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[[Category:New Reviews|Historical Fiction]]==Historical fiction==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreview|author=Patricia Watkins|title=Trick of Fate: Connell O'Keeffe and The Pen Caer Legacy|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Connell O'Keefe was a gentleman actor and on 23 February 1797 he was on his way from Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire to catch the ferry home to Ireland. Unable to speak Welsh he was unaware that the French had invaded Pen Caer and rode into a situation which would change his life forever. The man who had set off to make his leisurely way home, taking in some of the local landmarks suffered a life <!--threatening injury, was unjustly accused of a foul murder and became a fugitive. It was difficult to see that he could survive his current situation INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE- fitter men than he were dying - and if he did, what was the point? What was there that he could do when his chosen profession would no longer be open to him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957210450</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Ennis|title=The Malice of Fortune|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Michael Ennis sets his ''The Malice of Fortune'' in Italy in the early part of the 1500s. Ennis is a history lecturer so unsurprisingly, his book is full of evidence of detailed research and understanding of the times. And what fascinating times they were. With the Borgia family dominating both the papacy and several political regions, fighting for power and land, a number of family led mercenary armies, and several great figures who would leave a lasting legacy, notably Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli, the latter of whom narrates a very large part of this novel. The real life political wrangling of the times would stretch the imagination of most novelists and Ennis bases his tale on a huge number of real, documented happenings. What he seeks to add to the party is an insight into why and how these events occurred and certainly there are some unexplained gaps in the relationships of the key players. The core story is an attempt to discover the identity of the murderer of the pope's son, Juan Borgia, Duke of Gandia. Candidates range from his brother, Cesare Borgia, Juan's courtesan, Damiata to the heads of various powerful, mercenary families. It's historical fiction meets crime fiction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780890974</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim LeachTananarive Due|title=The Last King of LydiaReformatory

|summary=Ancient mythology seems Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to be enjoying six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a surge in popularity of late, place with a plethora of books, movies brutal and games based on these ancient legends and fabled heroesdark reputation. There But the segregated reformatory is something in a chamber of horrors, haunted by the collective consciousness boys that enables these stories have died there. In order to resonate with each subsequent generationsurvive the school governor and his Funhouse, allowing ancient wisdom to put out new roots in fresh soilRobert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857899171</amazonuk>1803366532}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James BenmoreKatherine Howe|title=DodgerA True Account|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=That loveable rogueHannah Masury is living in Boston, the Artful Dodgerhaving 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 one to be a hanging of some pirates in the most memorable town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and amusing characters horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in all a young boy's death at the hands of English literaturetwo 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 sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low'Oliver Twist'' ended with Dodger Jack Dawkins arrested for s pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the theft thick of things when there is a silver snuff box mutiny on board, and transported to Australia. But what happened next? James Benmore explores that idea from there we are caught up in ''Dodger'', which takes up her rip roaring tale of life on the story six years after the events of ''Oliver Twist''ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780874650</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth GillSarah Marsh|title=Miss Appleby's AcademyA Sign of Her Own

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=After forsaking her own chance a bout of happiness to care for scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her aging father, Emma Appleby’s life is thrown hearing. Suddenly plunged into turmoil when he dies suddenlya world of silence, leaving everything about her fate entirely life changes. Living in a time when the hands use of her callous brother Laurence. Laurence and his wife view the middle-aged spinster sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a burden and are keen school where she is taught to marry her off to an elderly neighbour to free themselves of responsibilitylip read, but physically restrained from signing. With seemingly nowhere to turn From here, Emma flees America to make she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a new life for system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in her childhood home a complicated tangle of County Durhamespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780878478</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreview|author=Jenny Mandeville|title=A Crown of Despair|rating=4The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=By In the age palace of 31 KatherineOdysseus, Lady Latimerwith delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, had been married and widowed twice. Her first match who sailed to an elderly, sickening baron ended war at the age of 16, as miserably as it had started two years earlier. Her second marriage to John Neville, Lord Latimer, had been more comfortableTroy and then by divine intervention never returned home. On his death As ever she found love remains surrounded by suitors vying for the first time in her life, but to no availthrone of the Western Isles. The monarch had seen Katherine Having survived – politically and would claim her for himself no matter what her wishes may be. This forced marriage would make her famousphysical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, for down Queen Penelope is on the centuries history would recount brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the story return of Orestes, King of Lady Latimer using her other name: Katherine ParrMycenae, the sixth and final wife of Henry VIIIhis sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>071980857X</amazonuk>0356516075

