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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin SmithTananarive Due|title=The Voyage of the DolphinReformatory

|summary=Dublin 1916: Among the unrest and antiGracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-British feeling worsened by old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the threat of conscription into a war seen Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as nothing to do with the Irish, Trinity College faculty has other distractionsReformatory. TheyIt'd like s a trophy; place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the skeleton segregated reformatory is a chamber of an Irish 'giant' horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to be precise. The only glitch is that survive the main trophy contenderschool governor and his Funhouse, Bernard MacNeillRobert must enlist the help of the school's skeleton, is somewhere difficult to access and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be hope thoughghosts – only they have their own motivations. They turn to Fitzmaurice, a student not good enough for anything else. Fitzmaurice agrees, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with him. So… ''Gentlemen, lace up your strongest boots and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off to the bloody Arctic!'' Whether battle cry or epitaph, three men and a dog… and an iguana… are going anyway.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>1803366532}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janet ToddKatherine Howe|title=A Man of GeniusTrue Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Ann St Clair Hannah Masury is determined not living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to follow the ways of her Georgian contemporaries into marriagework there from a young age. She earns enough as When she hears there is to be a writer hanging of Gothic romances some pirates in the town, she decides to keep the wolf from the door go and watch. Enthralled and believes thathorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's how it will always bedeath at the hands of two vicious pirates. Then she meets Robert JamesShe hides away, writer, self-acclaimed genius so that they don't find and popular raconteur, becoming totally besotted. However Ann still thinks she can retain kill her independencetoo, even when and then to escape them completely she goes runs away to Venice with Robert to escape sea, dressing as a boy and joining the boredom of English lifenotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. However She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there's is a darker side to this manmutiny on board, the unforeseen consequences and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of which will unlock life on the mysteries of Ann's own childhoodocean waves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524596</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1908524596</amazonus>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Eliza RoseSarah Marsh|authortitle=Lucy WorsleyA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Eliza's family isn't as wealthy as it once was. And she is well aware that her duty is to marry well in order to repair the Camperdowne fortunes. To this end, Eliza is sent from her family home at Stoneton Castle to Trumpton Hall, to be educated in the ways of noble ladies. Here, she meets the infamous Katherine Howard while she too is still After a young girl. And from there, it's on to the Tudor court bout of Henry VIII, who is currently married to Anne of Cleves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408869438</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ben Kane|title=Hunting the Eagles|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=They say never poke a sleeping bear scarlet fever as they are likely to wake up and slam you with a pawchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. The said can be said Suddenly plunged into a world of the Roman Empiresilence, they were best left aloneeverything about her life changes. Back Living in AD 09 a time when the Germans managed to get one up on the Romans by ambushing them deep in the forest and wiping out around 15000 menuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, but it Ellen is now AD 14 and the Romans not only want revenge; they also want their Eagles back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184809406X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ernst Haffner and Michael Hofmann (translator)|title=Blood Brothers|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It's Berlin, and the Nazis are on their way sent to power, even if they will never cross these pages themselves. The city – huge, glamorous, bustling, vicious in the way it can swallow people – a school where she is home taught to a countless hoard of teenagerslip read, but we focus on just a few, most of whom have been in some corrective institution or other before nowphysically restrained from signing. They call themselves the Blood BrothersFrom here, even if all they share is the most unglamorous drudgery of going from one doss-house to she ends up in another, balancing school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the cost of deaf and using a few cigarettes with that of a warm room for a few hours or some stale rolls to eat. But en route to them is another 'Borstal' escapee, Willisystem called Visible Speech. Surely his fate is going to be nothing if not more of At the same?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594048</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Marina Fiorato|title= The Double Life of Mistress Kit Kavanagh|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= In early eighteenth century Irelandtime, young Irish beauty Kit Kavanagh lives a quiet, settled life in a Dublin alehouse with her husband, Richard. When Richard Bell is suddenly whisked away to join the British army, Kit disguises herself as a man working on other inventions and enlists as a soldierideas, determined to follow and find her husband across war-torn Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473610494</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Gilman|title=Gate of the Dead (Master of War)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Tuscany 1358: A dying man brings an enigmatic message to Thomas Blackstone, the exiled English archer and current mercenary leader. It appears to be a royal command to return home but is it an invitation to his own death? Thomas can't take the risk of ignoring it, especially since his life is in just as much danger where he is. It seems that he's more valuable dead than alive Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in many countries; it's just a case complicated tangle of deducing the paymaster – or paymasters - behind the assassination attempts before he runs out of timeespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781852901</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert Merle and T Jefferson Kline (translator)Claire North|title=Fortunes House of France 3: Heretic DawnOdysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=France 1568: Having persuaded his father Jean that it's safe for him to return to his studies, Pierre de Siorac goes back to Montpellier. He doesn’t stay there long though as Jean has a mission for him that will take him into the royal court in Paris. The fighting between the Medici-led Catholics and the Huguenots has quietened down but, despite sending his son into the vipers' nest, heWhat could matter more than love?''s reluctant to consider the Peace of St Germain as being the end of the conflict. History will prove his suspicions correct as we approach the St Bartholomew Massacre of the Huguenots which occurs… in Paris.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271937</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1782271937</amazonus>}}

