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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Tutankhamen: The Life and Death of the Boy-King
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Christine El Mahdy, an Egyptologist at Liverpool University, has written a chatty, engaging, and well-researched account covering the few known facts about Tutankhamen ...Read Review
Kingsmen of the Grail
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If you’re a fan of the haunting, dream-laden world of Malory’s Arthurian Cycle you’ll enjoy this novel. If you prefer ...Read Review
X–Calibre: The Absurd Legend of Cantiger the Wizard
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In this spoof of Arthurian legend, an inept and unapologetically self-interested wizard’s apprentice named Cantiger steals spells from a powerful enchantress ...Read Review
The Glass Harmonica
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Eilish Eam is a young Irish orphan living on the streets of eighteenth century London. Erin Rushton is a concert musician living in ...Read Review
Mad Merlin
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In this dazzling addition to the ranks of Arthuriana (King’s first non-game based novel), Merlin is a fallen god bereft of believers ...Read Review
Shrine of Light (Daughters of Bast, The)
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The Daughters of Bast are women who tend the shrines in Celtic Ireland, all of whom descend from a long line of ...Read Review
Louisa
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At the end of WWII, Nora Graz, a refugee in the newly formed State of Israel, reflects on her life in Budapest before ...Read Review
The Eye of Horus
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The Eye of Horus is set both in the late 18th Dynasty of ancient Egypt and in present-day Colorado and Texas. One half ...Read Review
The Map of Love
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Set in the early 1900s and in the 1990s, The Map of Love tells of two intertwined, cross-cultural love stories. In 1901 Anna Winterbourne ...Read Review
The Last Cantata
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King Frederick II of Prussia summons the elderly J. S. Bach from Leipzig to Potsdam for a meeting. When Bach is ushered into ...Read Review