore's mother died when he was born. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in Canadalate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, the first to be attached it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the RAF preparation of anchovies didn't work out and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combatbastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. But Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camelhe had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.

|author= Christophe MedlerEssie Fox|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretThe Fascination

|summary= Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a secret plan setting for historical fiction (code-named Madrigal) is discovered matched only, perhaps, by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642Second World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. As There's such a loyal servant glut of media set in the King, and Head of era that the Secret Service, hallmarks we've come to associate with it is Robert's duty are familiar to uncover the details point of the plan 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 follow the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the Kingsomething about this book's description did as well.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ1914585526

|isbnauthor=1471187179Nicole Jarvis|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel HorePortrait in Shadow|rating=4.5

|summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set oasis in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to which her mother's expectations and art can find a nice young man to marry, produce children home and spend the rest of her days looking after where her husband and their homefuture can thrive rather than stagnate. Unfortunately, this isn't what But as some as she wants to do at all and neither does enters Florentine society she want to continue working as a secretary. As a result of a chance meetingfaces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life self- attempting proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to infiltrate protect the Communist Party of Great Britaincity and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and the friends she change – has made - no place amongst them and likes - whilst working for the Communist Partytheir society.|isbn=1803362340

|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Thomas D Lee|title=Kokoschka's DollPerilous Times|rating=2.53|genre=Literary FictionFantasy|summary=Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from ''Hate is the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any path of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section least resistance'' Set in the middle on darker stock papernear-distant future, in a chapter whose number was in world on the 20verge of climate collapse,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so onBritain is in great peril. It intrigued with The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that day and rescue what little I knew remains. What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by themRound Table would answer the call. So what happened?|isbn=15294026970356518523

|author=Christina Hammonds ReedG K Holloway|title=The Black KidsIn the Shadows of Castles

|genre=Teens Historical Fiction|summary=Christina Hammonds ReedWe begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. William's debut novel position is set against not secure and the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a reaction coronation is important. And William is right to worry. While the absolution of four police officers for beating a black manprevious king, Rodney KingHarold, nearly to death. Told from is dead and the perspective likelihood of Ashley Bennettmore pitched battles is over, the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters rebels are stirring and much of race, the country does not wish to recognise a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritagenew overlord.|isbn=14711881911800422466

|authorisbn=Caroline Scott3949666079|title=When I Come Home AgainNoema|author=Dael Akkerman

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=1918 and ''This is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is a young man is arrested girl living in Durham Cathedrala hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. He refuses to give a name, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he Climate change is. Eventually they determine this isn't wilful obstinanceoccurring, he doesn't answer because he doesnthe Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya't know. He remembers being on the road for a long times forest home, and being frightened, food is becoming more and some of the faces from the road, but other than that – everything that came before has gonemore scarce. They need a name for What to do? Can the forms and so they call him Adam and, because he was found law givers in the Galilee Chapelfederation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, it becomes Adam Galilee. A fanciful name for a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform spiritual figure who doesn't know who he isinterprets the wisdom of All Life, where he is or how he got there.|isbn=1471192172provide solutions?

|isbn=14059461721529125898|title=The Glass HouseGodmersham Park|author=Eve ChaseGill Hornby|rating=4.5

|summary=Rita lost both her parents in a car crash when she ''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.'' Anne Sharpe was just six thirty-one years old: since then when she's always craved a familyarrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She'd lived with her grandmother in Torquay until she got had no experience of teaching but this was a job as a nanny with the Harrington family in Londoncase of necessity. Soon Until the death of her engagement to Fredmother, Anne had a Torquay butcher, fell through comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the Harringtons became her familyhousehold. In 1971, after a fire at the London house, Jeannie HarringtonWhen her mother died, her children, 13-year-old Hera father cast her off and 6-year-old Teddy, along would have nothing more to do with Rita went to the family's house in the Forest her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of Dean£35 a year. It wasn't ''quite'' dilapidatedHer maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but it certainly wasn't the same standard as the London house had been before the firewas fortunately taken in by some neighbours.

