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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jolien JanzingTananarive Due|title=Charlotte Bronte's Secret LoveThe Reformatory|rating=3.5

|summary=This 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 second novel segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by Jolien Janzingthe boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, a Dutch Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author who lives in Belgium=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4. Originally published 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Dutch as ''The Master'' in 2013Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, it is already and being made into to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a filmhanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. The flawlessly translated story zeroes Enthralled and horrified in on two momentous years equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in Charlotte Brontëa young boy's lifedeath at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, 1842–3so that they don't find and kill her too, when and then to escape them completely she was runs away to sea, dressing as a pupil boy and then joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a teacher at the Pensionnat Heger in Brusselscabin boy. I read this She soon finds herself in tandem with Claire Harman's new biography the thick of Charlotte Brontë; it was particularly fascinating to see that the two books open with the same climactic episode: lovesick Charlotte making things when there is a confession at a Catholic churchmutiny on board, even though she was an Anglican parson's daughterand from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380597</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Franck and Anthea Bell (translator)Sarah Marsh|title=WestA Sign of Her Own

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Put yourself in the shoes After a bout of scarlet fever as a young mother to two childrenchild, who declares Ellen Lark loses her intention to leave the Communist East Germany for West Berlinhearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, and thus loses everything about her scientist joblife changes. What would you expect on Living in a time when the other side – shops full use of attainable productssign language was seen as something only savages do, pleasant neighbourhoods, nice neighboursEllen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, an active and busy new life, where things might feel alien but at least you speak the same language? physically restrained from signing. WellFrom here, for Nelly Senff, this is hardly she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the casedeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. Once past At the depressing Eastern exit procedures she same time, Bell is confronted with working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more desultory interrogations from those than love?'welcoming' her  The follow-up to the Westexcellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, beyond which she and with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her children (their fatherhusband, whom who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she never marriedremains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is long assumed dead by on the authorities, if nobody else) are practically left in a shared accommodation in brink of a transit campfragile peace. The shops are full One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of what is still unobtainableMycenae, the children hate their new school – and people still look down on them as being foreignhis sister Elektra, even if they have only moved across a cityseeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099554321</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregory DowlingB0C7J9D21B|title=AscensionA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=Alvise Marangon When we first meet our hero, his name is an artist 'resting' between commissions Ettore and so using his guile and enterprise as a tour guide to those taking the European Grand Tour in 18th century Venicehe lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Everything has a business Idyllic as usual feel to this might sound, it for Alvise until 's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he notices a fellow gondolier paying his friend was born. He's not to take a couple been short of mothers, though - but for someone of English tourists. Thenhis background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, as the new Doge is inaugurated a manit's head is thrown into difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the crowdpreparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Showing people around Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a typical Venice is becoming increasingly hard successful business as a guide for Alvise – Venice is not behaving typically!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973139</amazonuk>visitors. He was even saving some money.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa HiltonEssie Fox|title=The Stolen QueenFascination|rating=54

|summary=NineThe Victorian era is incredibly over-year-old Isabelle of Angouleme is betrothed to Halromanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, son of Hugh de Lusignan. She doesn't like him much but she's learning by the Second World War) which has often led to gently manipulate those around her so she feels life will be interesting and rewardingmore than a few writers mishandling it. Howeverwith EnglandThere's King Richard such a glut of media set in the Lionheart all changes. Isabelle will marry King John instead – a totally different prospect for all concerned. This is a match era that will not only be a challenge for the young girl but will show her hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to the true heart point of her mother and the true art of political manoeuvringbeing cliched, hackneyed even. Isabelle may be the pawn in all All this but is simply to illustrate that it's not a role she takes would be an easy thing to willinglydo poorly. But despite that, despite the nightmares of the horned man something about it still grabs me – and the occurrences of a certain May night that will haunt the rest of her lifesomething about this book's description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848874693</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony QuinnNicole Jarvis|title=Blind ArrowsA Portrait in Shadow

