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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The King and the SlaveTananarive Due|authortitle=Tim LeachThe Reformatory

|summary=The scene is set: Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a group of the king's closest acquaintances sit feasting around scuffle with a table in almost total darkness. Wine flows freely. This white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is a place sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for political gamesBoys, a place where the tension in otherwise known as the air is palpableReformatory. Wise men learn to play the rules; to be It'shadow men' under the ever-watchful gaze of s a place with a suspicious king who sees treachery in every smilebrutal and dark reputation. Invisibility But the segregated reformatory is key to survival.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857899228</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The New World|author=Andrew Motion|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Following the success a chamber of his sequel to Treasure Islandhorrors, [[Silver: Return to Treasure Island haunted by Andrew Motion|Silver: Return the boys that have died there. In order to Treasure Island]], poet Andrew Motion continues survive the adventures of young Jim (the son of the original Jim Hawkins) school governor and Natty (daughter of Long John Silver) following a shipwreck which leaves them washed up on his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the shores help of the New World. The good news is that the bar silver recovered from the island has survived the journey. The bad news is that the natives school's ghosts – only they have spotted it tootheir own motivations...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224097946</amazonuk>1803366532}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth BuchanKatherine Howe|title=I Can't Begin to Tell YouA True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=War came Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to Denmark in 1940 live with a family who run an inn, and people found that they had being made to take sideswork there from a young age. British-born Kay Eberstern wasn't completely involved When she hears there is to begin with. She had obvious sympathies with be a hanging of some pirates in the British but her husband had German ancestry and she could see Bror's point of view. But Bror went a little further than town, she thought necessary and openly sided with the occupying force because he felt the need decides to protect the family estate go and the people who worked therewatch. Gradually Kay came to realise that she could not - ''would not'' - accept this Enthralled and she became increasingly involved with the Resistance movement.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718178912</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Fair Fight|author=Anna Freeman|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Set horrified in the grimy streets of Bristolequal measure, we follow Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the journey hands of Ruth – born to a Madame in a brotheltwo vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and constantly outshone by kill her prettier sister Doratoo, Ruth learns and then to stand on two feet escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and to defend herself – something which is picked up on by joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a regular client of Dora’s, Mr Dryercabin boy. Plunged headfirst into She soon finds herself in the world thick of fightingthings when there is a mutiny on board, Ruth soon meets Grenville Dryer’s wife, Charlotte, a woman scarred by smallpox and trapped from there we are caught up in a loveless relationship with her husband, and a toxic one with her brotherrip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297871951</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The WakeSarah Marsh|authortitle=Paul KingsnorthA Sign of Her Own

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Paul Kingsnorth refers to his Booker-longlisted fiction debut, ''The Wake'', After a bout of scarlet fever as 'a post-apocalyptic novel set 1000 years in the past'child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. This ambitious story traces the three-year Ely resistance movement that followed the Norman Conquest Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. The guerrilla fighters were led by Living in a figure named Hereward the Wake – thus the title. The first thing any review must note is time when the use of sign language: set in 1066-8was seen as something only savages do, this historical novel Ellen is written in what Kingsnorth calls sent to a 'shadow tongue' or 'pseudo-language', not quite the Old English you encountered reading Chaucer or ''Beowulf'' at schoolwhere she is taught to lip read, but similarphysically restrained from signing. I would strongly recommend that any diligent reader start by perusing From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the partial glossary deaf and 'A Note using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on Language'other inventions and ideas, both appended at the end and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of the textespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908717866</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreview <!The follow-- 26/8 -->|title=The Leopard up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Dramoor|author=P De V Hencher|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=StephenOdysseus, Earl of Northumbriawith delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, known who sailed to popular legend as war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the Leopard throne of Dramoor, is past his best fighting days. But warfare is never far away in medieval England, particularly in the border country. And it's not far away nowWestern Isles. A combined force of Scottish Having survived – politically and French troops are massing and intend physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to attack one of StephenIthaca's castles. Stephen's son David shores, Queen Penelope is captain on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the castle but he's spoiled and lazy return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his father knows he won't defend it successfully without helpsister Elektra, seeking refuge. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1493588192</amazonuk>0356516075

