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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=P S DuffyTananarive Due|title=The Cartographer Reformatory|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= 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 segregated reformatory is a chamber of No Manhorrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's Landghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Canadian sailing boat captain Angus McGrath joins the army Hannah Masury is living in 1917 as Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a cartographeryoung age. HoweverWhen she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, the cosy London war offices are full of map makers she decides to go and artists watch. Enthralled and whathorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's more the career choice is a luxury when the high mortality rates death at the front means the infantry needs constant replenishmenthands of two vicious pirates. Angus therefore finds himself in France She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a 1st lieutenant in boy and joining the Canada Corpsnotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Meanwhile his family continue their life She soon finds herself in the small fishing village back home in Nova Scotiathick of things when there is a mutiny on board, his wife worrying about her brother who has been declared missing in action. Angus is ideally placed to look for him but and from there we are also other things demanding his attention, staying alive being only one caught up in her rip roaring tale of themlife on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905802986</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cynthia Harrod-EaglesSarah Marsh|title=Goodbye PiccadillyA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=It's July 1914 and the world is becoming unsettled. There's fierce unrest brewing in Ireland and Sarajevo is being put on the map for all the wrong reasons. Back in England life is continuing After a bout of scarlet fever as usual – at the moment. Viscount Denea child, Charles Wroughton wants to marry for love rather than materialismEllen Lark loses her hearing. Laura Hunter is fighting for women's suffrage. As for Beattie CazaletSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her main worry is the rumour concerning the manner in which her servant Ethel is carrying on in publiclife changes. All fears are about to deepen and worries put Living in sharp relief though: war a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is coming and sent to a war like none the world has fought before.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751556262</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alison Weir|title=The Marriage Game|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Elizabeth I ruled England for 45 years and school where she is widely regarded as one of our most successful monarchstaught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Yet controversy surrounds her. Was From here, she legitimate or illegitimate? Why did she never marry? What was her relationship with Lord Robert Dudley? Alison Weir follows ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the story of her reign deaf and gives us her own theories about using a system called Visible Speech. At the Virgin Queen and her motivations same time, Bell is working on other inventions and intentionsideas, whilst describing the colour and pageantry Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of the English court. It's going to be a must-read for all Tudor fanaticsespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091926254</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreview|title=The Wedding Gift|author=Marlen Suyapa Bodden|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Halffollow-sisters Clarissa and Sarah couldn’t lead more different lives. Clarissa is a typical up to the excellent ''Ithaca'Southern Belle'; picks up a few months after where we left off. In the apple palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her daddyhusband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's eye with every whim dutifully indulged. Sarahshores, Queen Penelope is on the daughter brink of a slave, lives in a cabin on fragile peace. One that shatters however with the plantation with her mother and has been born into a life return of servitude. Their father is plantation owner Cornelius AllenOrestes, a man prone to violent mood swings: at one moment a benevolent patronKing of Mycenae, the nextand his sister Elektra, a cruel tyrantseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099579987</amazonuk>0356516075

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Dodger of the DialsB0C7J9D21B|author=James Benmore|rating=5|genretitle=Historical Fiction|summary=Dodger is back! And oh, how I’ve missed him! Benmore’s excellent debut novel [[Dodger by James Benmore|Dodger]] left me hungry for more Dickensian escapades and it was with greedy anticipation that I began the sequel, ''Dodger of the Dials'', eager to see what our eponymous hero had been up to A Captive in the two years since his last adventure. Quite a lot, it would seem, as Dodger has reclaimed the coveted spot of ‘'Top Sawyer' and has a gang of his very own, as well as the heart of the fair Lily, the new lady in his life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780874685</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAlgiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Vanora Bennett|title=The White RussianA J Lewis

|summary=ItWhen we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's 1937 a bordello and Evie leaves her home and controlling Ettore's mother in the US to look up her estranged grandmother, Constance, in Parisdied when he was born. Constance is a mystery no one talks about so Evie is distraught when she dies soon after EvieHe's arrival. Howevernot been short of mothers, Evie chooses to stay though - but for a while someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to discover more about her grandmother obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and carry out her last wish: to track down a mystery man from her pastbastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Not only is Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a difficult mission, it'll expose Evie to danger in successful business as a city harbouring fierce enmities from the Russian ex-pat community that Constance nurturedguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780890044</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia WatkinsEssie Fox|title=DYFED ODYSSEY: Connell O'Keeffe and The Spider's WebFascination

|summary=Connell O'Keeffe looked to be settled. His stud was prospering. He was deeplyThe Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, enduringly happy with his wife who was expecting their second child and despite by the loss of his arm some years before Second World War) which had put an end has often led to his acting career, life was goodmore than a few writers mishandling it. Then one morning Morgan, his manservant brought bad news before he was even out There's such a glut of bed. Khayri, one of his brood mares, was missing from her stable and there was a ransom demand. Reluctant to lose media set in the era that the mare - or to be beaten - Ohallmarks we'Keeffe and Morgan set off ve come to retrieve Khayri, hoping associate with it are familiar to be back that nightthe point of being cliched, or - at the worst - the next dayhackneyed even. Little did O'Keeffe know All this is simply to illustrate that it would be many months before he saw his home againan easy thing to do poorly. But despite that, something about it still grabs me – and something about this book's description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957210469</amazonuk>1914585526

