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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Tangerine
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Christine Mangan’s debut novel, Tangerine, takes us into the twisting and menacing streets and alleyways of 1950s Tangier, Morocco. Beginning as a ...Read Review
Silence Under a Stone
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Harriet Campbell is a young wife in the years after the Great War, living on the Ulster side of the border in a ...Read Review
Ike and Kay
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During World War II, British senior military officials and American media sources alike were scandalised by the close relationship between Ike Eisenhower, the ...Read Review
Walking Wounded
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This is a shocking book, and I hope you will read it and be suitably shocked. It is set in a military psychiatric ...Read Review
Peace in My Heart
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Manchester, 1945. The war has ended, but there are more troubles ahead for Evie Talbert. Like so many women of the time, she has ...Read Review
I Was Anastasia
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I’ll start by revealing that I’m a huge Romanov junkie, and so predisposed to like this novel. With a very few ...Read Review
Hearts of Resistance
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During WWII, three women fight against the Nazi occupation of France and their numerous personal conflicts. Hazel, a Special Operations Executive (SOE) spy, ...Read Review
Deep River Night
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A motley collection of men work at a lumber mill in central British Columbia. Caring for their physical ills is Art, first aid ...Read Review
The Portrait of Molly Dean
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“Lane & Co. think they have a portrait of a pretty but unknown girl by an unknown artist. However, I am planning to ...Read Review
Another Side of Paradise
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The four-year romance between the married F. Scott Fitzgerald and divorced Hollywood gossip columnist Sheilah Graham has been chronicled in books and movies ...Read Review