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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia WatkinsTananarive Due|title=DYFED ODYSSEY: Connell O'Keeffe and The Spider's WebReformatory|rating=45

|summary=Connell O'Keeffe looked to be settledGracetown, Florida. His stud was prosperingJune 1950. He was deeplyAfter a scuffle with a white boy, enduringly happy with his wife who was expecting their second child and despite twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the loss of his arm some years before which had put an end to his acting careerGracetown School for Boys, life was goodotherwise known as the Reformatory. Then one morning Morgan, his manservant brought bad news before he was even out of bedIt's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. Khayri, one But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of his brood mareshorrors, was missing from her stable and haunted by the boys that have died there was a ransom demand. Reluctant In order to lose survive the mare - or to be beaten - O'Keeffe school governor and Morgan set off to retrieve Khayrihis Funhouse, hoping to be back that night, or - at Robert must enlist the worst - help of the next dayschool's ghosts – only they have their own motivations.. Little did O'Keeffe know that it would be many months before he saw his home again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957210469</amazonuk>1803366532}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle LovricKatherine Howe|title=The A True and Splendid History of the Harristown SistersAccount

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=The seven Swiney sisters are growing up during Ireland's 19th century potato famine so know what it Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to go withoutlive with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. Therefore when their eldest sister Darcy works out When she hears there is to be a way for them hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to earn money using their talent go and watch. Enthralled and long, long hairhorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the other six follow onhands of two vicious pirates. (TheyShe hides away, so that they don'd be daft t find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to cross the dangerous Darcy anyway.) Gradually their hair becomes their future sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low'Swiney Godivas' are createds pirate ship as a cabin boy. HoweverShe soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, fame doesn't always bring happiness with the adventure; and from there we are caught up in fact for her rip roaring tale of life on the sisters it brings notoriety – a different thing altogetherocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408833417</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Flower BookSarah Marsh|authortitle=Catherine LawA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Violet’s flower book is After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her secret treasure; hearing. Suddenly plunged into a way to glimpse inside world of silence, everything about her soullife changes. So much more than Living in a mere diary, Violet uses time when the secret use of sign language of flowers was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to convey her innermost thoughts and feelingslip read, but physically restrained from signing. She takes inspiration from nature From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and uses it to tell using a story across the pages of her private journalsystem called Visible Speech. A simple pressed gorse flower brings back warm memories of a carefree day at At the cove with her best friendsame time, a bold peony Bell is a bitter reminder of an unwelcome suitor working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a handful complicated tangle of poisonous tansy is the key to her biggest secret of all..espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749015829</amazonuk>1035401614

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen MacInnesClaire North|title=Home is the HunterHouse of Odysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Seventeen years after he left home to fight in the Trojan War (that's also seven years after it had finished!) Ulysses returns home. A lot has changed; his wife is at home with eleven men for a start! Penelope is being held under virtual house arrest by eleven strangers. How will Ulysses manage to free her and regain his hearth with only his son and a pig herd to help'What could matter more than love? Gods only knows! Meanwhile Penelope is visited by another man. His name's Homer and he wants to write an epic poem. Not a good time Homer, not a good time at all!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781163316</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Justin Go|title=The Steady Running of follow-up to the Hour|rating=4excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Tristan CampbellIn the palace of Odysseus, an American graduatewith delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, receives a phone call from an English law firm summoning him who sailed to London war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for a secret meetingthe throne of the Western Isles. Mountaineer Having survived – politically and adventurer Ashley Walsingham died in 1926 without any direct heirs. Since then his familyphysical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's legacy has been in limbo while an heir shores, Queen Penelope is traced. They believe Tristan could be that lucky person but there's a catch. He has to prove the family connection within 7 weeks (when the 80 year limitation on the fortune runs out)brink of a fragile peace. The clock is ticking while Tristan starts a hunt One that will take him across Europeshatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434022330</amazonuk>0356516075