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle LovricNicole Jarvis|title=The True and Splendid History of the Harristown SistersA Portrait in Shadow

|summary=The seven Swiney sisters are growing up during Ireland's 19th century potato famine so know what it is to go without. Therefore when their eldest sister Darcy works out a way for them to earn money using their talent and long, long hair, the other six follow on. (They'd be daft I want all of Florence to cross the dangerous Darcy anyway.) Gradually their hair becomes their future and the 'Swiney Godivasknow my name' are created. However, fame doesn't always bring happiness with the adventure; in fact for the sisters it brings notoriety – a different thing altogether.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408833417</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The Flower Book|author=Catherine Law|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Violet’s flower book is Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her secret treasure; art can find a way to glimpse inside home and where her soulfuture can thrive rather than stagnate. So much more than a mere diaryBut as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, Violet uses the secret language self-proclaimed guardians of flowers the healing magics that through paintings have the power to convey her innermost thoughts protect the city and its citizens from plagues and feelingscurses. She takes inspiration from nature The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and uses guard it to tell a story across the pages of her private journalabove all else. A simple pressed gorse flower brings back warm memories of a carefree day at the cove with her best friendTo them, a bold peony is a bitter reminder of Artemisia – an unwelcome suitor ambitious young woman who promises trouble and a handful of poisonous tansy is the key to her biggest secret of all..change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749015829</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Helen MacInnes|title=Home is Set in the Hunter|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Seventeen years after he left home to fight near-distant future, in a world on the Trojan War verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (that's also seven years after it had finished!or several) 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 save the day and regain his hearth with only his son and a pig herd to help? Gods only knows! Meanwhile Penelope is visited by another manrescue what little remains. His name's Homer and he wants to write an epic poemWhat no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call. Not a good time Homer, not a good time at all!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781163316</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin GoG K Holloway|title=The Steady Running In the Shadows of the HourCastles

|summary=Tristan Campbell, an American graduate, receives a phone call from an English law firm summoning him to London for a secret meeting. Mountaineer We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and adventurer Ashley Walsingham died in 1926 without any direct heirson the day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. Since then his familyWilliam's legacy position is not secure and the new king has been in limbo while an heir is tracedmany challenges. They believe Tristan could be that lucky person but there's Imposing authority through a catchcoronation is important. He has And William is right to prove worry. While the previous king, Harold, is dead and the family connection within 7 weeks (when likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the 80 year limitation on rebels are stirring and much of the fortune runs out). The clock is ticking while Tristan starts country does not wish to recognise a hunt that will take him across Europenew overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434022330</amazonuk>1800422466

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Willocks3949666079|title=The Twelve Children of ParisNoema|author=Dael Akkerman

