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{{newreview|author= Vaughn Entwhistle|title= The Dead Assassin|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, 1895. Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to the scene of a mysterious crime – a senior member of the Government lies murdered. Close by, the body of the attacker is found, riddled with bullets. The dead assassin is identified, however, as a man who was hanged several weeks previously. Mystified by the strange incident, Arthur Conan Doyle calls on a friend for advice – Oscar Wilde. Together, the two of them are swept up into a bizarre investigation – one that threatens their lives, their families, and the very establishment itself. It seems that someone is reanimating corpses, and programming them for murder…|amazonuk= <amazonuk!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->1783292687</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dido Butterworth and Tim FlanneryTananarive Due|title=The Mystery of the Venus Island FetishReformatory|rating=35

|summary=Meet Archie MeekGracetown, Florida. He's about June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to leave six months at the Venus IslandsGracetown School for Boys, where heotherwise known as the Reformatory. It's lived for a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the last five yearssegregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and return to Sydneyhis Funhouse, where he'll take his office in Robert must enlist the museum and fill it with all help of the cultural artefacts heschool's found and wildlife he's plucked or pickledghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4. That's not 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to ignore the fact he'll count as something quite alien himself, live with his filled-out framea family who run an inn, nearly all-over suntan and totemic tattoo, in amongst other changes being made to his bodywork there from a young age. But what's this? When he gets back, he finds one she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him town, she decides to go there and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the first placehands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, a hugeso that they don't find and kill her too, macabre ceremonial fetish maskand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, purloined dressing as corporate artwork. And some of a boy and joining the curators he wishes to work alongside have vanishednotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Is She soon finds herself in the weird society thick of the museum he's returning to, perchancethings when there is a mutiny on board, even weirder, stranger and more violent than from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the cannibalistic society he's waving farewell to?ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922079308</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toby ClementsSarah Marsh|title=Kingmaker: Broken Faith (Kingmaker 2)A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=This contains spoilers for Kingmaker 1, so that's probably best read first; you won't regret it! Now where were we? 1462: The War After a bout of the Roses rages on. Katherine is at Cornford Castle, posing scarlet fever as Lady Margaret Cornforda child, wife of the now blind Richard FakenhamEllen Lark loses her hearing. Not even he realises her true identity but she feels it's only Suddenly plunged into a matter world of timesilence, everything about her life changes. The man who Katherine really loves and assumes deadLiving in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Thomas Everingham Ellen is suffering from sent to a head injury. He's just remembered enough school where she is taught to make his way to his childhood home lip read, but is unaware of his more recent past; he can remember how to fight though – and just as well! physically restrained from signing. On a wider canvasFrom here, the war she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has denuded England, most of its food having gone to feed been teaching the armiesdeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. King Henry VI has fled to At the northeast and Warwick, the Kingmaker himselfsame time, Bell is coming for him. The worst isn't over yet thoughworking on other inventions and ideas, not for anyoneand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780891709</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=G K HollowayClaire North|title=1066: What Fates ImposeHouse of Odysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Perhaps England should realise it's in trouble when King Edward 'What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the Confessor takes one look palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at his naked bride Troy and decides to remain chastethen by divine intervention never returned home. This signals a lack As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of royal offspring the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and a succession crisis physical – the chaotic storm that becomes so important the vultures flock Clytemnestra brought to fight even before heIthaca's illshores, let alone dead. The jockeying for position as next in line to the throne or next in line's favourite has begun. Indeed England is famous for its royal succession wars and this Queen Penelope is one of on the best; a story brink of a journey fragile peace. One that will finish near Hastings as a deadly stand-off between shatters however with the return of Orestes, King Harold Godwinson of Mycenae, and Norman Duke William in that year that every British school child is taught: 1066his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783062207</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha PulleyB0C7J9D21B|title=The Watchmaker of Filigree StreetA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=Wars are often written about When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and the further back you go the more unreal they feelEttore's mother died when he was born. The description He's not been short of a Roman Soldier being killed seems to have little impact on our lives todaymothers, though - butfor someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, what about Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam? How far must one go back before we feel detached from events? World War Two ended 70 years ago, but it still ripples through 's difficult to todayobtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. There are stories still to be told from this time, but they must be written well Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and sensitivelyit was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755380223</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cynthia Harrod-EaglesEssie Fox|title=Keep the Home Fires Burning: War at Home, 1915The Fascination