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim WillocksB0C7J9D21B|title=The Twelve Children of ParisA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=Knight of the Order of St John the BaptistWhen we first meet our hero, Mattias Tannhauser, does as his name is Ettore and he has promisedlives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. After surviving the 1565 siege of MaltaIdyllic as this might sound, Mattias goes to Paris to look for Lady Carla (his heavily pregnant wife) it's a bordello and Orlandu, her child by birth and his by adoptionEttore's mother died when he was born. Carla went to sing and play at the royal wedding but seems to have disappeared. ItHe's definitely not a good time to sample Parisian hospitality: one been short of the city's bloodiest chapters is about to begin as the Catholics seek to cleanse the city of members of the Protestant Reformist Church of Francemothers, better known as Huguenots. It gets worse though: not only are all Huguenots (and anyone who gets - but for someone of his background in the way) being hunted down and killed grotesquelylate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, guess which church Carlait's hosts belong difficult to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578921</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=An Appetite for Violets|author=Martine Bailey|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Biddy 'Obedience' Leigh is the under-cook at Mawton Hall, but although she is passionate about cooking, her dearest wish is to marry her young manobtain decent employment. The date is set for her to leave stint working with the Hall for married life and she is looking forward to it. But the master preparation of the house surprises everyone when he gets himself a very young wife – anchovies didn't work out and Biddy’s world is rapidly changedbastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Lady Carinna takes a shine to Biddy, and when Biddy proves herself to be Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and entrepreneurial, her fate is sealed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444768727</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Fremantle|title=Sisters of Treason|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Now that their sister Lady Jane determined - and father, Henry 1st Duke of Suffolk, have been beheaded it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for treason, the remaining Grey sisters, Katherine and Mary have hidden all signs of their protestant reformist faithvisitors. Their mother Frances can escape court but Mary Tudor has other plans for the girls, keeping them under royal scrutiny. This is a dangerous spotlight to be subjected toHe was even saving some money. As the trademark heretic burning of the Spanish Inquisition comes to England, the Greys must work harder to impersonate good Catholics. Their lives depend on it. However Katherine is less than tactful and set on her own path. Is Mary strong enough to protect both of them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718177088</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzannah DunnEssie Fox|title=The May BrideFascination

|summary=Dateline approximately 1527: Edward Seymour marries Katherine Filliol and takes her to live with his family at Wolf Hall. The days pass happily Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as coquettish Katherine proves to be a breath of fresh air setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the household of Sir John and Lady MargerySecond World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. Of all JohnThere's Seymour siblings shesuch a glut of media set in the era that the hallmarks we's drawn ve come to associate with it are familiar to young Jane the mostpoint of being cliched, the two developing a close friendship punctuated by fun and confidenceshackneyed even. (Including some of which Jane All this is too young simply to understand fullyillustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly.) However there is one secret But despite that Katherine doesn't confide , something about it still grabs me – and thatsomething about this book's the secret that will pull the Seymour family apartdescription did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408704684</amazonuk>1914585526

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen BurkeNicole Jarvis|title=The Good Italian|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Enzo is an Italian living A Portrait in Eritrea, part of Mussolini's new Italian empire of 1935. In charge of the quiet Massawe Harbour he leads an equally quiet life, trying to adhere to gentlemanly standards; being the good Italian. His friend Salvatore, a Colonel in the occupying Italian army, thinks Enzo should live a little and have some fun with the local women, just like his peers. Enzo isn't so sure but decides to engage a local cook/cleaner - see how it goes. The streetwise Aatifa gets the job, both she and Enzo being surprised by things that weren't in the job description. Meanwhile Mussolini has plans for Massawe that will change Enzo, Aatifa (and everyone around them) forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848549148</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Poppy|author=Mary Hooper|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Poppy is a parlourmaid at the de Vere family's country house when World War I breaks out. Poppy is a very bright girl but had to enter service rather than continuing on to college after school because her family is poor. But the war is changing everything - even for working class girls - and Poppy's old teacher sees an opportunity for her intelligent ex-pupil. She suggests that Poppy become a volunteer nurse, a VAD.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140882762X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Angela Thirkell|title=August FollyShadow