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne O'BrienB0C7J9D21B|title=The Forbidden QueenA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=Katherine de Valois When we first meet our hero, his name is the young Ettore and innocent girl betrothed to Henry V he lives at The House of EnglandBeautiful Swallows. While Henry doesn Idyllic as this might sound, it't love her, she thinks she can be happy with hims a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. Unfortunately He's not been short of mothers, though, she quickly finds herself trapped - but for someone of his background in a loveless marriagelate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, then finds an even worse fate in store as Henry is killed and she is left a lonely young widowit's difficult to obtain decent employment. With political machinations dogging her every step as men like Edmund Beaufort and Owen Tudor catch her eye. Can she be happy The stint working with one the preparation of them, or will those people at court who donanchovies didn't want to see any man gain the power that would come with marrying the mother of the young king foil her hopes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848452152</amazonuk>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.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=E A DineleyEssie Fox|title=The Death of Lyndon Wilder and the Consequences ThereofFascination

|summary= Anna Arbuthnot moves to Ridley Hall The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as governess a setting for Lord and Lady Charles Wilder's granddaughterhistorical fiction (matched only, perhaps, Lottieby the Second World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. LottieThere's mother died years before and her father Lyndon has just been killed such a glut of media set in the Napoleonic Warsera that the hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to the point of being cliched, hackneyed even. Lady Charles has all but beatified Lyndon as no one could ever All this is simply to illustrate that it would be as wonderfulan easy thing to do poorly. But despite that, caring or heroic. In fact she only tolerates Lottie because of her family likeness but things are something about it still grabs me – and something about to change. Lyndonthis book's younger brother, Thomas, returns from the war accompanied by the secrets that stalk him and intentions that will shake Ridley Halldescription did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780332270</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreview|author=William Palmer|title=The Devil is White|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Just off the West coast of Africa is the island of Muranda. It is uninhabitedCast out from Rome, but previous attempts at settling it mean there are buildings available for useArtemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. There is wild game for huntingBut as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, fruits on the trees and self-proclaimed guardians of the climate suggests healing magics that through paintings have the land could be cultivatedpower to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. A group of gentlemenThe all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, not liking the slavery rules they are living under in late Eighteenth Century England, have Artemisia – an idea of claiming this island as a kind of Utopia where there are ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no slaves and everyone lives in comfort place amongst them and equalitytheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224096826</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=V M Whitworth|title=The Traitors' Pit: (Wulfgar 2)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= WystanSet in the near-distant future, one in a world on the verge of Wulfgar's brothersclimate collapse, has always been an honest, sturdy farmerBritain is in great peril. Not the sharpest sword in The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the armoury perhaps, but he pays his taxes day and rescue what little remains well. What no-respected. However one expected was that seems to have changed. Wystan is accused one of plotting against King Edward the Knights of Wessex. Wulfgar knows Wystan is innocent and has three months to prove it; three months to stop Wystan being hanged and hurled into the open, unconsecrated grave that is Round Table would answer the Traitors' Pit. Not an easy task to begin with, it becomes considerably harder when Wulfgar's liege Lady Fleda asks him to go on a mission he can't refuse; a mission that could take more time than he hascall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091947189</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julian LeesG K Holloway|title=The House In the Shadows of Trembling LeavesCastles

