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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diney CosteloeTananarive Due|title=The Throwaway ChildrenReformatory|rating=45

|summary=They seemed like Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a perfect little family unit: Mavis and her two young daughtersscuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, Rita otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and Rosiedark reputation. But widowed Mavis needed the segregated reformatory is a man in her life chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and violent bully Jimmy was his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only too happy they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to enjoy the perks of such live with a relationshipfamily who run an inn, even if it meant putting up with her troublesome childrenand being made to work there from a young age. When Mavis she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself pregnant with Jimmyembroiled in a young boy's babydeath at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, he agrees so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to marry 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. She 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 one condition: the girls have to goocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3. Distraught Mavis chooses 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her man over hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her childrenlife changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, setting and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in motion a tragic chain complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of events that leads Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the girls being sent 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 an orphanage thousands of miles away in Australiawar at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. “The Throwaway Children” follows As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the lives throne of Rita the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and Rosie as they struggle physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to make sense Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of this newa fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, unfamiliar worldseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784970018</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Suzannah DunnB0C7J9D21B|title=The Lady of MisruleA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=Elizabeth Tilney volunteers to accompany Lady Jane Grey to the Tower When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of LondonBeautiful Swallows. Elizabeth would be attendant to the young deposed Protestant queen while JaneIdyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's husband Guildford Dudley is kept in an adjacent towermother died when he was born. Her feelings He's not been short of mothers, though - but for him are less than devotional whereas he still feels a responsibility towards hersomeone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, mixed it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with his fear the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and anger at what has gone before and what may lie aheadbastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. However Jane is treated well by the new Queen Mary despite the difference in the new Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and old queens' faiths. Does Jane have anything to fear? Spending her time with Jane determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a messenger to Guildford, Elizabeth hopes not but she hears rumours.guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704668</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan SimmonsEssie Fox|title=The Fifth HeartFascination

|summary=On The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a rainy night in March 1893 Henry James stands on a Paris bridgesetting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, about by the Second World War) which has often led to end more than a few writers mishandling it all. Next There's such a glut of media set in the era that the hallmarks we've come to him sidles Sherlock Holmes, about associate with it are familiar to do the same. Instead point of jumpingbeing cliched, Holmes drags James off for a drink and decides that they will go to America to solve a 17-year-old murder casehackneyed even. The supposed victim, socialite Clover Adams, All this is believed simply to have committed suicide but illustrate that doesn't deter Sherlockit would be an easy thing to do poorly. He's offBut despite that, Henry James is going with him something about it still grabs me – and thatsomething about this book's that!description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751560952</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katherine ClementsNicole Jarvis|title=The Silvered HeartA Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5

|summary= Katherine Ferrers is a young orphan – growing up in the turbulent period ''I want all of the English Civil WarFlorence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, 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 has little choice but to marry for faces great opposition from the sake of her familypowerful Accademia, and to trust her considerable inheritance into the care self-proclaimed guardians of her husband. As the war comes healing magics that through paintings have the power to an end, protect the city and those who supported the losing King are punished severely, Katherine finds herself with no money, few friends, its citizens from plagues and a house that curses. The all-male Accademia has become a prisonhoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. Wishing for a life away from her coldTo them, oft absent husband, Katherine meets a man Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who changes her life, with Katherine choosing to join him in a life that provides her with the excitement she craves promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and yet may prove all too dangerous…their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472204247</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lydia SysonThomas D Lee|title=Liberty's FirePerilous Times|rating=4.53|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Paris in the uneasy and violent months between March and May 1871 is an inspired setting for this tense, dramatic novel. ''Liberty's FireHate is the path of least resistance''  Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is Lydia Syson's third work of fiction in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and certainly ensures rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that she will not be stereotyped into any single historical periodone of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140367X</amazonuk> 0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura MadeleineG K Holloway|title=The Confectioner's TaleIn the Shadows of Castles

