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|summary=Luke Magoris Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is heading sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for disgrace which means a lot since heBoys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the son segregated reformatory is a chamber of a Varangianhorrors, haunted by the Viking-originated elite guard of the Byzantine Emperorboys that have died there. Anna Lasaris daughter In order to a Byzantine court official survive the school governor andhis Funhouse, feisty but kind, is Robert must enlist the opposite help of the Archonschool's daughter Zoe. As politically adept as her brother is inept, Zoe will do anything for status and money… anything. As the 14th century Byzantine Empire starts to crumble due to the relentless struggle with the Islamic Turks and Mistra becomes the ghosts – only province left for the Turks to conquer, they have their paths will crossown motivations.. They're all young but they'll soon discover that treachery can emanate from friendship as much as it can from war. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782061118</amazonuk>1803366532}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Beautiful LiesKatherine Howe|authortitle=Claire ClarkA True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Clare Clark's ''Beautiful Lies'' takes Hannah Masury is living in Royal jubileesBoston, London riotshaving been sent to live with a family who run an inn, newspaper editors overstepping the bounds on personal vendettas and political sex scandals - all set being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the late 1880s showing how little has changedtown, she decides to go and watch. There are even early instances Enthralled and questions over photographic manipulation. Maribelhorrified in equal measure, apparently Hannah finds herself embroiled in a Chilean heiress and wife young boy's death at the hands of radicaltwo vicious pirates. She hides away, socialist politician Edward Campbell Loweso that they don't find and kill her too, has a past which and then to escape them completely she has tries to keep buried. If it were runs away to be revealedsea, both her dressing as a boy and her husband would be ruined by joining the scandalnotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Making enemies She soon finds herself in the thick of an unscrupulous things when there is a mutiny on board, and hypocritical newspaper editor might not be from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the best move thenocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099570467</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreview|title=All Woman and SpringtimeFrontpage|author=B W JonesSarah Marsh|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summarytitle=Gyong-Ho is a seamstress. That's not a euphemism. She works at a machine in a garment factory, with a bullying supervisor, invalided out of the glorious Chochun army, limping around and terrifying the girls only slightly more than the picture of Kim Jong-il on the walls. Gi, a nickname she'll acquire because of her stammering attempts to get her own name out (Gi-Gi-Gyong) strives truly hard to be worthy A Sign of the Dear Leader. She has learned the hard way, what happens if someone somewhere for some obscure reason decides that you're not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780222912</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Asylum|author=John HarwoodHer Own

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=A woman wakes up After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in an unfamiliar room. She doesn’t know a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she istaught to lip read, or how she got therebut physically restrained from signing. From here, but at least she knows ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who she has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is: her name is Georgina Ferrars working on other inventions and ideas, and she lives with her uncle Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in Gresham’s Yard, Londona complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224097415</amazonuk>1035401614

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edward RutherfurdClaire North|title=ParisHouse of Odysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Taking four families, from different social positions, Edward Rutherfurd weaves these family histories into the history of Paris and France. We encounter the noble de Cygnes, the bourgeois Blanchards, the lower class Gascons and the revolutionary Le Sourds. Their lives cross paths through the years in often unexpected ways and while ''ParisWhat could matter more than love?'' is an historical fiction novel, this is as much an epic story of families as it is about the history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444736795</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Emma Straub|title=Laura LamontThe follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca''s Life in Pictures|rating=3picks up a few months after where we left off.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Small town girl Ella Emerson loves acting - In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her father runs the Cherry County Playhousehusband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she's always been captivated remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the stageWestern Isles. She loves watching Having survived – politically and physical – the actors performchaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, and getting involved in shows where she canQueen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. Following a family tragedyOne that shatters however with the return of Orestes, thoughKing of Mycenae, she moves to Hollywood to marry an actor and reinvents herself as Laura Lamont. Quicklyhis sister Elektra, she outshines her new husbandseeking refuge. Can her success, and their relationship, last?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447203208</amazonuk>0356516075

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick RennisonB0C7J9D21B|title=Carver's QuestA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=34.5

|summary=The year When we first meet our hero, his name is 1870 Ettore and Adam Carver is he lives at home in his lodgings in London’s Doughty Street The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he is interrupted by an unexpected callerwas born. This distraught and enigmatic young woman He's not been short of mothers, Miss Emily Maitlandthough - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, requests Carver’s help but disappears mysteriously before he can ascertain it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the details preparation of her predicamentanchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. The days Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and weeks that follow her visit prove to be most eventful, pitching Carver determined - and his assistant Quint into an investigation involving murder, it was not long before he had a missing manuscript and successful business as a hidden treasureguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848871791</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael RidpathEssie Fox|title=Traitor's GateThe Fascination|rating=4.5

|summary= OxfordThe Victorian era is incredibly over-educated Englishman Conrad de Lancey is haunted romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the brutality of the Spanish Civil Second World War, his ideals laying in the dust along with the cause for ) which he foughthas often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. Therefore, on a visit to his motherThere's German homeland, Conrad shies away from involvement such a glut of media set in any resistance the era that the hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to the rise point of the National Socialist Partybeing cliched, hackneyed even. All this is simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. HoweverBut despite that, he will soon have little choice something about it still grabs me – and something about this book's description did as tragic events drag him into a world of espionage, brutality and fear, culminating in a conspiracy to kill Hitler himselfwell.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781851808</amazonuk>1914585526

