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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Catastrophist
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Ronan Bennett takes us to the Belgian Congo during the struggle for independence in 1959. His present tense, first person narrative about James, the ...Read Review
What the Body Remembers
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Set against the rich backdrop of India during the Raj, sweeping across time and space, this is a wonderful story in all senses ...Read Review
After the War
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After the War takes place during and after World War II in a college town in North Carolina. The novel follows the characters ...Read Review
The Lost Daughter of Happiness
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Lost Daughter of Happiness is a historical novel written in a film editor’s style, relating events and depicting the characters through a ...Read Review
Royal Bride
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Joan Wolf, author of regencies, historical romances, and historical mysteries, has imagined a small country of Jura in which to set this novel. ...Read Review
Going Home (Skye’s West)
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This novel opens at the tail end of the Rendezvous of 1832. Englishman Barnaby Skye has to make a choice. His job as a ...Read Review
The Borderland: A Novel of Texas
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Reviewers should be as forthcoming and honest as possible in all their writings. In keeping with that principle, I will state that I ...Read Review
The China Bride
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Troth Montgomery was born to a Scottish father and a Chinese mother and grew up in Macao. When her father dies she goes ...Read Review
Second Chances
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There is a little bit of a mystery involved with this recent regency romance, just enough to add some zest to a rather ...Read Review
Treasures of the North (Yukon Quest)
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This is a remarkable book of the gold rush in Alaska, and the adventures of a young lady who is running from a ...Read Review
