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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Valerie AnandTananarive Due|title=King 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 Woodschool's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=A 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 William Rufus age. When she hears there is brought back to England from clergy training be a hanging of some pirates in France by his father William the Conquerortown, she decides to go and watch. England has changed Enthralled and needs horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a soldier more than a priest or monk, especially as Rufusyoung boy' brother Richard has died, leaving William to fill s death at the voidhands of two vicious pirates. Eventually King William I decides to split his inheritance between Rufus and eldest son RobertShe hides away, something so that doesnthey don't go down well with an heir who expected find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to get it allsea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. The brothers were never friends but this brings She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a new dimension to their hatred mutiny on board, and, when royal brothers fight, nations become involvedfrom there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861514573</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily HollemanSarah Marsh|title= Cleopatra's ShadowsA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= EgyptAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. 58 BC. Arsinoe has been abandoned by her father Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, Ptolemy XII, who has fled Alexandria and taken everything about her beloved sister Cleopatra with himlife changes. It is now Arsinoe's half-sister Berenice who has seized Living in a time when the throneuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, leaving the young princess Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to fight for survival lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the bloodthirsty deaf and treacherous royal courtusing a system called Visible Speech. Berenice too has her own demons to face – having taken At the throne from her weak-willed father she now has to prove same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself worthy unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of being queen, as the possibility of her father and Cleopatra's return forever threaten to crush her new found powerespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751560170</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elizabeth MassieClaire North|title= Versailles|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=1667 – The civil wars are over. King Louis XIV crushed the nobility's rebellion against his father, leaving the throne his. But the aristocracy hounds his every step – and realises that if they will not be loyal, they will at least obey. So the King plants a trap to ensnare them – building Versailles, a prison of opulence where his power is absolute. Trapped by the palace, they have no choice but to play the King's game and to obey his rule. And so the court becomes a place of tactical liaisons and salacious passions. The Queen fights to keep the King's attention from his mistress, and the King's brother struggles to keep his relationship alive. Versailes is not the paradise it appears to be; instead, it is a labyrinth of treason and hushed secrets, of political schemes and deadly conspiracies. It is a place of passion and death, love and vengeance. The King will take what is rightfully his.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782399984</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Angus Donald|title= The King's Assassin|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=AD 1215: The year of Magna Carta - and Robin Hood's greatest battle. King John is scheming to reclaim his ancestral lands in Europe, raising the money for new armies by bleeding dry peasants and nobles alike, not least the Earl of Locksley - the former outlaw Robin Hood - and his loyal man Sir Alan Dale. As rebellion brews across the country and Robin Hood and his men are dragged into the war against the French in Flanders, a plan is hatched that will bring the former outlaws and their families to the brink of catastrophe - a plan to kill the King. England explodes into bloody civil war and Alan and Robin must decide who to trust - and who to slaughter. And while Magna Carta might be the answer to their prayers for peace, first they will have to force the King to submit to the will of his people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751551988</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Conn Iggulden|title=Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors (The Wars House of the Roses) Odysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Edward IV and his brother Richard of Gloucester aren't exactly accepting of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick deserting them 'What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to stand with the ailing Henry VI againexcellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. The sons In the palace of York are gathering support in Burgundy while Edward's wife Elizabeth (nee Woodville) gives birth Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to his son in war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the sanctuary throne of Westminster Abbeythe Western Isles. Meanwhile HenryHaving survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's wife Margaret shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of Anjou is also in France, drumming up resources for a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of their sonOrestes, EdwardKing of Mycenae, Prince of Wales. Elsewhere a 14 year old Henry Tudor is waiting at one of history's most important cross roadsand his sister Elektra, seeking refuge. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718181425</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CC HumphreysB0C7J9D21B|title=FireA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=Puritan/former Roundhead Pitman When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and former highwayman/Cavalier Captain William Coke have formed a deep respect for each otherhe lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Their first mission was to track down the Fifth MonarchistsIdyllic as this might sound, an organisation out to avenge those who were found guilty it's a bordello and hanged for signing Charles IEttore's death warrant. That mother died when he was then, during the Great Plagueborn. A mere year laterHe's not been short of mothers, the Plague has lessened though - but the Fifth Monarchists are backfor someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, taking Pitmanit's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and Coke's interventions personallybastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. We therefore find our heroes defending themselves, their families, the monarch, Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and, on top of that, it was not long before he had a successful business as a new disaster is about to hit the capitalguide for visitors. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891458</amazonuk>He was even saving some money.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Winston GrahamEssie Fox|title=The Grove of Eagles: A novel of Elizabethan England Fascination|rating=3.54

