Changes

<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jennifer WallaceTananarive Due|title= Digging Up MiltonThe Reformatory|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Digging Up Milton appealed Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to me because from six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the description it sounded like something Reformatory. It's a little bit differentplace with a brutal and dark reputation. I like that it But the segregated reformatory is dark but yet not entirely seriousa chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and I always appreciate it when an author tries to write in a different wayhis Funhouse, or give a book an individual voiceRobert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909776106</amazonuk>1803366532}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lesley J NickellKatherine Howe|title=Sons of York: Volume 2 (The Sprigs of Broom)A True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=15th Century London: Through Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a quirk of fate young widow Janet Evershed finds herself running her late husband's cloth businessfamily who run an inn, far and being made to work there from her York homea young age. It's When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in this very shop that the town, she meets Richard Neville, Duke of Warwick decides to go and watch. Enthralled and his ward Edwardhorrified in equal measure, Earl Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of Marchtwo vicious pirates. They may be much higher than commoner Janet but she has caught EdwardShe hides away, so that they don's eye t find and what Edward wantskill her too, he getsand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, be it dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a woman or, indeedmutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the crown of Englandocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861514603</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jolien JanzingSarah Marsh|title=Charlotte Bronte's Secret LoveA Sign of Her Own

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=This is the second novel by Jolien JanzingAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a Dutch author who lives in Belgiumworld of silence, everything about her life changes. Originally published Living in Dutch a time when the use of sign language was seen as ''The Master'' in 2013something only savages do, it Ellen is already being made into sent to a filmschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. The flawlessly translated story zeroes in on two momentous years in Charlotte Brontë's life, 1842–3 From here, when she was a pupil ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and then using a teacher at the Pensionnat Heger in Brusselssystem called Visible Speech. I read this in tandem with Claire Harman's new biography of Charlotte Brontë; it was particularly fascinating to see that the two books open with At the same climactic episode: lovesick Charlotte making time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a confession at a Catholic church, even though she was an Anglican parson's daughtercomplicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9462380597</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Franck and Anthea Bell (translator)Claire North|title=WestHouse of Odysseus|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Put yourself in ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the shoes excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of a young mother Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to two childrenrule without her husband, who declares her intention sailed to leave the Communist East Germany for West Berlin, war at Troy and thus loses her scientist jobthen by divine intervention never returned home. What would you expect on As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the other side Western Isles. Having survived – shops full of attainable products, pleasant neighbourhoods, nice neighbours, an active politically and busy new life, where things might feel alien but at least you speak physical – the same language? Well, for Nelly Senffchaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, this Queen Penelope is hardly on the casebrink of a fragile peace. Once past the depressing Eastern exit procedures she is confronted One that shatters however with more desultory interrogations from those 'welcoming' her to the West, beyond which she and her children (their father, whom she never married, is long assumed dead by the authoritiesreturn of Orestes, if nobody else) are practically left in a shared accommodation in a transit camp. The shops are full 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, Mei-li Bradford is anything but conventional. For most ''If it were not for the casual dereliction of her life, she has travelled the world with her sea-captain father and seen exotic sights and locations that others could only dream of. Her upbringing amongst sailors has clearly rubbed off on herodd gentleman's duty, however. Mei-li, or May there would no women to her friends, can drink and curse like a man and has no respect for propriety and convention. She may look like a teach well-bred lady, but certainly does not act like daughters at all.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one. Therefore, disaster surely beckons years old when an uptight Duke shows an interest in her. His stuffy ways and conventional habits are anathema she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to May's freetwelve-year-spirited natureold Fanny Austen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410674</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Benjamin Johncock|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 She had no experience of teaching but this was a Great American Novel, with a limitless desert setting plus case of necessity. Until the prospect death of soon dominating spaceher mother, Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the spare yet profound writing style of Ernest Hemingway or Cormac McCarthyhousehold. Johncock is British When her mother died, her father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her. No explanation was offered but you can tell he's taken inspiration from stories about the dawn she would receive an annuity of the astronaut age, including Tom Wolfe's ''The Right Stuff'' and films like ''Apollo 13''£35 a year. His protagonist Her maid, Jim HarrisonAgnes, is a fictional Air Force test pilot who rubs shoulders with historical figures like Chuck Yeager and John Glenn would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in the quest to break the sound barrier and conquer spaceby some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434848</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert Merle and T Jefferson Kline (translator)Melissa Fu |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 MontpellierPeach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''. During their time there they learn Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of a book that I expected more than their ascribed logic, philosophy and medicinefrom. Indeed PierreCovering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's focus perspective. When their home city is on his stomach and the affairs of set ablaze during the heartwar with Japan, as befitting a lusty 15 young mother (Meilin) and her four-year -oldson (Renshu) are among those who flee. Not all of the adventures are learnedThe story follows them on their journey across China, culinary or romantic though; some lessons are a lot more dangerousand in Renshu's case eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271244</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jemima Brigges1916072038|title=Brothers at ArmsThe House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell|rating=4.5

