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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GilmanTananarive Due|title=Master of War: Defiant Unto DeathThe Reformatory

|summary= Spoilers straight ahead 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 first bookschool governor and his Funhouse, [[Master Robert must enlist the help of War by David Gilmanthe school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|Master of War]] so go read that first…title=A True AccountReady?|rating=4.5Ok…|genre=General FictionIt's |summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been 10 years since the sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young Thomas Blackstone chose military service over age. When she hears there is to be a hanging and faced of some pirates in the French at Crecytown, coming away from the battle knightedshe decides to go and watch. TimeEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's passing now finds him and his wife Christiana living with their death at the hands of two children in Normandy castlevicious pirates. Meanwhile in French held FranceShe hides away, the current kingso that they don't find and kill her too, John IIand 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 proving unpopulara mutiny on board, starving and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the country with taxes and spreading fear with his cruel capricious natureocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. He sees betrayal everywhere and will execute those he perceives to be against himSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. HoweverLiving in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, now he's right and there Ellen is sent to a plot brewing school where she is taught to 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 deaf and French royalist Simon Bucy has using a plan to put it down: remove its cornerstonesystem called Visible Speech. His perceived cornerstone At the same time, Bell is none working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than Sir Thomas Blackstone. This isnlove?''t going to be a clean fight; bring on the Savage Priest!

The follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781851905</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William NicholsonB0C7J9D21B|title=The Lovers of AmherstA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=2013: Alice Dickinson has decided to write a screenplay about the 19th century affair between Mabel Todd When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and Austin Dickinson (no relation)he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. 1881: AustinIdyllic as this might sound, brother of reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, has an unhappy marriage but isnit's a bordello and Ettore't looking for happiness outside it till s mother died when he meets Mabelwas born. The very liberated Mabel may be married tooHe's not been short of mothers, though - but her husband believes for someone of his background in freedom within wedlocklate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. There follows one The stint working with the preparation of the most scandalous relationships to face small town New England; a relationship that Alice wants to research anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck onfishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined -siteand it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. While there, Alice discovers that inappropriate romance still exists but this is the 21st century so she feels ready for the consequencesHe was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848666470</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hazel GaynorEssie Fox|title=A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower SellersThe Fascination|rating=4.5

|summary=The year Victorian era is 1876 and two little orphaned flower girls wander barefoot through the crowded London streets selling posies of violets to the people passing by. The older sister, Florrie, walks with incredibly over-romanticised as a stick setting for supporthistorical fiction (matched only, perhaps, but keeps by the Second World War) which has often led to more than a tight grip on her little sisterfew writers mishandling it. There's hand at all times. Rosie, such a glut of media set in the era that the hallmarks we'little sister', is blind and views eight-year-old Florrie as her 'little mother' The two ve come to associate with it are inseparable and share a deep bond that carries them through familiar to the hardships they face on a daily basispoint of being cliched, hackneyed even. Everything changes one fateful day when Florrie has her stick knocked from beneath her and little Rosie All this is snatched by one of the 'bad men'. Florrie searches frantically for Rosie, but she seems simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to have vanisheddo poorly. As the years passBut despite that, Florrie never gives up her search, eventually dying of a broken heartsomething about it still grabs me – and something about this book's description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0062316893</amazonuk>1914585526

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alison LoveNicole Jarvis|title=The Girl from the Paradise BallroomA Portrait in Shadow

|summary=In Soho ''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in 1937, Italian singer Antonio has found himself Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a wealthy patronhome and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. His patron’s wife, OliviaBut as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, is known to Antonio from a chance encounter at the Paradise Ballroom self- and proclaimed guardians of the spark they felt on healing magics that meeting starts through paintings have the power to deepen as war begins to creep up on protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them. In an uncertain world, everything about their lives is under threat Artemisia – the government perceives foreigners as threats an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and the war wreaks havoc with nerves change – has no place amongst them and relationshipstheir society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373785</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura AndersenThomas D Lee|title=Perilous Times|rating=3|genre= Fantasy|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The Boleyn Deceit British Isles desperately needs a hero (Anne Boleyn Trilogy Book 2or several) to save the day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|isbn=0356518523}}{{Frontpage|author=G K Holloway|title=In the Shadows of Castles

