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|summary= Life may be tough in Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Missouri town where Alma grew up but at least she has Reformatory. It's a place with a jobbrutal and dark reputation. She learns and experiences But the segregated reformatory is a lot as maid chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the wealthy Glencross familyschool governor and his Funhouse, but many Robert must enlist the help of the experiences arenschool't 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 sort town, she'd like decides to relivego and watch. To top it all offEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in 1929 the Arbor, a local dance club, explodes into flames killing 42 people including Almayoung boy's younger sister Rubydeath at the hands of two vicious pirates. The cause remains 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 mystery boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as factions are blamed or viewed suspiciouslya cabin boy. However Alma knows She soon finds herself in the truththick of things when there is a mutiny on board, a truth that remains secret until decades later during a visit and from there we are caught up in her grandsonrip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444732838</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham ThomasSarah Marsh|title=The Other Woman (The Roxy Compendium)A Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=In the first part of [[Hats Off To Brandenburg (The Roxy Compendium) by Graham Thomas|The Roxy Compendium]] we discovered that one After a bout of our heroes had had his heart broken by scarlet fever as a lady called Abigail Hardwoode and there were hints that this lady's history was rather unusualchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Graham Thomas isn't one to leave us in suspense for ''too'' long and he takes us back more than Suddenly plunged into a quarter world of a century to the time when Abigail first met silence, everything about her beloved Benjamin Ananaslife changes. What she could not know was that events Living in France involved a British Secret Agent time when his family the use of sign language was kidnapped - and then Abigail's parents when they were tricked into undertaking seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a mission school where she is taught to rescue them which was off lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the booksdeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. When they were captured only one man, agent Hilary WeaverAt the same time, believed them to be innocent Bell is working on other inventions and Abigail, snatched from her peaceful, high society lifeideas, headed to France to find them - and broke her lover's heartEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00E05A1J6</amazonuk>1035401614

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LongbournClaire North|authortitle=Jo BakerHouse of Odysseus

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=So we have had Jane Austen [[Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith|meet zombies]], and now something perhaps even ''What could matter more reprehensible – social realism. This is a world where people slip up in hogshit, where rain pisses it down, and if the weekly routine washday is bad, you should try it when five Bennet daughters have their coinciding periods. Sarah is in the middle of all this, trying to do her share of the housework with one hand at times, lest pus from her blisters get on the linen, or her callouses crack open. But why can she not get her feelings about James, the new mysterious footman fresh from who-knows-where, straight in her head, and why is her heart turned by the mulatto servant of the Bingleys up at Netherfieldthan love?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522019</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Elisabeth Gifford|title=Secrets of The follow-up to the Sea House|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Ruth has been raised in childrenexcellent ''Ithaca''s homes picks up a few months after losing where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her mother as a young childhusband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. Her mother always told her that As ever she was a Selkie, one remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the seal people Western Isles. Having survived – politically and eventually her mother would return to physical – the sea. Ruth prefers this version chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to the official death certificates: suicide by drowning. As an adult, Ruth returns with husband Michael to her motherIthaca's native Hebrides. This shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a new start for them both in an old manse they're renovatingfragile peace. However during One that shatters however with the works they make a gruesome discovery: the buried remains return of Orestes, King of a special child. This body has been there for over a centuryMycenae, since Rev Alexander Ferguson's time andhis sister Elektra, as the years roll back to reveal its origins Ruth realises this isn't the only surprise awaiting herseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782391118</amazonuk>0356516075

