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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
The Tower
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A pregnant Mary Stuart, known usually as Queen of Scots, is taken to the isolated, bleak water-girt island of Lochleven Castle in the ...Read Review
Ladies’ Rest and Writing Room
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The Ladies’ Rest and Writing Room is located in Farmer’s department store in Sydney, Australia. After spending the day spending their money, ...Read Review
The Sweet Blue Distance
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Another inviting plunge into 19th-century America, Donati’s long-awaited novel sits between the Wilderness series (1792-1824) and the Waverly Place duology (1883-1885). When ...Read Review
Never Closer
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Oxford, 1940: teenaged Alice’s first job is in a laboratory where mould is deliberately grown in a motley collection of bedpans, pie-dishes, and ...Read Review
Inferno on Fifth
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This fin-de-siècle mystery centers on the Windsor Hotel on Fifth Avenue in New York City, which burned to the ground on March 17, 1899. ...Read Review
Miss Austen Investigates
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Jane Austen’s world, with its intelligent heroines, romance and issues of propriety, is blended deliciously with murder mystery motifs, resulting in an ...Read Review
The Wolf’s Eye (The Order of the Seven Stars)
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Set during WWI on the Eastern Front, The Wolf’s Eye makes a strong followup as the second book in Smith’s Order ...Read Review
The Emperor and the Endless Palace: A Romantasy Novel
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Set in three different periods, The Emperor and the Endless Palace is a fantastical, queer take on the past life romance. In 4 BCE, ...Read Review
The Island of Mists and Miracles
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Mas’ second novel is translated from the French by Frank Wynne. It wasn’t until I checked the details to write this review ...Read Review
A Sweet Sting of Salt
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Sutherland retells the folktale, “The Selkie Wife,” in this moving novel of two women and their potential love for each other. She exposes ...Read Review
