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{{newreview|author=Joanna Hickson|title=Red Rose, White Rose|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Cecily Neville, daughter of Ralph, Earl of Westmorland and Joan Beaufort, puts her obligations above all else which is why she marries Richard Plantagenet, third Duke of York and her father's ward. Together they will start a royal line that will go down the centuries but not without pain, conflict and, of course, the Wars of the Roses. |amazonuk= <amazonuk>0007447019</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Man Who Loved Dogs|author=Leonardo Padura|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In Cuba, a mysterious man walks on the beach, always with two Russian wolfhounds. Watched by a writer, he soon comes to share his story, and it becomes clear that he is Ramon Mercader !-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-- the man who killed Trotsky.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524448</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyTananarive Due|title=The Last of the SpiritsReformatory

|summary=Everyone knows CharlotteGracetown, Emily and AnneFlorida. June 1950. Not many know that this famous trio of literary sisters also had After a scuffle with a brotherwhite boy, Patrick Branwell Brontëtwelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, born otherwise known as the year after Charlotte Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a year before Emilychamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. Like In order to survive the school governor and his sistersFunhouse, he had literary ambitions: he wrote juvenile stories, poems and translations from Robert must enlist the help of the Greek; he also trained as a painter (you school's ghosts – only they have most likely seen his famous painting of his sisters)their own motivations.. Again like his sisters, however, he was destined to die young.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857522876</amazonuk>1803366532}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Krishna BhattKatherine Howe|title=The Royal EnigmaA True Account|rating=24.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=There Hannah Masury is absolutely nothing wrong living in Boston, having been sent to live with books that cross genresa family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. The best historical novels are as much history as fictionWhen she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. HoweverEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, it is Hannah finds herself embroiled in a golden rule young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. 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 book must know who boy and what it isjoining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. One She soon finds herself in the thick of the problems with The Royal Enigma things when there is that it suffers a mutiny on board, and from a serious identity crisisthere we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B005Q8QCTY</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Erin KnightleySarah Marsh|title=The Baron Next DoorA Sign of Her Own

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Charity is hoping to enjoy After a bout of scarlet fever as a relaxing break in Bathchild, attending the music festival with Ellen Lark loses her beloved grandmotherhearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, Lady Effingtoneverything about her life changes. Charity doesn't just love music Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, she ''lives'' music; it Ellen is an intrinsic part of her very being and sent to a school where she is never happier than when playing her latest compositions on her pianofortetaught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. She cannot understand why anyone would hate music From here, so when her new neighbour Baron Cadgwith turns she ends up on her doorstep, demanding that she keep in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the ''infernal racket to deaf and using a minimum''system called Visible Speech. At the same time, she declares war Bell is working on the insufferably rude Baron next door. The result is a light-hearted other inventions and sweet Regency romance that sees the most unlikely pair begin to bondideas, despite their differencesand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349405417</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreview|author=Susan Hill|title=Black Sheep|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Mount of Zeal is a mining village, and no mistake. Three concentric semiThe follow-circular streets align across up to the side of excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a hill, like few months after where we left off. In the rows palace of seats in an amphitheatreOdysseus, with little thought delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at all allowed Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the life above the crest throne of the hill, Western Isles. Having survived – politically and a lot of effort and dreams focused on the coal mine at physical – the village's core. The Howker family (and how evocative chaotic storm that name is, so akin Clytemnestra brought to the noise of hawking coal dust from oneIthaca's lungs), and Ted and Roseshores, Queen Penelope is on the youngest brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the clanreturn of Orestes, in particularKing of Mycenae, will face the destiny the environment they grow up in gives them – with only the merest glimmers of hope and the faintest of sparks to latch on to as regards a likeable futurehis sister Elektra, seeking refuge. But if that is a faint spark, then how safe is it so close to the tinderbox of a coal mine?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009953956X</amazonuk>0356516075

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katherine WebbB0C7J9D21B|title=The Night FallingA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=In the summer of 1921When we first meet our hero, Leandro returns to his birthplace in Italyname is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. He has made his fortune Idyllic as this might sound, and his aim is to transform it's a crumbling palazzo into an opulent mansion. But the outside world is still reeling from the Great War, bordello and Leandro’s nephew, Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not been short of mothers, is one though - but for someone of those most his background in need late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of helpanchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Reluctantly, Ettore asks his uncle was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for assistancevisitors. But Ettero could not have foreseen what He was to come from that request…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409131491</amazonuk>even saving some money.

