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|summary=Nine-Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Isabelle of Angouleme Robbie Stephens Jr is betrothed sentenced to Halsix months at the Gracetown School for Boys, son of Hugh de Lusignanotherwise known as the Reformatory. She doesn't like him much but sheIt's learning to gently manipulate those around her so she feels life will be interesting a place with a brutal and rewardingdark reputation. Howeverwith England's King Richard But the Lionheart all changes. Isabelle will marry King John instead – a totally different prospect for all concerned. This segregated reformatory is a match that will not only be a challenge for the young girl but will show her the true heart chamber of her mother and horrors, haunted by the true art of political manoeuvringboys that have died there. Isabelle may be the pawn in all this but it's not a role she takes In order to willingly, despite survive the nightmares of the horned man school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the occurrences help of a certain May night that will haunt the rest of her lifeschool's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848874693</amazonuk>1803366532}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony QuinnKatherine Howe|title=Blind ArrowsA True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=1919: A cohort of British spies meet Hannah Masury is living in the depths of Dublin CastleBoston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, the prison and British intelligence hubbeing made to work there from a young age. Their main focus When she hears there is the infiltration to be a hanging of some pirates in the IRA in a bid town, she decides to neutralise their leader, Michael Collinsgo and watch. However there is Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a distraction from their usual agenda: an increasing number young boy's death at the hands of IRA women are escaping, only to be found murdered shortly afterwardstwo vicious pirates. Martin KantShe hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, an English journalist in Ireland is charged with investigation and reporting back then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the government powers notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as well as his newspaper editor. Meanwhile Lilly Merrin, a Dublin Castle employee has also gone missingcabin boy. Her loyalty to the Crown seems beyond question She soon finds herself in the eyes thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her boss, but others would argue with that..rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843445352</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sven Hassel and Jordy DiagoSarah Marsh|title=Wheels A Sign of Terror: The Graphic NovelHer Own|rating=43.5|genre=Graphic NovelsGeneral Fiction|summary=War books and anti-war books, in my mind, have After a lot in common and only bout of scarlet fever as a couple of easy things need be changed to turn one to the otherchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. This is dressed as an anti-war bookSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, but here is the lead character surviving against all odds – the platoon whittled down several times while he and his few friends go strong; here he is overcoming all kinds of difficulty and adversity and still coming out the other end; here he is doing proper heroic deeds – or his colleagues saving the day at the last minute – and the war carries onwards towards its inevitable endeverything about her life changes. The difference perhaps is Living in a time when the minutiae use of what those difficulties and deeds need besign language was seen as something only savages do, with the anti-war book having Ellen is sent to a simple honesty about them and their overall worth that the gung-hoschool where she is taught to lip read, militaristic piece would patently lackbut physically restrained from signing. And when you face From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the guts deaf and gore of the kind of warfare on these pages, you don't really expect jingoism and 'hoo-rah!' attitudesusing a system called Visible Speech. No, even if the DNA is pretty much At the sametime, the result here Bell is definitelyworking on other inventions and ideas, grimly and firmly anti-warEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297609769</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shirley McKayClaire North|title=Queen & Country: A Hew Cullan Mystery (Hew Cullan Mystery 5)House of Odysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=It has been three years since Hew was banished from Scotland and manoeuvred into working for Elizabeth I's spymaster'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 rule without her husband, Walsinghamwho sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. His loyalties remain with As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the Scottish Queen Mary but he must hide them as well as he can lest he becomes a victim throne of the conspiracy fever cutting through England Western Isles. Having survived – politically and keeping physical – the hangman busy. Therechaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's also another fever cutting through Scotland – the plagueshores, providing even more reason for Hew to worry about Queen Penelope is on the wellbeing brink of his sister, brother in law and nephew. If he could but go home he'd have a surprise for themfragile peace. When he gets thereOne that shatters however with the return of Orestes, there's a surprise for him in the form King of a death prophesy pictureMycenae, and his sister Elektra, followed by a murderseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973120</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John RightenB0C7J9D21B|title=Churchill's Rogue: Volume 1 A Captive in Algiers (Rogues TrilogyMuhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Sean Ryan grew up in Ireland during the 20th century's first quarter and so understands death and loss. He learnt to defend what he felt right during his time as a bodyguard for Michael Collins. Therefore when Winston Churchill called upon his services in 1937 to bring a mother and child out of Germany, Ryan doesn't say no. However Ryan soon discovers this is no easy escort duty. The mother and child in question are for some reason being hunted by an elite German force led by Cerberus, a code name for a sadist incarnate. On the plus side, Ryan soon discovers he's not alone. There are more like him across Europe; those with pasts that forged them into violent defenders of the vulnerable in an increasingly dangerous world. These are the Rogues and, this time, Ryan needs their help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1492320242</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Erin Knightley|title=The Duke Can Go to the DevilA J Lewis|rating=4.5

