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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally WraggTananarive Due|title=The GypsyReformatory|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|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's Taledeath at the 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 notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=There's After a new resident at Loxleybout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Bronwyn's niece, Lottie Colfax is tired Suddenly plunged into a world of schoolsilence, desperate to join up and 'do everything about her bit', to life changes. Living in a time when the frustration use of her family who hope that some time away from home will encourage her sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to see sense. But from her family's point of view there's a bad example at Loxley: Hettieschool where she is taught to lip read, Duchess of Loxley has joined the WAAFS and is serving in London - usually driving people but physically restrained from place to placesigning. Her grandmother's not at all pleased about this: Katherine sees Hettie's duty as being at Loxley. ''Nothing'' comes before Loxley From here, she ends up in Katherine's view - even King another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and country must take second placeusing a system called Visible Speech. Fortunately Katherine doesn't know that Hettie At the same time, Bell is going to be doing something far more dangerous. In the meantime Lottie has discovered a secret working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in Loxley's cellars and met a young man who is also determined to join up, no matter what his mother sayscomplicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0123Q8KL4</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David ChadwickClaire North|title=Liberty BazaarHouse of Odysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary= Confederate General Jubal de Brooke is sent ''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 palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to Britain as an envoy rule without her husband, who sailed to raise awareness war at Troy and funds from then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the English aristocracy for his southern brothers in arms in throne of the American Civil WarWestern Isles. Meanwhile slave Trinity escapes to England Having survived – politically and immediately becomes an icon for physical – the liberal elite. However soon Trinity realises therechaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's more to shores, Queen Penelope is on the English support than just talkbrink of a fragile peace. She uncovers a secret – One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and highly illegal – plot with far reaching effects for her homelandhis sister Elektra, not to mention dangerous consequences for herseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906582920</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lloyd ShepherdB0C7J9D21B|title=Savage MagicA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=LondonWhen we first meet our hero, 1842: Magistrate Aaron Graham his name is missing his wifeEttore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. SheIdyllic as this might sound, it's left him, taking their daughter to live with her cousin in a very uncousinly waybordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. Yet her distance doesnHe't prevent her discussing the goings on at her new home with Graham; as these goings on resemble witchcraft and seem to be taking a toll on s not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his daughterbackground in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's health Aaron is rightly worrieddifficult to obtain decent employment. He calls upon Constable Horton to investigate… this is The stint working with the Horton whose wife Graham encouraged to enter one preparation of the more exclusive madhouses. Under the circumstances it seemed the right thing to do but Horton still hasnanchovies didn't forgiven his superior for itwork out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. However, as the investigation goes on Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and Graham is distracted by it was not long before he had a murder case with successful business as a rising body count, these bubbling undercurrents of enmity reduce in importanceguide for visitors. The important thing for each of them has become survivalHe was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136086</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dominic LukeEssie Fox|title=Dreams That VeilThe Fascination|rating=3.54

|summary=12The Victorian era is incredibly over-year-old Eliza Brannan is looking forward romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led to more than a wonderful summerfew writers mishandling it. She and her older cousin Dorothea will be joined at home by ElizaThere's university student brother Roderick and such a glut of media set in the sun-drenched days will stretch out before them. Unfortunately era that the reality isnhallmarks we't ve come to associate with it are familiar to the same as the dream; point of being cliched, hackneyed even. All this is the summer when life changessimply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. Dorothea and Roderick will pursue futures But despite that no one had predicted , something about it still grabs me – and a foreign house guest will open Elizasomething about this book's eyes to the world outside her outgrown nursery. There again, this is 1914; a year heralding a change in life for more than just the Brannan householddescription did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191020823X</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura AndersenNicole Jarvis|title=The Boleyn Reckoning (Anne Boleyn Trilogy)A Portrait in Shadow

|summary=SPOILERS FOR BOOKS 1 & 2 AHEAD: Henry IX is still in love with his childhood sweetheart Minuette and is determined ''I want all of Florence to marry her, despite being betrothed to Princess Elisabeth of France for political reasons. What he still doesnknow my name''t realise is that Minuette is married to the third member of their childhood trio Cast out from Rome, his trusted advisor Dominic, Duke of Exeter. Meanwhile there are some who feel that Henry's sister Princess Elizabeth would make Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a better ruler home and where her future can thrive rather than hestagnate. Then there's his half-sister, Lady Mary, who is starting to realise what But as some as she enters Florentine society she's given up for Henry's future. The beginning of faces great opposition from the end 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=Londonpowerful Accademia, 1895. Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to the scene of a mysterious crime – a senior member self-proclaimed guardians of the Government lies murdered. Close by, healing magics that through paintings have the body of power to protect the attacker is found, riddled with bulletscity and its citizens from plagues and curses. The dead assassin is identifiedall-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, however, as a man Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who was hanged several weeks previously. Mystified by the strange incident, Arthur Conan Doyle calls on a friend for advice promises trouble and change – Oscar Wilde. Together, the two of has no place amongst them are swept up into a bizarre investigation – one that threatens their lives, and their families, and the very establishment itselfsociety. It seems that someone is reanimating corpses, and programming them for murder…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292687</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dido Butterworth and Tim FlanneryThomas D Lee|title=The Mystery of the Venus Island FetishPerilous Times

