Reviews
Reviews of some 15,000 historical fiction books
Cupid and the Silent Goddess
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In 1544, Duke Cosimo de’ Medici of Florence commissioned the artist Bronzino to paint a gift for King François I of France. The ...Read Review
The Master of Measham Hall
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1665: Charles II has returned from exile and is now king, but the Civil War still casts its long, dark shadow, intensified by the ...Read Review
John Eyre: A Tale of Darkness and Shadow
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In 1843, John Eyre leaves his position as a schoolmaster in Lowton, England, to become a private tutor for a pair of young boys ...Read Review
Harlem Shuffle
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In 1960s Harlem, Ray Carney owns his own furniture store and is determined to prove himself as an honest businessman, in stark contrast ...Read Review
Anticipation
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“Anticipation” often implies hopeful expectation but here refers to the Huntington’s disease (HD) gene, discernible in one generation, anticipated in the next. ...Read Review
Wuhan
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No, this is not a hastily written novel about Covid-19. It is a big, sprawling, angry novel that was started well before the ...Read Review
Beasts of a Little Land
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This beautiful book follows the lives of a girl named Jade, who is sold at the age of ten as an apprentice to ...Read Review
The Gypsy’s Daughter (Memory Lane)
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The eponymous Harmony Loveridge, “Harry” to her family, friends and others who are neither, is raised on a farm in Kent by loving ...Read Review
Meet Me under the Kissing Bough
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Set in England in the early 1800s, this collection contains three romantic Christmas tales of about a hundred pages each. Each story involves ...Read Review
City of Time and Magic (Found Things, 4)
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This delightful fourth book in Brackston’s Found Things series picks up where the last, The Garden of Promises and Lies, ended. Xanthe, ...Read Review