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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cesca MajorTananarive Due|title=The Silent HoursReformatory

|summary=Adeline Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is an enigmasentenced 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}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4. She has lived 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a nunnery ever since her rescuefamily who run an inn, several years agoand being made to work there from a young age. She cannot speak, nor can When she remember much about her previous life. She tries desperately hears there is to piece together be a hanging of some pirates in the ephemeral fragments that come town, she decides to her go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in fitful dreamsa young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. Something has taken everything She hides away. Something , so powerful that it has rendered they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. 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 speechlessrip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782395687</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Louisa TregerSarah Marsh|title= The LodgerA Sign of Her Own|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= A writer writing about writers writing. What more could After a bout of scarlet fever as a readerchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a book reviewerworld of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a tentative writer and lover time when the use of words want from sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a book? Not forgetting the setting – Englandschool where she is taught to lip read, early 1900sbut physically restrained from signing. From here, clear class divisions and social expectations – 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 characters – fascinatingsame time, colourfulBell is working on other inventions and ideas, and above all, real. This book has everything I look for Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a storycomplicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1250051932</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonia HodgsonClaire North|title=The Last Confession House of Thomas HawkinsOdysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=A ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left Tom in off. In the 1720s we return palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to find him living in sin war at Troy and love with Kittythen by divine intervention never returned home. Or it would be sin if they As ever get round to she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the bed bitWestern Isles. Just as he promised underworld gang leader James FleetHaving survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Tom has taken in James' son Sam to train him in Queen Penelope is on the ways brink of being a gentlemanfragile peace. All seems to be going well in One that department until Tom receives a visit from an old enemy and a brush shatters however with the country's ultimate power. Then both collide to create fear return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and an offer that Tom isn't able to refusehis sister Elektra, no matter how hard he triesseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444775456</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martine BaileyB0C7J9D21B|title= The Penny Heart|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=After living a life of crime A Captive in order to scrape by, Mary Jebb is spared from the gallows – and banished to Australia. Before leaving for the penal colony of Botany Bay, she sends two engraved penny heart tokens to key players in her world. One of these takes us to Delafosse Hall, where Mary’s story meets that of shy artist Grace Moore – and yet more confidence tricks begin.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444769855</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Amitav Ghosh|title=Flood of Fire Algiers (Ibis Trilogy 3Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1839 and the repercussions of the sinking of the Ibis and the Chinese clampdown on opium smuggling go on. Now widowed by the marine disaster, Shireen Modhi is given an opportunity to discover her late husband's legacy although it means journeying alone from India to China. Former sailor Zachary Reid finds life landside to be a little complicated when he becomes a 'mystery' (craftsman) attached to the Indian home of a British opium trader, despite its fringe benefits. East India Company sepoy officer Kesri Singh is also a little unsettled, especially when he discovers he must prepare for a war that, in some way or other, will affect them all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719569001</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jean Ravencourt|title=A Lover's PinchJ Lewis

|summary=Hettie (Henriette to be formal) has grown up in straitened timesWhen we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Her Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was a former mistress born. He's not been short of Charles IX mothers, though - but now Henri IV is on the throne. A different king means different favourites and Hettie’s family have for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to live on the memory and favours of othersobtain decent employment. However Hettie has attracted The stint working with the attention preparation of Henri which is enough to give her mother ideasanchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. She’s Ettore was nothing if not the only one though: King’s mistress Gabrielle d’Estrees also has plans resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for the teenage girlvisitors. Hettie is definitely embarking on an adventure but the twists it takes are unforeseen by anyone and dangerous to allHe was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00UEL4XLW</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia DunckerEssie Fox|title=Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian RomanceThe Fascination

|summary=''Sophie and the Sibyl'', consciously modelled on John Fowles's ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'', Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a postmodern blending of historysetting for historical fiction (matched only, fictionperhaps, and metafictional commentaryby the Second World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. Brothers Max and Wolfgang Duncker really were George EliotThere's German publishers, but the accident such a glut of their surname matching the author's makes them her clever stand-media set in. As the novel opens in 1872, era that the venerable English author is exploring Homburg and Berlin in hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to the company point of her 'husband' while ushering her latest novel, ''Middlemarch''being cliched, into German translationhackneyed even. Max, a young cad fond of casinos and brothels, has two tasks: ensuring Eliot's loyalty All this is simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to their publishing housedo poorly. But despite that, something about it still grabs me – and securing Countess Sophie von Hahnsomething about this book's hand in marriagedescription did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140886052X</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura BeattyNicole Jarvis|title=DarklingA Portrait in Shadow|rating=24.5

