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Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books
The Last Witch on the Knock
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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