|summary= To many it may just be another skirmish in We begin after the longstanding clan war momentous battle in 1066 and on the Malaysia day of William of 1936 but the explosion destroys Lu SeeNormandy's village dam and over 30 livescoronation as King of England. As far as Lu SeeWilliam's concerned, it's time for her position is not secure and the new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. And William is right to leave anywayworry. Rather than face an abhorrent arranged marriage she escapes to CambridgeWhile the previous king, England with her Tibetan servantHarold, Sum Sumis dead and the likelihood of more pitched battles is over, seeking a future that combines study with her forbidden true love, Adrian Woo. Adrian comes from a rival family in the village so this isn't rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to recognise a match that pleases everyone. For now Lu See and Sum Sum think they've left trouble and conflict behind but their futures testify differentlynew overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908737174</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreview|author=V M Whitworth|title=The Bone Thief: (Wulfgar 1)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= It's 900ADMaya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Fleda Climate change is occurring, the Lady Sea of Mercia, taken from her native Wessex to marry MerciaGrass encroaches further and further into Maya's Lord 15 years agoforest home, her childhood friend, secretary and wanna-be-priest Wulfgar being one of her few existing links with the past. Their country food is far from united as whispers of unrest come from all directionsbecoming more and more scarce. Perhaps the only way to strengthen Mercia and increase its importance is What to acquire a saint's relicsdo? As a result Can the law givers in the federation of this thought process, Wulfgar is sent villages muster peaceful ways to Baldney in order to steal cope? Can the bones of St Oswald. Despite having Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the company of young Ednoth wisdom of Sodbury (who can just about handle a sword)All Life, Wulfgar beings to realise that stealing bones is the easy bit. Staying alive may be a tad harder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091947235</amazonuk>provide solutions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ella March Chase1529125898|title=The Nine Day Queen|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= The young monarch, Edward Tudor, is dying and the Protestants of England fear a return to Catholicism through his sister, Mary Tudor. However, the Dukes of Northumberland, Pembroke and Suffolk seize the opportunity to promote self-interest in the form of Suffolk's 16 year old daughter, Jane. His eldest and 4th in line to the throne is also young enough to do as she's told. In this way the door closes harshly on Jane's childhood, for history knows her as Lady Jane Grey; a name that will be written in blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091947170</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGodmersham Park|author=Shiba Ryotaro|title=Clouds above the Hill: A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 2Gill Hornby

|summary=''If Volume 1 built up it were not for the characters casual dereliction of Masaoka Shiki and the Akiyama brothers, Volume 2 is a book more about war than about peopleodd gentleman's duty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at least as individualsall. Very early in this volume, Masaoka Shiki passes away at a very young age and so fades from the story. Shortly afterwards, as the war with Russia becomes more inevitable and Japan's preparations for this really kick into gear, the Akiyama brothers blend a little more into the cast of characters working on the war effort and whilst their names appear fairly regularly, we don't follow their stories as closely as before. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0415508843</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Patricia Watkins|title=The Wayward Gentleman: John Theophilus Potter and Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the Town position of Haverfordwest|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In 1778 John Theophilus Potter (Theo governess to his friends) came to Haverfordwest from Dublin with twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was a group case of actors to put on two performances of ''Romeo and Juliet''necessity. A careless accident left him unable to return with Until the other players - death of her mother, Anne had a comfortable life and then he met Elizabeth Edwardes, was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from a family of local gentrythe household. Friendship turned When her mother died, her father cast her off and would have nothing more to love and whilst some in the town wondered (in a rather loud voice) that the Edwardes should allow Elizabeth's friendship do with an actor, Theo was no strolling player without a penny to his nameher. He No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a 'gentleman player' with a considerable fortune and a very respectable incomeyear. He Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was also a restless man, constantly driven to achievefortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957210442</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pam JenoffMelissa Fu |title=The Ambassador's DaughterPeach Blossom Spring