|summary=Maugan Killigrew grows up in material comfort The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as the acknowledged illegitimate son of Sir Johna setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Governor of CornwallSecond World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. There's Pendennis Castle. Yet, despite such a glut of media set in the era that the comparative comfort and because of otherhallmarks we's austere attitudes, Maugan never feels quite as accepted as his many half-brothers and sisters but there's little time ve come to consider that. Times associate with it are changingfamiliar to the point of being cliched, hackneyed even. Queen Elizabeth I All this is getting older and the English are still at war with the Spanish, a nation simply to illustrate that will have quite it would be an effect on Maugan's lifeeasy thing to do poorly. Romance, conflict and imprisonmentBut despite that, Maugan will experience something about it all still grabs me – and, hopefully survive it all but we shall see.something about this book's description did as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509818618</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1509818618</amazonus>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzanne RindellNicole Jarvis|title=Three-Martini LunchA Portrait in Shadow

|summary=In 2013 we loved [[The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell|The Other Typist]] for its gripping plot''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, terrific characters Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and effortless recreation of where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the Jazz Age. Wellpowerful Accademia, Rindell has done it again, though this time her chosen time period is the late 1950s. She brings self-proclaimed guardians of the bustling, cutthroat New York City publishing world to life healing magics that through paintings have the connections between three main characters whose first-person voices fit together like a dream: Cliff Nelson, a Columbia dropout who plans power to be protect the next Hemingway city and also happens to be the son of a premier editor at Bonwright; Eden Katz, who moved its citizens from Indiana to be a secretary at a publishing house but plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has ambitions of becoming an editor; hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and Miles Tillmanguard it above all else. To them, a black man Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who works as a bicycle messenger for Eden's publisher but promises trouble and change – has literary hopes of his ownno place amongst them and their society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749020822</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyThomas D Lee|title=These Shallow GravesPerilous Times|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Fantasy|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my all-time favourite books, ''A Gathering LightHate is the path of least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, so I was very excited to read her latest novel and see how it compared. Like ''A Gathering Light''in a world on the verge of climate collapse, ''These Shallow Graves'' Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart hero (or several) to save the day and a feisty heroine who challenges rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the standards Knights of the dayRound Table would answer the call. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Victoria WhitworthG K Holloway|title= Daughter of the Wolf|rating= 4|genre= Historical 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 to Northumbria. When the king sends Radmer on a mission to Rome, Donmouth is left in the safekeeping of his only daughter, Elfrun, whose formidable grandmother wants her to take the veil, while treacherous Tilmon of Illingham covets her for his son. This is In the story of daughters in a man's world: Wynn, determined to take over from her father, the smith, Saethryth, wilful daughter 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 Danes. Above all, it is the story of Elfrun of Donmouth, uncertain of her father's fate and not knowing whom she can trust, or love…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784975737</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alison Weir|title=Six Tudor Queens: Katherine Shadows of Aragon, The True Queen: Six Tudor Queens 1Castles

