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|summary=Taking four familiesGracetown, from different social positionsFlorida. 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, Edward Rutherfurd weaves these family histories into otherwise known as the history of Paris Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and Francedark reputation. We encounter But the noble de Cygnessegregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the bourgeois Blanchardsschool governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the lower class Gascons help of the 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, 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 revolutionary Le Sourdstown, she decides to go and watch. Their lives cross paths through the years Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in often unexpected ways and while a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don'Paris'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' s pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is an historical fiction novela mutiny on board, this is as much an epic story and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of families as it is about life on the historyocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444736795</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma StraubSarah Marsh|title=Laura Lamont's Life in PicturesA Sign of Her Own

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Small town girl Ella Emerson loves acting - After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her father runs the Cherry County Playhousehearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, and she's always been captivated by the stageeverything about her life changes. She loves watching Living in a time when the actors performuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, and getting involved in shows Ellen is sent to a school where she canis taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Following a family tragedy, though From here, she moves to Hollywood to marry an actor ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and reinvents herself as Laura Lamontusing a system called Visible Speech. Quickly At the same time, she outshines her new husband. Can her successBell is working on other inventions and ideas, and their relationship, last?Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447203208</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreview|author=Nick Rennison|title=CarverThe follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca''s Quest|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The year is 1870 picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and Adam Carver is at then by divine intervention never returned home in his lodgings in London’s Doughty Street when he is interrupted . As ever she remains surrounded by an unexpected callersuitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. This distraught Having survived – politically and enigmatic young womanphysical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Miss Emily Maitland, requests Carver’s help but disappears mysteriously before he can ascertain Queen Penelope is on the details brink of her predicamenta fragile peace. The days and weeks One that follow her visit prove to be most eventfulshatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, pitching Carver and his assistant Quint into an investigation involving murdersister Elektra, a missing manuscript and a hidden treasureseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848871791</amazonuk>0356516075

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael RidpathB0C7J9D21B|title=Traitor's GateA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary= Oxford-educated Englishman Conrad de Lancey is haunted by the brutality of the Spanish Civil WarWhen we first meet our hero, his ideals laying in the dust along with the cause for which name is Ettore and he foughtlives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. ThereforeIdyllic as this might sound, on it's a visit to his bordello and Ettore's motherdied when he was born. He's German homelandnot been short of mothers, Conrad shies away from involvement though - but for someone of his background in any resistance late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the rise preparation of the National Socialist Partyanchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. However, Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he will soon have little choice had a successful business as tragic events drag him into a world of espionage, brutality and fear, culminating in a conspiracy to kill Hitler himselfguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851808</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=A L BerridgeEssie Fox|title=Into The Valley of DeathFascination|rating=4.5

|summary=Master HarryThe Victorian era is incredibly over-sahib saunters up romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the path 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 family bungalow in some unnamed Indian 'British townera that the hallmarks we', puzzled ve come to see the pathway choked associate with weeds, surprised by it are familiar to the absence point of servants and disgusted by the swarming antsbeing cliched, hackneyed even. There All this is worse inside. His father, the colonel, is dead on the floor. 'The money was gone, obviously, but simply to illustrate that it would take more than that to make a devoted soldier be an easy thing to blow his brains outdo poorly. What had But despite that, something about it done to him, still grabs me – and something about this army he'd given his whole life to?' What indeed? 'Into the Valley of Death' isnbook't the novel that will tell uss description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024195410X</amazonuk>1914585526

