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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen SimonsonTananarive Due|title=The Summer Before the WarReformatory

|summary=Summer 1914: Beatrice Nash arrives in Rye following Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the death of her fatherGracetown School for Boys, hoping to earn otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a living as place with a Latin tutorbrutal and dark reputation. Despite being But the sort segregated reformatory is a chamber of woman with ideas horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of her the school's ghosts – only they have their ownmotivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she has allies hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the family of local pillar of the community Lady Agathatown, she decides to go and watch. Agatha may not have realised just how modern Beatrice is but sheEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy'll stand by her after having been her sponsor for s death at the post initiallyhands of two vicious pirates. Meanwhile AgathaShe hides away, so that they don's nephewt find and kill her too, medical student Hugh soon warms and then to Beatrice but his heart belongs escape them completely she runs away to Lucysea, his surgeon professordressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's daughterpirate ship as a cabin boy. SoonShe soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, thoughEllen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the events use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a small town summer will fade school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in importance; another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the Balkans will explode deaf and Europe is thrown into using a war that's far from system called Visible Speech. At the swiftsame time, romanticBell is working on other inventions and ideas, consequence-free conflict and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of which summer daydreams are madeespionage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408837641</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1408837641</amazonus>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin SmithClaire North|title=The Voyage House of the DolphinOdysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Dublin 1916: Among the unrest and anti''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription into a war seen as nothing up to do with the Irish, Trinity College faculty has other distractions. Theyexcellent ''d like a trophy; the skeleton of an Irish Ithaca'giant' to be precisepicks up a few months after where we left off. The only glitch is that In the main trophy contenderpalace of Odysseus, Bernard MacNeill's skeletonwith delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, is somewhere difficult who sailed to access war at Troy and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engagedthen by divine intervention never returned home. There may be hope thoughAs ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. They turn Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to FitzmauriceIthaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a student not good enough for anything elsefragile peace. Fitzmaurice agreesOne that shatters however with the return of Orestes, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with him. So… ''GentlemenKing of Mycenae, lace up your strongest boots and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off to the bloody Arctic!'' Whether battle cry or epitaphhis sister Elektra, three men and a dog… and an iguana… are going anywayseeking refuge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janet ToddB0C7J9D21B|title=A Man of GeniusCaptive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=Ann St Clair When we first meet our hero, his name is determined not to follow the ways Ettore and he lives at The House of her Georgian contemporaries into marriageBeautiful Swallows. She earns enough Idyllic as this might sound, it's a writer of Gothic romances to keep the wolf from the door bordello and believes thatEttore's how it will always bemother died when he was born. Then she meets Robert JamesHe's not been short of mothers, writer, selfthough - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-acclaimed genius and popular raconteurcentury Amalfi, becoming totally besotted. However Ann still thinks she can retain her independence, even when she goes to Venice with Robert to escape the boredom of English life. However thereit's a darker side difficult to this man, obtain decent employment. The stint working with the unforeseen consequences preparation of which will unlock the mysteries of Annanchovies didn's own childhoodt work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524596</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1908524596</amazonus>}}{{newreview|title=Eliza Rose|author=Lucy Worsley|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Eliza's family isn't as wealthy as Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and 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 not long before he had a successful business as a young girlguide for visitors. And from there, it's on to the Tudor court of Henry VIII, who is currently married to Anne of Cleves He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408869438</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben KaneEssie Fox|title=Hunting the EaglesThe Fascination