|summary= As the calendar page turns to 1915 Jack Hunter The Victorian era is fighting the front. The same goes incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for Charles Wroughtonhistorical fiction (matched only, leaving his new fiancée Diana perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led to face his aristocratic family (including dreadful Rupert) alonemore than a few writers mishandling it. The countryThere's men are going off such a glut of media set in greater numbers as enlistment fever begins the era that the hallmarks we've come to build and women associate with it are familiar to the point of being brought in to do men's jobscliched, hackneyed even. (Yes, really!) Diana's sister Sadie continues to train horses All this is simply to illustrate that it would be sent an easy thing to the French frontdo poorly. But despite that, making her feel as if she's doing something useful. There are also other benefits to the job, seeing more of local vet John Courcy for instance, although their relationship is purely professional… yes, really! Not everything is focused on France though; thereabout it still grabs me – and something about this book's talk of opening up a new front further east on the Turkish coast at a place called Gallipolidescription did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751556297</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel BillingtonNicole Jarvis|title=GloryA Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5

|summary=Sylvia Fitzpaine comes ''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a titled family with all home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the advantages self-proclaimed guardians of class the healing magics that through paintings have the aristocracy can offer in 1915. These are grossly troubled times though, with men including her father power to protect the Brigadier General city and its citizens from plagues and her fiancé Arthur away at warcurses. The Brigadier General seems safe at the moment in Cairo but Arthur all-male Accademia has been sent into the thick of hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard itabove all else. He sits in a ship awaiting embarkation just off the coast of a little known Turkish regionTo them, the very name of which will one day summon images of terror Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and ill-thought-out tactics. Arthur is on his way to Gallipolitheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409146235</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth FremantleThomas D Lee|title=Watch the LadyPerilous Times|rating=53|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=Queen Elizabeth I ''Hate is in her autumnal years and becoming increasingly pre-occupied with fear the path of potential plots and coups catching up with her – and perhaps justifiably so. This is how young Penelope Devereux finds Her Majesty (Penelope's godmother) on Penelopeleast resistance's acceptance at court. It's a dangerous time to be a royal maid Set in the near-distant future, especially in young Miss Devereux's case with a banished motherworld on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a stephero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little remains. What no-father who is one expected was that one of Elizabeth's favourites and the realisation that Knights of the girl has been placed there to spy for Round Table would answer the family. However the Devereux interests will be served even if the game that Penelope plays is a fatal onecall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>071817710X</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth LoupasG K Holloway|title=The Red Lily CrownIn the Shadows of Castles

|summary=Florence 1574: Chiara Nerini only approaches Francesco de' Medici to sell him her late father's alchemical equipment. She and her family are starving and a sale would mean survival. However We begin after the soon to be Emperor has other ideas momentous battle in 1066 and abducts Chiara to become his assistant in on the quest to find the Philosopherday of William of Normandy's Stonecoronation as King of England. If he finds it she will go free. If not... Best not think about that option!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571536</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rosemary Goring|title=DacreWilliam's War|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1523, ten years after the Battle of Flodden position is not secure and the death if James IV of Scotlandnew king has many challenges. Henry VIII has decided on Imposing authority through a scorched earth policy and sends agents over the borders to burn Scottish towns and plunder their churches and monasteries coronation is important. And William is right to fund his coffersworry. One such agent is ThomasWhile the previous king, Baron DacreHarold, Keeper is dead and the likelihood of Carlisle more pitched battles is over, the rebels are stirring and, ironically, friend much of the dead Scottish ruler. While working for the English crown Dacre also has his own private war country does not wish to fight. Clan chief Adam Crozier hears that Dacre ordered Adam's father's murder and wants his revengerecognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973112</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eve Makis3949666079|title=The Spice Box LettersNoema|author=Dael Akkerman

