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|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 was London's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, 1815haunted by the boys that have died there. George III was on In order to survive the throne although it was school governor and his son who was RegentFunhouse, but it would be quite a while before those facts bothered Robert must enlist the help of the Roxy Playhouse Irregularsschool'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 livedrun an inn, loved and had their being in the old Roxy Playhousemade to work there from a young age. Money had always been in short supply as it tends When she hears there is to be when life is lived as a celebrationhanging of some pirates in the town, but they were in debt she decides to Richard Sheridan go and eventually forced to strike a bargain with him: pay their debts within one month or he would take the Roxy Playhousewatch. The Irregulars took the challenge Enthralled and put on a performancehorrified in equal measure, only this was no three-act play on Hannah finds herself embroiled in a stage. Their performance was a tightly choreographed heist which would relieve members of young boy's death at the ton hands of some of their more valuable trinketstwo vicious pirates. If youShe hides away, so that they don're thinking of Robin Hood t find and kill her too, and then forget it - this was going to be far more complex escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and bloody 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 it was obvious that from there was more at stake than a decrepit playhousewe are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956742238</amazonuk>0861547438

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Burnt NortonSarah Marsh|authortitle=Caroline SandonA Sign of Her Own|rating=23.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=After the death a bout of his youngest son in scarlet fever as a terrible accidentchild, Sir William Keyt starts to lose interest in lifeEllen Lark loses her hearing. It takes meeting young Molly Johnson, Suddenly plunged into a bright and beautiful daughter world of a local landlordsilence, to rekindle a spark for himeverything about her life changes. He brings her into Norton House as Living in a maidservant, where she quickly catches time when the eye use of his bookish eldest sonsign language was seen as something only savages do, Thomas. But Sir William wants Molly Ellen is sent to be more than a maid school where she is taught to himlip 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 as using a rich man system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and an MP is used to having his own wayideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781850674</amazonuk>1035401614

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bruce MacbainClaire North|title=The Bull SlayerHouse of Odysseus

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Years after we left him in [[Roman Games (Plinius Secundus) by Bruce Macbain|Roman Games]], Pliny the Younger has become Roman Governor of Bithynia. Not the most hospitable of regions, its Greek residents regard the Romans with hatred; an emotion that, in many cases, is reciprocated by the Romans. No ''What could matter how bad this is though, it gets worse when a high ranking official dies mysteriously. Could it have anything to do with the religious sect of Mithrasmore than love? Possibly but it's not Pliny's only dilemma; at home his beloved young wife Calpurnia is acting somewhat oddly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781850798</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=James Heneage|title=The Walls of Byzantium (The Mistra Chronicles)|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Luke Magoris is heading for disgrace which means follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a lot since he's few months after where we left off. In the son palace of a VarangianOdysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, the Viking-originated elite guard of the Byzantine Emperor. Anna Lasaris daughter who sailed to a Byzantine court official war at Troy and, feisty but kind, is then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the opposite throne of the Archon's daughter ZoeWestern Isles. As Having survived – politically adept as her brother is inept, Zoe will do anything for status and money… anything. As physical – the 14th century Byzantine Empire starts to crumble due chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the relentless struggle brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the Islamic Turks return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and Mistra becomes the only province left for the Turks to conquerhis sister Elektra, their paths will cross. They're all young but they'll soon discover that treachery can emanate from friendship as much as it can from warseeking refuge. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782061118</amazonuk>0356516075

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=Beautiful LiesA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Claire ClarkA J Lewis

|summary=Clare ClarkWhen we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He'Beautiful Lies'' takes in Royal jubilees, London riotss not been short of mothers, newspaper editors overstepping the bounds on personal vendettas and political sex scandals though - all set but for someone of his background in the late 1880s showing how little has changed. There are even early instances and questions over photographic manipulation. Maribel-eighteenth-century Amalfi, apparently a Chilean heiress and wife of radical, socialist politician Edward Campbell Lowe, has a past which she has tries it's difficult to keep buriedobtain decent employment. If it were to be revealed, both her The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and her husband would be ruined by the scandalbastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Making enemies of an unscrupulous Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and hypocritical newspaper editor might it was not be the best move thenlong before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099570467</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=All Woman and SpringtimeEssie Fox|authortitle=B W JonesThe Fascination|rating=3.54

|summary=GyongThe Victorian era is incredibly over-Ho is romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led to more than a seamstressfew writers mishandling it. ThatThere's not such a euphemism. She works at a machine glut of media set in a garment factory, with a bullying supervisor, invalided out of the glorious Chochun army, limping around and terrifying era that the girls only slightly more than hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar to the picture point of Kim Jong-il on the wallsbeing cliched, hackneyed even. Gi, a nickname she'll acquire because of her stammering attempts All this is simply to get her own name out (Gi-Gi-Gyong) strives truly hard illustrate that it would be an easy thing to be worthy of the Dear Leaderdo poorly. She has learned the hard wayBut despite that, what happens if someone somewhere for some obscure reason decides that yousomething about it still grabs me – and something about this book're nots description did as well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780222912</amazonuk>1914585526