|summary=1919: A cohort ''I want all of British spies meet in the depths of Dublin Castle, the prison and British intelligence hub. Their main focus is the infiltration of the IRA in a bid Florence to neutralise their leader, Michael Collins. However there is a distraction know my name'' Cast out from their usual agenda: an increasing number of IRA women are escaping, only to be found murdered shortly afterwards. Martin KantRome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an English journalist oasis in Ireland is charged with investigation which her art can find a home and reporting back to the government powers where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as well some as his newspaper editor. Meanwhile Lilly Merrinshe enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, a Dublin Castle employee has also gone missing. Her loyalty to the Crown seems beyond question in self-proclaimed guardians of the eyes of her boss, but others would argue with healing magics thatthrough paintings have the 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.To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843445352</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Sven Hassel and Jordy Diago|title=Wheels of Terror: The Graphic Novel|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=War books and antiSet in the near-war books, in my minddistant future, have a lot in common and only a couple world on the verge of easy things need be changed to turn one to the other. This is dressed as an anti-war bookclimate collapse, but here Britain is the lead character surviving against all odds – the platoon whittled down in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or 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 ) to save the day at the last minute – and the war carries onwards towards its inevitable endrescue what little remains. The difference perhaps is in the minutiae of what those difficulties and deeds need be, with the antiWhat no-war book having a simple honesty about them and their overall worth one expected was that the gung-ho, militaristic piece would patently lack. And when you face the guts and gore one of the kind Knights of warfare on these pages, you don't really expect jingoism and 'hoo-rah!' attitudes. No, even if the DNA is pretty much the same, Round Table would answer the result here is definitely, grimly and firmly anti-warcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297609769</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shirley McKayG K Holloway|title=Queen & Country: A Hew Cullan Mystery (Hew Cullan Mystery 5)In the Shadows of Castles|rating=4.5

|summary=It has been three years since Hew was banished from Scotland We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and manoeuvred into working for Elizabeth Ion the day of William of Normandy's spymaster, Walsingham. His loyalties remain with the Scottish Queen Mary but he must hide them coronation as well as he can lest he becomes a victim King of the conspiracy fever cutting through England . William's position is not secure and keeping the hangman busynew king has many challenges. There's also another fever cutting Imposing authority through Scotland – the plague, providing even more reason for Hew a coronation is important. And William is right to worry about . While the wellbeing of his sisterprevious king, Harold, brother in law is dead and nephew. If he could but go home he'd have a surprise for them. When he gets therethe likelihood of more pitched battles is over, there's a surprise for him in the form rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to recognise a death prophesy picture, followed by a murdernew overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973120</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Righten3949666079|title=Churchill's Rogue: Volume 1 (Rogues Trilogy)Noema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Sean Ryan grew up in Ireland during the 20th century's first quarter and so understands death and loss'This is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago. He learnt to defend what he felt right during his time as '' Maya is a bodyguard for Michael Collins. Therefore when Winston Churchill called upon his services young girl living in 1937 to bring a mother and child out of Germany, Ryan doesn't say nohunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. However Ryan soon discovers this Climate change is no easy escort duty. The mother and child in question are for some reason being hunted by an elite German force led by Cerberusoccurring, a code name for a sadist incarnate. On the plus side, Ryan soon discovers heSea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's not aloneforest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce. There are more like him across Europe; those with pasts that forged them into violent defenders of What to do? Can the vulnerable law givers in an increasingly dangerous world. These are the Rogues andfederation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, this timea spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, Ryan needs their help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1492320242</amazonuk>provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin Knightley1529125898|title=The Duke Can Go to the DevilGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=As Regency ladies go''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, Meithere would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve-li Bradford is anything year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but conventionalthis was a case of necessity. For most Until the death of her mother, Anne had a comfortable life, she has travelled the world with and was loved by both parents although her sea-captain father and seen exotic sights and locations that others could only dream ofwas frequently absent from the household. Her upbringing amongst sailors has clearly rubbed off on When hermother died, however. Mei-li, or May her father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her friends, can drink and curse like . No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a man and has no respect for propriety and conventionyear. She may look like a well-bred lady Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but certainly does not act like one. Therefore, disaster surely beckons when an uptight Duke shows an interest was fortunately taken in herby some neighbours. His stuffy ways and conventional habits are anathema to May's free-spirited nature.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410674</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benjamin JohncockMelissa Fu |title=The Last Pilot|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=You'd be forgiven for assuming that debut novelist Benjamin Johncock is American: ''The Last Pilot'' has the literary weight of a Great American Novel, with a limitless desert setting plus the prospect of soon dominating space, and the spare yet profound writing style of Ernest Hemingway or Cormac McCarthy. Johncock is British, but you can tell he's taken inspiration from stories about the dawn of the astronaut age, including Tom Wolfe's ''The Right Stuff'' and films like ''Apollo 13''. His protagonist, Jim Harrison, is a fictional Air Force test pilot who rubs shoulders with historical figures like Chuck Yeager and John Glenn in the quest to break the sound barrier and conquer space.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434848</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert Merle and T Jefferson Kline (translator)|title=Fortunes of France: City of Wisdom and BloodPeach Blossom Spring

