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|summary=Landish Druken is a great hulk of a man who lumbers through his hometown of St John'sGracetown, NewfoundlandFlorida. June 1950. Although he thinks of himself as After a scuffle with a writerwhite boy, he has never written a word he didn't feel compelled twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to burnsix months at the Gracetown School for Boys, and everyone knows him otherwise known as the wayward son of accomplished sealing captain Abram DrukenReformatory. Landish escaped to study literature at Princeton, where he met best friend Padgett It'Van' Vanderluyden, s a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the 'dud' son segregated reformatory is a chamber of an industrial tycoon and a rumoured homosexualhorrors, but he broke his promise haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to join survive the school governor and his fatherFunhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's sealing empire on his return in 1893, and now lives in poverty and disgraceghosts – only they have their own motivations... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099572036</amazonuk>1803366532}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Stay Where You Are And Then LeaveKatherine Howe|authortitle=John BoyneA True Account

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Alfie Hannah Masury is just five years old when the Great War breaks out living in 1914. His father joins up straightaway. Cheerful letters come from Georgie for Boston, having been sent to live with a while family who run an inn, and Alfie's mother reads them being made to himwork there from a young age. But then When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the letters grow miserable town, she decides to go and frighteningwatch. Alfie Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's mother stops reading them aloud and death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides them away - but Alfie finds them anyway. And then the letters stop altogether. Alfie is told , so that his father is on a secret mission and canthey don't writefind and kill her too, but he sees through the lie immediately. And and thento escape them completely she runs away to sea, one day, dressing as a chance meeting tells Alfie exactly what has happened to his father. He's home from boy and joining the front but henotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in hospitalthe thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, suffering and from a condition nobody understood at there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the time: shell shockocean waves. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532936</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Daniel WoodrellSarah Marsh|title=The Maid's VersionA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary= Life may be tough in the Missouri town where Alma grew up but at least she has After a bout of scarlet fever as a jobchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. She learns and experiences Suddenly plunged into a lot as maid to the wealthy Glencross familyworld of silence, but many of the experiences aren't the sort she'd like to reliveeverything about her life changes. To top it all off, Living in 1929 a time when the Arboruse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a local dance clubschool where she is taught to lip read, explodes into flames killing 42 people including Alma's younger sister Rubybut physically restrained from signing. The cause remains From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a mystery as factions are blamed or viewed suspiciouslysystem called Visible Speech. However Alma knows At the truthsame time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a truth that remains secret until decades later during a visit from her grandsoncomplicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444732838</amazonuk>1035401614

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham ThomasClaire North|title=The Other Woman (The Roxy Compendium)|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In the first part of [[Hats Off To Brandenburg (The Roxy Compendium) by Graham Thomas|The Roxy Compendium]] we discovered that one House of our heroes had had his heart broken by a lady called Abigail Hardwoode and there were hints that this lady's history was rather unusual. Graham Thomas isn't one to leave us in suspense for ''too'' long and he takes us back more than a quarter of a century to the time when Abigail first met her beloved Benjamin Ananas. What she could not know was that events in France involved a British Secret Agent when his family was kidnapped - and then Abigail's parents when they were tricked into undertaking a mission to rescue them which was off the books. When they were captured only one man, agent Hilary Weaver, believed them to be innocent and Abigail, snatched from her peaceful, high society life, headed to France to find them - and broke her lover's heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00E05A1J6</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Longbourn|author=Jo BakerOdysseus

|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. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. This is what drives her on Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a journey across successful business as a land ravaged by war, providing more challenges than answers and encounters with those guide for whom Flodden remains a recurring nightmarevisitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972728</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GilmanEssie Fox|title=Master of WarThe Fascination|rating=54

|summary= Young Richard Blackstone The Victorian era is accused of incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the rape and murder of Second World War) which has often led to more than a village girl and sentenced to hangfew writers mishandling it. Protestations There's such a glut of innocence on his behalf mean nothing and media set in the era that the fact hehallmarks we's a deaf/mute means ve come to associate with it are familiar to the point of being cliched, hackneyed even less. His elder brother Thomas has protected him as much as possible throughout their lives but can do nothing All this time. 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 simply to join the army illustrate that the King is amassing. It's not it would be an easy option: the year is 1346 thing to do poorly. But despite that, something about it still grabs me – and the conflict that history will call something about this book'The Hundred Years War' is about to begins description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781850100</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreview|title=The Sorrow of Angels|author=Jon Kalman Stefansson|rating=3Cast 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.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Our decidedly unheroic main character has been at But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the café for three weeks nowpowerful Accademia, so we are following on very closely from [[Heaven and Hell by Jon Kalman Stefansson|Heaven and Hell]]. After the tragedy and soulself-searching proclaimed guardians of that first book, he seems settled in the ridiculous family healing magics that has formed around him there, finding employment, enjoying through paintings have the literature, yet being very intrigued by power to protect the female bodycity and its citizens from plagues and curses. The man who is still young enough to be known only as ''the boy'' might have latched on to stability all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for once, centuries and replaced the family and best friend he had lostguard it above all else. But everything is restless in this environmentTo them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and once again he might just be tempted to go on a journey, with another male companion, despite the harshness of the surroundstheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857051652</amazonuk>1803362340