|summary=They say never poke The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a sleeping bear as they are likely setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led to wake up and slam you with more than a pawfew writers mishandling it. The said can be said There's such a glut of media set in the Roman Empireera that the hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to the point of being cliched, they were best left alonehackneyed even. Back in AD 09 the Germans managed All this is simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to get one up on the Romans by ambushing them deep in the forest and wiping out around 15000 mendo poorly. But despite that, but something about it is now AD 14 still grabs me – and the Romans not only want revenge; they also want their Eagles backsomething about this book's description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184809406X</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ernst Haffner and Michael Hofmann (translator)Nicole Jarvis|title=Blood Brothers|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It's Berlin, and the Nazis are on their way to power, even if they will never cross these pages themselves. The city – huge, glamorous, bustling, vicious A Portrait in the way it can swallow people – is home to a countless hoard of teenagers, but we focus on just a few, most of whom have been in some corrective institution or other before now. They call themselves the Blood Brothers, even if all they share is the most unglamorous drudgery of going from one doss-house to another, balancing the cost of 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, Willi. Surely his fate is going to be nothing if not more of the same?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594048</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Marina Fiorato|title= The Double Life of Mistress Kit KavanaghShadow|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= In early eighteenth century Ireland, young Irish beauty Kit Kavanagh lives a quiet, settled life in a Dublin alehouse with her husband, Richard. When Richard is suddenly whisked away to join the British army, Kit disguises herself as a man and enlists as a soldier, 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

|summary= Tuscany 1358: A dying man brings an enigmatic message ''I want all of Florence to Thomas Blackstoneknow my name'' Cast out from Rome, the exiled English archer and current mercenary leader. It appears to be Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a royal command to return home but is it an invitation to his own death? Thomas and where her future can't take thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the risk of ignoring itpowerful Accademia, especially since his life is in just as much danger where he is. It seems that he's more valuable dead than alive in many countries; it's just a case of deducing the paymaster – or paymasters self- behind proclaimed guardians of the assassination attempts before he runs out of time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781852901</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert Merle and T Jefferson Kline (translator)|title=Fortunes of France 3: Heretic Dawn|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=France 1568: Having persuaded his father Jean healing magics that it's safe for him through paintings have the power to return to his studies, Pierre de Siorac goes back to Montpellierprotect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. He doesn’t stay there long though as Jean The all-male Accademia has a mission hoarded power over art and architecture for him that will take him into the royal court in Pariscenturies and guard it above all else. The fighting between the Medici-led Catholics To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and the Huguenots change – has quietened down but, despite sending his son into the vipers' nest, he's reluctant to consider the Peace of St Germain as being the end of the conflictno place amongst them and their society. History will prove his suspicions correct as we approach the St Bartholomew Massacre of the Huguenots which occurs… in Paris.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271937</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1782271937</amazonus>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Adriana Trigiani|title=All The Stars In The Heavens|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was 1935 and Loretta Young wanted fame and success Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in Hollywoodgreat peril. Part of it was being young The British Isles desperately needs a hero (just twenty oneor several) to save the day and beautiful but she was also conscious that the money she brought in mattered to her family. She was hungry for love too: her father had left when she was youngrescue what little remains. Her stepWhat no-father had done little better and there one expected was a ''need'' for a man she could love and look up to. She developed a reputation for falling in love with her leading men: first it was Spencer Tracy but on that one of the set of ''The Call Knights of the Wild'' she fell for Clark Gable - and he for herRound Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471136345</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leo TolstoyG K Holloway|title=War and PeaceIn the Shadows of Castles

|summary=1805: Napoleon Bonaparte is We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the way to conquering Europe while whatday of William of Normandy's left coronation as King of Europe (including England. William's position is not secure and the Russian army led by Tsar Alexander) stands in his waynew king has many challenges. Prince Andrei Bolkonsky quickly gets Imposing authority through a reputation as military hero although few know this coronation is important. And William is allied right to his death wishworry. Meanwhile back in Russia While the remaining aristocracy have no doubt that their motherland will win and so they continue with daily life. Pierreprevious king, the illegitimate son of Count Bezukhoff buries his life in wineHarold, women, song is dead and more wine but the death likelihood of his father takes him on a journey to find happinessmore pitched battles is over, the long way round. 12-year-old Natasha Rostov dreams of love and happiness, searching with age-related exuberance and inexperience. The older generation rebels are there to help stirring and hinder as they take their places as pawns and puppeteers in much of the manipulation and social climbing that's become second nature… that is until the tide of war changescountry does not wish to recognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184990846X</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Grant3949666079|title= Front LinesNoema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=1942: Hitler ''This is pushing his way ever further, the USA adds its strength a story about some things that happened to the Alliance and women are allowed to fight me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the military for the first timeMesolithic era. Rio Richlin’s sister has already died in Climate change is occurring, the warSea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, Frangie Marr and food is desperate for a way becoming more and more scarce. What to keep her family’s heads above water and Rainy Schulterman wants do? Can the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to kill cope? Can the man Traveller, a spiritual figure who is murdering Jews. interprets the wisdom of All three go to war and all three are changed. Although they do they do not start togetherLife, their paths intersect as they all take on roles that leave more scars than expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405273828</amazonuk>provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jessica Blair1529125898|title=Tread Softly, AliceGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating=2.5