|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=Meet Archie Meek. He's about to leave 'Hate is the Venus Islands, where hepath of least resistance's lived for the last five years, and return to Sydney, where he'll take his office  Set 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 fillednear-out frame, nearly all-over suntan and totemic tattoodistant future, in amongst other 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 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 world on the weird society verge of the museum he's returning toclimate collapse, perchance, even weirder, stranger and more violent than the cannibalistic society he's waving farewell to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922079308</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toby Clements|title=Kingmaker: Broken Faith Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (Kingmaker 2or several)|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 where were we? 1462: The War of to save the Roses rages on. Katherine is at Cornford Castle, posing as Lady Margaret Cornford, 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 day and assumes dead, Thomas Everingham is suffering from a head injuryrescue what little remains. He's just remembered enough to make his way to his childhood home but is unaware What no-one expected was that one of his more recent past; he can remember how to fight though – and just as well! On a wider canvas, the war has denuded England, most Knights of its food having gone to feed the armies. King Henry VI has fled to the northeast and Warwick, Round Table would answer the Kingmaker himself, is coming for him. The worst isn't over yet though, not for anyonecall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780891709</amazonuk>0356518523

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|title=1066: What Fates ImposeIn the Shadows of Castles|rating=4.5

|summary=Perhaps We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England should realise it. William's in trouble when King Edward position is not secure and the Confessor takes one look at his naked bride and decides to remain chastenew king has many challenges. This signals Imposing authority through a lack of royal offspring and a succession crisis that becomes so coronation is important . And William is right to worry. While the vultures flock to fight even before he's illprevious king, Harold, let alone is dead. The jockeying for position as next in line to and the throne or next in line's favourite has begun. Indeed England likelihood of more pitched battles is famous for its royal succession wars over, the rebels are stirring and this is one much of the best; a story of a journey that will finish near Hastings as country does not wish to recognise a deadly stand-off between King Harold Godwinson and Norman Duke William in that year that every British school child is taught: 1066new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783062207</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Pulley3949666079|title=The Watchmaker of Filigree StreetNoema|author=Dael Akkerman

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=London 1883: Thaniel Steepleton, ''This is a telegraphist in story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is a government office, finds himself young girl living and working in a city at siege hunter gatherer village during a Clan na Gael bombing campaignthe Mesolithic era. ItClimate change is occurring, the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's around this time that he also realises that his pocket watch seems to have some oddforest home, previously unnoticed functionsand food is becoming more and more scarce. Grace CarrowWhat to do? Can the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, 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, spiritual figure who interprets the Japanese watchmaker. His clockwork pet octopus is only a small measure wisdom of the oddity ahead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408854287</amazonuk>All Life, provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katharine McMahon1529125898|title=The Woman in the PictureGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating=4.5

|summary=In February 1926 London was tense and divided between those who supported ''If it were not for the principle casual dereliction of a general strike and those who were prepared the odd gentleman's duty, there would no women to break it teach well-bred daughters at whatever cost to themselvesall. Evelyn Gifford is a newly qualified solicitor and whilst '' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she's sympathetic arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the miners she's preoccupied by two cases from opposite ends position of the social spectrumgoverness to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. Trudy Wright is a maidservant accused She had no experience of theft and Evelyn has undertaken teaching but this was a case ''pro bono'': her argument is that of necessity. Until the 'theft' was death of her mother, Anne had a letter asking for a reference for Trudy, but she comfortable life and was too frightened to hand it to loved by both parents although her bullying employer, so only she father was frequently absent from the loserhousehold. The Wright family worm their way into Evelyn's life: the When her mother died, her father is cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a bullyingyear. Her maid, drunken, wife beater, the mother is scared and brow beatenAgnes, would receive nothing but the son, Robbie, is deeply involved with the unionswas fortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297866036</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon ScarrowMelissa Fu |title=Hearts of StonePeach Blossom Spring