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Knight of the Order of St John the Baptist, Mattias Tannhauser, does as he has promised. After surviving the 1565 siege of Malta, Mattias goes to Paris to look for Lady Carla (his heavily pregnant wife) and Orlandu, her child by birth and his by adoption. Carla went to sing and play at the royal wedding but seems to have disappeared. It's definitely not a good time to sample Parisian hospitality: one of the city's bloodiest chapters This is a story about some things that happened to begin as the Catholics seek to cleanse the city of members of the Protestant Reformist Church of France, better known as Huguenotsme about twelve thousand years ago. It gets worse though: not only are all Huguenots (and anyone who gets in the way) being hunted down and killed grotesquely, guess which church Carla's hosts belong to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578921</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|title=An Appetite for Violets|author=Martine Bailey|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Biddy 'Obedience' Leigh Maya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the under-cook at Mawton HallMesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, but although she is passionate about cookingthe Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, her dearest wish and food is to marry her young manbecoming more and more scarce. The date is set for her What to leave do? Can the Hall for married life and she is looking forward to it. But law givers in the master federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the house surprises everyone when he gets himself Traveller, a very young wife – and Biddy’s world is rapidly changed. Lady Carinna takes a shine to Biddyspiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, and when Biddy proves herself to be resourceful and entrepreneurial, her fate is sealed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444768727</amazonuk>provide solutions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Fremantle1529125898|title=Sisters of TreasonGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=Now that their sister Lady Jane and father, Henry 1st Duke ''If it were not for the casual dereliction of Suffolk, have been beheaded for treason, the remaining Grey sistersodd gentleman's duty, Katherine and Mary have hidden there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all signs .'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of their protestant reformist faithgoverness to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. Their mother Frances can escape court She had no experience of teaching but Mary Tudor has other plans for the girls, keeping them under royal scrutiny. This is this was a dangerous spotlight to be subjected tocase of necessity. As Until the trademark heretic burning death of the Spanish Inquisition comes to Englandher mother, Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the Greys must work harder to impersonate good Catholicshousehold. Their lives depend on it. However Katherine is less than tactful When her mother died, her father cast her off and set on would have nothing more to do with her own path. Is Mary strong enough to protect both No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718177088</amazonuk>£35 a year. Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzannah DunnMelissa Fu |title=The May BridePeach Blossom Spring |rating=43.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Dateline approximately 1527: Edward Seymour marries Katherine Filliol and takes her I loved the prelude to live with his family at Wolf HallPeach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''. The days pass happily as coquettish Katherine proves to be a breath of fresh air for Unfortunately it is the household only truly poetic part of Sir John and Lady Margerya book that I expected more from. Of all JohnCovering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's Seymour siblings she's drawn to young Jane perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the mostwar with Japan, the two developing a close friendship punctuated by fun young mother (Meilin) and confidences. her four-year-old son (Including some of which Jane is too young to understand fullyRenshu) are among those who flee.) However there is one secret that Katherine doesn't confide The story follows them on their journey across China, and thatin Renshu's the secret that will pull the Seymour family apartcase eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408704684</amazonuk>1472277538

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Burke1916072038|title=The Good ItalianHouse in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell|rating=4.5

|summary=Enzo is an Italian living in Eritrea, We meet 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 ItalianTalbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. His friend Salvatore, a Colonel in the occupying Italian army, thinks Enzo should live a little Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some fun with the local womendiscomfort from their home at Ecklington, just like his peers. Enzo isn't so sure but decides to engage a local cook/cleaner - see how it goesthe house in the hollow. The streetwise Aatifa gets the job, both she two women are angry with each other and Enzo being surprised by things that werenJocelyn is well aware of her mother't in the job description. Meanwhile Mussolini has plans for Massawe that will change Enzo, Aatifa (s strengths and everyone around them) forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848549148</amazonuk>}}weaknesses:

{{newreview|title=Poppy|author=Mary Hooper|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Poppy ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a parlourmaid at facade of respectability, the de Vere familydeplorable truth'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 Folly|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Richard Tebben came down from Oxford in June with an undistinguished Third and little idea of what he wanted Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal 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 she was little in the way of diversion other than Mrs Palmer's Greek playasked, into which everyone was roped willy-nilly. Then the Dean family arrived for the summer, impossibly glamorous has precipitated ''this violent 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 ageunexpected removal''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844089681</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Robin Lloyd|title=Rough Passage to London: A Sea Captain's Tale, 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 cruelty. There's a second reason: the sea has been blamed for the loss of two Then we are told of his brothers, the exact circumstances birth of his elder brother's disappearance never having been clear. But Ely has heard a rumour; a rumour that will take him as far away as London child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and obsess him for decades. His brother Abraham may not be deadisolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1574093207</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kirsty WarkAnnabel Abbs|title=The Legacy Language of Elizabeth PringleFood

|summary=Elizabeth Pringle bequeathed her house on Arran Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to Anna Morrison even though boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she didn't actually know her. Anna just happened to walk past and ask to buy the house decades earlier. Elizabeth hadn't said yes but always remembered the young ladyrecruits Ann Kirby, walking past a local woman with the baby in the prama troubled home life. The babyTogether, Marthathey test, is now an adult visiting Elizabeth's house – Anna's house – after Elizabeth's death. Through craft, refine and reshape the belongings that Elizabeth left with itworld of domestic cookery, Martha sees glimpses of a past life while hoping that that this refuge will now become a haven for her mother before it's too late reinventing the recipe book and while she still has a mind to take her back to changing the good timesface of cookery writing forever. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444777602</amazonuk>1398502227