|summary=Petra is researching We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the life day of William of late historian, author, critic Normandy's coronation as King of England. William's position is not secure and greatly missed grandfather JG Stevenson when she should really be writing a dissertation for her doctoratethe new king has many challenges. While looking Imposing authority through his belongings she comes across a photo taken in Paris at the turn of the 20th century and an intriguing note in his handwritingcoronation is important. Petra has never consciously realised that Grandpa Jim (as he was And William is right to her) had been to France so worry. While the revelation spurs her on against all oddsprevious king, Harold, an unscrupulous competitor and academic pressure. Gradually the search reveals a romance is dead and notorious scandal; the sort likelihood of scandal would lead a man to regret it for more pitched battles is over, the rest rebels are stirring and much of his life. Meanwhile in 1909, Guillaume du Frere moves to France from the provinces in order country does not wish to escape poverty and changes his life completely, although not in the way he'd expectedrecognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784160725</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Wragg3949666079|title=The Angel and the SwordNoema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating=34.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=We met the people from Loxley New Hall in [[Loxley by Sally Wragg|Loxley]] but we've moved on quite 'This is a few story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years as we rejoin them for the story of ago.''The Angel and the Sword''. Harry, eleventh Duke of Loxley  Maya is dead and the title has been inherited by his daughter - she's a lucky young girl as that doesn't happen too often living in a hunter gatherer village during the world Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, the Sea of Debrett's. SheGrass encroaches further and further into Maya's only in her mid teensforest home, but Katherine, her grandmother and food is uneasy about her friendship with Bill, a local boybecoming more and more scarce. She was very sniffy when her son married Bronwyn, What to do? Can the law givers in the daughter federation of a doctor and only really came around villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the idea when Bron made Traveller, a good fist spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of running the estate when the Duke went off to the trenches with every able-bodied man on the estate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719814308</amazonuk>All Life, provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara Erskine1529125898|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>}}{{newreviewGodmersham Park|author=Jessie Burton|title=The MiniaturistGill Hornby

|summary=''The MiniaturistIf it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman'' is a meticulously researched wonder of a book. Burtons duty, her imagination fired by a trip there would no women to the Rijksmuseum, where teach well-bred daughters at all.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she viewed arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the wealthy Amsterdammer merchant’s wife Petronella Oortman’s elaborate 1686 cabinet dolls' house, revels in creating her fictional worldposition of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She imbues it with authentic details including descriptions had no experience of teaching but this was a case of actual rooms, pieces necessity. Until the death of commissioned arther mother, Anne had a parrot’s cage, food made comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from waxthe household. When her mother died, furniture made her father cast her off and would have nothing more to exact scale and miniature puppetsdo with her. She is No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a word smith, painting a rich canvas of imagery and emotions for the readeryear. Her ‘Nella’ Oortman is a tentative rural bride of 18 embarking on a union with an oldermaid, Agnes, learned man of languages who has a warehouse full of strange curiositieswould receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447250931</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea ChapinMelissa Fu |title=The TutorPeach Blossom Spring

|genre=Women's Historical Fiction|summary=Katherine de LI loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Isle comes to live with her uncle Sir EdwardOrigins's family at Lufanwal Hall when she's widowed after only a year of marriage. A fine home and Unfortunately it is the bosom only truly poetic part of the family should be a place of safety but not in this casebook that I expected more from. This is 1590 in Queen ElizabethCovering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's protestant England perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japan, a young mother (Meilin) and Katherine's family her four-year-old son (Renshu) are Roman Catholics; something they thought was a secret till their priest is found murdered on their land. Life must go on thoughamong those who flee. The children of the household are raised and educated almost story follows them on the periphery of Katherine's vision until she meets their tutorjourney across China, a certain Midlands' glove makerand in Renshu's son called William Shakespearecase eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024196816X</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fannie Flagg1916072038|title=The All-Girl Filling Station's Last ReunionHouse in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|genre=Women's Historical Fiction|summary=2005 Alabama: Sookie Earle awakes one morning a 59 We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year -old happily married female Methodist Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to the house in the hollow. The two women are angry with American roots that go way back in history each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a wonderfully steadfast dentist husband. However before she goes to bed that night all that (apart from facade of respectability, the married and female bits) will changedeplorable truth''.

1940s Wisconsin: a Polish immigrant family lose their men Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to wartime conscription and so have to make a go of their family gas station alone. Fritzi and her sisters rise to the challenge and then take on another more dangerous adventuredo as she was asked, taking to the skies for the war effort.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593149</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kate Williams|title=The Storms of War|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=England - 1914. The de Witt family live in Stoneythorpe Hall, an English manor that allows them to lead lives of relative luxury. Behind the ornate doors and heavy drapes of the house though, things are less than ideal - the approaching shadow of war makes things increasingly difficult for German born Rudolf, and Verena struggles to find her role in both the home and society. With their sons studying, one daughter marrying and one fast growing up, war will change all that these people know, and force them to either adapt, or suffer untold consequences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409144887</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=A Place Called Winter|author=Patrick Gale|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=which has precipitated ''A Place called Winterthis violent and unexpected removal'' 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.

