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{{newreview|author=DK Wilson|title=The Traitor's Mark|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=1543 <!-- Hans Holbein INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE- famed artist of both that time and today, has disappeared. When Thomas Treviot is left awaiting a design from Holbein, he goes to track him down - only to end up drawn into a conspiracy which threatens to destroy those he loves, and all he holds dear...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751550388</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessica BlairTananarive Due|title=Just One More DayThe Reformatory|rating=3.5

|summary=When war is declared and her brother joins the RAFGracetown, young Carolyn Maddison makes it clear that she plans to follow in his footsteps and join the WAAF as soon as she turns eighteenFlorida. June 1950. Despite her parents' objectionsAfter a scuffle with a white boy, she stays true to her word and soon receives an invitation to report twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Air Ministry Gracetown School for trainingBoys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. In her first weeks with the WAAF, Carolyn experiences heartbreaking loss and witnesses an horrific accident that causes her to make It's a rash vow: never to get emotionally involved place with a pilotbrutal and dark reputation. However, as But the segregated reformatory is a pretty young girl stationed at a base full chamber of dashing young airmenhorrors, she finds it increasingly difficult haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to keep her resolve, especially when fun-loving Vera arrives at survive the base school governor and starts flirting with Rickhis Funhouse, Robert must enlist the man that she just turned downhelp of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349402698</amazonuk>1803366532}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hermione EyreKatherine Howe|title=Viper WineA True Account

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Venetia Stanley lives Hannah Masury is living in Seventeeth century London. A celebrated beautyBoston, she has had poems written in honour of herhaving been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and portraits painted by one of the leading artists of the timebeing made to work there from a young age. Married When she hears there is to be a handsomehanging of some pirates in the town, kind she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and adventurous manhorrified in equal measure, Venetia is kept Hannah finds herself embroiled in a life young boy's death at the hands of luxurytwo vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find andkill her too, at first glance - has everything and then to escape them completely she could ever have dreamed ofruns away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. Except Venetia is not happy. A woman who has made her name and fortune because She soon finds herself in the thick of her beauty, she things when there is convinced that her allure is quickly slipping through her fingers. Signing a pact with an apothecary for his famed restorative 'Viper Wine'mutiny on board, Venetia is set and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on a dangerous paththe ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581663</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lesley J NickellSarah Marsh|title=The White Queen A Sign of Middleham: Sprigs of Broom 1Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary= Anne Neville, After a bout of scarlet fever as youngest daughter of 'Kingmaker' Richard Earl of Warwicka child, grows up with all the advantages of 15th century aristocracyEllen Lark loses her hearing. Unfortunately Anne is also female so Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life is used to expedite her father's planschanges. The dreams and innocent affections Living in a time when the use of the delicate child are dashed sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she faces exile and a loveless marriage is taught to the son of domineering Margaret of Anjoulip read, but physically restrained from signing. It doesn't get better straight after that either as virtual imprisonment From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and then slavery follow his deathusing a system called Visible Speech. While England At the same time, Bell is tossed working on other inventions and turned by the houses of York ideas, and Lancaster, all Anne wants is the peaceful solitude Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of holy ordersespionage. That may be what she wants, but her God still has other ideas…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1861512082</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David ChurchillClaire North|title=The Leopards House of Normandy: Devil: Leopards of Normandy 1|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Robert, the youngest son of the 4th Duke of Normandy, follows his father's bequest to the letter rather than the spirit and claims the castle at Falaise which should have gone to Richard, his elder brother. This will be a decision that will shape the rest of his life but the legacy that he and his low-born lover Herleva will be remembered for is their son, William the Bastard. An unfamiliar name perhaps until we realise that history will call him William the Conqueror.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472219171</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toby Clements|title=Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims (Kingmaker 1)|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=February 1460: Canon Thomas and Sister Katherine have always equated their priory with values like piety and safety. However when soldiers on horseback arrive this is proven to be a misconception and the two flee for their lives. This is the first time they've been in the outside world since childhood but soon realise there's more to it than they bargained for. It's naturally a dangerous place at any time but this is 15th century England - the War of the Roses is about to begin. Survival depends on worldly wisdom, something they don’t actually teach nuns or monks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099585871</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Gilman|title=Master of War: Defiant Unto DeathOdysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary= Spoilers straight ahead for the first book, [[Master of War by David Gilman|Master of War]] so go read that first…Ready?Ok…It's been 10 years since the young Thomas Blackstone chose military service over hanging and faced the French at Crecy, coming away from the battle knighted. Time's passing now finds him and his wife Christiana living with their two children in Normandy castle. Meanwhile in French held France, the current king, John II, is proving unpopular, starving the country with taxes and spreading fear with his cruel capricious nature. He sees betrayal everywhere and will execute those he perceives to be against him. However, now heWhat could matter more than love?'s right and there is a plot brewing and French royalist Simon Bucy has a plan to put it down: remove its cornerstone. His perceived cornerstone is none other than Sir Thomas Blackstone. This isn'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 never had the ranks from the crack legions of the Danube but now finds himself in slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a Roman army on the very edge of the world – 4th century Britaincookery book, near Eboracum. Although his men are kept at battle fitnessshe recruits Ann Kirby, his latest mission is one of peace. He must take a cohort to escort an envoy on local woman with a visit to the barbarian Pictstroubled home life. The local tribes are in Together, they test, craft, refine and reshape the process world of picking a new leader anddomestic cookery, as reinventing the area's future is resting on it, recipe book and changing the Romans want to influence the choice with diplomacy. However not everyone has been honest with Castus; people as well as situations are not all they seem. Castus must depend on his own initiative and ability to survive as he soon realises he can trust no oneface of cookery writing forever. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784081124</amazonuk>1398502227

