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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David ChadwickTananarive Due|title=Liberty BazaarThe Reformatory

|summary= Confederate General Jubal de Brooke Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sent sentenced to Britain six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as an envoy to raise awareness the Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and funds from dark reputation. But the English aristocracy for his southern brothers in arms in segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the American Civil Warboys that have died there. Meanwhile slave Trinity escapes In order to England survive the school governor and immediately becomes an icon for his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the liberal elite. However soon Trinity realises thereschool's more to the English support than just talkghosts – only they have their own motivations.. She uncovers a secret – and highly illegal – plot with far reaching effects for her homeland, not to mention dangerous consequences for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906582920</amazonuk>1803366532}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lloyd ShepherdKatherine Howe|title=Savage MagicA True Account

|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=London, 1842: Magistrate Aaron Graham Hannah Masury is missing his wife. She's left himliving in Boston, taking their daughter having been sent to live with her cousin in a very uncousinly way. Yet her distance doesn't prevent her discussing the goings on at her new home with Graham; as these goings on resemble witchcraft family who run an inn, and seem being made to be taking work there from a toll on his daughter's health Aaron is rightly worriedyoung age. He calls upon Constable Horton to investigate… this When she hears there is the Horton whose wife Graham encouraged to enter one be a hanging of some pirates in the more exclusive madhousestown, she decides to go and watch. Under Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the circumstances it seemed hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that 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 right thing to do but Horton still hasnnotorious Ned Low't forgiven his superior for its pirate ship as a cabin boy. However, as She soon finds herself in the investigation goes on and Graham thick of things when there is distracted by a murder case with a rising body countmutiny on board, these bubbling undercurrents of enmity reduce and from there we are caught up in importance. The important thing for each her rip roaring tale of them has become survivallife on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471136086</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dominic LukeSarah Marsh|title=Dreams That VeilA Sign of Her Own

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=12-year-old Eliza Brannan is looking forward to After a bout of scarlet fever as a wonderful summerchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. She and Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her older cousin Dorothea will be joined at home by Eliza's university student brother Roderick and the sun-drenched days will stretch out before them. Unfortunately the reality isn't the same as the dream; this is the summer when life changes. Dorothea and Roderick will pursue futures that no one had predicted and Living in a foreign house guest will open Eliza's eyes to time when the world outside her outgrown nursery. There againuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, this Ellen is 1914; sent to a year heralding a change in life for more than just the Brannan household.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191020823X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Laura Andersen|title=The Boleyn Reckoning (Anne Boleyn Trilogy)|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=SPOILERS FOR BOOKS 1 & 2 AHEAD: Henry IX is still in love with his childhood sweetheart Minuette and school where she is determined taught to marry herlip read, despite being betrothed to Princess Elisabeth of France for political reasonsbut physically restrained from signing. What he still doesn't realise is that Minuette is married to the third member of their childhood trio, his trusted advisor DominicFrom here, Duke of Exeter. Meanwhile there are some who feel that Henry's sister Princess Elizabeth would make a better ruler than he. Then there's his half-sister, Lady Mary, who is starting to realise what she's given ends up for Henry's future. The beginning of the end in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has started… but whose end/ends will it be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956501</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Vaughn Entwhistle|title= The Dead Assassin|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, 1895. Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to been teaching the scene of a mysterious crime – deaf and using a senior member of the Government lies murderedsystem called Visible Speech. Close by, At the body of the attacker is foundsame time, riddled with bullets. The dead assassin Bell is identified, however, as a man who was hanged several weeks previously. Mystified by the strange incident, Arthur Conan Doyle calls working 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, other inventions and the very establishment itself. It seems that someone is reanimating corpsesideas, 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 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 changes to his body. But what's this? When he gets back, he Ellen finds one of the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him to go there herself unwittingly caught up in the first place, a huge, macabre ceremonial fetish mask, purloined as corporate artwork. And some complicated tangle of the curators he wishes to work alongside have vanishedespionage. Is the weird society of the museum he's returning to, perchance, even weirder, stranger and more violent than the cannibalistic society he's waving farewell to?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922079308</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toby ClementsClaire North|title=Kingmaker: Broken Faith (Kingmaker 2)House of Odysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=This contains spoilers for Kingmaker 1, so that's probably best read first; you won't regret it! Now where were weWhat could matter more than love? 1462: '' The War of follow-up to the Roses rages onexcellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. Katherine is at Cornford CastleIn the palace of Odysseus, posing as Lady Margaret Cornfordwith delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, wife of the now blind Richard Fakenhamwho sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. Not even he realises her true identity but As ever she feels it's only a matter remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of timethe Western Isles. The man who Katherine really loves Having survived – politically and assumes dead, Thomas Everingham is suffering from a head injury. Hephysical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's just remembered enough to make his way to his childhood home but shores, Queen Penelope is unaware on the brink of his more recent past; he can remember how to fight though – and just as well! On a wider canvas, fragile peace. One that shatters however with the war has denuded Englandreturn of Orestes, most King of its food having gone to feed the armies. King Henry VI has fled to the northeast Mycenae, and Warwick, the Kingmaker himselfhis sister Elektra, is coming for him. The worst isn't over yet though, not for anyoneseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780891709</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=G K HollowayB0C7J9D21B|title=1066: What Fates Impose|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Perhaps England should realise it's in trouble when King Edward the Confessor takes one look at his naked bride and decides to remain chaste. This signals a lack of royal offspring and a succession crisis that becomes so important the vultures flock to fight even before he's ill, 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 is one of the best; a story of a journey that will finish near Hastings as a deadly stand-off between King Harold Godwinson and Norman Duke William A Captive in that year that every British school child is taught: 1066.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062207</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAlgiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Natasha Pulley|title=The Watchmaker of Filigree Street|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=London 1883: Thaniel Steepleton, a telegraphist in a government office, 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 Carrow, 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 ahead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408854287</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Katharine McMahon|title=The Woman in the PictureA 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 shemother died when he was born. He's preoccupied by two cases from opposite ends not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the social spectrumpreparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Trudy Wright is a maidservant accused of theft Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and Evelyn has undertaken this case ''pro bono'': her argument is that the 'theft' it was of not long before he had a letter asking for successful business as a reference guide for Trudy, but she was too frightened to hand it to her bullying employer, so only she was the loservisitors. 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 with the unionsHe was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297866036</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon ScarrowEssie Fox|title=Hearts of Stone|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Wars are often written about and the further back you go the more unreal they feel. The description of 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 today. There are stories still to be told from this time, but they must be written well and sensitively.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755380223</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Cynthia Harrod-Eagles|title=Keep the Home Fires Burning: War at Home, 1915Fascination