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen MaitlandB0C7J9D21B|title=The Vanishing WitchA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=More When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and higher taxes are being levied on the English by teenage King Richard II and his uncle/advisor John he lives at The House of Gaunt to pay for the wars against FranceBeautiful Swallows. They may cause annoyance to the rich but theyIdyllic as this might sound, it're breaking the poor, people like Lincolnshire river boat man Gunter s a bordello and his familyEttore's mother died when he was born. Meanwhile some He's not been short of the better off are facing problems from other quarters. Cloth merchant Robert mothers, though - but for someone of Bassingham is losing his stock before background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it arrives due 's difficult to theft obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and unrest among the weavers in Flandersbastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. It's Ettore was nothing if not a good time to be English resourceful - and eventually something will snap; we're heading towards 1831 determined - and the peasants will be revoltingit was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147221501X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven GallowayEssie Fox|title=The ConfabulistFascination

|summary=Martin Strauss The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has an unusual affliction that causes him often led to reinvent his life from false memories, convincing even himselfmore than a few writers mishandling it. As a confabulist heThere's unsure such a glut of his past and whether he actually had a happy relationship media set in the era that the hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to the woman he lovedpoint of being cliched, hackneyed even. But there All this is one simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing of which heto do poorly. But despite that, something about it still grabs me – and something about this book's convinced: he killed the famous Ehrich Weiss twice. You've not heard of Ehrich Weiss? Oh but you have for Ehrich was Harry Houdini, the best escapologist (among other things) that the world has ever knowndescription did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782393994</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreview|title=The Shadow of War|author=Stewart Binns|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary='The Shadow of War' is the first book Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in a sprawling series with a new book being released once a year for each year of the First World War. Binns writes about five British communities, all very different – Florence seeking an aristocratic Scottish family, a family of working class Welshfolk, a group of friends oasis in which her art can find a Lancashire factory townhome 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, a pair the self-proclaimed guardians of Cockney soldiers, the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and Winston Churchill, alongside his wife Clemmie its citizens from plagues and various government figurescurses. The groups interact at various points in the bookall-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, which leads to some very genuine Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and touching relationships forming, in particular the one between Margaret, a nurse, change – has no place amongst them and Bronwyn, youngest daughter of the Welsh communitytheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718179978</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=CC Humphreys|title=Plague|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Highwayman Captain William Coke stops Set in the near-distant future, in a carriage in world on the line verge of his chosen career and soon discovers he's not the first to have assailed itclimate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The driver is dead British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and all those within have been brutally skewered. He flees the scene but unfortunately leaves a pistol behindrescue what little remains. This is all thiefWhat no-taker Pitman needs to arouse his interest and attempt to track one expected was that one of the Captain down with a noose in mind. Meanwhile nature has an equally random mode Knights of death that's soon to be let loose on London. This is 1665 and the Great Plague is about to beginRound Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780891423</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Windsor FactionG K Holloway|authortitle=D J TaylorIn the Shadows of Castles|rating=24.5

