Reviews
Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
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This is a work of immense political and personal detail with a straightforward style, easily read by anyone with an interest in the ...Read Review
The Kaiser’s Army: The German Army in World War One
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While I was expecting this to be a standard history of the Great War with maybe a new spin on the turbulent times, ...Read Review
The Witches: Salem, 1692
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This is a very detailed and erudite account of the infamous witchcraft frenzy which afflicted the small village of Salem, Massachusetts and then ...Read Review
Willoughbyland: England’s Lost Colony
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Willoughbyland is the fascinating story of the rise and fall of a South American colony that I suspect many readers (including me) will ...Read Review
A Guest at the Shooters’ Banquet: My Grandfather’s SS Past, My Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth
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Rita Gabis, an American poet and writer of half-Catholic, half-Jewish descent, writes a memoir which is part mystery, part family history, part confession, ...Read Review
Stitches in Time: The Story of the Clothes We Wear
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The author’s deep scholarship is very evident, as is her joy in clothing. A collection of anecdotes talking about an item of ...Read Review
Assassin’s Mask: A Palace of Spies Novel, 3
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It’s 1716 in England, and life is turning around for seventeen-year-old Margaret “Peggy” Fitzroy. By day Peggy is maid of honour to her ...Read Review
The World Beneath
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This is the story of a young boy, Joshua, who lives in South Africa in 1976. Unaware of the political unrest seething in the ...Read Review
Into the Dim
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Hope Walton was homeschooled in her small town, and she’s developed some crippling phobias. When her mother dies in an explosion thousands ...Read Review
Love by the Morning Star
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This teen novel is not what you might expect from a story set in wartime Britain. With Hitler on move against the rest ...Read Review