|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In 1919 I loved the Great War - the First World War - was over and all that was left was prelude to work out the terms of the peace treaty. Margot Rosenthal accompanied her fatherPeach Blossom Spring, a diplomat, to Paris, where he was part of the German delegation and in the invidious position of being disliked by the French because he was short chapter entitled ''the enemyOrigins'' and mistrusted by fellow members of the delegation because he was Jewish. They'd previously been in England where they'd simply been Unfortunately it is the enemyonly truly poetic part of a book that I expected more from. Margot could have gone home to Berlin but that would have taken her back Covering Chinese history from 1938 to her fiance, who2005 as viewed through one family'd been seriously injured in s perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the warwith Japan, a young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. SheThe story follows them on their journey across China, and in Renshu'd rather fallen into the engagement, feeling that it was what she ought s case eventually to doAmerica. Passion played no part.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848452039</amazonuk>1472277538

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Annabel Lyon1916072038|title=The Sweet GirlHouse in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell|rating=34.5

|summary=''The Sweet Girl'' is a novel fictionalising the life We meet part of Pythias, the Greek philosopher Aristotle's daughterTalbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. The reader looks at the world through Pythias’ eyes, from the age of 7 until Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her late teens, starting mother have travelled in Athenssome discomfort from their home at Ecklington, and ending up in Chalcis. One gets to delve into the experience of life house in the household hollow. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of a highly esteemed ancient philosopher, her mother's strengths and the uncertainty which the main characters are thrown into after the death of King Alexander, making life unsafe for anyone previously affiliated with him – this includes Aristotle, who was once his teacher.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085789952X</amazonuk>}}weaknesses:

{{newreview|author=C W Gortner|title=The Queen's Vow|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Queen Isabella of Spain will always be regarded as a bit of an enigma. On the one hand, contemporary sources claim that she was wise'She is practiced at subterfuge, kind and gentleat concealing, hating any kind of cruelty, including the popular sport of bullfighting. Her rule brought about the unification of Spain and heralded beneath a new era facade of peace for its people. On the other side of the coinrespectability, she and her husband Fernando sanctioned the infamous Spanish Inquisition and the expulsion of all Jews from Spain. Her most vehement critics may also point out that her sponsorship of Columbus brought untold misery to the inhabitants of the Americas, although in her defence, there is no way that she could have predicted the eventual consequences of his pioneering voyagedeplorable truth''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444720805</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Shiba Ryotaro|title=Clouds above the Hill: A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 1|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=IHester is furious about Jocelyn've long been a lover of Japan, ever since a brief visit s refusal to the country more than a decade ago. Whilst I've read several Japanese crime thrillers in translationdo as she was asked, I've never really investigated the history of the country. Now available in English for the first time, Shiba Ryotaro's which has precipitated ''Clouds Above the Hill: A historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese Warthis violent and unexpected removal'' provides just that opportunity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0415508762</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Jack Wolf|title=The Tale Then we are told of Raw Head and Bloody Bones|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It doesn’t take long for Jack Wolf’s extraordinary pastiche eighteenth century novel 'The Tale the birth of Raw Head a child and Bloody Bones' to show its true stripes. Narrator Tristan Hart’s best friend Nathanial is handsome, charming and athleticsoon after, and also prone to ‘snatching blue Tits from the HedgesHester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and consuming them direct upon the Spot.’ In that phrase you see both the heart-stopping nastiness that pulses through ''Raw Head and Bloody Bones'' and the fascinating attitude to Gothic duality that lies at its coreisolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186879</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ayana MathisAnnabel Abbs|title=The Twelve Tribes Language of HattieFood

|summary=''Lionheart'' Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the latest slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book in the ''Devil’s Brood'' series, which focuses on the dysfunctional Angevin branch of the Plantaganetsshe recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home life. As the title suggestsTogether, they test, craft, refine and reshape the story is a richly detailed account world of the life of Richard Idomestic cookery, covering reinventing the period from his coronation up to recipe book and changing the end face of the third crusadecookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447205367</amazonuk>1398502227