|summary=Alice Ware is finally returning home ''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, there would no women to Yorkshire, after an extended stay with friends in Franceteach well-bred daughters at all. Much has changed since '' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she left, but the most exciting development has been arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the arrival position of an elegant new neighbour, Emma Cheevey, who has inherited the estate next governess to their hometwelve-year-old Fanny Austen. Alice is particularly thrilled by She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessity. Until the arrival death of Emma's handsome soldier sons: her mother, Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the serious but self confident Steven household. When her mother died, her father cast her off and his gentle, easygoing younger brother Matthew. Both men are keen would have nothing more to win do with her heart. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a year. Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but which one holds the key to her future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407320</amazonuk>was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne O'BrienMelissa Fu |title=The Queen's ChoicePeach Blossom Spring |rating=43.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Joanna of Navarre may be married I loved the prelude to John IVth Duke of Britany but she has views of her own and isnPeach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''t afraid to voice them, even to Charles the French King. When she defends exiled English noble Henry Bolingbroke at Unfortunately it is the French court she does so only truly poetic part of a book that I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as a friend not realising what the future holdsviewed through one family's perspective. For Bolingbroke When their home city is set ablaze during the future Henry IV war with Japan, a young mother (Meilin) and fate will decree that Joanna will become his queenher four-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, roles that will take their toll on both of them as a couple and individualsin Renshu's case eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848454074</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Ross1916072038|title=Battle For Rome The House in the Hollow (Twilight of EmpireThe Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell|rating=4.5

|summary=''Be warned We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year- spoilers ahead for the first two books…''Aurelius Castus, tribune old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in Emperor Constantine's army is preparing for the battle everyone (including us) has been waiting for: the fight against Maxentiussome discomfort from their home at Ecklington, Tyrant of Rome. Meanwhile Castus' marriage to the aristocratic Sabina has borne him a beloved son but coldness lurks between man and wife where there was hot passionhouse in the hollow. Castus' suspicions The two women are further fed by his wifeangry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's name being on the lips of a dying officer; truth or pre-death ramblings? Meanwhile Sabina has bought a new slave strengths and Castus swears he's seen her somewhere before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081205</amazonuk>}}weaknesses:

{{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 ''She is employed by Mr Sergeantpracticed at subterfuge, an English bookseller living in Amsterdam. There's much excitement when Mr Sergeant welcomes his new lodgerat concealing, philosopher and scientistbeneath a facade of respectability, Rene Descartes. However the thrill becomes somewhat muted when Helenadeplorable truth''s employer realises what the stay entails. Helena on the other hand, is totally enthralled by their guest: an enthrallment that will totally change her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473617855</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=L C Tyler|title=A Masterpiece of Corruption (A John Grey Historical Mystery)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1657: John Grey, law student at Lincolns Inn, receives a meeting invitation that doesnHester is furious about Jocelyn't seem s refusal to be meant for him. Unfortunately he still goes to the meeting and ends up accepting a mission to kill Oliver Cromwell. He do as she was asked, which has two problems with precipitated ''this: first he likes a quiet life violent and secondly he likes Oliver Cromwell. In fact he already works for Oliverunexpected removal''s spymaster, Thurloe. The life expectancy of a double agent isn't that long and that's without reckoning on the intervention of Aminta!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472114965</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Mary Gibson|title=Gunner Girls and Fighter Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''Gunner Girls and Fighter Boys'' is the latest book in Mary Gibson's Bermondsey series. This time, the Lloyd family take centre stage: Mum, Dad, son Jack and daughters May and Peggy. War is raging in Europe and Bermondsey is not immune from daily onslaught Then we are told of bombs. A tragic event one night changes everything and home-bird May decides to fly the nest in order to participate in the war effort. The war will leave no-one unscathed; the strongest hearts can be paralysed by fear and the unlikeliest birth of people can emerge as heroes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185596X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Frances Brody|title=Sisters on Bread Street|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Julia a child and Margaret are the Wood sisters, struggling to hoist themselves out of a life of poverty in Leeds just before the outbreak of the first world war. Well, Julia is struggling. Margaret sees her way out as being through marriage to a rich suffragette's sonsoon after, Thomas. She's an apprentice milliner and beautifulHester Talbot departs, but both sisters have a disadvantage leaving Jocelyn in shame and it's one which grows bigger as war approaches: their father is Germanisolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonia SeniorAnnabel Abbs|title=The Winter IslesLanguage of Food

