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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
The All Human Wisdom
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Paris, 1927. ‘No-one quite knew what was being buried today, an important French banker, or the bygone era he personified.’ Marcel Péricourt is ...Read Review
The Second Mrs. Astor
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Madeleine Force was just seventeen in 1910 when she caught the eye of the famously rich, dashing John Jacob Astor, who was more than ...Read Review
Running from Moloka`i
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“At one moment we are being defined, and in the next moment we are defining.” Honolulu, 1884. Mele has always believed her father, a ...Read Review
Percy St. John and the Chronicle of Secrets
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Percy St.-John, son of an Anglican vicar, is tragically orphaned at a young age in England in 1906. With no family members willing ...Read Review
The Riviera House
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This complex multi-generational novel, which has as its base the systematic theft of art works by the German occupiers from conquered Paris, doesn’...Read Review
Luther, Wyoming
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It is 1873. Adam Sanchez, a Comanchero from the Mexican Territory, had fought for the Union in the Civil War and is now rejected ...Read Review
The Rabbi and the Painter
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This picture book imagines a friendship between two historical figures: Rabbi Judah Aryeh and the Renaissance painter known as Tintoretto. They lived near ...Read Review
Dark Roads: Book 1 Map Maker
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Mathew de Quincey, a skilled swordfighter, is hired by William Marshall, the king’s right-hand man. With his apprentice, Will, he travels the ...Read Review
The Perfume Thief
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In Nazi-occupied Paris, Clementine has several strikes against her: she’s gender-fluid, and deeply involved with the artistic, non-heterosexual, nightclub, anti-Nazi community – a ...Read Review
The Girl with the Silver Bangle
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In London in 1910, Daisy Tucker is a young woman whose family has fallen upon hard times. When her father loses his job, she ...Read Review