Reviews

Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books

Honorable Company: A Novel of India Before the Raj

By Allan Mallinson - Published 2000

Genres:

AdventureThriller

In August 1815, Captain Matthew Hervey, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington, is summoned by the Duke and given an important and secret mission: ...Read Review

A Close Run Thing: A Novel of Wellington’s Army of 1815

By Allan Mallinson - Published 2000

Genres:

AdventureMilitaryRomance

Debut author Mallinson brings to vivid life the travails and triumphs of Matthew Hervey, cornet in the (fictional) Sixth Light Dragoons cavalry regiment. “...Read Review

Home for the Holidays

By Johanna Lindsey - Published 2000

Genres:

Romance

Vincent Everett, Baron of Windsmoor, is determined to take revenge on the man who supposedly destroyed his brother, George Ascot. The Baron sets ...Read Review

The Heir

By Johanna Lindsey - Published 2000

Genres:

Romance

Johanna Lindsey takes her 36th novel to the ballrooms and estates of Regency England. While she has visited the era before, this is ...Read Review

Iceweaver

By Margaret Lawrence - Published 2000

Genres:

Literary

A sequel of sorts to the historical mystery series starring midwife Hannah Trevor, this work of “straight” fiction brings her deaf daughter Jennet, ...Read Review

Liar’s Moon

By Philip Kimball - Published 2000

Genres:

Literary

Philip Kimball takes the myth of the closing of the American frontier and turns it into gritty, yet poetic reality. From 1852, when a ...Read Review

Long Remember

By MacKinlay Kantor - Published 2000

Genres:

EpicMilitary

Long Remember was first published in 1934 and earned critical acclaim from reviewers in both prestigious and popular journals. The main character, Daniel Bale, ...Read Review

A Proper Match

By Sherry-Anne Jacobs - Published 2000

Genres:

Romance

The Dowager Lady Graceover feels that the end might be near, and is determined to see her orphaned granddaughter Eleanor and her dependent ...Read Review

Nowhere Else On Earth

By Josephine Humphreys - Published 2000

Genres:

Adventure

Set during the waning days of the Civil War along the banks of the Lumbee River in North Carolina, Scuffletown residents’ way of ...Read Review

Allie’s Moon

By Alexis Harrington - Published 2000

Genres:

Romance

From age eight, Allie Ford has borne the guilt of causing her mother’s suicide and depriving her younger sister of a mother’...Read Review