|summary=Even We begin after her death, George Boleyn continues to fashion his sister Annethe momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's son into a king in Georgecoronation as King of England. William's imageposition is not secure and the new king has many challenges. However, now 18, matters of state aren’t the only concerns of Henry IXImposing authority through a coronation is important. He has And William is right to decide between worry. While the French Princess Elizabeth and commonerprevious king, Harold, childhood friend Minuette although Minuette is secretly betrothed to Henry's advisor Dominic. Minuette also has another quest: to find out who killed her friend Alyce but sleuthing dead and the likelihood of more pitched battles is becoming more dangerous. Meanwhile Henry's Catholic sister Mary over, the rebels are stirring and very intelligent sister Elizabeth are much of the country does not going wish to be happy remaining merely decorative for longrecognise a new overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091956498</amazonuk>1800422466

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Riordan3949666079|title=The Girl in the PhotographNoema|author=Dael Akkerman

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Alice Eveleigh ''This is sent a story about some things that happened to Fiercombe Manor me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is a young girl living in 1933 as a hunter gatherer village during the result of a scandalMesolithic era. Back in Climate change is occurring, the 1890s the Manor had been home to Elizabeth and Charles Stanton Sea of Grass encroaches further and their little girl Isabel but it doesn't feel like a house thatfurther into Maya's seen much happiness. The stones are drenched in tragedy forest home, and food is becoming more and secrets that have remained locked away since thenmore scarce. What sort to do? Can the law givers in the federation of secretsvillages muster peaceful ways to cope? Will Alice be too nosey for her own good or will Can the secrets remain just thatTraveller, with a spiritual figure who interprets the added threat wisdom of history repeating itselfAll Life, provide solutions?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917423</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Bausch1529125898|title=Far As the Eye Can SeeGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby

|summary=''It was a bit slowIf it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.''  Anne Sharpe was probably my Mam's worst condemnation thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of film… teaching but I'm going to forgive her for not appreciating slowness, because it this was she that got me into appreciating westernsa case of necessity. Of course she preferred Until the all-action kind, but through watching those with death of hermother, I started to watch Anne had a comfortable life and enjoy was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the longhousehold. When her mother died, slow, ones her father cast her off and would have nothing more to appreciate the back-drop to all of that action… and then somewhere along the line I got interested in what might really have happened: do with her. not just in the West No explanation was offered but the whole she would receive an annuity of what became the U.S£35 a year. Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in the early days of settlementby some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408844303</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary GibsonMelissa Fu |title=Jam and Roses: The Lives and Loves of 1920s Factory GirlsPeach Blossom Spring

|summary=The We meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year is 1923 -old Jocelyn Talbot and 'jam-girl' Millie Colman is eagerly awaiting the arrival of a letter inviting her family mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to go 'hopping' the house in Kentthe hollow. The annual trip provides desperately needed respite from the oppressive atmosphere at home, as two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well as a much-needed dose aware of fresh air her mother's strengths and open space. For Millieweaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, the invitation symbolises escape; albeit for only beneath a few precious weeks facade of respectability, the yeardeplorable truth''. Life in the Colman household  Hester is uncomfortablefurious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as she was asked, to say the leastwhich has precipitated ''this violent and unexpected removal''. Millie and her two sisters bicker constantly and  Then we are told of the whole family live under the shadow birth of a drunken father who is prone to violent rages. Unfortunately for Milliechild and, soon after, this year's hopping trip is anything but an escapeHester Talbot departs, when she makes a foolish decision which will have dire repercussions for the whole familyleaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855927</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian RossAnnabel Abbs|title=The War at the Edge Language of the World: Twilight of Empire: Book One (Rome Reborn)Food

