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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Out Of The Night That Covers Me
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This Southern adventure starts like Harry Potter, with a little boy on a train platform, but his journey carries him not into magic ...Read Review
What Remains
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A German Jewish family escapes to England for the duration of World War II. After the war, Karl, an aspiring artist, takes his ...Read Review
Hayati, My Life: A Novel (Arab American Writing)
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A series of interwoven vignettes detailing the life experiences of three generations of Arab women and the men in their lives, this short ...Read Review
The Binding Oath
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The Binding Oath seeks to shed light on the activities of the Ku Klux Klan in a time and place in which most ...Read Review
Coney
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Harry Catzker is a Jewish boy growing into adulthood on Coney Island during the 1930s. His life is intertwined with a cast of ...Read Review
Two o’Clock, Eastern Wartime: A Novel
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Beyond his several authorial specialties, mystery-suspense writer and antiquarian book dealer John Dunning is perhaps even more renowned as one of the country’...Read Review
Murder in Montparnasse: A Mystery of Literary Paris
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This mystery is set in 1925 Montparnasse, where it is possible to meet most of the artists who would later become icons – Hemingway, Joyce, ...Read Review
Gangster
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Angelo Vestieri is a gangster in every sense of the word. In 1996, he lies dying in a hospital bed, but through the two ...Read Review
When I Lived in Modern Times
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I was absolutely bowled over by this book, which won the British Orange Prize for Fiction. It is the story of Evelyn Sert, ...Read Review
The Devil’s Oasis: A Novel
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In The Devil’s Oasis, Bartle Bull has created a world filled with mystery and intrigue. Set in North Africa in 1942, the main ...Read Review
