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|author= Alison WeirLivi Michael|title= Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard The Tainted QueenElizabeth and Ruth|rating= 43.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= ''Katheryn was seven when Elizabeth and Ruth'' is a work of historical fiction wrought from the life of the Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, best known for her mother diedfirst novel Mary Barton (1848), a radical critique of the treatment of the working class published under a pseudonym. The ''Ruth'' from Livi Michael's title appears in her novel as Pasley, thus we are thrust into this tumultuous time a young Irish prostitute who was abandoned as a child and finds herself in young KatherynManchester's life, trying to find New Bailey Prison after a home, both figuratively difficult and literally, where she can grow unjust hand at life. Set in Manchester between 1839 and grieve. Unfortunately1842, Katheryn is followed the novel examines the harsh conditions endured by bad luck and she learns an important lesson, she is too young, too the Victorian working poor and too unimportant interrogates the extent to be of any value to anyone, but she is beautiful and surely, that will count which the wealthy (including Gaskell herself) were responsible for something in the end, won't it?addressing these injustices.|isbn=14722277781784633682

|isbnauthor=1529123763Tananarive Due|title=Miss Austen|author=Gill HornbyThe Reformatory

|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 long been known a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that Cassandra Austen burned most of have died there. In order to survive the letters which she school governor and other members his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the extensive Austen school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family had exchanged with or about her sister Janewho run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. What is not known When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don'why'' t find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she did this runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and at this stage - more than two hundred years after Janejoining the notorious Ned Low's death - pirate ship as a definitive answer is unlikely to forthcomingcabin boy. Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expectingmutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438

{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15"Sarah Marsh<!-- Caroline Scott -->|title=A Sign of Her Own|-rating=3.5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|General Fiction[[image:1471186393.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing.amazon Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes.co Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing.uk/dp/1471186393/ref From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=nosim1035401614}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?tag=thebookbag-21]]''

| style="verticalCast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self-align: top; textproclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-align: left;"male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|isbn=1803362340}}{{Frontpage|author=Thomas D Lee|title=Perilous Times|rating=[[Photographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott]]=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=''Hate is the path of least resistance''

[[image:4Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little remains.5starWhat no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.jpg|linkisbn=Category:{0356518523}}{{Frontpage|author=G K Holloway|title=In the Shadows of Castles|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]summary= We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 and on the day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. William's position is not secure and the new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. And William is right to worry. While the previous king, Harold, is dead and the likelihood of more pitched battles is over, [[:Category:Literary the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to recognise a new overlord.|isbn=1800422466}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3949666079|title=Noema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|Literary Fiction]]summary=''This is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago.''

May 1921. Edie receives Maya is a young girl living in a photograph through hunter gatherer village during the postMesolithic era. There Climate change is occurring, the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, and food is no letter or note with itbecoming more and more scarce. There is nothing written on What to do? Can the law givers in the back federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the photograph. It is Traveller, a picture spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of her husbandAll Life, Francis. Francis has been missing provide solutions? }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529125898|title=Godmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''If it were not for four years. Technicallythe casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something that a young widow can believethere would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all. She hangs on the word 'missing', disbelieving the word killed. [[Photographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott|Full Review]]

<!Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve- Andre Pronovost year-->old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessity. Until the death of her mother, Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the household. When her mother died, her father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a year. Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.}}{{Frontpage|author=Melissa Fu |title=Peach Blossom Spring |rating=3.5|-genre=Historical Fiction | stylesummary=I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''width: 10%; vertical. Unfortunately it is the only truly poetic part of a book that I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as viewed through one family's perspective. When their home city is set ablaze during the war with Japan, a young mother (Meilin) and her four-align: top; textyear-align: center;'old son (Renshu) are among those who flee. The story follows them on their journey across China, and in Renshu's case eventually to America. |isbn=1472277538}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1916072038|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell[[image:099944235X.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/099944235X/ref5|genre=nosim?tagHistorical Fiction|summary=thebookbagWe meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-21]]year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, to the house in the hollow. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses:

| style=Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal to do as she was asked, which has precipitated 'vertical-align: top; text-align: left;'this violent and unexpected removal'|===[[The Man Who Killed Hitler by Andre Pronovost]]==='.