|summary=Richard Tebben came down from Oxford in June with an undistinguished Third and little idea ''I want all of what he wanted Florence to do with himself. It was a pity that money dictated the need to remain in the Barsetshire village of Worsted (just a little way from Winter Overcotes) with his family and others who were not really up to scratch (his mother had taken a First...) particularly as there was little in the way of diversion other than Mrs Palmerknow my name''s Greek play, into which everyone was roped willy-nilly. Then the Dean family arrived for the summer, impossibly glamorous and accompanied by six of their nine children and Richard was immediately smitten by Rachel Dean, mother of the family and more than twice his age.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844089681</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Robin Lloyd|title=Rough Passage to London: A Sea Captain's TaleCast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a Novel|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Elisha Ely Morgan leaves his native Connecticut to go to sea, partially but not entirely to escape his father's crueltyhome and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. There's a second reason: But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the sea has been blamed for powerful Accademia, the loss self-proclaimed guardians of two of his brothers, the exact circumstances of his elder brother's disappearance never having been clearhealing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. But Ely The all-male Accademia has heard a rumour; a rumour that will take him as far away as London hoarded power over art and obsess him architecture for decadescenturies and guard it above all else. His brother Abraham may not be deadTo them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1574093207</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Kirsty Wark|title=The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Pringle bequeathed her house on Arran to Anna Morrison even though she didn't actually know her. Anna just happened to walk past and ask to buy Set in the house decades earlier. Elizabeth hadn't said yes but always remembered the young ladynear-distant future, walking past with the baby in a world on the pram. The baby, Marthaverge of climate collapse, Britain is now an adult visiting Elizabeth's house – Anna's house – after Elizabeth's deathin great peril. Through The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the belongings day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that Elizabeth left with it, Martha sees glimpses one of the Knights of a past life while hoping that that this refuge will now become a haven for her mother before it's too late and while she still has a mind to take her back to the good timesRound Table would answer the call. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444777602</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=After the BombingG K Holloway|authortitle=Clare MorrallIn the Shadows of Castles

|summary=On 28th March 1942, We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the city day of Lubeck was attacked by RAF bombersWilliam of Normandy's coronation as King of England. The medieval buildings were reduced to rubble William's position is not secure and hundreds of innocent people lost their livesthe new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. In retaliation, Hitler decided And William is right to bomb worry. While the most beautiful and culturally rich cities of Englandprevious king, using Baedeker’s tourist guide as a reference. The cities he chose were ExeterHarold, Bath, Norwich, York is dead and Canterbury. 'After the Bombing' follows likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the story of an Exeter schoolgirl rebels are stirring and her friends in the aftermath much of the attackcountry does not wish to recognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444736426</amazonuk>1800422466

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vanora Bennett3949666079|title=Midnight in St PetersburgNoema|author=Dael Akkerman

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Inna Feldman is in the Kiev theatre the night that Prime Minister Stolypin is assassinated in front of the Tsar. Fearing the retribution against the Jews in general and being picked out as a suspect in particular, Inna flees to St Petersburg and her landlord's cousin Yasha. Her arrival causes complications. Not only is she unexpected but Yasha 'This is a revolutionary, a dangerous occupation in Russia during 1911. The family story about some things that Yasha is living with takes her in anyway, unaware that darker times are ahead for all of themhappened to me about twelve thousand years ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780890036</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Rosie Thomas|title=The Illusionists|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Devil Wix Maya is a great Victorian illusionist. Admittedly Lady Luck hasn’t been too good to him lately and he may look young girl living in a little ragged but he's talented and repeatedly tells himself sohunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. One particular night as he's reassuring himself over a drink or threeClimate change is occurring, he runs the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Carlo Boldoni. (Or rather Carlo runs into him as heMaya's picking Devil's pocket at the timeforest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce.) Formerly Charlie Morris and a dwarf What to do? Can the Victorians/person law givers in the federation of restricted growth villages muster peaceful ways to uscope? Can the Traveller, Carlo was part of a performing troupe but now finds himself alone due to tragic circumstances. They join forces but little do they know spiritual figure who interprets the future nor the part that a certain young lady will play in it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007512015</amazonuk>wisdom of All Life, provide solutions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ayelet Waldman1529125898|title=Love and TreasureGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=Jack and his granddaughter Natalie are both ''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at a cross roads in their livesGodmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She is single again after had no experience of teaching but this was a short disastrous marriage and he is dyingcase of necessity. Natalie comes to stay Until the death of her mother, Anne had a comfortable life and during was loved by both parents although her visit Jack asks a favourfather was frequently absent from the household. He asks When her mother died, her father cast her off and would have nothing more to embark on do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a mission for him involving a peacock pendant and year. Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some unfinished business from nearly 70 years agoneighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444763091</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Eagle TrailMelissa Fu |authortitle=Robert RigbyPeach Blossom Spring |rating=43.5|genre=TeensHistorical Fiction |summary=The Nazis have occupied AntwerpI loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, where Paul lives with his English father and French mother. But Paul doesna short chapter entitled ''Origins''t think things are too bad. Life Unfortunately it is going on pretty much as normal if you are the only truly poetic part of a teenaged boy, Paul feelsbook that I expected more from. But Paul is wrong. In the space of an afternoon, PaulCovering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's world is turned upside downperspective. His father When their home city is shot in front of himset ablaze during the war with Japan, having been discovered as an early resistance organiser. His a young mother is arrested. And Paul finds himself fleeing for his life, hunted by the Nazis for what his father knew(Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey is a long across China, 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 - the Eagle Trail across the mountains - is the most perilousin Renshu's case eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406346667</amazonuk>1472277538

