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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
The Conjuror’s Apprentice: (The Tudor Rose Murders Book 1)
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It’s 1555, and Mary Tudor sits on the throne. Dr. John Dee and his secret apprentice, Margaretta, are investigating the murder of a ...Read Review
Epic of Helinthia
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With famine and unrest among the clans, Dargos leaves his sister Gonivein in charge while he and other clan leaders attend a wedding ...Read Review
Her Majesty’s League of Remarkable Young Ladies
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Fourteen-year-old Winifred Weatherby is a brilliant inventor, just like her father. She really wants to win the Petit Prix at a science convention ...Read Review
Burnt Offerings
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It is 1589, and King James VI of Scotland believes himself to have been the victim of witchcraft. This leads to a frenetic routing ...Read Review
Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance
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John Chenneville, a Union soldier, emerges from a months-long coma, discovering the Civil War has ended. He had suffered a severe brain injury ...Read Review
The Investigators
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Sir John Franklin is best known for leading the doomed expedition in search of the Arctic Northwest Passage and where he perished in 1847. ...Read Review
The Vaster Wilds
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This devastatingly beautiful meditation on nature, divinity, and survival is the second volume of a planned triptych begun last year with Groff’s ...Read Review
Trust: The Anatomy of a Marriage
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Bedfordshire, 1649: This portrait of a marriage is based on the true story of Dorothy Osborne, wife of Sir William Temple, employer of a ...Read Review
A Nobleman’s Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, 2)
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Book Two of The Doomsday series takes place thirteen years after the first, in 1823. We are still in Romney Marsh, but now the ...Read Review
Safiyyah’s War
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This is a very unusual take on the events of World War Two. Safiyyah’s family are Muslims and therefore the story centres ...Read Review