 {{newreview|author=Rory Clements|title=The Queen's Man|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Elizabethan England - a murky, dirty world full of religious strife and violent, short lives. Queen Elizabeth sits on the throne, but her seat is by no means safe - her first cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, is locked up in Sheffield Castle. Unable to leave, but by no means unable to plot and scheme with her supporters, Mary wishes to reclaim what she believes is rightfully hers - the throne. But even she cannot be prepared for the dark twists and new plots that arise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548486</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Barbara Ewing|title=The Petticoat Men|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In 1871 Ernest Boulton (aged 22) and Frederick Park (aged 23) were arrested in London; an arrest that shook society all the way to the top. Their crime? They dressed as women, which hinted at homosexuality, then a crime that carried a heinous prison tariff. Their infamous trial was watched closely by society because Stella and Fanny (as they were known when frocked) performed regularly at house parties and soirees attended by the higher echelons and so if these performers should fall, who would go down with them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781859965</amazonuk>}}  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily PurdyEssie Fox|title=The Boleyn BrideFascination

|summary=Elizabeth Howard wants The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a noble marriage but at 16 she's married off to Thomas Boleynsetting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, a jumped up nouveau riche who tries by the Second World War) which has often led to hide his humble roots any way he can. It's not more than a love match on either sidefew writers mishandling it. So to compensate for her husbandThere's shortcomings, Elizabeth throws herself into such a collection glut of lovers and media set in the lives of two of her three children. Yes, she dreams of rosy futures for Mary and George, but for era that the third child Anne, born as ugly as a monkey, Elizabeth canhallmarks we't envisage any future so wastes neither dreams nor love on her. However when Henry VII dies and his second son eventually takes ve come to associate with it are familiar to the thronepoint of being cliched, Elizabeth realises she may not hackneyed even. All this is simply to illustrate that it would be rightan easy thing to do poorly. Having Henry VIII But despite that, something about it still grabs me – and something about this book's description did as a son-in-law may do both Anne and the family a lot of goodwell.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349405956</amazonuk>1914585526

  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=L C TylerNicole Jarvis|title=A Cruel Necessity (A John Grey Historical Mystery)Portrait in Shadow

|summary=Once home from her role as a photo-journalist in Afghanistan, Jo decides to move into the Brighton flat that her great aunt Elizabeth has bequeathed her. While searching through the belongings that go with the home, she finds Elizabeth's WWI diaries from the time that she nursed wounded servicemen from the Indian Corps at the Brighton Pavilion. These entries cause her to reflect on her time recording the more current war and enables her to open up to her ex-lover Susie in a series 'I want all of letters, telling her how it was, the lives of those she met out there, what it did Florence to them and, indeed, to her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883342</amazonuk>}}know my name''

{{newreview|title=Lucy|author=Alan Kennedy|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Lucy is Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a painterhome and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. Hiding away in Dundee on VE Day, But as some as she enters Florentine society she returns faces great opposition from a disaster the powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of an exhibition the healing magics that through paintings have the power to a letter protect the city and its citizens from a figure from her past. Uncle Albert, still in France, wants to sort out his affairs - who will get what after he's deadplagues and curses. The letter sends Lucy on a voyage of discovery all- about a past full of male Accademia has hoarded power over art, lost love, found love, grief, war and about what could possibly come nextarchitecture for centuries and guard it above all else. Set in pre-war LondonTo them, pre-war Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and wartime France change – has no place amongst them and windy, rainy Dundee, Lucy is a love story, but it's also a kind of coming-hometheir society. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956469663</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Anne O'Brien|title=The King's Sister|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It's England Set in 1380 and 17 year old Elizabeth of Lancaster has always dreamt of her betrothal and the sort of love of which balladeers sing. So when she meets the person her father has lined upnear-distant future, her face drops to say in a world on the least. The Earl verge of Pembroke climate collapse, Britain is eight years old so she's not pleasedin great peril. However one The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day love will find her and cruelly cause her to choose between rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the love Knights of her life and family with fatal consequencesthe Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848453469</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Lives of Stella BainG K Holloway|authortitle=Anita ShreveIn the Shadows of Castles|rating=4.5

|summary=The opening We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of this book is a brilliant one, being thrust into the midst William of Stella’s confusion Normandy's coronation as she wakes with no memory in a first aid station near the front lineKing of England. She knows nothing other than the fact that she can drive an ambulance, William's position is not secure and the reader knows nothing more than hernew king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. And William is right to worry. She soon discovers that she can drawWhile the previous king, tooHarold, and this is a really nice angle to help learn about her dead and her past without having to unveil everything all at once. I think the use likelihood of present tense within this novel works incredibly well in order to keep more pitched battles is over, the reader at rebels are stirring and much of the same speed as the character, and it’s also country does not wish to recognise a writing style I enjoy as a whole because it’s a little bit unusual and brings a different pace to the textnew overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349123578</amazonuk>1800422466

