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{{newreview|author=Dan Simmons|title=The Fifth Heart|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=On a rainy night in March 1893 Henry James stands on a Paris bridge, about to end it all. Next to him sidles Sherlock Holmes, about to do the same. Instead of jumping, Holmes drags James off for a drink and decides that they will go to America to solve a 17 <!-year-old murder case. The supposed victim, socialite Clover Adams, is believed to have committed suicide but that doesn't deter Sherlock. He's off, Henry James is going with him and that's that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751560952</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Katherine Clements|title=The Silvered Heart|rating=5 |genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Katherine Ferrers is a young orphan – growing up in the turbulent period of the English Civil War, she has little choice but to marry for the sake of her family, and to trust her considerable inheritance into the care of her husband. As the war comes to an end, and those who supported the losing King are punished severely, Katherine finds herself with no money, few friends, and a house that has become a prison. Wishing for a life away from her cold, oft absent husband, Katherine meets a man who changes her life, with Katherine choosing to join him in a life that provides her with the excitement she craves – and yet may prove all too dangerous…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472204247</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lydia Syson|title=Liberty's Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Paris in the uneasy and violent months between March and May 1871 is an inspired setting for this tense, dramatic novel. ''Liberty's Fire'' is Lydia Syson's third work of fiction and certainly ensures that she will not be stereotyped into any single historical period. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147140367X</amazonuk> }}{{newreview|author=Laura Madeleine|title=The Confectioner's Tale|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Petra is researching the life of late historian, author, critic and greatly missed grandfather JG Stevenson when she should really be writing a dissertation for her doctorate. While looking through his belongings she comes across a photo taken in Paris at the turn of the 20th century and an intriguing note in his handwriting. Petra has never consciously realised that Grandpa Jim (as he was to her) had been to France so the revelation spurs her on against all odds, an unscrupulous competitor and academic pressure. Gradually the search reveals a romance and notorious scandal; the sort of scandal would lead a man to regret it for the rest of his life. Meanwhile in 1909, Guillaume du Frere moves to France from the provinces in order to escape poverty and changes his life completely, although not in the way he'd expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784160725</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sally Wragg|title=The Angel and the Sword|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=We met the people from Loxley New Hall in [[Loxley by Sally Wragg|Loxley]] but we've moved on quite a few years as we rejoin them for the story of ''The Angel and the Sword''. Harry, eleventh Duke of Loxley is dead and the title has been inherited by his daughter INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE- she's a lucky girl as that doesn't happen too often in the world of Debrett's. She's only in her mid teens, but Katherine, her grandmother is uneasy about her friendship with Bill, a local boy. She was very sniffy when her son married Bronwyn, the daughter of a doctor and only really came around to the idea when Bron made a good fist of running the estate when the Duke went off to the trenches with every able-bodied man on the estate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719814308</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Barbara Erskine|title= The Darkest Hour|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= In the summer of 1940, at the start of the Battle Britain, Evie Lucas has two things on her mind. She paints pictures of the war and she has fallen in love with Tony, a young pilot.Seventy years later, Lucy, an art historian, begins a study into Evie’s life. Lucy is recently widowed and hopes to find solace in the engrossing project. Instead, she finds secrets that people have been working hard to protect for over half a century – and her discoveries have a profound impact on her own life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007513151</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessie BurtonTananarive Due|title=The MiniaturistReformatory

|summary=''The Miniaturist'' is Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a meticulously researched wonder of scuffle with a book. Burtonwhite boy, her imagination fired by a trip twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the RijksmuseumGracetown School for Boys, where she viewed otherwise known as the wealthy Amsterdammer merchant’s wife Petronella Oortman’s elaborate 1686 cabinet dollsReformatory. It' house, revels in creating her fictional world. She imbues it s a place with authentic details including descriptions of actual rooms, pieces of commissioned art, a parrot’s cage, food made from wax, furniture made to exact scale brutal and miniature puppetsdark reputation. She is a word smith, painting a rich canvas of imagery and emotions for But the reader. Her ‘Nella’ Oortman segregated reformatory is a tentative rural bride chamber of 18 embarking on a union with an olderhorrors, learned man of languages who has a warehouse full of strange curiositieshaunted by the boys that have died there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447250931</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Andrea Chapin|title=The Tutor|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Katherine de L'Isle comes In order to live with her uncle Sir Edward's family at Lufanwal Hall when she's widowed after only a year of marriage. A fine home survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the bosom help of the family should be a place of safety but not in this case. This is 1590 in Queen Elizabethschool's protestant England and Katherine's family are Roman Catholics; something ghosts – only they thought was a secret till their priest is found murdered on have their landown motivations. Life must go on though. The children of the household are raised and educated almost on the periphery of Katherine's vision until she meets their tutor, a certain Midlands' glove maker's son called William Shakespeare. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024196816X</amazonuk>1803366532}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fannie FlaggKatherine Howe|title=The All-Girl Filling Station's Last ReunionA True Account