|summary=1501: A ship comes into port We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the English coast with an important passenger. The Spanish Infanta Catalina steps ashore to become the wife day of William of Normandy's coronation as King Henry VIIof England. William's heir, Prince Arthur position is not secure and produce future heirs for the English crownnew king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. That's And William is right to worry. While the plan but that's not how previous king, Harold, is dead and the story actually goes, on any level. For Catalina will be likelihood of more famous as Katherine of Aragonpitched battles is over, wife the rebels are stirring and much of Arthur's brother, Henry VIIIthe country does not wish to recognise a new overlord. As for producing heirs…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472227476</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1472227476</amazonus>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lloyd Shepherd3949666079|title=The Detective and the Devil (Charles Horton 4)Noema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=1855: Only a few years after the notorious Highways Murderer left his mark on London's docks, Constable Charles Horton 'This is called back a story about some things that happened to the areame about twelve thousand years ago. The disturbing murder of a clerk and his family bears the trademark of the serial killer but Horton's sure he's already dead; Horton saw him die. At this point the hunt for a devil incarnate begins, taking Horton and his wife Abigail to the other side of the world and the darker side of an untouchable Victorian institution: The East India Company.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136124</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1471136124</amazonus>}}{{newreview|author= Aliya Whiteley|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 Maya is as unchanging as a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the seasonsMesolithic era. The scarred veteran Mr TillerClimate change is occurring, left disfigured by an impossible accident on the battlefields Sea of France, brings with him a message: part prophecy, part warning. As ShirleyGrass encroaches further and further into Maya's village prepares for the annual May Day celebrationsforest home, where a new queen will be crowned and the future reborn, she must choose between change food is becoming more and renewal – will more scarce. What to do? Can the missives Mr Tiller brings prevent her mastering her identity?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907389377</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Diney Costeloe|title=The Lost Soldier|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Rachel is a journalist covering a local conflict between a land developer and law givers in the small village community federation of Charlton Ambrose. The developer wants villages muster peaceful ways to level Ashgrovecope? Can the Traveller, a group of nine trees planted to commemorate those in the village spiritual figure who died serving in World War I. As she investigates, Rachel realises that only eight of interprets the trees have corresponding names wisdom of the fallen. The ninth is for a mysterious unknown soldier. Why unknownAll Life, provide solutions? Rachel is determined to discover his story and, in so doing, she also discovers part of her own.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972576</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1784972576</amazonus>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Churchill1529125898|title=The Leopards of Normandy: Duke: Leopards of Normandy 2Godmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=Normandy 1037: Duke William at 9 years old is surrounded by guardians and advisors but ''If it were not all of them have his interests at heart. In fact whether he lives or dies will have more to do with William's resilience than the custodial duty of those around him. Meanwhile the fight for the English throne across the channel seems remote and none casual dereliction of his business as the sons of Queen Emma jostle for Canuteodd gentleman's old crownduty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all. It's getting closer though; one day William Duke of Normandy will be William the Conqueror.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472219228</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1472219228</amazonus>}}'

{{newreview|author= Diney Costeloe|title= The Girl With No Name|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction |summary= Thirteen Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve-year -old Lisa escapes from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport and arrives in England in August 1939Fanny Austen. She can't speak had no experience of teaching but this was a word case of English and her only belongings are crammed into a small suitcasenecessity. Among them is one precious photograph Until the death of the family she has left behind in Germany. Lonely and homesick, not knowing if she will ever see her family againmother, Lisa is adopted by Anne had a childless couple, comfortable life and then bullied at school for being Germanwas loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the household. But worse is to come when the Blitz blows When her new home apartmother died, her father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her. No explanation was offered but she wakes up in hospital with no memory would receive an annuity of who she is, or where she came from. The authorities give her £35 a new name and despatch her to a children's homeyear. With the war Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in full swing, what will become of Lisa now?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784970050</amazonuk>by some neighbours.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris CleaveMelissa Fu |title= Everyone Brave Is ForgivenPeach Blossom Spring |rating= 43.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= War was declared at 11:15. Mary North signed up at noon. When war is declared, Mary North leaves her finishing school, travels back I loved the prelude to LondonPeach Blossom Spring, and immediately signs upa short chapter entitled ''Origins''. Expecting to be given a position Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of high importance or excitement, she is instead placed as a school teacherbook that I expected more from. Tom Shaw decides Covering Chinese history from 1938 to give war a miss – happy in his role organising education. It2005 as viewed through one family's only when his flatmate Alistair enlists, that Tom and Mary are drawn into perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the war in ways they never could have imagined. As Mary grows to protect with Japan, a young mother (Meilin) and defend her small band of pupils, Tom struggles to decide whether he should join the war effortfour-year-old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. And Alistair? Many, many miles away, Alistair battles both the enemyThe story follows them on their journey across China, and his own feelings for one out of his reachin Renshu's case eventually to America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147361869X</amazonuk>1472277538