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The English Girl3949666079|author=Margaret Leroy|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Stella Whittaker moves from a quiet English town to Vienna in 1937 to improve her music skills. Staying with old family friends, the Krauses, she feels less comfortable than she expects as a sense of mysterious menace hangs over the household. Nevertheless, Stella enjoys her new life and the sophistication of the city. More than anything, she enjoys falling in love with Harri, a young Jewish doctor. And despite many warning signs, Stella’s love for him blinds her to the possibility of trouble when it seems inevitable to others.|amazonuktitle=<amazonuk>0751551775</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNoema|author=Christopher Bland|title=Ashes In The WindDael Akkerman|rating=4.5

|summary=John Burke and Tomas Sullivan may go to the same primary school in Kerry but even in 1908 they're on two sides of 'This is a great divide. John is Anglo Irish protestant and comfortably off, being the heir to Derriquin Castle whereas Tomas is Irish Catholic, living in poverty and raised to feel the resentment of the oppressed. The fact story about some things that John has been brought up happened to believe in Home Rule tragically makes no difference as John, Tomas and their future generations live with the consequences of a centuries old struggleme about twelve thousand years ago.''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Andersen1529125898|title=The Boleyn King (Anne Boleyn Trilogy 1)Godmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating=45

|summary=In this alternative history, Anne Boleyn's son William has become 'If it were not for the king known as Henry IX. As he nears the age casual dereliction of majority (18), he also approaches the age at which he will rule solo rather than through his regent and uncle, George Boleyn. However, heodd gentleman's inherited a troubled kingdom. Not only are England's enemies knocking at the doorduty, there are enemies within Willwould no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.'s own household. It begins with the sudden death of one of the court's young ladies in waiting. Where will it end?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195648X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Valerie Fitzgerald|title=Zemindar|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1850s India: Laura Hewitt accompanies her newly married cousin Emily Flood and Emily's husband Charles Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the exotic subposition of governess to twelve-continent for a visit to Charles' halfyear-brother Oliver Erskineold Fanny Austen. Although none She had no experience of the travellers have ever met Oliver, many teaching but this was a case of necessity. Until the people they encounter have heard death of him her mother, Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the way he rules his small fiefdom as its Zemindarhousehold. These stories tantalise Laura as the information conflicts When her mother died, her father cast her off and she's unable would have nothing more to develop a mental picture of the mando with her. That's not all that's conflicting: there's No explanation was offered but she would receive an increasing feeling annuity of unrest in this furthest outpost of Queen Victoria's empire which will eventually lead to one of the bloodiest episodes in Indo-British history£35 a year. LauraHer maid, Emily and Charles are naïveAgnes, would receive nothing but that won't save them from what's to come – something beyond their worst nightmareswas fortunately taken in by some neighbours. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185954X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ken FollettMelissa Fu |title=Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy)Peach Blossom Spring |rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The story baton is passed I loved the prelude to the next generation as the swinging 60s arrive for people like Dave Williams. For others such as Rebecca Hoffmann and Walli FranckPeach Blossom Spring, living in East Germany means other priorities and, indeed, worriesa short chapter entitled ''Origins''. What Unfortunately it is the Hoffmann-Francks don't realise is only truly poetic part of a book that things are about I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to get a lot worse, partially due to the treacherous influence of someone they all once trusted2005 as viewed through one family's perspective. Meanwhile in America George Jakes has ideals and strong convictions that will take him past When their home city is set ablaze during the metaphorical draw bridge into the echelons of war with Japan, a modern day Camelot. What of the Dvorkin twins in Russia? Tania young mother (Meilin) and Dimka may have differing ideas on how to effect change but storm clouds her four-year-old son (Renshu) are hanging over among those who flee. The story follows them - on their journey across China, and the rest of the world - as an island off the coast of in Renshu's case eventually to America gathers prominence. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230710166</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Conn Iggulden1916072038|title=Wars of The House in the Roses: Trinity Hollow (Wars of the Roses 2The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell|rating=4.5

