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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Soldier with Flower
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This translation of Gion’s 1973 novel, set in the years leading up to the First World War, opens in Szenttamás (Srbobran, in ...Read Review
Murder by Milk Bottle (A Constable Twitten Mystery)
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Three murder victims over the three-day August Bank Holiday in 1957 Brighton. Each coshed with a milk bottle, then stabbed to death with shards ...Read Review
The London Restoration
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Diana Foyle and Brent Somerville have been married four years but have never really lived together. They said their vows during World War ...Read Review
The Residence: A Novel
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Jane Pierce, wife of Franklin Pierce, is submerged in grief. Clever but always melancholic and unstable, Jane never wished to be First Lady; ...Read Review
The Way of Love (Willamette Brides)
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Faith Kenner, 30, is a rare female medical student in Oregon in 1879, but one with a secret. She is the child of a mother ...Read Review
A Most English Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria’s Daughter
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Starting with her childhood in 1847, this novel covers the life of Queen Victoria’s oldest daughter, also called Victoria (nicknamed Vicky), until 1871. From ...Read Review
Gentleman Jim
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It’s the early 19th century, and squire’s daughter Maggie Honeywell loves bastard stableboy Nicholas Seaton, and for that reason she helps ...Read Review
The Testimony of Alys Twist
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This is very much a novel which demonstrates the experience and perspective of history from below. Royalty, in this case Queen Mary the ...Read Review
The Last Train
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On July 2, 1944, French police acting for the Gestapo loaded 2,066 men into freight cars bound for the Dachau concentration camp. The prisoners were Resistance ...Read Review
The Glass House: A Novel
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Cicely Pick, with her daughter Kitty in tow, arrives in Argyll, Scotland, in 1912, having traveled from Darjeeling, India, on a mission for her ...Read Review