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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
The Proof of the Pudding (A Royal Spyness Mystery)
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Sussex, 1936. In the 17th of Bowen’s Royal Spyness series, Georgie’s new French cook, Pierre, attracts the admiration and envy of various ...Read Review
The Little Match Girl Strikes Back
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New Year’s Eve in London of 1887 is delightful only for the wealthy. Nasty weather, miserable air, street thugs, and poor housing make ...Read Review
The Runaway Heiress
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This is a fast-paced Regency novel that encompasses both danger and desire. Cassandra, the protagonist, flees her uncle’s home under duress and ...Read Review
Treason of Sparta (The Long War)
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Treason of Sparta is the continuing story of Arimnestos of Plataea. This is listed as Book 7 and the final volume of The Long ...Read Review
Mysteries at Sea: Peril on the Atlantic
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultNautical
July 1936. As the Queen Mary races across the Atlantic to win the prestigious Blue Riband trophy, Alice’s adventure, to solve a number ...Read Review
Down the Steep
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This novel is set in the Tidewater section of Virginia in 1963, where Willa McCoy has just turned thirteen and idolizes her father, a ...Read Review
The Romanov Brides: A Novel of the Last Tsarina and Her Sisters
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Decades before the Bolshevik Revolution and the Romanov dynasty’s terrible end, the future Tsarina Alexandra and her older sister, Grand Duchess Elizabeth, ...Read Review
Star of the Sea: The Cresswell Chronicles
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Katharine Tiernan tells the story of her ancestors, the Cresswells of Cresswell Hall in the north-east of England, from 1745 to 1807. The family saga ...Read Review
Up from Dust: Martha’s Story (Women of the Way)
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Martha of Bethany is a young woman who remembers the bitter truths of life. She was only a girl when her mother passed ...Read Review
The Girls We Sent Away
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The Girls We Sent Away is set during the Baby Scoop era in the 1960s, when thousands of babies were relinquished to the ...Read Review