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{{newreview|title=The Eagle Trail|author=Robert Rigby|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The Nazis have occupied Antwerp, where Paul lives with his English father and French mother. But Paul doesn't think things are too bad. Life is going on pretty much as normal if you are a teenaged boy, Paul feels. But Paul is wrong. In the space of an afternoon, Paul's world is turned upside down. His father is shot in front of him, having been discovered as an early resistance organiser. His mother is arrested. And Paul finds himself fleeing for his life, hunted by the Nazis for what his father knew. The journey is a long and dangerous one <!-- through Belgium and France for the Pyrenees and Spain and then, hopefully, for England. Every stage is dangerous but the final one INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE- the Eagle Trail across the mountains - is the most perilous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346667</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Always Loved YouTananarive Due|authortitle=Robin OliveiraThe Reformatory|rating=45

|summary=Mary Cassatt was an anomaly among 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 Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the Impressionists: she was one segregated reformatory is a chamber of very few womenhorrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and also his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only American-born memberthey have their own motivations... |isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A Philadelphia native, she made Paris home for nearly five decadesTrue Account|rating=4. Oliveira's novel opens 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in 1926Boston, having been sent to live with Cassatt (now nearly blind) searching for the letters Edgar Degas wrote her 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 1870s-80stown, she decides to go and watch. Degas Enthralled and Cassatt had been subjects horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of Parisian gossip; no one knew for sure whether their friendship shaded into romancetwo vicious pirates. Even Mary herself seems confused about what She hides away, so that they meant don't find and kill her too, and then to each other; 'escape them completely she still didnruns away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low't understand…whether s pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there was room for love we are caught up in two lives already consumed by passion her rip roaring tale of another sortlife on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670017191</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally WraggSarah Marsh|title=LoxleyA Sign of Her Own

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Harry, the eleventh Duke After a bout of Loxleyscarlet fever as a child, fell in love with Bronwyn and they marriedEllen Lark loses her hearing. It wasn't the match that his mother would have chosen - Bronwyn wasSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, after all, nothing more than the daughter of the local doctor and even Harry and Bronwyn wondered whether or not they'd done the right thing as they struggled to come to terms with married everything about her lifechanges. Katherine, Living in a time when the dowager Duchessuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, didn't make Bronwyn's life any easier - I mean, the girl wasn't above starting Ellen is sent to clear the breakfast dishes when there were servants a school where she is taught to do ''that'' sort of thinglip read, but physically restrained from signing. And - to cap it all - From here, she still wasn't pregnant and an heir for Loxley was of paramount importance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00EHMH5XC</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Antonia Hodgson|title=The Devil ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the Marshalsea|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=1727: The Marshalsea prison is hell on Earth deaf and using a Damoclesian sword over the heads of prospective debtorssystem called Visible Speech. Tom HawkinsAt the same time, gambler Bell is working on other inventions and bon viveurideas, has always stayed one step ahead of it until, ironically, the day of his big win. He's mugged, his winnings are stolen and Tom's hurled into the depths Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of Sheol itself. Is it as bad as he thought? Worse! Not only does he have to survive the cruel and brutal deprivations but a murderer walks the prison's corridorsespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444775413</amazonuk>1035401614

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Octavia E ButlerClaire North|title=KindredHouse of Odysseus

