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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{Frontpage|author=Tananarive Due|title=The Reformatory|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|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 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 hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified 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 find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellySarah Marsh|title=These Shallow GravesA Sign of Her Own

|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one After a bout of my all-time favourite booksscarlet fever as a child, ''A Gathering Light''Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, so I everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was very excited seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read her latest novel , but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and see how it comparedusing a system called Visible Speech. Like ''A Gathering Light'' At the same time, ''These Shallow Graves'' Bell is a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a feisty heroine who challenges the standards complicated tangle of the dayespionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Victoria WhitworthClaire North|title= Daughter House of the WolfOdysseus|rating= 45|genre= Historical Literary Fiction|summary= We're in the Dark Ages in an England ruled by rival Kings served by Lords. One of the lords is Radmer of Donmouth, the King's Wolf, guardian of the estuary gateway What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to Northumbria. When the king sends Radmer on excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a mission to Rome, Donmouth is few months after where we left in off. In the safekeeping palace of his only daughterOdysseus, Elfrunwith delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, whose formidable grandmother wants her who sailed to take war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the veil, while treacherous Tilmon throne of Illingham covets her for his sonthe Western Isles. This is Having survived – politically and physical – the story of daughters in a manchaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's world: Wynn, determined to take over from her fathershores, Queen Penelope is on the smith, Saethryth, wilful daughter brink of the village steward, whose longing for passion will set off a tragic sequence of events and Auli, whose merchant venturer father plies his trade up and down the coast, spying for the Danesfragile peace. Above all, it is One that shatters however with the story return of Elfrun Orestes, King of DonmouthMycenae, uncertain of her father's fate and not knowing whom she can trusthis sister Elektra, or love…seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784975737</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison WeirB0C7J9D21B|title=Six Tudor Queens: Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen: Six Tudor Queens 1A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=1501: A ship comes into port on the English coast with an important passenger. When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The Spanish Infanta Catalina steps ashore to become the wife House of King Henry VII's heir, Prince Arthur and produce future heirs for the English crownBeautiful Swallows. ThatIdyllic as this might sound, it's the plan but thata bordello and Ettore's not how the story actually goes, on any levelmother died when he was born. For Catalina will be more famous as Katherine of Aragon, wife of ArthurHe's brothernot been short of mothers, Henry VIII. As though - but for producing heirs…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472227476</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1472227476</amazonus>}}{{newreview|author=Lloyd Shepherd|title=The Detective and the Devil (Charles Horton 4)|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=1855: Only a few years after the notorious Highways Murderer left someone of his mark on Londonbackground in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's docks, Constable Charles Horton is called back difficult to the areaobtain decent employment. The disturbing murder of a clerk and his family bears stint working with the trademark preparation of the serial killer but Hortonanchovies didn's sure he's already dead; Horton saw him diet work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. At this point the hunt for a devil incarnate begins, taking Horton Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and his wife Abigail to the other side of the world determined - and the darker side of an untouchable Victorian institution: The East India Companyit was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136124</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1471136124</amazonus>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Aliya WhiteleyEssie Fox|title= The Arrival of Missives|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary=In the aftermath of the Great War, Shirley Fearn dreams of challenging the conventions of rural England, where life is as unchanging as the seasons. The scarred veteran Mr Tiller, left disfigured by an impossible accident on the battlefields of France, brings with him a message: part prophecy, part warning. As Shirley's village prepares for the annual May Day celebrations, where a new queen will be crowned and the future reborn, she must choose between change and renewal – will the missives Mr Tiller brings prevent her mastering her identity?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907389377</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Diney Costeloe|title=The Lost SoldierFascination

|summary=Rachel The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a journalist covering a local conflict between setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led to more than a land developer and the small village community of Charlton Ambrosefew writers mishandling it. The developer wants to level Ashgrove, There's such a group glut of nine trees planted to commemorate those media set in the village who died serving in World War I. As she investigates, Rachel realises era that only eight of the trees have corresponding names hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to the point of the fallenbeing cliched, hackneyed even. The ninth All this is for a mysterious unknown soldiersimply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. Why unknown? Rachel is determined to discover his story But despite that, something about it still grabs me – and, in so doing, she also discovers part of her ownsomething about this book's description did as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972576</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1784972576</amazonus>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David ChurchillNicole Jarvis|title=The Leopards of Normandy: Duke: Leopards of Normandy 2A Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5

|summary=Normandy 1037: Duke William at 9 years old is surrounded by guardians and advisors but not ''I want all of them have his interests at heart. In fact whether he lives or dies will have more Florence to do with Williamknow my name's resilience ' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the custodial duty self-proclaimed guardians of those around him. Meanwhile the fight for healing magics that through paintings have the English throne across power to protect the channel seems remote city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and none of his business as the sons of Queen Emma jostle architecture for Canute's old crowncenturies and guard it above all else. It's getting closer though; one day William Duke of Normandy will be William the ConquerorTo them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472219228</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1472219228</amazonus>1803362340

