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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Shadows of Athens
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Imagine being a new playwright in 443 BC Athens, on the eve of having your comedy performed at the Dyonisia festival… Proud middle-class citizen ...Read Review
The Jinni’s Last Wish
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A servant of the Ottoman Empire, Olin, and his master, Chief Black Eunuch Mustafa Agha, watch over the sultan’s harem. Taken as ...Read Review
The Peacock Feast
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As a child in 1916, Prudence remembers the night of Louis Tiffany’s Peacock Feast, hosted at his Oyster Bay home. Prudence is the ...Read Review
The Story Collector
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Sarah Harper lives in New York, her marriage is on the rocks, and she drinks too much. She arrives at Newark Airport for ...Read Review
Night Watch (A Michael Cassidy Thriller)
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Manhattan, 1956. Holocaust survivor, Leon Dudek, is found murdered a short distance from his Central Park horse carriage. Police believe that Dudek was killed ...Read Review
Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts (The Factory Girls)
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In the years before the First World War, poverty and inequality were prevalent in parts of London, but change was coming. Nellie Clark, ...Read Review
Playing Chess with God: A Novel
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In 1848, gold is discovered in California. Aboard a freighter, young Prussian Henning Dietzel arrives in the Chilean port of Talcahuano. A prostitute with ...Read Review
Shelter of the Most High (Cities of Refuge Book #2)
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1388 BC: With their island village plundered and their families murdered, Sofea and her cousin Prezi are taken by pirates. After a daring escape, ...Read Review
Pirate Queen: The Legend of Grace O’Malley
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In 1546, young Grace O’Malley is the daughter of a powerful chieftain in Western Ireland. “Black Oak” O’Malley wants his daughter to ...Read Review
Yester’s Ride
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Yester, a 16-year-old boy living in the inner northwest of the United States, leaves the family ranch to search for his younger half-sister, ...Read Review