|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Wars are often written about and I loved the further back you go the more unreal they feelprelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''. The description Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of a Roman Soldier being killed seems book that I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to have little impact on our lives today, but, what about Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam? How far must 2005 as viewed through one go back before we feel detached from events? World War Two ended 70 years agofamily's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japan, but it still ripples through to todaya young mother (Meilin) and her four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. There are stories still to be told from this timeThe story follows them on their journey across China, but they must be written well and sensitivelyin Renshu's case eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755380223</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cynthia Harrod-Eagles1916072038|title=Keep the Home Fires Burning: War at Home, 1915|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= As the calendar page turns to 1915 Jack Hunter is fighting the front. The same goes for Charles Wroughton, leaving his new fiancée Diana to face his aristocratic family (including dreadful Rupert) alone. The country's men are going off House in greater numbers as enlistment fever begins to build and women are being brought in to do men's jobs. the Hollow (Yes, really!) Diana's sister Sadie continues to train horses to be sent to the French front, 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; there's talk of opening up a new front further east on the Turkish coast at a place called Gallipoli.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751556297</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rachel Billington|title=Glory|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Sylvia Fitzpaine comes from a titled family with all the advantages of class that the aristocracy can offer in 1915. These are grossly troubled times though, with men including her father the Brigadier General and her fiancé Arthur away at war. The Brigadier General seems safe at the moment in Cairo but Arthur has been sent into the thick of it. He sits in a ship awaiting embarkation just off the coast of a little known Turkish region, the very name of which will one day summon images of terror and ill-thought-out tactics. Arthur is on his way to Gallipoli.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409146235</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Elizabeth Fremantle|title=Watch the Lady|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Queen Elizabeth I is in her autumnal years and becoming increasingly pre-occupied with fear of potential plots and coups catching up with her – and perhaps justifiably so. This is how young Penelope Devereux finds Her Majesty (Penelope's godmotherTalbot Saga) on Penelope's acceptance at court. It's a dangerous time to be a royal maid, especially in young Miss Devereux's case with a banished mother, a step-father who is one of Elizabeth's favourites and the realisation that the girl has been placed there to spy for the family. However the Devereux interests will be served even if the game that Penelope plays is a fatal one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071817710X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Elizabeth Loupas|title=The Red Lily CrownAllie Cresswell

|summary=Florence 1574: Chiara Nerini only approaches Francesco de' Medici We 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 sell him her late father's alchemical equipmentthe house in the hollow. She The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her family are starving mother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a sale would mean survivalfacade of respectability, the deplorable truth''. However the soon  Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to be Emperor do as she was asked, which has other ideas precipitated ''this violent and abducts Chiara to become his assistant in the quest to find the Philosopherunexpected removal''s Stone. If he finds it she will go free. If not.. Then we are told of the birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire. Best not think about that option!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571536</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rosemary GoringAnnabel Abbs|title=Dacre's WarThe Language of Food

|summary=1523, ten years after the Battle of Flodden and the death if James IV of Scotland. Henry VIII Eliza Acton is a poet who has decided on a scorched earth policy and sends agents over never had the borders slightest inclination to burn Scottish towns and plunder their churches and monasteries to fund his coffersboil an egg. One such agent is ThomasWhen tasked with writing a cookery book, Baron Dacreshe recruits Ann Kirby, 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>}}{{newreview|author=Eve Makis|title=The Spice Box Letters|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Katerina's Armenian grandmother Mariam dies leaving her and her mother a journal in Armenian and local woman with a spice box full of mysterious letterstroubled home life. They're special to them both because Together, they're test, craft, refine and reshape the legacy world of a much loved relative but totally indecipherable to domestic cookery, reinventing the monolingually English pair. However a holiday abroad to get over a recent break up brings a random encounter for Katerina. When Katerina meets Ara she also meets recipe book and changing the key to her grandmother's secret pastface of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910124087</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=MRC KasasianFreya Marske|title=Death Descends On Saturn Villa (The Gower Street Detective Series)A Marvellous Light

|summary=Adeline Robin Blyth is an enigma. She has lived nudged into a job in a nunnery ever since her rescuethe Civil Service, several years agomuch to his chagrin. She cannot speak, nor can she remember much about her previous lifeThere he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded with magic. She tries desperately Desperate to piece together the ephemeral fragments remove a curse that come threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to her in fitful dreamsthe countryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. Something has taken everything away. Something so powerful There they uncover a sinister plot that it has rendered her speechlessthreatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782395687</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Louisa TregerB09F4CTKJR|title= The Lodger|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= A writer writing about writers writing. What more could a reader, a book reviewer, a tentative writer and lover of words want from a book? Not forgetting the setting – England, early 1900s, clear class divisions and social expectations – and the characters – fascinating, colourful, and above all, real. This book has everything I look Flights for in a story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1250051932</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFreedom|author=Antonia Hodgson|title=The Last Confession of Thomas HawkinsSteven Burgauer|rating=4.5