 {{newreview|title=Heaven and HellFrontpage|author=Jon Kalman Stefansson|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Iceland, a hundred years ago. From a place that is the very definition of rural and remote, a small fishing boat leaves for four hours' hard row to a profitable bank. It carries six men on the way out, and five on the way back. The deceased is the best friend – or perhaps only friend – of the main character, who is still young enough to merely be known as ''boy''. When he returns to port he enters an almost Camus-like semi-existence, wondering just how much life is an answer, and for what, after the tragedy he has witnessed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849164061</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThomas D Lee|title=She Rises|author=Kate WorsleyPerilous Times

|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=Imagine, if you can, a lifelike eighteenth-century seafaring epic (something along the lines of Carsten Jensen's [[We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen|We, the Drowned]] or Carol Birch's [[Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch|Jamrach's Menagerie]]) crossed with Sarah Waters's ''Fingersmith''. If you then added in touches of Charles Dickens's ''Bleak House'', plus shades of Hate is the rest path of the homoerotic Waters oeuvre (especially ''Night Watch'' and ''Tipping the Velvet'least resistance'), you would just about have Kate Worsley's debut novel, ''She Rises'', in a nutshell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408835894</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Mistress of Set in the Sea|author=Jenny Barden|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''Mistress of the Sea'' is an epic adventure involving pirates, starnear-crossed lovers and a lust for gold and vengeance. The noveldistant future, set in Tudor times, is based a world on the real-life events in the life verge of Francis Drakeclimate collapse, notably Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the raid at Nombre de Dios day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the rout Knights 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 Round Table would answer the mind and sensescall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009194922X</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham ThomasG K Holloway|title=Hats Off To Brandenburg (The Roxy Compendium)In the Shadows of Castles|rating=4.5

|summary=It was London, 1815We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. George III was on William's position is not secure and the throne although it was his son who was Regent, but it would be quite new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a while before those facts bothered coronation is important. And William is right to worry. While the Roxy Playhouse Irregularsprevious king, who livedHarold, loved is dead and had their being in the old Roxy Playhouse. Money had always been in short supply as it tends to be when life likelihood of more pitched battles is lived as a celebrationover, 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 rebels are stirring and put on a performance, only this was no three-act play on a stage. Their performance was a tightly choreographed heist which would relieve members much of the ton of some of their more valuable trinkets. If you're thinking of Robin Hood then forget it - this was going country does not wish to be far more complex and bloody and it was obvious that there was more at stake than recognise a decrepit playhousenew overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956742238</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreview|title=Burnt Norton|author=Caroline Sandon|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=After the death of his youngest son in Maya is a terrible accident, Sir William Keyt starts to lose interest young girl living in life. It takes meeting young Molly Johnson, a bright and beautiful daughter of a local landlord, to rekindle a spark for himhunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. He brings her into Norton House as a maidservantClimate change is occurring, where she quickly catches the eye Sea of his bookish eldest sonGrass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, Thomasand food is becoming more and more scarce. But Sir William wants Molly What to be more than a maid do? Can the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to himcope? Can the Traveller, and as a rich man and an MP is used to having his own way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781850674</amazonuk>spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce Macbain1529125898|title=The Bull SlayerGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=Years after we left him in [[Roman Games (Plinius Secundus) by Bruce Macbain|Roman Games]]''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, Pliny there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the Younger has become Roman Governor position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of Bithynianecessity. Not Until the most hospitable death of regionsher mother, its Greek residents regard the Romans with hatred; an emotion that, in many cases, is reciprocated Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the Romanshousehold. No matter how bad this is thoughWhen her mother died, it gets worse when a high ranking official dies mysteriously. Could it her father cast her off and would have anything nothing more to do with the religious sect her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of Mithras? £35 a year. Possibly Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but it's not Pliny's only dilemma; at home his beloved young wife Calpurnia is acting somewhat oddlywas fortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781850798</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James HeneageMelissa Fu |title=The Walls of Byzantium (The Mistra Chronicles)Peach Blossom Spring |rating=43.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Luke Magoris is heading for disgrace which means I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a lot since heshort chapter entitled 's 'Origins''. Unfortunately it is the son only truly poetic part of a Varangian, the Viking-originated elite guard of the Byzantine Emperorbook that I expected more from. Anna Lasaris daughter Covering Chinese history from 1938 to a Byzantine court official and, feisty but kind, is the opposite of the Archon2005 as viewed through one family's daughter Zoeperspective. As politically adept as her brother When their home city is ineptset ablaze during the war with Japan, Zoe will do anything for status a young mother (Meilin) and money… anythingher four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. As the 14th century Byzantine Empire starts to crumble due to the relentless struggle with the Islamic Turks The story follows them on their journey across China, and Mistra becomes the only province left for the Turks in Renshu's case eventually to conquer, their paths will crossAmerica. 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>1472277538

