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Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books
The Unknown
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Welcome to the present-day uninhabited island of New Avalon, Vermont, where, in 1926, four women lived under the guidance of a spirit medium. Renowned ...Read Review
The Kindness of Strangers
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We start with a man gasping on the floor as his life snuffs out and a group of strangers look on, aghast. How ...Read Review
Roi and Me and the Double V
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War has already broken out, and by fall 1941, U.S. involvement is imminent. For Black middle schoolers Marvel Zander and Roi Smith living ...Read Review
Songs from This and That Country
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War, family, violence, music, love and forgiveness: Šobat weaves these human themes together in a beautifully written, unique tale spanning centuries and continents. ...Read Review
The Midnight Guests
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The Midnight Guests begins at 2pm on 1 May 1926 with the opening of the upmarket Hotel Artemis in Mayfair, London. The hotel was created ...Read Review
The Last Quarter of the Moon
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This lyrical epic novel moves from the narrator’s childhood at the beginning of the 20th century to her old age near the ...Read Review
Saltwater: A Midsummer Ghost Story
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Saltwater is the second book in a quartet of ghost stories set in remote Scottish locations at key points of the Celtic calendar. ...Read Review
The Jewel Keepers
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In The Jewel Keepers, Sara Sheridan returns to the early 19th-century Edinburgh that she previously explored in The Fair Botanists. Araminta McKenzie-Moore has ...Read Review
The Spy and the Snake
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You’ve had cosy crime for over a century, so how about cosy espionage? Spy stories are typically violent and often dark. Not ...Read Review
Pride Comes Before a Fall
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Leopold Sloane needs a chaperone for his headstrong sisters, and although other candidates have more experience, he is impressed by Portia Kendall’s ...Read Review
