|summary= Baker's daughter Guillaumette Dupain, aged 15, mourns for her still-born baby but her tragedy becomes others' gain. Young Mette is sent to the Hotel de San Pol, home of the French royal family to become wet nurse to the latest child produced by the sickly Charles VI and his wife, Isabella of Bavaria. The infant is Catherine de Valois; destined to be the mother of an English dynasty. But first she must live long enough to marry an English king and being a 15th century royal is a dangerous existence when your greatest enemies are in your own family.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007446977</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dana Stabenow
|title=A Cold Day for Murder (A Kate Shugak Investigation)
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Mark Miller is a park ranger in one of the Alaskan National Parks, but it's six weeks since he's been seen - and there are twenty million acres for him to get lost in. Two weeks ago an investigator was sent in to look for him, but he's not been seen since either. There's little choice now but to hand the case to the expert who knows the park and the people: Kate Shugak is Aleut by birth and upbringing and she knows the people - is related to an extraordinary number of them - and she knows the Park. She's thirty years old, five feet tall and has a scar from ear to ear where her throat was cut.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800399</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Kent-Lemon
|title=Blockade Runner
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=London shipbroker's clerk Tom Wells is hungry for promotion. Seeking responsibility where ever possible he's still unprepared for a proposition from his employer Mr Pembroke. The company is to operate five cargo ships, shuttling between the Bahamas and America's southern states and he wants Tom to be on board as shipping agent; a dangerous enterprise. Why? It's 1861 and the south is at war with the Yankee north. President Lincoln has blockaded ports like Charleston and Wilmington in the Carolinas in an attempt to prevent revenue-providing cargo leaving or supplies (including uniforms and arms) arriving. Mr Pembroke plans to illegally 'run' the blockade, something not unattractive to Tom partially due to the vastly increased wage attached but mostly because he has a certain interest in a certain American lady.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781590648</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Alcott
|title=The Dressmaker
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=I’ve always avoided stories with a strong link to the Titanic; it’s such a depressing and distressing topic, especially for those of us with an active imagination! However, I was attracted to this novel for different reasons. Telling the story of Tess, a talented seamstress looking for a break, the core relationship is one that is not often explored – that between employee and employer. Designer Lady Duff Gordon takes Tess on as her maid on the Titanic and quickly becomes a mentor and example as Tess develops her craft. But what happened on the voyage threatens their relationship and Tess finds herself facing all kinds of moral dilemmas.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751549231</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Melanie Rawn
|title=Glass Thorns - Touchstone
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary= Cayden is a hybrid being part elf, fae and human but all wizard. He also has a day job as a tregetour or playwright with his own touring company, Touchstone. They're ambitious and planning to get through the trials and into the upper flight. As you would expect from a wizard, this troupe doesn't just act; they also weave magic imbued in hallucinations and encased in glass withies. The problem is they're short of a glister, a troupe's wielder of withies. Or rather they were until Mieka arrives. Actually short's a good world as he's an elf but he also happens to be the best glister anyone's ever seen, thorns permitting. With one problem solved, another remains. Namely prophetic dreams that have haunted Cade since boyhood and they aren't improving, in fact they're more like nightmares.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166609</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=James P Blaylock
|title=The Aylesford Skull
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Langdon St. Ives, renowned scientist and adventurer, returns home from the hubbub and grime of Victorian London to his tranquil residence in rural Aylesford where he lives with his wife Alice and their two young children. Weary of the city, having survived a devastating explosion and particularly vicious attempt on his life, he is hoping for some repose and a chance to work quietly on his latest project; a dirigible airship.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689797</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lou Rhodes and Tori Elliott
|title=The Phlunk
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=What is a Phlunk? I know that you're wondering. Well, wonder no more for this book will tell you all about the Phlunk, who lives on a planet shaped like a spoon, looks a bit like a cat but who has very, very large ears. Why, you're now asking, does he have such very large ears? Well, it's all the better to hear you with, of course! And the Phlunk hears everything, from everybody, all over the world!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095736900X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Carolyn Leigh and Amy June Bates
|title=Flying to Neverland with Peter Pan
|rating=3
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=There's something perennially magical about the story of Peter Pan. It's timeless, this story of a little boy who doesn't want to grow up, and who lives in a land full of pirates and fairies and mermaids and crocodiles. It's one of those stories that stays with you, which is why it's a classic, I suppose! In this version part of the story is told through the lyrics of two songs from the musical ''Peter Pan''. The songs ''I'm Flying'' and ''Never Never Land'' are combined together to tell the story as far as the children flying to Neverland.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052498</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sara Judge
|title=Honey Brown is Married
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Honey Brown had been a foundling, but fortune - and a benefactress - had smiled on her and she became a dancer at the Windmill Theatre. Then she met August Blake, farmer and the two married and Honey left the theatre to live on the Sussex farm. After a week's honeymoon she was largely left to her own devices. How would she cope with married life, the local community and being a farmer's wife? Well, it was a steep learning curve, but there's more to Honey than meets the eye. There's more to August, too.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719807212</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Wm Paul Young
|title=Cross Roads
|rating=4
|genre=Spirituality and Religion
|summary=Wm. Paul Young's debut novel ''The Shack'' was a revelation in many ways. Whilst many disagreed with his theology, it was refreshing to see such an overtly faith based book on the bestseller lists. Personally, I found it a very moving story and whilst I thought it helpful on some points, it tended to skim over others. Now we get to see if Young can repeat his success with his new novel, ''Cross Roads''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444745972</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Katy Regan
|title=How We Met
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=At the start of 'How We Met', a group of friends - Fraser, Mia, Anna, Melody and Norm - are all meeting up in order to celebrate their friend's birthday. There would be nothing unusual about this apart from the fact that the friend is dead. Liv died tragically after falling from a balcony when they were all on holiday in Ibiza. The remaining friends feel that they need to honour her birthday but of course it is going to be a poignant occasion. As they are remembering their friend, Norm produces something that he found in the pocket of a coat he once lent Liv. It's a list of all of the things that she wanted to do before she was thirty, such as, learn a foreign language, swim naked in the sea at dawn and go to an airport and pick a random destination to travel to! As it would have been Liv's thirtieth the following year, the group decide to share out and complete all the activities on the list as a tribute to their friend.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007237448</amazonuk>
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