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim WillocksNicole Jarvis|title=The ReligionA Portrait in Shadow

|summary=To the Maltese and Sicilians, Mattias Tannhauser is a successfully blooded infantry captain. To Ottoman Turks he's Ibrahim the Red'I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, having been kidnapped from Hungary and raised as a Muslim. Dual nationality comes Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in handy once he's met the beautiful Contessa Carla de la Penantier and is commissioned to which her art can find a home and return where her 12 year old bastard sonfuture can thrive rather than stagnate. As always with these missions there's a catch. The boy (whom Carla hasn't seen since But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the day of his birth) is rumoured to be on Maltapowerful Accademia, an island currently being threatened by 30,000 Turks and defended by a tenth the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that number, even if you count through paintings have the power to protect the Knights Hospitallercity and its citizens from plagues and curses. The Turks call themselves the Hounds of Hell, the Knights are known as the Religion, but all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it's immaterial to Mattiasabove all else. He just needs to find the lad To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and get out alivetheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581299</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Elizabeth Fremantle|title=The Queen's Gambit|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= The recently widowed Lady Katherine Latymer falls Set in love with aristocratic Thomas Seymourthe near-distant future, in a man more a stranger to fidelity than to a lady's bedworld on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. It's not The British Isles desperately needs a good idea, especially when Henry VIII announces he'd like hero (or several) to make use of her renowned nursing skills by marrying hersave the day and rescue what little remains. As Katherine navigates the seas of palace survival there's a lot What no-one expected was that can sink her: Katherine's wish for Henry to return to the original protestant faith as he perceived it, her desire to bring the King's children together under one roof and of the plotting Knights of those who the Round Table would like to see her head disconnected at the neck to name but three. Meanwhile the shadow of Snape Castle hangs over Katherine's step-daughter Meg, haunting her hopes, her dreams and her everyday life to a degree that only answer the maid Dot understandscall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718177061</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy BrillG K Holloway|title=The Movement In the Shadows of StarsCastles

|summary= Hannah Gardner Price lives We begin after the momentous battle in Nantucket, a small New England island with fortunes based 1066 and on the whaling trade. As itday of William of Normandy's 1845, Hannahcoronation as King of England. William's life position is based on what her father feels not secure and the new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is best for herimportant. This And William is unfortunately reinforced by right to worry. While the fact that Nantucket previous king, Harold, is not just an island geographically but also insular in outlook dead and expectations as the claustrophobic, small community revolves around the weekly Friends' Meeting likelihood of its Quaker faith. Why unfortunately? Hannah more pitched battles is highly intelligentover, in her mid-20s, unmarried, practically runs her family's navigational instrument business since her twin brother dashed off to sea the rebels are stirring and has a scientific passion for astronomy, all much of which are at odds with societal normality. However, this is just the beginning. When Isaac Martin, a ship's black second mate, brings Hannah a chronometer country does not wish to repair he becomes recognise a presence that will shake her community as it shakes her worldnew overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718159926</amazonuk>1800422466

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rhidian Brook3949666079|title=The AftermathNoema|author=Dael Akkerman

