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Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books
The Winter Witch
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Two very different sisters board the Saint Jean-Baptiste, a ship taking young women to Canada to be married to colonists. Around 800 young French ...Read Review
Troy Reborn: The Journey of Aeneas
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Seib explains in his introduction that his intention in retelling Vergil’s classic Aeneid is to describe a “maturing of Aeneas’s attitudes ...Read Review
An Astronomer in Love
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A telescope and an 18th-century account of a treacherous ocean adventure link two Frenchmen living 250 years apart. In 1760, on the order of King ...Read Review
The Racing Line
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At the victory celebrations at the end of the Second World War, Winifred (Freddy) Vaux meets up with an old school friend of ...Read Review
The Original
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Enigmatic film star Katharine Hepburn was a figure of fascination in her own time: tall, patrician, redheaded, and androgynous, she played fierce, outspoken ...Read Review
The Groom’s Proposal
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Set in 1592, The Groom’s Proposal follows twelve-year-old Abigail Arthur, orphaned and subject to her austere stepbrother. To secure a dowry and marry ...Read Review
Vivian’s Decision
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Vivian Jacobson is beyond overwhelmed. The children of Russian Jewish immigrants, she and her loving husband, Mel, moved from Chicago with their family ...Read Review
The American Suspect (Nighthawk Book 5)
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The American Suspect is a richly atmospheric wartime mystery that deftly intertwines past and present. Set in 1942 Cambridge, with American airmen once again ...Read Review
The Cromarty Library Circle
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Cromarty, a small town north of Inverness, is the setting for S. G. MacLean’s latest novel, which is published under her own ...Read Review
Baxter’s Rangers
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Baxter’s Rangers takes us into the heart of the impending explosion as the American colonies teeter on the brink of rebellion against ...Read Review