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction |summary=Life is a nightmare for black women (and indeed men) back in the southern USA in 1815. For Dana that's just history as she lives over a century away with her husband in their new LA apartment. However one day everything changes: Dana starts to feel faint, the edges of her modern life blur and she's back in the era that can take What could matter more than her liberty. She knows her time travel is somehow linked to plantation owner's son Rufus but that doesn't help. In fact its knowledge that could make matters worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472214811</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rebecca Hunt|title=Everland|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=There have been two expeditions to the Antarctic island of Everland a century apart. The ill-fated 1913 trip of Dinners, Napps and Millet-Bass is primitive by today's standards. The 2012 expedition is better equipped, better prepared and arrives at a better time of year so all bodes well for Decker, Brix and Jess. But despite the differences both expeditions have things in common. Both groups carry secrets, some become obvious but others ''remain behind waiting to become discoveredlove?''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490658</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eva Stachniak|title=Empress of the Night|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Russia, 1796 and the ruler is dying from a stroke. As each new symptom hits and her life recedes a little further she remembers how she came this far. Her recollections begin when she was Sophie, Princess of Anholt-Zerbst, sent to young Russian Grand Duke Peter as a marriage prospect. The wedding plans go through and her new life is accompanied by a name change: Princess Sophie becomes Catherine Alekseyevna but history will christen her Catherine the Great.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00J8KYE14</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=A Love Like Blood|author=Marcus Sedgwick|rating=4The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off.5|genre=Horror|summary=One day towards In the end palace of World War TwoOdysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, Charles Jackson is dragged who sailed to a museum of antiquities just outside a newly liberated Paris war at Troy and then by his commanding officer during their downtimedivine intervention never returned home. While As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the other looks at throne of the unusual ancient artefacts, Jackson finds something much more horrific Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – a man in a wartime bunker in the groundschaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, squatting over Queen Penelope is on the brink of a female figure, blood on his lips fragile peace. One that could only have come from her neckline. Years later, Jackson returns to Paris for reasons to do shatters however with his medical career, and finds the same man in the company return of someone whoOrestes, were he only aware King of the factMycenae, is to become the first and possibly only love of his lifesister Elektra, seeking refuge. But that's not the only time the paths of Jackson and the mysterious male are destined to cross – the prologue was set in the late 1960s…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144475193X</amazonuk>0356516075

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley GlaisterB0C7J9D21B|title=Little Egypt|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Twins Isis and Osiris are now A Captive in their 90s, living together in Little Egypt, the English manor house where they were born and brought up. Their names are a clue to their parents' near fetish for everything Egyptian. In fact this near fetish leads their parents to Egypt itself, in search of a big discovery back in the 1920s, demonstrating more enthusiasm than savvy. Having left the twins in the care of the housekeeper, they never return. Isis and Osiris are now bound to the house, tied not by love or memories but dark secrets that won't let go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190777372X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAlgiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Anne O'Brien|title=The Scandalous DuchessA J Lewis

|summary=1372: Lady Katherine de Swynford When we first meet our hero, his name is widowed Ettore and in reduced circumstances he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a resultbordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. She remembers a more sumptuous life before her marriage; a life in the service He's not been short of Queen Philippamothers, mother though - but for someone of Johnhis background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, Duke of Lancaster. In the hope of reprising her past lifestyle she goes it's difficult to the Savoy Palace to beg the Duke for a role in his householdobtain decent employment. He willingly employs her to help his new wife, Constanza, The stint working with the Princess preparation of Castille, with her imminent birth but this is a dangerous moveanchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. As John Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and Katherine fall in love determined - and Katherine becomes John's mistress they endanger more than their hearts; their attraction provides ammunition it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for their enemies, risking fatal resultsvisitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848452985</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juliet GreenwoodEssie Fox|title=We That Are LeftThe Fascination