|summary=Katerina's Armenian grandmother Mariam dies leaving her and her mother 'This is a journal in Armenian and a spice box full of mysterious lettersstory about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago. They're special to them both because they're the legacy of  Maya is a young girl living in a much loved relative but totally indecipherable to hunter gatherer village during the monolingually English pairMesolithic era. However a holiday abroad to get over a recent break up brings a random encounter for Katerina. When Katerina meets Ara she also meets Climate change is occurring, the key to her grandmotherSea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's secret pastforest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124087</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=MRC Kasasian|title=Death Descends On Saturn Villa (The Gower Street Detective Series)|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=While What to do? Can the best personal detective law givers in the known Victorian world (in his opinion anyway) Sidney Grice is away on a case, his ward March is left federation of villages muster peaceful ways to her own devices. As luck would have itcope? Can the Traveller, one of those devices is an invitation to meet a previously unknown relative. March visits Saturn Villa with a sense spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of curiosity and encounters Uncle Tolly whose afternoon tea is one she will never forget. Let's hope she knows a good detective!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185971X</amazonuk>All Life, provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cesca Major1529125898|title=The Silent HoursGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=Adeline is an enigma''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She has lived in had no experience of teaching but this was a nunnery ever since case of necessity. Until the death of her rescuemother, several years agoAnne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the household. She cannot speak When her mother died, nor can her father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her. No explanation was offered but she remember much about her previous lifewould receive an annuity of £35 a year. Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.}}{{Frontpage|author=Melissa Fu |title=Peach Blossom Spring |rating=3. She tries desperately 5|genre=Historical Fiction |summary= I loved the prelude to piece together Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''. Unfortunately it is the ephemeral fragments only truly poetic part of a book that come 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 story follows them on their journey across China, and in fitful dreams. Something has taken everything away. Something so powerful that it has rendered her speechlessRenshu's case eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782395687</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Louisa Treger1916072038|title= The LodgerHouse in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= A writer writing about writers writingWe 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 the house in the hollow. What more could a reader The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, a book reviewerat concealing, beneath a tentative writer and lover facade of words want from a book? Not forgetting respectability, the setting – Englanddeplorable truth''. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as she was asked, early 1900s, clear class divisions which has precipitated ''this violent and social expectations – unexpected removal''. Then we are told of the birth of a child and the characters – fascinating, colourfulsoon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and above all, real. This book has everything I look for isolation in a storyYorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1250051932</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonia HodgsonAnnabel Abbs|title=The Last Confession Language of Thomas HawkinsFood

|summary=A few months after we left Tom in Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the 1720s we return slightest inclination to find him living in sin and love boil an egg. When tasked with Kitty. Or it would be sin if they ever get round to the bed bit. Just as he promised underworld gang leader James Fleetwriting a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, Tom has taken in James' son Sam to train him in the ways of being a gentleman. All seems to be going well in that department until Tom receives local woman with a visit from an old enemy and a brush with the country's ultimate powertroubled home life. Then both collide to create fear and an offer that Tom isn't able to refuseTogether, they test, no matter how hard he tries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444775456</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Martine Bailey|title= The Penny Heart|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=After living a life of crime in order to scrape bycraft, Mary Jebb is spared from the gallows – refine and banished to Australia. Before leaving for reshape 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 Halldomestic cookery, where Mary’s story meets that reinventing the recipe book and changing the face of shy artist Grace Moore – and yet more confidence tricks begincookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444769855</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amitav GhoshFreya Marske|title=Flood of Fire (Ibis Trilogy 3)A Marvellous Light

|summary=1839 Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the repercussions of the sinking streets of the Ibis and the Chinese clampdown on opium smuggling go onLondon are threaded with magic. Now widowed by the marine disaster, Shireen Modhi is given an opportunity Desperate to discover her late husband's legacy although it means journeying alone from India remove a curse that threatens to China. Former sailor Zachary Reid finds life landside to be a little complicated when he becomes a 'mystery' (craftsman) attached swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the Indian home of a British opium tradercountryside, despite its fringe benefitswhere the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. East India Company sepoy officer Kesri Singh is also a little unsettled, especially when he discovers he must prepare for There they uncover a war sinister plot that, threatens the lives of all magicians in some way or other, will affect them allthe British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0719569001</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean RavencourtB09F4CTKJR|title=A Lover's PinchFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=Hettie (Henriette to be formal) It's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has grown signed up in straitened timesand joined the 17 Aero Squadron. Her mother This company was a former mistress of Charles IX but now Henri IV is on the throne. A different king means different favourites and Hettie’s family have first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to live on the memory RAF and favours of others. However Hettie has attracted the attention of Henri which is enough first to be sent into the skies to give her mother ideasfight the Germans in active combat. She’s not the only one though: King’s mistress Gabrielle d’Estrees also But before that can happen, Petrol has plans for to master flying the teenage girl. Hettie is definitely embarking on an adventure notoriously difficult but the twists it takes are unforeseen by anyone and dangerous to allmajestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00UEL4XLW</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia DunckerChristophe Medler|title=Sophie and the SibylMadrigal: A Victorian RomanceClosely Guarded Secret