|summary=I jumped at We begin after the chance to review this novel. I enjoy reading books based within this period momentous battle in 1066 and was fascinated by on the premise day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. William'what if?'' proposed on s position is not secure and the back covernew king has many challenges. The prologue was beautifully written Imposing authority through a coronation is important. And William is right to worry. While the previous king, Harold, is dead and I hoped that was an indicator for the rest likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the bookrebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to recognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578891</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreview|author=Jacqueline Winspear|title=The Care and Management of Lies|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The long hot July of 1914 Maya is a good one for friends Kezia and Theayoung girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Kezia marries Thea's brotherClimate change is occurring, Tom, bringing them even closer as life-long friends. Kezia then learns how to be a farmerthe Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's wifeforest home, translating her love into imaginative meals – sometimes overly so. Out of the two friends, Thea and food is the passionate one, fighting for women's universal suffrage becoming more and, as war approaches, pacifismmore scarce. However, when war starts, Thea goes What to do? Can the front as well as Tom, leaving Kezia at home law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to be more than cope? Can the farmer's wife; necessity dictates she's now Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the farmer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749016833</amazonuk>wisdom of All Life, provide solutions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Wilton1529125898|title=The Spider of SarajevoGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=Four enterprising free thinking people are invited to speak to the military in London: James Cade (fiercely independent business man), David Duval (ladies' man and occasional cad), Fiona Hathaway (a young woman too intelligent to squander in marriage) and Ronald Ballentyne (anthropologist and Balkans expert). It's spring 1914 and their military hosts are actually recruiting spies on behalf If it were not for the casual dereliction of the Comptroller General for Scrutiny and Survey. The four think that theyodd gentleman're serving their country and they ares duty, but not in the way they think: they're bait. They are the flies that the highthere would no women to teach well-ups hope will lead British intelligence to the anonymous phantom figure that is the Spider of Sarajevobred daughters at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782391916</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Livi Michael|title=Succession|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=15 year Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old Margaret when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of Anjou is brought governess to England to marry King Henry VI, little realising she'll rule in his stead in all but name. Then little 3twelve-year-old Margaret Beaufort marries John de la Pole, son Fanny Austen. She had no experience of the Duke teaching but this was a case of Suffolknecessity. This is Until the first death of three marriages she'll embark on her mother, Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the time household. When her mother died, her father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her. No explanation was offered but she's 14, one would receive an annuity of which will produce £35 a king and all will produce sufferingyear. The War of the Roses and the Tudor dynasty are both waiting Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in the wings; these are the women who will raise the curtainby some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241146240</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shirley McKayMelissa Fu |title=Friend and Foe (A Hew Cullan Mystery)Peach Blossom Spring |rating=43.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction |summary=1583 and King James VI of Scotland is paranoid and, after I loved the events of the Ruthven raid the year beforeprelude to Peach Blossom Spring, who can blame him? Surely this wona short chapter entitled ''Origins''t affect humble academic lawyer Hew Cullen? . Oh but Unfortunately it will, eventually causing more turmoil than even he is used to. Back at the beginning though, while Hew continues, unaware only truly poetic part of what's to come, he has a book that I expected more pressing domestic worries that, for once, don't affect his herbalist sister Meg or his doctor brother-in-law Gilesfrom. Indeed, this time the concern is the love of HewCovering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's own heartperspective.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972175</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=I, Hogarth|author=Michael Dean|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=How similar in many ways was Hogarth’s London in the middle of When their home city is set ablaze during the Eighteenth Century to the London of today. A city where it was easy enough to end up in debtor’s prisonwar with Japan, as indeed did Hogarth’s beloved a young mother (Meilin) and unworldly fatherher four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, having been condemned to the Fleet; a sad fate for a brilliant Latin scholar and writer of erudite texts. He opened a Latin speaking coffee house in St John’s Gate. Here the governor and authorities were open Renshu's case eventually to high levels of corruption, as later in Dickens time and very reminiscent of the scandals of G4S todayAmerica. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715647512</amazonuk>1472277538

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P S Duffy1916072038|title=The Cartographer of No Man's LandHouse in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary=Canadian sailing boat captain Angus McGrath joins We meet part of the army Talbot family in Yorkshire in 1917 as a cartographerNovember 1811. However, the cosy London war offices are full of map makers Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and artists and what's more the career choice is a luxury when the high mortality rates at the front means the infantry needs constant replenishment. Angus therefore finds himself her mother have travelled in France as a 1st lieutenant in the Canada Corps. Meanwhile his family continue some discomfort from their life in the small fishing village back home in Nova Scotiaat Ecklington, his wife worrying about her brother who has been declared missing to the house in actionthe hollow. Angus is ideally placed to look for him but there The two women are also angry with each other things demanding his attention, staying alive being only one and Jocelyn is well aware of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905802986</amazonuk>}}her mother's strengths and weaknesses:

