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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura AndersenTananarive Due|title=The Boleyn Reckoning (Anne Boleyn Trilogy)Reformatory|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=SPOILERS FOR BOOKS 1 & 2 AHEAD: Henry IX Hannah Masury is still living in love Boston, having been sent to live with his childhood sweetheart Minuette a family who run an inn, and is determined to marry her, despite being betrothed made to Princess Elisabeth of France for political reasonswork there from a young age. What he still doesn't realise When she hears there is that Minuette is married to be a hanging of some pirates in the third member of their childhood triotown, his trusted advisor Dominic, Duke of Exetershe decides to go and watch. Meanwhile there are some who feel that HenryEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's sister Princess Elizabeth would make a better ruler than hedeath at the hands of two vicious pirates. Then thereShe hides away, so that they don's his half-sistert find and kill her too, Lady Mary, who is starting and then to realise what escape them completely sheruns away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's given up for Henry's futurepirate ship as a cabin boy. The beginning 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 the end has started… but whose end/ends will it be?ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091956501</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Vaughn EntwhistleSarah Marsh|title= The Dead AssassinA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=London, 1895. Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to the scene of After a mysterious crime – a senior member bout of the Government lies murdered. Close by, the body of the attacker is found, riddled with bullets. The dead assassin is identified, however, scarlet fever as a man who was hanged several weeks previously. Mystified by the strange incidentchild, Arthur Conan Doyle calls on a friend for advice – Oscar WildeEllen Lark loses her hearing. Together, the two of them are swept up Suddenly plunged into a bizarre investigation – one that threatens their livesworld of silence, their families, and the very establishment itself. It seems that someone is reanimating corpses, and programming them for murder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783292687</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dido Butterworth and Tim Flannery|title=The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Meet Archie Meek. He's everything about to leave the Venus Islands, where he's lived for the last five years, and return to Sydney, where he'll take his office in the museum and fill it with all the cultural artefacts he's found and wildlife he's plucked or pickled. That's not to ignore the fact he'll count as something quite alien himself, with his filled-out frame, nearly all-over suntan and totemic tattoo, in amongst other her life changes to his body. But what's this? When he gets back, he finds one of the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him to go there Living in the first place, a huge, macabre ceremonial fetish mask, purloined as corporate artwork. And some of the curators he wishes to work alongside have vanished. Is time when the weird society use of the museum he's returning tosign language was seen as something only savages do, perchance, even weirder, stranger and more violent than the cannibalistic society he's waving farewell Ellen is sent to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922079308</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toby Clements|title=Kingmaker: Broken Faith (Kingmaker 2)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=This contains spoilers for Kingmaker 1, so that's probably best read first; you won't regret it! Now a school where were we? 1462: The War of the Roses rages on. Katherine she is at Cornford Castle, posing as Lady Margaret Cornfordtaught to lip read, wife of the now blind Richard Fakenham. Not even he realises her true identity but she feels it's only a matter of time. The man who Katherine really loves and assumes dead, Thomas Everingham is suffering physically restrained from a head injurysigning. He's just remembered enough to make his way to his childhood home but is unaware of his more recent past; he can remember how to fight though – and just as well! 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 Queen Penelope is famous for its royal succession wars and this 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 and Norman Duke William in that year that every British school child is taught: 1066.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062207</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Natasha Pulley|title=The Watchmaker of Filigree Street|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=London 1883: Thaniel Steepleton, a telegraphist in a government officeMycenae, finds himself living and working in a city at siege during a Clan na Gael bombing campaign. It's around this time that he also realises that his pocket watch seems to have some odd, previously unnoticed functions. Grace Carrowsister Elektra, a 'bluestocking' physics student also owns such a watch. The two total strangers may think their watches odd, but 'odd' takes on a new meaning when they meet Mr Mori, the Japanese watchmaker. His clockwork pet octopus is only a small measure of the oddity aheadseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408854287</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katharine McMahonB0C7J9D21B|title=The Woman A Captive in the PictureAlgiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=In February 1926 London was tense When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and divided between