{{newreview|author=Adriana Trigiani|title=All The Stars follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In The Heavens|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was 1935 the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and Loretta Young wanted fame and success in Hollywoodthen by divine intervention never returned home. Part As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of it was being young (just twenty one) the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and beautiful but she was also conscious physical – the chaotic storm that the money she Clytemnestra brought in mattered to her family. She was hungry for love too: her father had left when she was young. Her step-father had done little better and there was a Ithaca''need'' for s shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a man she could love and look up tofragile peace. She developed a reputation for falling in love One that shatters however with her leading men: first it was Spencer Tracy but on the set return of ''The Call Orestes, King of the Wild'' she fell for Clark Gable - Mycenae, and he for herhis sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471136345</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo TolstoyB0C7J9D21B|title=War and PeaceA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=1805: Napoleon Bonaparte When we first meet our hero, his name is on the way to conquering Europe while what's left Ettore and he lives at The House of Europe (including the Russian army led by Tsar Alexander) stands in his wayBeautiful Swallows. Prince Andrei Bolkonsky quickly gets a reputation Idyllic as military hero although few know this is allied to his death wish. Meanwhile back in Russia the remaining aristocracy have no doubt that their motherland will win might sound, it's a bordello and so they continue with daily lifeEttore's mother died when he was born. Pierre, the illegitimate son He's not been short of Count Bezukhoff buries his life in winemothers, women, song and more wine though - but the death for someone of his father takes him on a journey to find happiness, the long way round. 12background in late-yeareighteenth-old Natasha Rostov dreams of love and happinesscentury Amalfi, searching with age-related exuberance and inexperienceit's difficult to obtain decent employment. The older generation are there to help and hinder as they take their places as pawns and puppeteers in stint working with the manipulation and social climbing thatpreparation of anchovies didn's become second nature… that is until the tide of war changes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184990846X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Grant|title= Front Lines|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=1942: Hitler is pushing his way ever further, the USA adds its strength to the Alliance t work out and women bastards are allowed to fight in the military for the first timeconsidered bad luck on fishing boats. Rio Richlin’s sister has already died in the war, Frangie Marr is desperate for a way to keep her family’s heads above water Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and Rainy Schulterman wants to kill the man who is murdering Jews. All three go to war determined - and all three are changed. Although they do they do it was not start together, their paths intersect long before he had a successful business as they all take on roles that leave more scars than expecteda guide for visitors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405273828</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jessica Blair|title=Tread Softly, Alice|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Alice Ware is finally returning home to Yorkshire, after an extended stay with friends in France. Much has changed since she left, but the most exciting development has been the arrival of an elegant new neighbour, Emma Cheevey, who has inherited the estate next to their home He was even saving some money. Alice is particularly thrilled by the arrival of Emma's handsome soldier sons: the serious but self confident Steven and his gentle, easygoing younger brother Matthew. Both men are keen to win her heart, but which one holds the key to her future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407320</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne O'BrienEssie Fox|title=The Queen's ChoiceFascination

