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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
The Pillar of the Sky
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Cecelia Holland is a highly versatile writer whose novels have settings ranging from science fiction and the American West to the Middle Ages ...Read Review
Deus Lo Volt! Chronicle of the Crusades
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We are transported by author Evan S. Connell to the two centuries of human existence – from 1095 to 1289 – more enmired in the blood of ...Read Review
Arthur, The Bear of Britain
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The grim reality of sixth century Britain comes to life in Frankland’s novel of the legendary King Arthur. In this novel, originally ...Read Review
Memoirs of Pontius Pilate
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Alternate HistoryBiographical Fiction
Mills mixes the Roman historical genre with the early Christian form.The blurb stated that Mills started with what he, with no false ...Read Review
Ashes of Britannia (The Warrior Queens)
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“From the ashes of Britannia arose a legend,” and her name was Boadicea, Druid priestess and Queen of the Celtic Iceni. This third ...Read Review
The Hippopotamus Marsh: 1 (Lords of the Two Lands)
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In ancient Egypt, “Lord of the Two Lands” was one of Pharaoh’s titles, and Pauline Gedge’s new series is the story ...Read Review
Unveiled: No 1: No. 1 (Lineage of Grace, 1 Series)
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The first in her series of five ancestresses of Jesus, Unveiled is an easy-to-read tale of Tamar. Tamar, a Canaanite, marries cruel Er, ...Read Review
Queenmaker: A Novel of King David’s Queen
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This Biblical historical focuses on a little known Queen; Michal, daughter of King Saul, wife to King David. At first we can empathize ...Read Review
Leaving Eden
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Na’amah is Adam’s daughter by his first wife Lilith, a mother she barely remembers. Yet despite the absence of her mother ...Read Review
The Waters Between: A Novel of the Dawn Land (Hardscrabble Books)
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The Waters Between is Joseph Bruchac’s third novel in the Dawn Land trilogy. Ten thousand years ago, the Abenaki Indians inhabited what ...Read Review