|summary=Centurion Aurelius Castus Eliza Acton is a poet who has risen through the ranks from the crack legions of the Danube but now finds himself in a Roman army on the very edge of never had the world – 4th century Britain, near Eboracum. Although his men are kept at battle fitness, his latest mission is one of peace. He must take a cohort slightest inclination to escort boil an envoy on a visit to the barbarian Pictsegg. The local tribes are in the process of picking When tasked with writing a new leader andcookery book, as the area's future is resting on itshe recruits Ann Kirby, the Romans want to influence the choice a local woman with diplomacya troubled home life. However not everyone has been honest with Castus; people as well as situations are not all Together, they seem. Castus must depend on his own initiative and ability to survive as he soon realises he can trust no one. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081124</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Erin Knightley|title=The Earl I Adore|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Poor Sophie Wembley has been placed in a desperate situation thanks to her sister Penelopetest, who has eloped with the 'hired help'. Once news of the scandal reaches the gossip-mongers of the 'ton'craft, Sophie and her family will be ousted from polite society refine and her hopes of finding an eligible husband will be ruined. It is therefore up to Sophie's scheming mother to persuade her to snare herself a man before reshape the gossip becomes public knowledge. Time is clearly world of domestic cookery, reinventing the essence recipe book and when it comes to suitable husbands, Sophie knows only one man will do: changing the handsome Earl face of Evansleigh, for whom she has been harbouring a 'tendre' for the past yearcookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349405441</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tracey WarrFreya Marske|title=The Viking HostageA Marvellous Light

|summary=Sigrid and her brothers are taken from their native Norseland and sold as slaves separately. Sigrid then begins her life alone as maid to Aina, daughter of Ademar, Viscount of Segur in Limoges. Her life could be a lot worse. Sigrid's pagan beliefs could condemn her to a tough time in Christian France but she's fallen on her feet, forming a close friendship with Aina, albeit a servile one. Meanwhile elsewhere in the region, Adalmode, daughter of the Viscount of Limoges Robin Blyth is about to become a marriage pawn in nudged into a power struggle. Although she loves her family, she disagrees with their choice and has another job in mind – one of her father's prisoners. This is a tough world where love takes second place to survival and having it all is generally not an option compatible with staying alive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907605592</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio|title=Girl Genius: Agatha H and the Voice of the Castle|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Agatha H and the Voice of the Castle'' is the third novel in the Girl Genius series, adapted from the award-winning steampunk-style webcomic. Following the dramatic events of the previous two booksCivil Service, this volume sees Agatha returning much to her family home in Mechanicsburg in order to claim her place as 'The Heterodyne'his chagrin. She also needs to restore her war-damaged ancestral castle, which is in poor condition following a devastating attack by “The Other.” Of course, in the world of Girl Genius, nothing is straightforward There he meets Edwin Courcey and Agatha's mission is complicated by several things: the castle is a sadistic sentient being with a fractured personality; Agatha has a copy of her evil mother locked away inside her brain learns that could reappear at any moment AND a huge pink airship has just appeared in Mechanicsburg heralding the arrival streets of a fake Heterodyne heiressLondon are threaded with magic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178116651X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Antonin Varenne and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Loser's Corner|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Georges Crozat. He's a policeman in Paris, who boxes on the side. After Desperate to remove a bout curse that leads threatens to an almost embarrassing victoryswallow him, he is made two offers – one from a clearly corrupt man behind the scenes in Robin follows Edwin to the sportcountryside, who seems to offer a few thrown fights for Georges, then some kind of status as assistant – training, guiding, profiteering; where the other comes from a man known always as ''hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the Pakistani'' (or an unkind abbreviation of that), who has a friend of a friend who wants someone to do an enemy a mischief people shimmer with their fists. Georges doesn't take too long to choose the latterpower. In alternating chapters, however, we're in the 1950s, and There they uncover a rookie to the forces, Pascal Verini, is being shipped out to Algeria to work on the civil war causing sinister plot that threatens the republic to break away and become independent from France. Like Georges, he finds his situation one which also causes what may be misguided violence, even if he has a very different attitude to it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052276</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daisy Waugh|title=Honeyville|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The story is told by Dora Whitworth, a call girl in one lives of the most exclusive brothels in Trinidad, Colorado. At the time, the town was the only place in the West where prostitution was legal and it was infamous for its red-light district. Dora’s voice rings true and her life is convincingly described. The sumptuous brothel all magicians in Plum Street, with its smells of perfume and disinfectant, is as claustrophobic as a prison and Phoebe, the madam, particularly chillingBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007431775</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanna HicksonB09F4CTKJR|title=Red Rose, White RoseFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=Cecily Neville, daughter It's the later stages of Ralph, Earl of Westmorland World War I and Joan Beaufort, puts her obligations above all else which the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is why she marries Richard Plantagenet, third Duke of York a young American who has signed up and her father's wardjoined the 17 Aero Squadron. Together they will start a royal line that will go down This company was the centuries but not without painfirst US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, conflict the first to be attached to the RAF andthe first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, of course, Petrol has to master flying the Wars of the Rosesnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007447019</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Man Who Loved DogsChristophe Medler|authortitle=Leonardo PaduraMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret

|summary=In Cuba, a mysterious man walks on Set against the beach, always with two Russian wolfhounds. Watched by a writer, he soon comes to share his story, and it becomes clear that he is Ramon Mercader - the man who killed Trotsky.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524448</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chris Priestley|title=The Last backdrop of the Spirits|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Teenage Sam and his little sister Lizzie are starving on the streets of London, which is gripped by terrible cold. Asking an old businessman for moneyEnglish Civil War, a man who looks at them with such sheer contempt that Sam's heart fills with hate. He swears that he will seek vengeance and rob the old man, not caring whether his victim will live or die. But before he can do so, a strange spirit appears to him, and warns him about the terrible path he will put himself on with this violent act. Can Sam resist the temptation to gain revenge? Several more spirits show him the possible consequences of his action, as we see Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol from a new viewpoint.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408854139</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert Edric|title=Sanctuary|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Everyone knows Charlotte, Emily and Anne. Not many know that this famous trio of literary sisters also had a brother, Patrick Branwell Brontë, born the year after Charlotte and a year before Emily. Like his sisters, he had literary ambitions: he wrote juvenile stories, poems and translations from the Greek; he also trained as a painter secret plan (you have most likely seen his famous painting of his sisterscode-named Madrigal). Again like his sisters, however, he was destined to die young.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522876</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Krishna Bhatt|title=The Royal Enigma|rating=2|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=There is absolutely nothing wrong with books that cross genres. The best historical novels are as much history as fiction. However, it is a golden rule that a book must know who and what it is. One of the problems with The Royal Enigma is that it suffers from a serious identity crisis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005Q8QCTY</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Erin Knightley|title=The Baron Next Door|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Charity is hoping to enjoy a relaxing break discovered by Sir Robert Douse in Bath, attending the music festival with her beloved grandmother, Lady Effington. Charity doesn't just love music, she ''lives'' music; it is an intrinsic part summer of her very being and she is never happier than when playing her latest compositions on her pianoforte1642. She cannot understand why anyone would hate music, so when her new neighbour Baron Cadgwith turns up on her doorstep, demanding that she keep the ''infernal racket to As a minimum'', she declares war on loyal servant of the insufferably rude Baron next door. The result is a light-hearted and sweet Regency romance that sees the most unlikely pair begin to bond, despite their differences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349405417</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susan Hill|title=Black Sheep|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Mount of Zeal is a mining villageKing, and no mistake. Three concentric semi-circular streets align across the side Head of a hill, like the rows of seats in an amphitheatreSecret Service, with little thought at all allowed for the life above the crest of the hill, and a lot of effort and dreams focused on the coal mine at the villageit is Robert's core. The Howker family (and how evocative that name is, so akin duty to uncover the noise details of hawking coal dust from one's lungs), and Ted and Rose, the youngest of the clan, in particular, will face the destiny the environment they grow up in gives them – with only the merest glimmers of hope plan and follow the faintest of sparks clues to latch on to as regards a likeable future. But if that is a faint spark, then how safe is it so close to the tinderbox uncover one of a coal mine?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009953956X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Katherine Webb|title=The Night Falling|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In the summer of 1921, Leandro returns to his birthplace in Italy. He has made his fortune, and his aim is to transform a crumbling palazzo into an opulent mansion. But the outside world is still reeling from the Great War, and Leandro’s nephew, Ettore, is one of those most guarded secrets in need of help. Reluctantly, Ettore asks his uncle for assistance. But Ettero could not have foreseen what was to come from that request…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409131491</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rory Clements|title=The Queen's Man|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Elizabethan England - a murky, dirty world full of religious strife and violent, short lives. Queen Elizabeth sits on history—especially since the throne, but her seat is by no means safe - her first cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, is locked up in Sheffield Castle. Unable to leave, but by no means unable to plot and scheme with her supporters, Mary wishes to reclaim what she believes is rightfully hers - the throne. But even she cannot be prepared for could affect the dark twists and new plots that ariseKing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848548486</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara Ewing1471187179|title=The Petticoat MenA Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore

|summary=In 1871 Ernest Boulton (aged 22) and Frederick Park (aged 23) were arrested Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in London; an arrest that shook society all the way 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the toprest of her days looking after her husband and their home. Their crime? Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. They dressed as womenAs a result of a chance meeting, which hinted at homosexualityshe finds herself drawn into espionage, then working for the secret service and effectively living a crime that carried a heinous prison tariffdouble life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Their infamous trial was watched closely by society because Stella and Fanny (Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as they were known when frocked) performed regularly at house parties her duty and soirees attended by the higher echelons friends she has made - and so if these performers should fall, who would go down with them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781859965</amazonuk>likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily PurdyAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The Boleyn BrideKokoschka's Doll|rating=42.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Howard wants Well, this looked very much like a noble marriage but at 16 she's married off to Thomas Boleynbook I could love from the get-go, a jumped which is why I picked my review copy up nouveau riche who tries to hide his humble roots and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any way he canof it. It's not I found things to potentially delight me each time – a love match weird section in the middle on either side. So to compensate for her husband's shortcomingsdarker stock paper, Elizabeth throws herself into a collection of lovers and chapter whose number was in the lives of two of her three children. Yes20, she dreams of rosy futures for Mary and George000s, but for the third child Anne, born letters used as ugly as a monkeynarrative form, Elizabeth can't envisage any future and so wastes neither dreams nor love on her. However when Henry VII dies and his second son eventually takes It intrigued with the thronesubterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, Elizabeth realises she may not be righttoo. Having Henry VIII as a son-in-law may do both Anne But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and the family a lot of goodcan tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349405956</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=L C TylerChristina Hammonds Reed|title=A Cruel Necessity (A John Grey Historical Mystery)The Black Kids

|genre=Crime (Historical)Teens |summary=Essex 1657: CromwellChristina Hammonds Reed's Republic debut novel is 8 years old. While John Grey sleeps off a good night set against the backdrop of drink under the eaves of a cottage1992 Los Angeles riots, a Royalist spy is murdered down the road. A trainee lawyer, John also enjoys the science of investigation and so starts looking for clues that will lead him reaction to the murderer. Although it's not easy: strange happenings occurred that night and Grey is having trouble persuading others absolution of what he saw. Meanwhile his mother has the perfect match four police officers for him. Unfortunately their ideas of perfection differ somewhat!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472115031</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Catherine Hall|title=The Repercussions|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Once home from her role as beating a photo-journalist in Afghanistanblack man, Rodney King, Jo decides nearly to move into the Brighton flat that her great aunt Elizabeth has bequeathed herdeath. While searching through Told from the belongings that go with the homeperspective of Ashley Bennett, she finds Elizabeth's WWI diaries from the time that she nursed wounded servicemen novel follows her evolution from the Indian Corps at the Brighton Pavilion. These entries cause her to reflect on her time recording the more current war and enables her to open up to her ex-lover Susie in a series silent bystander when confronted with matters of lettersrace, telling to a woman finding her how it was, the lives of those she met out there, what it did to them voice and, indeed, to embracing herheritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846883342</amazonuk>1471188191