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Dyer1916072038|title=The Midnight WatchHouse in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell|rating=4.5

|summary=In the early hours We meet part of April 15th 1912, the RMS Titanic sank causing the death of over 1,500 peopleTalbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. The Californian, commanded by Captain Stanley Lord was the nearest ship to itTwenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, near enough for anyone on deck that night to see the Titanic's distress rockets. This means it was near enough to go to its aid but it remained inactive while witnessing house in the unfolding eventshollow. Why? Within a day or The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of the disaster American journalist John Steadman is sent to cover the Titanicher mother's sinking but the story strengths and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the Californiandeplorable truth''. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's inaction intrigues him even morerefusal to do as she was asked, which has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782397795</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1782397795</amazonus>Then we are told of the birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David SangerAnnabel Abbs|title=All Their Minds In TandemThe Language of Food

|summary=October 1879: A stranger walks into New Georgetown, West Virginia Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to keep boil an appointmentegg. He calls himself 'The Maker' and has When tasked with writing a gift that gives him access to people's minds. Gradually he'll become deeply acquainted with the townsfolk but it mustn't sway him from what he's here to accomplish. One man, one mission and no guarantee how it will end.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784293954</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1784293954</amazonus>}} {{newreview|author= Yves Jegocookery book, Denis Lepeeshe recruits Ann Kirby, and Sue Dyson (translator)|title= The Sun King Conspiracy|rating= 3|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=''Who can I trust in this nest of vipers?'' The year is 1661 and Cardinal Mazarin, the Chief Minister to King Louis XIV of France, lies dyinga local woman with a troubled home life. As the health of the man who once governed France deterioratesTogether, the ambitions of those beneath him strive for power in order to succeed him. Secret papers have been stolen from the Cardinalthey test, papers that could change the course of France forevercraft, refine and have fallen in to reshape the hands world of Gabriel de Pontibrand, a young actor who has become unwillingly involved in this strange conspiracy. Surrounded by scheming politicians and a secret brotherhooddomestic cookery, reinventing the contents of these coded papers will change Gabriel's life recipe book and have changing the power to change the future face of Francecookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910477354</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elaine EverestFreya Marske|title=The Woolworths GirlsA Marvellous Light

|summary=It Robin Blyth is Christmas, 1938nudged into a job in the Civil Service, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and three young ladies learns that the streets of London are excited about starting their new jobs at Woolworths in Eriththreaded with magic. For each one of them, the job is Desperate to remove a means of escape: Sarah wants curse that threatens 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 brotherswallow him, who has escaped from prison. The ''Woolworths Girls'' soon become close friendsRobin follows Edwin to the countryside, but where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the threat lives of war looming large, and tragedy just around all magicians in the corner, they are going to need to rely on each other more than ever beforeBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144729548X</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip DentB09F4CTKJR|title=Mutable Passions: Charlotte Bronte: A Disquieting AffairFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=34.5|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=As It's the 200th anniversary later stages of Charlotte Brontë's birth approaches, it World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a perfect time for reading about heryoung American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. Philip Dent's second novel chooses a lesser known period of her life This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the RAF and the first to dramatize. All her siblings are now dead; during a hard winter when she is unable be sent into the skies to visit her best friend, Ellen Nussey, Charlotte spends her time finishing ''Villette'', her final novelfight the Germans in active combat. The family servantBut before that can happen, Tabby, ribs Charlotte about her romantic prospects – including Patrick Brontë's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls. Charlotte responds with indignation: 'I could no more kiss Petrol has to master flying the lips of a man with a beard as big as rooks' nests than I could yours, Tabbynotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178589093X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen SimonsonChristophe Medler|title=The Summer Before the WarMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=54