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Geling Yan and Nicky Harman (translator)Freya Marske|title=The Flowers of WarA Marvellous Light

|summary=1937Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, Nankingmuch to his chagrin. The war between There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the Republic streets of China and Japan has ended in defeat for China, and now Japanese soldiers London are moving in threaded with magic. Desperate to bloodily occupy the capital city. In remove a small American mission churchcurse that threatens to swallow him, fifteen Chinese schoolgirls are hiding, trapped until Robin follows Edwin to the priests who look after them can smuggle them to safety. Into this already fraught atmosphere come desperate Chinese citizens looking for shelter – a rowdy group of Nanking prostitutescountryside, a colonel on where the run hedgegrows bristle with incantations and two more soldiers who have survived the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a horrendous secret massacre. As sinister plot that threatens the Japanese atrocities gather pace, the safety and survival lives of each of the church’s disparate members becomes uncertain, and the initially hostile girls begin to realise that there may be common ground between them and all magicians in the prostitutes they have been taught to despiseBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099569620</amazonuk>1529080886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanna HicksonB09F4CTKJR|title=The Agincourt BrideFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5

|summary= BakerIt's daughter Guillaumette Dupain, aged 15, mourns for her still-born baby but her tragedy becomes others' gainthe later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Young Mette Petrol Petronus is sent a young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to the Hotel de San Polbe trained in Canada, home of the French royal family first to become wet nurse be attached to the latest child produced by RAF and the sickly Charles VI and his wife, Isabella of Bavaria. The infant is Catherine de Valois; destined first to be sent into the mother of an English dynastyskies to fight the Germans in active combat. But first she must live long enough before that can happen, Petrol has to marry an English king and being a 15th century royal is a dangerous existence when your greatest enemies are in your own familymaster flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007446977</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Kent-LemonChristophe Medler|title=Blockade RunnerMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret

|summary=London shipbroker's clerk Tom Wells Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is hungry for promotiondiscovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642. Seeking responsibility where ever possible he's still unprepared for As a proposition from his employer Mr Pembroke. The company is to operate five cargo shipsloyal servant of the King, shuttling between and Head of the Bahamas and AmericaSecret Service, it is Robert's southern states and he wants Tom duty to be on board as shipping agent; a dangerous enterprise. Why? It's 1861 and uncover the south is at war with details of the Yankee north. President Lincoln has blockaded ports like Charleston plan and Wilmington in follow the clues to uncover one of the Carolinas most guarded secrets in an attempt to prevent revenue-providing cargo leaving or supplies (including uniforms and arms) arriving. Mr Pembroke plans to illegally 'run' history—especially since the blockade, something not unattractive to Tom partially due to plot could affect the vastly increased wage attached but mostly because he has a certain interest in a certain American ladyKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781590648</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Alcott1471187179|title=The DressmakerA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=4.5

|summary=I’ve always avoided stories with Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a strong link leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to the Titanic; it’s such live up to her mother's expectations and find a depressing nice young man to marry, produce children and distressing topic, especially for those spend the rest of us with an active imagination! Howeverher days looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately, I was attracted this isn't what she wants to this novel for different reasonsdo at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. Telling the story As a result of Tessa chance meeting, a talented seamstress looking she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a break, double life - attempting to infiltrate the core relationship is one that is not often explored – that Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between employee and employer. Designer Lady Duff Gordon takes Tess on what she perceives as her maid on duty and the Titanic friends she has made - and quickly becomes a mentor and example as Tess develops her craft. But what happened on likes - whilst working for the voyage threatens their relationship and Tess finds herself facing all kinds of moral dilemmasCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751549231</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlotte Bronte Afonso Cruz and Karena RoseRahul Bery (translator)|title=Jane EyroticaKokoschka's Doll|rating=32.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Jane Eyre is Well, this looked very much like a classic book I studied to death in high schoolcould love from the get-go, but which is why I didn’t mind because it’s a book I enjoyed then picked my review copy up and still enjoy nowflipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. Jane Eyrotica is, I found things to put it simplypotentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a smutty version of chapter whose number was in the classic20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. Hot on the heels of It intrigued with the likes of [[Fifty Shades Of Grey by EL James]] this is subterranean voice a reworking man hears in which wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the once demure Jane beds anything star rating that comes with a pulsethis review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749959428</amazonuk>1529402697