|summary=''Sophie and Set against the backdrop of the Sibyl'', consciously modelled on John Fowles's ''The French Lieutenant's Woman''English Civil War, is a postmodern blending of history, fiction, and metafictional commentary. Brothers Max and Wolfgang Duncker really were George Eliot's German publishers, but the accident of their surname matching the author's makes them her clever standsecret plan (code-in. As the novel opens in 1872, the venerable English author named Madrigal) is exploring Homburg and Berlin discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the company summer of her 'husband' while ushering her latest novel, ''Middlemarch'', into German translation1642. Max, As a young cad fond loyal servant of casinos the King, and brothelsHead of the Secret Service, has two tasks: ensuring Eliotit is Robert's loyalty duty to their publishing house, uncover the details of the plan and securing Countess Sophie von Hahn's hand follow the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in marriagehistory—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140886052X</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Beatty1471187179|title=Darkling|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Brilliana Harley is a seventeenth century Puritan, and a Roundhead in a county of Puritans. Driven to defend both her beliefs and home in the front of total aggression, Brilliana must take charge and defend her home, all the while consumed with longing for an absent husband. She soon comes under a brutal and unrelenting siege, and will struggle to survive. In the present day, Mia Morgan is researching the life of Brilliana Harley, hoping to finish a book begun by her late ex-lover. As she struggles to come to term with her grief, and to rebuild a life from what she has left, Mia finds her life becoming irrevocably entwined with that of the tragic Brilliana. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958414X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewA Beautiful Spy|author=Ben Kane|title=Eagles at WarRachel Hore

|summary=War, what Minnie is it good for? an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. Looking at The book is set in the ever buoyant historic fiction genre it would appear that war 1930s and Minnie is great for selling booksexpected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their home. This is especially the case with the Romans; there are more books about Ancient Roman battles than there were mad CaesarsUnfortunately, this isn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. One As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the leading names in secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the historic fiction genre is Ben Kane Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and when he releases the first book in a new series fans of friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the genre take notice, but would they be right to do so?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848094043</amazonuk>Communist Party.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diney CosteloeAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The Throwaway ChildrenKokoschka's Doll|rating=42.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=They seemed Well, this looked very much like a perfect little family unit: Mavis and her two young daughters, Rita and Rosie. But widowed Mavis needed a man in her life and violent bully Jimmy was only too happy to enjoy book I could love from the perks of such a relationshipget-go, even if it meant putting which is why I picked my review copy 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 and flipped pages over her children, setting in motion a tragic chain several times before actually reading any of events that leads to the girls being sent to an orphanage thousands of miles away in Australia. “The Throwaway Children” follows the lives of Rita and Rosie as they struggle to make sense of this new, unfamiliar world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784970018</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Suzannah Dunn|title=The Lady of Misrule|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Tilney volunteers to accompany Lady Jane Grey to the Tower of Londonit. Elizabeth would be attendant I found things to the young deposed Protestant queen while Jane's husband Guildford Dudley is kept in an adjacent tower. Her feelings for him are less than devotional whereas he still feels potentially delight me each time – a responsibility towards her, mixed with his fear 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 weird section in the new and old queens' faiths. Does Jane have anything to fear? Spending her time with Jane and as a messenger to Guildfordmiddle on darker stock paper, Elizabeth hopes not but she hears rumours...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704668</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dan Simmons|title=The Fifth Heart|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=On a rainy night chapter whose number was in March 1893 Henry James stands on a Paris bridgethe 20, about to end it all. Next to him sidles Sherlock Holmes000s, about to do the same. Instead of jumpingletters used as narrative form, 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 Sherlockso on. He's off, Henry James is going It intrigued 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 the subterranean voice a young orphan – growing up man hears in the turbulent period of the English Civil War, she has wartorn Dresden that what little choice but to marry for the sake I knew of her familyit mentioned, and to trust her considerable inheritance into the care of her husbandtoo. As But you've seen the war star rating that comes to an end, and those who supported the losing King are punished severely, Katherine finds herself with no money, few friendsthis review, and a house can tell that has become a prisonif love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. 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… So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472204247</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lydia SysonChristina Hammonds Reed|title=Liberty's FireThe Black Kids

|genre=Teens|summary=Paris in Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to the uneasy and violent months between March and May 1871 is an inspired setting absolution of four police officers for this tensebeating a black man, dramatic Rodney King, nearly to death. Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, the novel. ''Liberty's Fire'' is Lydia Syson's third work follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of fiction race, to a woman finding her voice and certainly ensures that she will not be stereotyped into any single historical periodembracing her heritage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140367X</amazonuk> 1471188191