2020
The King’s Broad Arrow
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1775. At thirteen years old, Sam has grown up hearing about the Broad Arrow Laws—laws that reserve all trees suitable for ship masts ...Read Review
The Puritan Princess
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The period from 1649 to 1661 was the first and only time in English history, since Aethelstan ruled a united England in the 10th century, ...Read Review
The Darkest Shore
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The most famous Scottish witch trials and burnings took place in the late 16th century, but the prejudices and accusations lingered on for ...Read Review
No Secret Too Small: A Novel of Old New Mexico
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A family historical drama set in New Mexico in the late 1830s considers the upheaval to the lives of eight-and-a-half-year-old Alma and her ...Read Review
The Orphan of Good Hope
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In 1683, Johanna Timmerman is one of eight orphaned girls being sent from Amsterdam to the Cape of Good Hope to marry rich burghers ...Read Review
Mebet
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This is historical fiction/fantasy to the extent that it claims to be based on an oral tradition. Mebet is a hunter living ...Read Review
The Other Cipher (Soli Hansen Mysteries)
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This artfully told historical mystery is Book Two in the Soli Hansen Mysteries. Autumn 1944—the midst of World War II— and in German-occupied ...Read Review
God’s Zoo / El zoológico de Dios
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Fenix, in his own words, was conceived in a bed in Czechoslovakia and born in the same bed in Hungary. In 1938, Hungary reclaimed ...Read Review
The Hour of the Fox (A Brother Chandler Mystery, 1)
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Cassandra Clark is the author of the Abbess of Meaux series of mediaeval murder/mysteries. She has now found a new sleuth, Brother ...Read Review
The Tolstoy Estate
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Steven Conte describes his second novel, shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, as the ‘love child’ of War and Peace and the less ...Read Review
