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|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Elspeth and her 12 Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year -old son Caleb have been beset by one of Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the worst types of tragedyReformatory. As a result, fuelled by CalebIt's need for revenge a place with a brutal and Elspeth's motherly lovedark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, they set out on a journey haunted by the boys that brings them have died there. In order to survive the small Lake Erie town school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of Watersbridge. With their new setting comes a greater understanding of their past which is a mixed blessing that must be met head on before the school's ghosts – only they have to face their futureown motivations...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091944503</amazonuk>1803366532}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Three MusketeersKatherine Howe|authortitle=Alexandre Dumas and Will Hobson (translator)A True Account
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Leaving his home Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to try live with a family who run an inn, and join being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the famous musketeers town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in Parisequal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young Gascon dboy'Artagnan encounters troubles on s death at the way but quickly falls in with title characters Athoshands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, Aramis dressing as a boy and Porthosjoining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Soon She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, the quartet and from there we are caught up in a diabolical plot her rip roaring tale of life on the wicked Cardinal Richelieu and his accomplice Milady de Winter - can they save the Queen's honour?ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849907498</amazonuk>0861547438
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=WakeSarah Marsh|authortitle=Anna HopeA Sign of Her Own
|rating=3.5
|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Wake: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 a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to 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 deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?''
1 Emerge or cause The follow-up to emerge from sleep<br>2 Ritual for the dead<br>3 Consequence or aftermath We often hear the term excellent ''Broken BritainIthaca'' in reference picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to modern societyrule without her husband, but who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the Britain presented in ''Wake'' epitomises throne of the term completelyWestern Isles. This Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a country reeling from fragile peace. One that shatters however with the aftermath return of Orestes, King of the Great War. Unemployment is rifeMycenae, food scarce and every family has been touched and scarred forever by the events of the preceding yearshis sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857521942</amazonuk>0356516075
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=Keane's CompanyA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Iain GaleA J Lewis|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=There When we first meet our hero, his name is one fictionalised character that straddles recent historic fiction set during the Napoleonic Wars like Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a Colossus bordello and that man is Bernard Cornwell’s Richard SharpeEttore's mother died when he was born. To take on this level He's not been short of success is no easy taskmothers, though - but with Sharpe books no longer being releasedfor someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, there is room for a new manit's difficult to obtain decent employment. Is that man James Keane, star The stint working with the preparation of Iain Gale’s ‘Keane’s Company’? anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. This is Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a book that forgoes guide for visitors. He was even saving some of the deeper literary elements in favour of action and thrillsmoney.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782064524</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James McBrideEssie Fox|title=The Good Lord BirdFascination
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Henry 'The Onion' Shackleford lives Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as Henrietta a setting for historical fiction (or just plain Onionmatched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) until hewhich has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. There's 17 due to such a misunderstanding glut of media set in the era that may prove too dangerous for him the hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to correctthe point of being cliched, hackneyed even. The reason is that the person under All this misapprehension is the fiercely well-meaning slavery abolitionist (with the emphasis on the 'fiercely') John Brown. As Onion accompanies him on his quest simply to free every slave they encounter, he discovers illustrate that Brown's philanthropy only stretches so farit would be an easy thing to do poorly. Meanwhile But despite that, something about itstill grabs me – and something about this book's that time of the 19th century when a shadow spreads over America, one that will cause a historic scar almost description did as great as that of slavery but Brown is oblivious to this. He doesn't; want to start a civil war, just an armed slave revoltwell.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1594486344</amazonuk>1914585526