|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1566: Brothers Pierre and Samson de Siorac have been sent from their Perigore home I loved the prelude to further their education at Montpellier. During their time there they learn more than their ascribed logicPeach Blossom Spring, philosophy and medicinea short chapter entitled ''Origins''. Indeed Pierre's focus Unfortunately it is on his stomach and the affairs only truly poetic part of the heart, as befitting a lusty 15 year old. Not all of the adventures are learned, culinary or romantic though; some lessons are a lot book that I expected more dangerous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271244</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jemima Brigges|title=Brothers at Arms|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Certain decisions are pivotal points in time; key moments that define everything that follows and create waves that ripple with repercussions for years to come. Kindly squire Tom Norberry could never have foreseen the impact that taking in two orphaned relatives would have on his future happiness. This single, altruistic act of kindness would set in motion a chain of events that would eventually cause a deep household rift and threaten to sully the good family name that he had worked to hard to uphold.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784624454</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kevin Sands|title= The Blackthorn Key|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Seventeenth century England isn't always a comfortable place to live. Apart from the obvious differences from the modern day – no National Health Service, no laws to protect orphans like Christopher from cruelty and exploitation, and a constant foul smell from poor sanitation - fear and suspicion are a daily fact of life. In 1665 Charles II has been back on the throne for several years, but not everyone is happy about his extravagant and luxurious life-style, even among those who found the Puritan rules of Cromwell's time excessively strict. There are spies everywhere, and rumours of conspiracies fill the streets. It's a time to keep your head down and avoid attention Covering Chinese history from the authorities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014136064X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alexander Cordell|title=Rape of the Fair Country|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 1938 to do and his mother knows that the money will be needed 2005 as there's another child on the way, but Iestyn's older sister, Morfydd, is adamant that itviewed through one family's wrong for women and children to work in either the mines or the ironworksperspective. She believes in the aims of the Chartist movement whilst her father, Hywel Mortymer, When their home city is loyal to set ablaze during the ironmasterswar with Japan, 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 a young mother (which can extend to relationsMeilin) can leave any family penniless and starving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OTY1SVI</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Ross|title=Swords Around The Throne her four-year-old son (Twilight of EmpireRenshu)|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 dangerare among those who flee. Due to an adventure The story follows them on the their journey he comes to the notice of Emperor Constantineacross China, 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 in Renshu's case eventually to say the least, riven by plots, conspiracies and worseAmerica. Therefore Castus' new job is neither safe nor easy but it's not something he can refuse… unfortunately!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784081167</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Edric1916072038|title=Field ServiceThe House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary=Morlancourt, France 1920: World War I may be over but a grisly job remainsWe meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. The soldiers killed Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and buried her mother have travelled in battle are to be exhumedsome discomfort from their home at Ecklington, identified and brought to War Commission designed cemeteries for reburialthe house in the hollow. Captain James Reid The two women are angry with each other and his corps are responsible for receiving Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and burying in weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the embryonic burial grounds while Alexander Lucasdeplorable truth' 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 Hester is furious about Jocelyn's a job that may take its toll on any man refusal to do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and it doesunexpected removal''.|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 a humble little dog living with a loving family. They've spent so much time with him he has learnt some tricks – not only Then we are told of the usual ones, birth of begginga child and, or playing deadsoon after, but walking on two legsHester Talbot departs, somersaulting on to his two other paws, and giving the Hitler salute. If this was 2015 in the UK he would be shoe-leaving Jocelyn in for Britain's Got Talent (although the Hitler salute might lose him a few votes, to be honest) but this is 1930s Berlin, shame and things are starting to get horrendously tough and nasty for Jewish families like his. Querying the statute laws that demand a formalisation of Jewish names his owners rename Levi after Sirius, the Great Dog isolation in the night skiesYorkshire. But nobody can foresee what happens when Jews are pushed harder and harder from their neighbourhoods, and nobody can see what a Great Dog star Sirius can become, in the most unlikely of milieux – Hollywood…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081981</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ursula DubosarskyAnnabel Abbs|title=The Red ShoeLanguage of Food