|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 deWe begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy' Medici to sell him her late fathers coronation as King of England. William's alchemical equipmentposition is not secure and the new king has many challenges. She and her family are starving and Imposing authority through a sale would mean survivalcoronation is important. And William is right to worry. However While the soon to be Emperor has other ideas previous king, Harold, is dead and abducts Chiara to become his assistant in the quest to find likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the rebels are stirring and much of the Philosopher's Stone. If he finds it she will go free. If country does notwish to recognise a new overlord... Best not think about that option!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099571536</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rosemary Goring3949666079|title=Dacre's War|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1523, ten years after the Battle of Flodden and the death if James IV of Scotland. Henry VIII has decided on a scorched earth policy and sends agents over the borders to burn Scottish towns and plunder their churches and monasteries to fund his coffers. One such agent is Thomas, Baron Dacre, Keeper of Carlisle and, ironically, friend of the dead Scottish ruler. While working for the English crown Dacre also has his own private war to fight. Clan chief Adam Crozier hears that Dacre ordered Adam's father's murder and wants his revenge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973112</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNoema|author=Eve Makis|title=The Spice Box LettersDael Akkerman

|summary=Katerina's Armenian grandmother Mariam dies leaving her and her mother 'This is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is a journal young girl living in Armenian and a spice box full hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, the Sea of mysterious lettersGrass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce. They're special What to them both because they're do? Can the law givers in the legacy federation of a much loved relative but totally indecipherable villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the monolingually English pair. However a holiday abroad to get over Traveller, a recent break up brings a random encounter for Katerina. When Katerina meets Ara she also meets spiritual figure who interprets the key to her grandmother's secret past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124087</amazonuk>wisdom of All Life, provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=MRC Kasasian1529125898|title=Death Descends On Saturn Villa (The Gower Street Detective Series)|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=While the best personal detective in the known Victorian world (in his opinion anyway) Sidney Grice is away on a case, his ward March is left to her own devices. As luck would have it, one of those devices is an invitation to meet a previously unknown relative. March visits Saturn Villa with a sense 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>}}{{newreviewGodmersham Park|author=Cesca Major|title=The Silent HoursGill 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=DarklingA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=2.54

|summary= Brilliana Harley Minnie is a seventeenth century Puritan, and a Roundhead an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a county of Puritansleafy provincial suburb. Driven The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to defend both her beliefs mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and home in spend the front rest of total aggression, Brilliana must take charge her days looking after her husband and defend her their home. Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to do at all the while consumed with longing for an absent husbandand neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. She soon comes under As a brutal and unrelenting siegeresult of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and will struggle effectively living a double life - attempting to survive. In infiltrate the present day, Mia Morgan is researching the life Communist Party of Brilliana Harley, hoping to finish a book begun by her late ex-loverGreat Britain. As Minnie finds herself torn between what she struggles to come to term with perceives as her grief, duty and to rebuild a life from what the friends she has left, Mia finds her life becoming irrevocably entwined with that of made - and likes - whilst working for the tragic BrillianaCommunist Party. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958414X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben KaneAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Eagles at WarKokoschka's Doll|rating=42.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=WarWell, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, what which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it good for? . Looking at I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the ever buoyant historic fiction genre it would appear that war is great for selling books20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. This is especially the case It intrigued with the Romans; there are more books about Ancient Roman battles than there were mad Caesarssubterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. One of But you've seen the leading names in the historic fiction genre is Ben Kane star rating that comes with this review, and when he releases the first book in a new series fans of the genre take noticecan tell that if love was on these pages, but would they be right to do soit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848094043</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diney CosteloeChristina Hammonds Reed|title=The Throwaway ChildrenBlack Kids|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=They seemed like a perfect little family unit: Mavis and her two young daughtersChristina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Rita and Rosie. But widowed Mavis needed a man in her life and violent bully Jimmy was only too happy reaction to enjoy the perks absolution of such four police officers for beating a relationshipblack man, Rodney King, even if it meant putting up with her troublesome childrennearly to death. When Mavis finds herself pregnant with Jimmy's babyTold from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, he agrees to marry her on one condition: the girls have to go. Distraught Mavis chooses her man over novel follows her children, setting in motion evolution from a tragic chain silent bystander when confronted with matters of events that leads race, to the girls being sent to an orphanage thousands of miles away in Australia. “The Throwaway Children” follows the lives of Rita a woman finding her voice and Rosie as they struggle to make sense of this new, unfamiliar worldembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784970018</amazonuk>1471188191