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=2005 Alabama: Sookie Earle awakes one morning Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a 59 year old happily married female Methodist with American roots that go way back in history family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a wonderfully steadfast dentist husbandyoung age. However before When she goes hears there is to bed that night all that (apart from be a hanging of some pirates in the married town, she decides to go and female bits) will changewatch. 1940s Wisconsin: a Polish immigrant family lose their men to wartime conscription Enthralled and so have to make horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a go young boy's death at the hands of their family gas station alonetwo vicious pirates. Fritzi She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her sisters rise too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the challenge notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and then take from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on another more dangerous adventure, taking to the skies for the war effortocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593149</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate WilliamsSarah Marsh|title=The Storms A Sign of WarHer Own

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=England - 1914. The de Witt family live in Stoneythorpe HallAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, an English manor that allows them to lead lives of relative luxuryEllen Lark loses her hearing. Behind the ornate doors and heavy drapes Suddenly plunged into a world of the house thoughsilence, things are less than ideal - everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the approaching shadow use of war makes things increasingly difficult for German born Rudolfsign language was seen as something only savages do, and Verena struggles Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to find her role lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in both another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the home deaf and societyusing a system called Visible Speech. With their sons studying At the same time, one daughter marrying Bell is working on other inventions and one fast growing up, war will change all that these people knowideas, and force them to either adapt, or suffer untold consequencesEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409144887</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Place Called WinterClaire North|authortitle=Patrick GaleHouse of Odysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=''A Place called WinterWhat could matter more than love?'' is the story of Harry Cane, a young man in Edwardian England. Left with a sizeable inheritance, Harry follows tradition, marrying and raising a young child. A passionate affair, however, forces Harry into exile, separated from all that he knows, and forced to try his hand as a farmer in the plains of Canada.

The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In Canada he finds love and acceptance, although the fragile happiness is soon threatened by the return palace of an old enemyOdysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war, at Troy and madnessthen by divine intervention never returned home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205294</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Karen Maitland|title=The Raven's Head|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In 13th century England, Gisa, niece and ward As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of an apothecary attracts the attention of one of his more sinister clientsWestern Isles. Elsewhere Wilky, a small child, is taken from his parents in lieu of a debt Having survived – politically and then taken physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to a monastery which is a cover for something less than Christian. Meanwhile in France, Vincent, a scribeIthaca's apprenticeshores, Queen Penelope is framed for on the brink of a theft and has to run for his lifefragile peace. The three will meet but under circumstances One that turn out to be shatters however with the stuff return of darkOrestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, bloody nightmaresseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472215060</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Berlie DohertyB0C7J9D21B|title=Far From HomeA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=Lizzie When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and Emily Jarvis can no longer be in the care he lives at The House of their Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother as she has become severely illdied when he was born. She leaves them in the care He's not been short of her best friend, a cookmothers, though - but when things go wrongfor someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, the girls are sent it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the Victorian mills where they are worked each day till they are beyond exhausted preparation of anchovies didn't work out and the only thing that keeps them going is counting down the days till they bastards are able to leave.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007578822</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Emily Bullock|title=The Longest Fight|rating=3considered bad luck on fishing boats.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Jack Munday is a retired boxer who, even in his prime, wasn’t quite good enough, so now older Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and wiser Jack hopes to hit the big time as a manager determined - and believes that in Frank it was not long before he has found had a fighter who could get him there. Frank is young, naïve, eager to learn with successful business as a lot of talent and Jack discovers him just in time to take him under his wing before any other more established managers could sign him upguide for visitors. The pair make a pretty good team and Frank starts to build up an impressive boxing record and fan base and Jack sees his dreams and hard graft about to reach fruition but things are rarely simple and life, love and shady characters get in the way He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434538</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=DK WilsonEssie Fox|title=The Traitor's MarkFascination

|summary=When war The Victorian era is declared and her brother joins incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the RAF, young Carolyn Maddison makes Second World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it clear . There's such a glut of media set in the era that she plans to follow in his footsteps and join the WAAF as soon as she turns eighteen. Despite her parentshallmarks we' objections, she stays true ve come to her word and soon receives an invitation to report associate with it are familiar to the Air Ministry for trainingpoint of being cliched, hackneyed even. In her first weeks with the WAAF, Carolyn experiences heartbreaking loss and witnesses All this is simply to illustrate that it would be an horrific accident that causes her to make a rash vow: never easy thing to get emotionally involved with a pilotdo poorly. However, as a pretty young girl stationed at a base full of dashing young airmenBut despite that, she finds something about it increasingly difficult to keep her resolve, especially when fun-loving Vera arrives at the base still grabs me – and starts flirting with Rick, the man that she just turned downsomething about this book's description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349402698</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hermione EyreNicole Jarvis|title=Viper WineA Portrait in Shadow

