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Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books

This Thing of Darkness

By Nicola Edwards - Published 2023

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1771, Gimmerton, Yorkshire, England. Abe Earnshaw relates how he makes his weary way from Liverpool to his home, Wuthering Heights, accompanied by a dark, ...Read Review

A Day of Reckoning (A Time for Swords)

By Matthew Harffy - Published 2023

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Adventure

AD 796. A Day of Reckoning is the latest in Matthew Harffy’s series featuring Hunlaf, the warrior monk, and his comrades. The story ...Read Review

The Black Feathers

By Rebecca Netley - Published 2023

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Thriller

Yorkshire in the cold, snowy winter of 1852. Annie Stonehouse, not long married to Edward, arrives at his ancestral home, Guardbridge, for the first ...Read Review

STAFF PUBLICATION: Viscount Overboard (Ladies Least Likely Book 1)

By Misty Urban - Published 2023

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Romance

Award-winning author, Misty Urban, has had her fill of ‘historical romances with rich, beautiful people gossiping at expensive parties.’ Instead, in Viscount Overboard (...Read Review

Historical Stories of Exile

By Anna Belfrage - By Annie Whitehead - By Elizabeth Chadwick - By Helen Hollick - By J.G. Harlond - By Loretta Livingstone - Published 2023

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Short Stories

Like its predecessor, Historical Stories of Betrayal, this collection of thirteen short stories is from a group of skilled, talented authors who cover ...Read Review

Death on the Lusitania (Patrick Gallagher, 1)

By R. L. Graham - Published 2024

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Mystery/CrimeNautical

In 1915, the luxurious ocean liner RMS Lusitania sets sail from New York to Europe, where war is raging. A passenger is discovered shot ...Read Review

The Meiji Guillotine Murders

By Bryan Karetnyk (trans.) - By Futaro Yamada - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

The Meiji Guillotine Murders is a historical mystery set in 1869 Japan, where a civil war fought to stem the influence of Western culture ...Read Review

The Fate of a King (The Road to Hastings, 3)

By K. M. Ashman - Published 2023

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AdventureMilitary

January 1066, Rouen, Normandy, and Earl Tostig Godwinson, exiled from England, seeks vengeance. His mission is to depose his brother, the recently crowned King ...Read Review

A Sign of Her Own

By Sarah Marsh - Published 2024

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London, England, during the reign of Queen Victoria, and Alexander Graham Bell visits his former pupil, Ellen Lark. Ellen watches him talk as ...Read Review

Enchanted Hill

By Emily Bain Murphy - Published 2023

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This mystery-romance plays out in 1930 at Enchanted Hill, the coastal California estate of publishing magnate Truman Byrd. He and his home evoke William ...Read Review