{{newreview|author= Diney Costeloe|title= The Girl With No Name|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction |summary= Thirteen year old Lisa escapes from Nazi Germany on Set in the Kindertransport and arrives in England near-distant future, in August 1939. She can't speak a word world on the verge of English and her only belongings are crammed into a small suitcase. Among them climate collapse, Britain is one precious photograph of the family she has left behind in Germanygreat peril. Lonely and homesick, not knowing if she will ever see her family again, Lisa is adopted by The British Isles desperately needs a childless couple, and then bullied at school for being German. But worse is hero (or several) to come when save the Blitz blows her new home apart, day and she wakes up in hospital with rescue what little remains. What no memory -one expected was that one of who she is, or where she came from. The authorities give her a new name and despatch her to a children's home. With the war in full swing, what will become Knights of Lisa now?the Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784970050</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris CleaveG K Holloway|title= Everyone Brave Is ForgivenIn the Shadows of Castles|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= War was declared at 11:15We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. Mary North signed up at noon. When war William's position is declared, Mary North leaves her finishing school, travels back to London, not secure and immediately signs upthe new king has many challenges. Expecting to be given Imposing authority through a position of high importance or excitement, she coronation is instead placed as a school teacherimportant. Tom Shaw decides And William is right to give war a miss – happy in his role organising educationworry. It's only when his flatmate Alistair enlistsWhile the previous king, Harold, that Tom is dead and Mary are drawn into the war in ways they never could have imagined. As Mary grows to protect and defend her small band likelihood of pupilsmore pitched battles is over, Tom struggles to decide whether he should join the war effort. And Alistair? Many, many miles away, Alistair battles both the enemy, rebels are stirring and his own feelings for one out much of his reachthe country does not wish to recognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147361869X</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Dyer3949666079|title=The Midnight WatchNoema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=In ''This is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the early hours of April 15th 1912Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, the RMS Titanic sank causing the death Sea of over 1Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home,500 peopleand food is becoming more and more scarce. The Californian, commanded by Captain Stanley Lord was the nearest ship What to it, near enough for anyone on deck that night to see do? Can the Titanic's distress rockets. This means it was near enough to go to its aid but it remained inactive while witnessing law givers in the unfolding events. Why? Within a day or two federation of the disaster American journalist John Steadman is sent villages muster peaceful ways to cover cope? Can the Titanic's sinking but Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the story wisdom of the Californian's inaction intrigues him even more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782397795</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1782397795</amazonus>All Life, provide solutions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Sanger1529125898|title=All Their Minds In TandemGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=October 1879: A stranger walks into New Georgetown, West Virginia to keep an appointment. He calls himself 'The Maker' and has a gift that gives him access to people's minds. Gradually he'll become deeply acquainted with If it were not for the casual dereliction of the townsfolk but it mustn't sway him from what heodd gentleman's here to accomplish. One manduty, one mission and there would no guarantee how it will endwomen to teach well-bred daughters at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784293954</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1784293954</amazonus>}}''

{{newreview|author= Yves Jego, Denis Lepee, and Sue Dyson (translator)|title= The Sun King Conspiracy|rating= 3|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=''Who can I trust in this nest Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of vipers?'' The governess to twelve-year is 1661 and Cardinal Mazarin, the Chief Minister to King Louis XIV -old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of France, lies dyingnecessity. As Until the health death of the man who once governed France deterioratesher mother, Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the ambitions of those beneath him strive for power in order to succeed himhousehold. Secret papers have been stolen from the Cardinal, papers that could change the course of France forever When her mother died, her father cast her off and would have fallen in nothing more to the hands do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of Gabriel de Pontibrand£35 a year. Her maid, a young actor who has become unwillingly involved Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in this strange conspiracy. Surrounded by scheming politicians and a secret brotherhood, the contents of these coded papers will change Gabriel's life and have the power to change the future of Francesome neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910477354</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elaine EverestMelissa Fu |title=The Woolworths GirlsPeach Blossom Spring |rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It is Christmas, 1938, and three young ladies are excited about starting their new jobs at Woolworths in Erith. For each one of them, the job is a means of escape: Sarah wants to escape her snobbish and controlling mother; newlywed Maisie can't abide her bullying mother in law; and shy Freda is running away from her abusive stepfather and searching for her brother, who has escaped from prison. The ''Woolworths Girls'' soon become close friends, but with the threat of war looming large, and tragedy just around the corner, they are going to need to rely on each other more than ever before3.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144729548X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Philip Dent|title=Mutable Passions: Charlotte Bronte: A Disquieting Affair|rating=35