|summary=A bewildered Henry VI has awoken from We meet part of the catatonic state that took him away from the business of ruling – and living – for over a yearTalbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. His job is now Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to regain the reins of his kingdom that was a little too ably ruled by Richard Neville, Duke of York house in his absence. Henry's wife, Margaret of Anjou, thinks Richard enjoyed the regency so much he's plotting a permanent takeoverhollow. The bigger problem two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is communicating it to Henry as shewell aware of her mother's increasingly side-lined. The approaching storm is gathering momentum threatening the House of Lancaster strengths and a convalescing king whose recovery may only be temporary, even if he lives that long.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718159853</amazonuk>}}weaknesses:

{{newreview|title=The Far Side of the Sun|author=Kate Furnivall|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The Bahamas ''She is a tropical paradisepracticed at subterfuge, left almost untouched by the war that’s raging on around it but the peace is disturbed one nightat concealing, when beneath a young waitress helps a man that’s been stabbed and left for dead. Mr Morrell insists that he can’t be taken to facade of respectability, the hospital, his attackers will be waiting there, so Dodie Wyatt takes him back to her modest home and tries to save his life. Before he dies, Mr Morrell leaves Dodie with two gold coins, a name and a lot of troubledeplorable truth''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751550744</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Diane Pearson|title=Csardas|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Hungarian Jewish banker Zsigmond Ferenc rules his family with an iron fist. As a proud Hungarian he feels that he needs Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to maintain standards. His wife, Marta secretly gambles behind his back, his sparkling younger daughter Eva takes the heart of every man do as she meets (including his own) and his two sons need leadership and guidance. Then there's his eldest childwas asked, Amale who fears she will never fall in love which may be a disadvantage as he looks around for a fitting match. Although whatever their preoccupations may be at the moment everything in Hungary (has precipitated ''this violent and indeed Europe) is about to change; historyunexpected removal's timings can be cruel and the advent of World War I is perhaps one of its cruellest. To say the Austro-Hungarian Empire won't be the same again is an understatement.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857512</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Martin Davies|title=Havana Sleeping|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Hector, a night watchman is murdered at work. There's nothing unusual about that – it happens all the time. The reason being that this is Havana halfway through the 19th century; a place Then we are told of intrigue, political posturing (and worse) as pro- and anti-slavery conflicts cause bubbles under the surface birth of society. It's a place where an apparently lowly British civil servant like George Backhouse can be posted to influential positions. It's a place where the Americans don't trust the Britishchild and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, the British don't trust the Americans leaving Jocelyn in shame and everyone fears what the Spanish may do. Meanwhile a courtesan named Leonarda just wants to find out why the man she loved diedisolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980451</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert Merle and T Jefferson Kline (translator)Annabel Abbs|title=The Brethren (Fortunes Language of France)Food

|summary=After fighting for France for most of their adulthoods, Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the two Jeansslightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, de Siorac and de Saveterre (nicknamed 'The Brethren') take over the chateau and settlement at Mespech in the Perigore region of France. There the newly founded community flourishes as people like Jonas the stone-cutter move inshe recruits Ann Kirby, signalling growth. De Siorac does his bit by producing a family. However this is the 16th century and conflict is never far away. Nationally France is threatened by Spain and England but it's also local woman with a threat to itself as brother fights brother – Catholic versus Huguenottroubled home life. IndeedTogether, they test, craft, refine and reshape the Brethren live in fear world of domestic cookery, reinventing the consequences of their own Huguenot faith although de Siorac doesn't make life easy for himself – his wife Isabelle is Catholic. His personal battles reflect those recipe book and changing the face of the country and have effects that, for him, are just as criticalcookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782270442</amazonuk>1398502227

