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|author=Tim Willocks
|title=The Twelve Children of Paris
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Knight of the Order of St John the Baptist, Mattias Tannhauser, does as he has promised. After surviving the 1565 siege of Malta, Mattias goes to Paris to look for Lady Carla (his heavily pregnant wife) and Orlandu, her child by birth and his by adoption. Carla went to sing and play at the royal wedding but seems to have disappeared. It's definitely not a good time to sample Parisian hospitality: one of the city's bloodiest chapters is about to begin as the Catholics seek to cleanse the city of members of the Protestant Reformist Church of France, better known as Huguenots. It gets worse though: not only are all Huguenots (and anyone who gets in the way) being hunted down and killed grotesquely, guess which church Carla's hosts belong to?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578921</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=An Appetite for Violets
|summary=Leaving his home to try and join the famous musketeers in Paris, young Gascon d'Artagnan encounters troubles on the way but quickly falls in with title characters Athos, Aramis and Porthos. Soon, the quartet are caught up in a diabolical plot of the wicked Cardinal Richelieu and his accomplice Milady de Winter - can they save the Queen's honour?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907498</amazonuk>
}}
 
{{newreview
|title=Wake
|author=Anna Hope
|rating=3.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Wake:
 
1 Emerge or cause to emerge from sleep<br>
2 Ritual for the dead<br>
3 Consequence or aftermath
 
We often hear the term ''Broken Britain'' in reference to modern society, but the Britain presented in ''Wake'' epitomises the term completely. This is a country reeling from the aftermath of the Great War. Unemployment is rife, food scarce and every family has been touched and scarred forever by the events of the preceding years.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857521942</amazonuk>
}}