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{{newreview|author=Gregory Dowling|title=Ascension|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Alvise Marangon is an artist 'resting' between commissions and so using his guile and enterprise as a tour guide to those taking the European Grand Tour in 18th century Venice. Everything has a business as usual feel to it for Alvise until he notices a fellow gondolier paying his friend not to take a couple of English tourists. Then, as the new Doge is inaugurated a man's head is thrown into the crowd. Showing people around a typical Venice is becoming increasingly hard for Alvise – Venice is not behaving typically <!|amazonuk=<amazonuk-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->1846973139</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa HiltonTananarive Due|title=The Stolen QueenReformatory

|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=4.5

|summary=When we meet Iestyn Motymer it's 1826 and he's just eight years old, but starting work at We begin after the Garndyrus furnaces near Blaenavon. His father sees it as the right thing to do momentous battle in 1066 and his mother knows that on the money will be needed as thereday of William of Normandy's another child on the way, but Iestyncoronation as King of England. William's older sister, Morfydd, position is adamant that it's wrong for women not secure and children to work in either the mines or the ironworksnew king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. She believes in the aims of the Chartist movement whilst her father, Hywel Mortymer, And William is loyal right to worry. While the ironmastersprevious king, but events involving his own family will later force him to question this loyalty. The Mortymers are better off than many in BlaenavonHarold, but they're still at is dead and the mercy likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the ironmaster rebels are stirring and much of the agent: suspension or blacklisting (which can extend country does not wish to relations) can leave any family penniless and starvingrecognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00OTY1SVI</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Ross3949666079|title=Swords Around The Throne (Twilight of Empire)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Centurion Aurelius Castus' time in Britain is over but not his propensity for being on the wrong side of danger. Due to an adventure on the journey he comes to the notice of Emperor Constantine, and is promoted to his elite bodyguard – the swords around the throne. The multiple emperor model that has evolved to govern the Empire is shaky to say the least, riven by plots, conspiracies and worse. Therefore Castus' new job is neither safe nor easy but it's not something he can refuse… unfortunately!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081167</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNoema|author=Robert Edric|title=Field ServiceDael 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 familyhunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. They've spent so much time with him he has learnt some tricks – not only Climate change is occurring, the usual ones, Sea of begging, or playing dead, but walking on two legs, somersaulting on to his two other paws, Grass encroaches further and giving the Hitler salute. If this was 2015 in the UK he would be shoe-in for Britainfurther into Maya's Got Talent (although the Hitler salute might lose him a few votesforest home, to be honest) but this and food is 1930s Berlin, becoming more and things are starting more scarce. What to get horrendously tough and nasty for Jewish families like his. Querying do? Can the law givers in the statute laws that demand a formalisation federation of Jewish names his owners rename Levi after Sirius, villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Great Dog in the night skies. But nobody can foresee what happens when Jews are pushed harder and harder from their neighbourhoodsTraveller, and nobody can see what a Great Dog star Sirius can become, in spiritual figure who interprets the most unlikely wisdom of milieux – Hollywood…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081981</amazonuk>All Life, provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ursula Dubosarsky1529125898|title=The Red ShoeGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|genre=Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary=They may be quite far apart, but three houses in a row in ''If it were not for the rural suburbs casual dereliction of 1950s Sydney contain some incredibly unusual peoplethe odd gentleman's duty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all. In '' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one, a solitary years old man when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of very few words, shuffling governess to the end twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of his days, teaching but brandishing a Japanese sword he's purloined after WWII, and with this was a gun in the corner case of his loungenecessity. In Until the middle, a family death of fiveher mother, with Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father figure suffering was frequently absent from PTSD due to the same war, a household. When her mother feeling friendless and alone in the isolated time and locationdied, her father cast her off and their three daughters – one of whom has given up on school after an alleged nervous breakdown, the middle one who barely speaks would have nothing more than the neighbour, and Matilda, our key interest, who likes the idea of spies, and has to do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an imaginary friend who came out annuity of the radio£35 a year. The third house however might be where the most interesting people live – after allHer maid, it had been emptyAgnes, would receive nothing but now the luxurious building is home to several shady men was fortunately taken in suits, who turned up out of the blue in luxury cars, and with at least one gun of their own…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406358746</amazonuk>by some neighbours.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally WraggMelissa Fu |title=The Gypsy's TalePeach Blossom Spring