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rosemary GoringB0C7J9D21B|title=After FloddenA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary= Scotland 1513: Louise Brenier believes her family to be cursedWhen we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Her father deadIdyllic as this might sound, her elder sister dying during childbirth as the result of an affair with King James IV it's a bordello and now her brother Benoit missing after the Battle of FloddenEttore's mother died when he was born. It would be easy to believe Benoit dead tooHe's not been short of mothers, though - butfor someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, whatever state heit's in, Louise must know what happeneddifficult to obtain decent employment. This is what drives her on a journey across a land ravaged by war, providing more challenges than answers and encounters The stint working with those for whom Flodden remains a recurring nightmare.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972728</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Gilman|title=Master of War|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Young Richard Blackstone is accused of the rape and murder preparation of a village girl anchovies didn't work out and sentenced to hangbastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Protestations of innocence on his behalf mean Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and the fact it was not long before he's had a deaf/mute means even less. His elder brother Thomas has protected him successful business as much as possible throughout their lives but can do nothing this timea guide for visitors. However, help is at hand; Sir Gilbert Killbere ensures that the judge changes his mind and Richard is released but not completely. Richard and Thomas are excellent archers so they're rescued in order to join the army that the King is amassing. It's not an easy option: the year is 1346 and the conflict that history will call 'The Hundred Years War' is about to beginHe was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781850100</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=The Sorrow of AngelsFrontpage|author=Jon Kalman StefanssonEssie Fox|ratingtitle=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Our decidedly unheroic main character has been at the café for three weeks now, so we are following on very closely from [[Heaven and Hell by Jon Kalman Stefansson|Heaven and Hell]]. After the tragedy and soul-searching of that first book, he seems settled in the ridiculous family that has formed around him there, finding employment, enjoying the literature, yet being very intrigued by the female body. The man who is still young enough to be known only as ''the boy'' might have latched on to stability for once, and replaced the family and best friend he had lost. But everything is restless in this environment, and once again he might just be tempted to go on a journey, with another male companion, despite the harshness of the surrounds.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051652</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Heaven and Hell|author=Jon Kalman StefanssonFascination

|summary=Imagine, if you can, The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a lifelike eighteenth-century seafaring epic setting for historical fiction (something along the lines of Carsten Jensen's [[Wematched only, perhaps, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen|We, the Drowned]] or Carol Birch's [[Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch|Jamrach's Menagerie]]Second World War) crossed with Sarah Waters's ''Fingersmith''which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. If you then added in touches of Charles DickensThere's ''Bleak House'', plus shades such a glut of media set in the rest of era that the homoerotic Waters oeuvre (especially hallmarks we''Night Watch'' and ''Tipping ve come to associate with it are familiar to the Velvet'')point of being cliched, you hackneyed even. All this is simply to illustrate that it would just be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite that, something about it still grabs me – and something about have Kate Worsleythis book's debut novel, ''She Rises'', in a nutshelldescription did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408835894</amazonuk>1914585526

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mistress of the SeaNicole Jarvis|authortitle=Jenny BardenA Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5

|summary=''Mistress I want all of the SeaFlorence to know my name'' is an epic adventure involving pirates, star-crossed lovers and a lust for gold and vengeance. The novel, set in Tudor times, is based on the real-life events in the life of Francis Drake, notably the raid at Nombre de Dios and the rout of the English fleet at San Juan de Ulua. Barden weaves an exciting adventure/romance story against this backdrop, which results in an immersive narrative that excites the mind and senses.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009194922X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Graham Thomas|title=Hats Off To Brandenburg (The Roxy Compendium)|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It was LondonCast out from Rome, 1815. George III was on the throne although it was his son who was Regent, but it would be quite Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a while before those facts bothered the Roxy Playhouse Irregulars, who lived, loved home and had their being in the old Roxy Playhousewhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate. Money had always been in short supply But as it tends to be when life is lived some as a celebrationshe enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, but they were in debt to Richard Sheridan and eventually forced to strike a bargain with him: pay their debts within one month or he would take the Roxy Playhouse. The Irregulars took the challenge and put on a performance, only this was no threeself-act play on a stage. Their performance was a tightly choreographed heist which would relieve members proclaimed guardians of the ton of some of their more valuable trinketshealing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. If you're thinking of Robin Hood then forget it The all- this was going to be far more complex male Accademia has hoarded power over art and bloody architecture for centuries and guard it was obvious that there was more at stake than a decrepit playhouseabove all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956742238</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|title=Burnt Norton|author=Caroline Sandon|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=After Set in the death of his youngest son near-distant future, in a terrible accidentworld on the verge of climate collapse, Sir William Keyt starts to lose interest Britain is in lifegreat peril. It takes meeting young Molly Johnson, The British Isles desperately needs a bright hero (or several) to save the day and beautiful daughter rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of a local landlord, to rekindle a spark for him. He brings her into Norton House as a maidservant, where she quickly catches the eye Knights of his bookish eldest son, Thomas. But Sir William wants Molly to be more than a maid to him, and as a rich man and an MP is used to having his own waythe Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781850674</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bruce MacbainG K Holloway|title=The Bull Slayer|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Years after we left him in [[Roman Games (Plinius Secundus) by Bruce Macbain|Roman Games]], Pliny the Younger has become Roman Governor of Bithynia. Not the most hospitable of regions, its Greek residents regard the Romans with hatred; an emotion that, in many cases, is reciprocated by the Romans. No matter how bad this is though, it gets worse when a high ranking official dies mysteriously. Could it have anything to do with In the religious sect Shadows of Mithras? Possibly but it's not Pliny's only dilemma; at home his beloved young wife Calpurnia is acting somewhat oddly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781850798</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James Heneage|title=The Walls of Byzantium (The Mistra Chronicles)Castles|rating=4.5

