Reviews
Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Scandalous Women: A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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AdventureBiographical FictionMilitary
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