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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
The Witch’s Lens (The Order of the Seven Stars)
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Set during WWI in the Carpathian Mountains, The Witch’s Lens adds a fantastical layer to the horror of the Great War. Alongside ...Read Review
The Butterfly Collector
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1922 Sydney. Verity Binks wants to be a reporter like her father and grandfather, but with soldiers coming home from the Great War, she ...Read Review
The Runaway Bride
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We first meet the Turner family when our protagonist’s father admires the fruits of his labours as he arrives at his stately ...Read Review
Columba’s Bones: Darkland Tales
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Iona, 825 AD, and a gang of Vikings raids a Celtic monastery. In one brutal day, a multitude of characters is reduced to three ...Read Review
Kells
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The Book of Kells, the beautiful Gospel manuscript created by early Celtic Christian monks, serves as the tableau upon which this story unfolds. ...Read Review
An Unexpected Ally: A Greek Tale of Love, Revenge, and Redemption
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In this novel set during the archaic period of classical antiquity, Circe knows Odysseus must leave her soon. In her dreams and in ...Read Review
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
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While browsing the Oxford University Press archives, academic Sarah Ogilvie came across the hitherto unknown black notebook of James Murray. Murray was the ...Read Review
Death and the Sisters (A Mary Shelley Mystery)
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Sixteen-year-old Mary, the daughter of famed authors Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, is a natural storyteller with a vivid imagination but feels her ...Read Review
A Writer’s Guide to Nineteenth-Century Murder by Arsenic (A Curiosity of Crime)
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Intended as a writers’ guide, this book explores the methods and implications of arsenic poisoning in the 19th century. Cathers sifts out the ...Read Review
The Voice Upstairs
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
In 1920 England, Wilhelmina “Wil” Price’s deathsense—her ability to sense a person’s death hours to days before it happens—has made ...Read Review