|summary=Hugo and Elin are settling down to life at home in Hiram Hall now Hugo The Victorian era is back from incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Boer Second World War. He refuses ) which has often led to speak about his experiences in Africa but carries the psychological effectsmore than a few writers mishandling it. However, appearances count for There's such a lot so they both continue to run glut of media set in the house, gardens and staff while Elin tries to ignore era that the deficiencies in their marriage. She succeeds as well but then two things change her outlook: the arrival of daring adventurer Lady Margaret ('Mousehallmarks we' ve come to associate with it are familiar to her friends) and the less welcome outbreak point of World War Ibeing cliched, hackneyed even. All this is simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. Both will leave their indelible mark so But despite that, for Hugo, Elin something about it still grabs me – and many others around that time, theresomething about this book'll be no going backs description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190678499X</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreview|title=Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes|author=George Mann (Editor)|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=Hot on Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the heels of [[Encounters of Sherlock Holmes by George Mann (Editor)|Encounters of Sherlock Holmes]] comes another collection of brandself-new tales written by some proclaimed guardians of the brightest creative minds healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from the genres of science fiction plagues and crimecurses. In this anthology, Holmes and Watson are pitched headlong into twelve different mysterious scenarios The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and invited to unravel secrets architecture for centuries and unmask villains as only they know howguard it above all else. During their adventures they come face to face with a mountain monsterTo them, take a murderous boat trip, meet Moriarty’s siblings Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and even indulge in a little space traveltheir society. The game is afoot!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178116004X</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Simon Sebag Montefiore|title=One Night Set in Winter|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In June 1945 two school students are shot dead the near-distant future, in Moscow. These aren't just any school students; they attended Josef Stalin School 801, the academy that taught Stalin's own children and a world on the current educational establishment verge of choice for the offspring of many government and army grandeesclimate collapse, Britain is in great peril. Why did they die? Did the seemingly innocent Fatal Romantics Club have anything The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to do with it? For save the children the club is a way of living their love of Pushkin's literature but to others it seems a day and rescue what little differentremains. Stalin himself is determined to have it investigated and what Stalin wants, Stalin gets What no matter how wide -one expected was that one of the ultimate spider's web Knights of suspicion is cast and no matter whom it catchesthe Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099580330</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher RushG K Holloway|title=WillIn the Shadows of Castles

|summary=ItWe begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's March 1616 and coronation as King of England. William Shakespeare, 's position is not having long to live, sends for his lawyer secure and old friend Francis Collins the new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. And William is right to draw up his willworry. While Francis works (at both the will previous king, Harold, is dead and eating Shakespeare out the likelihood of house and home) William's mind meandersmore pitched battles is over, regaling Francis with stories the rebels are stirring and opinions from much of the country does not wish to recognise a life well-lived in a nation in turmoil. After all, Mr S could never resist an audiencenew overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846972787</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreview|title=The Last Quarter of the Moon|author=Chi Zijian|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=An old woman has been left alone Maya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the mountain campMesolithic era. Not totally aloneClimate change is occurring, her grandson Anthe Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya'tsaur has stayed with hers forest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce. What to do ? Can the chores that she no longer has law givers in the physical strength federation of villages muster peaceful ways to do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555654</amazonuk>cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Valerie Martin1529125898|title=The Ghost of the Mary CelesteGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=On 5th December 1872 ''If it were not for the merchant brig Mary Celeste was found devoid casual dereliction of human life (or death)the odd gentleman's duty, floating aimlessly in 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 Atlanticposition of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessity. Many, including Sherlock Holmes author [[:Category:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]], are intrigued by Until the mysterious absence death of all crew her mother, Anne had a comfortable life and Captain Benjamin Briggs' family (keeping the Captain company for was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the trip)household. Meanwhile investigative journalist Phoebe Grant wants When her mother died, her father cast her off and would have nothing more to reveal the charlatans behind the popularity of spiritualist mediums and chooses Violet Petra as do with her study sample. Does Violet have the powers No explanation was offered but she claims and why is she getting so upset about Conan Doyle's Mary Celeste story? would receive an annuity of £35 a year. Phoebe is determined to find out andHer maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in doing so, will be pulled into a maritime conundrum that may never be completely solvedby some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297870327</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James ScottMelissa Fu |title=The KeptPeach Blossom Spring |rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Elspeth and her 12 year old son Caleb have been beset by one of I loved the worst types of tragedy. As prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a result, fuelled by Calebshort chapter entitled ''Origins's need for revenge and Elspeth's motherly love, they set out on . Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of a journey book that brings them I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to the small Lake Erie town of Watersbridge2005 as viewed through one family's perspective. With When their new setting comes a greater understanding of their past which home city is set ablaze during the war with Japan, a mixed blessing that must be met head young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on before they have their journey across China, and in Renshu's case eventually to face their futureAmerica. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091944503</amazonuk>1472277538