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916072038|title=Beautiful LiesThe House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Claire ClarkAllie Cresswell

|summary=Clare Clark's ''Beautiful Lies'' takes We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in Royal jubileessome discomfort from their home at Ecklington, London riots, newspaper editors overstepping to the bounds on personal vendettas and political sex scandals - all set house in the late 1880s showing how little has changedhollow. There The two women are even early instances angry with each other and questions over photographic manipulation. Maribel, apparently a Chilean heiress Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and wife of radicalweaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, socialist politician Edward Campbell Loweat concealing, has beneath a past which she has tries to keep buried. If it were to be revealedfacade of respectability, both her and her husband would be ruined by the scandaldeplorable truth''. 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 Hester is a seamstress. Thatfurious about Jocelyn's not a euphemism. She works at a machine in a garment factoryrefusal to do as she was asked, with a bullying supervisor, invalided out of the glorious Chochun army, limping around which has precipitated ''this violent and terrifying the girls only slightly more than the picture of Kim Jong-il on the walls. Gi, a nickname sheunexpected removal'll acquire because 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 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 Harwood|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=A woman wakes up in an unfamiliar room. She doesn’t know where she isThen we are told of the birth of a child and, soon after, or how she got thereHester Talbot departs, but at least she knows who she is: her name is Georgina Ferrars leaving Jocelyn in shame and she lives with her uncle isolation in Gresham’s Yard, LondonYorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224097415</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edward RutherfurdAnnabel Abbs|title=ParisThe Language of Food

|summary=Taking four familiesEliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, from different social positionsshe recruits Ann Kirby, Edward Rutherfurd weaves these family histories into the history of Paris and Francea local woman with a troubled home life. We encounter the noble de CygnesTogether, they test, craft, refine and reshape the bourgeois Blanchardsworld of domestic cookery, reinventing the lower class Gascons recipe book and changing the revolutionary Le Sourds. Their lives cross paths through the years in often unexpected ways and while ''Paris'' is an historical fiction novel, this is as much an epic story face of families as it is about the historycookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444736795</amazonuk>1398502227

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma StraubFreya Marske|title=Laura Lamont's Life in PicturesA Marvellous Light|rating=3.54

|summary=Small town girl Ella Emerson loves acting - her father runs Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Cherry County PlayhouseCivil Service, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and she's always been captivated by learns that the stagestreets of London are threaded with magic. She loves watching Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the actors performcountryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and getting involved in shows where she canthe people shimmer with power. Following There they uncover a family tragedy, though, she moves to Hollywood to marry an actor and reinvents herself as Laura Lamont. Quickly, she outshines her new husbandsinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles. Can her success, and their relationship, last?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447203208</amazonuk>1529080886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick RennisonB09F4CTKJR|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 is interrupted by an unexpected caller. This distraught and enigmatic young woman, Miss Emily Maitland, requests Carver’s help but disappears mysteriously before he can ascertain the details of her predicament. The days and weeks that follow her visit prove to be most eventful, pitching Carver and his assistant Quint into an investigation involving murder, a missing manuscript and a hidden treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848871791</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFlights for Freedom|author=Michael Ridpath|title=Traitor's GateSteven Burgauer

|summary= Oxford-educated Englishman Conrad de Lancey is haunted by It's the brutality later stages of the Spanish Civil World War, his ideals laying in I and the dust along with United States has just entered the cause for which he foughtconflict. Therefore, on Petrol Petronus is a visit young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to his mother's German homelandbe trained in Canada, Conrad shies away from involvement in any resistance the first to be attached to the rise of RAF and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the National Socialist PartyGermans in active combat. HoweverBut before that can happen, he will soon have little choice as tragic events drag him into a world of espionage, brutality and fear, culminating in a conspiracy Petrol has to kill Hitler himselfmaster flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851808</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=A L BerridgeChristophe Medler|title=Into The Valley of DeathMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=4.5