|summary=Joanna of Navarre may be married 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 John IVth Duke more than a few writers mishandling it. There's such a glut of Britany but she has views of her own and isnmedia set in the era that the hallmarks we't afraid ve come to voice themassociate with it are familiar to the point of being cliched, hackneyed even . All this is simply to Charles the French Kingillustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. When she defends exiled English noble Henry Bolingbroke at the French court she does so as a friend not realising what the future holds. For Bolingbroke is the future Henry IV and fate will decree But despite that Joanna will become his queen, roles that will take their toll on both of them something about it still grabs me – and something about this book's description did as a couple and individualswell.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848454074</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian RossNicole Jarvis|title=Battle For Rome (Twilight of Empire)A Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5

|summary=''Be warned - spoilers ahead for the first two books…''Aurelius Castus, tribune in Emperor Constantine's army is preparing for the battle everyone (including us) has been waiting for: the fight against Maxentius, Tyrant I want all of Rome. Meanwhile Castus' marriage Florence to the aristocratic Sabina has borne him a beloved son but coldness lurks between man and wife where there was hot passion. Castus' suspicions are further fed by his wifeknow my name's name being on the lips of a dying officer; truth or pre-death ramblings? Meanwhile Sabina has bought a new slave and Castus swears he's seen her somewhere before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081205</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Guinevere Glasfurd|title=The Words In My Hand|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=17th century life circumstances dictate that Helena Jans has to go into service and is employed by Mr SergeantCast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an English bookseller living oasis in Amsterdamwhich her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. There's much excitement when Mr Sergeant welcomes his new lodgerBut as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, philosopher the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and scientist, Rene Descartesits citizens from plagues and curses. However the thrill becomes somewhat muted when Helena's employer realises what the stay entailsThe all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. Helena on the other handTo them, is totally enthralled by their guest: Artemisia – an enthrallment that will totally ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change her life– has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473617855</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=L C Tyler|title=A Masterpiece of Corruption (A John Grey Historical Mystery)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1657: John GreySet in the near-distant future, law student at Lincolns Inn, receives in a meeting invitation that doesn't seem to be meant for him. Unfortunately he still goes to world on the meeting and ends up accepting a mission to kill Oliver Cromwell. He has two problems with this: first he likes a quiet life and secondly he likes Oliver Cromwell. In fact he already works for Oliver's spymasterverge of climate collapse, ThurloeBritain is in great peril. The life expectancy of British Isles desperately needs a double agent isn't that long hero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that's without reckoning on one of the intervention Knights of Aminta!the Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472114965</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary GibsonG K Holloway|title=Gunner Girls and Fighter BoysIn the Shadows of Castles

