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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
The Spectacular
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The Spectacular takes place over a few months and is a brief 1990s story incorporating long retrospective flashbacks to 1956, when 19-year-old Marion Brooks ...Read Review
Chiara’s Choice
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Chiara Madero is the beautiful daughter of a harsh Italian baron who has sent her to England to find a suitable husband, preferably ...Read Review
The Bookbinder of Jericho (UK) / The Bookbinder (US)
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Oxford 1914, and Peggy Jones’ job involves folding folios of paper and making up volumes in the Clarendon Press bindery in Oxford. She is ...Read Review
Crooked Plow
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Teen sisters Belonísia and Bibiana have a unique bond. After an accident involving the ivory-handled knife their grandmother has hidden in her ...Read Review
Good for a Single Journey (Holocaust Survivor True Stories)
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Good for a Single Journey is the novelization of a true story: that of the author’s family. From her great-grandparents down the ...Read Review
Ravage & Son
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With biting humor and fierce tenderness, Jerome Charyn builds the world of Manhattan’s Lower East Side Jewish ghetto from 1883 onward, rife with ...Read Review
Herc
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Where, when? We’re never told. But as familiar names – Zeus, Hera, Apollo – begin to appear, we understand that we are in the ...Read Review
Caesar’s Soldier (The Mark Antony Series, 1)
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AdventureBiographical FictionMilitary
We all recall the name Mark Antony, largely from Shakespeare. We know he was a trusted supporter of Julius Caesar. But what do ...Read Review
A Newlywed’s Guide to Fortune and Murder (A Countess of Harleigh Mystery)
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In London in spring 1900, Frances Hazelton is newly married and happily planning to help yet another young lady make her societal debut and ...Read Review
The American Wife
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The American Wife is the tumultuous tale of Kitty Larsson, the privileged daughter of an American senator and aspiring foreign service worker in ...Read Review