|summary=Certain decisions are pivotal points We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in time; key moments that define everything that follows November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and create waves that ripple with repercussions for years to come. Kindly squire Tom Norberry could never her mother have foreseen the impact that taking travelled in two orphaned relatives would have on his future happiness. This singlesome discomfort from their home at Ecklington, altruistic act of kindness would set to the house 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 upholdhollow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784624454</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kevin Sands|title= The Blackthorn Keytwo women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses:|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'She is practiced at subterfuge, no laws to protect orphans like Christopher from cruelty and exploitationat concealing, and beneath a constant foul smell from poor sanitation - fear and suspicion are a daily fact facade of liferespectability, the deplorable truth''. In 1665 Charles II has been back on the throne for several years, but not everyone  Hester is happy furious about his extravagant Jocelyn's refusal to do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and luxurious life-style, even among those who found the Puritan rules of Cromwellunexpected removal''s time excessively strict. There  Then we are spies everywhere, and rumours told of conspiracies fill the streets. It's birth of a time to keep your head down child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and avoid attention from the authoritiesisolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014136064X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander CordellAnnabel Abbs|title=Rape The Language of the Fair CountryFood

|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When we meet Iestyn Motymer it's 1826 and he's just eight years oldtasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, but starting work at the Garndyrus furnaces near Blaenavona local woman with a troubled home life. 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 wayTogether, but Iestyn's older sisterthey test, Morfyddcraft, is adamant that it's wrong for women refine and children to work in either the mines or reshape the ironworks. She believes in the aims world of the Chartist movement whilst her father, Hywel Mortymerdomestic cookery, is loyal to reinventing 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 recipe book and changing the mercy face of the ironmaster and the agent: suspension or blacklisting (which can extend to relations) can leave any family penniless and starvingcookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00OTY1SVI</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian RossFreya Marske|title=Swords Around The Throne (Twilight of Empire)A Marvellous Light|rating=54

|summary=Centurion Aurelius Castus' time Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in Britain is over but not the Civil Service, much to his propensity for being on chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the wrong side streets of dangerLondon are threaded with magic. Due Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to an adventure on the journey he comes swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the notice of Emperor Constantinecountryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and is promoted to his elite bodyguard – the swords around the thronepeople shimmer with power. The multiple emperor model There they uncover a sinister plot that has evolved to govern threatens the Empire is shaky to say lives of all magicians in the least, riven by plots, conspiracies and worseBritish Isles. Therefore Castus' new job is neither safe nor easy but it's not something he can refuse… unfortunately!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784081167</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert EdricB09F4CTKJR|title=Field ServiceFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=Morlancourt, France 1920: It's the later stages of World War I may be over but and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a grisly job remainsyoung American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. The soldiers killed and buried This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in battle are Canada, the first to be exhumed, identified and brought attached to War Commission designed cemeteries for reburial. Captain James Reid and his corps are responsible for receiving the RAF and burying in the embryonic burial grounds while Alexander Lucas' detachment go out first to collect be sent into the corpses or check skies to fight the veracity of claims that British and Commonwealth troops have been uncovered Germans in various settings including farmers' fieldsactive combat. It's a job But before that may take its toll on any man and it doescan happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|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 the usual ones, of begging, or playing dead, but walking on two legs, somersaulting on to his two other paws, and giving the Hitler salute. 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 is 1930s Berlin, 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 in the night skies. 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>}}{{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 he's purloined after WWII, and with a gun in the corner of his lounge. In the middle, a family of five, with a father figure suffering from PTSD due to the same war, a mother feeling friendless and alone 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 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 to several shady men 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>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally WraggChristophe Medler|title=The Gypsy's TaleMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=3.54

