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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ayelet WaldmanTananarive Due|title=Love and TreasureThe Reformatory

|summary=Jack and his granddaughter Natalie are both 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 cross roads in their livesbrutal and dark reputation. She But the segregated reformatory is single again after a short disastrous marriage and he is dyingchamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. Natalie comes In order to stay survive the school governor and during her visit Jack asks a favourhis Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations.. He asks her to embark on a mission for him involving a peacock pendant and some unfinished business from nearly 70 years ago.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444763091</amazonuk>1803366532}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Eagle TrailKatherine Howe|authortitle=Robert RigbyA True Account|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=The Nazis have occupied AntwerpHannah Masury is living in Boston, where Paul lives having been sent to live with his English father a family who run an inn, and French motherbeing made to work there from a young age. But Paul doesn't think things are too bad. Life When she hears there is going on pretty much as normal if you are to be a teenaged boyhanging of some pirates in the town, Paul feelsshe decides to go and watch. But Paul is wrong. In the space of an afternoon Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, PaulHannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's world is turned upside down. His father is shot in front death at the hands of him, having been discovered as an early resistance organisertwo vicious pirates. His mother is arrested. And Paul finds himself fleeing for his life She hides away, hunted by the Nazis for what his father knew. The journey is a long so that they don't find and dangerous one - through Belgium and France for the Pyrenees and Spain kill her too, and thento escape them completely she runs away to sea, hopefully, for Englanddressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Every stage is dangerous but She soon finds herself in the final one - the Eagle Trail across the mountains - thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the most perilousocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406346667</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreview|title=I Always Loved YouFrontpage|author=Robin OliveiraSarah Marsh|ratingtitle=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Mary Cassatt was an anomaly among the Impressionists: she was one of very few women, and also the only American-born member. A Philadelphia native, she made Paris home for nearly five decades. Oliveira's novel opens in 1926, with Cassatt (now nearly blind) searching for the letters Edgar Degas wrote her in the 1870s-80s. Degas and Cassatt had been subjects Sign of Parisian gossip; no one knew for sure whether their friendship shaded into romance. Even Mary herself seems confused about what they meant to each other; 'she still didn't understand…whether there was room for love in two lives already consumed by passion of another sort.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670017191</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sally Wragg|title=LoxleyHer Own

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=HarryAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, the eleventh Duke Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of Loxleysilence, fell in love with Bronwyn and they marriedeverything about her life changes. It wasn't Living in a time when the match that his mother would have chosen - Bronwyn use of sign language wasseen as something only savages do, after allEllen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, nothing more than but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the daughter of the local doctor deaf and even Harry and Bronwyn wondered whether or not they'd done the right thing as they struggled to come to terms with married lifeusing a system called Visible Speech. Katherine, At the dowager Duchesssame time, didn't make Bronwyn's life any easier - I meanBell is working on other inventions and ideas, the girl wasn't above starting to clear the breakfast dishes when there were servants to do ''that'' sort of thing. And - to cap it all - she still wasn't pregnant and an heir for Loxley was Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of paramount importanceespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00EHMH5XC</amazonuk>1035401614

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonia HodgsonClaire North|title=The Devil in the MarshalseaHouse of Odysseus

|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction |summary=1727: The Marshalsea prison is hell on Earth and a Damoclesian sword over the heads of prospective debtors. Tom Hawkins, gambler and bon viveur, 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 of Sheol itself. Is it as bad as he thoughtWhat could matter more than love? Worse! Not only does he have to survive the cruel and brutal deprivations but a murderer walks the prison's corridors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444775413</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Octavia E Butler|title=Kindred|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Life is a nightmare for black women (and indeed men) back in The follow-up to the southern USA in 1815. For Dana thatexcellent ''Ithaca''s just history as she lives over picks up a century away few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband in their new LA apartment, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. However one day everything changes: Dana starts to feel faint, As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the edges throne of her modern life blur the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and she's back in physical – the era chaotic storm that can take more than her liberty. She knows her time travel is somehow linked Clytemnestra brought to plantation ownerIthaca's son Rufus but that doesn't helpshores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. In fact its knowledge One that could make matters worseshatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472214811</amazonuk>0356516075

