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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William NicholsonTananarive Due|title=The Lovers 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 horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of Amherstthe school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=2013: Alice Dickinson has decided Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to write be a screenplay about hanging of some pirates in the 19th century affair between Mabel Todd town, she decides to go and Austin Dickinson (no relation)watch. 1881: AustinEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, brother Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of reclusive poet Emily Dickinsontwo vicious pirates. She hides away, has an unhappy marriage but isnso that they don't looking for happiness outside it till he meets Mabelfind and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. The very liberated Mabel may be married tooShe soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, but Ellen Lark loses her husband believes in freedom within wedlockhearing. There follows one Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the most scandalous relationships use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to face small town New England; a relationship that Alice wants school where she is taught to research on-sitelip read, but physically restrained from signing. While thereFrom here, Alice discovers that inappropriate romance still exists but this is she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the 21st century so she feels ready for deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the consequencessame time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848666470</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreview|author=Hazel Gaynor|title=A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower Sellers|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The year is 1876 and two little orphaned flower girls wander barefoot through the crowded London streets selling posies of violets follow-up to the people passing by. The older sister, Florrie, walks with a stick for support, but keeps a tight grip on her little sisterexcellent 's hand at all times. Rosie, 'little sisterIthaca', is blind and views eight-year-old Florrie as her 'little mother' The two are inseparable and share picks up a deep bond that carries them through few months after where we left off. In the hardships they face on a daily basis. Everything changes one fateful day when Florrie has her stick knocked from beneath palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and little Rosie is snatched then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by one suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca'bad men'. Florrie searches frantically for Rosies shores, but she seems to have vanishedQueen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. As One that shatters however with the years passreturn of Orestes, Florrie never gives up her searchKing of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, eventually dying of a broken heartseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0062316893</amazonuk>0356516075

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison LoveB0C7J9D21B|title=The Girl from the Paradise BallroomA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=In Soho in 1937When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, Italian singer Antonio has found himself it's a wealthy patronbordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. His patron’s wife He's not been short of mothers, Oliviathough - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, is known it's difficult to Antonio from a chance encounter at obtain decent employment. The stint working with the Paradise Ballroom - preparation of anchovies didn't work out and the spark they felt bastards are considered bad luck on that meeting starts to deepen as war begins to creep up on themfishing boats. In an uncertain world, everything about their lives is under threat – the government perceives foreigners as threats Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and the war wreaks havoc with nerves determined - and relationshipsit was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373785</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura AndersenEssie Fox|title=The Boleyn Deceit (Anne Boleyn Trilogy Book 2) Fascination|rating=4.5

|summary=Even after her deathThe Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, George Boleyn continues perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led to fashion his sister Annemore than a few writers mishandling it. There's son into such a king glut of media set in Georgethe era that the hallmarks we's image. However, now 18, matters of state aren’t ve come to associate with it are familiar to the only concerns point of Henry IXbeing cliched, hackneyed even. He has to decide between the French Princess Elizabeth and commoner, childhood friend Minuette although Minuette All this is secretly betrothed simply to Henry's advisor Dominic. Minuette also has another quest: illustrate that it would be an easy thing to find out who killed her friend Alyce but sleuthing is becoming more dangerousdo poorly. Meanwhile HenryBut despite that, something about it still grabs me – and something about this book's Catholic sister Mary and very intelligent sister Elizabeth are not going to be happy remaining merely decorative for longdescription did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091956498</amazonuk>1914585526

