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A Christmas Promise
This Dickensian tale begins in 1895 London, a poor young girl of eight anxiously searching for Charlie, her uncle’s donkey.…
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
In The Sisters Who Would Be Queen, de Lisle tells the story of Lady Jane Grey and her lesser-known…
Twilight of a Queen
The titular queen in the fifth novel in Carroll’s 16th-century saga is Catherine de Medici, dowager queen of France, whose…
Goddess of the Hunt
Lucy Waltham grew up as one of the boys, tagging along with her brother Henry and his friends, and she…
In The Valley of the Kings
This is Howard Carter’s story, and how he, though not a gentleman, was able to work in Egyptian archeology during…
We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
Gill, biographer of Florence Nightingale, turns her attention to one of the most famous marriages of 19th-century England, that of…
Execution Dock
William Monk, hero of a series of Victorian crime novels by Anne Perry, is a favorite of mine because he…
The Charlemagne Pursuit
This is the seventh novel from this American author and the fourth in the Cotton Malone series. The book does…
1942
Robert Conroy has established himself as a leading writer of “what if” historical fiction in his 1901, 1862, and 1945…
Serendipity
Serendipity is an intergenerational coming-of-age story set in the present day. The main heroine is Carrie Manning who has just…
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