|summary=As I loved the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontëprelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''s birth approaches, . Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of a perfect time for reading about herbook that I expected more from. Philip DentCovering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's second novel chooses a lesser known period of her life to dramatizeperspective. All her siblings are now dead; When their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japan, a hard winter when she is unable to visit young mother (Meilin) and her best friend, Ellen Nussey, Charlotte spends her time finishing ''Villette'', her final novelfour-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The family servant, Tabbystory follows them on their journey across China, ribs Charlotte about her romantic prospects – including Patrick Brontëand in Renshu's curate, Arthur Bell Nichollscase eventually to America. Charlotte responds with indignation: 'I could no more kiss the lips of a man with a beard as big as rooks' nests than I could yours, Tabby.' |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178589093X</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Simonson1916072038|title=The Summer Before House in the WarHollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell|rating=4.5

|summary=Summer 1914: Beatrice Nash arrives We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in Rye following the death of November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her fathermother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, hoping to earn a living as a Latin tutorthe house in the hollow. Despite being the sort of woman The two women are angry with ideas each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her ownmother's strengths and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, she has allies in the family of local pillar beneath a facade of respectability, the community Lady Agathadeplorable truth''. Agatha may not have realised just how modern Beatrice  Hester is but she'll stand by her after having been her sponsor for the post initially. Meanwhile Agathafurious about Jocelyn's nephew, medical student Hugh soon warms refusal to Beatrice but his heart belongs to Lucydo as she was asked, his surgeon professorwhich has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''s daughter. Soon, though,  Then we are told of the events birth of a small town summer will fade in importance; the Balkans will explode child and Europe is thrown into a war that's far from the swift, romanticsoon after, Hester Talbot departs, consequence-free conflict of which summer daydreams are madeleaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408837641</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1408837641</amazonus>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin SmithAnnabel Abbs|title=The Voyage Language of the DolphinFood

|summary=Dublin 1916: Among the unrest and anti-British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription into Eliza Acton is a war seen as nothing to do with the Irish, Trinity College faculty poet who has other distractions. They'd like a trophy; never had the skeleton of slightest inclination to boil an Irish 'giant' to be preciseegg. The only glitch is that the main trophy contenderWhen tasked with writing a cookery book, Bernard MacNeill's skeletonshe recruits Ann Kirby, is somewhere difficult to access and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be hope thougha local woman with a troubled home life. They turn to FitzmauriceTogether, a student not good enough for anything else. Fitzmaurice agreesthey test, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with him. So… ''Gentlemencraft, lace up your strongest boots refine and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off to reshape the bloody Arctic!'' Whether battle cry or epitaphworld of domestic cookery, three men reinventing the recipe book and a dog… and an iguana… are going anywaychanging the face of cookery writing forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janet ToddFreya Marske|title=A Man of GeniusMarvellous Light|rating=4.5

|summary=Ann St Clair Robin Blyth is determined not to follow the ways of her Georgian contemporaries nudged into marriage. She earns enough as a writer of Gothic romances job in the Civil Service, much to keep the wolf from the door and believes that's how it will always behis chagrin. Then she There he meets Robert James, writer, self-acclaimed genius Edwin Courcey and popular raconteur, becoming totally besottedlearns that the streets of London are threaded with magic. However Ann still thinks she can retain her independenceDesperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, even when she goes Robin follows Edwin to Venice the countryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with Robert to escape incantations and the boredom of English lifepeople shimmer with power. However there's There they uncover a darker side to this man, sinister plot that threatens the unforeseen consequences lives of which will unlock all magicians in the mysteries of Ann's own childhoodBritish Isles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524596</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1908524596</amazonus>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title=Eliza RoseFlights for Freedom|author=Lucy WorsleySteven Burgauer

