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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elaine EverestTananarive Due|title=The Woolworths GirlsReformatory|rating=45

|summary=Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It 's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of 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 the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is Christmasliving in Boston, 1938having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and three being made to work there from a young ladies are excited about starting their new jobs at Woolworths in Erithage. For each one of them, the job When she hears there is to be a means hanging of escape: Sarah wants some pirates in the town, she decides to escape her snobbish go and watch. Enthralled and controlling mother; newlywed Maisie canhorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't abide find and kill her bullying mother in law; too, and shy Freda is running then to escape them completely she runs away from her abusive stepfather to sea, dressing as a boy and searching for her brother, who has escaped from prisonjoining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. The ''Woolworths Girls'' She soon become close friends, but with finds herself in the threat thick of war looming largethings when there is a mutiny on board, and tragedy just around the corner, they from there we are going to need to rely caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on each other more than ever beforethe ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144729548X</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip DentSarah Marsh|title=Mutable Passions: Charlotte Bronte: A Disquieting AffairSign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=Historical General Fiction |summary=As the 200th anniversary After a bout of Charlotte Brontë's birth approachesscarlet fever as a child, it is a perfect time for reading about Ellen Lark loses herhearing. Philip Dent's second novel chooses Suddenly plunged into a lesser known period world of silence, everything about her life to dramatizechanges. All her siblings are now dead; during Living in a hard winter time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is unable taught to visit her best friend, Ellen Nusseylip read, Charlotte spends her time finishing ''Villette'', her final novelbut physically restrained from signing. The family servant From here, Tabby, ribs Charlotte about her romantic prospects – including Patrick Brontë's curate, Arthur she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell Nichollswho has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. Charlotte responds with indignation: 'I could no more kiss At the lips same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of a man with a beard as big as rooks' nests than I could yours, Tabbyespionage.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178589093X</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen SimonsonClaire North|title=The Summer Before the WarHouse of Odysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Summer 1914: Beatrice Nash arrives in Rye following ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the death of her father, hoping to earn excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a living as a Latin tutorfew months after where we left off. Despite being In the sort palace of woman Odysseus, with ideas of delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her ownhusband, she has allies in the family of local pillar of the community Lady Agathawho sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. Agatha may not have realised just how modern Beatrice is but As ever she'll stand remains surrounded by her after having been her sponsor suitors vying for the post initially. Meanwhile Agatha's nephew, medical student Hugh soon warms to Beatrice but his heart belongs to Lucy, his surgeon professor's daughter. Soon, though, the events throne of a small town summer will fade in importance; the Balkans will explode Western Isles. Having survived – politically and Europe is thrown into a war physical – the chaotic storm thatClytemnestra brought to Ithaca's far from the swiftshores, romantic, consequence-free conflict of which summer daydreams are made.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408837641</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1408837641</amazonus>}}{{newreview|author=Kevin Smith|title=The Voyage of the Dolphin|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Dublin 1916: Among Queen Penelope is on the unrest and anti-British feeling worsened by the threat brink of conscription into a war seen as nothing to do fragile peace. One that shatters however with the Irishreturn of Orestes, Trinity College faculty has other distractions. They'd like a trophy; the skeleton King of an Irish 'giant' to be precise. The only glitch is that the main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeill's skeletonMycenae, is somewhere difficult to access and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be hope though. 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… ''Gentlemensister Elektra, 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 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 old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to the house in the first hollow. The two books…women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses: 'Aurelius Castus, tribune in Emperor Constantine's army She is preparing for the battle everyone (including us) has been waiting for: the fight against Maxentiuspracticed at subterfuge, at concealing, Tyrant beneath a facade of Romerespectability, the deplorable truth''. Meanwhile Castus Hester is furious about Jocelyn' marriage s refusal to the aristocratic Sabina do as she was asked, which has borne him a beloved son but coldness lurks between man precipitated ''this violent and wife where there was hot passionunexpected removal''. Castus' suspicions  Then we are further fed by his wife's name being on told of the lips birth of a dying officer; truth or pre-death ramblings? Meanwhile Sabina has bought a new slave child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and Castus swears he's seen her somewhere before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081205</amazonuk>isolation in Yorkshire.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guinevere GlasfurdAnnabel Abbs|title=The Words In My HandLanguage of Food

|summary=17th century life circumstances dictate that Helena Jans Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to go into service and is employed by Mr Sergeant, boil an English bookseller living in Amsterdamegg. There's much excitement when Mr Sergeant welcomes his new lodgerWhen tasked with writing a cookery book, philosopher and scientistshe recruits Ann Kirby, Rene Descartesa local woman with a troubled home life. However Together, they test, craft, refine and reshape the thrill becomes somewhat muted when Helena's employer realises what world of domestic cookery, reinventing the stay entails. Helena on recipe book and changing the other hand, is totally enthralled by their guest: an enthrallment that will totally change her lifeface of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473617855</amazonuk>1398502227