|summary=''Gunner Girls We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and Fighter Boyson the day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. William' s position is not secure and the latest book in Mary Gibson's Bermondsey seriesnew king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. And William is right to worry. This time, While the Lloyd family take centre stage: Mumprevious king, DadHarold, son Jack is dead and daughters May and Peggy. War the likelihood of more pitched battles is raging in Europe over, the rebels are stirring and Bermondsey is not immune from daily onslaught much of bombs. A tragic event one night changes everything and home-bird May decides to fly the nest in order country does not wish to participate in the war effort. The war will leave no-one unscathed; the strongest hearts can be paralysed by fear and the unlikeliest of people can emerge as heroesrecognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178185596X</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Brody3949666079|title=Sisters on Bread StreetNoema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Julia and Margaret are the Wood sisters, struggling ''This is a story about some things that happened to hoist themselves out of me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is a life of poverty young girl living in Leeds just before the outbreak of a hunter gatherer village during the first world warMesolithic era. Well, Julia Climate change is struggling. Margaret sees her way out as being through marriage to a rich suffragette's sonoccurring, Thomas. Shethe Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's an apprentice milliner and beautifulforest home, but both sisters have a disadvantage and it's one which grows bigger as war approaches: their father food is Germanbecoming more and more scarce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410704</amazonuk>What to do? Can the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonia Senior1529125898|title=The Winter IslesGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=Scotland 1122: A son is born ''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, there would no women to a warlord on teach well-bred daughters at all.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the Scottish Islandsposition of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. The warlord GilleBride, is She had no experience of teaching but this was a man who doesn't realise his glory is recedingcase of necessity. One day Until the realisation does hit himdeath of her mother, along with Anne had a Viking raidcomfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the household. In the heat of invasion his sonWhen her mother died, although only 15, must take overher father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her. Can No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a lad actually lead a people? year. History will tell and legend will embellish for that boy is Somerled and this is his storyHer maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396586</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon MarshallMelissa Fu |title=The Long Drawn AislePeach Blossom Spring

|summary=Edward We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and Richard Wilson her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to the house in the hollow. The two women are born into a comfortable angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths andweaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, indeedat concealing, powerful familybeneath a facade of respectability, the deplorable truth''. Their father  Hester is the MP Jack Wilson who is everything a Victorian father should be: severefurious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as she was asked, distant which has precipitated ''this violent and occupied with his careerunexpected removal''. As the 20th century arrives and advances all three will feel the labour pains  Then we are told of conflict, the sons while living in Austria and the Balkans and their father through the lens birth of Britain's Parliament. It will be a bloody birth child and its effects far reaching as two great empires prepare to fight, drawing soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in the rest of EuropeYorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899804218</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Conn IgguldenAnnabel Abbs|title=Wars of the Roses: Bloodline: Book 3 (The Wars Language of the Roses)Food

|summary=The Wars of Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the Roses continueslightest inclination to boil an egg. Margaret of Anjou becomes When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a catalyst for what lays ahead and then rescues her husbandtroubled home life. Together, the debilitated Henry VIthey test, from the forces of Richard Nevillecraft, Earl of Warwick refine and reshape the recently executed Richard world of York. However York's last words weren't empty rhetoric: by killing the father Margaret has indeed unleashed the sons. Edward of March for one is out for revenge; a fact that throws domestic cookery, reinventing the English throne recipe book and changing the safety face of Queen's spymaster Derry Brewer into grave doubtcookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>071815987X</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jennifer WallaceFreya Marske|title= Digging Up MiltonA Marvellous Light|rating= 3.54|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Digging Up Milton appealed Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, much to me because from his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the description it sounded like something streets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a little bit different. I like curse that it is dark but yet not entirely seriousthreatens to swallow him, and I always appreciate it when an author tries Robin follows Edwin to write in a different waythe countryside, or give where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a book an individual voicesinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909776106</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley J NickellB09F4CTKJR|title=Sons of York: Volume 2 (The Sprigs of Broom)Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=15th Century London: Through It's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a quirk of fate young widow Janet Evershed finds herself running her late husband's cloth businessAmerican who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, far from her York homethe first to be attached to the RAF and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. It's in this very shop But before that she meets Richard Nevillecan happen, Duke Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.}}{{Frontpage|author= Christophe Medler|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Set against the backdrop of Warwick and his ward Edwardthe English Civil War, Earl a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of March1642. They may be much higher than commoner Janet but she has caught EdwardAs a loyal servant of the King, and Head of the Secret Service, it is Robert's eye duty to uncover the details of the plan and what Edward wants, he gets, be it a woman or, indeed, follow the crown clues to uncover one of Englandthe most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861514603</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jolien Janzing1471187179|title=Charlotte Bronte's Secret LoveA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=3.54