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Custard Tarts and Broken HeartsNicole Jarvis|authortitle=Mary GibsonA Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=In the tinder-dry summer of 1911 the factory workers of Bermondsey are about to ignite the flame of change, leading to the great ''Summer I want all of UnrestFlorence to know my name''. Inspired by the dock workers’ strike, scores of dissatisfied female workers take to the streets in protest, demanding better working conditions and equal pay. Nellie Clark, who works in Duff’s custard factory, is entranced by the charismatic revolutionary Ted Bosher and is swept along in the fervour, enthusiastically joining her workmates in the protest. When the heat of the day dies down, however, she is reminded of the stark reality that her wages are needed to feed her starving siblings. How will her drunken, violent father react when he finds out what she has done?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855773</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Sue Monk Kidd|title=The Invention of Wings|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=On Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her 11th birthday Sarah Grimké is given art can find a special presenthome and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. It walks towards her decorated with a purple ribbon for 'it' is HettyBut as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, Sarah's new personal slave. They grow up together on the Grimkés' Charleston plantation separated by conventions thought self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to be set in stoneprotect 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. However each in To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their own way will rebel; Hetty empowered by her seamstress mother's ancient African tales of resistance and Sarah (alongside her sister Angelina) empowered by defiant dreamssociety.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472212754</amazonuk>1803362340
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{{Frontpage
|author=Thomas D Lee
|title=Perilous Times
|rating=3
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''
{{newreview|author=Linda Mitchelmore|title=Emma|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Emma Le Goff was determined that she and her childhood sweetheartSet in the near-distant future, Seth Jagoin a world on the verge of climate collapse, would get married but the vicar seemed strangely reluctant to oblige. Their pasts were against them. Seth’s brother had been hung and his father and brother were Britain is in prisongreat peril. No one could - The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or would - quite believe that Seth had kept himself above the criminality. Then there were several) to save the deaths of Emma’s mother day and brother, which might not have been an accidentrescue what little remains. To top it all Emma had lived with Matthew Caunter What no- one expected was that one of the vicar wasn’t prepared to accept that she was simply his housekeeper. No - there was no question Knights of his marrying them, but Emma came up with a novel solution to the problemRound Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781890935</amazonuk>0356518523
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca MascullG K Holloway|title=The VisitorsIn the Shadows of Castles|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Adeliza Golding is comfortably off by Victorian standards. She lives We begin after the momentous battle in a not insignificant house, her parents can afford servants, Liza1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's father owns and runs a hop farm, but..coronation as King of England. The but is considerable as Liza is different from most: sheWilliam's deaf/blind position is not secure and isolated from the world with only 'the visitors' for company and communication in her mindnew king has many challenges. Almost in desperation when Liza Imposing authority through a coronation is six, her father calls on Charlotte Crowe for helpimportant. Lottie penetrates Liza's lonely world by teaching her finger writingAnd William is right to worry. HoweverWhile the previous king, Harold, in doing so she unlocks revelations that Lottie would rather be kept secret. For not everything changes; is dead and the visitors remainlikelihood of more pitched battles is over, whoever they the rebels are stirring and whatever they wantmuch of the country does not wish to recognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444765205</amazonuk>1800422466
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=3949666079
|title=Noema
|author=Dael Akkerman
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''This is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago.''
{{newreview|title=The Pursuit Maya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, the Sea of Mary Bennet: A Pride Grass encroaches further and Prejudice Novel|author=Pamela Mingle|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Mary Bennet seems to have a serious case of 'middle child syndromefurther into Maya's forest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce. The third What to do? Can the law givers in the federation of five sistersvillages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, she has always been isolated, lacking a spiritual figure who interprets the close bonds formed between her older and younger siblings. As a result, Mary has become bookishwisdom of All Life, withdrawn and socially awkward.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062274244</amazonuk>provide solutions?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Lyndon1529125898|title=Imperial FireGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Nine years after his return from the perilous trek to the Middle East, Frankish mercenary Vallon is now a general in the Byzantine army. He leads the 'Outlanders', a Babel of a mercenary force from every corner If it were not for the casual dereliction of the known world fighting those threatening the Empire. However, The Emperor has plans for them. On hearing about the [[Hawk Quest by Robert Lyndon|Hawk Quest]] expeditionodd gentleman's duty, the Emperor wants there would no women to send Vallon and his men on a more challenging trip: to bring a new wonder weapon back from far off Chinateach well-bred daughters at all. The good news is that this 'fire drug' is more destructive than anything they already have. The bad news is that they could be away for at least 3 years and that Lucas, a young stranger accompanying them, has a secret that could prove as dangerous as the journey.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847444997</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Meg Clothier|title=The Empress|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's 1179 and Agnes, daughter Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of King Louis VII is sent governess to Byzantium to marry the young son and heir twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of the Emperornecessity. However Until the chap in question, young Alexiosdeath of her mother, is more Anne had a drip than a chip off his comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father's blockwas frequently absent from the household. This leaves Agnes When her mother died, her father cast her off and would have nothing more to work on do with her own strategy for survival. For this is No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a world where everyone is paranoidyear. Her maid, and with good reason as everyone is a target and Agnes isn't just a woman, she's a stepping stone to powerwould receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553147</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Web and the WingMelissa Fu |authortitle=Teresa RafteryPeach Blossom Spring
