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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Surprise Lily
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Ten-year-old Rose loves living on the family farm with her grandmother Ama. What she doesn’t particularly love is having to give an ...Read Review
The Girl from the Corner Shop
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This sweet historical romance is set in wartime Manchester. Newlywed Helen Harrison’s firefighter husband Jim has been killed during a bombing raid’...Read Review
Queen’s Gambit
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1897: While the city of London waits excitedly for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, Margaret Harkness and her old ally Professor Bell are summoned ...Read Review
Requiem for a Knave
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This is a dark Gothic tale set in late Mediaeval England, structured as a pilgrimage from a village in Derbyshire to the shrine ...Read Review
Realm of Ash (The Books of Ambha)
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Loosely based on the Mughal Empire, Realm of Ash lures its reader into the story with richly imaged, lapidary prose. Against a background ...Read Review
Rescued by the Viscount’s Ring (Harlequin Historical)
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December, 1889. After she stows away aboard a transatlantic steamer in New York, Madeline Macooish nearly dies of exposure in the lifeboat where she ...Read Review
King Shaka: Zulu Legend (African Graphic Novel Series)
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This graphic novel continues the story begun in Shaka Rising of King Shaka of the Zulus, who reigned in the early 1800s in ...Read Review
An Oxford Murder: A Golden Age Mystery (The Catherine Tregowyn Mysteries)
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In this first in Vandagriff’s new sleuthing series set in 1930s Britain, poet Catherine Tregowyn discovers the body of her former professor ...Read Review
Summerlings
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In the summer of 1959, Washington D.C. suffers an invasion of spiders, prompting adult paranoia and conspiracy theories about Russian attacks. For Howorth’...Read Review
A Death in Harlem
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Weldon Haynie Thomas, Harlem’s first “colored” policeman, is on crowd-control duty at a 1927 literary awards banquet of Harlem’s elite. Sudden tumult ...Read Review
