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|author=Caroline ScottTananarive Due|title=The Reformatory|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|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 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 school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the 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 who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When I Come Home Againshe 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't find and kill her too, and 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 a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean 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. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. 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. 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=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=House of Odysseus|rating=5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?'' 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.|isbn=0356516075}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|summary=1918 When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses to give a name, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he islives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Eventually they determine Idyllic as this isnmight sound, it't wilful obstinance, he doesns a bordello and Ettore't answer because s mother died when he doesn't knowwas born. He remembers being on the road for a long time, and being frightened, and some 's not been short of the faces from the roadmothers, though - but other than that – everything that came before has gone. They need a name for the forms and so they call him Adam and, because he was found someone of his background in the Galilee Chapellate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it becomes Adam Galilee's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. A fanciful name for Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a tired young man in successful business as a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he is, where he is or how he got thereguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|isbn=1471192172

|isbnauthor=1405946172Essie Fox|title=The Glass House|author=Eve ChaseFascination|rating=4.5

|summary=Rita lost both her parents in The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a car crash when she was just six years old: since then she's always craved setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led to more than a familyfew writers mishandling it. SheThere'd lived with her grandmother in Torquay until she got s such a job as a nanny with the Harrington family glut of media set in London. Soon her engagement to Fred, a Torquay butcher, fell through and the Harringtons became her family. In 1971, after a fire at era that the London house, Jeannie Harrington, her children, 13-year-old Hera and 6-year-old Teddy, along hallmarks we've come to associate with Rita went it are familiar to the family's house in the Forest point of Deanbeing cliched, hackneyed even. It wasn't ''quite'' dilapidatedAll this is simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite that, but something about it certainly wasnstill grabs me – and something about this book't the same standard s description did as the London house had been before the firewell.|isbn=1914585526

|author=Sally MagnussonNicole Jarvis|title=The Sealwoman's GiftA Portrait in Shadow

|summary= There is ''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a legend 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-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that God came through paintings have the power to visit Adam & Eve in protect the Gardencity and its citizens from plagues and curses. Eve had not finished bathing her children The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and ashamed of those still not cleansedguard it above all else. To them, she attempted to hide Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them from and their society.|isbn=1803362340}}{{Frontpage|author=Thomas D Lee|title=Perilous Times|rating=3|genre= Fantasy|summary= ''Hate is the eyes path of Godleast resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, denying that she had more children than thosein a world on the verge of climate collapse, already bathed, that she willing paraded for himBritain is in great peril. God was not The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to be deceived, however, save the day and decreed that rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was sought to be hidden from the eyes that one of God would henceforth be hidden from the eyes Knights of man, and so the Elves were born: Round Table would answer the hidden folk. They can see man, but man can only see them if they so choosecall.|isbn=14736389840356518523

|author=Wendy Cheyne G K Holloway|title=From In the Auld Rock to a Hard PlaceShadows of Castles|rating=4.5

|summary= After We begin after the Jacobite defeat at momentous battle in 1066 and on the Battle day of Culloden, William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. William's position is not secure and the new king has many Scottish estates were given to English lordschallenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. They were not kind And William is right to their crofting tenantsworry. Many on While the mainland were cleared previous king, Harold, is dead and while this did not happen much on the islands such as Shetlandlikelihood of more pitched battles is over, the new exploitative conditions led many Shetlanders to leave - to port cities on rebels are stirring and much of the mainland, country does not wish to North America and even to Australia and New Zealandrecognise a new overlord. |isbn= 18385917531800422466

|authorisbn= Alison Weir3949666079|title= Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard The Tainted QueenNoema|author=Dael Akkerman|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= ''Katheryn was seven when her mother diedThis is a story about some things that happened to me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, thus we are thrust the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into this tumultuous time in young KatherynMaya's life, trying to find a forest home, both figuratively and literally, where she can grow food is becoming more and grievemore scarce. Unfortunately, Katheryn is followed by bad luck and she learns an important lesson, she is too young, too poor and too unimportant What to be do? Can the law givers in the federation of any value villages muster peaceful ways to anyonecope? Can the Traveller, but she is beautiful and surely, that will count for something in a spiritual figure who interprets the endwisdom of All Life, won't itprovide solutions?|isbn=1472227778

|isbn=15291237631529125898|title=Miss AustenGodmersham Park

|summary=It''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's long been known that Cassandra duty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen burned most . She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessity. Until the letters which she and other members death of the extensive Austen family her mother, Anne had exchanged with or about a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her sister Janefather was frequently absent from the household. What is not known is ''why'' she did this When her mother died, her father cast her off and at this stage - would have nothing more than two hundred years after Jane's death - a definitive answer is unlikely to forthcomingdo with her. Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I year. Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was expectingfortunately taken in by some neighbours.

