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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
A Matter for the Jury
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Murphy’s fourth novel (after A Higher Duty, 2009) is a character-driven legal thriller of the first order. Based on real events, the plot ...Read Review
God’s Kingdom
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Northern Vermont in the 1950s is the setting for this coming-of-age novel by one of America’s most gifted storytellers. Young Jim Kinneson – ...Read Review
In the Dark
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Moggach’s sixteenth novel, In the Dark, masterfully recreates London during the Great War, focusing not on the trenches but on the inhabitants ...Read Review
A Place We Knew Well
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It turns out that Susan Carol McCarthy’s latest novel, A Place We Knew Well, is a far truer story than readers may ...Read Review
Woman with a Blue Pencil
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Imagine your reaction if you woke up one morning and found that almost two months had passed and no one knows you. It ...Read Review
Everyone Has Their Reasons
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Joseph Matthews has created a fictional picture of the little-known Herschel Grynszpan, a “teenage assassin” whose killing of a consular official in the ...Read Review
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
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In the 1930s, America is clearly a county in transition. The economy is on a downward spiral, and the majority of citizens are ...Read Review
In the Shade of the Almond Trees
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Marny’s second novel, first published in France in 1997, is a post-WWI saga about a responsible young woman, Jeanne Barthélemy, who takes ...Read Review
Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante: A Maggie Hope Mystery
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Intrepid spy Maggie Hope is back on US soil for the first time in years in her newest mystery adventure. It’s Christmas, 1941, ...Read Review
Dreams that Veil
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The novel opens in December 1911. Twelve-year-old Eliza Brennan is living a cosy, if boring, life with her widowed mother and her cousin Dorothea ...Read Review