[[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Germany is split. Some Then we are told of her is in favour the birth of Hitler a child and the Nazis, but much isn't. Some of her is stuck to the east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have to be on the other front, against the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. Finding out that the war to the east isn't working, due to Hitler's tactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. The only way to shore things upafter, and repair the splits, is to kill Hitler, and luckily the Baron Nicholas is the man to do it. He's aristocratic enoughHester Talbot departs, he knows enough people leaving Jocelyn in industry, society shame and other circles of power, so once he's succeeded he might be able to keep a German presence isolation in EuropeYorkshire. But will he still be able to keep the "predatory American capitalists" and the blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the middle? [[The Man Who Killed Hitler by Andre Pronovost|Full Review]]}}<!-- S Kensington -->{{Frontpage|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Annabel Abbs[[image:1789018625.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789018625/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] The Language of Food| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Just Another Girl on the Road by S Kensington]]==rating=5 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from summary=Eliza Acton is a farmhouse and a group of German deserters poet who has never had raped her. Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she got when Farr and Valentine intervened and finished the group offslightest inclination to boil an egg. It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part of the Jedburgh unitWhen tasked with writing a cookery book, EDMONDshe recruits Ann Kirby, lead by Major Willoughby Nye. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on her father's merchant ship and Katrinka had once had a crush on Nye. When he offered her local woman with a job with his unit, she accepted. [[Just Another Girl on the Road by S Kensington|Full Review]] <!-- Ellory -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1542007232.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1542007232/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory]]=== [[image:3startroubled home life.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]Together, [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Berlinthey test, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly unitedcraft, with the Wall newly broken down refine and people able to cross at liberty for reshape the first time in decades. She is in the middle world of such euphoria, but cannot feel itdomestic cookery, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps reinventing the name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – recipe book and she sees for changing the first time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watchface of cookery writing forever. One bombshell outside, then, and two inside. And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on, as he has a first person narrative alternating with her story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to the real Frieda, a young woman that shook him to the core when he was her literature professor? That's right, more bombshells… [[The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory|Full Review]]isbn=1398502227}}<!-- Hlad -->|-{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Freya Marske[[image:1529311446.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529311446/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] A Marvellous Light| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|4===[[The Long Flight Home by A L Hlad]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the homes and lives of summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into a people on job in the edgeCivil Service, much to his chagrin. In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd There he meets Edwin Courcey and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with learns that the birds proving a comfort for Susan following the loss streets of her parentsLondon are threaded with magic. These pigeons are more than just birds Desperate to Susan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, she sees remove a distinct personality and forms a close bond. Meanwhilecurse that threatens to swallow him, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine Robin follows Edwin to head to Britain and join the Royal Air Force. Working with the National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and is tasked with air-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German-occupied Francecountryside, where many will not survive. As the mission is planned, hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the bond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[The Long Flight Home by A L Hlad|Full Review]] <!-- Moyer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:178747920Xpeople shimmer with power.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178747920X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, and retreating to There they uncover a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all sinister plot that he had built. Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break threatens the curse surrounding them and to save their lives. Setting off with a soldier, a Fey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled of all magicians in a maze of betrayals, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the throne…[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]] <!-- Anstruther -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1784631647British Isles.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784631647/ref=nosim?tagisbn=thebookbag-21]]1529080886}}{{Frontpage| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther]]==isbn=B09F4CTKJR [[image:5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Enid Campbell was a woman who, on the face of it, had everything. Leading the life of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to her. After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the true story of her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject Flights for an explosive, moving and beautifully well written debut. [[A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther|Full Review]] <!-- Varenne -->|-Freedom| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Steven Burgauer[[image:0857058738.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon4.co.uk/dp/0857058738/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Equator by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===Historical Fiction[[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] It strikes me that nobody can speak well 's the later stages of World War I and the Wild West outside United States has just entered the walls of a theme parkconflict. Our agent to see how bad it was here Petrol Petronus is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and young American who hates the way man – has signed up and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at joined the bat of an eyelid17 Aero Squadron. But this book is about so much more than This company was the 1870s USAfirst US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, and the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits first to be attached to the RAF and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of Utopia, namely the Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets first to keep them on be sent into the ground skies to counter fight the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be betterGermans in active combat. But before that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[Equator by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.}}<!-- Weir -->|-{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Christophe Medler[[image:1472227727.jpg|linktitle=httpMadrigal://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472227727/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] A Closely Guarded Secret| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|4===[[Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Alison Weir]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Poor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets a raw deal by history, of all summary= Set against the wives backdrop of Henry VIII she is the one who English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is known for being rejected. Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard were discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the sexy ones, Jane the dutiful one who delivered a son, Katherine summer of Aragon clung on to her crown and Katharine Parr clung on to her life but poor frumpy Anne of Cleaves just rolled over and moved along1642. Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with As a different view loyal servant of this young woman who saw the opportunity to live an independent life King, and took it. [[Six Tudor Queens: Anna Head of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Alison Weir|Full Review]] <!-- Rubin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0718187091.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0718187091/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Liberation Square by Gareth Rubin]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. Dividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in twoSecret Service, a wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawsonis Robert's husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right duty to uncover the highest levels details of the state – plan and soon finds herself desperate follow the clues to stay uncover one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Liberation Square by Gareth Rubinmost guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|Full Review]]isbn=B095HY8SXQ}}<!-- Hucknall -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1471187179| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|A Beautiful Spy[[image:191236266X.jpg|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/191236266X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Rachel Hore| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall]]==rating=4 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]  You might not think that Georgian London contained many black people. But it contained more than you think. You may have heard of Francis Barber, the black African slave who became the friend of lexicographer Samuel Johnson and was a beneficiary of his will. summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary'The Boy girl living an unexciting life in a Turban'' tells the story of a fictional black character, James, in Georgian Londonleafy provincial suburb. James, then Quaccoe, The book is brought to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughters. [[The Boy set in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall|Full Review]] <!-- Clark -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:034901082X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/034901082X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In The Full Light of the Sun by Clare Clark]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] In 19301930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's Berlin, three people obsessed with art expectations and find themselves swept up into a scandal. Emmeline, a wayward nice young student, Julius, an anxious middle-aged art expert, and Rachmann, a mysterious art dealer, live in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, the discovery of the art allows these characters man to explore authenticitymarry, vanity produce children and self-delusion. [[In The Full Light of spend the Sun by Clare Clark|Full Review]] <!-- Kazan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0749024801.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0749022132/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Phoenix rest of Florence by Philip Kazan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Deep in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family days looking after her husband and their home. Alone in the forest Unfortunately, this isn't what she meets a band of soldiers who, believing her wants to be a boy train do at all and develop her – and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the way, neither does she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey want to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murderscontinue working as a secretary. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family historya result of a chance meeting, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoriashe finds herself drawn into espionage, in working for the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to rest, before it's too late... [[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan|Full Review]] <!-- d'Eramo -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1782273883.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782273883/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Deviation by Luce d'Eramo secret service and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] For those of you who have read books of effectively living a double life in - attempting to infiltrate the Nazi camps – and Communist Party of course, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a next stepGreat Britain. It begins, after all, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and you'd not blame her one minute, Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner duty and sewage unblocker by the Germans. In Munich, friends she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a camp for nonhas made - and likes -native civilians to look whilst working for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raisedCommunist Party. [[Deviation by Luce d'Eramo }}{{Frontpage|author=Afonso Cruz and Anne Milano Appel Rahul Bery (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Gardner -->|-| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Kokoschka's Doll[[image:1785656341.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co2.uk/dp/1785656341/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Literary Fiction===[[The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]Well, [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''The Count of 9'' is this looked very much like a hardboiled detective story written in book I could love from the 1950s. It revolves around the detective duo of Donald Lam get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve the theft flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of priceless Bornean artefacts. However, their case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murderit. [[The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]] <!-- Chamberlain -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786076446.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786076446/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has I found among her mother's possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced things to confront their pasts. Revisiting their potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the Channel Islands during World War II20,000s, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identityletters used as narrative form, and Joe, so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a Catholic Priestman hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, remembers a time when he hid something very differenttoo. In But you've seen the star rating that comes with this story of lovereview, loss and betrayalcan tell that if love was on these pages, it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[The Hidden was not actually caused by Mary Chamberlainthem. So what happened?|Full Review]]isbn=1529402697}}<!-- Minette Walters -->{{Frontpage|-author=Christina Hammonds Reed| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Black Kids[[image:1760632163.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760632163/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters]]==genre=Teens  [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] At the beginning of 1349 there is a glimmer of a hope that the ravages of the Black Death might be passing. In Devilish in Dorset the population is well, because of Lady AnneChristina Hammonds Reed's strict rules about quarantine, which are regarded as heresy as they go debut novel is set against the strict rules backdrop of the church1992 Los Angeles riots, but their stores of food are dwindling and they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but a reaction to leave. What will they find on the outside? Are they the only survivors? [[The Turn absolution of Midnight by Minette Walters|Full Review]] <!-- Abbs -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473691206.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473691206/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Frieda by Annabel Abbs]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]four police officers for beating a black man, Rodney King, [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Married nearly to English Professor Ernest Weekley, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by death. Told from the confines perspective of married life. Visiting family in MunichAshley Bennett, she becomes captivated by the ideas novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of revolution and free love. Meeting the penniless writer D.H. 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