|rating=3.5
|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=I love loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a good family saga, donshort chapter entitled 't you? 'Origins'The Web and the Wing'' begins at . Unfortunately it is the end only truly poetic part of World War a book that Iexpected more from. Claire returns Covering Chinese history from 1938 to her pre-war job 2005 as a maid at Ardleagh Hall, viewed through one family's perspective. When their home of city is set ablaze during the Earl of Eglinton. But Claire wants more than war with Japan, a life in service. She wants education young mother (Meilin) and independence. And she wants away from Ardleagh for another reason too her four- rigid social rules mean that she can never declare her love for James, heir to the Eglinton title. James feels the same about Claire but he too has personal reasons for wanting to escape year- his father will not countenance his musical ambitionsold son (Renshu) are among those who flee. After the disastrous minersThe story follows them on their journey across China, and in Renshu' strike of 1926, James leaves for Berlin s case eventually to become a concert pianist. From here, he observes the rise of Hitler with mounting concernAmerica. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178088561X</amazonuk>1472277538
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Colossus1916072038|authortitle=Alexander Cole|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=I would not want to be in the front line of any army, but one that is facing a row of battle worn elephants must be the worst These huge beasts, that don’t smell particularly nice, are charging towards you, their tusks tipped in armour. You’ll find me cowering somewhere near the baggage train. Not Gajendra, he is an ambitious young man The House in Alexander’s all conquering army. He has a special relationship with the largest elephant in Alex’s army, Colossus. This close relationship between man and beast will lead Gajendra to a higher level than he could ever have imagined for a poor boy from India.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857891154</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Hollow (The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for GirlsTalbot Saga)|author= Anton DiSclafaniAllie Cresswell|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Theodora Atwell is torn away from We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her much-loved brother at the age of 15, to be sent far mother have travelled in some discomfort from her their home in Florida to Yonahlosseeat Ecklington, where she's to have a fresh start after a mysterious event she blames herself for. Set the house in the 1930s to the backdrop hollow. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of the Depression, we follow Thea as she tries to navigate her new surroundings and come to terms with the damage shemother's caused to her family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755395190</amazonuk>}}strengths and weaknesses:
{{newreview|title=Lionheart|author=Stewart Binns|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Richard the First. Richard the Lionheart. Even those of us who didn't pay attention much in history lessons'She is practiced at subterfuge, those of us who are pretty dodgy on which King came whenat concealing, will be familiar with some beneath a facade of them and be able to put them more or less in their time context. We know William the Conquerorrespectability, we know Henry the Eighth… … and, up to a point, we know about the Lionheartdeplorable truth''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405913606</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Black Venus|author=James MacManus|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Anyone familiar with the numerous biographies of Charles Baudelaire will know there Hester is an absence in the middle of his life: Jeanne Duval. The facts furious about this mysterious woman are rather sparse, although it is commonly agreed that she was a Haitian cabaret singer - and BaudelaireJocelyn's perennial muse. And it is Baudelaire's fascination with Duval that continues refusal to haunt the books published by his critics and admirers alike: just what, they ask themselvesdo as she was asked, was the great manwhich has precipitated 's obsession with the woman he dubbed his Black Venus? But if there's little more to say on the biographical front, what about in the realms of fiction? What about using the scattered facts to build a three-dimensional Duval, one with a backstory, hopes, this violent and feelings? If you think this is a bad idea, then you're too late, because this is the 'eureka!' moment that spawned James MacManus's exasperating new novel, ''Black Venusunexpected removal''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715647423</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Sebastian Faulks|title=Jeeves and the Wedding Bells|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Bertie Wooster had a glorious time in Cannes, not least because Then we are told of the presence birth of Georgiana Meadowes. He wondered if she should be allowed out at all, 'such a hazard did she pose to male shipping' - child and that was before he'd experienced her driving. But, being a gentleman, Wooster's hands were tied: Georgiana is soon to become engaged to another. The two would meet again before too long as Woosterafter, along with his gentleman's gentlemanHester Talbot departs, were invited to stay at the home of Georgiana's uncle - but, for reasons which you'll need to read for yourself, ''Jeeves'' was there as a member of the aristocracy leaving Jocelyn in shame and Wooster was his gentleman's gentlemanisolation in Yorkshire. Confused? Oh, excellent!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954045</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda SpaldingAnnabel Abbs|title=The PurchaseLanguage of Food
