French Revolution
Napoleon’s Secret Daughter
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This novel, first published in 1922 in French and recently translated, opens during the 18th-century French Revolution, where Napoleon Bonaparte saves a young female ...Read Review
Chateau Reverie
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At Château Reverie, guests bid at auction for the chance to have their greatest desire fulfilled. For Genevieve de Vienne, that desire ...Read Review
Adélaïde: Painter of the Revolution
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Janell Strube’s debut novel, Adélaïde: Painter of the Revolution, introduces readers to Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, a young Parisian woman ...Read Review
Three Queens
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What if Abigail Adams, Marie Antoinette, and England’s Queen Charlotte struck up a friendship? This is the premise behind Three Queens (Abigail ...Read Review
A Far Better Thing
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A good literary adaptation explores a question whose answer enriches the original, just as (to my mind) Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies supplies a ...Read Review
Moonlight at Cuckmere Haven (The Wentworth Family Saga Series)
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Graham Ley rounds out his four-book Wentworth family saga, tying up multiple story lines in an exemplary manner. Details will inevitably include spoilers, ...Read Review
The Tides of Time: A Storm Tide Romance
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Inspirational RomanceTime-slip
In 1793, seamstress Lili Minet is helping innocent people escape the Reign of Terror with her own brother, Gérard, an agent of the ...Read Review
Her Own Revolution (Château de Verzat Series, Book 2)
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This beautifully written novel tells the story of a strong, courageous woman during the French Revolution. Geneviève Fouquier-Tinville, the daughter of the ...Read Review
The Future Future
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It is quite a challenge to succinctly summarise a novel that does not have much of a plot. Literary? Yes, Clever? well, that’...Read Review
The Glutton
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France, 1798: A patient presents himself at a public hospital in a wretched, moribund condition, claiming to have swallowed a golden fork that tears ...Read Review