|summary=There's a new resident at LoxleyWe meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Bronwyn's niece, Lottie Colfax is tired of school, desperate to join up Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and 'do her bit', to the frustration of her family who hope that mother have travelled in some time away discomfort from their home will encourage her at Ecklington, to see sensethe house in the hollow. But from The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her familymother's point of view therestrengths and weaknesses: ''s a bad example She is practiced at subterfuge, at Loxley: Hettieconcealing, Duchess beneath a facade of Loxley has joined respectability, the WAAFS and deplorable truth''. Hester is serving in London - usually driving people from place to place. Her grandmother's not at all pleased furious about this: Katherine sees HettieJocelyn's duty refusal to do as being at Loxley. she was asked, which has precipitated ''Nothing'this violent and unexpected removal' 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  Then we are told of the meantime Lottie has discovered birth of a secret child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in Loxley's cellars shame and met a young man who is also determined to join up, no matter what his mother saysisolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0123Q8KL4</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David ChadwickAnnabel Abbs|title=Liberty BazaarThe Language of Food

|summary= Confederate General Jubal de Brooke Eliza Acton is sent a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to Britain as boil an envoy to raise awareness egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine and funds from reshape the English aristocracy for his southern brothers in arms in world of domestic cookery, reinventing the American Civil War. Meanwhile slave Trinity escapes to England recipe book and immediately becomes an icon for the liberal elite. However soon Trinity realises there's more to changing the English support than just talk. She uncovers a secret – and highly illegal – plot with far reaching effects for her homeland, not to mention dangerous consequences for herface of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906582920</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lloyd ShepherdFreya Marske|title=Savage MagicA Marvellous Light|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 Veil|rating=3.5

|summary=12-year-old Eliza Brannan Robin Blyth is looking forward nudged into a job in the Civil Service, much to a wonderful summerhis chagrin. She and her older cousin Dorothea will be joined at home by Eliza's university student brother Roderick There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the sun-drenched days will stretch out before themstreets of London are threaded with magic. Unfortunately Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the reality isn't the same as the dream; this is countryside, where the summer when life changes. Dorothea and Roderick will pursue futures that no one had predicted hedgegrows bristle with incantations and a foreign house guest will open Eliza's eyes to the world outside her outgrown nurserypeople shimmer with power. There again, this is 1914; they uncover a year heralding a change sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in life for more than just the Brannan householdBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191020823X</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura AndersenB09F4CTKJR|title=The Boleyn Reckoning (Anne Boleyn Trilogy)Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=SPOILERS FOR BOOKS 1 & 2 AHEAD: Henry IX It's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is still in love with his childhood sweetheart Minuette a young American who has signed up and is determined joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to marry herbe trained in Canada, despite being betrothed the first to be attached to Princess Elisabeth of France for political reasons. What he still doesn't realise is that Minuette is married the RAF and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the third member of their childhood trio, his trusted advisor Dominic, Duke of ExeterGermans in active combat. Meanwhile there are some who feel But before that Henry's sister Princess Elizabeth would make a better ruler than he. Then there's his half-sistercan happen, Lady Mary, who is starting Petrol has to realise what she's given up for Henry's future. The beginning of master flying the end has started… notoriously difficult but whose end/ends will it be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956501</amazonuk>majestic Sopwith Camel.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Vaughn EntwhistleChristophe Medler|title= The Dead AssassinMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, 1895. Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to the scene of a mysterious crime – a senior member of the Government lies murdered. Close by, the body of the attacker is found, riddled with bullets. The dead assassin is identified, however, as a man who was hanged several weeks previously. Mystified by the strange incident, Arthur Conan Doyle calls on a friend for advice – Oscar Wilde. Together, the two of them are swept up into a bizarre investigation – one that threatens their lives, their families, and the very establishment itself. It seems that someone is reanimating corpses, and programming them for murder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783292687</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dido Butterworth and Tim Flannery|title=The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish|rating=3