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate RiordanNicole Jarvis|title=The Girl A Portrait in the PhotographShadow

|summary=Alice Eveleigh is sent to Fiercombe Manor in 1933 as the result ''I want all of a scandal. Back in the 1890s the Manor had been home Florence to Elizabeth and Charles Stanton and their little girl Isabel but it doesnknow my name't feel like a house that's seen much happiness. The stones are drenched in tragedy and secrets that have remained locked away since then. What sort of secrets? Will Alice be too nosey for her own good or will the secrets remain just that, with the added threat of history repeating itself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917423</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Robert Bausch|title=Far As the Eye Can See|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''It was Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a bit slow'' was probably my Mam's worst condemnation of film… but I'm going to forgive home and where her for not appreciating slowness, because it was future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she that got me into appreciating westerns. Of course enters Florentine society she preferred faces great opposition from the all-action kind, but through watching those with herpowerful Accademia, I started to watch and enjoy the long, slow, ones and to appreciate the backself-drop to all proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that action… and then somewhere along the line I got interested in what might really through paintings have happened: not just in the West but power to protect the whole of what became the Ucity and its citizens from plagues and curses.SThe all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. in the early days of settlementTo them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408844303</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Mary Gibson|title=Jam and Roses: The Lives and Loves of 1920s Factory Girls|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The year is 1923 and 'jamSet in the near-girl' Millie Colman is eagerly awaiting distant future, in a world on the arrival verge of a letter inviting her family to go 'hopping' climate collapse, Britain is in Kentgreat peril. The annual trip provides British Isles desperately needed respite from needs a hero (or several) to save the oppressive atmosphere at home, as well as a muchday and rescue what little remains. What no-needed dose one expected was that one of fresh air and open space. For Millie, the invitation symbolises escape; albeit for only a few precious weeks Knights of the year. Life in the Colman household is uncomfortable, to say the least. Millie and her two sisters bicker constantly and the whole family live under the shadow of a drunken father who is prone to violent rages. Unfortunately for Millie, this year's hopping trip is anything but an escape, when she makes a foolish decision which will have dire repercussions for Round Table would answer the whole familycall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855927</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian RossG K Holloway|title=The War at the Edge of In the World: Twilight Shadows of Empire: Book One (Rome Reborn)Castles|rating=4.5

|summary=Centurion Aurelius Castus has risen through We begin after the ranks from the crack legions of the Danube but now finds himself momentous battle in a Roman army 1066 and on the very edge day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. William's position is not secure and the world – 4th century Britain, near Eboracumnew king has many challenges. Although his men are kept at battle fitness, his latest mission Imposing authority through a coronation is one of peaceimportant. He must take a cohort to escort an envoy on a visit And William is right to the barbarian Pictsworry. The local tribes are in While the process of picking a new leader previous king, Harold, is dead and, as the area's future likelihood of more pitched battles is resting on itover, the Romans want to influence rebels are stirring and much of the choice with diplomacy. However not everyone has been honest with Castus; people as well as situations are country does not all they seem. Castus must depend on his own initiative and ability wish to survive as he soon realises he can trust no onerecognise a new overlord. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784081124</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreview|author=Erin Knightley|title=The Earl I Adore|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Poor Sophie Wembley has been placed Maya is a young girl living in a desperate situation thanks to her sister Penelope, who has eloped with hunter gatherer village during the 'hired help'Mesolithic era. Once news of the scandal reaches Climate change is occurring, the gossip-mongers Sea of the 'tonGrass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, Sophie and her family will be ousted from polite society food is becoming more and her hopes of finding an eligible husband will be ruinedmore scarce. It is therefore up What to Sophie's scheming mother to persuade her to snare herself a man before do? Can the law givers in the gossip becomes public knowledge. Time is clearly federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the essence and when it comes to suitable husbandsTraveller, Sophie knows only one man will do: a spiritual figure who interprets the handsome Earl wisdom of EvansleighAll Life, for whom she has been harbouring a 'tendre' for the past year.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349405441</amazonuk>provide solutions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Warr1529125898|title=The Viking HostageGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating=45