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=After the BombingFreya Marske|authortitle=Clare MorrallA Marvellous Light|rating=4.5

|summary=On 28th March 1942Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the city streets of Lubeck was attacked by RAF bombersLondon are threaded with magic. The medieval buildings were reduced Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to rubble and hundreds of innocent people lost their lives. In retaliationswallow him, Hitler decided Robin follows Edwin to bomb the most beautiful and culturally rich cities of Englandcountryside, using Baedeker’s tourist guide as a reference. The cities he chose were Exeter, Bath, Norwich, York where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and Canterburythe people shimmer with power. 'After There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the Bombing' follows the story lives of an Exeter schoolgirl and her friends all magicians in the aftermath of the attackBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444736426</amazonuk>1529080886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vanora BennettB09F4CTKJR|title=Midnight in St PetersburgFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=Inna Feldman is in It's the later stages of World War I and the Kiev theatre United States has just entered the night that Prime Minister Stolypin conflict. Petrol Petronus is assassinated in front of a young American who has signed up and joined the Tsar17 Aero Squadron. Fearing This company was the retribution against the Jews first US Aero Squadron to be trained in general and being picked out as a suspect in particularCanada, Inna flees the first to St Petersburg be attached to the RAF and her landlord's cousin Yasha. Her arrival causes complications. Not only is she unexpected but Yasha is a revolutionary, a dangerous occupation the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in Russia during 1911active combat. The family But before that Yasha is living with takes her in anywaycan happen, unaware that darker times are ahead for all of themPetrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780890036</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rosie ThomasChristophe Medler|title=The IllusionistsMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret

|summary=Jack and his granddaughter Natalie are both at Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a cross roads secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in their livesthe summer of 1642. She is single again after As a short disastrous marriage and he is dying. Natalie comes to stay and during her visit Jack asks a favour. He asks her to embark on a mission for him involving a peacock pendant and some unfinished business from nearly 70 years ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444763091</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Eagle Trail|author=Robert Rigby|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The Nazis have occupied Antwerployal servant of the King, 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 boyHead of the Secret Service, Paul feels. But Paul it is wrong. In the space of an afternoon, PaulRobert's world is turned upside down. His father is shot in front duty to uncover the details 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 plan and dangerous one - through Belgium and France for follow the Pyrenees and Spain and then, hopefully, for England. Every stage is dangerous but the final clues to uncover one - of the Eagle Trail across most guarded secrets in history—especially since the mountains - is plot could affect the most perilousKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406346667</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471187179|title=I Always Loved YouA Beautiful Spy|author=Robin OliveiraRachel Hore

|summary=Mary Cassatt was Minnie is an anomaly among 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the Impressionists: she was one of very few women1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and also spend the only American-born memberrest of her days looking after her husband and their home. A Philadelphia native Unfortunately, this isn't what she made Paris home for nearly five decadeswants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. Oliveira's novel opens in 1926 As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, with Cassatt (now nearly blind) searching working for the letters Edgar Degas wrote her in secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the 1870s-80s. Degas and Cassatt had been subjects Communist Party of Parisian gossip; no one knew for sure whether their friendship shaded into romanceGreat Britain. Even Mary Minnie finds herself seems confused about torn between what they meant to each other; 'she still didn't understand…whether there was room perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for love in two lives already consumed by passion of another sortthe Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670017191</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally WraggAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=LoxleyKokoschka's Doll|rating=32.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=HarryWell, this looked very much like a book I could love from the eleventh Duke of Loxleyget-go, fell in love with Bronwyn which is why I picked my review copy up and they marriedflipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. It wasn't I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the match that his mother would have chosen - Bronwyn middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number wasin the 20,000s, after allletters used as narrative form, 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 lifeso on. Katherine, It intrigued with the dowager Duchess, didn't make Bronwyn's life any easier - subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I meanknew of it mentioned, the girl wasntoo. But you't above starting to clear ve seen the breakfast dishes when there were servants to do ''star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that'' sort of thing. And - to cap if love was on these pages, it all - she still wasn't pregnant and an heir for Loxley was of paramount importancenot actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00EHMH5XC</amazonuk>1529402697

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonia HodgsonChristina Hammonds Reed|title=The Devil in the MarshalseaBlack Kids|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Teens |summary=1727: The Marshalsea prison Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is hell on Earth and a Damoclesian sword over set against the heads backdrop of prospective debtors. Tom Hawkinsthe 1992 Los Angeles riots, gambler and bon viveur, has always stayed one step ahead a reaction to the absolution of it untilfour police officers for beating a black man, ironicallyRodney King, nearly to death. Told from the day perspective of his big win. He's muggedAshley Bennett, his winnings are stolen and Tom's hurled into the depths novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of Sheol itself. Is it as bad as he thought? Worse! Not only does he have race, to survive the cruel a woman finding her voice and brutal deprivations but a murderer walks the prison's corridorsembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444775413</amazonuk>1471188191

{{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 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 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 discovered''.|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=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 Move 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>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]