 {{newreview|title=The AsylumFrontpage|author=John HarwoodNicole Jarvis|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summarytitle=A woman wakes up in an unfamiliar room. She doesn’t know where she is, or how she got there, but at least she knows who she is: her name is Georgina Ferrars and she lives with her uncle Portrait in Gresham’s Yard, London.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224097415</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Edward Rutherfurd|title=ParisShadow|rating=4.5

|summary=Taking four families, from different social positions, Edward Rutherfurd weaves these family histories into the history of Paris and France. We encounter the noble de Cygnes, the bourgeois Blanchards, the lower class Gascons and the revolutionary Le Sourds. Their lives cross paths through the years in often unexpected ways and while ''ParisI want all of Florence to know my name'' is an historical fiction novel, this is as much an epic story of families as it is about the history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444736795</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Emma Straub|title=Laura Lamont's Life Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in Pictures|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Small town girl Ella Emerson loves acting - which her father runs the Cherry County Playhouse, art can find a home and she's always been captivated by the stage. She loves watching the actors perform, and getting involved in shows where she her future canthrive rather than stagnate. Following a family tragedyBut as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, though, she moves the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to Hollywood to marry an actor protect the city and its citizens from plagues and reinvents herself as Laura Lamontcurses. Quickly, she outshines her new husbandThe all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. Can her successTo them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their relationship, last?society.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447203208</amazonuk>1803362340

{{newreview|author=Nick Rennison|title=Carver's Quest|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The year is 1870 and Adam Carver is at home Set in his lodgings the near-distant future, in London’s Doughty Street when he is interrupted by an unexpected caller. This distraught and enigmatic young woman, Miss Emily Maitland, requests Carver’s help but disappears mysteriously before he can ascertain a world on the details verge of her predicamentclimate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The days British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and weeks rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that follow her visit prove to be most eventful, pitching Carver and his assistant Quint into an investigation involving murder, a missing manuscript and a hidden treasureone of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848871791</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael RidpathG K Holloway|title=Traitor's GateIn the Shadows of Castles

|summary= Oxford-educated Englishman Conrad de Lancey is haunted by the brutality of We begin after the Spanish Civil War, his ideals laying momentous battle in 1066 and on the dust along with day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. William's position is not secure and the cause for which he foughtnew king has many challenges. Therefore, on Imposing authority through a visit coronation is important. And William is right to his mother's German homelandworry. While the previous king, Harold, Conrad shies away from involvement in any resistance to is dead and the rise likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the National Socialist Party. However, he will soon have little choice as tragic events drag him into a world rebels are stirring and much of espionage, brutality and fear, culminating in the country does not wish to recognise a conspiracy to kill Hitler himselfnew overlord.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781851808</amazonuk>1800422466

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A L Berridge3949666079|title=Into The Valley of DeathNoema|author=Dael Akkerman

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Master Harry-sahib saunters up the path of the family bungalow in some unnamed Indian 'British town', puzzled to see the pathway choked with weeds, surprised by the absence of servants and disgusted by the swarming ants. There This is worse inside. His father, the colonel, is dead on the floor. 'The money was gone, obviously, but it would take more than a story about some things that happened to make a devoted soldier to blow his brains outme about twelve thousand years ago. What had it done to him, this army he'd given his whole life to?'