|summary=Venetia Stanley lives ''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Seventeeth century LondonFlorence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. A celebrated beauty, But as some as she enters Florentine society she has had poems written in honour of herfaces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, and portraits painted by one the self-proclaimed guardians of the leading artists of healing magics that through paintings have the time. Married power to a handsome, kind protect the city and adventurous man, Venetia is kept in a life of luxury, its citizens from plagues and, at first glance curses. The all- male Accademia has everything she could ever have dreamed ofhoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. Except Venetia is not happy. A To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has made her name no place amongst them and fortune because of her beauty, she is convinced that her allure is quickly slipping through her fingers. Signing a pact with an apothecary for his famed restorative 'Viper Wine', Venetia is set on a dangerous paththeir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581663</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lesley J NickellThomas D Lee|title=The White Queen of Middleham: Sprigs of Broom 1Perilous Times|rating=43|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary= Anne Neville, as youngest daughter ''Hate is the path of least resistance'Kingmaker' Richard Earl of Warwick Set in the near-distant future, grows up with all in a world on the advantages verge of 15th century aristocracy. Unfortunately Anne is also female so her life climate collapse, Britain is used to expedite her father's plansin great peril. The dreams and innocent affections of the delicate child are dashed as she faces exile and British Isles desperately needs a loveless marriage hero (or several) to save the son of domineering Margaret of Anjouday and rescue what little remains. It doesn't get better straight after What no-one expected was that either as virtual imprisonment and then slavery follow his death. While England is tossed and turned by one of the houses Knights of York and Lancaster, all Anne wants is the peaceful solitude of holy ordersRound Table would answer the call. That may be what she wants, but her God still has other ideas…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861512082</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David ChurchillG K Holloway|title=The Leopards In the Shadows of Normandy: Devil: Leopards of Normandy 1Castles

|summary=Robert, We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the youngest son day of the 4th Duke William of Normandy, follows his father's bequest to the letter rather than the spirit coronation as King of England. William's position is not secure and claims the castle at Falaise which should have gone new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. And William is right to Richardworry. While the previous king, his elder brother. This will be a decision that will shape Harold, is dead and the rest likelihood of his life but the legacy that he and his low-born lover Herleva will be remembered for more pitched battles is their sonover, William the Bastard. An unfamiliar name perhaps until we realise that history will call him William rebels are stirring and much of the Conquerorcountry does not wish to recognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472219171</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toby Clements3949666079|title=Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims (Kingmaker 1)Noema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=February 1460: Canon Thomas and Sister Katherine have always equated their priory with values like piety and safety''This is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago. However when soldiers on horseback arrive this '' Maya is proven to be a misconception and young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the two flee for their livesMesolithic era. This Climate change is occurring, the first time they've been in the outside world since childhood but soon realise thereSea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce. What to it than they bargained for. It's naturally a dangerous place at any time but this is 15th century England - do? Can the law givers in the War federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the Roses is about to begin. Survival depends on worldly wisdomof All Life, something they don’t actually teach nuns or monks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099585871</amazonuk>provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Gilman1529125898|title=Master of War: Defiant Unto DeathGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary= Spoilers straight ahead ''If it were not for the first book, [[Master of War by David Gilman|Master casual dereliction 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. Timeodd gentleman's passing now finds him and his wife Christiana living with their two children in Normandy castle. Meanwhile in French held Franceduty, 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 there would no women to be against himteach well-bred daughters at all. However, now he'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!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William NicholsonMelissa Fu |title=Peach Blossom Spring |rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction |summary= I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''. Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of a book that I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's perspective. 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 flee. The Lovers of Amherststory follows them on their journey across China, and in Renshu's case eventually to America. |isbn=1472277538}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1916072038|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary=2013: Alice Dickinson has decided We meet part of the 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, to write a screenplay about the 19th century affair between Mabel Todd and Austin Dickinson (no relation)house in the hollow. 1881The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses: Austin ''She is practiced at subterfuge, brother at concealing, beneath a facade of reclusive poet Emily Dickinsonrespectability, has an unhappy marriage but isnthe deplorable truth''t looking for happiness outside it till he meets Mabel. The very liberated Mabel may be married too Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as she was asked, but her husband believes in freedom within wedlockwhich has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''. There follows one  Then we are told of the most scandalous relationships to face small town New England; birth of a relationship that Alice wants to research on-site. While therechild and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, Alice discovers that inappropriate romance still exists but this is the 21st century so she feels ready for the consequencesleaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848666470</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hazel GaynorAnnabel Abbs|title=A Memory The Language of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower SellersFood|rating=4.5