|summary=Sigrid and her brothers are taken from their native Norseland and sold as slaves separately. Sigrid then begins her life alone as maid to Aina, daughter of Ademar, Viscount of Segur in Limoges. Her life could be a lot worse. Sigrid's pagan beliefs could condemn her to a tough time in Christian France but she's fallen on her feet, forming a close friendship with Aina, albeit a servile one. Meanwhile elsewhere in If it were not for the region, Adalmode, daughter casual dereliction of the Viscount of Limoges is about to become a marriage pawn in a power struggle. Although she loves her family, she disagrees with their choice and has another in mind – one of her fatherodd gentleman's prisoners. This is a tough world where love takes second place duty, there would no women to survival and having it teach well-bred daughters at all is generally not an option compatible with staying alive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907605592</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio|title=Girl Genius: Agatha H and Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the Voice position of the Castle|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Agatha H and the Voice of the Castle'' is the third novel in the Girl Genius series, adapted from the awardgoverness to twelve-winning steampunkyear-style webcomicold Fanny Austen. Following the dramatic events She had no experience of the previous two books, teaching but this volume sees Agatha returning to her family home in Mechanicsburg in order to claim her place as 'The Heterodyne'. She also needs to restore her war-damaged ancestral castle, which is in poor condition following was a devastating attack by “The Othercase of necessity.” Of course, in Until the world death of Girl Geniusher mother, nothing is straightforward Anne had a comfortable life and Agatha's mission is complicated was loved by several things: both parents although her father was frequently absent from the castle is a sadistic sentient being with a fractured personality; Agatha has a copy of household. When her evil mother locked away inside died, her father cast her brain that could reappear at any moment AND off and would have nothing more to do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a huge pink airship has just appeared year. Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in Mechanicsburg heralding the arrival of a fake Heterodyne heiressby some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178116651X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonin Varenne and Frank Wynne (translator)Melissa Fu |title=Loser's CornerPeach Blossom Spring |rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction |summary=Meet Georges Crozat. He's a policeman in Paris, who boxes on the side. After a bout that leads to an almost embarrassing victory, he is made two offers – one from a clearly corrupt man behind the scenes in I loved the sport, who seems prelude to offer a few thrown fights for Georges, then some kind of status as assistant – training, guidingPeach Blossom Spring, profiteering; the other comes from a man known always as short chapter entitled ''the PakistaniOrigins'' (or an unkind abbreviation . Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of a book that), who has a friend of a friend who wants someone I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to do an enemy a mischief with their fists. Georges doesn2005 as viewed through one family't take too long to choose the latters perspective. In alternating chapters, however, we're in When their home city is set ablaze during the 1950swar with Japan, and a rookie to the forces, Pascal Verini, is being shipped out to Algeria to work on the civil war causing the republic to break away young mother (Meilin) and become independent from Franceher four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. Like GeorgesThe story follows them on their journey across China, he finds his situation one which also causes what may be misguided violence, even if he has a very different attitude and in Renshu's case eventually to itAmerica. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857052276</amazonuk>1472277538

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daisy Waugh1916072038|title=Honeyville|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The story is told by Dora Whitworth, a call girl in one of the most exclusive brothels House in Trinidad, Colorado. At the time, the town was the only place in the West where prostitution was legal and it was infamous for its red-light district. Dora’s voice rings true and her life is convincingly described. Hollow (The sumptuous brothel in Plum Street, with its smells of perfume and disinfectant, is as claustrophobic as a prison and Phoebe, the madam, particularly chilling.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007431775</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTalbot Saga)|author=Joanna Hickson|title=Red Rose, White RoseAllie Cresswell

|summary=Cecily Neville, daughter We meet part of Ralphthe Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, Earl of Westmorland to the house in the hollow. The two women are angry with each other and Joan Beaufort, puts her obligations above all else which Jocelyn is why she marries Richard Plantagenet, third Duke well aware of York and her fathermother's ward. Together they will start a royal line that will go down the centuries but not without pain, conflict strengths and, of course, the Wars of the Roses. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007447019</amazonuk>}}weaknesses:

{{newreview|title=The Man Who Loved Dogs|author=Leonardo Padura|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In Cuba''She is practiced at subterfuge, a mysterious man walks on the beachat concealing, always with two Russian wolfhounds. Watched by beneath a writerfacade of respectability, he soon comes to share his story, and it becomes clear that he is Ramon Mercader - the man who killed Trotskydeplorable truth''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524448</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Chris Priestley|title=The Last of the Spirits|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Teenage Sam and his little sister Lizzie are starving on the streets of London, which Hester is gripped by terrible cold. Asking an old businessman for money, a man who looks at them with such sheer contempt that Samfurious about Jocelyn's heart fills with hate. He swears that he will seek vengeance and rob the old man, not caring whether his victim will live or die. But before he can refusal to do soas she was asked, a strange spirit appears to him, and warns him about the terrible path he will put himself on with which has precipitated ''this violent act. Can Sam resist the temptation to gain revenge? Several more spirits show him the possible consequences of his action, as we see Dickensand unexpected removal''s classic A Christmas Carol from a new viewpoint.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408854139</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Robert Edric|title=Sanctuary|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Everyone knows Charlotte, Emily and Anne. Not many know that this famous trio Then we are told of the birth of literary sisters also had a brother, Patrick Branwell Brontëchild and, born the year soon after Charlotte and a year before Emily. Like his sisters, he had literary ambitions: he wrote juvenile storiesHester Talbot departs, poems leaving Jocelyn in shame and translations from the Greek; he also trained as a painter (you have most likely seen his famous painting of his sisters). Again like his sisters, however, he was destined to die youngisolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522876</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Krishna BhattAnnabel Abbs|title=The Royal EnigmaLanguage of Food|rating=25

|summary=There Eliza Acton is absolutely nothing wrong a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with books that cross genres. The best historical novels are as much history as fiction. Howeverwriting a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, it is a golden rule that local woman with a troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine and reshape the world of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book must know who and what it is. One changing the face of the problems with The Royal Enigma is that it suffers from a serious identity crisiscookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B005Q8QCTY</amazonuk>1398502227

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Erin KnightleyFreya Marske|title=The Baron Next DoorA Marvellous Light|rating=3.54

|summary=Charity Robin Blyth is hoping to enjoy nudged into a relaxing break job in Bath, attending the music festival with her beloved grandmotherCivil Service, Lady Effingtonmuch to his chagrin. Charity doesn't just love music, she ''lives'' music; it is an intrinsic part of her very being There he meets Edwin Courcey and she is never happier than when playing her latest compositions on her pianoforte. She cannot understand why anyone would hate music, so when her new neighbour Baron Cadgwith turns up on her doorstep, demanding learns that she keep the ''infernal racket streets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a minimum'', she declares war on the insufferably rude Baron next door. The result is a light-hearted and sweet Regency romance curse that sees the most unlikely pair begin threatens to bondswallow him, despite their differences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349405417</amazonuk>}} {{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 semi-circular streets align across Robin follows Edwin to the side of a hillcountryside, like where the rows of seats in an amphitheatre, hedgegrows bristle with little thought at all allowed for the life above the crest of the hill, incantations and a lot of effort and dreams focused on the coal mine at the village's corepeople shimmer with power. The Howker family (and how evocative There they uncover a sinister plot that name is, so akin to threatens the noise lives of hawking coal dust from one's lungs), and Ted and Rose, the youngest of the clan, in particular, will face the destiny the environment they grow up all magicians in gives them – with only the merest glimmers of hope and the faintest of sparks to latch on to as regards a likeable futureBritish Isles. 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>1529080886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katherine WebbB09F4CTKJR|title=The Night FallingFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=In It's the summer later stages of 1921, Leandro returns World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to his birthplace be trained in Italy. He has made his fortuneCanada, the first to be attached to the RAF and his aim is the first to transform a crumbling palazzo be sent into an opulent mansion. But the outside world is still reeling from skies to fight the Great War, and Leandro’s nephew, Ettore, is one of those most Germans in need of helpactive combat. ReluctantlyBut before that can happen, Ettore asks his uncle for assistancePetrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. But Ettero could not have foreseen what was to come from that request…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409131491</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rory ClementsChristophe Medler|title=The Queen's ManMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret

