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Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books

The Last Witch on the Knock

By Aimée MacDonald - Published 2026

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In Scotland, 21-year-old Thomasin leaves the city to spend the summer with her Aunt Nancy in a small town in the Highlands. Nancy ...Read Review

Death Times Seven: A Daniel Pitt Novel

By Anne Perry - By Victoria Zackheim - Published 2026

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Mystery/Crime

Anne Perry is best known for her successful series, the William Monk novels and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, along with a ...Read Review

Lázár

By Jamie Bulloch (trans.) - By Nelio Biedermann - Published 2026

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LiterarySaga

Lajos von Lázár is born at the dawn of a new century in 1900 to Sándor von Lázár and ...Read Review

The Cleansing: A Novel of Ancient Rome

By Victoria Alvear - Published 2026

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Fifty thousand Romans have died in a single day of carnage at the Battle of Cannae. In a bid to distract the Roman ...Read Review

The Saffron Horn: A Novel of Minoan Crete

By Elizabeth Anderbrook - Published 2025

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Set in the 16th century BCE on the island of Crete, Horn presents the very modern story of Liriya, a Minoan fisherman’s ...Read Review

The Lost Story of Via Belle

By Melanie Dobson - Published 2026

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Inspirational Romance

1940. Olivia Belle Ash is a romance writer who has lost her voice. Famous as “Via Belle” for 20 years, she is now faced with ...Read Review

The Last Movement

By Charlotte Collins (trans.) - By Robert Seethaler - Published 2026

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Biographical FictionLiterary

Gustav Mahler is dying in 1911. Seethaler composes the final reminiscences of a man trying to be honest with himself. He’s not very ...Read Review

The Riviera Secret

By Sarah Steele - Published 2026

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The French Riviera on the eve of the Second World War offers an alluring stage for historical fiction, where glamour and impending catastrophe ...Read Review

The Making of a Witch

By Judy Molland - Published 2026

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The Making of a Witch by Judy Molland opens in Exeter, England, in 1656, where ten-year-old Alice Molland is forced to witness the hanging ...Read Review

Boomtown: The True Story of the Wickedest Town in Texas

By Joe Pappalardo - Published 2026

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NonfictionWestern

Joe Pappalardo, a journalist who has written nonfiction books on spaceflight, sunflowers, and the Texas Rangers of Company F, opens Boomtown with an ...Read Review