|summary= Brilliana Harley is a seventeenth century Puritan''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, and a Roundhead Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a county of Puritans. Driven to defend both her beliefs and home in the front of total aggression, Brilliana must take charge and defend where her home, all the while consumed with longing for an absent husbandfuture can thrive rather than stagnate. She soon comes under a brutal and unrelenting siege, and will struggle to survive. In But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the present daypowerful Accademia, Mia Morgan is researching the life self-proclaimed guardians of Brilliana Harley, hoping the healing magics that through paintings have the power to finish a book begun by her late exprotect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-lovermale Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. As she struggles to come to term with her griefTo them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and to rebuild a life from what she change – has left, Mia finds her life becoming irrevocably entwined with that of the tragic Brillianano place amongst them and their society. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958414X</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben KaneThomas D Lee|title=Eagles at WarPerilous Times|rating=43|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=War, what ''Hate is it good for? Looking at the ever buoyant historic fiction genre it would appear that war is great for selling books. This is especially the case with the Romans; there are more books about Ancient Roman battles than there were mad Caesars. One path of the leading names least resistance'' Set in the historic fiction genre is Ben Kane and when he releases the first book near-distant future, in a new series fans world on the verge of the genre take noticeclimate collapse, but would they be right to do so?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848094043</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Diney Costeloe|title=Britain is in great peril. The Throwaway Children|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=They seemed like British Isles desperately needs a perfect hero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little family unit: Mavis and her two young daughters, Rita and Rosieremains. But widowed Mavis needed a man in her life and violent bully Jimmy What no-one expected was only too happy to enjoy the perks that one of such a relationship, even if it meant putting up with her troublesome children. When Mavis finds herself pregnant with Jimmy's baby, he agrees to marry her on one condition: the girls have to go. Distraught Mavis chooses her man over her children, setting in motion a tragic chain Knights of events that leads to the girls being sent to an orphanage thousands of miles away in Australia. “The Throwaway Children” follows Round Table would answer the lives of Rita and Rosie as they struggle to make sense of this new, unfamiliar worldcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784970018</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzannah DunnG K Holloway|title=The Lady In the Shadows of MisruleCastles

|summary=Elizabeth Tilney volunteers to accompany Lady Jane Grey to We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the Tower day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of LondonEngland. Elizabeth would be attendant to the young deposed Protestant queen while JaneWilliam's husband Guildford Dudley position is kept in an adjacent tower. Her feelings for him are less than devotional whereas he still feels a responsibility towards her, mixed with his fear not secure and anger at what has gone before and what may lie ahead. However Jane is treated well by the new Queen Mary despite the difference in the new and old queens' faithsking has many challenges. Does Jane have anything to fear? Spending her time with Jane and as Imposing authority through a messenger to Guildford, Elizabeth hopes not but she hears rumourscoronation is important...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704668</amazonuk>}}{{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 And William is right to end it allworry. Next to him sidles Sherlock Holmes, about to do While the same. Instead of jumpingprevious king, 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 offHarold, Henry James is going with him dead 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 likelihood of the English Civil Warmore pitched battles is over, she has little choice but to marry for the sake of her family, rebels are stirring and to trust her considerable inheritance into the care much of her husband. As the war comes country does not wish to an end, and those who supported the losing King are punished severely, Katherine finds herself with no money, few friends, and recognise a house that has become a prisonnew overlord. 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472204247</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lydia Syson3949666079|title=Liberty's FireNoema|author=Dael Akkerman

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|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'' This is Lydia Syson's third work of fiction and certainly ensures a story about some things that she will not be stereotyped into any single historical periodhappened to me about twelve thousand years ago. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147140367X</amazonuk> }}{{newreview|author=Laura Madeleine|title=The Confectioner's Tale'|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Petra Maya 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 young girl living in a photo taken in Paris at hunter gatherer village during the turn of the 20th century and an intriguing note in his handwritingMesolithic era. 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 oddsClimate change is occurring, an unscrupulous competitor and academic pressure. Gradually the search reveals a romance Sea of Grass encroaches further and notorious scandal; the sort of scandal would lead a man to regret it for the rest of his life. Meanwhile in 1909further into Maya's forest home, 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 food is becoming more and the Sword|rating=3more scarce.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=We met What to do? Can the people from Loxley New Hall law givers in [[Loxley by Sally Wragg|Loxley]] but we've moved on quite a few years as we rejoin them for the story federation of ''The Angel and villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Sword''. HarryTraveller, eleventh Duke of Loxley is dead and the title has been inherited by his daughter - she's a lucky girl as that doesn't happen too often in spiritual figure who interprets the world wisdom of Debrett's. She's only in her mid teensAll Life, 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>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 husbandfacade of respectability, the deplorable truth''. However before  Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as she goes to bed that night all that (apart from the married was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and female bits) will changeunexpected removal''.