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=A L BerridgeNicole Jarvis|title=Into The Valley of DeathA Portrait in Shadow

|summary=Master Harry-sahib saunters up the path of the family bungalow in some unnamed Indian 'British town', puzzled to see the pathway choked with weeds, surprised by the absence I want all of servants and disgusted by the swarming ants. There is worse inside. His father, the colonel, is dead on the floor. 'The money was gone, obviously, but it would take more than that to make a devoted soldier Florence to blow his brains out. What had it done to him, this army heknow my name'd given his whole life to?'

What indeed? 'Into Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the Valley powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of Death' isn't the novel healing magics that will tell usthrough paintings have the power to protect the city 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. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024195410X</amazonuk>1803362340

Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|isbn=0356518523}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim WillocksG K Holloway|title=The ReligionIn the Shadows of Castles

|summary=To We begin after the Maltese momentous battle in 1066 and Sicilians, Mattias Tannhauser is a successfully blooded infantry captain. To Ottoman Turks heon the day of William of Normandy's Ibrahim the Red, having been kidnapped from Hungary and raised coronation as a MuslimKing of England. Dual nationality comes in handy once heWilliam's met the beautiful Contessa Carla de la Penantier and position is commissioned to find not secure and return her 12 year old bastard sonthe new king has many challenges. As always with these missions there's Imposing authority through a catchcoronation is important. The boy (whom Carla hasn't seen since the day of his birth) And William is rumoured right to be on Maltaworry. While the previous king, an island currently being threatened by 30Harold,000 Turks is dead and defended by a tenth of that number, even if you count the Knights Hospitaller. The Turks call themselves the Hounds likelihood of Hellmore pitched battles is over, the Knights rebels are known as stirring and much of the Religion, but it's immaterial country does not wish to Mattias. He just needs to find the lad and get out aliverecognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581299</amazonuk>1800422466

Maya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce. What to do? Can the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions? }}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Fremantle1529125898|title=The Queen's GambitGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary= The recently widowed Lady Katherine Latymer falls in love with aristocratic Thomas Seymour, a man more a stranger to fidelity than to a lady's bed. It's If it were not a good idea, especially when Henry VIII announces he'd like to make use for the casual dereliction of her renowned nursing skills by marrying her. As Katherine navigates the seas of palace survival thereodd gentleman's a lot that can sink her: Katherine's wish for Henry to return to the original protestant faith as he perceived itduty, her desire there would no women to bring the Kingteach well-bred daughters at all.''s children together under  Anne Sharpe was thirty-one roof and years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the plotting position of those who would like governess to see her head disconnected at the neck to name twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but threethis was a case of necessity. Meanwhile Until the shadow death of Snape Castle hangs over Katherine's step-daughter Megher mother, haunting Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her hopesfather was frequently absent from the household. When her mother died, her dreams father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her everyday life to . No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a degree that only the year. Her maid Dot understands, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718177061</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy BrillMelissa Fu |title=The Movement of StarsPeach Blossom Spring |rating=43.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Hannah Gardner Price lives in NantucketI loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a small New England island with fortunes based on the whaling trade. As itshort chapter entitled ''Origins's 1845, Hannah's life is based on what her father feels is best for her. This Unfortunately it is unfortunately reinforced by the fact only truly poetic part of a book that Nantucket is not just an island geographically but also insular in outlook and expectations I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as the claustrophobic, small community revolves around the weekly Friendsviewed through one family' Meeting of its Quaker faiths perspective. Why unfortunately? Hannah When their home city is highly intelligentset ablaze during the war with Japan, in a young mother (Meilin) and her midfour-year-20s, unmarried, practically runs her family's navigational instrument business since her twin brother dashed off to sea and has a scientific passion for astronomy, all of which old son (Renshu) are at odds with societal normalityamong those who flee. HoweverThe story follows them on their journey across China, this is just the beginning. When Isaac Martin, a shipand in Renshu's black second mate, brings Hannah a chronometer case eventually to repair he becomes a presence that will shake her community as it shakes her worldAmerica. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718159926</amazonuk>1472277538

