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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{Frontpage|author=Tananarive Due|title=The 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 the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Berlie DohertyKatherine Howe|title=Far From HomeA True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Lizzie Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and Emily Jarvis can no longer being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the care of their mother as town, she has become severely illdecides to go and watch. She leaves them Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the care hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her best friendtoo, 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 cook, but cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when things go wrongthere is a mutiny on board, the girls and from there we are sent to the Victorian mills where they are worked each day till they are beyond exhausted and caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the only thing that keeps them going is counting down the days till they are able to leaveocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007578822</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily BullockSarah Marsh|title=The Longest FightA Sign of Her Own

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Jack Munday is After a retired boxer who, even in his prime, wasn’t quite good enough, so now older and wiser Jack hopes to hit the big time bout of scarlet fever as a manager and believes that in Frank he has found a fighter who could get him therechild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Frank is young, naïve, eager to learn with Suddenly plunged into a lot world of talent and Jack discovers him just silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to take him under his wing before any other more established managers could sign him up. The pair make a pretty good team and Frank starts school where she is taught to build lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up an impressive boxing record in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and fan base and Jack sees his dreams and hard graft about to reach fruition but things are rarely simple using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and lifeideas, love and shady characters get Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in the waya complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434538</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=DK WilsonClaire North|title=The Traitor's MarkHouse of Odysseus|rating=45|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction |summary=1543 ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow- Hans Holbein - famed artist up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of both the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that time and todayClytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, has disappeared. When Thomas Treviot Queen Penelope is left awaiting on the brink of a design from Holbeinfragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, he goes to track him down - only to end up drawn into a conspiracy which threatens to destroy those he lovesKing of Mycenae, and all he holds dear..his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751550388</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jessica BlairB0C7J9D21B|title=Just One More Day|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When war is declared and her brother joins the RAF, young Carolyn Maddison makes it clear that she plans to follow A Captive in his footsteps and join the WAAF as soon as she turns eighteen. Despite her parents' objections, she stays true to her word and soon receives an invitation to report to the Air Ministry for training. In her first weeks with the WAAF, Carolyn experiences heartbreaking loss and witnesses an horrific accident that causes her to make a rash vow: never to get emotionally involved with a pilot. However, as a pretty young girl stationed at a base full of dashing young airmen, she finds it increasingly difficult to keep her resolve, especially when fun-loving Vera arrives at the base and starts flirting with Rick, the man that she just turned down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349402698</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAlgiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Hermione Eyre|title=Viper WineA J Lewis

|summary=Venetia Stanley lives in Seventeeth century London. A celebrated beauty, she has had poems written in honour of herWhen we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and portraits painted by one of the leading artists he lives at The House of the timeBeautiful Swallows. Married to a handsome Idyllic as this might sound, kind and adventurous man, Venetia is kept in it's a life of luxury, bordello and, at first glance - has everything she could ever have dreamed ofEttore's mother died when he was born. Except Venetia is He's not happy. A woman who has made her name and fortune because been short of her beautymothers, she is convinced that her allure is quickly slipping through her fingers. Signing a pact with an apothecary though - but for someone of his famed restorative background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it'Viper Wines difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn', Venetia is set t work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a dangerous pathguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581663</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lesley J NickellEssie Fox|title=The White Queen of Middleham: Sprigs of Broom 1Fascination

|summary= Anne NevilleThe Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, as youngest daughter of 'Kingmaker' Richard Earl of Warwickperhaps, grows up with all by the advantages of 15th century aristocracySecond World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. Unfortunately Anne is also female so her life is used to expedite her fatherThere's plans. The dreams and innocent affections such a glut of media set in the era that the delicate child hallmarks we've come to associate with it are dashed as she faces exile and a loveless marriage familiar to the son point of domineering Margaret of Anjoubeing cliched, hackneyed even. It doesn't get better straight after All this is simply to illustrate that either as virtual imprisonment and then slavery follow his deathit would be an easy thing to do poorly. While England is tossed But despite that, something about it still grabs me – and turned by the houses of York and Lancaster, all Anne wants is the peaceful solitude of holy orderssomething about this book's description did as well. That may be what she wants, but her God still has other ideas…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861512082</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David ChurchillNicole Jarvis|title=The Leopards of Normandy: Devil: Leopards of Normandy 1A Portrait in Shadow