{{newreview|author=Cynthia Harrod-Eagles|title=Goodbye Piccadilly|rating=4|genre=Historical 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 She is continuing as usual – practiced at the moment. Viscount Denesubterfuge, Charles Wroughton wants to marry for love rather than materialism. Laura Hunter is fighting for women's suffrage. As for Beattie Cazaletat concealing, her main worry is the rumour concerning the manner in which her servant Ethel is carrying on in public. All fears are about to deepen and worries put in sharp relief though: war is coming and beneath a war like none facade of respectability, the world has fought beforedeplorable truth''.|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 she Hester is widely regarded furious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as one of our most successful monarchs. Yet controversy surrounds her. Was she legitimate or illegitimate? Why did she never marry? What was her relationship with Lord Robert Dudley? Alison Weir follows the story of her reign and gives us her own theories about the Virgin Queen and her motivations and intentionsasked, whilst describing the colour which has precipitated ''this violent and pageantry of the English court. Itunexpected removal''s going to be a must-read for all Tudor fanatics.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091926254</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The Wedding Gift|author=Marlen Suyapa Bodden|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Half-sisters Clarissa and Sarah couldn’t lead more different lives. Clarissa is a typical 'Southern Belle'; the apple Then we are told of her daddy's eye with every whim dutifully indulged. Sarah, the daughter birth of a slave, lives in a cabin on the plantation with her mother child and has been born into a life of servitude. Their father is plantation owner Cornelius Allen, a man prone to violent mood swings: at one moment a benevolent patronsoon after, the nextHester Talbot departs, a cruel tyrantleaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099579987</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dodger of the DialsAnnabel Abbs|authortitle=James BenmoreThe Language of Food

|summary=Dodger Eliza Acton 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 a poet who has never had the Dials'', eager slightest inclination to see what our eponymous hero had been up to in the two years since his last adventureboil an egg. Quite When tasked with writing a lotcookery book, it would seemshe recruits Ann Kirby, 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 local woman with a troubled home life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780874685</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Vanora Bennett|title=The White Russian|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's 1937 and Evie leaves her home and controlling mother in the US to look up her estranged grandmotherTogether, Constancethey test, in Paris. Constance is a mystery no one talks about so Evie is distraught when she dies soon after Evie's arrival. Howevercraft, Evie chooses to stay for a while to discover more about her grandmother refine and carry out her last wish: to track down a mystery man from her past. Not only is it a difficult missionreshape the world of domestic cookery, it'll expose Evie to danger in a city harbouring fierce enmities from reinventing the recipe book and changing the Russian ex-pat community that Constance nurturedface of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780890044</amazonuk>1398502227

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia WatkinsFreya Marske|title=DYFED ODYSSEY: Connell O'Keeffe and The Spider's WebA Marvellous Light

|summary=Connell O'Keeffe looked to be settled. His stud was prospering. He was deeplyRobin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, enduringly happy with his wife who was expecting their second child and despite the loss of his arm some years before which had put an end much to his acting career, life was goodchagrin. Then one morning Morgan, his manservant brought bad news before There he was even out meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of bedLondon are threaded with magic. Khayri, one of his brood mares, was missing from her stable and there was Desperate to remove a ransom demand. Reluctant to lose the mare - or curse that threatens to be beaten - O'Keeffe and Morgan set off to retrieve Khayriswallow him, hoping Robin follows Edwin to be back that nightthe countryside, or - at where the worst - hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the next daypeople shimmer with power. Little did O'Keeffe know There they uncover a sinister plot that it would be many months before he saw his home againthreatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957210469</amazonuk>1529080886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michelle LovricB09F4CTKJR|title=The True and Splendid History of the Harristown SistersFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=The seven Swiney sisters are growing up during IrelandIt's 19th century potato famine so know what it the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is to go withouta young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. Therefore when their eldest sister Darcy works out a way for them This company was the first US Aero Squadron to earn money using their talent and long, long hairbe trained in Canada, the other six follow on. (They'd first to be daft attached to cross the dangerous Darcy anyway.) Gradually their hair becomes their future RAF and the 'Swiney Godivas' are createdfirst to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. HoweverBut before that can happen, fame doesn't always bring happiness with the adventure; in fact for Petrol has to master flying the sisters it brings notoriety – a different thing altogethernotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408833417</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Flower BookChristophe Medler|authortitle=Catherine LawMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=54