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rhidian Brook1916072038|title=The AftermathHouse in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary=''The Aftermath'' is set amongst We meet part of the devastated ruins Talbot family in the fire-bombed city of Hamburg Yorkshire in 1946November 1811. The British Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have occupied travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to the ruined city and Colonel Lewis Morgan, an officer and a gentleman, is charged with overseeing house in the restoration of orderhollow. However, Colonel Morgan must first deal The two women are angry with the human cost of the bombing including remnants each other and Jocelyn is well aware of fanatic Nazis, the ''trummerkind'her mother' - children of the rubble, s strengths 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>}}weaknesses:

{{newreview|author=Diana Souhami|title=Coconut Chaos|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Our anonymous narrator has a chaos-theory-theory about the mutiny on the Bounty. 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 is practiced at subterfuge, she sets off for Pitcairn Islandat concealing, the isolated home of Christian and his band of dissenters 3,000 miles from New Zealand. She leaves behind beneath a beloved but delusional mother, her partner and all the comforts facade of civilisation as she travels with hope and the inimitable Lady Myre. Meanwhile we listen to true stories about the mutinyrespectability, the aftermath and the fact that there werendeplorable truth''t really many heroes, just a group of flawed individuals fighting for survival.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780878745</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Robert Wilton|title=Traitor's Field|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=ItHester is furious about Jocelyn's 1648 and the embers of Charles I's reign start refusal to fade do as Britain slowly turns the monotone colour of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth. Howevershe was asked, Royalist passion still exists and it's up to Sir Mortimer Shay, the Comptrollerate-General for Scrutiny and Survey, to gather the intelligence, maintain his spy network and fan the embers towards the Royalist victory for which he longs. Hehas precipitated '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 to be turfed out of their home in Donegal and Coll is just angry enough to confront the landowner’s son who is responsible. The repercussions of Coll’s actions are huge and Coll is forced to go on the run. He attempts to escape across the unforgiving and desolate landscape of North West Ireland, the brutal Atlantic Ocean and the plains of North America, all the while stalked by the incredibly dangerous and this violent John Faller. Red Sky in Morning is Paul Lynch’s debut novel and it is a real hitunexpected removal''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780879164</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Patricia Watkins|title=Trick Then we are told of the birth of Fate: Connell O'Keeffe and The Pen Caer Legacy|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Connell O'Keeffe was a gentleman actor child and on 23 February 1797 he was on his way from Haverfordwest , soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in Pembrokeshire to catch the ferry home to Ireland. Unable to speak Welsh he was unaware that the French had invaded Pen Caer shame and rode into a situation which would change his life forever. The man who had set off to make his leisurely way home, taking isolation in some of the local landmarks suffered a life-threatening injury, was unjustly accused of a foul murder and became a fugitiveYorkshire. 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim LeachAnnabel Abbs|title=The Last King Language of LydiaFood

|summary=Ancient mythology seems Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to be enjoying boil an egg. When tasked with writing a surge in popularity of latecookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a plethora troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine and reshape the world of booksdomestic cookery, movies and games based on these ancient legends reinventing the recipe book and fabled heroes. There is something in changing the collective consciousness that enables these stories to resonate with each subsequent generation, allowing ancient wisdom to put out new roots in fresh soilface of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857899171</amazonuk>1398502227

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James BenmoreFreya Marske|title=DodgerA Marvellous Light

|summary=That loveable rogue, Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Artful DodgerCivil Service, is one of much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the most memorable and amusing characters in all streets of English literatureLondon are threaded with magic. ''Oliver Twist'' ended Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the countryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with Dodger Jack Dawkins arrested for incantations and the theft of people shimmer with power. There they uncover a silver snuff box and transported to Australia. But what happened next? James Benmore explores sinister plot that idea threatens the lives of all magicians in ''Dodger'', which takes up the story six years after the events of ''Oliver Twist''British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780874650</amazonuk>1529080886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth GillB09F4CTKJR|title=Miss Appleby's Academy|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=After forsaking her own chance of happiness to care for her aging father, Emma Appleby’s life is thrown into turmoil when he dies suddenly, leaving her fate entirely in the hands of her callous brother Laurence. Laurence and his wife view the middle-aged spinster as a burden and are keen to marry her off to an elderly neighbour to free themselves of responsibility. With seemingly nowhere to turn, Emma flees America to make a new life Flights for herself in her childhood home of County Durham.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780878478</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFreedom|author=Jenny Mandeville|title=A Crown of DespairSteven Burgauer