|summary=They say never poke It's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a sleeping bear as they are likely to wake young American who has signed up and slam you with a pawjoined the 17 Aero Squadron. The said can This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be said of attached to the RAF and the Roman Empire, they were best left alone. Back in AD 09 first to be sent into the Germans managed skies to get one up on fight the Romans by ambushing them deep Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the forest and wiping out around 15000 men, notoriously difficult but it is now AD 14 and the Romans not only want revenge; they also want their Eagles backmajestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184809406X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ernst Haffner and Michael Hofmann (translator)Christophe Medler|title=Blood BrothersMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret

|summary= Tuscany 1358: A dying man brings an enigmatic message to Thomas BlackstoneSet against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the exiled English archer and current mercenary leadersummer of 1642. It appears to be As a royal command to return home but is it an invitation to his own death? Thomas can't take loyal servant of the risk King, and Head of ignoring the Secret Service, it, especially since his life is in just as much danger where he is. It seems that heRobert's more valuable dead than alive in many countries; it's just a case duty to uncover the details of deducing the paymaster – or paymasters - behind plan and follow the assassination attempts before he runs out clues to uncover one of timethe most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781852901</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Merle and T Jefferson Kline (translator)1471187179|title=Fortunes of France 3: Heretic Dawn|rating=5|genre=Historical 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, he'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>}} {{newreviewA Beautiful Spy|author=Adriana Trigiani|title=All The Stars In The HeavensRachel Hore

|summary=1805: Napoleon Bonaparte Minnie is on an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the way 1930s and Minnie is expected to conquering Europe while whatlive up to her mother's left expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the rest of Europe (including the Russian army led by Tsar Alexander) stands in his wayher days looking after her husband and their home. Prince Andrei Bolkonsky quickly gets a reputation as military hero although few know Unfortunately, this is allied isn't what she wants to his death wish. Meanwhile back in Russia the remaining aristocracy have no doubt that their motherland will win do at all and so they neither does she want to continue with daily lifeworking as a secretary. Pierre, the illegitimate son As a result of Count Bezukhoff buries his life in winea chance meeting, womenshe finds herself drawn into espionage, song working for the secret service and more wine but the death of his father takes him on effectively living a journey double life - attempting to find happiness, infiltrate the long way round. 12-year-old Natasha Rostov dreams Communist Party of love and happiness, searching with age-related exuberance and inexperienceGreat Britain. The older generation are there to help and hinder as they take their places Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as pawns her duty and puppeteers in the manipulation friends she has made - and social climbing that's become second nature… that is until likes - whilst working for the tide of war changesCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184990846X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|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 and women are allowed to fight in the military for the first time. 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 and Rainy Schulterman wants to kill the man who is murdering Jews. All three go to war Afonso Cruz and all three are changed. Although they do they do not start together, their paths intersect as they all take on roles that leave more scars than expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405273828</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jessica BlairRahul Bery (translator)|title=Tread Softly, AliceKokoschka's Doll

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Alice Ware Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is finally returning home why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to Yorkshirepotentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, after an extended stay with friends a chapter whose number was in France. Much has changed since she leftthe 20, but the most exciting development has been the arrival of an elegant new neighbour000s, Emma Cheeveyletters used as narrative form, who has inherited the estate next to their homeand so on. Alice is particularly thrilled by It intrigued with the arrival subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of Emmait mentioned, too. But you's handsome soldier sons: ve seen the serious but self confident Steven star rating that comes with this review, and his gentlecan tell that if love was on these pages, easygoing younger brother Matthewit was not actually caused by them. Both men are keen to win her heart, but which one holds the key to her future So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349407320</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne O'BrienChristina Hammonds Reed|title=The Queen's ChoiceBlack Kids|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionTeens |summary=Joanna Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of Navarre may be married the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to John IVth Duke the absolution of Britany but she has views of her own and isn't afraid to voice themfour police officers for beating a black man, Rodney King, even nearly to Charles death. Told from the French King. When she defends exiled English noble Henry Bolingbroke at perspective of Ashley Bennett, the French court she does so as novel follows her evolution from a friend not realising what the future holds. For Bolingbroke is the future Henry IV and fate will decree that Joanna will become his queensilent bystander when confronted with matters of race, roles that will take their toll on both of them as to a couple woman finding her voice and individualsembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848454074</amazonuk>1471188191