{{Frontpage|author=Melissa Fu |class-"wikitable" cellpaddingtitle=Peach Blossom Spring |rating=3.5|genre="15"Historical Fiction <!|summary= I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''. 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-year- Caroline Scott -->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| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell[[image:1471186393.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471186393/ref5|genre=nosim?tagHistorical Fiction|summary=thebookbagWe meet part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811. Twenty-seven-year-21]]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:

[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on Then we are told of the back birth of the photograph. It is a picture of her husbandchild and, Francis. Francis has been missing for four years. Technicallysoon after, he has been "missingHester Talbot departs, believed killed" but that is not something that a young widow can believe. She hangs on the word 'missing', disbelieving the word killedleaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshire. [[Photographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott|Full Review]]}}<!-- Andre Pronovost -->{{Frontpage|-| styleauthor=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|Annabel Abbs[[image:099944235X.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/099944235X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] The Language of Food| style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Man Who Killed Hitler by Andre Pronovost]]==rating=5 [[image:3star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Germany summary=Eliza Acton is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the Nazis, but much isn't. Some of her is stuck to the east fighting a poet who has never had the Soviets, but some will soon have slightest inclination to be on the other front, against the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see itboil an egg. Finding out that the war to the east isn't workingWhen tasked with writing a cookery book, due to Hitler's tactical ineptitude and inability to heed adviceshe recruits Ann Kirby, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlina local woman with a troubled home life. The only way to shore things upTogether, and repair the splitsthey test, is to kill Hitlercraft, refine and luckily Baron Nicholas is reshape the man to do it. He's aristocratic enough, he knows enough people in industry, society and other circles world of powerdomestic cookery, so once he's succeeded he might be able to keep a German presence in Europe. But will he still be able to keep reinventing the "predatory American capitalists" recipe book and changing the blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the middle? [[The Man Who Killed Hitler by Andre Pronovost|Full Review]] <!-- S Kensington -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789018625.jpg|link=http://www.amazonface of cookery writing forever.co.uk/dp/1789018625/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Just Another Girl on the Road by S Kensington]]==isbn=1398502227}}[[image:4star.jpg|link=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 a farmhouse and a group of German deserters who 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 off. It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part of the Jedburgh unit, EDMOND, 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 a job with his unit, she accepted. [[Just Another Girl on the Road by S Kensington|Full Review]] <!-- Ellory -->Frontpage|-| styleauthor=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|Freya Marske[[image:1542007232.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1542007232/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] A Marvellous Light| style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory]]==rating=4 [[image:3star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Berlin, 1989. Miriam summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the middle of a city freshly unitedCivil Service, with the Wall newly broken down and people able much to cross at liberty for the first time in decadeshis chagrin. She is in There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the middle streets of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, howeverRobin follows Edwin to the countryside, is very different, when he gasps where the name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – hedgegrows bristle with incantations and she sees for the first time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watchpeople shimmer with power. One bombshell outside, then, and two inside. And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on, as he has There they uncover a first-person narrative alternating with her story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to sinister plot that threatens the real Frieda, a young woman that shook him to lives of all magicians in the core when he was her literature professor? That's right, more bombshells… [[The Rabbit Girls by Anna ElloryBritish Isles. |Full Review]]isbn=1529080886}}<!-- Hlad -->{{Frontpage|-isbn= B09F4CTKJR| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Flights for Freedom[[image:1529311446.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529311446/refauthor=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Steven Burgauer| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Long Flight Home by A L Hlad]]rating=== [[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying summary=It's the homes later stages of World War I and lives of a people on the edgeUnited States has just entered the conflict. In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with joined the birds proving a comfort for Susan following 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the loss of her parents. These pigeons are more than just birds first US Aero Squadron to Susan though – be trained in each oneCanada, and especially in Duchess, she sees a distinct personality and forms a close bond. Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine the first to head be attached to Britain the RAF and join the Royal Air Force. Working with first to be sent into the skies to fight the National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and is tasked with air-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German-occupied France, where many will not surviveGermans in active combat. As the mission is plannedBut before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the bond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, notoriously difficult 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]]majestic Sopwith Camel.}}<!-- Moyer -->|-{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Christophe Medler[[image:178747920X.jpg|linktitle=httpMadrigal://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178747920X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] A Closely Guarded Secret| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer]]===4[[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Mariansummary= Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, and retreating to a monastery – although nosecret plan (code-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion named Madrigal) is tasked discovered by Father Tuck to break Sir Robert Douse in the curse surrounding them and to save their livessummer of 1642. Setting off with As a soldierloyal servant of the King, a Fey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in a maze Head 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:1784631647.