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca HuntB0C7J9D21B|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 A Captive in common. Both groups carry secrets, some become obvious but others ''remain behind waiting to become discovered''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490658</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAlgiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|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=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=One day towards the end of World War Two, Charles Jackson is dragged to a museum of antiquities just outside a newly liberated Paris by his commanding officer during their downtime. While the other looks at the unusual ancient artefacts, Jackson finds something much more horrific – a man in a wartime bunker in the grounds, squatting over a female figure, blood on his lips that could only have come from her neckline. Years later, Jackson returns to Paris for reasons to do with his medical career, and finds the same man in the company of someone who, were he only aware of the fact, is to become the first and possibly only love of his life. 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…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144475193X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lesley Glaister|title=Little Egypt|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Twins Isis and Osiris are now 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>}} {{newreview|author=Anne O'Brien|title=The Scandalous DuchessJ 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 a life well-lived in a nation in turmoil. After all, Mr S could never resist an audience.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972787</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Last Quarter much of the Moon|author=Chi Zijian|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=An old woman has been left alone in the mountain camp. Not totally alone, her grandson An'tsaur has stayed with her, country does not wish to do the chores that she no longer has the physical strength to dorecognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555654</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreview|author=Valerie Martin|title=The Ghost of the Mary Celeste|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=On 5th December 1872 the merchant brig Mary Celeste was found devoid of human life (or death), floating aimlessly Maya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the AtlanticMesolithic era. Many, including Sherlock Holmes author [[:Category:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]Climate change is occurring, are intrigued by the mysterious absence Sea of all crew Grass encroaches further and Captain Benjamin Briggsfurther into Maya' family (keeping the Captain company for the trip)s forest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce. Meanwhile investigative journalist Phoebe Grant wants What to reveal do? Can the charlatans behind law givers in the popularity federation of spiritualist mediums and chooses Violet Petra as her study sample. Does Violet have villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the powers she claims and why is she getting so upset about Conan Doyle's Mary Celeste story? Phoebe is determined to find out andTraveller, in doing soa spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, will be pulled into a maritime conundrum that may never be completely solved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297870327</amazonuk>provide solutions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Scott1529125898|title=The KeptGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=Elspeth and her 12 year old son Caleb have been beset by one ''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the worst types of tragedy. As a result, fuelled by Calebodd gentleman's need for revenge and Elspeth's motherly loveduty, they set out on a journey that brings them there would no women to the small Lake Erie town of Watersbridgeteach well-bred daughters at all. With their new setting comes a greater understanding of their past which is a mixed blessing that must be met head on before they have to face their future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091944503</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=The Three Musketeers|author=Alexandre Dumas and Will Hobson (translator)|rating=4Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessity.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Leaving his home to try and join Until the famous musketeers in Parisdeath of her mother, young Gascon d'Artagnan encounters troubles on Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the way but quickly falls in with title characters Athoshousehold. When her mother died, Aramis her father cast her off and Porthoswould have nothing more to do with her. Soon No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a year. Her maid, Agnes, the quartet are caught up would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in a diabolical plot of the wicked Cardinal Richelieu and his accomplice Milady de Winter - can they save the Queen's honour?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907498</amazonuk>by some neighbours.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=WakeMelissa Fu |authortitle=Anna HopePeach Blossom Spring

|summary=WakeWe meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to the house in the hollow. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses:

1 Emerge or cause to emerge from sleep<br>2 Ritual for ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the dead<br>3 Consequence or aftermathdeplorable truth''.

We often hear the term ''Broken BritainHester is furious about Jocelyn'' in reference s refusal to modern societydo as she was asked, but the Britain presented in which has precipitated ''Wakethis violent and unexpected removal'' epitomises the term completely. This is a country reeling from the aftermath of the Great War. Unemployment is rife, food scarce and every family has been touched and scarred forever by the events of the preceding years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857521942</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Keane's Company|author=Iain Gale|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=There is one fictionalised character that straddles recent historic fiction set during Then we are told of the Napoleonic Wars like birth of a Colossus child and that man is Bernard Cornwell’s Richard Sharpe. To take on this level of success is no easy task, but with Sharpe books no longer being releasedsoon after, there is room for a new man. Is that man James KeaneHester Talbot departs, star of Iain Gale’s ‘Keane’s Company’? This is a book that forgoes some of the deeper literary elements leaving Jocelyn in favour of action shame and thrillsisolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782064524</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James McBrideAnnabel Abbs|title=The Good Lord Bird|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Henry 'The Onion' Shackleford lives as Henrietta (or just plain Onion) until he's 17 due to a misunderstanding that may prove too dangerous for him to correct. The reason is that the person under this misapprehension is the fiercely well-meaning slavery abolitionist (with the emphasis on the 'fiercely') John Brown. As Onion accompanies him on his quest to free every slave they encounter, he discovers that Brown's philanthropy only stretches so far. Meanwhile it's that time Language of 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 revolt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594486344</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts|author=Mary GibsonFood

|summary=In the tinder-dry summer of 1911 Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the factory workers of Bermondsey are about to ignite the flame of change, leading slightest inclination to the great ''Summer of Unrest''boil an egg. Inspired by the dock workers’ strikeWhen tasked with writing a cookery book, scores of dissatisfied female workers take to the streets in protestshe recruits Ann Kirby, demanding better working conditions and equal paya local woman with a troubled home life. Nellie ClarkTogether, who works in Duff’s custard factorythey test, craft, is entranced by the charismatic revolutionary Ted Bosher refine and is swept along in reshape the fervourworld of domestic cookery, enthusiastically joining her workmates in reinventing the protest. When recipe book and changing the heat face of the day dies down, however, she is reminded of the stark reality that her wages are needed to feed her starving siblingscookery writing forever. How will her drunken, violent father react when he finds out what she has done?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855773</amazonuk>1398502227