|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=Elizabethan England - a murky, dirty world full Set against the backdrop of religious strife and violent, short lives. Queen Elizabeth sits on the throneEnglish Civil War, but her seat a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by no means safe - her first cousinSir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642. As a loyal servant of the King, Mary, Queen and Head of Scotsthe Secret Service, it is locked up in Sheffield Castle. Unable Robert's duty to leave, but by no means unable to plot uncover the details of the plan and scheme with her supporters, Mary wishes follow the clues to reclaim what she believes is rightfully hers - uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the throne. But even she cannot be prepared for plot could affect the dark twists and new plots that ariseKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848548486</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara Ewing1471187179|title=The Petticoat MenA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore

|summary=In 1871 Ernest Boulton (aged 22) and Frederick Park (aged 23) were arrested Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in London; an arrest that shook society all the way 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the toprest of her days looking after her husband and their home. Their crime? Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. They dressed as womenAs a result of a chance meeting, which hinted at homosexualityshe finds herself drawn into espionage, then working for the secret service and effectively living a crime that carried a heinous prison tariffdouble life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Their infamous trial was watched closely by society because Stella and Fanny (Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as they were known when frocked) performed regularly at house parties her duty and soirees attended by the higher echelons friends she has made - and so if these performers should fall, who would go down with them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781859965</amazonuk>likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.

  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily PurdyAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The Boleyn BrideKokoschka's Doll|rating=42.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Howard wants Well, this looked very much like a noble marriage but at 16 she's married off to Thomas Boleynbook I could love from the get-go, a jumped which is why I picked my review copy up nouveau riche who tries to hide his humble roots and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any way he canof it. It's not I found things to potentially delight me each time – a love match weird section in the middle on either side. So to compensate for her husband's shortcomingsdarker stock paper, Elizabeth throws herself into a collection of lovers and chapter whose number was in the lives of two of her three children. Yes20, she dreams of rosy futures for Mary and George, but for the third child Anne000s, born as ugly letters used as a monkeynarrative form, Elizabeth can't envisage any future and so wastes neither dreams nor love on her. However when Henry VII dies and his second son eventually takes It intrigued with the thronesubterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, Elizabeth realises she may not be righttoo. Having Henry VIII as a son-in-law may do both Anne But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and the family a lot of goodcan tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349405956</amazonuk>1529402697

  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=L C TylerChristina Hammonds Reed|title=A Cruel Necessity (A John Grey Historical Mystery)The Black Kids

|genre=Crime (Historical)Teens |summary=Essex 1657: CromwellChristina Hammonds Reed's Republic debut novel is 8 years old. While John Grey sleeps off set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a good night of drink under reaction to the eaves absolution of four police officers for beating a cottageblack man, a Royalist spy is murdered down Rodney King, nearly to death. Told from the road. A trainee lawyerperspective of Ashley Bennett, John also enjoys the science novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of investigation and so starts looking for clues that will lead him race, to the murderer. Although it's not easy: strange happenings occurred that night a woman finding her voice and Grey is having trouble persuading others of what he sawembracing her heritage. Meanwhile his mother has the perfect match for him. Unfortunately their ideas of perfection differ somewhat!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472115031</amazonuk>1471188191

 {{newreview|author=Catherine Hall|title=The Repercussions|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|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 Move on her time recording the more current war and enables her to open up to her ex-lover Susie in a series of letters, telling her how it was, the lives of those she met out there, what it did to them and, indeed, to her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883342</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Lucy|author=Alan Kennedy|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Lucy is a painter. Hiding away in Dundee on VE Day, she returns from a disaster of an exhibition to a letter from a figure from her past. Uncle Albert, still in France, wants to sort out his affairs - who will get what after he's dead. The letter sends Lucy on a voyage of discovery - about a past full of art, lost love, found love, grief, war and about what could possibly come next. Set in pre-war London, pre-war and wartime France and windy, rainy Dundee, Lucy is a love story, but it's also a kind of coming-home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956469663</amazonuk>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]