Reviews

Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books

The Secret of the Lady’s Maid (A Useful Woman Mystery)

By Darcie Wilde - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In London in 1820, political and personal intrigue bring together police investigator Adam Harkness and the indefatigable Rosalind Thorne, who help the rich solve ...Read Review

Mira and Baku

By Michelle Theodore (illus.) - By Sara Truuvert - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

First-time author Truuvert has combined with noted illustrator Theodore to craft a volume targeted to the early reader that describes Mira and her ...Read Review

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

By Shubnum Khan - Published 2024

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

Akbar Manzil, a mansion neglected and abandoned, is seeing new life with a motley crew of tenants taking up residence in its assorted ...Read Review

Snapshots from Home

By Sasha Wasley - Published 2023

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It is 1917. Edie Stark is grateful for the opportunity to escape her tyrannical and bigoted father, Frederick, when she takes up a teaching ...Read Review

Iwo, 26 Charlie: A Novel (P. T. Deutermann WWII Novels)

By P. T. Deutermann - Published 2023

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

It’s February 1945, and the savage battle for the Japanese island of Iwo Jima is about to transform into a hellscape for tens ...Read Review

Where They Lie

By Claire Coughlan - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Dublin, 1968: in the news room of a city newspaper on a slow night near Christmas, the conversation amongst reporters turns to a convicted ...Read Review

A Nurse’s Tale

By Ola Awonubi - Published 2023

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Set in 1935-1948, and 2018-19, A Nurse’s Tale showcases the real-life Nigerian Princess Adenrele (Ade) Ademola, a maternity nurse at Guy’s ...Read Review

After the Barricades

By Jessica Stilling - Published 2023

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The French art of protest comes vividly to life in this novel set in the volatile spring of 1968 in Paris. It tells the ...Read Review

Usurpers (Foundation of the Dragon: Book 2)

By Robb Pritchard - Published 2023

Genres:

After generations of subjugation, the descendants of the Ordovices are no longer the fighters they were once renowned as. Their fate rests upon ...Read Review

Murder by Candlelight

By Faith Martin - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In the summer of 1924, life in the charming Cotswold village of Maybury-in-the-Marsh is quiet. That is, until Amy Phelps needs help with a ...Read Review