|summary=Robert, the youngest son ''I want all of the 4th Duke of NormandyFlorence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, follows his father's bequest to the letter Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the spirit and claims the castle at Falaise which should have gone to Richardpowerful Accademia, his elder brother. This will be a decision that will shape the rest self-proclaimed guardians of his life but the legacy healing magics that he through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and his lowcurses. The all-born lover Herleva will be remembered male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for is centuries and guard it above all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their son, William the Bastard. An unfamiliar name perhaps until we realise that history will call him William the Conquerorsociety.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472219171</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toby ClementsThomas D Lee|title=Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims (Kingmaker 1)Perilous Times|rating=43|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=February 1460: Canon Thomas and Sister Katherine have always equated their priory with values like piety and safety. However when soldiers on horseback arrive this is proven to be a misconception and the two flee for their lives. This is the first time they've been in the outside world since childhood but soon realise there's more to it than they bargained for. It's naturally a dangerous place at any time but this Hate is 15th century England - the War of the Roses is about to begin. Survival depends on worldly wisdom, something they don’t actually teach nuns or monks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099585871</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Gilman|title=Master of War: Defiant Unto Death|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Spoilers straight ahead for the first book, [[Master path of War by David Gilman|Master of War]] so go read that first…Ready?Ok…It's been 10 years since the young Thomas Blackstone chose military service over hanging and faced the French at Crecy, coming away from the battle knighted. Time's passing now finds him and his wife Christiana living with their two children in Normandy castle. Meanwhile in French held France, the current king, John II, is proving unpopular, starving the country with taxes and spreading fear with his cruel capricious nature. He sees betrayal everywhere and will execute those he perceives to be against him. However, now heleast resistance's right and there is a plot brewing and French royalist Simon Bucy has a plan to put it down: remove its cornerstone. His perceived cornerstone is none other than Sir Thomas Blackstone. This isn't going to be a clean fight; bring on the Savage Priest!

Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781851905</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William NicholsonG K Holloway|title=The Lovers In the Shadows of AmherstCastles

|summary=2013: Alice Dickinson has decided to write a screenplay about We begin after the 19th century affair between Mabel Todd momentous battle in 1066 and Austin Dickinson (no relation). 1881: Austin, brother on the day of William of reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, has an unhappy marriage but isnNormandy't looking for happiness outside it till he meets Mabels coronation as King of England. The very liberated Mabel may be married too, but her husband believes in freedom within wedlockWilliam's position is not secure and the new king has many challenges. There follows one of the most scandalous relationships to face small town New England; Imposing authority through a relationship that Alice wants coronation is important. And William is right to research on-siteworry. While therethe previous king, Harold, Alice discovers that inappropriate romance still exists but this is dead and the 21st century so she feels ready for likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the consequencesrebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to recognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848666470</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hazel Gaynor3949666079|title=A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower SellersNoema|author=Dael Akkerman

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=The year ''This is 1876 and two little orphaned flower girls wander barefoot through the crowded London streets selling posies of violets a story about some things that happened to the people passing byme about twelve thousand years ago. The older sister, Florrie, walks with '' Maya is a stick for support, but keeps young girl living in a tight grip on her little sister's hand at all timeshunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. RosieClimate change is occurring, the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya'little sister's forest home, and food is blind becoming more and views eight-year-old Florrie as her 'little mother' The two are inseparable and share a deep bond that carries them through more scarce. What to do? Can the law givers in the hardships they face on a daily basis. Everything changes one fateful day when Florrie has her stick knocked from beneath her and little Rosie is snatched by one federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the 'bad men'. Florrie searches frantically for RosieTraveller, but she seems to have vanished. As a spiritual figure who interprets the years passwisdom of All Life, Florrie never gives up her search, eventually dying of a broken heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062316893</amazonuk>provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Love1529125898|title=The Girl from the Paradise BallroomGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating=4.5

|summary=In Soho in 1937''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, Italian singer Antonio has found himself there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was a wealthy patroncase of necessity. His patron’s wife Until the death of her mother, Olivia, is known to Antonio Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from a chance encounter at the Paradise Ballroom - household. When her mother died, her father cast her off and the spark they felt on that meeting starts would have nothing more to deepen as war begins to creep up on themdo with her. In No explanation was offered but she would receive an uncertain worldannuity of £35 a year. Her maid, everything about their lives is under threat – the government perceives foreigners as threats and the war wreaks havoc with nerves and relationshipsAgnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373785</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura AndersenMelissa Fu |title=The Boleyn Deceit (Anne Boleyn Trilogy Book 2) Peach Blossom Spring |rating=43.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Even after her deathI loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, George Boleyn continues to fashion his sister Annea short chapter entitled ''Origins's son into a king in George's image. However, now 18, matters of state aren’t Unfortunately it is the only concerns truly poetic part of Henry IXa book that I expected more from. He has to decide between the French Princess Elizabeth and commoner, childhood friend Minuette although Minuette is secretly betrothed Covering Chinese history from 1938 to Henry2005 as viewed through one family's advisor Dominicperspective. Minuette also has another quest: to find out When their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japan, a young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who killed her friend Alyce but sleuthing is becoming more dangerousflee. Meanwhile HenryThe story follows them on their journey across China, and in Renshu's Catholic sister Mary and very intelligent sister Elizabeth are not going case eventually to be happy remaining merely decorative for longAmerica. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091956498</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Riordan1916072038|title=The Girl House in the PhotographHollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary=Alice Eveleigh is sent to Fiercombe Manor We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in 1933 as the result of a scandalNovember 1811. Back Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in the 1890s the Manor had been some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to Elizabeth and Charles Stanton and their little girl Isabel but it doesn't feel like a the house that's seen much happinessin the hollow. The stones two women are drenched in tragedy angry with each other and secrets that have remained locked away since then. What sort Jocelyn is well aware of secrets? Will Alice be too nosey for her own good or will mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the secrets remain just thatdeplorable truth''. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as she was asked, with which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''. Then we are told of the added threat birth of history repeating itself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917423</amazonuk>a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert BauschAnnabel Abbs|title=Far As the Eye Can SeeThe Language of Food