|summary=As Regency ladies goWhen we first meet our hero, Mei-li Bradford his name is anything but conventional. For most of her life, she has travelled the world with her sea-captain father Ettore and seen exotic sights and locations that others could only dream he lives at The House ofBeautiful Swallows. Her upbringing amongst sailors has clearly rubbed off on her Idyllic as this might sound, however. Mei-li, or May to her friends, can drink and curse like it's a man bordello and has no respect for propriety and conventionEttore's mother died when he was born. She may look like a well He's not been short of mothers, though -bred lady, but certainly does not act like one. Thereforefor someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, disaster surely beckons when an uptight Duke shows an interest in herit's difficult to obtain decent employment. His stuffy ways The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and conventional habits bastards are anathema to May's freeconsidered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined -spirited natureand it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410674</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benjamin JohncockEssie Fox|title=The Last PilotFascination

|summary=1566: Brothers Pierre and Samson de Siorac have been sent from their Perigore home The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led to further their education at Montpellier. During their time there they learn more than their ascribed logic, philosophy and medicinea few writers mishandling it. Indeed PierreThere's focus is on his stomach and such a glut of media set in the era that the hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to the affairs point of the heartbeing cliched, as befitting a lusty 15 year oldhackneyed even. All this is simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. Not all of the adventures are learnedBut despite that, culinary or romantic though; some lessons are a lot more dangeroussomething about it still grabs me – and something about this book's description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271244</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jemima BriggesNicole Jarvis|title=Brothers at ArmsA Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5

|summary=Certain decisions are pivotal points ''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in time; key moments that define everything that follows Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and create waves that ripple with repercussions for years to comewhere her future can thrive rather than stagnate. Kindly squire Tom Norberry could never have foreseen But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of the impact healing magics that taking in two orphaned relatives would through paintings have on his future happinessthe power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. This singleTo them, altruistic act of kindness would set in motion a chain of events that would eventually cause a deep household rift Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and threaten to sully the good family name that he had worked to hard to upholdtheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624454</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kevin SandsThomas D Lee|title= The Blackthorn KeyPerilous Times|rating= 53|genre= Confident ReadersFantasy|summary= Seventeenth century England isn't always a comfortable place to live. Apart from 'Hate is the obvious differences from path of least resistance'' Set in the modern day – no National Health Service, no laws to protect orphans like Christopher from cruelty and exploitationnear-distant future, and a constant foul smell from poor sanitation - fear and suspicion are in a daily fact of life. In 1665 Charles II has been back world on the throne for several yearsverge of climate collapse, but not everyone Britain is happy about his extravagant in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and luxurious liferescue what little remains. What no-style, even among those who found one expected was that one of the Puritan rules of Cromwell's time excessively strict. There are spies everywhere, and rumours Knights of conspiracies fill the streets. It's a time to keep your head down and avoid attention from Round Table would answer the authoritiescall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014136064X</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander CordellG K Holloway|title=Rape In the Shadows of the Fair CountryCastles|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we meet Iestyn Motymer it's 1826 and he's just eight years old, but starting work at the Garndyrus furnaces near Blaenavon. His father sees it as the right thing to do and his mother knows that the money will be needed as there's another child on the way, but Iestyn's older sister, Morfydd, is adamant that it's wrong for women and children to work in either the mines or the ironworks4. She believes in the aims of the Chartist movement whilst her father, Hywel Mortymer, is loyal to the ironmasters, but events involving his own family will later force him to question this loyalty. The Mortymers are better off than many in Blaenavon, but they're still at the mercy of the ironmaster and the agent: suspension or blacklisting (which can extend to relations) can leave any family penniless and starving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OTY1SVI</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Ross|title=Swords Around The Throne (Twilight of Empire)|rating=5