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=L C TylerFreya Marske|title=A Masterpiece of Corruption (A John Grey Historical Mystery)Marvellous Light|rating=54

|summary=1657: John GreyRobin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, law student at Lincolns Inn, receives much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a meeting invitation curse that doesn't seem threatens to be meant for swallow him. Unfortunately he still goes , Robin follows Edwin to the meeting countryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and ends up accepting a mission to kill Oliver Cromwell. He has two problems the people shimmer with this: first he likes a quiet life and secondly he likes Oliver Cromwellpower. In fact he already works for Oliver's spymaster, Thurloe. The life expectancy of There they uncover a double agent isn't that long and sinister plot that's without reckoning on threatens the intervention lives of Aminta!all magicians in the British Isles. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472114965</amazonuk>1529080886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary GibsonB09F4CTKJR|title=Gunner Girls and Fighter BoysFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=It''Gunner Girls s the later stages of World War I and Fighter Boys'' the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the latest book in Mary Gibson's Bermondsey series17 Aero Squadron. This timecompany was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the Lloyd family take centre stage: Mum, Dad, son Jack first to be attached to the RAF and daughters May and Peggy. War is raging in Europe and Bermondsey is not immune from daily onslaught of bombs. A tragic event one night changes everything and home-bird May decides the first to fly be sent into the nest in order skies to participate fight the Germans in the war effortactive combat. The war will leave no-one unscathed; the strongest hearts But before that can be paralysed by fear and happen, Petrol has to master flying the unlikeliest of people can emerge as heroesnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185596X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances BrodyChristophe Medler|title=Sisters on Bread StreetMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret

|summary=Julia and Margaret are Set against the backdrop of the Wood sistersEnglish Civil War, struggling to hoist themselves out of a life of poverty secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in Leeds just before the outbreak summer of the first world war1642. Well, Julia is struggling. Margaret sees her way out as being through marriage to As a rich suffragette's sonloyal servant of the King, Thomas. She's an apprentice milliner and beautifulHead of the Secret Service, but both sisters have a disadvantage and itis Robert's duty to uncover the details of the plan and follow the clues to uncover one which grows bigger as war approaches: their father is Germanof the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349410704</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonia Senior1471187179|title=The Winter IslesA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=54

|summary=Scotland 1122: A son Minnie is born to an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a warlord on the Scottish Islandsleafy provincial suburb. The warlord GilleBride, book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man who doesnto marry, produce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately, this isn't realise his glory is receding. One day the realisation what she wants to do at all and neither does hit him, along with she want to continue working as a Viking raidsecretary. In the heat As a result of invasion his sona chance meeting, although only 15she finds herself drawn into espionage, must take overworking for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Can a lad actually lead a people? History will tell Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and legend will embellish likes - whilst working for that boy is Somerled and this is his storythe Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396586</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon MarshallAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The Long Drawn AisleKokoschka's Doll|rating=32.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Edward and Richard Wilson are born into Well, this looked very much like a comfortable and, indeedbook I could love from the get-go, powerful family. Their father which is the MP Jack Wilson who is everything a Victorian father should be: severe, distant why I picked my review copy up and occupied with his careerflipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. As the 20th century arrives and advances all three will feel I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the labour pains of conflictmiddle on darker stock paper, the sons while living a chapter whose number was in Austria and the Balkans 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and their father through the lens of Britain's Parliamentso on. It will be intrigued with the subterranean voice a bloody birth and its effects far reaching as two great empires prepare to fight, drawing man hears in the rest of Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899804218</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Conn Iggulden|title=Wars of the Roses: Bloodline: Book 3 (The Wars of the Roses)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The Wars of the Roses continue. Margaret of Anjou becomes a catalyst for wartorn Dresden that what lays ahead and then rescues her husband, the debilitated Henry VI, from the forces little I knew of Richard Nevilleit mentioned, Earl of Warwick and the recently executed Richard of Yorktoo. However YorkBut you's last words weren't empty rhetoric: by killing ve seen the father Margaret has indeed unleashed the sons. Edward of March for one is out for revenge; a fact star rating that throws the English throne comes with this review, and the safety of Queen's spymaster Derry Brewer into grave doubt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071815987X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jennifer Wallace|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 can tell that if love was on these pages, it is dark but yet was not entirely serious, and I always appreciate it when an author tries to write in a different way, or give a book an individual voiceactually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909776106</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lesley J NickellChristina Hammonds Reed|title=Sons of York: Volume 2 (The Sprigs of Broom)Black Kids

|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=15th Century London: Through Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a quirk reaction to the absolution of fate young widow Janet Evershed finds herself running her late husband's cloth businessfour police officers for beating a black man, Rodney King, far nearly to death. Told from her York home. It's in this very shop that she meets Richard Neville, Duke the perspective of Warwick and his ward EdwardAshley Bennett, Earl the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of March. They may be much higher than commoner Janet but she has caught Edward's eye and what Edward wantsrace, he gets, be it to a woman or, indeed, the crown of Englandfinding her voice and embracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861514603</amazonuk>1471188191

{{newreview|author=Jolien Janzing|title=Charlotte Bronte's Secret Love|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=This is the second novel by Jolien Janzing, a Dutch author who lives in Belgium. Originally published in Dutch as ''The Master'' in 2013, it is already being made into a film. The flawlessly translated story zeroes in Move on two momentous years in Charlotte Brontë's life, 1842–3, when she was a pupil and then a teacher at the Pensionnat Heger in Brussels. 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 the same climactic episode: lovesick Charlotte making a confession at a Catholic church, even though she was an Anglican parson's daughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380597</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Julia Franck and Anthea Bell (translator)|title=West|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Put yourself in the shoes of a young mother to two children, who declares her intention to leave the Communist East Germany for West Berlin, and thus loses her scientist job. What would you expect on the other side – shops full of attainable products, pleasant neighbourhoods, nice neighbours, an active and busy new life, where things might feel alien but at least you speak the same language? Well, for Nelly Senff, this is hardly the case. Once past the depressing Eastern exit procedures she is confronted 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 authorities, if nobody else) are practically left in a shared accommodation in a transit camp. The shops are full of 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554321</amazonuk>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]