Maya is a young girl living in a hunter gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, the Sea of Grass encroaches further and further into Maya's forest home, and food is becoming more and more scarce. What indeedto do? 'Into Can the law givers in the Valley federation of Death' isn't villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the novel that will tell us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024195410X</amazonuk>wisdom of All Life, provide solutions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Willocks1529125898|title=The ReligionGodmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating=4.5

|summary=To the Maltese and Sicilians, Mattias Tannhauser is a successfully blooded infantry captain. To Ottoman Turks he's Ibrahim the Red, having been kidnapped from Hungary and raised as a Muslim. Dual nationality comes in handy once he's met If it were not for the beautiful Contessa Carla de la Penantier and is commissioned to find and return her 12 year old bastard son. As always with these missions there's a catch. The boy (whom Carla hasn't seen since the day casual dereliction of his birth) is rumoured to be on Malta, an island currently being threatened by 30,000 Turks and defended by a tenth of that number, even if you count the Knights Hospitaller. The Turks call themselves the Hounds of Hell, the Knights are known as the Religion, but itodd gentleman's immaterial duty, there would no women to Mattiasteach well-bred daughters at all. He just needs to find the lad and get out alive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581299</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Elizabeth Fremantle|title=The Queen's Gambit|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= The recently widowed Lady Katherine Latymer falls in love with aristocratic Thomas Seymour, a man more a stranger Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to fidelity than take up the position of governess to a lady's bedtwelve-year-old Fanny Austen. It's not She had no experience of teaching but this was a good idea, especially when Henry VIII announces he'd like to make use case of her renowned nursing skills by marrying hernecessity. As Katherine navigates Until the seas death of palace survival there's her mother, Anne had a lot that can sink comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her: Katherine's wish for Henry to return to father was frequently absent from the original protestant faith as he perceived ithousehold. When her mother died, her desire to bring the King's children together under one roof father cast her off and the plotting of those who would like have nothing more to see do with her head disconnected at the neck to name . No explanation was offered but threeshe would receive an annuity of £35 a year. Meanwhile the shadow of Snape Castle hangs over Katherine's step-daughter MegHer maid, haunting her hopesAgnes, her dreams and her everyday life to a degree that only the maid Dot understandswould receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718177061</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy BrillMelissa Fu |title=The Movement of StarsPeach Blossom Spring |rating=43.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Hannah Gardner Price lives in NantucketI loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a small New England island with fortunes based on the whaling trade. As itshort chapter entitled ''Origins's 1845, Hannah's life is based on what her father feels is best for her. This Unfortunately it is unfortunately reinforced by the fact only truly poetic part of a book that Nantucket is not just an island geographically but also insular in outlook and expectations I expected more from. Covering Chinese history from 1938 to 2005 as the claustrophobic, small community revolves around the weekly Friendsviewed through one family' Meeting of its Quaker faiths perspective. Why unfortunately? Hannah When their home city is highly intelligentset ablaze during the war with Japan, in a young mother (Meilin) and her midfour-year-20s, unmarried, practically runs her family's navigational instrument business since her twin brother dashed off to sea and has a scientific passion for astronomy, all of which old son (Renshu) are at odds with societal normalityamong those who flee. HoweverThe story follows them on their journey across China, this is just the beginning. When Isaac Martin, a shipand in Renshu's black second mate, brings Hannah a chronometer case eventually to repair he becomes a presence that will shake her community as it shakes her worldAmerica. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718159926</amazonuk>1472277538

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rhidian Brook1916072038|title=The AftermathHouse in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell

|summary=''The Aftermath'' is set amongst We meet part of the devastated ruins Talbot family in the fire-bombed city of Hamburg Yorkshire in 1946November 1811. The British have occupied the ruined city and Colonel Lewis Morgan, an officer and a gentleman, is charged with overseeing the restoration of order. However, Colonel Morgan must first deal with the human cost of the bombing including remnants of fanatic Nazis, the ''trummerkind'' Twenty-seven-year- children of the rubble, old Jocelyn Talbot and the starving civil populace. He also, her mother have travelled in 1943some discomfort from their home at Ecklington, lost a child due to a Luftwaffe bomb and he must support his deeply grieving wife, Rachel, when she arrives after months of separation with their surviving twelve year old boy, the impressionable Edmund.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921122</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Diana Souhami|title=Coconut Chaos|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Our anonymous narrator has a chaos-theory-theory about the mutiny on house in the Bountyhollow. It can all be traced back to Fletcher Christian stealing a coconut. Armed The two women are angry with this thought each other and the intrepid spirit Jocelyn is well aware of many Britons before her, she sets off for Pitcairn Island, the isolated home of Christian and his band of dissenters 3,000 miles from New Zealand. She leaves behind a beloved but delusional mother, her partner and all the comforts of civilisation as she travels with hope and the inimitable Lady Myre. Meanwhile we listen to true stories about the mutiny, the aftermath and the fact that there weren't really many heroes, just a group of flawed individuals fighting for survival.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780878745</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Wilton|title=Traitor's Field|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's 1648 strengths and the embers of Charles I's reign start to fade as Britain slowly turns the monotone colour of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth. However, Royalist passion still exists and it's up to Sir Mortimer Shay, the Comptrollerate-General for Scrutiny and Survey, to gather the intelligence, maintain his spy network and fan the embers towards the Royalist victory for which he longs. He's a wily veteran so not easily stopped but among the confusion and brutality that tears Britain in half, former lawyer Cromwell's spymaster John Thurloe is the man charged with the task.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878192</amazonuk>}}weaknesses:

{{newreview|author=Paul Lynch|title=Red Sky In Morning|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It’s 1832 and Coll Coyle and his humble family are to be turfed out of their home in Donegal and Coll ''She is just angry enough to confront the landowner’s son who is responsible. The repercussions of Coll’s actions are huge and Coll is forced to go on the run. He attempts to escape across the unforgiving and desolate landscape of North West Irelandpracticed at subterfuge, at concealing, the brutal Atlantic Ocean and the plains beneath a facade of North Americarespectability, all the while stalked by the incredibly dangerous and violent John Faller. Red Sky in Morning is Paul Lynch’s debut novel and it is a real hitdeplorable truth''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780879164</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Patricia Watkins|title=Trick of Fate: Connell OHester is furious about Jocelyn'Keeffe and The Pen Caer Legacy|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Connell O'Keeffe was a gentleman actor and on 23 February 1797 he was on his way from Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire s refusal to catch the ferry home to Ireland. Unable to speak Welsh he do as she was unaware that the French had invaded Pen Caer and rode into a situation asked, which would change his life forever. The man who had set off to make his leisurely way home, taking in some of the local landmarks suffered a life-threatening injury, was unjustly accused of a foul murder has precipitated ''this violent and became a fugitiveunexpected removal''. It was difficult to see that he could survive his current situation - fitter men than he were dying - and if he did, what was the point? What was there that he could do when his chosen profession would no longer be open to him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957210450</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Michael Ennis|title=The Malice of Fortune|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Michael Ennis sets his ''The Malice Then we are told of Fortune'' in Italy in the early part birth of the 1500s. Ennis is a history lecturer so unsurprisingly, his book is full of evidence of detailed research and understanding of the times. And what fascinating times they were. With the Borgia family dominating both the papacy child and several political regions, fighting for power and landsoon after, a number of family led mercenary armiesHester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and several great figures who would leave a lasting legacy, notably Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli, the latter of whom narrates a very large part of this novel. The real life political wrangling of the times would stretch the imagination of most novelists and Ennis bases his tale on a huge number of real, documented happenings. What he seeks to add to the party is an insight into why and how these events occurred and certainly there are some unexplained gaps isolation in the relationships of the key players. The core story is an attempt to discover the identity of the murderer of the pope's son, Juan Borgia, Duke of Gandia. Candidates range from his brother, Cesare Borgia, Juan's courtesan, Damiata to the heads of various powerful, mercenary families. It's historical fiction meets crime fictionYorkshire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780890974</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim LeachAnnabel Abbs|title=The Last King Language of LydiaFood

|summary=Ancient mythology seems Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to be enjoying boil an egg. When tasked with writing a surge in popularity of latecookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a plethora troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine and reshape the world of booksdomestic cookery, movies and games based on these ancient legends reinventing the recipe book and fabled heroes. There is something in changing the collective consciousness that enables these stories to resonate with each subsequent generation, allowing ancient wisdom to put out new roots in fresh soilface of cookery writing forever.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857899171</amazonuk>1398502227

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James BenmoreFreya Marske|title=DodgerA Marvellous Light

|summary=That loveable rogue, the Artful Dodger, Robin Blyth is one of the most memorable and amusing characters nudged into a job in all of English literature. ''Oliver Twist'' ended with Dodger Jack Dawkins arrested for the theft of a silver snuff box and transported Civil Service, much to Australiahis chagrin. But what happened next? James Benmore explores There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that idea in ''Dodger'', which takes up the story six years after the events streets of ''Oliver Twist''London are threaded with magic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780874650</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Gill|title=Miss Appleby's Academy|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=After forsaking her own chance of happiness Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to care for her aging fatherswallow him, Emma Appleby’s life is thrown into turmoil when he dies suddenlyRobin follows Edwin to the countryside, leaving her fate entirely in where the hands of her callous brother Laurence. Laurence hedgegrows bristle with incantations and his wife view the middle-aged spinster as people shimmer with power. There they uncover a burden and are keen to marry her off to an elderly neighbour to free themselves sinister plot that threatens the lives of responsibility. With seemingly nowhere to turn, Emma flees America to make a new life for herself all magicians in her childhood home of County Durhamthe British Isles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780878478</amazonuk>1529080886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny MandevilleB09F4CTKJR|title=A Crown of DespairFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer

|summary=By It's the age later stages of 31 Katherine, Lady Latimer, had been married World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and widowed twicejoined the 17 Aero Squadron. Her This company was the first match US Aero Squadron to an elderlybe trained in Canada, sickening baron ended at the age of 16, as miserably as it had started two years earlier. Her second marriage first to be attached to John Neville, Lord Latimer, had been more comfortable. On his death she found love for the RAF and the first time in her life, but to no avail. The monarch had seen Katherine and would claim her for himself no matter what her wishes may be. This forced marriage would make her famous, for down sent into the centuries history would recount skies to fight the story of Lady Latimer using her other name: Katherine ParrGermans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the sixth and final wife of Henry VIIInotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071980857X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne O'BrienChristophe Medler|title=The Forbidden QueenMadrigal: A Closely Guarded Secret|rating=4.5

|summary=Katherine de Valois Set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the young and innocent girl betrothed to Henry V summer of England. While Henry doesn't love her, she thinks she can be happy with him1642. Unfortunately, though, she quickly finds herself trapped in As a loveless marriageloyal servant of the King, then finds an even worse fate in store as Henry is killed and she is left a lonely young widow. With political machinations dogging her every step as men like Edmund Beaufort and Owen Tudor catch her eye. Can she be happy with one Head of themthe Secret Service, or will those people at court who donit is Robert't want s duty to see any man gain uncover the power that would come with marrying details of the mother plan and follow the clues to uncover one of the young king foil her hopes?most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848452152</amazonuk>B095HY8SXQ

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471187179|authortitle=E A DineleyBeautiful Spy|titleauthor=The Death of Lyndon Wilder and the Consequences ThereofRachel Hore

|summary= Anna Arbuthnot moves to Ridley Hall as governess for Lord and Lady Charles WilderMinnie is an 'ordinary's granddaughter, Lottiegirl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. LottieThe book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's mother died years before expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her father Lyndon has just been killed in the Napoleonic Warshusband and their home. Lady Charles has Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to do at all but beatified Lyndon as no one could ever be and neither does she want to continue working as wonderful, caring or heroica secretary. In fact As a result of a chance meeting, she only tolerates Lottie because finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of her family likeness but things are about to changeGreat Britain. Lyndon's younger brother, Thomas, returns from Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the war accompanied by friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the secrets that stalk him and intentions that will shake Ridley HallCommunist Party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780332270</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=William PalmerAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The Devil is WhiteKokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Just off Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the West coast get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of Africa is it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the island of Muranda20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. It is uninhabitedintrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, but previous attempts at settling it mean there are buildings available for usetoo. There is wild game for huntingBut you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, fruits on the trees and the climate suggests can tell that the land could be cultivatedif love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. A group So what happened?|isbn=1529402697}}{{Frontpage|author=Christina Hammonds Reed|title=The Black Kids|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of gentlementhe 1992 Los Angeles riots, not liking a reaction to the slavery rules they are living under in late Eighteenth Century Englandabsolution of four police officers for beating a black man, Rodney King, have an idea nearly to death. Told from the perspective of claiming this island as Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from a kind silent bystander when confronted with matters of Utopia where there are no slaves and everyone lives in comfort race, to a woman finding her voice and equalityembracing her heritage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224096826</amazonuk>1471188191

{{newreview|author=V M Whitworth|title=The Traitors' Pit: (Wulfgar 2)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Wystan, one of Wulfgar's brothers, has always been an honest, sturdy farmer. Not the sharpest sword in the armoury perhaps, but he pays his taxes and remains well-respected. However that seems to have changed. Wystan is accused of plotting against King Edward of Wessex. Wulfgar knows Wystan is innocent and has three months to prove it; three months to stop Wystan being hanged and hurled into the open, unconsecrated grave that is the Traitors' Pit. Not an easy task Move on to begin with, it becomes considerably harder when Wulfgar's liege Lady Fleda asks him to go on a mission he can't refuse; a mission that could take more time than he has.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091947189</amazonuk>}}[[Newest History Reviews]]