|summary=Luke Magoris is heading for disgrace which means a lot since heWe begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. William's position is not secure and the son of new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a Varangian, the Viking-originated elite guard of the Byzantine Emperorcoronation is important. Anna Lasaris daughter And William is right to a Byzantine court official andworry. While the previous king, feisty but kindHarold, is dead and the opposite likelihood of the Archon's daughter Zoe. As politically adept as her brother more pitched battles is ineptover, 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 rebels are stirring and Mistra becomes the only province left for much of the Turks country does not wish to conquer, their paths will cross. They're all young but they'll soon discover that treachery can emanate from friendship as much as it can from warrecognise a new overlord. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782061118</amazonuk>1800422466

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=3949666079|title=Beautiful LiesNoema|author=Claire ClarkDael Akkerman

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Clare Clark's ''Beautiful Lies'' takes in Royal jubilees, London riots, newspaper editors overstepping the bounds on personal vendettas and political sex scandals - all set in the late 1880s showing how little has changed. There are even early instances and questions over photographic manipulation. Maribel, apparently a Chilean heiress and wife of radical, socialist politician Edward Campbell Lowe, has This is a past which she has tries story about some things that happened to keep buriedme about twelve thousand years ago. If it were to be revealed, both her and her husband would be ruined by the scandal. Making enemies of an unscrupulous and hypocritical newspaper editor might not be the best move then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099570467</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=All Woman and Springtime|author=B W Jones|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Gyong-Ho Maya is a seamstress. That's not young girl living in a euphemismhunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. She works at a machine in a garment factoryClimate change is occurring, with a bullying supervisor, invalided out the Sea of the glorious Chochun armyGrass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, limping around and terrifying food is becoming more and more scarce. What to do? Can the girls only slightly more than law givers in the picture federation of Kim Jong-il on villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the walls. GiTraveller, a nickname she'll acquire because spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of her stammering attempts to get her own name out (Gi-Gi-Gyong) strives truly hard to be worthy of the Dear Leader. She has learned the hard wayAll Life, what happens if someone somewhere for some obscure reason decides that you're not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780222912</amazonuk>provide solutions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529125898|title=The AsylumGodmersham Park|author=John HarwoodGill Hornby|rating=3.5

|summary=A woman wakes up in an unfamiliar room. She doesn’t know where she is''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, or how she got there, but would no women to teach well-bred daughters at least she knows who she is: her name is Georgina Ferrars and she lives with her uncle in Gresham’s Yard, Londonall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224097415</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Edward Rutherfurd|title=Paris|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Taking four families, from different social positions, Edward Rutherfurd weaves these family histories into Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the history position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of Paris and Francenecessity. We encounter Until the noble de Cygnesdeath of her mother, Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the bourgeois Blanchardshousehold. When her mother died, the lower class Gascons her father cast her off and the revolutionary Le Sourdswould have nothing more to do with her. Their lives cross paths through the years in often unexpected ways and while ''Paris'' is No explanation was offered but she would receive an historical fiction novelannuity of £35 a year. Her maid, this is as much an epic story of families as it is about the historyAgnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444736795</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma StraubMelissa Fu |title=Laura Lamont's Life in PicturesPeach Blossom Spring