|summary=Master Harry-sahib saunters up Set against the path backdrop of the family bungalow in some unnamed Indian 'British town'English Civil War, puzzled to see the pathway choked with weeds, surprised a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the absence summer of servants and disgusted by the swarming ants1642. There is worse inside. His father, As a loyal servant of the colonelKing, is dead on and Head of the floor. 'The money was goneSecret Service, 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 heis Robert'd given his whole life s duty to?' What indeed? 'Into uncover the details of the plan and follow the Valley clues to uncover one of Death' isn't the novel that will tell usmost guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024195410X</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Willocks1471187179|title=The ReligionA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=4.5

|summary=To the Maltese and Sicilians, Mattias Tannhauser Minnie is a successfully blooded infantry captain. To Ottoman Turks hean 'ordinary's Ibrahim the Red, having been kidnapped from Hungary and raised as girl living an unexciting life in a Muslimleafy provincial suburb. Dual nationality comes The book is set in handy once he's met the beautiful Contessa Carla de la Penantier 1930s and Minnie is commissioned expected to live up to find and return her 12 year old bastard son. As always with these missions theremother's expectations and find a catchnice young man to marry, produce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their home. The boy (whom Carla hasnUnfortunately, this isn't seen since the day of his birth) is rumoured what she wants to be on Malta, an island currently being threatened by 30,000 Turks do at all and defended by neither does she want to continue working as a tenth of that number, even if you count the Knights Hospitallersecretary. The Turks call themselves the Hounds As a result of Hella chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the Knights are known as secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Religion, but it's immaterial to MattiasCommunist Party of Great Britain. He just needs to find Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the lad friends she has made - and get out alivelikes - whilst working for the Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581299</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth FremantleAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The QueenKokoschka's GambitDoll|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary= The recently widowed Lady Katherine Latymer falls in love with aristocratic Thomas SeymourWell, a man more a stranger to fidelity than to a lady's bed. It's not a good idea, especially when Henry VIII announces he'd this looked very much like to make use of her renowned nursing skills by marrying her. As Katherine navigates the seas of palace survival there's a lot that can sink her: Katherine's wish for Henry to return to book I could love from the original protestant faith as he perceived itget-go, her desire to bring the King's children together under one roof which is why I picked my review copy up and the plotting flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of those who would like to see her head disconnected at the neck to name but threeit. Meanwhile the shadow of Snape Castle hangs over Katherine's step-daughter Meg, haunting her hopes, her dreams and her everyday life I found things to potentially delight me each time – a degree that only weird section in the maid Dot understands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718177061</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amy Brill|title=The Movement of Stars|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Hannah Gardner Price lives in Nantucketmiddle on darker stock paper, a small New England island with fortunes based on chapter whose number was in the whaling trade. As it's 184520,000s, letters used as narrative form, Hannah's life is based and so on what her father feels is best for her. This is unfortunately reinforced by It intrigued with the fact subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that Nantucket is not just an island geographically but also insular in outlook and expectations as the claustrophobicwhat little I knew of it mentioned, small community revolves around the weekly Friends' Meeting of its Quaker faithtoo. Why unfortunately? Hannah is highly intelligent, in her mid-20s, unmarried, practically runs her familyBut you's navigational instrument business since her twin brother dashed off to sea and has a scientific passion for astronomy, all of which are at odds ve seen the star rating that comes with societal normality. However, this is just the beginning. When Isaac Martinreview, a ship's black second mateand can tell that if love was on these pages, brings Hannah a chronometer to repair he becomes a presence that will shake her community as it shakes her worldwas not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718159926</amazonuk>1529402697

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rhidian BrookChristina Hammonds Reed|title=The AftermathBlack Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=Christina Hammonds Reed''The Aftermath'' s debut novel is set amongst against the devastated ruins in the fire-bombed city backdrop of Hamburg in 1946. The British have occupied the ruined city and Colonel Lewis Morgan1992 Los Angeles riots, an officer and a gentleman, is charged with overseeing reaction to the restoration absolution of orderfour police officers for beating a black man, Rodney King, nearly to death. However, Colonel Morgan must first deal with Told from the human cost perspective of the bombing including remnants of fanatic NazisAshley Bennett, the ''trummerkind'' - children novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of the rubble, and the starving civil populace. He alsorace, in 1943, lost a child due to a Luftwaffe bomb woman finding her voice 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 Edmundembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670921122</amazonuk>1471188191

{{newreview|author=Diana Souhami|title=Coconut Chaos|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Our anonymous narrator has a chaos-theory-theory about the mutiny Move 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 sets off for Pitcairn Island, the isolated home of Christian and his band of dissenters 3,000 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 and the inimitable Lady Myre. Meanwhile we listen to true stories about the mutiny, the aftermath and the fact that there weren'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=It's 1648 and the embers of Charles I's reign start to fade as Britain slowly turns the monotone colour of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth. However, 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. 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>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]