All posts tagged "historical fiction"
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Dear Mrs Bird, by AJ Pearce
HISTORICAL ROMANCE: Irresistibly funny and enormously moving, Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce is a love letter to female friendship, Blitz spirit, the kindness of strangers and the art of letter-writing itself.
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740Books & LiteratureBook Review: Yours Cheerfully: Book #2 of The Emmeline Lake Chronicles, by AJ Pearce
HISTORICAL FICTION: From the author of Sunday Times Bestseller, Dear Mrs Bird, comes a much hoped-for sequel, Yours Cheerfully. Charming, heart-warming and hilarious, Yours Cheerfully is just the tonic we've all been waiting for.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The School Teacher of Saint-Michel, by Sarah Steele
HISTORICAL FICTION: A heartrending and deeply moving story of love and hope in World War II from the USA Today bestselling author of The Missing Pieces of Nancy Moon.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Prince of the Skies, by Antonio Iturbe
HISTORICAL FICTION: From the bestselling author of The Librarian of Auschwitz comes another epic historical novel translated by Lilit Žekulin Thwaites and based on a true story – the extraordinary life and mysterious death of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince.
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1.8KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Echoes of War, by Tania Blanchard
HISTORICAL FICTION: Set in Mussolini’s Italy amid great upheaval, this is the story of one woman’s determination to find her place in a world that men are threatening to tear apart.
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959Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Lanternist, by Stephen Orr
YA FICTION: A Lanternist's son is left to fend for himself in Adelaide 1901 after his mother leaves them and his father goes looking for her.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Bombay Prince, by Sujata Massey
HISTORICAL FICTION: The redoubtable Perveen Mistry makes her triumphant return to solve a shocking murder on the streets of 1920s Bombay.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Wolf’s Howl: A Maven and Reeve Mystery, by A.L.Tait
MIDDLE GRADE: Maven and Reeve find themselves at the far-flung and gloomy Glawn Castle while Sir Garrick secretly searches for supporters of the rebellion. But when a cook goes missing and the Airl's personal guards take more than a passing interest in the disappearance, danger looms and the potential for discovery grows.
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835Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Eighth Wonder, by Tania Farrelly
HISTORICAL FICTION: The Suffragette meets The Greatest Showman in this story ofpassion and courage, as a young feminist fights against the rules of society to find her place in the world.
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947Books & LiteratureBook Review: Angel of Aleppo, by Jon Cocks
HISTORICAL FICTION: From Anatolia to Aleppo and beyond, through the outrages and injustices of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, Angel of Aleppo, a Story of the Armenian Genocide is about losing everything but the healing power of love.
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2.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Secrets My Father Kept, by Rachel Givney
HISTORICAL FICTION: Set in Poland on the brink of the Second World War, this is the gripping story of a young woman determined to uncover the truth behind her mother’s disappearance and the dark secret from her father's past.
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770Books & LiteratureBook Review: Edge of the Grave, by Robbie Morrison
HISTORICAL FICTION: When Charles Geddes, son-in-law of one of Glasgow's wealthiest shipbuilders, is found floating in the River Clyde with his throat cut, his beautiful widow Isla Lockhart asks for Inspector James Dreghorn to lead the murder case.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Circus of Wonders, by Elizabeth Macneal
HISTORICAL FICTION: A novel with a vivid, brilliant cast of characters and themes of creativity and ownership, beauty and power, success and crashing failure, and the Victorian obsession with spectacle.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Sunflower Sisters, By Martha Hall Kelly
HISTORICAL FICTION: A vivid look at the Civil War experience, from the barbaric and inhumane plantations, to a war-torn New York City to the horrors of the battlefield.
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3.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah
HISTORICAL FICTION: A deeply moving, powerful story about the strength and resilience of women and the bond between mother and daughter.
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711Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Cubs Roar, by Blanche d’Alpuget
HISTORICAL FICTION: The final book in the sumptuous Birth of the Plantagenets series, The Cubs Roar, illuminates the tumultuous end of Henry II. A tragic history of love, power and betrayal, The Cubs Roar reveals the destruction of an empire at the hands of a broken family.
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693Books & LiteratureBook Review: This Tender Land, by William Kent Krueger
HISTORICAL FICTION: A magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression.
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984Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: The Clockmaker’s Daughter, by Kate Morton
Why does Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will she ever give up her secrets?
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2.6KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Pearl Thief, by Fiona McIntosh
When Byzantine pearls are loaned to the British Museum in 1963, it sets off a frenzied hunt for a Nazi.
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1.7KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Turn of Midnight, by Minette Walters
In this continuation of "The Last Hours", Lady Anne has done her utmost to protect her community but food is running low and the Black Death continues to spread.