|summary=Violet’s flower book Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is her secret treasure; a way to glimpse inside her soul. So much more than a mere diary, Violet uses discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the secret language summer of flowers to convey her innermost thoughts and feelings1642. She takes inspiration from nature and uses it to tell As a story across loyal servant of the pages King, and Head of her private journal. A simple pressed gorse flower brings back warm memories of a carefree day at the cove with her best friendSecret Service, a bold peony it is a bitter reminder Robert's duty to uncover the details of an unwelcome suitor the plan and a handful of poisonous tansy is follow the key clues to her biggest secret uncover one of all..the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749015829</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen MacInnes1471187179|title=Home is the HunterA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=54

|summary=Seventeen years after he left home to fight Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in the Trojan War (that's also seven years after it had finished!) Ulysses returns homea leafy provincial suburb. A lot has changed; his wife The book is at home with eleven men for a start! Penelope set in the 1930s and Minnie is being held under virtual house arrest by eleven strangers. How will Ulysses manage expected to live up to free her mother's expectations and regain his hearth with only his son and find a pig herd nice young man to help? Gods only knows! Meanwhile Penelope is visited by another manmarry, produce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their home. His nameUnfortunately, this isn's Homer t what she wants to do at all and he wants neither does she want to write an epic poemcontinue working as a secretary. Not As a result of a good time Homerchance meeting, not she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a good time at all!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781163316</amazonuk>double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin GoAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The Steady Running of the HourKokoschka's Doll|rating=42.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Tristan CampbellWell, an American graduate, receives this looked very much like a phone call book I could love from an English law firm summoning him to London for a secret meeting. Mountaineer the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and adventurer Ashley Walsingham died in 1926 without flipped pages over several times before actually reading any direct heirsof it. Since then his family's legacy has been I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in limbo while an heir is tracedthe 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. They believe Tristan could be It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that lucky person but there's a catchwhat little I knew of it mentioned, too. He has to prove But you've seen the family connection within 7 weeks (when the 80 year limitation star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on the fortune runs out)these pages, it was not actually caused by them. The clock is ticking while Tristan starts a hunt that will take him across Europe.So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434022330</amazonuk>1529402697

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim WillocksChristina Hammonds Reed|title=The Twelve Children of ParisBlack Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=Knight of Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the Order backdrop 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 Orlandu1992 Los Angeles riots, 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 is about reaction to begin as the Catholics seek to cleanse the city of members of the Protestant Reformist Church absolution of France, better known as Huguenots. 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 four police officers for Violets|author=Martine Bailey|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Biddy 'Obedience' Leigh is the under-cook at Mawton Hallbeating a black man, but although she is passionate about cookingRodney King, her dearest wish is to marry her young man. The date is set for her to leave the Hall for married life and she is looking forward nearly to itdeath. But Told from the master perspective of Ashley Bennett, the house surprises everyone when he gets himself a very young wife – and Biddy’s world is rapidly changed. Lady Carinna takes novel follows her evolution from a shine to Biddy, and silent bystander when Biddy proves herself to be 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 and father, Henry 1st Duke confronted with matters of Suffolkrace, have been beheaded for treason, the remaining Grey sisters, Katherine and Mary have hidden all signs of their protestant reformist faith. Their mother Frances can escape court but Mary Tudor has other plans for the girls, keeping them under royal scrutiny. This is to a dangerous spotlight to be subjected to. 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 woman finding her voice and set on embracing her own pathheritage. Is Mary strong enough to protect both of them?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718177088</amazonuk>1471188191

{{newreview|author=Suzannah Dunn|title=The May Bride|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Dateline approximately 1527: Edward Seymour marries Katherine Filliol and takes her Move on to live with his family at Wolf Hall. The days pass happily as coquettish Katherine proves to be a breath of fresh air for the household of Sir John and Lady Margery. Of all John's Seymour siblings she's drawn to young Jane the most, the two developing a close friendship punctuated by fun and confidences. (Including some of which Jane is too young to understand fully.) However there is one secret that Katherine doesn't confide and that's the secret that will pull the Seymour family apart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704684</amazonuk>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]