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=''The Aftermath'' This is set amongst the devastated ruins in the fire-bombed city of Hamburg in 1946. The British have occupied the ruined city and Colonel Lewis Morgan, an officer and a gentleman, is charged with overseeing the restoration of orderstory about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago. However, Colonel Morgan must first deal with the human cost of the bombing including remnants of fanatic Nazis, the ''trummerkind'' - children of the rubble, and the starving civil populace. He also, in 1943, lost a child due to a Luftwaffe bomb and he must support his deeply grieving wife, Rachel, when she arrives after months of separation with their surviving twelve year old boy, the impressionable Edmund.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921122</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Diana Souhami|title=Coconut Chaos|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Our anonymous narrator has Maya is a chaos-theory-theory about the mutiny on young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the BountyMesolithic era. It can all be traced back to Fletcher Christian stealing a coconut. Armed with this thought and the intrepid spirit of many Britons before her, she sets off for Pitcairn IslandClimate change is occurring, the isolated home Sea of Christian Grass encroaches further and his band of dissenters 3further into Maya's forest home,000 miles from New Zealand. She leaves behind a beloved but delusional mother, her partner and all the comforts of civilisation as she travels with hope food is becoming more and the inimitable Lady Myremore scarce. Meanwhile we listen What to true stories about do? Can the mutiny, law givers in the aftermath and federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the fact that there weren't really many heroesTraveller, just a group spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of flawed individuals fighting for survival.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780878745</amazonuk>All Life, provide solutions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Wilton1529125898|title=Traitor's FieldGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=It's 1648 and 'If it were not for the embers casual dereliction of Charles I's reign start to fade as Britain slowly turns the monotone colour of Oliver Cromwellodd gentleman's Commonwealth. Howeverduty, Royalist passion still exists and it's up there would no women to Sir Mortimer Shay, the Comptrollerateteach well-General for Scrutiny and Survey, to gather the intelligence, maintain his spy network and fan the embers towards the Royalist victory for which he longsbred daughters at all. He's a wily veteran so not easily stopped but among the confusion and brutality that tears Britain in half, former lawyer Cromwell's spymaster John Thurloe is the man charged with the task.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878192</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Paul Lynch|title=Red Sky In Morning|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It’s 1832 and Coll Coyle and his humble family are Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to be turfed out take up the position of their home in Donegal and Coll is just angry enough governess to confront the landowner’s son who is responsibletwelve-year-old Fanny Austen. The repercussions She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of Coll’s actions are huge and Coll is forced to go on the runnecessity. He attempts to escape across Until the unforgiving and desolate landscape death of North West Irelandher mother, the brutal Atlantic Ocean Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the plains of North Americahousehold. When her mother died, all the while stalked by the incredibly dangerous her father cast her off and violent John Fallerwould have nothing more to do with her. Red Sky No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a year. Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in Morning is Paul Lynch’s debut novel and it is a real hitby some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780879164</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Patricia Watkins|title=Trick of Fate: Connell O'Keeffe and The Pen Caer Legacy|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Connell O'Keeffe 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 - 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>}} {{newreview|author=Tim Leach|title=The Last King of Lydia|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Ancient mythology seems to be enjoying a surge in popularity of late, with a plethora of books, movies and games based on these ancient legends and fabled heroes. There is something in the collective consciousness that enables these stories to resonate with each subsequent generation, allowing ancient wisdom to put out new roots in fresh soil.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857899171</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James Benmore|title=Dodger|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=That loveable rogue, the Artful Dodger, is one of the most memorable and amusing characters in all of English literature. ''Oliver Twist'' ended with Dodger Jack Dawkins arrested for the theft of a silver snuff box and transported to Australia. But what happened next? James Benmore explores that idea in ''Dodger'', which takes up the story six years after the events of ''Oliver Twist''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780874650</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth GillMelissa Fu |title=Miss Appleby's AcademyPeach Blossom Spring

|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=After forsaking her own chance of happiness I loved the prelude to care for her aging fatherPeach Blossom Spring, Emma Appleby’s life a short chapter entitled ''Origins''. Unfortunately it is thrown into turmoil when he dies suddenly, leaving her fate entirely in the hands only truly poetic part of her callous brother Laurencea book that I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's perspective. Laurence and his wife view When their home city is set ablaze during the middle-aged spinster as war with Japan, a burden young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are keen to marry her off to an elderly neighbour to free themselves of responsibilityamong those who flee. With seemingly nowhere The story follows them on their journey across China, and in Renshu's case eventually to turn, Emma flees America to make a new life for herself in her childhood home of County Durham. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780878478</amazonuk>1472277538

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Mandeville1916072038|title=A Crown of DespairThe House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary=By We meet part of the age of 31 Katherine, Lady Latimer, had been married and widowed twiceTalbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Her first match to an elderly, sickening baron ended Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at the age of 16Ecklington, as miserably as it had started two years earlier. Her second marriage to John Neville, Lord Latimer, had been more comfortable. On his death she found love for the first time house in her life, but to no availthe hollow. The monarch had seen Katherine two women are angry with each other and would claim Jocelyn is well aware of her for himself no matter what her wishes may be. This forced marriage would make her famousmother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, for down the centuries history would recount the story beneath a facade of Lady Latimer using her other name: Katherine Parrrespectability, the sixth and final wife of Henry VIIIdeplorable truth''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071980857X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Anne OHester is furious about Jocelyn'Brien|title=The Forbidden Queen|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Katherine de Valois is the young and innocent girl betrothed s refusal to Henry V of England. While Henry doesn't love her, she thinks do as she can be happy with him. Unfortunatelywas asked, though, she quickly finds herself trapped in a loveless marriage, then finds an even worse fate in store as Henry is killed which has precipitated ''this violent and she is left a lonely young widow. With political machinations dogging her every step as men like Edmund Beaufort and Owen Tudor catch her eyeunexpected removal''. Can she be happy with one of them, or will those people at court who don'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>}}