|summary=The year Eliza Acton is 1876 and two little orphaned flower girls wander barefoot through a poet who has never had the crowded London streets selling posies of violets slightest inclination to the people passing byboil an egg. The older sisterWhen tasked with writing a cookery book, Florrieshe recruits Ann Kirby, walks a local woman with a stick for supporttroubled home life. Together, but keeps a tight grip on her little sister's hand at all times. Rosiethey test, 'little sister'craft, is blind and views eight-year-old Florrie as her 'little mother' The two are inseparable refine and share a deep bond that carries them through reshape 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 world of domestic cookery, reinventing the 'bad men'. Florrie searches frantically for Rosie, but she seems to have vanished. As recipe book and changing the years pass, Florrie never gives up her search, eventually dying face of a broken heartcookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0062316893</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alison LoveFreya Marske|title=The Girl from the Paradise BallroomA Marvellous Light|rating=4.5

|summary=In Soho Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in 1937the Civil Service, Italian singer Antonio has found himself a wealthy patronmuch to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded with magic. His patron’s wife, Olivia, is known Desperate to Antonio from remove a chance encounter at the Paradise Ballroom - and the spark they felt on curse that meeting starts threatens to deepen as war begins swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to creep up on them. In an uncertain worldthe countryside, everything about their lives is under threat – where the government perceives foreigners as threats hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the war wreaks havoc people shimmer with nerves and relationshipspower. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373785</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura AndersenB09F4CTKJR|title=The Boleyn Deceit (Anne Boleyn Trilogy Book 2) Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=Even after her death, George Boleyn continues to fashion his sister AnneIt's son into the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a king young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in George's image. However, now 18Canada, matters of state aren’t the only concerns of Henry IX. He has first to be attached to decide between the French Princess Elizabeth RAF and commoner, childhood friend Minuette although Minuette is secretly betrothed the first to be sent into the skies to Henry's advisor Dominicfight the Germans in active combat. Minuette also But before that can happen, Petrol has another quest: to find out who killed her friend Alyce master flying the notoriously difficult but sleuthing is becoming more dangerous. Meanwhile Henry's Catholic sister Mary and very intelligent sister Elizabeth are not going to be happy remaining merely decorative for longmajestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956498</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate RiordanChristophe Medler|title=The Girl in the PhotographMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=4.5

|summary=Alice Eveleigh Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is sent to Fiercombe Manor discovered by Sir Robert Douse in 1933 as the result summer of 1642. As a scandal. Back in loyal servant of the 1890s King, and Head of the Manor had been home to Elizabeth and Charles Stanton and their little girl Isabel but Secret Service, it doesn't feel like a house thatis Robert's seen much happiness. The stones are drenched in tragedy duty to uncover the details of the plan and follow the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets that have remained locked away in history—especially since then. What sort of secrets? Will Alice be too nosey for her own good or will the secrets remain just that, with plot could affect the added threat of history repeating itself?King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405917423</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Bausch1471187179|title=Far As the Eye Can SeeA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=54

|summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary'It was girl living an unexciting life in a bit slow'' was probably my Mamleafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's worst condemnation expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the rest of film… but Iher days looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately, this isn'm going t what she wants to forgive her for not appreciating slownessdo at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. As a result of a chance meeting, because it was she that got me finds herself drawn into appreciating westernsespionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Of course Minnie finds herself torn between what she preferred perceives as her duty and the allfriends she has made - and likes -action kindwhilst working for the Communist Party.}}{{Frontpage|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Kokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Well, but through watching those with herthis looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is why I started picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to watch and enjoy potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the long20, slow000s, letters used as narrative form, ones and to appreciate so on. It intrigued with the back-drop to all of subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that action… and then somewhere along the line what little I got interested in what might really have happened: not just in the West but the whole knew of what became the Uit mentioned, too.S. in But you've seen the early days of settlementstar 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408844303</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary GibsonChristina Hammonds Reed|title=Jam and Roses: The Lives and Loves of 1920s Factory GirlsBlack Kids|rating=34.5|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=The year is 1923 and Christina Hammonds Reed'jam-girl' Millie Colman s debut novel is eagerly awaiting set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to the arrival absolution of four police officers for beating a letter inviting her family black man, Rodney King, nearly to go 'hopping' in Kentdeath. The annual trip provides desperately needed respite Told from the oppressive atmosphere at home, as well as a much-needed dose perspective of fresh air and open space. For MillieAshley Bennett, the invitation symbolises escape; albeit for only novel follows her evolution from a few precious weeks silent bystander when confronted with matters of the year. Life in the Colman household is uncomfortablerace, to say the least. Millie a woman finding her voice and embracing 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 the whole familyheritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855927</amazonuk>1471188191