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=1798: Daniel Dickinson moves his five children and 15-year-old second wife away from Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the Pennsylvanian Quaker community he used to call home, towards Virginia. While on an equipment-buying trip he comes across a slave auction and decides slightest inclination to be true to his abolitionist beliefs in boil an unusual wayegg. He buys Onesimus, When tasked with writing a young slave boycookery book, in order to change the lad's lifeshe recruits Ann Kirby, intending to offer him a local woman with a troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine and fairness in place reshape the world of captivity. Howeverdomestic cookery, reality is more difficult reinventing the recipe book and changing the Dickinsons find that their new servant will actually change their lives insteadface of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908737514</amazonuk>1398502227
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kent Wascom|title=The Blood of Heaven|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1799 in America and Angel Woolsack is the son of an itinerant preacher, travelling around Louisiana. Life isn't easy as Angel is torn between the puritanical fire and brimstone upbringing of Preacher-Father and his desire to be a normal young man within the confines of a religious community. Eventually Angel's desire to express himself leads to tragedy and, with his only friend Samuel Kemper for company, he is cast out by those he loves. Angel and Samuel decide to search for Samuel's elder brother, Reuben, and thus begins the adventure that will take them to Florida, bring Angel a feisty bride and provide a place in the history books for the Kemper brothers as they grapple for land against the Spanish.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611855713</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFreya Marske|title=The Ice-Cold Heaven|author=Mirko BonneA Marvellous Light
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=They say that if you fall off a horse you should get back on one right away, but even so… I don't think many people who had only just left their first love – Robin Blyth is nudged into a shopgirl job in their village – for their second – exploring the world on sailing cargo ships – would leap Civil Service, much to a further voyage having been wrecked his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and stranded off learns that the coast streets of South America for well over a weekLondon are threaded with magic. But Merce here does – he wants Desperate to follow his best friend on remove a curse that threatens to a ship called ''The Endurance'' and head with Shackleton swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the Antarctic. But Merce is only seventeencountryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and is rejected – causing him to stow away onto one the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the world's worst ever journeysBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715645846</amazonuk>1529080886
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title=The Reluctant BrideFlights for Freedom|author=Beverly EikliSteven Burgauer
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Scarred soldier Major Angus McCartney cuts It's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a lonely figure as he rides toward Micklen House bearing tragic newsyoung American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. He knows that his presence will This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be unwelcome attached to the RAF and that the report he must deliver will devastate the entire household, especially first to be sent into the beautiful, unobtainable daughter of skies to fight the family whom he has secretly been Germans in love with for many yearsactive combat. Surely she will forever associate him with the bombshell But before that brought her world crashing down. There seems no way that she could ever love him can happen, Petrol has to master flying the way that he loves hernotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781890862</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Conn IgguldenChristophe Medler|title=Wars of the RosesMadrigal: Stormbird (Wars of the Roses 1)A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=England in 1437: Henry VI is now old enough to take Set against the throne after backdrop of the untimely death of his father 15 years earlier. However 'The Lamb' English Civil War, a secret plan (as young Henry code-named Madrigal) is known) doesn't take after his robust, dominant father as enemies and allies alike are wont to mention. Religiously devout, peace-loving and often ill, Henry VI relies on his right-hand men to take discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the loadsummer of 1642. While As a privileged role for people like William de la Pole (Duke loyal servant of Suffolk) the King, and spymaster Derry BrewsterHead of the Secret Service, itis Robert's also very dangerous. They're duty to uncover the final line details of defence before the King can be toppled plan and not all follow the malevolent powers are beyond the English Channel. A lot of hope is pinned on Henry's marriage clues to Margaret uncover one of Anjou healing the rifts but unfortunately there are unforeseen effectsmost guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718159837</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elaine Neil Orr1471187179|title=A Different Sun: A Novel of AfricaBeautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Emma Davis, daughter of Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a Georgian plantation owner has never been happy about the slave systemleafy provincial suburb. People just shouldnThe book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother't be owned like merchandise. Whenever possible she slinks away s expectations and find a nice young man to hear African stories from elderly slave Uncle Elimarry, sparking produce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her imagination husband and love for a far off continent about which their home. Unfortunately, this isn't what she's determined wants to do more than dream. Emma is going to theological college at all and neither does she ''will'' be want to continue working as a missionary out theresecretary. Her resolve pays off when As a result of a chance meeting, she meets and marries Henryfinds herself drawn into espionage, clergyman working for the secret service and missionary effectively living a double life - attempting to Yorubainfiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Once there