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916072038|title=The Three MusketeersHouse in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Alexandre Dumas and Will Hobson (translator)Allie Cresswell

|summary=Leaving his home to try and join We meet part of the famous musketeers Talbot family in Paris, young Gascon d'Artagnan encounters troubles on the way but quickly falls Yorkshire in with title characters Athos, Aramis November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and Porthos. Soonher mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to the quartet are caught up house in a diabolical plot of the wicked Cardinal Richelieu hollow. The two women are angry with each other and his accomplice Milady de Winter - can they save the QueenJocelyn is well aware of her mother's honour?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907498</amazonuk>}}strengths and weaknesses:

{{newreview|title=Wake|author=Anna Hope|rating=3''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the deplorable truth''.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Wake:

1 Emerge or cause Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to emerge from sleep<br>2 Ritual for the dead<br>3 Consequence or aftermathdo as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''.

We often hear Then we are told of the term ''Broken Britain'' in reference to modern societybirth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, but the Britain presented leaving Jocelyn in ''Wake'' epitomises the term completely. This is a country reeling from the aftermath of the Great War. Unemployment is rife, food scarce shame and every family has been touched and scarred forever by the events of the preceding yearsisolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857521942</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Keane's CompanyAnnabel Abbs|authortitle=Iain GaleThe Language of Food|rating=45

|summary=There Eliza Acton is one fictionalised character that straddles recent historic fiction set during a poet who has never had the Napoleonic Wars like slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a Colossus and that man is Bernard Cornwell’s Richard Sharpe. To take on this level of success is no easy taskcookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, but a local woman with Sharpe books no longer being released, there is room for a new mantroubled home life. Is that man James KeaneTogether, they test, craft, star refine and reshape the world of Iain Gale’s ‘Keane’s Company’? This is a domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book that forgoes some of and changing the deeper literary elements in favour face of action and thrillscookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782064524</amazonuk>1398502227

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James McBrideFreya Marske|title=The Good Lord BirdA Marvellous Light

|summary=Henry 'The Onion' Shackleford lives as Henrietta (or just plain Onion) until Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, much to his chagrin. There he's 17 due meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a misunderstanding curse that may prove too dangerous for threatens to swallow him , Robin follows Edwin to correct. The reason is that the person under this misapprehension is countryside, where the fiercely well-meaning slavery abolitionist (hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the emphasis on the 'fiercely') John Brownpeople shimmer with power. As Onion accompanies him on his quest to free every slave There they encounter, he discovers uncover a sinister plot that Brown's philanthropy only stretches so far. Meanwhile it's that time threatens the lives of all magicians in the 19th century when a shadow spreads over America, one that will cause a historic scar almost 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 revoltBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1594486344</amazonuk>1529080886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title=Custard Tarts and Broken HeartsFlights for Freedom|author=Mary GibsonSteven Burgauer|rating=4.5

|summary=In It's the tinder-dry summer later stages of 1911 World War I and the factory workers of Bermondsey are about to ignite United States has just entered the flame of change, leading to conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the great ''Summer of Unrest''17 Aero Squadron. Inspired by This company was the dock workers’ strikefirst US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, scores of dissatisfied female workers take the first to be attached to the streets in protest, demanding better working conditions RAF 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 first to be sent into the skies to fight the fervour, enthusiastically joining her workmates Germans in the protestactive combat. When the heat of the day dies downBut before that can happen, however, she is reminded of Petrol has to master flying the stark reality that her wages are needed to feed her starving siblingsnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. How will her drunken, violent father react when he finds out what she has done?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855773</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue Monk KiddChristophe Medler|title=The Invention of WingsMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=54