|author=Sally MagnussonMelissa Fu |title=The Sealwoman's GiftPeach Blossom Spring |rating=43.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= There is I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a legend that God came to visit Adam & Eve in the Gardenshort chapter entitled ''Origins''. Eve had not finished bathing her children and ashamed of those still not cleansed, she attempted to hide them from Unfortunately it is the eyes only truly poetic part of God, denying a book that she had I expected more children than those, already bathed, that she willing paraded for himfrom. God was not Covering Chinese history from 1938 to be deceived2005 as viewed through one family's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japan, howevera 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 decreed that what was sought in Renshu's case eventually to be hidden from the eyes of God would henceforth be hidden from the eyes of man, and so the Elves were born: the hidden folkAmerica. They can see man, but man can only see them if they so choose.|isbn=14736389841472277538

|authorisbn=Wendy Cheyne 1916072038|title=From The House in the Auld Rock to a Hard PlaceHollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell|rating=4.5

|summary= After We meet part of the Jacobite defeat 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 the Battle of CullodenEcklington, many Scottish estates were given to English lords. They were not kind to their crofting tenants. Many on the mainland were cleared and while this did not happen much on house in the islands such as Shetland, the new exploitative conditions led many Shetlanders to leave - to port cities on the mainland, to North America hollow. The two women are angry with each other and even to Australia Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and New Zealand. |isbn= 1838591753}}{{Frontpage|author= Alison Weir|title= Six Tudor Queensweaknesses: Katheryn Howard The Tainted Queen|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= ''Katheryn was seven when her mother diedShe is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the deplorable truth'', thus we are thrust into this tumultuous time in young Katheryn. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's life, trying refusal to find a homedo as she was asked, both figuratively which has precipitated ''this violent and literally, where she can grow and grieveunexpected removal''. Unfortunately, Katheryn is followed by bad luck  Then we are told of the birth of a child and she learns an important lesson, she is too youngsoon after, too poor and too unimportant to be of any value to anyoneHester Talbot departs, but she is beautiful leaving Jocelyn in shame and surely, that will count for something isolation in the end, won't it?|isbn=1472227778Yorkshire.

|isbnauthor=1529123763Annabel Abbs|title=Miss Austen|author=Gill HornbyThe Language of Food

|summary=It's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most of Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the letters which she and other members of the extensive Austen family had exchanged slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with or about her sister Jane. What is not known is ''why'' writing a cookery book, she did this and at this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's death - recruits Ann Kirby, a definitive answer is unlikely to forthcoming. Gill Hornby has provided us local woman with some possible answers in a troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine and reshape the world of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expectingand changing the face of cookery writing forever.|isbn=1398502227

|isbnauthor=1471186393Freya Marske|title=Photographer of the Lost|author=Caroline ScottA Marvellous Light|rating=4.5

|summary=May 1921. Edie receives Robin Blyth is nudged into a photograph through job in the postCivil Service, much to his chagrin. There is no letter or note he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded with itmagic. There is nothing written on Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the countryside, where the back of hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the photographpeople shimmer with power. It is There they uncover a picture of her husband, Francis. Francis has been missing for four years. Technically, he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something sinister plot that a young widow can believe. She hangs on threatens the word 'missing', disbelieving lives of all magicians in the word killedBritish Isles.|isbn=1529080886

|isbn=099944235XB09F4CTKJR|title=The Man Who Killed HitlerFlights for Freedom|author=Andre PronovostSteven Burgauer|rating=34.5

|summary=Germany is split. Some It's the later stages of her is in favour of Hitler World War I and the Nazis, but much isn'tUnited States has just entered the conflict. Some of her Petrol Petronus is stuck to a young American who has signed up and joined the east fighting 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the Soviets, but some will soon have first US Aero Squadron to be on the other fronttrained in Canada, against the Americans coming into the continent first to put things right as they see it. Finding out that the war be attached to the east isn't working, due to Hitler's tactical ineptitude RAF and inability the first to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. The only way to shore things up, and repair be sent into the splits, is skies to kill Hitler, and luckily Baron Nicholas is fight the man to do it. He's aristocratic enough, he knows enough people Germans in industry, society and other circles of power, so once he's succeeded he might be able to keep a German presence in Europeactive combat. But will he still be able before that can happen, Petrol has to keep master flying the "predatory American capitalists" and the blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the middle?notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.