In Canada he finds love Then we are told of the birth of a child and acceptance, although the fragile happiness is soon threatened by the return of an old enemyafter, warHester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and madnessisolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205294</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen MaitlandAnnabel Abbs|title=The Raven's HeadLanguage of Food

|summary=In 13th century England, Gisa, niece and ward of an apothecary attracts the attention of one of his more sinister clients. Elsewhere Wilky, a small child, Eliza Acton is taken from his parents in lieu of a debt and then taken poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a monastery which is a cover for something less than Christian. Meanwhile in Francecookery book, Vincentshe recruits Ann Kirby, a scribe's apprentice, is framed for local woman with a theft and has to run for his troubled home life. The three will meet but under circumstances that turn out to be the stuff of darkTogether, they test, craft, bloody nightmares.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472215060</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Berlie Doherty|title=Far From Home|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Lizzie refine and Emily Jarvis can no longer be in reshape the care world of their mother as she has become severely ill. She leaves them in the care of her best friend, a cook, but when things go wrongdomestic cookery, reinventing the girls are sent to the Victorian mills where they are worked each day till they are beyond exhausted recipe book and changing the only thing that keeps them going is counting down the days till they are able to leaveface of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007578822</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily BullockFreya Marske|title=The Longest Fight|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Jack Munday is 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 as a manager and believes that in Frank he has found a fighter who could get him there. Frank is young, naïve, eager to learn with 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 up. 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434538</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK Wilson|title=The Traitor's MarkA Marvellous Light

|summary=When war Robin Blyth is declared and her brother joins nudged into a job in the RAFCivil Service, young Carolyn Maddison makes it clear that she plans much to follow in his footsteps chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and join learns that the WAAF as soon as she turns eighteenstreets of London are threaded with magic. Despite her parents' objections, she stays true Desperate to her word and soon receives an invitation remove a curse that threatens to report swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the Air Ministry for training. In her first weeks countryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the WAAF, Carolyn experiences heartbreaking loss and witnesses an horrific accident that causes her to make a rash vow: never to get emotionally involved people shimmer with a pilotpower. However, as There they uncover a pretty young girl stationed at a base full sinister plot that threatens the lives of dashing young airmen, she finds it increasingly difficult to keep her resolve, especially when fun-loving Vera arrives at all magicians in the base and starts flirting with Rick, the man that she just turned downBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349402698</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hermione EyreB09F4CTKJR|title=Viper WineFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=Venetia Stanley lives in Seventeeth century London. A celebrated beauty, she has had poems written in honour It's the later stages of her, World War I and portraits painted by one of the leading artists of United States has just entered the timeconflict. Married to Petrol Petronus is a handsome, kind young American who has signed up and adventurous man, Venetia is kept joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in a life of luxuryCanada, the first to be attached to the RAF and, at the first glance - has everything she could ever have dreamed ofto be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. Except Venetia is not happy. A woman who has made her name and fortune because of her beauty, she is convinced But before that her allure is quickly slipping through her fingers. Signing a pact with an apothecary for his famed restorative 'Viper Wine'can happen, Venetia is set on a dangerous pathPetrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581663</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lesley J NickellChristophe Medler|title=The White Queen of MiddlehamMadrigal: Sprigs of Broom 1A Closely Guarded Secret

|summary= Anne Neville, as youngest daughter of 'Kingmaker' Richard Earl of Warwick, grows up with all Set against the advantages of 15th century aristocracy. Unfortunately Anne is also female so her life is used to expedite her father's plans. The dreams and innocent affections backdrop of the delicate child are dashed as she faces exile and English Civil War, a loveless marriage to the son of domineering Margaret of Anjou. It doesn't get better straight after that either as virtual imprisonment and then slavery follow his death. While England secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is tossed and turned discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the houses summer of York and Lancaster, all Anne wants is the peaceful solitude of holy orders1642. That may be what she wants, but her God still has other ideas…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861512082</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Churchill|title=The Leopards As a loyal servant of Normandy: Devil: Leopards of Normandy 1|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Robertthe King, the youngest son and Head of the 4th Duke of NormandySecret Service, follows his fatherit is Robert's bequest duty to uncover the letter rather than details of the spirit plan and claims follow the castle at Falaise which should have gone clues to Richard, his elder brother. This will be a decision that will shape the rest uncover one of his life but the legacy that he and his low-born lover Herleva will be remembered for is their son, William most guarded secrets in history—especially since the Bastard. An unfamiliar name perhaps until we realise that history will call him William plot could affect the ConquerorKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472219171</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toby Clements1471187179|title=Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims (Kingmaker 1)A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore

|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 Minnie is proven to be an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a misconception and the two flee for their livesleafy provincial suburb. This The book is the first time they've been set in the outside world since childhood but soon realise there's more 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to it than they bargained for. Ither mother's naturally expectations and find a dangerous place at any time but this is 15th century England - the War of the Roses is about nice young man to begin. Survival depends on worldly wisdommarry, 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 produce children and spend the first book, [[Master of War by David Gilman|Master rest of War]] so go read that first…Ready?Ok…It's been 10 years since the young Thomas Blackstone chose military service over hanging her days looking after her husband and faced the French at Crecy, coming away from the battle knightedtheir home. TimeUnfortunately, this isn's passing now finds him t what she wants to do at all and his wife Christiana living with their two children in Normandy castleneither does she want to continue working as a secretary. Meanwhile in French held FranceAs a result of a chance meeting, the current kingshe finds herself drawn into espionage, John II, is proving unpopular, starving working for the country with taxes secret service and spreading fear with his cruel capricious natureeffectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. He sees betrayal everywhere and will execute those he Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives to be against him. However, now he's right as her duty and there is a plot brewing the friends she has made - and French royalist Simon Bucy has a plan to put it down: remove its cornerstone. His perceived cornerstone is none other than Sir Thomas Blackstonelikes - whilst working for the Communist Party. This isn't going to be a clean fight; bring on the Savage Priest! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851905</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William NicholsonAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The Lovers of AmherstKokoschka's Doll|rating=42.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=2013: Alice Dickinson has decided to write Well, this looked very much like a screenplay about book I could love from the 19th century affair between Mabel Todd get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and Austin Dickinson (no relation). 1881: Austin, brother flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, has an unhappy marriage but isn't looking for happiness outside it till he meets Mabel. The very liberated Mabel may be married tooI found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, but her husband believes a chapter whose number was in freedom within wedlockthe 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. There follows one of It intrigued with the most scandalous relationships to face small town New England; subterranean voice a relationship man hears in wartorn Dresden that Alice wants to research on-sitewhat little I knew of it mentioned, too. While thereBut you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, Alice discovers and can tell that inappropriate romance still exists but this is the 21st century so she feels ready for the consequencesif love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848666470</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hazel GaynorChristina Hammonds Reed|title=A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower SellersThe Black Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=The year is 1876 and two little orphaned flower girls wander barefoot through the crowded London streets selling posies of violets to the people passing by. The older sister, Florrie, walks with a stick for support, but keeps a tight grip on her little sisterChristina Hammonds Reed's hand at all times. Rosie, 'little sister', debut novel is blind and views eight-year-old Florrie as her 'little mother' The two are inseparable and share a deep bond that carries them through set against 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 backdrop of the 'bad men'. Florrie searches frantically for Rosie1992 Los Angeles riots, but she seems a reaction to have vanished. As the years pass, Florrie never gives up her search, eventually dying absolution of four police officers for beating a broken heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062316893</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alison Love|title=The Girl from the Paradise Ballroom|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In Soho in 1937, Italian singer Antonio has found himself a wealthy patron. His patron’s wifeblack man, OliviaRodney King, is known nearly to Antonio death. Told from a chance encounter at the Paradise Ballroom - and the spark they felt on that meeting starts to deepen as war begins to creep up on them. In an uncertain worldperspective of Ashley Bennett, everything about their lives is under threat – the government perceives foreigners as threats and the war wreaks havoc with nerves and relationships.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373785</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Laura Andersen|title=The Boleyn Deceit (Anne Boleyn Trilogy Book 2) |rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Even after novel follows her death, George Boleyn continues to fashion his sister Anne's son into evolution from a king in George's image. However, now 18, silent bystander when confronted with matters of state aren’t the only concerns of Henry IX. He has to decide between the French Princess Elizabeth and commonerrace, childhood friend Minuette although Minuette is secretly betrothed to Henry's advisor Dominic. Minuette also has another quest: to find out who killed a woman finding her friend Alyce but sleuthing is becoming more dangerous. Meanwhile Henry's Catholic sister Mary voice and very intelligent sister Elizabeth are not going to be happy remaining merely decorative for longembracing her heritage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956498</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kate Riordan|title=The Girl in the Photograph|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Alice Eveleigh is sent to Fiercombe Manor in 1933 as the result of a scandal. Back in the 1890s the Manor had been home to Elizabeth and Charles Stanton and their little girl Isabel but it doesn'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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405917423</amazonuk>1471188191