|summary=''It was Eliza Acton is a bit slow'' was probably my Mam's worst condemnation of film… but I'm going poet who has never had the slightest inclination to forgive her for not appreciating slownessboil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, because it was she that got me into appreciating westerns. Of course she preferred the all-action kindrecruits Ann Kirby, but through watching those a local woman with hera troubled home life. Together, I started to watch and enjoy the longthey test, slowcraft, ones refine and to appreciate reshape the back-drop to all world of that action… domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book and then somewhere along the line I got interested in what might really have happened: not just in the West but the whole of what became the U.S. in changing the early days face of settlementcookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408844303</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary GibsonFreya Marske|title=Jam and Roses: The Lives and Loves of 1920s Factory GirlsA Marvellous Light|rating=3.54

|summary=The year Robin Blyth is 1923 and 'jam-girl' Millie Colman is eagerly awaiting the arrival of nudged into a letter inviting her family to go 'hopping' job in Kent. The annual trip provides desperately needed respite from the oppressive atmosphere at homeCivil Service, as well as a much-needed dose of fresh air to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and open space. For Millie, learns that the invitation symbolises escape; albeit for only a few precious weeks streets of the yearLondon are threaded with magic. Life in Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the Colman household is uncomfortablecountryside, to say where the least. Millie and her two sisters bicker constantly hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the whole family live under people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the shadow lives 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 all magicians in the whole familyBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855927</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian RossB09F4CTKJR|title=The War at the Edge of the World: Twilight of Empire: Book One (Rome Reborn)Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5

|summary=Centurion Aurelius Castus has risen through the ranks from It's the crack legions later stages of World War I and the Danube but now finds himself in a Roman army on United States has just entered the very edge of the world – 4th century Britain, near Eboracumconflict. Although his men are kept at battle fitness, his latest mission Petrol Petronus is one of peace. He must take a cohort to escort an envoy on a visit to young American who has signed up and joined the barbarian Picts17 Aero Squadron. The local tribes are This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the process of picking a new leader RAF and, as the area's future is resting on it, first to be sent into the Romans want skies to influence fight the choice with diplomacyGermans in active combat. However not everyone But before that can happen, Petrol has been honest with Castus; people as well as situations are not all they seem. Castus must depend on his own initiative and ability to survive as he soon realises he can trust no onemaster flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081124</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Erin KnightleyChristophe Medler|title=The Earl I AdoreMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret

|summary=Poor Sophie Wembley has been placed in a desperate situation thanks to her sister Penelope, who has eloped with Set against the 'hired help'. Once news backdrop of the scandal reaches English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the gossip-mongers summer of 1642. As a loyal servant of the 'ton'King, Sophie and her family will be ousted from polite society and her hopes Head of finding an eligible husband will be ruined. It the Secret Service, it is therefore up to SophieRobert's scheming mother to persuade her duty to snare herself a man before uncover the gossip becomes public knowledge. Time is clearly details of the essence plan and when it comes follow the clues to suitable husbands, Sophie knows only uncover one man will do: of the handsome Earl of Evansleigh, for whom she has been harbouring a 'tendre' for most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the past yearKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349405441</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Warr1471187179|title=The Viking HostageA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore

|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 Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting 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 oneleafy provincial suburb. Meanwhile elsewhere The book is set in the region, Adalmode, daughter of the Viscount of Limoges 1930s and Minnie is about expected to live up 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 fathermother's prisoners. This is expectations and find a tough world where love takes second place nice young man to survival and having it 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 marry, produce children and spend the Voice rest of the Castle|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Agatha H her days looking after her husband and the Voice of the Castle'' is the third novel in the Girl Genius series, adapted from the award-winning steampunk-style webcomictheir home. Following the dramatic events of the previous two books Unfortunately, this volume sees Agatha returning isn't what she wants to her family home in Mechanicsburg in order do at all and neither does she want to claim her place continue working as 'The Heterodyne'a secretary. She also needs to restore her war-damaged ancestral castle As a result of a chance meeting, which is in poor condition following a devastating attack by “The Other.” Of courseshe finds herself drawn into espionage, in working for the world of Girl Genius, nothing is straightforward secret service and Agatha's mission is complicated by several things: effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the castle is a sadistic sentient being with a fractured personality; Agatha has a copy Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her evil mother locked away inside her brain that could reappear at any moment AND a huge pink airship duty and the friends she has just appeared in Mechanicsburg heralding made - and likes - whilst working for the arrival of a fake Heterodyne heiressCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178116651X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonin Varenne Afonso Cruz and Frank Wynne Rahul Bery (translator)|title=LoserKokoschka's CornerDoll|rating=42.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Georges Crozat. He's Well, this looked very much like a policeman in Parisbook I could love from the get-go, who boxes on the sidewhich is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. After a bout that leads I found things to an almost embarrassing victory, he is made two offers potentially delight me each time – one from a clearly corrupt man behind weird section in the scenes middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the sport20, who seems to offer a few thrown fights for Georges000s, then some kind of status letters used as assistant – trainingnarrative form, guiding, profiteering; and so on. It intrigued with the other comes from subterranean voice a man known always as ''the Pakistani'' (or an unkind abbreviation hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of that)it mentioned, who has a friend of a friend who wants someone to do an enemy a mischief with their fists. Georges doesn't take too long to choose the latter. In alternating chapters, however, weBut you're in ve seen the 1950sstar rating that comes with this review, and a rookie to the forcescan tell that if love was on these pages, Pascal Verini, is being shipped out to Algeria to work on the civil war causing the republic to break away and become independent from Franceit was not actually caused by them. Like Georges, he finds his situation one which also causes So what may be misguided violence, even if he has a very different attitude to it.happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857052276</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daisy WaughChristina Hammonds Reed|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 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. 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>}}{{newreview|author=Joanna Hickson|title=Red Rose, White RoseBlack Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |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 fatherChristina Hammonds Reed's ward. Together they will start a royal line that will go down the centuries but not without pain, conflict and, of course, debut novel is set against the Wars backdrop of the Roses. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007447019</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Man Who Loved Dogs|author=Leonardo Padura|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In Cuba1992 Los Angeles riots, a mysterious man walks on the beach, always with two Russian wolfhounds. Watched by a writer, he soon comes reaction to share his story, and it becomes clear that he is Ramon Mercader - the man who killed Trotsky.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524448</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chris Priestley|title=The Last absolution of the Spirits|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Teenage Sam and his little sister Lizzie are starving on the streets of London, which is gripped by terrible cold. Asking an old businessman four police officers for money, beating a man who looks at them with such sheer contempt that Sam's heart fills with hate. He swears that he will seek vengeance and rob the old black man, not caring whether his victim will live or die. But before he can do soRodney King, a strange spirit appears nearly to him, and warns him about the terrible path he will put himself on with this violent actdeath. Can Sam resist the temptation to gain revenge? Several more spirits show him Told from the possible consequences perspective of his actionAshley Bennett, as we see Dickens'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 of literary sisters also had a brother, Patrick Branwell Brontë, born the year after Charlotte and a year before Emily. Like his sisters, he had literary ambitions: he wrote juvenile stories, poems and translations novel follows her evolution from the Greek; he also trained as a painter (you have most likely seen his famous painting silent bystander when confronted with matters of his sisters). Again like his sisters, however, he was destined to die young.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522876</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Krishna Bhatt|title=The Royal Enigma|rating=2|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=There is absolutely nothing wrong with books that cross genres. The best historical novels are as much history as fiction. Howeverrace, it is a golden rule that a book must know who and what it is. One of the problems with The Royal Enigma is that it suffers from a serious identity crisis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005Q8QCTY</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Erin Knightley|title=The Baron Next Door|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Charity is hoping to enjoy a relaxing break in Bath, attending the music festival with her beloved grandmother, Lady Effington. Charity doesn't just love music, she ''lives'' music; it is an intrinsic part of woman finding her very being voice 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 embracing her doorstep, demanding that she keep the ''infernal racket to a minimum'', she declares war on the insufferably rude Baron next door. The result is a light-hearted and sweet Regency romance that sees the most unlikely pair begin to bond, despite their differencesheritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349405417</amazonuk>1471188191