|summary=Summer 1914: Beatrice Nash arrives in Rye following Set against the death backdrop of her fatherthe English Civil War, hoping to earn a living as a Latin tutor. Despite being secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the sort summer of woman with ideas 1642. As a loyal servant of her ownthe King, she has allies in the family of local pillar and Head of the community Lady Agatha. Agatha may not have realised just how modern Beatrice Secret Service, it is but she'll stand by her after having been her sponsor for the post initially. Meanwhile AgathaRobert's nephew, medical student Hugh soon warms to Beatrice but his heart belongs duty to Lucy, his surgeon professor's daughter. Soon, though, uncover the events details of a small town summer will fade in importance; the Balkans will explode plan and Europe is thrown into a war that's far from follow the swift, romantic, consequence-free conflict clues to uncover one of which summer daydreams are madethe most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408837641</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1408837641</amazonus>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Smith1471187179|title=The Voyage of the DolphinA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=54

|summary=Dublin 1916: Among the unrest and anti-British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription into a war seen as nothing to do with the Irish, Trinity College faculty has other distractions. They'd like a trophy; the skeleton of Minnie is an Irish 'giantordinary' to be precisegirl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The only glitch book is that set in the main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeill1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's skeleton, is somewhere difficult to access expectations and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be hope though. They turn find a nice young man to Fitzmauricemarry, a student not good enough for anything elseproduce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their home. Fitzmaurice agreesUnfortunately, picking his friends Crozier this isn't what she wants to do at all and Rafferty neither does she want to go with himcontinue working as a secretary. So… ''GentlemenAs a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, lace up your strongest boots working for the secret service and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the bloody Arctic!'' Communist Party of Great Britain. Whether battle cry or epitaph, three men Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and a dog… the friends she has made - and an iguana… are going anywaylikes - whilst working for the Communist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janet ToddAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=A Man of GeniusKokoschka's Doll|rating=42.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Ann St Clair Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is determined not to follow the ways why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of her Georgian contemporaries into marriageit. She earns enough as I found things to potentially delight me each time – a writer of Gothic romances to keep weird section in the wolf from middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the door and believes that's how it will always be. Then she meets Robert James20,000s, writerletters used as narrative form, self-acclaimed genius and popular raconteur, becoming totally besottedso on. However Ann still thinks she can retain her independence, even when she goes to Venice It intrigued with Robert to escape the boredom subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of English lifeit mentioned, too. However thereBut you's a darker side to ve seen the star rating that comes with this manreview, and can tell that if love was on these pages, the unforeseen consequences of which will unlock the mysteries of Ann's own childhoodit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524596</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1908524596</amazonus>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Eliza RoseChristina Hammonds Reed|authortitle=Lucy WorsleyThe Black Kids

|genre=Teens|summary=ElizaChristina Hammonds Reed's family isn't as wealthy as it once was. And she debut novel is well aware that her duty is to marry well in order set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to repair the Camperdowne fortunes. To this endabsolution of four police officers for beating a black man, Eliza is sent from her family home at Stoneton Castle to Trumpton HallRodney King, nearly to be educated in death. Told from the ways perspective of noble ladies. HereAshley Bennett, she meets the infamous Katherine Howard while she too is still novel follows her evolution from a young girl. And from there, it's on to the Tudor court silent bystander when confronted with matters of Henry VIIIrace, who is currently married to Anne of Clevesa woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408869438</amazonuk>1471188191