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Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books
The Golden Hours
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Set mostly in London and Norfolk in the early 1960s, The Golden Hours is a continuation of Elizabeth Jane Howard’s enormously popular ...Read Review
American Nightmare
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In this harrowing novel of early 20th-century America, a light-skinned Black man goes to work for the NAACP to blow the whistle on ...Read Review
The Tea Planter’s Secret
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Ceylon, 1908. During the lengthy sea voyage from England, Norton Baxter and Stella Polegate become smitten, but frustratingly, subsequent circumstances keep them apart. He’...Read Review
Kwan’s Last Mission
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The second book in the series finds M. T. Kwan in mainland China in August 1945. The Imperial Japanese Army is on the retreat, ...Read Review
The Silence of the Keeper
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Between the human and fae worlds lies The Waystation, an ancient place where humans trade for knowledge and fae bargain for emotions. Within ...Read Review
No One Leaves the Manor
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
It’s 1921, and four lucky debutantes have been chosen to take part in an exclusive contest. Aging heiress, Caroline Kane, is seeking someone ...Read Review
The Cost of Sin
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Bellon draws on stories her grandmother told to create a novel narrated by Myrtle, a young child in 1905 Utah, whose Mormon mother Ivy ...Read Review
Toujours à Toi
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The First World War romance is well-trodden territory, but Rachael Britton approaches it from an appealingly Franco-Belgian perspective. In 1916 Corporal Martin Chedru, psychologically ...Read Review
The Lost Chateau
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Old stately homes set apart from the world. Hidden chambers. Secret staircases. Ghostly visions. A dark past. Mysterious disappearances. Death. All of these ...Read Review
Vee’s Bracelet
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Vee, a former heiress, lives alone with her precocious son Ray on a sheep farm in the ghost town of Starve-Out, New Mexico. ...Read Review