1940s Wisconsin: a Polish immigrant family lose their men to wartime conscription and so have to make a go Then we are told of their family gas station alone. Fritzi and her sisters rise to the challenge birth of a child and then take on another more dangerous adventure, taking to the skies for the war effortsoon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593149</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate WilliamsAnnabel Abbs|title=The Storms Language 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 GaleFood

|summary=''A Place called Winter'' Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the story of Harry Cane, a young man in Edwardian Englandslightest inclination to boil an egg. Left When tasked with writing a sizeable inheritancecookery book, Harry follows traditionshe recruits Ann Kirby, marrying and raising a young childlocal woman with a troubled home life. A passionate affairTogether, howeverthey test, forces Harry into exile, separated from all that he knowscraft, refine and forced to try his hand as a farmer in reshape the plains world of Canada. In Canada he finds love and acceptancedomestic cookery, although reinventing the fragile happiness is soon threatened by recipe book and changing the return face of an old enemy, war, and madnesscookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472205294</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen MaitlandFreya Marske|title=The Raven's HeadA Marvellous Light|rating=54

|summary=In 13th century EnglandRobin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, Gisa, niece much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and ward of an apothecary attracts learns that the attention of one streets of his more sinister clientsLondon are threaded with magic. Elsewhere Wilky, Desperate to remove a small childcurse that threatens to swallow him, is taken from his parents in lieu of a debt and then taken Robin follows Edwin to a monastery which is a cover for something less than Christian. Meanwhile in Francethe countryside, Vincent, a scribe's apprentice, is framed for a theft where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and has to run for his lifethe people shimmer with power. The three will meet but under circumstances There they uncover a sinister plot that turn out to be threatens the stuff lives of dark, bloody nightmaresall magicians in the British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472215060</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Berlie DohertyB09F4CTKJR|title=Far From HomeFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=Lizzie It's the later stages of World War I and Emily Jarvis can no longer be in the care of their mother as she United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has become severely illsigned up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. She leaves them This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in the care of her best friend, a cook, but when things go wrongCanada, the girls are sent first to be attached to the Victorian mills where they are worked each day till they are beyond exhausted RAF and the only thing first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But before that keeps them going is counting down can happen, Petrol has to master flying the days till they are able to leavenotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007578822</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily BullockChristophe Medler|title=The Longest FightMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=3.54

|summary=Jack Munday Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642. As a retired boxer wholoyal servant of the King, even in his primeand Head of the Secret Service, wasn’t quite good enough, so now older and wiser Jack hopes it is Robert's duty to hit uncover the big time as a manager details of the plan and believes that in Frank he has found a fighter who could get him there. Frank is young, naïve, eager follow the clues to learn with a lot uncover one of talent and Jack discovers him just the most guarded secrets in time to take him under his wing before any other more established managers history—especially since the plot 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 affect the wayKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434538</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK Wilson1471187179|title=The Traitor's MarkA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore

|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=1543 - Hans Holbein - famed artist Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the rest of both that time her days looking after her husband and todaytheir home. Unfortunately, has disappearedthis isn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. When Thomas Treviot is left awaiting As a result of a design from Holbeinchance meeting, he goes to track him down - only to end up she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a conspiracy which threatens double life - attempting to destroy those he loves, infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and all he holds dearlikes - whilst working for the Communist Party...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751550388</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessica BlairAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Just One More DayKokoschka's Doll|rating=32.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=When war Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is declared why I picked my review copy up and her brother joins flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the RAFmiddle on darker stock paper, young Carolyn Maddison makes it clear that she plans to follow a chapter whose number was in his footsteps and join the WAAF as soon 20,000s, letters used as she turns eighteen. Despite her parents' objectionsnarrative form, she stays true to her word and soon receives an invitation to report to the Air Ministry for trainingso on. In her first weeks It intrigued with the WAAF, Carolyn experiences heartbreaking loss and witnesses an horrific accident subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden 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 what little I knew of dashing young airmen, she finds it increasingly difficult to keep her resolvementioned, especially when fun-loving Vera arrives at too. But you've seen the base and starts flirting star rating that comes with Rickthis review, the man and can tell that she just turned downif love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349402698</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hermione EyreChristina Hammonds Reed|title=Viper WineThe Black Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=Venetia Stanley lives in Seventeeth century London. A celebrated beauty, she has had poems written in honour Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of herthe 1992 Los Angeles riots, and portraits painted by one of a reaction to the leading artists absolution of the time. Married to four police officers for beating a handsome, kind and adventurous black man, Venetia is kept in a life of luxury, andRodney King, at first glance - has everything she could ever have dreamed ofnearly to death. Except Venetia is not happy. A woman who has made her name and fortune because Told from the perspective of her beautyAshley Bennett, she is convinced that her allure is quickly slipping through the novel follows her fingers. Signing evolution from a pact silent bystander when confronted with an apothecary for his famed restorative 'Viper Wine'matters of race, Venetia is set on to a dangerous pathwoman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581663</amazonuk>1471188191