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue Monk KiddFreya Marske|title=The Invention of WingsA Marvellous Light|rating=54

|summary=On her 11th birthday Sarah Grimké Robin Blyth is given nudged into a special presentjob in the Civil Service, much to his chagrin. It walks towards her decorated There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a purple ribbon for 'it' is Hettycurse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the countryside, Sarah's new personal slavewhere the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. They grow up together on There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the Grimkés' Charleston plantation separated by conventions thought to be set lives of all magicians 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 dreamsthe British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472212754</amazonuk>1529080886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda MitchelmoreB09F4CTKJR|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>}} {{newreviewFlights for Freedom|author=Rebecca Mascull|title=The VisitorsSteven Burgauer|rating=4.5

|summary=Adeliza Golding is comfortably off by Victorian standards. She lives in a not insignificant house, her parents can afford servants, LizaIt's father owns the later stages of World War I and runs a hop farm, but..the United States has just entered the conflict. The but Petrol Petronus is considerable as Liza is different from most: she's deaf/blind a young American who has signed up and isolated from joined the world with only '17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the visitors' for company RAF and communication the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in her mindactive combat. Almost in desperation when Liza is sixBut before that can happen, her father calls on Charlotte Crowe for help. Lottie penetrates Liza's lonely world by teaching her finger writing. However, in doing so she unlocks revelations that Lottie would rather be kept secret. For not everything changes; Petrol has to master flying the visitors remain, whoever they are and whatever they wantnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444765205</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Christophe Medler|title=The Pursuit of Mary BennetMadrigal: A Pride and Prejudice Novel|author=Pamela MingleClosely Guarded Secret|rating=34

|summary=Mary Bennet seems to have a serious case Set against the backdrop of 'middle child syndrome'. The third of five sistersthe English Civil War, she has always been isolated, lacking a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the close bonds formed between her older and younger siblingssummer of 1642. As a resultloyal servant of the King, Mary has become bookishand Head of the Secret Service, withdrawn it is Robert's duty to uncover the details of the plan and socially awkwardfollow the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0062274244</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Lyndon1471187179|title=Imperial FireA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=54

|summary=Nine years after his return from the perilous trek to the Middle East, Frankish mercenary Vallon Minnie is now an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a general in the Byzantine armyleafy provincial suburb. He leads The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother'Outlanders's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, a Babel produce children and spend the rest of a mercenary force from every corner of the known world fighting those threatening the Empireher days looking after her husband and their home. HoweverUnfortunately, The Emperor has plans for themthis isn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. On hearing about the [[Hawk Quest by Robert Lyndon|Hawk Quest]] expeditionAs a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the Emperor wants to send Vallon secret service and his men on effectively living a more challenging trip: double life - attempting to bring a new wonder weapon back from far off Chinainfiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. 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 Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and that Lucas, a young stranger accompanying them, the friends she has a secret that could prove as dangerous as made - and likes - whilst working for the journeyCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847444997</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg ClothierAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The EmpressKokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=It's 1179 and AgnesWell, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, daughter of King Louis VII which is sent to Byzantium to marry the young son why I picked my review copy up and heir flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of the Emperorit. However I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the chap middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in questionthe 20,000s, young Alexiosletters used as narrative form, is more a drip than a chip off his father's blockand so on. This leaves Agnes to work on her own strategy for survivalIt intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. For But you've seen the star rating that comes with this is a world where everyone is paranoidreview, and with good reason as everyone is a target and Agnes isn't just a womancan tell that if love was on these pages, she's a stepping stone to powerit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099553147</amazonuk>1529402697

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Web and the WingChristina Hammonds Reed|authortitle=Teresa RafteryThe Black Kids|rating=34.5|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=I love a good family saga, don't you? ''The Web and the Wing'Christina Hammonds Reed' begins at s debut novel is set against the end backdrop of World War I. Claire returns the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to her pre-war job as a maid at Ardleagh Hall, home of the Earl absolution of Eglinton. But Claire wants more than four police officers for beating a life in service. She wants education and independence. And she wants away from Ardleagh for another reason too - rigid social rules mean that she can never declare her love for Jamesblack man, Rodney King, heir nearly to the Eglinton titledeath. James feels Told from the same about Claire but he too has personal reasons for wanting to escape - his father will not countenance his musical ambitions. After perspective of Ashley Bennett, the disastrous miners' strike novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of 1926race, James leaves for Berlin to become a concert pianist. From here, he observes the rise of Hitler with mounting concernwoman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.|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>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]