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1916072038|title=I Always Loved YouThe House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Robin OliveiraAllie Cresswell|rating=4.5

|summary=Mary Cassatt was an anomaly among the Impressionists: she was one We meet part of very few women, and also the only AmericanTalbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-born member. A Philadelphia native, she made Paris seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home for nearly five decades. Oliveira's novel opens in 1926at Ecklington, with Cassatt (now nearly blind) searching for to the letters Edgar Degas wrote her house in the 1870s-80shollow. Degas The two women are angry with each other and Cassatt had been subjects Jocelyn is well aware 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; her mother'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>}}s strengths and weaknesses:

{{newreview|author=Sally Wragg|title=Loxley|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Harry, the eleventh Duke of Loxley, fell in love with Bronwyn and they married. It wasn't the match that his mother would have chosen - Bronwyn was'She is practiced at subterfuge, after allat concealing, nothing more than the daughter beneath a facade 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 life. Katherinerespectability, the dowager Duchess, didn't make Bronwyndeplorable truth's life any easier - I mean, 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 of paramount importance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00EHMH5XC</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Antonia Hodgson|title=The Devil in the Marshalsea|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=1727: The Marshalsea prison Hester is hell on Earth and a Damoclesian sword over the heads of prospective debtors. Tom Hawkins, gambler and bon viveurfurious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as she was asked, which has always stayed one step ahead of it until, ironically, the day of his big win. Heprecipitated ''s mugged, his winnings are stolen this violent and Tomunexpected removal's hurled into the depths 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 corridors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444775413</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Octavia E Butler|title=Kindred|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Life is Then we are told of the birth of a nightmare for black women (child 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 , soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in their new LA apartment. However one day everything changes: Dana starts to feel faint, the edges of her modern life blur shame and she's back isolation in the era that can take 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 worseYorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472214811</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca HuntAnnabel Abbs|title=EverlandThe Language of Food

|genre=General Historical Fiction|summary=There have been two expeditions Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to the Antarctic island of Everland boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a century aparttroubled home life. The ill-fated 1913 trip of DinnersTogether, they test, Napps and Millet-Bass is primitive by today's standards. The 2012 expedition is better equippedcraft, better prepared refine and arrives at a better time reshape the world of year so all bodes well for Deckerdomestic cookery, Brix reinventing the recipe book and Jess. But despite changing the differences both expeditions have things in common. Both groups carry secrets, some become obvious but others ''remain behind waiting to become discovered''face of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905490658</amazonuk>1398502227

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eva StachniakFreya Marske|title=Empress of the NightA Marvellous Light|rating=34

|summary=RussiaRobin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, 1796 much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the ruler is dying from a strokestreets of London are threaded with magic. As each new symptom hits and her life recedes Desperate to remove a little further she remembers how she came this far. Her recollections begin when she was Sophiecurse that threatens to swallow him, Princess of Anholt-ZerbstRobin follows Edwin to the countryside, sent to young Russian Grand Duke Peter as a marriage prospectwhere the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. The wedding plans go through and her new life is accompanied by There they uncover a name change: Princess Sophie becomes Catherine Alekseyevna but history will christen her Catherine sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the GreatBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00J8KYE14</amazonuk>1529080886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title=A Love Like BloodFlights for Freedom|author=Marcus SedgwickSteven Burgauer