|summary=Centurion Aurelius Castus' time We begin after the momentous battle in Britain is over but not his propensity for being 1066 and on the wrong side day of dangerWilliam of Normandy's coronation as King of England. Due to an adventure on William's position is not secure and the journey he comes to the notice of Emperor Constantine, and new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is promoted to his elite bodyguard – the swords around the throneimportant. The multiple emperor model that has evolved to govern the Empire And William is shaky right to say worry. While the leastprevious king, riven by plotsHarold, conspiracies is dead and worse. Therefore Castus' new job the likelihood of more pitched battles is neither safe nor easy but it's over, the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not something he can refuse… unfortunately!wish to recognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784081167</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Edric3949666079|title=Field ServiceNoema|author=Dael Akkerman

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Morlancourt, France 1920: World War I may be over but ''This is a grisly job remains. The soldiers killed and buried in battle are to be exhumed, identified and brought story about some things that happened to War Commission designed cemeteries for reburialme about twelve thousand years ago. Captain James Reid and his corps are responsible for receiving and burying in the embryonic burial grounds while Alexander Lucas' detachment go out to collect the corpses or check the veracity of claims that British and Commonwealth troops have been uncovered in various settings including farmers' fields. It's a job that may take its toll on any man and it does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522892</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Jonathan Crown and Jamie Searle Romanelli (translator)|title=Sirius|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet Levi. He's Maya is a humble little dog young girl living with in a loving family. They've spent so much time with him he has learnt some tricks – not only hunter gatherer village during the usual ones, of begging, or playing dead, but walking on two legs, somersaulting on to his two other paws, and giving the Hitler saluteMesolithic era. If this was 2015 in the UK he would be shoe-in for Britain's Got Talent (although the Hitler salute might lose him a few votes, to be honest) but this Climate change is 1930s Berlinoccurring, and things are starting to get horrendously tough and nasty for Jewish families like his. Querying the statute laws that demand a formalisation Sea of Jewish names his owners rename Levi after Sirius, the Great Dog in the night skies. But nobody can foresee what happens when Jews are pushed harder and harder from their neighbourhoods, Grass encroaches further and nobody can see what a Great Dog star Sirius can become, in the most unlikely of milieux – Hollywood…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081981</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ursula Dubosarsky|title=The Red Shoe|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=They may be quite far apart, but three houses in a row in the rural suburbs of 1950s Sydney contain some incredibly unusual people. In one, a solitary old man of very few words, shuffling to the end of his days, but brandishing a Japanese sword hefurther into Maya's purloined after WWIIforest home, and with a gun in the corner of his loungefood is becoming more and more scarce. In the middle, a family of five, with a father figure suffering from PTSD due What to do? Can the same war, a mother feeling friendless and alone law givers in the isolated time and location, and their three daughters – one of whom has given up on school after an alleged nervous breakdown, the middle one who barely speaks more than the neighbour, and Matilda, our key interest, who likes the idea of spies, and has an imaginary friend who came out federation of the radio. The third house however might be where the most interesting people live – after all, it had been empty, but now the luxurious building is home villages muster peaceful ways to several shady men in suits, who turned up out of cope? Can the blue in luxury carsTraveller, and with at least one gun of their own…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406358746</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sally Wragg|title=The Gypsy's Tale|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=There's a new resident at Loxley. Bronwyn's niece, Lottie Colfax is tired of school, desperate to join up and 'do her bit', to spiritual figure who interprets the frustration of her family who hope that some time away from home will encourage her to see sense. But from her family's point of view there's a bad example at Loxley: Hettie, Duchess wisdom of Loxley has joined the WAAFS and is serving in London - usually driving people from place to place. Her grandmother's not at all pleased about this: Katherine sees Hettie's duty as being at Loxley. ''Nothing'' comes before Loxley in Katherine's view - even King and country must take second place. Fortunately Katherine doesn't know that Hettie is going to be doing something far more dangerous. In the meantime Lottie has discovered a secret in Loxley's cellars and met a young man who is also determined to join upAll Life, no matter what his mother says.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0123Q8KL4</amazonuk>provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Chadwick1529125898|title=Liberty BazaarGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary= Confederate General Jubal de Brooke is sent to Britain as an envoy to raise awareness and funds from ''If it were not for the English aristocracy for his southern brothers in arms in casual dereliction of the American Civil War. Meanwhile slave Trinity escapes odd gentleman's duty, there would no women to England and immediately becomes an icon for the liberal eliteteach well-bred daughters at all. However soon Trinity realises there's more ' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the English support than just talkposition of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She uncovers had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessity. Until the death of her mother, Anne had a secret – comfortable life and highly illegal – plot with far reaching effects for was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the household. When her homelandmother died, not her father cast her off and would have nothing more to mention dangerous consequences for do with her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906582920</amazonuk> No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a year. Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lloyd ShepherdMelissa Fu |title=Savage Magic|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=London, 1842: Magistrate Aaron Graham is missing his wife. She's left him, taking their daughter 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 and seem to be taking a toll on his daughter's health Aaron is rightly worried. He calls upon Constable Horton to investigate… this is the Horton whose wife Graham encouraged to enter one of the more exclusive madhouses. Under the circumstances it seemed the right thing to do but Horton still hasn't forgiven his superior for it. However, as the investigation goes on and Graham is distracted by a murder case with a rising body count, these bubbling undercurrents of enmity reduce in importance. The important thing for each of them has become survival.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136086</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dominic Luke|title=Dreams That VeilPeach Blossom Spring