|summary=There's Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a new resident at Loxleytroubled home life. Bronwyn's nieceTogether, Lottie Colfax is tired of schoolthey test, craft, desperate to join up refine and 'do her bit', to reshape 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 world of view there's a bad example at Loxley: Hettiedomestic cookery, Duchess of Loxley has joined reinventing the WAAFS recipe book 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 changing the meantime Lottie has discovered a secret in Loxley's cellars and met a young man who is also determined to join up, no matter what his mother saysface of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0123Q8KL4</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David ChadwickFreya Marske|title=Liberty BazaarA Marvellous Light|rating=54

|summary= Confederate General Jubal de Brooke Robin Blyth is sent to Britain as an envoy to raise awareness and funds from the English aristocracy for his southern brothers in arms nudged into a job in the American Civil WarService, much to his chagrin. Meanwhile slave Trinity escapes to England There he meets Edwin Courcey and immediately becomes an icon for learns that the liberal elitestreets of London are threaded with magic. However soon Trinity realises there's more Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the countryside, where the English support than just talkhedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. She uncovers There they uncover a secret – and highly illegal – sinister plot with far reaching effects for her homeland, not to mention dangerous consequences for herthat threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906582920</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lloyd ShepherdB09F4CTKJR|title=Savage MagicFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=12-year-old Eliza Brannan It's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is looking forward to a wonderful summer. She young American who has signed up and her older cousin Dorothea will be joined at home by Eliza's university student brother Roderick and the sun-drenched days will stretch out before them17 Aero Squadron. Unfortunately This company was the reality isn't first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the same as RAF and the dream; this is first to be sent into the summer when life changes. Dorothea and Roderick will pursue futures that no one had predicted and a foreign house guest will open Eliza's eyes skies to fight the world outside her outgrown nurseryGermans in active combat. There againBut before that can happen, this is 1914; a year heralding a change in life for more than just Petrol has to master flying the Brannan householdnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191020823X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura AndersenChristophe Medler|title=The Boleyn Reckoning (Anne Boleyn Trilogy)Madrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=4.5