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate MosseFreya Marske|title=The Taxidermist's DaughterA Marvellous Light|rating=54

|summary=Connie Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the daughter of once renowned taxidermist Crowley Gifford. Times have changed thoughCivil Service, much to his chagrin. Crowley may once have been famous with his own museum proudly exhibiting intricately prepared bird and animal tableaux but There he's now addled by alcohol meets Edwin Courcey and deep melancholy, leaving Connie to continue learns that the art in much reduced circumstancesstreets of London are threaded with magic. A decade before Connie (then aged 10) had an accident Desperate to remove a curse that robbed her of her memory. The past refuses threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to stay hidden thoughthe countryside, returning where the hedgegrows bristle with a vengeance incantations and explaining the shell that Crowley has becomepeople shimmer with power. 'A vengeance' isn't There they uncover a throwaway choice of words either – its return will upturn all sinister plot that Connie has believed and even threaten her life and threatens the lives of all those whom she holds dearmagicians in the British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409153754</amazonuk>1529080886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title=The Soldier's DaughterFlights for Freedom|author=Rosie GoodwinSteven Burgauer|rating=34.5

|summary=Briony Valentine lives a contented life with her mum, dad and younger siblings in a close-knit community in Nuneaton. She doesnIt't have much to worry about, other than s the fact that she later stages of World War I and her best friend both have the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a crush on young American who has signed up and joined the same boy, Ernie17 Aero Squadron. However, This company was the clouds of war are gathering and threaten first US Aero Squadron to turn Briony's peaceful world upside down. Dad and Ernie enlist be trained in Canada, the army and Briony has her own war first to be attached to fight when she the RAF and her siblings are evacuated the first to Cornwall be sent into the skies to stay with their stern Grandmotherfight the Germans in active combat. The black sheep of the familyBut before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the unsavoury uncle Seb, clearly wants Briony out of his way, notoriously difficult but how far will he go to make sure that she does not interfere with his sinister plans?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472101723</amazonuk>majestic Sopwith Camel.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The King and the SlaveChristophe Medler|authortitle=Tim LeachMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=54

|summary=The scene is set: a group Set against the backdrop of the king's closest acquaintances sit feasting around English Civil War, a table secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in almost total darknessthe summer of 1642. Wine flows freely. This is As a place for political gamesloyal servant of the King, a place where and Head of the tension in the air Secret Service, it is palpable. Wise men learn Robert's duty to play uncover the rules; details of the plan and follow the clues to be 'shadow men' under uncover one of the ever-watchful gaze of a suspicious king who sees treachery most guarded secrets in every smile. Invisibility is key to survivalhistory—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857899228</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471187179|title=The New WorldA Beautiful Spy|author=Andrew MotionRachel Hore|rating=34

|summary=Following Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the success of his sequel 1930s and Minnie is expected to Treasure Island, [[Silver: Return live up to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion|Silver: Return her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to Treasure Island]]marry, poet Andrew Motion continues produce children and spend the adventures rest of young Jim (the son her days looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the original Jim Hawkins) secret service and Natty (daughter of Long John Silver) following effectively living a shipwreck which leaves them washed up on double life - attempting to infiltrate the shores Communist Party of the New WorldGreat Britain. The good news is that Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the bar silver recovered from the island friends she has survived the journey. The bad news is that made - and likes - whilst working for the natives have spotted it too..Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224097946</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth BuchanAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Kokoschka'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 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 subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I Canknew of it mentioned, too. But you't Begin to Tell Youve seen the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697}}{{Frontpage|author=Christina Hammonds Reed|title=The Black Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=War came to Denmark in 1940 and people found that they had to take sides. British-born Kay Eberstern wasnChristina Hammonds Reed't completely involved s debut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to begin with. She had obvious sympathies with the British but her husband had German ancestry and she could see Bror's point absolution of view. But Bror went four police officers for beating a little further than she thought necessary and openly sided with the occupying force because he felt the need black man, Rodney King, nearly to protect death. Told from the family estate and perspective of Ashley Bennett, the people who worked there. Gradually Kay came novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, to realise that she could not - ''would not'' - accept this a woman finding her voice and she became increasingly involved with the Resistance movementembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718178912</amazonuk>1471188191

{{newreview|title=The Fair Fight|author=Anna Freeman|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Set in the grimy streets of Bristol, we follow the journey of Ruth – born to a Madame in a brothel, and constantly outshone by her prettier sister Dora, Ruth learns to stand Move on two feet and to defend herself – something which is picked up on by a regular client of Dora’s, Mr Dryer. Plunged headfirst into the world of fighting, Ruth soon meets Grenville Dryer’s wife, Charlotte, a woman scarred by smallpox and trapped in a loveless relationship with her husband, and a toxic one with her brother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297871951</amazonuk>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]