|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=12-year-old Eliza Brannan is looking forward I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a wonderful summer. She and her older cousin Dorothea will be joined at home by Elizashort chapter entitled ''Origins''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 it is the summer when life changesonly truly poetic part of a book that I expected more from. Dorothea and Roderick will pursue futures that no Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one had predicted and a foreign house guest will open Elizafamily's eyes to perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the world outside war with Japan, a young mother (Meilin) and her outgrown nurseryfour-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. There againThe story follows them on their journey across China, this is 1914; a year heralding a change and in life for more than just the Brannan householdRenshu's case eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191020823X</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Andersen1916072038|title=The Boleyn Reckoning House in the Hollow (Anne Boleyn TrilogyThe Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary=SPOILERS FOR BOOKS 1 & 2 AHEAD: We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Henry IX is still in love with his childhood sweetheart Minuette Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and is determined to marry hermother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, despite being betrothed to Princess Elisabeth of France for political reasonsthe house in the hollow. What he still doesnThe two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother't realise s strengths and weaknesses: ''She is that Minuette is married to the third member of their childhood triopracticed at subterfuge, his trusted advisor Dominicat concealing, Duke beneath a facade of Exeter. Meanwhile there are some who feel that Henryrespectability, the deplorable truth''s sister Princess Elizabeth would make a better ruler than he. Then there Hester is furious about Jocelyn's his half-sister, Lady Mary, who is starting refusal to realise what do as shewas asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal's given up for Henry's future. The beginning  Then we are told of the end has started… but whose end/ends will it be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956501</amazonuk>birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Vaughn EntwhistleAnnabel Abbs|title= The Dead Assassin|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, 1895. Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to the scene of a mysterious crime – a senior member Language of the Government lies murdered. Close by, the body of the attacker is found, riddled with bullets. The dead assassin is identified, however, as a man who was hanged several weeks previously. Mystified by the strange incident, Arthur Conan Doyle calls on a friend for advice – Oscar Wilde. Together, the two of them are swept up into a bizarre investigation – one that threatens their lives, their families, and the very establishment itself. It seems that someone is reanimating corpses, and programming them for murder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>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 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 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922079308</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toby Clements|title=Kingmaker: Broken Faith (Kingmaker 2)Food

