Category: Historical Fiction
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Review – The Queen’s Promise by Lyn Andrews
Format: Kindle, 496 pages Publisher: Headline Publication date: 28 Feb 2013 ASIN: 075538671X Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Alluring Anne Boleyn knows she is required to use her charm to her advantage – and secure the status of her family at the Tudor court.…
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DNF – The Rich are Different by Susan Howatch
Format: Kindle, 566 pages Publisher: Sphere First Publication date: 15 Mar 1977 ISBN: 9780751553123 Links: Goodreads | Barnes & Noble First line: “I was in London when I first heard of Dinah Slade. She was broke and looking for a millionaire, while I was rich and looking for a mistress. From the start we were…
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Review – Mrs Sinclairs Suitcase by Louise Walters
Format: Paperback, 320 pages Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks Publication date: 14 August 2014 ISBN: 9781444777451 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble First line: “My Dear Dorothea” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Forgive me, Dorothea, for I cannot forgive you. What you do, to this child, to this child’s mother, it is wrong… Roberta likes to collect…
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Review – The Orpheus Descent by Tom Harper
Format: Paperback, 496 pages Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Publication date: 01 July 2013 ISBN: 9781444731354 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Today, twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and each providing the dead with the route to the…
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Review – Highland Surrender by Tracy Brogan
Format: Paperback, 372 pages Publisher: Montlake Publishing Publication date: 04 December 2012 ISBN-13: 9781612186962 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US First line: “Fiona Sinclair could not reconcile the irony of nature’s twisted humour.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ To seal a fragile truce, Fiona Sinclair’s brothers trade her in marriage to their sworn enemy. Though devastated by their betrayal,…
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Review – The String Diaries by Stephen Lloyd Jones
Format: Paperback, 400 pages Publisher: Headline Publication date: 04 July 2013 ISBN-13: 9781472204677 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US First line: “It was only when Hannah Wilde reached the farmhouse shortly after midnight that she discovered how much blood her husband had lost.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ The String Diaries. A jumble of entries, written in different hands,…
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Review – Stardust by Carla Stewart
Format: Paperback, 304 pages Publisher: FaithWords Publication date: June 7 2013 ISBN-13: 9781455504282 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble First line: “My marriage to O’Dell Peyton was already over when he washed up on the shores of Zion.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Shortly after burying her unfaithful husband, Georgia Peyton unexpectedly…
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Review – The Collaborator by Margaret Leroy
Format: Paperback, 480 pages Publisher: Harlequin (UK) Publication date: May 20th 2011 ISBN-13: 9780778304593 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US First line: “Once upon a time there were twelve princesses…” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ A forbidden love…a private war. There’s a sudden scatter of birds in the sky. I flinch. Little things seem violent to me. And in…
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Review – Edinburgh Dead by Brian Ruckley
Format: Paperback, 369 pages Publisher: Orbit Publication date: 4 Aug 2011 ISBN-13: 9781841498652 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US First line: “The corpse sat in a simple, high-backed chair.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ The year is 1827. For Adam Quire, an officer of the recently formed City Police, Edinburgh is a terrifying place. It is a city populated…
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Earth’s Children by Jean Auel
I was excited to hear that Jean Auel is releasing a further installment to her Earth’s Children series this year on Mar 29th. It’s called The Painted Caves/ You can read the first 3 chapters of Painted Caves HERE on Jean’s site. There’s also some free wallpapers etc to download. It’s been almost 25 years…