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Reviews of some 15,000 historical fiction books
Mad Boy
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Poor Henry Phipps is a young boy whose mother is accidentally killed when the roof of their hovel falls in upon her. He ...Read Review
Jack Waters
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Jack Waters is a professional gambler, the indolent son of a Confederate war hero who died at Shiloh when Waters was a baby. ...Read Review
Treason’s Spring
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Paris, 1792. The Revolution is entering its bloodiest phase. The mob rampages through the streets of Paris; the wrong word, or even a look, ...Read Review
The Beachcomber
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In 1711, on the Isle of Sylt on the North Sea coast, Jordis and her grandmother are considered outsiders due to their Icelandic heritage. ...Read Review
The Ballade of Mary Reede
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John Tanner, a young Englishman trained as a ship’s carpenter and groomed for command of a merchant vessel of his own in ...Read Review
Savage Liberty
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In 1768, the English merchant ship Arcturus, arriving from London, explodes in Boston harbor, killing 37 men on board. Upon examination of the destroyed vessel ...Read Review
Fear and His Servant
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In 18th-century Serbia, Count Otto von Hausburg visits Belgrade with his servant, Novak. Von Hausburg is not what he seems—or perhaps exactly ...Read Review
The King’s Salt
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In Book Four of the Smithyman Saga, it is 1778, and Sir Thomas Smithyman and his comrades remain loyal to the Crown. They lose ...Read Review
Benjamin Franklin and the Quaker Murders
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Captain James Jamison, a Revolutionary War veteran, is summoned one evening in 1785 to the home of Benjamin Franklin. A recent murder in Philadelphia ...Read Review
Too Wilde to Wed
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This is the second of “The Wildes of Lindow Castle” series. 1778. Lord Roland Northbridge Wilde is the future Duke of Lindow: wealthy, handsome, ...Read Review