|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 Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the Roses rages onslightest inclination to boil an egg. Katherine is at Cornford CastleWhen tasked with writing a cookery book, posing as Lady Margaret Cornfordshe recruits Ann Kirby, wife of the now blind Richard Fakenham. Not even he realises her true identity but she feels it's only a matter of timelocal woman with a troubled home life. The man who Katherine really loves and assumes deadTogether, they test, craft, Thomas Everingham is suffering from a head injury. 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 – refine and just as well! On a wider canvas, reshape the war has denuded Englandworld of domestic cookery, most of its food having gone to feed the armies. King Henry VI has fled to reinventing the northeast recipe book and Warwick, changing the Kingmaker himself, is coming for him. The worst isn't over yet though, not for anyoneface of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780891709</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=G K HollowayFreya Marske|title=1066: What Fates ImposeA Marvellous Light|rating=54

|summary=Perhaps England should realise it's Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in trouble when King Edward the Confessor takes one look at Civil Service, much to his naked bride chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and decides learns that the streets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remain chaste. This signals remove a lack of royal offspring and a succession crisis curse that becomes so important the vultures flock threatens to fight even before he's illswallow him, let alone dead. The jockeying for position as next in line Robin follows Edwin to the throne or next in line's favourite has begun. Indeed England is famous for its royal succession wars countryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations 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 in that year that every British school child is taught: 1066people shimmer with power.|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 office, finds himself living and working in a city at siege during There they uncover a Clan na Gael bombing campaign. It's around this time sinister plot 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, threatens the Japanese watchmaker. His clockwork pet octopus is only a small measure lives of all magicians in the oddity aheadBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408854287</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katharine McMahonB09F4CTKJR|title=The Woman in the PictureFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=In February 1926 London was tense and divided between those who supported It's the principle later stages of a general strike World War I and those who were prepared to break it at whatever cost to themselves. Evelyn Gifford is a newly qualified solicitor and whilst she's sympathetic to the miners she's preoccupied by two cases from opposite ends of United States has just entered the social spectrumconflict. Trudy Wright Petrol Petronus is a maidservant accused of theft young American who has signed up and Evelyn has undertaken this case ''pro bono'': her argument is that joined the 'theft' 17 Aero Squadron. This company was of a letter asking for a reference for Trudythe first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, but she was too frightened the first to hand it be attached to her bullying employer, so only she was the loser. The Wright family worm their way RAF and the first to be sent into Evelyn's life: the father is a bullying, drunken, wife beaterskies to fight the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the mother is scared and brow beaten, notoriously difficult but the son, Robbie, is deeply involved with the unionsmajestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297866036</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon ScarrowChristophe Medler|title=Hearts of StoneMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=3.54

|summary=Wars are often written about and Set against the backdrop of the further back you go English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the more unreal they feelsummer of 1642. The description As a loyal servant of a Roman Soldier being killed seems to have little impact on our lives todaythe King, but, what about Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam? How far must one go back before we feel detached from events? World War Two ended 70 years agoand Head of the Secret Service, but it still ripples through is Robert's duty to today. There are stories still uncover the details of the plan and follow the clues to be told from this time, but they must be written well and sensitivelyuncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755380223</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cynthia Harrod-Eagles1471187179|title=Keep the Home Fires Burning: War at Home, 1915A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore

|summary= As the calendar page turns to 1915 Jack Hunter Minnie is fighting the frontan 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The same goes for Charles Wroughton, leaving his new fiancée Diana book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to face his aristocratic family (including dreadful Rupert) alone. The countryher mother's men are going off in greater numbers as enlistment fever begins expectations and find a nice young man to build marry, produce children and women are being brought in to do men's jobsspend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their home. (YesUnfortunately, really!) Dianathis isn's sister Sadie continues t what she wants to train horses do at all and neither does she want to be sent to the French front, making her feel continue working as if she's doing something usefula secretary. There are also other benefits As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the job, seeing more Communist Party of local vet John Courcy Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working 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 GallipoliCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751556297</amazonuk>