|isbnauthor=1789018625Christophe Medler|title=Just Another Girl on the Road|author=S KensingtonMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=4

|summary=When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a farmhouse and secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642. As a group loyal servant of German deserters who 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 off. It was 1944 and Farr King, and Valentine were part Head of the Jedburgh unitSecret Service, EDMOND, lead by Major Willoughby Nye. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on her fatherit is Robert's merchant ship duty to uncover the details of the plan and Katrinka had once had a crush on Nyefollow the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King. When he offered her a job with his unit, she accepted|isbn=B095HY8SXQ

|isbn=15420072321471187179|title=The Rabbit GirlsA Beautiful Spy|author=Anna ElloryRachel Hore|rating=34

|summary=Berlin, 1989. Miriam Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in the middle of a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and people able to cross at liberty for the first time in decadesleafy provincial suburb. She The book is set in the middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her fathermother's apartment in weeksexpectations and find a nice young man to marry, nursing him as he lies dyingproduce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their home. One standard bed-bath, however, is very differentUnfortunately, when he gasps the name this isn''Frieda'' that t what she wants to do at all and neither does not recognise – and she sees for the first time ever want to continue working as a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watchsecretary. One bombshell outsideAs a result of a chance meeting, thenshe finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and two insideeffectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. And inside her father, Henryk, Minnie finds herself torn between what is going on, she perceives as he her duty and the friends she has a firstmade - and likes -person narrative alternating with her story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to whilst working for the real Frieda, a young woman that shook him to the core when he was her literature professor? That's right, more bombshells… Communist Party.

|isbnauthor=1529311446Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The Long Flight Home|author=A L HladKokoschka's Doll|rating=42.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=September 1940 - as WWII rages onWell, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the homes and lives of this looked very much like a people on book I could love from the edge. In Epping Forestget-go, Susan Shepherd which is why I picked my review copy up and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a comfort for Susan following the loss flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of her parentsit. These pigeons are more than just birds I found things to Susan though potentially delight me each time – a weird section in each onethe middle on darker stock paper, and especially a chapter whose number was in Duchessthe 20, she sees a distinct personality and forms a close bond. Meanwhile000s, letters used as narrative form, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to Britain and join the Royal Air Forceso on. Working It intrigued with the National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and is tasked with air-dropping hundreds subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of homing pigeons into German-occupied Franceit mentioned, where many will not survivetoo. As But you've seen the mission is plannedstar rating that comes with this review, the bond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy linescan tell that if love was on these pages, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains…was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697

|isbnauthor=178747920XChristina Hammonds Reed|title=Brightfall |author=Jaime Lee MoyerThe Black Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, and retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. MarionChristina Hammonds Reed's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion debut novel is tasked by Father Tuck to break set against the backdrop of the curse surrounding them and to save their lives. Setting off with a soldier1992 Los Angeles riots, a Fey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in a maze reaction to the absolution of betrayals, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle four police officers for the throne…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784631647|title=A Perfect Explanation|author=Eleanor Anstruther|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Enid Campbell was beating a woman whoblack man, on the face of itRodney King, had everythingnearly to death. Leading Told from the life perspective of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendourAshley Bennett, 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 the novel follows her. After losing custody evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of her childrenrace, Enid sells her son to a woman finding her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the true story of voice and embracing her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject for an explosive, moving and beautifully well-written debutheritage. [[A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]isbn=1471188191