|summary=By It's the age later stages of 31 Katherine, Lady Latimer, had been married World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and widowed twicejoined the 17 Aero Squadron. Her This company was the first match US Aero Squadron to an elderlybe trained in Canada, sickening baron ended at the age of 16, as miserably as it had started two years earlier. Her second marriage first to be attached to John Neville, Lord Latimer, had been more comfortable. On his death she found love for the RAF and the first time in her life, but to no avail. The monarch had seen Katherine and would claim her for himself no matter what her wishes may be. This forced marriage would make her famous, for down sent into the centuries history would recount skies to fight the story of Lady Latimer using her other name: Katherine ParrGermans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the sixth and final wife of Henry VIIInotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071980857X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne O'BrienChristophe Medler|title=The Forbidden QueenMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=4.5

|summary=Katherine de Valois Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the young and innocent girl betrothed to Henry V summer of England. While Henry doesn't love her, she thinks she can be happy with him1642. Unfortunately, though, she quickly finds herself trapped in As a loveless marriageloyal servant of the King, then finds an even worse fate in store as Henry is killed 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 eye. Can she be happy with one Head of themthe Secret Service, or will those people at court who donit is Robert't want s duty to see any man gain uncover the power that would come with marrying details of the mother plan and follow the clues to uncover one of the young king foil her hopes?most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848452152</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471187179|authortitle=E A DineleyBeautiful Spy|titleauthor=The Death of Lyndon Wilder and the Consequences ThereofRachel Hore

|summary= Anna Arbuthnot moves to Ridley Hall as governess for Lord and Lady Charles WilderMinnie is an 'ordinary's granddaughter, Lottiegirl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. Lottie's mother died years before and her father Lyndon has just been killed The book is set in the Napoleonic Wars. Lady Charles has all but beatified Lyndon as no one could ever be as wonderful, caring or heroic. In fact she only tolerates Lottie because of 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her family likeness but things are about to change. Lyndonmother's younger brother, Thomasexpectations and find a nice young man to marry, returns from the war accompanied by the secrets that stalk him produce children and intentions that will shake Ridley Hall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780332270</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=William Palmer|title=The Devil is White|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Just off spend the West coast rest of Africa is the island of Murandaher days looking after her husband and their home. It is uninhabitedUnfortunately, but previous attempts this isn't what she wants to do at settling it mean there are buildings available for useall and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. There is wild game As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for hunting, fruits on the trees secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the climate suggests that the land could be cultivatedCommunist Party of Great Britain. A group of gentlemen, not liking the slavery rules they are living under in late Eighteenth Century England, have an idea of claiming this island Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as a kind of Utopia where there are no slaves her duty and everyone lives in comfort the friends she has made - and equalitylikes - whilst working for the Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096826</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=V M WhitworthAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The TraitorsKokoschka' Pit: (Wulfgar 2)s Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary= WystanWell, one this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of Wulfgar's brothers, has always been an honest, sturdy farmerit. Not I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the sharpest sword middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the armoury perhaps20,000s, letters used as narrative form, but he pays his taxes and remains well-respectedso on. However It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that seems to have changed. Wystan is accused what little I knew of plotting against King Edward of Wessexit mentioned, too. Wulfgar knows Wystan is innocent and has three months to prove it; three months to stop Wystan being hanged and hurled into But you've seen the open, unconsecrated grave star rating that is the Traitors' Pit. Not an easy task to begin comes withthis review, it becomes considerably harder when Wulfgar's liege Lady Fleda asks him to go on a mission he and can't refuse; a mission tell that could take more time than he hasif love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091947189</amazonuk>1529402697

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julian LeesChristina Hammonds Reed|title=The House of Trembling LeavesBlack Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary= To many it may just be another skirmish in the longstanding clan war in Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the Malaysia backdrop of 1936 but the explosion destroys Lu See's village dam and over 30 lives. As far as Lu See's concerned1992 Los Angeles riots, it's time a reaction to the absolution of four police officers for her beating a black man, Rodney King, nearly to leave anywaydeath. Rather than face an abhorrent arranged marriage she escapes to CambridgeTold from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, England with the novel follows her Tibetan servant, Sum Sum, seeking evolution from a future that combines study silent bystander when confronted with her forbidden true lovematters of race, Adrian Woo. Adrian comes from to a rival family in the village so this isn't a match that pleases everyone. For now Lu See woman finding her voice and Sum Sum think they've left trouble and conflict behind but their futures testify differentlyembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908737174</amazonuk>1471188191

{{newreview|author=V M Whitworth|title=The Bone Thief: (Wulfgar 1)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= It's 900AD. Fleda is the Lady of Mercia, taken from her native Wessex to marry Mercia's Lord 15 years ago, her childhood friend, secretary and wanna-be-priest Wulfgar being one of her few existing links with the past. Their country is far from united as whispers of unrest come from all directions. Perhaps the only way to strengthen Mercia and increase its importance is to acquire a saint's relics? As a result of this thought process, Wulfgar is sent Move on to Baldney in order to steal the bones of St Oswald. Despite having the company 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 harder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091947235</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ella March Chase|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>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]