|summary=Meet Archie Meek. He's about to leave Set against the backdrop of the Venus IslandsEnglish Civil War, where he's lived for a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642. As a loyal servant of the last five yearsKing, and return to SydneyHead of the Secret Service, 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. Thatis Robert's not duty to ignore uncover the details of the fact he'll count as something quite alien himself, with his filled-out frame, nearly all-over suntan plan and totemic tattoo, in amongst other changes follow the clues to his body. But what's this? When he gets back, he finds uncover one of the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him to go there most guarded secrets in history—especially since the first place, a huge, macabre ceremonial fetish mask, purloined as corporate artwork. And some of plot could affect the curators he wishes to work alongside have vanishedKing. 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>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toby Clements1471187179|title=Kingmaker: Broken Faith (Kingmaker 2)A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=54

|summary=This contains spoilers for Kingmaker 1, so thatMinnie is an 's probably best read first; you wonordinary't regret it! girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. Now where were we? 1462: The War of book is set in the Roses rages on. Katherine 1930s and Minnie is at Cornford Castle, posing as Lady Margaret Cornford, wife of the now blind Richard Fakenham. Not even he realises expected to live up to her true identity but she feels itmother's only expectations and find a matter nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the rest of timeher days looking after her husband and their home. The man who Katherine really loves and assumes deadUnfortunately, Thomas Everingham is suffering from a head injury. Hethis isn's just remembered enough t what she wants to make his way do at all and neither does she want to his childhood home but is unaware of his more recent past; he can remember how to fight though – and just continue working as well! a secretary. On As a result of a wider canvaschance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the war has denuded England, most of its food having gone secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to feed infiltrate the armiesCommunist Party of Great Britain. King Henry VI Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has fled to the northeast made - and Warwick, likes - whilst working for the Kingmaker himself, is coming for him. The worst isn't over yet though, not for anyoneCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891709</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=G K HollowayAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=1066: What Fates ImposeKokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Perhaps England should realise it's in trouble when King Edward Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the Confessor takes one look at his naked bride get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and decides to remain chasteflipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. This signals I found things to potentially delight me each time – a lack of royal offspring and weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a succession crisis that becomes so important chapter whose number was in the vultures flock to fight even before he's ill20,000s, letters used as narrative form, let alone deadand so on. The jockeying for position as next in line to It intrigued with the throne or next subterranean voice a man hears in line's favourite has begunwartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. Indeed England is famous for its royal succession wars and this is one of But you've seen the best; a story of a journey star rating that will finish near Hastings as a deadly stand-off between King Harold Godwinson comes with this review, and Norman Duke William in can tell that year that every British school child is taught: 1066if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783062207</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Natasha PulleyChristina Hammonds Reed|title=The Watchmaker of Filigree StreetBlack Kids

|genre=FantasyTeens |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. ItChristina Hammonds Reed'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, debut novel is set against the Japanese watchmaker. His clockwork pet octopus is only a small measure backdrop of the oddity ahead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408854287</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Katharine McMahon|title=The Woman in the Picture|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In February 1926 London was tense and divided between those who supported the principle of a general strike and those who were prepared to break it at whatever cost to themselves. Evelyn Gifford is 1992 Los Angeles riots, a newly qualified solicitor and whilst she's sympathetic reaction to the miners she's preoccupied by two cases from opposite ends of the social spectrum. Trudy Wright is a maidservant accused of theft and Evelyn has undertaken this case ''pro bono'': her argument is that the 'theft' was absolution of a letter asking four police officers for beating a reference for Trudyblack man, Rodney King, but she was too frightened nearly to hand it to her bullying employer, so only she was the loserdeath. The Wright family worm their way into Evelyn's life: Told from the father is a bullying, drunken, wife beaterperspective of Ashley Bennett, the mother is scared and brow beaten, but the son, Robbie, is deeply involved novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with the unions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297866036</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Simon Scarrow|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 matters of a Roman Soldier being killed seems to have little impact on our lives todayrace, 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 a woman finding her voice and sensitivelyembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755380223</amazonuk>1471188191