|genre=HorrorHistorical Fiction|summary=One day towards It's the end later stages of World War Two, Charles Jackson I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is dragged to a museum of antiquities just outside a newly liberated Paris by his commanding officer during their downtimeyoung American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. While This company was the other looks at the unusual ancient artefactsfirst US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, 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 first to Paris for reasons be attached to do with his medical career, the RAF and finds the same man in first to be sent into the company of someone who, were he only aware of the fact, is skies to become fight the first and possibly only love of his lifeGermans in active combat. But before that's not the only time the paths of Jackson and the mysterious male are destined can happen, Petrol has to cross – master flying the prologue was set in the late 1960s…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144475193X</amazonuk>notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.

 {{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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne O'BrienChristophe Medler|title=The Scandalous DuchessMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=4.5

|summary=1372: Lady Katherine de Swynford Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is widowed and discovered by Sir Robert Douse in reduced circumstances as a resultthe summer of 1642. She remembers As a more sumptuous life before her marriage; a life in loyal servant of the service of Queen PhilippaKing, mother and Head of Johnthe Secret Service, Duke it is Robert's duty to uncover the details of Lancaster. In the hope of reprising her past lifestyle she goes to plan and follow the Savoy Palace clues to beg uncover one of the Duke for a role most guarded secrets in his household. He willingly employs her to help his new wife, Constanza, history—especially since the plot could affect the Princess of Castille, with her imminent birth but this is a dangerous move. As John and Katherine fall in love and Katherine becomes John's mistress they endanger more than their hearts; their attraction provides ammunition for their enemies, risking fatal resultsKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848452985</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Juliet Greenwood1471187179|title=We That Are LeftA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore

|summary=Hugo and Elin are settling down to Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life at home in Hiram Hall now Hugo a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is back from expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the Boer Warrest of her days looking after her husband and their home. He refuses Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to speak about his experiences in Africa but carries the psychological effectsdo at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. HoweverAs a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, appearances count working for a lot so they both continue to run the house, gardens secret service and staff while Elin tries effectively living a double life - attempting to ignore infiltrate the deficiencies in their marriageCommunist Party of Great Britain. She succeeds Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as well but then two things change her outlook: duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the arrival of daring adventurer Lady Margaret Communist Party.}}{{Frontpage|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Kokoschka'Mouse' s Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=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 her friends) potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. It intrigued with the less welcome outbreak subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of World War Iit mentioned, too. Both will leave their indelible mark so But you've seen the star rating thatcomes with this review, for Hugo, Elin and many others around can tell that timeif love was on these pages, there'll be no going backit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190678499X</amazonuk>1529402697

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Further Encounters of Sherlock HolmesChristina Hammonds Reed|authortitle=George Mann (Editor)The Black Kids|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesTeens |summary=Hot on Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the heels of [[Encounters of Sherlock Holmes by George Mann (Editor)|Encounters of Sherlock Holmes]] comes another collection of brand-new tales written by some backdrop of the brightest creative minds from 1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to the genres absolution of science fiction and crime. In this anthologyfour police officers for beating a black man, Rodney King, Holmes and Watson are pitched headlong into twelve different mysterious scenarios and invited nearly to unravel secrets and unmask villains as only they know howdeath. During their adventures they come face to face Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with a mountain monstermatters of race, take to a murderous boat trip, meet Moriarty’s siblings woman finding her voice and even indulge in a little space travelembracing her heritage. The game is afoot!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178116004X</amazonuk>1471188191

{{newreview|author=Simon Sebag Montefiore|title=One Night in Winter|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In June 1945 two school students are shot dead in Moscow. These aren't just any school students; they attended Josef Stalin School 801, the academy that taught Stalin's own children and the current educational establishment of choice for the offspring of many government and army grandees. Why did they die? Did the seemingly innocent Fatal Romantics Club have anything Move on to do with it? For the children the club is a way of living their love of Pushkin's literature but to others it seems a little different. Stalin himself is determined to have it investigated and what Stalin wants, Stalin gets no matter how wide the ultimate spider's web of suspicion is cast and no matter whom it catches.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099580330</amazonuk>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]