|summary=A few months after we left Tom in It's the 1720s we return to find him living in sin later stages of World War I and love with Kitty. Or it would be sin if they ever get round to the bed bitUnited States has just entered the conflict. Just as he promised underworld gang leader James Fleet, Tom Petrol Petronus is a young American who has taken in James' son Sam to train him in signed up and joined the ways of being a gentleman17 Aero Squadron. All seems This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be going well trained in that department until Tom receives a visit from an old enemy and a brush with Canada, the country's ultimate power. Then both collide first to create fear and an offer that Tom isn't able to refuse, 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 be attached to scrape by, Mary Jebb is spared from the gallows – RAF and banished the first to Australia. Before leaving for be sent into the penal colony of Botany Bay, she sends two engraved penny heart tokens skies to key players fight the Germans in her worldactive combat. One of these takes us But before that can happen, Petrol has to Delafosse Hall, where Mary’s story meets that of shy artist Grace Moore – and yet more confidence tricks beginmaster flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444769855</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amitav GhoshChristophe Medler|title=Flood of Fire (Ibis Trilogy 3)Madrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret

|summary=1839 and Set against the repercussions backdrop of the sinking English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642. As a loyal servant of the Ibis King, and Head of the Chinese clampdown on opium smuggling go on. Now widowed by the marine disasterSecret Service, Shireen Modhi it is given an opportunity to discover her late husbandRobert's legacy although it means journeying alone from India duty to China. Former sailor Zachary Reid finds life landside to be a little complicated when he becomes a 'mystery' (craftsman) attached uncover the details of the plan and follow the clues to uncover one of the Indian home of a British opium trader, despite its fringe benefits. East India Company sepoy officer Kesri Singh is also a little unsettled, especially when he discovers he must prepare for a war that, most guarded secrets in some way or other, will history—especially since the plot could affect them allthe King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0719569001</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Ravencourt1471187179|title=A Lover's Pinch|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Hettie (Henriette to be formal) has grown up in straitened times. Her mother 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 to live on the memory and favours of others. However Hettie has attracted the attention of Henri which is enough to give her mother ideas. She’s not the only one though: King’s mistress Gabrielle d’Estrees also has plans for the teenage girl. Hettie is definitely embarking on an adventure but the twists it takes are unforeseen by anyone and dangerous to all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00UEL4XLW</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBeautiful Spy|author=Patricia Duncker|title=Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian RomanceRachel Hore

|summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary'Sophie girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the 1930s and the Sibyl'', consciously modelled on John FowlesMinnie is expected to live up to her mother's ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'', is expectations and find a postmodern blending of history, fictionnice young man to marry, produce children and metafictional commentary. Brothers Max and Wolfgang Duncker really were George Eliot's German publishers, but spend the accident rest of her days looking after her husband and their surname matching the authorhome. Unfortunately, this isn's makes them her clever stand-int what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. As the novel opens in 1872a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the venerable English author is exploring Homburg secret service and Berlin in effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the company Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her 'husband' while ushering her latest novel, ''Middlemarch'', into German translation. Max, a young cad fond of casinos duty and brothels, the friends she has two tasks: ensuring Eliot's loyalty to their publishing house, made - and securing Countess Sophie von Hahn's hand in marriagelikes - whilst working for the Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886052X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura BeattyAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=DarklingKokoschka's Doll

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary= Brilliana Harley is Well, this looked very much like a seventeenth century Puritanbook I could love from the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a Roundhead weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a county of Puritans. Driven to defend both her beliefs and home chapter whose number was in the front of total aggression20, Brilliana must take charge and defend her home000s, all the while consumed with longing for an absent husband. She soon comes under a brutal and unrelenting siegeletters used as narrative form, and will struggle to surviveso on. In It intrigued with the present day, Mia Morgan is researching the life subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of Brilliana Harleyit mentioned, hoping to finish a book begun by her late ex-lovertoo. As she struggles to come to term But you've seen the star rating that comes with her griefthis review, and to rebuild a life from what she has leftcan tell that if love was on these pages, Mia finds her life becoming irrevocably entwined with that of the tragic Brillianait was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009958414X</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben KaneChristina Hammonds Reed|title=Eagles at WarThe Black Kids|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=WarChristina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, what is it good for? Looking at a reaction to the ever buoyant historic fiction genre it would appear that war is great absolution of four police officers for selling booksbeating a black man, Rodney King, nearly to death. This is especially the case with Told from the Romans; there are more books about Ancient Roman battles than there were mad Caesars. One perspective of Ashley Bennett, the leading names in the historic fiction genre is Ben Kane and novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when he releases the first book in a new series fans confronted with matters of the genre take noticerace, but would they be right to do so?a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848094043</amazonuk>1471188191