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784631647/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Enid Campbell was a woman whoSecret Service, 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 Enidis Robert's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close duty to her. After losing custody uncover the details of her children, Enid sells her son the plan and follow the clues to her sister for £500 – but is this an act uncover one of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the true story of her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the perfect subject for an explosive, moving and beautifully well-written debutKing. [[A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]isbn=B095HY8SXQ}}<!-- Varenne -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1471187179| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|A Beautiful Spy[[image:0857058738.jpg|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0857058738/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Rachel Hore| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Equator by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]==rating=4 [[image:3.5star.jpg|linkgenre=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 of the Wild West outside the walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here summary=Minnie is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of white man against Native an 'Indianordinary', who spends days being physically sick while indulging girl living an unexciting life in a buffalo hunt, and who hates the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelidleafy provincial suburb. But this The book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, and set in the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits 1930s and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of Utopia, namely the Equator, where everything Minnie is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets expected to keep them on the ground live up to counter the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and thereher mother's a whole adventure full of Mexico expectations and Latin America between him and it… [[Equator by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Weir -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1472227727.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472227727/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Alison Weir]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Poor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets find a raw deal by historynice young man to marry, of all the wives of Henry VIII she is the one who is known for being rejected. Anne Boleyn produce children and Katheryn Howard were spend the sexy ones, Jane the dutiful one who delivered a son, Katherine rest of Aragon clung on to her crown and Katharine Parr clung on to days looking after her life but poor frumpy Anne of Cleaves just rolled over husband and moved alongtheir home. Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with a different view of Unfortunately, this young woman who saw the opportunity isn't what she wants to live an independent life do at all and took itneither does she want to continue working as a secretary. [[Six Tudor Queens: Anna As a result of Klevea chance meeting, 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 she finds itself split in twoherself drawn into espionage, a wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested working for the murder of his former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows secret service and effectively living a trail of corruption that leads her right double life - attempting to infiltrate the highest levels Communist Party of the state – and soon Great Britain. Minnie finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of torn between what she perceives as her duty and the murderous secret police… [[Liberation Square by Gareth Rubin|Full Review]] <!friends she has made -and likes - Hucknall -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:191236266X.jpg|link=http://wwwwhilst working for the Communist Party.amazon.co.uk/dp/191236266X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall]]===Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)[[image:4star.jpg|linktitle=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. Kokoschka''The Boy in a Turban'' tells the story of a fictional black character, James, in Georgian London. James, then Quaccoe, is brought to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughters. [[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall|Full Review]] <!-- Clark -->s Doll|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:034901082X.jpg|linkrating=http://www2.amazon.co.uk/dp/034901082X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In The Full Light of the Sun by Clare Clark]]==genre=Literary Fiction [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]Well, [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] In 1930's Berlin, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into this looked very much like a scandal. Emmeline, a wayward young student, Julius, an anxious middlebook I could love from the get-aged art expert, and Rachmann, a mysterious art dealer, live in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlingo, which is why I picked my review copy up and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement flipped pages over the surprise discovery several times before actually reading any of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Goghit. Based on I found things to potentially delight me each time – a true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, the discovery of the art allows these characters to explore authenticity, vanity and self-delusion. [[In The Full Light of 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 of Florence by Philip Kazan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Deep weird section in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth-century Italymiddle on darker stock paper, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone chapter whose number was in the forest20, she meets a band of soldiers who000s, letters used as narrative form, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and so on. It intrigued with the determined Onoria becomes subterranean voice a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation man hears in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the waywartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murderstoo. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit But you've seen the past he shares star rating that comes with Onoriathis review, in the hope and can tell that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to rest before if love was on these pages, it's too latewas not actually caused by them... [[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan So what happened?|Full Review]]isbn=1529402697}}<!-- d'Eramo -->{{Frontpage|-author=Christina Hammonds Reed| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Black Kids[[image:1782273883.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co4.uk/dp/1782273883/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Teens |summary===[[Deviation by Luce dChristina Hammonds Reed'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]s debut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] For those of you who have read books of life in a reaction to the Nazi camps – and absolution of course, four police officers for those of you who have not – this can be considered beating a next step. It beginsblack man, after all, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and you'd not blame her one minuteRodney King, as her career was deemed nearly to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by death. Told from the Germans. In Munichperspective of Ashley Bennett, she stumbles on help to get the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees woman finding her going back into the camp next to Dachau once more, voice and by then eyebrows are being raisedembracing her heritage. [[Deviation by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]isbn=1471188191}}