|summary=On her 11th birthday Sarah Grimké Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is given a special presentdiscovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642. It walks towards her decorated with As a purple ribbon for 'loyal servant of the King, and Head of the Secret Service, it' is Hetty, SarahRobert's new personal slave. They grow up together on duty to uncover the details of the plan and follow the Grimkés' Charleston plantation separated by conventions thought clues to be set uncover one of the most guarded secrets in stone. However each in 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 dreamshistory—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472212754</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Mitchelmore1471187179|title=Emma|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Emma Le Goff was determined that she and her childhood sweetheart, Seth Jago, 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 in prison. No one could - or would - quite believe that Seth had kept himself above the criminality. Then there were the deaths of Emma’s mother and brother, which might not have been an accident. To top it all Emma had lived with Matthew Caunter - the vicar wasn’t prepared to accept that she was simply his housekeeper. No - there was no question of his marrying them, but Emma came up with a novel solution to the problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781890935</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewA Beautiful Spy|author=Rebecca Mascull|title=The VisitorsRachel Hore|rating=54

|summary=Adeliza Golding Minnie is comfortably off by Victorian standardsan 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. She lives The book is set in a not insignificant house, the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her parents can afford servants, Lizamother's father owns expectations and runs find a hop farmnice young man to marry, but... The but is considerable as Liza is different from most: she's deaf/blind produce children and isolated from spend the world with only 'the visitors' for company rest of her days looking after her husband and communication in her mindtheir home. Almost in desperation when Liza is sixUnfortunately, her father calls on Charlotte Crowe for help. Lottie penetrates Lizathis isn's lonely world by teaching her finger writingt what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. HoweverAs a result of a chance meeting, in doing so she unlocks revelations that Lottie would rather be kept finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secretservice and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. For not everything changes; Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the visitors remain, whoever they are friends she has made - and whatever they wantlikes - whilst working for the Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444765205</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Pursuit of Mary Bennet: A Pride Afonso Cruz and Prejudice NovelRahul Bery (translator)|authortitle=Pamela MingleKokoschka's Doll|rating=32.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Mary Bennet seems Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to have potentially delight me each time – a serious case of 'weird section in the middle child syndrome'. The third of five sisterson darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, she has always been isolatedletters used as narrative form, lacking the close bonds formed between her older and younger siblingsso on. As It intrigued with the subterranean voice a resultman hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, Mary has become bookishtoo. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, withdrawn and socially awkwardcan tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0062274244</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert LyndonChristina Hammonds Reed|title=Imperial FireThe Black Kids|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 army4. He leads the 'Outlanders', a Babel of a mercenary force from every corner 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]] expedition, the Emperor wants to send Vallon and his men on a more challenging trip: to bring a new wonder weapon back from far off China. 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 FictionTeens |summary=ItChristina Hammonds Reed's 1179 and Agnes, daughter of King Louis VII debut novel is sent to Byzantium to marry set against the young son and heir backdrop of the Emperor. However the chap in question1992 Los Angeles riots, young Alexios, is more a drip than a chip off his father's block. This leaves Agnes reaction to work on her own strategy the absolution of four police officers for survival. For this is beating a world where everyone is paranoidblack man, and with good reason as everyone is a target and Agnes isn't just a womanRodney King, she's a stepping stone nearly to powerdeath.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553147</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Web and Told from the Wing|author=Teresa Raftery|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=I love a good family sagaperspective of Ashley Bennett, don't you? ''The Web and the Wing'' begins at the end of World War I. Claire returns to novel follows her pre-war job as evolution from a maid at Ardleagh Hallsilent bystander when confronted with matters of race, home of the Earl of Eglinton. But Claire wants more than to a life in service. She wants education woman finding her voice and independence. And she wants away from Ardleagh for another reason too - rigid social rules mean that she can never declare embracing 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 - his father will not countenance his musical ambitions. After the disastrous miners' strike of 1926, James leaves for Berlin to become a concert pianist. From here, he observes the rise of Hitler with mounting concernheritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178088561X</amazonuk>1471188191

{{newreview|title=Colossus|author=Alexander Cole|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=I would not want Move on 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 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=The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls|author= Anton DiSclafani|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Theodora Atwell is torn away from her much-loved brother at the age of 15, to be sent far from her home in Florida to Yonahlossee, where she's to have a fresh start after a mysterious event she blames herself for. Set in the 1930s to the backdrop of the Depression, we follow Thea as she tries to navigate her new surroundings and come to terms with the damage she's caused to her family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755395190</amazonuk>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]