|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Small town girl Ella Emerson loves acting - her father runs I loved the Cherry County Playhouseprelude to Peach Blossom Spring, and shea short chapter entitled ''Origins''s always been captivated by the stage. She loves watching Unfortunately it is the actors perform, and getting involved in shows where she canonly truly poetic part of a book that I expected more from. Following a family tragedy, though, she moves Covering Chinese history from 1938 to Hollywood to marry an actor and reinvents herself 2005 as Laura Lamontviewed through one family's perspective. Quickly, she outshines her new husband. Can her success, and When their relationship, last?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447203208</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Rennison|title=Carver's Quest|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The year is 1870 and Adam Carver is at home in his lodgings in London’s Doughty Street when he city is interrupted by an unexpected caller. This distraught set ablaze during the war with Japan, a young mother (Meilin) and enigmatic young woman, Miss Emily Maitland, requests Carver’s help but disappears mysteriously before he can ascertain the details of her predicamentfour-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The days story follows them on their journey across China, and weeks that follow her visit prove in Renshu's case eventually to be most eventful, pitching Carver and his assistant Quint into an investigation involving murder, a missing manuscript and a hidden treasureAmerica. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848871791</amazonuk>1472277538

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Ridpath1916072038|title=Traitor's GateThe House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary= Oxford-educated Englishman Conrad de Lancey is haunted by the brutality We meet part of the Spanish Civil War, his ideals laying Talbot family in Yorkshire in the dust along with the cause for which he foughtNovember 1811. Therefore, on a visit to his Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother's German homelandhave travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, Conrad shies away from involvement in any resistance to the rise of house in the National Socialist Partyhollow. However, he will soon have little choice as tragic events drag him into a world The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of espionage, brutality her mother's strengths and fear, culminating in a conspiracy to kill Hitler himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851808</amazonuk>}}weaknesses:

{{newreview|author=A L Berridge|title=Into The Valley of Death|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Master Harry-sahib saunters up the path of the family bungalow in some unnamed Indian 'British town'She is practiced at subterfuge, puzzled to see the pathway choked with weedsat concealing, surprised by the absence beneath a facade of servants and disgusted by the swarming ants. There is worse inside. His fatherrespectability, the colonel, is dead on the floor. deplorable truth''The money was gone, obviously, but it would take more than that to make a devoted soldier to blow his brains out. What had it done to him, this army he'd given his whole life to?'

What indeed? Hester is furious about Jocelyn'Into the Valley of Deaths refusal to do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal' isn't the novel that will tell us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024195410X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Tim Willocks|title=The Religion|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=To Then we are told of the Maltese and Sicilians, Mattias Tannhauser is a successfully blooded infantry captain. To Ottoman Turks he's Ibrahim the Red, having been kidnapped from Hungary and raised as a Muslim. Dual nationality comes in handy once he's met the beautiful Contessa Carla de la Penantier and is commissioned to find and return her 12 year old bastard son. As always with these missions there's birth of a catch. The boy (whom Carla hasn't seen since the day of his birth) is rumoured to be on Malta, an island currently being threatened by 30,000 Turks child and defended by a tenth of that number, even if you count the Knights Hospitaller. The Turks call themselves the Hounds of Hellsoon after, the Knights are known as the ReligionHester Talbot departs, but it's immaterial to Mattias. He just needs to find the lad leaving Jocelyn in shame and get out aliveisolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581299</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth FremantleAnnabel Abbs|title=The Queen's GambitLanguage of Food

|summary= The recently widowed Lady Katherine Latymer falls in love Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with aristocratic Thomas Seymourwriting a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a man more local woman with a stranger to fidelity than to a lady's bedtroubled home life. It's not a good ideaTogether, they test, craft, especially when Henry VIII announces he'd like to make use of her renowned nursing skills by marrying her. As Katherine navigates refine and reshape the seas world of palace survival there's a lot that can sink her: Katherine's wish for Henry to return to the original protestant faith as he perceived itdomestic cookery, her desire to bring reinventing the King's children together under one roof recipe book and changing the plotting face of those who 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 the maid Dot understandscookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718177061</amazonuk>1398502227