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ken FollettChristina Hammonds Reed|title=Winter of the World (Century of Giants Trilogy 2)|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= The world of 1933 seems to be about to disprove the idea that WWI was the war to end all wars. German politician Walter von Ulrich and his wife (and former English aristocrat) Maud watch in horror as Adolf Hitler's National Socialists increase their hold; a rise in popularity that invigorates their son Erik. After visiting the von Ulrichs, young Lloyd Williams takes mental images of the brutality gripping Germany home to England, images that fire him up to fight against the fascist threat elsewhere in Europe. Meanwhile young socialite Daisy Peshkov has marriage on her mind but isn’t considered a respectable prospect in her native USA. (Blame her thuggish father, movie magnate Lev.) This doesn't stop her though; if she can't have a rich American husband, there's still a bit of money left in Britain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230710107</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rosemary Sutcliff|title=Sword At SunsetBlack Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=Every country has its myths and legends: those stories that are told and re-told. Stories that have any number Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of re-interpretations. Storiesthe 1992 Los Angeles riots, a belief in which becomes part reaction to the absolution of our national identityfour police officers for beating a black man, even if we hold them to be trueRodney King, purely because we want them nearly to be truedeath. Part Told from the perspective of themAshley Bennett, at any rate. Those parts the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of our favourite retelling that speak most race, to us as individuals. In England, Robin Hood and his merry men, is one such. The other is King Arthur a woman finding her voice and the Knights of the Round Tableembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857892436</amazonuk>1471188191

{{newreview|author=Margaret Skea|title=Turn of the Tide|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Family and clan count in 16th century Scotland as Munro discovers. His allegiance lies with the Clan Cunninghame and therefore he's involved in their bloody feud with the Montgomeries. It should be straightforward but sometimes feelings don't run along genealogical lines and loyalties are torn. Munro's wife Kate finds this as difficult to live with, sharing the hardships of a life Move on the edge whilst trying to protect their children. Unfortunately the Cunninghames' victory at the Annock massacre has created greater problems than it solved and no one knows which side fate will eventually favour. Meanwhile King James' presence creates a temporary respite, but revenge can't be side-lined forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909305065</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sally Prue|title=Song Hunter|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=A new Ice Age is coming. Winters are getting colder. There are fewer mammoths to hunt and no trees from which to fashion spears to kill them. A small group of Neanderthals is facing starvation this winter. One of them, Mica, is full of ideas to avert the impending doom, but the others simply won't listen to her. If something has never been before then it is ''nothing'' and simply not worth thinking about. Even Bear, who loves Mica, won't hear her. One night, Mica hears strange voices calling in the darkness. They fill her with a deep sense of longing. But to whom do these siren voices belong? And do they hold the key to Mica's future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192757113</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisa Hilton|title=Wolves in Winter|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's 1492 and Mura, an exotic-looking child of Moorish, Spanish and Viking origin enjoys an idyllic childhood living with her widowed father, a Toledo bookseller. However she soon learns that the world is a cruel place when he's snatched by the Spanish Inquisition and she's hidden in a brothel for safe keeping. Adara, the lady of the night entrusted with Mura, betrays that trust and the child's adventurous journeys begin. From nurtured daughter to child prostitute to Medici slave, Mura discovers the power within, nourished by her childhood tales from the Moors and 'North Men' and her gift of 'the sight'. Mura also bears a secret but it seems that she'll be the last to discover it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848874677</amazonuk>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]