{{newreview|author=E A Dineley|title=The Death Then we are told of Lyndon Wilder and the Consequences Thereof|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Anna Arbuthnot moves to Ridley Hall as governess for Lord birth of a child and Lady Charles Wilder's granddaughter, Lottie. Lottie's mother died years before and her father Lyndon has just been killed in the Napoleonic Wars. Lady Charles has all but beatified Lyndon as no one could ever be as wonderfulsoon after, caring or heroic. In fact she only tolerates Lottie because of her family likeness but things are about to change. Lyndon's younger brotherHester Talbot departs, Thomas, returns from the war accompanied by the secrets that stalk him leaving Jocelyn in shame and intentions that will shake Ridley Hallisolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780332270</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=William PalmerAnnabel Abbs|title=The Devil is WhiteLanguage of Food

|summary=Just off the West coast of Africa Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the island of Murandaslightest inclination to boil an egg. It is uninhabitedWhen tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, but previous attempts at settling it mean there are buildings available for usea local woman with a troubled home life. There is wild game for huntingTogether, they test, craft, fruits on the trees refine and reshape the climate suggests that the land could be cultivated. A group world of gentlemendomestic cookery, not liking reinventing the slavery rules they are living under in late Eighteenth Century England, have an idea of claiming this island as a kind recipe book and changing the face of Utopia where there are no slaves and everyone lives in comfort and equalitycookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224096826</amazonuk>1398502227

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=V M WhitworthFreya Marske|title=The Traitors' Pit: (Wulfgar 2)A Marvellous Light|rating=54

|summary= Wystan, one of Wulfgar's brothers, has always been an honest, sturdy farmer. Not the sharpest sword Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the armoury perhapsCivil Service, but much to his chagrin. There he pays his taxes meets Edwin Courcey and remains well-respected. However learns that seems to have changed. Wystan is accused the streets of plotting against King Edward of WessexLondon are threaded with magic. Wulfgar knows Wystan is innocent and has three months Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to prove it; three months swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to stop Wystan being hanged and hurled into the opencountryside, unconsecrated grave that is where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the Traitors' Pitpeople shimmer with power. Not an easy task to begin with, it becomes considerably harder when Wulfgar's liege Lady Fleda asks him to go on There they uncover a mission he can't refuse; a mission sinister plot that could take more time than he hasthreatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091947189</amazonuk>1529080886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian LeesB09F4CTKJR|title=The House of Trembling LeavesFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary= To many it may 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 and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be another skirmish trained in Canada, the longstanding clan war in first to be attached to the RAF and the Malaysia of 1936 but first to be sent into the explosion destroys Lu See's village dam and over 30 lives. As far as Lu See's concerned, it's time for her skies to leave anywayfight the Germans in active combat. Rather than face an abhorrent arranged marriage she escapes to Cambridge, England with her Tibetan servant, Sum Sum, seeking a future But before that combines study with her forbidden true lovecan happen, Adrian Woo. Adrian comes from a rival family in Petrol has to master flying the village so this isn't a match that pleases everyone. For now Lu See and Sum Sum think they've left trouble and conflict behind notoriously difficult but their futures testify differentlymajestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908737174</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=V M WhitworthChristophe Medler|title=The Bone ThiefMadrigal: (Wulfgar 1)A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=54