|summary=There's Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a new resident at Loxley. Bronwyn's niece, Lottie Colfax secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is tired of school, desperate to join up and 'do her bit', to discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the frustration summer of her family who hope that some time away from home will encourage her to see sense1642. But from her family's point As a loyal servant of view there's a bad example at Loxley: Hettiethe King, Duchess and Head of Loxley has joined the WAAFS and Secret Service, it is serving in London - usually driving people from place to place. Her grandmother's not at all pleased about this: Katherine sees HettieRobert's duty as being at Loxley. ''Nothing'' comes before Loxley in Katherine's view - even King to uncover the details of the plan and country must take second place. Fortunately Katherine doesn't know that Hettie is going follow the clues to be doing something far more dangerous. In uncover one of the meantime Lottie has discovered a secret most guarded secrets in Loxley's cellars and met a young man who is also determined to join up, no matter what his mother sayshistory—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0123Q8KL4</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Chadwick1471187179|title=Liberty BazaarA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=54

|summary= Confederate General Jubal de Brooke Minnie is sent to Britain as an envoy to raise awareness and funds from the English aristocracy for his southern brothers 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in arms a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the American Civil War. Meanwhile slave Trinity escapes 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to England marry, produce children and immediately becomes an icon for spend the liberal eliterest of her days looking after her husband and their home. However soon Trinity realises thereUnfortunately, this isn's more t what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to the English support than just talkcontinue working as a secretary. She uncovers As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret – service and highly illegal – plot with far reaching effects for effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her homeland, not to mention dangerous consequences duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for herthe Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906582920</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lloyd ShepherdAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Savage MagicKokoschka's Doll|rating=42.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=LondonWell, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, 1842: Magistrate Aaron Graham which is missing his wifewhy I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. She's left him, taking their daughter I found things to live with her cousin potentially delight me each time – a weird section in a very uncousinly way. Yet her distance doesn't prevent her discussing the goings middle on at her new home with Graham; as these goings on resemble witchcraft and seem to be taking darker stock paper, a toll on his daughter's health Aaron is rightly worried. He calls upon Constable Horton to investigate… this is the Horton chapter whose wife Graham encouraged to enter one of number was in the more exclusive madhouses. Under the circumstances it seemed the right thing to do but Horton still hasn't forgiven his superior for it. However20,000s, letters used as the investigation goes narrative form, and so on and Graham is distracted by a murder case . It intrigued with the subterranean voice a rising body count, these bubbling undercurrents of enmity reduce man hears in importance. The important thing for each wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of them has become survival.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136086</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dominic Luke|title=Dreams That Veil|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=12-year-old Eliza Brannan is looking forward to a wonderful summer. She 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 themit mentioned, too. Unfortunately the reality isnBut you't ve seen the same as the dream; star rating that comes with this is the summer when life changes. Dorothea review, and Roderick will pursue futures can tell that no one had predicted and a foreign house guest will open Eliza's eyes to the world outside her outgrown nurseryif love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. There again, this is 1914; a year heralding a change in life for more than just the Brannan household.So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191020823X</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura AndersenChristina Hammonds Reed|title=The Boleyn Reckoning (Anne Boleyn Trilogy)Black Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=SPOILERS FOR BOOKS 1 & 2 AHEAD: Henry IX is still in love with his childhood sweetheart Minuette and is determined to marry her, despite being betrothed to Princess Elisabeth of France for political reasons. What he still doesnChristina Hammonds Reed't realise is that Minuette s debut novel is married to set against the third member backdrop of their childhood trio, his trusted advisor Dominicthe 1992 Los Angeles riots, Duke of Exeter. Meanwhile there are some who feel that Henry's sister Princess Elizabeth would make a better ruler than he. Then there's his half-sister, Lady Mary, who is starting to realise what she's given up for Henry's future. The beginning of the end has started… but whose end/ends will it be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956501</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Vaughn Entwhistle|title= The Dead Assassin|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, 1895. Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned reaction to the scene absolution of four police officers for beating 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 black 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 frameRodney King, nearly all-over suntan and totemic tattoo, in amongst other changes to his bodydeath. 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 Told from the weird society perspective of the museum he's returning to, perchance, even weirderAshley Bennett, 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)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=This contains spoilers for Kingmaker 1, so that's probably best read first; you won't regret it! Now where were we? 1462: The War of the Roses rages on. Katherine is at Cornford Castle, posing as Lady Margaret Cornford, wife of the now blind Richard Fakenham. Not even he realises novel follows her true identity but she feels it's only evolution from a matter silent bystander when confronted with matters of time. The man who Katherine really loves and assumes deadrace, 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 – and just as well! On a wider canvas, the war has denuded England, most of its food having gone to feed the armies. King Henry VI has fled to the northeast woman finding her voice and Warwick, the Kingmaker himself, is coming for him. The worst isn't over yet though, not for anyoneembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780891709</amazonuk>1471188191