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Erin KnightleyFreya Marske|title=The Earl I AdoreA Marvellous Light

|summary=Poor Sophie Wembley has been placed Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in a desperate situation thanks the Civil Service, much to her sister Penelope, who has eloped with the 'hired help'his chagrin. Once news of There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the scandal reaches the gossip-mongers streets of the 'ton', Sophie and her family will be ousted from polite society and her hopes of finding an eligible husband will be ruinedLondon are threaded with magic. It is therefore up Desperate to Sophie's scheming mother remove a curse that threatens to persuade her swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to snare herself a man before the gossip becomes public knowledge. Time is clearly of countryside, where the essence hedgegrows bristle with incantations and when it comes to suitable husbands, Sophie knows only one man will do: the handsome Earl people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives of Evansleigh, for whom she has been harbouring a 'tendre' for all magicians in the past yearBritish Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349405441</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey WarrB09F4CTKJR|title=The Viking HostageFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5

|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. SigridIt'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 later stages of World War I and the Viscount of Limoges is about to become a marriage pawn in a power struggle. Although she loves her family, she disagrees with their choice and United States has another 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 just entered the previous two books, this volume sees Agatha returning to her family home in Mechanicsburg in order to claim her place as 'The Heterodyne'conflict. She also needs to restore her war-damaged ancestral castle, which Petrol Petronus is in poor condition following a devastating attack by “The Other.” Of course, in the world of Girl Genius, nothing is straightforward young American who has signed up and Agatha's mission is complicated by several things: joined the castle is a sadistic sentient being with a fractured personality; Agatha has a copy of her evil mother locked away inside her brain that could reappear at any moment AND a huge pink airship has just appeared in Mechanicsburg heralding the arrival of a fake Heterodyne heiress17 Aero Squadron.|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 This company was the side. After a bout that leads first US Aero Squadron to an almost embarrassing victory, he is made two offers – one from a clearly corrupt man behind the scenes be trained in the sportCanada, who seems to offer a few thrown fights for Georges, then some kind of status as assistant – training, guiding, profiteering; the other comes from a man known always as ''the Pakistani'' (or an unkind abbreviation of that), who has a friend of a friend who wants someone first to do an enemy a mischief with their fists. Georges doesn't take too long be attached to choose the latter. In alternating chapters, however, we're in RAF and the 1950s, and a rookie first to be sent into the forces, Pascal Verini, is being shipped out to Algeria skies to work on fight the civil war causing the republic to break away and become independent from FranceGermans in active combat. Like GeorgesBut before that can happen, he finds his situation one which also causes what may be misguided violence, even if he Petrol has a very different attitude to itmaster flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052276</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daisy WaughChristophe Medler|title=HoneyvilleMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret

|summary=Cecily Neville, daughter Set against the backdrop of Ralphthe English Civil War, Earl of Westmorland and Joan Beaufort, puts her obligations above all else which a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is why she marries Richard Plantagenet, third Duke discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of York and her father's ward1642. Together they will start As a royal line that will go down loyal servant of the centuries but not without painKing, conflict andHead of the Secret Service, it is Robert's duty to uncover the details of course, the Wars plan and follow the clues to uncover one of the Rosesmost guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007447019</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471187179|title=The Man Who Loved DogsA Beautiful Spy|author=Leonardo PaduraRachel Hore

|summary=In Cuba, Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a mysterious nice young man walks on to marry, produce children and spend the beachrest of her days looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately, always with two Russian wolfhoundsthis isn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. Watched by As a writerresult of a chance meeting, he soon comes she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to share his story, infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and it becomes clear that he is Ramon Mercader likes - whilst working for the man who killed TrotskyCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524448</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The Last of the SpiritsKokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Teenage Sam and his little sister Lizzie are starving on Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the streets of Londonget-go, which is gripped by terrible coldwhy I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. Asking an old businessman for money I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, 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 chapter whose number was in the old man20, not caring whether his victim will live or die. But before he can do so000s, a strange spirit appears to himletters used as narrative form, and warns him about the terrible path he will put himself so on . It intrigued with this violent act. Can Sam resist the temptation to gain revenge? Several more spirits show him the possible consequences subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of his actionit mentioned, as we see Dickenstoo. But you's classic A Christmas Carol from a new viewpointve seen the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408854139</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|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 (you have most likely seen his famous painting of his sisters). 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 KnightleyChristina Hammonds Reed|title=The Baron Next Door|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Charity is hoping to enjoy a relaxing break 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 of her very being and she is never happier than when playing her latest compositions on her pianoforte. 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 a minimum'', she declares war on 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 SheepKids

|genre=General FictionTeens |summary=Mount of Zeal Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is a mining village, and no mistake. Three concentric semi-circular streets align across set against the side backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a hill, like reaction to the rows absolution of seats in an amphitheatre, with little thought at all allowed four police officers for the life above the crest of the hillbeating a black man, and a lot of effort and dreams focused on the coal mine at the village's core. The Howker family (and how evocative that name isRodney King, so akin nearly to the noise of hawking coal dust death. Told from one's lungs), and Ted and Rose, the youngest perspective of the clan, in particularAshley Bennett, will face the destiny the environment they grow up in gives them – novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with only the merest glimmers matters of hope and the faintest of sparks race, to latch on to as regards a likeable futurewoman finding her voice and embracing her heritage. But if that is a faint spark, then how safe is it so close to the tinderbox of a coal mine?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009953956X</amazonuk>1471188191