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy BrillFreya Marske|title=The Movement of StarsA Marvellous Light|rating=4.5

|summary= Hannah Gardner Price lives Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in Nantucket, a small New England island with fortunes based on the whaling trade. As it's 1845Civil Service, Hannah's life is based on what her father feels is best for hermuch to his chagrin. This is unfortunately reinforced by the fact There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that Nantucket is not just an island geographically but also insular in outlook and expectations as the claustrophobic, small community revolves around the weekly Friends' Meeting streets of its Quaker faithLondon are threaded with magic. Why unfortunately? Hannah is highly intelligentDesperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, in her mid-20s, unmarried, practically runs her family's navigational instrument business since her twin brother dashed off Robin follows Edwin to sea and has a scientific passion for astronomythe countryside, all of which are at odds where the hedgegrows bristle with societal normality. However, this is just incantations and the beginningpeople shimmer with power. When Isaac Martin, a ship's black second mate, brings Hannah There they uncover a chronometer to repair he becomes a presence sinister plot that will shake her community as it shakes her worldthreatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718159926</amazonuk>1529080886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rhidian BrookB09F4CTKJR|title=The AftermathFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=It''The Aftermath'' is set amongst s the later stages of World War I and the devastated ruins in United States has just entered the fire-bombed city of Hamburg in 1946conflict. The British have occupied the ruined city and Colonel Lewis Morgan, an officer Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and a gentleman, is charged with overseeing joined the restoration of order17 Aero Squadron. HoweverThis company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, Colonel Morgan must the first deal with to be attached to the human cost of RAF and the bombing including remnants of fanatic Nazis, first to be sent into the ''trummerkind'' - children of skies to fight the rubble, and the starving civil populaceGermans in active combat. He also, in 1943But before that can happen, lost a child due Petrol has 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, master flying the impressionable Edmundnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921122</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diana SouhamiChristophe Medler|title=Coconut ChaosMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=54

|summary=Our anonymous narrator has Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a chaos-theorysecret plan (code-theory about named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the mutiny on the Bountysummer of 1642. It can all be traced back to Fletcher Christian stealing As a coconut. Armed with this thought and loyal servant of the intrepid spirit of many Britons before her, she sets off for Pitcairn IslandKing, the isolated home of Christian and his band Head of dissenters 3the Secret Service,000 miles from New Zealand. She leaves behind a beloved but delusional mother, her partner and all it is Robert's duty to uncover the comforts details of civilisation as she travels with hope the plan and follow the inimitable Lady Myre. Meanwhile we listen clues to true stories about uncover one of the mutiny, most guarded secrets in history—especially since the aftermath and plot could affect the fact that there weren't really many heroes, just a group of flawed individuals fighting for survivalKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780878745</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Wilton1471187179|title=Traitor's FieldA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=54

|summary=ItMinnie 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 1648 expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the embers rest of Charles Iher days looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately, this isn's reign start t what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to fade continue working as Britain slowly turns a secretary. As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the monotone colour Communist Party of Oliver Cromwell's CommonwealthGreat Britain. However, Royalist passion still exists Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.}}{{Frontpage|author=Afonso Cruz and itRahul Bery (translator)|title=Kokoschka's up to Sir Mortimer ShayDoll|rating=2.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the Comptrollerateget-General for Scrutiny go, which is why I picked my review copy up and Surveyflipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, to gather a chapter whose number was in the intelligence20,000s, letters used as narrative form, maintain his spy network and fan so on. It intrigued with the embers towards the Royalist victory for which he longssubterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. HeBut you's a wily veteran so not easily stopped but among ve seen the confusion star rating that comes with this review, and brutality can tell that tears Britain in halfif love was on these pages, former lawyer Cromwellit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697}}{{Frontpage|author=Christina Hammonds Reed|title=The Black Kids|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's spymaster John Thurloe debut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to the absolution of four police officers for beating a black man charged , Rodney King, nearly to death. Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with the taskmatters of race, to a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848878192</amazonuk>1471188191

{{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 Move 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 violent John Faller. Red Sky in Morning is Paul Lynch’s debut novel and it is a real hit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780879164</amazonuk>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]