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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books

Scandalous Women: A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann

By Gill Paul - Published 2024

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Scandalous Women by Gill Paul follows two Jackies—Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann, two New York Times bestselling romance authors who turned the 1960...Read Review

Murder at the White Palace (Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery, 6)

By Allison Montclair - Published 2024

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Mystery/Crime

Once again Sparks & Bainbridge, the feisty proprietresses of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau, stumble onto nefarious doings! While they are simply trying ...Read Review

Interpretations of Love

By Jane Campbell - Published 2024

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Literary

Agnes Stacey’s daughter is getting married and, as happy as she is, the coming wedding celebrations fill her with anxiety. She will ...Read Review

Salt of the Earth

By J.J. Marsh - Published 2023

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Switzerland, 1916. Seraphine spends her days taking care of her two half-brothers, who were born with a condition called cretinism, known today as congenital ...Read Review

The Cameraman

By Matthew Kneale - Published 2024

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It is 1934, and Julius is newly discharged from a mental hospital in Wales. He is joining his family on a motoring trip across ...Read Review

A Woman of Opinion

By Sean Lusk - Published 2024

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Biographical Fiction

This is a fictionalized autobiography of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the renowned 18th-century woman of letters, traveller, and thoroughly unconventional and eccentric character. ...Read Review

Beware the Tall Grass

By Ellen Birkett Morris - Published 2024

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This compelling dual-timeline debut novel is told from the point of view of artist-mother, Eve Sloan, and young farm boy-soldier, Thomas Boone: separated ...Read Review

The Girl with a Secret (The Emerald Sisters)

By Kate Hewitt - Published 2024

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Saga

This is Book Two of The Emerald Sisters series. In 1939, with World War II looming, young German Rosa Herzelfeld boards the ship St. ...Read Review

A Kingdom to Claim

By Sian Ann Bessey - Published 2024

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Inspirational Romance

As a gentle love story set in tumultuous 9th-century Wessex, this vibrant novel teems with life. It tells the fictional tale of Aisley, ...Read Review

Nero

By Conn Iggulden - Published 2024

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Adventure Biographical Fiction Military

Rome, AD 37, and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, in a furious temper, tacks horses for his chariot and argues with his pregnant wife. He storms ...Read Review