Emma discovers a local culture richer Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and more rewarding than the friends she imagined, but, then again, so is has made - and likes - whilst working for the costCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0425261301</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Close to the WindAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|authortitle=Zana BellKokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Georgiana da Silva seems to have everything to look forward to; an engagement to her dashing cousin Jasper will finally allow her to escape the clutches of her oppressive aunt and open up the opportunity for her to travel the worldWell, broadening her horizons considerably. Unfortunately, when she overhears this looked very much like a conversation between Jasper and book I could love from the duplicitous Lord Walsinghamget-go, she realises that her engagement which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a sham and that her brother’s life is weird section in danger from the middle on darker stock paper, a ruthless assassin. Can she reach her brother chapter whose number was in New Zealand before the assassin has time to strike? The scene is set for an exciting cross-continental race against time which will pitch Georgiana headlong into a world of deceit20,000s, letters used as narrative form, intrigue and adventureso on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781890269</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bernard Cornwell|title=The Pagan Lord (Warrior Chronicles 7)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Lord Uhtred is outlawed and evicted from his land as he continues to niggle It intrigued with the Saxon clergy. However this time subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it's in a big way: he murders an abbot while trying to reclaim his eldest sonmentioned, too. As a punishment heBut you's evicted from his land so Uhtred does ve seen the only thing he can: he follows his destiny and travels north to reclaim Bebbanburg (Bamburgh) from his usurping unclestar rating that comes with this review, Aelfric. There's a chasm between his dream and realitycan tell that if love was on these pages, but Uhtred is determinedit was not actually caused by them. Perhaps it's just as well because his choice of strategy will shape a nation.So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007331908</amazonuk>1529402697
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 {{newreview|title=The Night FlowerFrontpage|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Fourteen-year-old Miriam Booth is a Romany gypsy from the Newcastle slums who, like the titular waif in [[:Category:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens]]'s ''Oliver Twist'', is an orphan who lives by her wits but becomes drawn into a ring of house-breaking crime. In 1842 she is caught and sentenced to seven years' transportation to a convict colony in Australia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906994218</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Colum McCannChristina Hammonds Reed|title=TransAtlanticThe Black Kids
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=In 1845 ex-slave, black American Frederick Douglass visits Ireland for a lecture tour about freedom and emancipation only to discover heChristina Hammonds Reed's not preaching to debut novel is set against the converted after all. In 1919 Alcock and Brown climb into a rickety aircraft to fly backdrop of the Atlantic and land in Limerick. In 1994 Senator George Mitchell also travels to Ireland watched by 1992 Los Angeles riots, a world that's about reaction to see a miracle of negotiation. Meanwhile through it all Lily and her descendants are also there, not only watching history but living it on both sides of the Atlantic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408829371</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Sisters absolution of the East End|author=Helen Batten|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Katie Crisp had never intended to become four police officers for beating a nun. Raised by non-religious parentsblack man, Rodney King, her family frowned upon organised religion and when Katie started secretly going nearly to church, they strongly disapproveddeath. When Katie ran to Told from the aid perspective of a stroke victimAshley Bennett, she had a vision that changed the novel follows her life. She saw herself dressed as evolution from a nun silent bystander when confronted with a large silver cross hanging from her neck. She decided to follow her calling and join the community matters of St John the Divinerace, to a group of Anglican nuns dedicated to nursing woman finding her voice and midwifery. She thus shed embracing her old identity and became known as Sister Catherine Maryheritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091951771</amazonuk>1471188191
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{{newreview|title=The Luminaries|author=Eleanor Catton|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Eleanor Catton's ''The Luminaries'' is set in the New Zealand gold rush of the late 1860s. It's a story about greed, power, gold, dreams, opium, secrets, betrayal and identity, but most of all, it's a celebration of the art of story telling, both in terms of Catton's book and the stories her characters have Move on to tell. It's the kind of book that is perfect escapism and which wraps you up in its world. If you like big, chunky books that you can get lost in for hours, then this is one for you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847084311</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alison MacLeod|title=Unexploded|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It's 1940 and Britain lives in fear of a Nazi invasion that could happen any day. In case the worst happens, Evelyn's husband Geoffrey has buried a little something for her and their young son Philip in the garden. He tells her the tin contains a bit of money and his favourite photo of them. As she digs it up from impulse rather than necessity, she discovers that there's no photo but what there is instead makes Evelyn doubt that she knows the man she married. The events that follow make Evelyn realise that indeed she doesn't. Meanwhile the war continues and a German does invade their lives, but not in the way that either of them could envisage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241142636</amazonuk>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]
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