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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books

Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan: A Novel of a Life in Art

By Deborah Reed - Published 2020

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LiterarySaga

Appropriately subtitled ‘A Novel of a Life in Art’, Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan tells the life of 93-year-old artist Violet Swan. ...Read Review

Branded (A Joe Noose Western)

By Eric Red - Published 2021

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Western

It’s 1888, and the interim sheriff of Victor, Idaho, Joe Noose, receives surprise visitors. His good friend, marshal Bess Sugarland of Jackson Hole, ...Read Review

Betrayal: Historical Stories

By Alison Morton - By Amy Maroney - By Anna Belfrage - By Cryssa Bazos - By Derek Birks - By Helen Hollick - By Judith Arnopp - Published 2020

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Short Stories

An anthology of twelve stories from twelve different historical authors, each story in Betrayal involves—you guessed it—betrayal of some sort. The ...Read Review

The Children’s Train

By Viola Ardone - Published 2021

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In 1946 Italy, those living in the south are severely impoverished by the war. A children’s train will be taking groups of hungry, ...Read Review

The Last Blast of the Trumpet

By Marie MacPherson - Published 2020

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Biographical Fiction

This third and final volume in the novelization of the life of John Knox takes the Scottish reformer from his return to his ...Read Review

Displacement

By Kiku Hughes - Published 2020

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Children/Young Adult

Displacement is a young adult graphic novel about the dark time in American history when Japanese Americans were put in internment camps during ...Read Review

Get Out of Town (A Sheriff Aaron Mackey Western)

By Terrence McCauley - Published 2020

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Western

On a late evening in the early spring of 1889, Montana Territory US Marshal Aaron Mackey catches up with Henry Hancock’s gang. At ...Read Review

V for Victory

By Lissa Evans - Published 2020

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London in the Autumn of 1944, and V1 and V2 rockets are falling on the capital, causing misery and destruction, though the airplane bombing ...Read Review

Crooked Truth

By Kristine F. Anderson - Published 2020

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In the post WWII South, fifteen-year-old Lucas lives with his Granny, Paw Paw, and Uncle Robert on their cotton farm. Thirteen years older ...Read Review

A Thousand Ships

By Natalie Haynes - Published 2020

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EpicLiterary

‘A thousand ships’ conjures up a face familiar to the world, equally admired and derided―that of Helen of Troy. But those thousand ...Read Review