those who supported the principle he lives at The House of a general strike and those who were prepared to break Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it at whatever cost to themselves. Evelyn Gifford is 's a newly qualified solicitor bordello and whilst sheEttore's sympathetic to the miners she's preoccupied by two cases from opposite ends of the social spectrummother died when he was born. Trudy Wright is a maidservant accused of theft and Evelyn has undertaken this case He''pro bono'': her argument is that the 'theft' was s not been short of a letter asking mothers, though - but for a reference for Trudysomeone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, but she was too frightened to hand it 's difficult to her bullying employer, so only she was the loserobtain decent employment. The Wright family worm their way into Evelyn's life: the father is a bullying, drunken, wife beater, the mother is scared and brow beaten, but the son, Robbie, is deeply involved stint working with the unions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297866036</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Simon Scarrow|title=Hearts preparation of Stone|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Wars anchovies didn't work out and bastards are often written about and the further back you go the more unreal they feelconsidered bad luck on fishing boats. The description of Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a Roman Soldier being killed seems to have little impact on our lives today, but, 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 to todayguide for visitors. There are stories still to be told from this time, but they must be written well and sensitivelyHe 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 writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with Kittya troubled home life. Or it would be sin if Together, they ever get round to test, craft, refine and reshape the bed bit. Just as he promised underworld gang leader James Fleetworld of domestic cookery, Tom has taken in James' son Sam to train him in reinventing the ways of being a gentleman. All seems to be going well in that department until Tom receives a visit from an old enemy recipe book and a brush with changing the country's ultimate power. Then both collide to create fear and an offer that Tom isn't able to refuse, no matter how hard he triesface of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444775456</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Martine BaileyFreya Marske|title= The Penny Heart|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=After living a life of crime 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 (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 daughtersbook I could love from the get-go, Rita which is why I picked my review copy up and Rosieflipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. But widowed Mavis needed I found things to potentially delight me each time – a man weird section in her life and violent bully Jimmy the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was only too happy to enjoy in the perks of such a relationship20,000s, letters used as narrative form, even if it meant putting up with her troublesome childrenand so on. When Mavis finds herself pregnant It intrigued with Jimmy's baby, he agrees to marry her on one condition: the girls have to go. Distraught Mavis chooses her subterranean voice a man over her children, setting hears in motion a tragic chain of events wartorn Dresden that leads to the girls being sent to an orphanage thousands what little I knew of miles away in Australiait mentioned, too. “The Throwaway Children” follows But you've seen the lives of Rita star rating that comes with this review, and Rosie as they struggle to make sense of this newcan tell that if love was on these pages, unfamiliar worldit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784970018</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzannah DunnChristina Hammonds Reed|title=The Lady of MisruleBlack Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=Elizabeth Tilney volunteers to accompany Lady Jane Grey to the Tower of London. Elizabeth would be attendant to the young deposed Protestant queen while JaneChristina Hammonds Reed's husband Guildford Dudley 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 and anger at what has gone before and what may lie ahead. However Jane debut novel is treated well by set against the new Queen Mary despite the difference in backdrop of the new and old queens' faiths. Does Jane have anything to fear? Spending her time with Jane and as a messenger to Guildford1992 Los Angeles riots, 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 in March 1893 Henry James stands on a Paris bridge, about reaction to end it all. Next to him sidles Sherlock Holmes, about to do the same. Instead absolution of jumping, Holmes drags James off four police officers for beating a drink and decides that they will go to America to solve a 17-year-old murder case. The supposed victimblack man, socialite Clover AdamsRodney King, is believed nearly to have committed suicide but that doesn't deter Sherlockdeath. 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 Told from the sake perspective of her familyAshley Bennett, and to trust her considerable inheritance into the care of novel follows 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 evolution from her cold, oft absent husband, Katherine meets a man who changes her lifesilent bystander when confronted with matters of race, with Katherine choosing to join him in a life that provides woman finding her with the excitement she craves – voice and yet may prove all too dangerous…embracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472204247</amazonuk>1471188191