|summary=Scotland 1122: A son Eliza Acton is born to a warlord on poet who has never had the Scottish Islandsslightest inclination to boil an egg. The warlord GilleBrideWhen tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, is a man who doesn't realise his glory is receding. One day the realisation does hit him, along local woman with a Viking raidtroubled home life. In Together, they test, craft, refine and reshape the heat world of invasion his sondomestic cookery, although only 15, must take over. Can a lad actually lead a people? History will tell reinventing the recipe book and legend will embellish for that boy is Somerled and this is his storychanging the face of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782396586</amazonuk>1398502227

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon MarshallFreya Marske|title=The Long Drawn AisleA Marvellous Light|rating=3.54

|summary=Edward and Richard Wilson are born Robin Blyth is nudged into a comfortable and, indeed, powerful family. Their father is job in the MP Jack Wilson who is everything a Victorian father should be: severeCivil Service, distant and occupied with much to his careerchagrin. As the 20th century arrives There he meets Edwin Courcey and advances all three will feel learns that the labour pains streets of conflictLondon are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the sons while living in Austria and countryside, where the Balkans hedgegrows bristle with incantations and their father through the lens of Britain's Parliamentpeople shimmer with power. It will be There they uncover a bloody birth and its effects far reaching as two great empires prepare to fight, drawing sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the rest of EuropeBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1899804218</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Conn IgguldenB09F4CTKJR|title=Wars of the Roses: Bloodline: Book 3 (The Wars of the Roses)Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5

|summary=The Wars It's the later stages of World War I and the Roses continueUnited States has just entered the conflict. Margaret of Anjou becomes Petrol Petronus is a catalyst for what lays ahead young American who has signed up and then rescues her husbandjoined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the debilitated Henry VI, from first to be attached to the forces of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick RAF and the recently executed Richard of York. However York's last words weren't empty rhetoric: by killing first to be sent into the father Margaret has indeed unleashed skies to fight the sonsGermans in active combat. Edward of March for one is out for revenge; a fact But before that throws the English throne and can happen, Petrol has to master flying the safety of Queen's spymaster Derry Brewer into grave doubtnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071815987X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jennifer WallaceChristophe Medler|title= Digging Up Milton|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Digging Up Milton appealed to me because from the description it sounded like something a little bit different. I like that it is dark but yet not entirely serious, and I always appreciate it when an author tries to write in a different way, or give a book an individual voice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909776106</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lesley J Nickell|title=Sons of YorkMadrigal: Volume 2 (The Sprigs of Broom)A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=4.5

|summary=15th Century London: Through Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a quirk secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of fate young widow Janet Evershed finds herself running her late husband's cloth business, far from her York home1642. It's in this very shop that she meets Richard NevilleAs a loyal servant of the King, Duke and Head of Warwick and his ward Edwardthe Secret Service, Earl of March. They may be much higher than commoner Janet but she has caught Edwardit 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 a couple death. Told from the perspective of English tourists. ThenAshley Bennett, as the new Doge is inaugurated a man's head is thrown into the crowd. Showing people around novel follows her evolution from a typical Venice is becoming increasingly hard for Alvise – Venice is not behaving typically!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973139</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Hilton|title=The Stolen Queen|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Nine-year-old Isabelle silent bystander when confronted with matters of Angouleme is betrothed to Halrace, 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 woman finding her the true heart of her mother voice 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 embracing her lifeheritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848874693</amazonuk>1471188191