Reviews
Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books
Red River Rose
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Twelve-year-old Rose, a young Métis girl, spends her days exploring the lands with her best friend and caring for her little sister ...Read Review
The Empress Murders
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The Empress Murders is set in 1925 on an ocean liner and, at first, appears to be a Christie-esque cosy whodunit. But be warned: ...Read Review
Hesket: A Norfolk Haunting
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Sara Bayat’s debut novel is subtitled “A Norfolk Haunting” and presented as ‘unsettling things are happening in rural Norfolk’. It’s true ...Read Review
Ruby Falls
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The fist of the Great Depression has hit Chattanooga hard, and it’s just one of the blows Ada Smith has taken on ...Read Review
Tisiphone Walking
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This novel (the second in the Ishtar’s Gate series) enters that crowded field of Second World War fiction with a story rooted ...Read Review
The Brides
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In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, three women vampires lurk hungrily in the Count’s castle. The Brides tells us how they came to ...Read Review
The Rose Amongst the Thorns
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After her brother’s sudden death, Lady Katherine Turner unexpectedly becomes Countess of Leicester and is thrust into a dangerous world of ambition, ...Read Review
Every Lifetime After
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Timeslip: 2018 and 1943. The filming of the best-selling novel, The Bomber Boys, brings Hollywood star Claudia Baxter back to North Yorkshire where she spent ...Read Review
Of Heaven and Hellfire
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England, 1587. Servants Beth and Gareth live and work at Bodsworth Manor, where they uncover a dangerous secret: their employers are secretly practicing Catholicism. ...Read Review
Duchess of the New Dawn
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Swirling intrigue, alliances made and broken, and ever imminent warfare mark the world of Chiltrude in 740 CE in Francia, land of the Franks. ...Read Review