|summary= It's 900AD. Fleda is Set against the Lady backdrop of Merciathe English Civil War, taken from her native Wessex to marry Mercia's Lord 15 years ago, her childhood friend, secretary and wannaa secret plan (code-be-priest Wulfgar being one named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of her few existing links with the past1642. Their country is far from united as whispers As a loyal servant of unrest come from all directions. Perhaps the only way to strengthen Mercia King, and increase its importance Head of the Secret Service, it is to acquire a saintRobert's relics? As a result of this thought process, Wulfgar is sent to Baldney in order duty to steal uncover the bones details of St Oswald. Despite having the company plan and follow the clues to uncover one of young Ednoth of Sodbury (who can just about handle a sword), Wulfgar beings to realise that stealing bones is the easy bit. Staying alive may be a tad hardermost guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091947235</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ella March Chase1471187179|title=The Nine Day QueenA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore

|summary= Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young monarchman to marry, Edward Tudor, is dying produce children and spend the Protestants rest of England fear her days looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a return to Catholicism through his sister, Mary Tudorsecretary. HoweverAs a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the Dukes of Northumberland, Pembroke secret service and Suffolk seize the opportunity effectively living a double life - attempting to promote self-interest in infiltrate the form Communist Party of Suffolk's 16 year old daughter, JaneGreat Britain. His eldest Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and 4th in line to the throne is also young enough to do as friends she's told. In this way has made - and likes - whilst working for the door closes harshly on Jane's childhood, for history knows her as Lady Jane Grey; a name that will be written in bloodCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091947170</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shiba RyotaroAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Clouds above the Hill: A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 2Kokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=If Volume 1 built Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up the characters and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of Masaoka Shiki and it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the Akiyama brothersmiddle on darker stock paper, Volume 2 is a book more about war than about peoplechapter whose number was in the 20,000s, at least letters used as individuals. Very early in this volumenarrative form, Masaoka Shiki passes away at a very young age and so fades from the storyon. Shortly afterwards, as the war It intrigued with Russia becomes more inevitable and Japan's preparations for this really kick into gear, the Akiyama brothers blend subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little more into the cast I knew of characters working on it mentioned, too. But you've seen the war effort star rating that comes with this review, and whilst their names appear fairly regularlycan tell that if love was on these pages, we don't follow their stories as closely as beforeit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0415508843</amazonuk>1529402697

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia WatkinsChristina Hammonds Reed|title=The Wayward Gentleman: John Theophilus Potter and the Town of HaverfordwestBlack Kids|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=In 1778 John Theophilus Potter (Theo to his friends) came to Haverfordwest from Dublin with a group of actors to put on two performances Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of ''Romeo and Juliet''. A careless accident left him unable to return with the other players - and then he met Elizabeth Edwardes1992 Los Angeles riots, from a family of local gentry. Friendship turned reaction to love and whilst some in the town wondered (in absolution of four police officers for beating a rather loud voice) that the Edwardes should allow Elizabeth's friendship with an actorblack man, Rodney King, Theo was no strolling player without a penny nearly to his namedeath. He was Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from a 'gentleman player' silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, to a considerable fortune woman finding her voice and a very respectable income. He was also a restless man, constantly driven to achieveembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957210442</amazonuk>1471188191

{{newreview|author=Pam Jenoff|title=The Ambassador's Daughter|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In 1919 the Great War - the First World War - was over and all that was left was Move on to work out the terms of the peace treaty. Margot Rosenthal accompanied her father, 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 ''the enemy'' and mistrusted by fellow members of the delegation because he was Jewish. They'd previously been in England where they'd simply been the enemy. Margot could have gone home to Berlin but that would have taken her back to her fiance, who'd been seriously injured in the war. She'd rather fallen into the engagement, feeling that it was what she ought to do. Passion played no part.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848452039</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Annabel Lyon|title=The Sweet Girl|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''The Sweet Girl'' is a novel fictionalising the life of Pythias, the Greek philosopher Aristotle's daughter. The reader looks at the world through Pythias’ eyes, from the age of 7 until her late teens, starting in Athens, and ending up in Chalcis. One gets to delve into the experience of life in the household of a highly esteemed ancient philosopher, 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>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]