|summary=SPOILERS FOR BOOKS 1 & 2 AHEAD: Henry IX Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is still discovered by Sir Robert Douse in love with his childhood sweetheart Minuette and is determined to marry her, despite being betrothed to Princess Elisabeth the summer of France for political reasons1642. What he still doesn't realise is that Minuette is married to As a loyal servant of the third member of their childhood trioKing, his trusted advisor Dominic, Duke and Head of Exeter. Meanwhile there are some who feel that Henry's sister Princess Elizabeth would make a better ruler than he. Then there's his half-sisterthe Secret Service, Lady Mary, who it is starting to realise what sheRobert's given up for Henry's future. The beginning duty to uncover the details of the plan and follow the clues to uncover one of the end has started… but whose end/ends will it be?most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091956501</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Vaughn Entwhistle1471187179|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 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>}}{{newreviewA Beautiful Spy|author=Dido Butterworth and Tim Flannery|title=The Mystery of the Venus Island FetishRachel Hore|rating=34

|summary=Meet Archie MeekMinnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. He's about The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to leave the Venus Islands, where heher mother's lived for the last five years, expectations and return find a nice young man to Sydneymarry, where he'll take his office in the museum produce children and fill it with all spend the cultural artefacts he's found rest of her days looking after her husband and wildlife he's plucked or pickledtheir home. ThatUnfortunately, this isn's not t what she wants to ignore the fact he'll count as something quite alien himself, with his filled-out frame, nearly do at all-over suntan and totemic tattoo, in amongst other changes neither does she want to his bodycontinue working as a secretary. But what's this? When he gets backAs a result of a chance meeting, he she finds one of herself drawn into espionage, working for the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to go there in infiltrate the first place, a huge, macabre ceremonial fetish mask, purloined as corporate artwork. And some Communist Party of the curators he wishes to work alongside have vanishedGreat Britain. Is Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the weird society of the museum he's returning to, perchance, even weirder, stranger friends she has made - and more violent than likes - whilst working for the cannibalistic society he's waving farewell to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922079308</amazonuk>Communist Party.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Toby ClementsAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Kingmaker: Broken Faith (Kingmaker 2)Kokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=This contains spoilers for Kingmaker 1Well, so that's probably best read first; you won't regret it! Now where were we? 1462: The War of this looked very much like a book I could love from the Roses rages on. Katherine get-go, which is at Cornford Castle, posing as Lady Margaret Cornford, wife why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of the now blind Richard Fakenham. Not even he realises her true identity but she feels it's only a matter of time. The man who Katherine really loves and assumes dead, Thomas Everingham is suffering from a head injury. He's just remembered enough I found things to make his way to his childhood home but is unaware of his more recent past; he can remember how to fight though potentially delight me each time – and just as well! On a wider canvasweird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the war has denuded England20,000s, letters used as narrative form, most of its food having gone to feed the armiesand so on. King Henry VI has fled to It intrigued with the northeast and Warwick, the Kingmaker himselfsubterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, is coming for himtoo. The worst isnBut you't over yet thoughve seen the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not for anyoneactually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780891709</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=G K Holloway|title=1066: What Fates Impose|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Perhaps England should realise it's in trouble when King Edward the Confessor takes one look at his naked bride and decides to remain chaste. This signals a lack of royal offspring and a succession crisis that becomes so important the vultures flock to fight even before he's ill, let alone dead. The jockeying for position as next in line to the throne or next in line's favourite has begun. Indeed England is famous for its royal succession wars and this is one of the best; a story of a journey that will finish near Hastings as a deadly stand-off between King Harold Godwinson and Norman Duke William in that year that every British school child is taught: 1066.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062207</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Natasha PulleyChristina Hammonds Reed|title=The Watchmaker of Filigree StreetBlack Kids

|genre=FantasyTeens |summary=London 1883: Thaniel SteepletonChristina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a telegraphist in reaction to the absolution of four police officers for beating a government officeblack man, Rodney King, finds himself living and working in a city at siege during a Clan na Gael bombing campaign. It's around this time that he also realises that his pocket watch seems nearly to have some odd, previously unnoticed functionsdeath. Grace CarrowTold from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from 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 silent bystander when they meet Mr Moriconfronted with matters of race, the Japanese watchmaker. His clockwork pet octopus is only to a small measure of the oddity aheadwoman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408854287</amazonuk>1471188191