|summary=This Minnie is the second novel by Jolien Janzing, a Dutch author who lives in Belgium. Originally published in Dutch as ''The Masteran 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in 2013, it is already being made into a filmleafy provincial suburb. The flawlessly translated story zeroes book is set in on two momentous years in Charlotte Brontëthe 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's lifeexpectations and find a nice young man to marry, 1842–3produce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately, when this isn't what she was a pupil wants to do at all and then neither does she want to continue working as a teacher at the Pensionnat Heger in Brusselssecretary. I read this in tandem with Claire Harman's new biography As a result of Charlotte Brontë; it was particularly fascinating a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to see that infiltrate the two books open with Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the same climactic episode: lovesick Charlotte making a confession at a Catholic church, even though friends she was an Anglican parson's daughterhas made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380597</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Franck Afonso Cruz and Anthea Bell Rahul Bery (translator)|title=WestKokoschka's Doll|rating=32.5

|summary=Put yourself in the shoes of Well, this looked very much like a young mother to two children, who declares her intention to leave book I could love from the Communist East Germany for West Berlinget-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and thus loses her scientist jobflipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. What would you expect I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the other side – shops full of attainable products20, pleasant neighbourhoods000s, nice neighboursletters used as narrative form, an active and busy new life, where things might feel alien but at least you speak so on. It intrigued with the same language? Well, for Nelly Senffsubterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, this is hardly the casetoo. Once past But you've seen the depressing Eastern exit procedures she is confronted star rating that comes with more desultory interrogations from those 'welcoming' her to the Westthis review, beyond which she and her children (their fathercan tell that if love was on these pages, whom she never married, is long assumed dead it was not actually caused by the authorities, if nobody else) are practically left in a shared accommodation in a transit campthem. The shops are full of So what is still unobtainable, the children hate their new school – and people still look down on them as being foreign, even if they have only moved across a city.happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099554321</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gregory DowlingChristina Hammonds Reed|title=AscensionThe Black Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=Alvise Marangon Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is an artist 'resting' between commissions and so using his guile and enterprise as set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a tour guide reaction to those taking the European Grand Tour in 18th century Venice. Everything has a business as usual feel to it absolution of four police officers for Alvise until he notices beating a fellow gondolier paying his friend not black man, Rodney King, nearly to take death. Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from a couple silent bystander when confronted with matters of English tourists. Thenrace, as the new Doge is inaugurated to a man's head is thrown into the crowdwoman finding her voice and embracing her heritage. Showing people around a typical Venice is becoming increasingly hard for Alvise – Venice is not behaving typically!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973139</amazonuk>1471188191

{{newreview|author=Lisa Hilton|title=The Stolen Queen|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Nine-year-old Isabelle of Angouleme is betrothed Move on to Hal, son of Hugh de Lusignan. She doesn't like him much but she's learning to gently manipulate those around her so she feels life will be interesting and rewarding. Howeverwith England's King Richard the Lionheart all changes. Isabelle will marry King John instead – a totally different prospect for all concerned. This is a match that will not only be a challenge for the young girl but will show her the true heart of her mother and the true art of political manoeuvring. Isabelle may be the pawn in all this but it's not a role she takes to willingly, despite the nightmares of the horned man and the occurrences of a certain May night that will haunt the rest of her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848874693</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anthony Quinn|title=Blind Arrows|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1919: A cohort 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 to neutralise their leader, Michael Collins. However there is a distraction from their usual agenda: an increasing number of IRA women are escaping, only to be found murdered shortly afterwards. Martin Kant, an English journalist in Ireland is charged with investigation and reporting back to the government powers as well as his newspaper editor. Meanwhile Lilly Merrin, a Dublin Castle employee has also gone missing. Her loyalty to the Crown seems beyond question in the eyes of her boss, but others would argue with that...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843445352</amazonuk>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]