Category: Historical Fiction
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Review – The Innocent – Posie Graeme Evans
Format: Paperback, 432 pages Publisher: Hodder Publication date: 2005 ISBN-13: 9780340836484 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ 1450. The high Middle Ages, and a baby is born in the deep forest of western England. Powerful forces plot to kill both mother and child, but somehow the newborn girl survives. 1465. England…
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Review – Across the Nightingale Floor – Lian Hearn
Format: Paperback, 306 pages Publisher: Macmillan Publication date: 02 April 2004 ISBN-13: 9780330415286 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the murderous warlord, lida Sadamu, surveys his famous nightingale floor. No assassin can cross it unheard. Brought up among the…
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Review – Fatherland – Robert Harris
Format: Paperback, 380 pages Publisher: Arrow Books Publication date: 27 April 1993 ISBN: 0099263815 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out…
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Review – Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn – Nell Gavin
Format: Paperback, 358 pages Publisher: AuthorHouse Publication date: 01 August 2001 ISBN-13: 978-0738867861 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ It’s 1970. Anne and Henry still have issues they need to address. It’s been 434 years since they parted – on bad terms – and they haven’t spoken…
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Review – Outlander/Cross Stitch – Diana Gabaldon
Format: Paperback Publisher: Century Publication date: 1991 ISBN-13: 978-0712647601 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon – when she walks through a…
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Review – The Queen’s Fool – Philippa Gregory
Format: Paperback, 512 pages Publisher: Harper Collins Publication date: 04 February 2004 ISBN-13: 978-0743246071 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ A stunning novel set in the Tudor court, as the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half-sister Elizabeth is played out against a background of…
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Review – The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite – Beatrice Colin
Format: Paperback, 416 pages Publisher: Hachette UK Publication date: 08 January 2009 ISBN-13: 9781848540316 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. Born to a cabaret dancer and soon orphaned in a scandalous double…
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Review – Ferney – James Long
Format: Paperback, 416 pages Publisher: Quercus Publication date: 2012 ISBN-13: 9781780875309 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US | Waterstones Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ When Mike and Gally move to a new cottage in Somerset, it’s to make a new start. But the relationship comes under strain when Gally forms an increasingly close attachment to an old countryman, Ferney.…
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Review – Davinci Code – Dan Brown
Format: Paperback Publisher: Corgi Publication date: April 2004 ISBN-13: 978-0552149518 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. As…
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Review – The Boleyn Inheritance – Philippa Gregory
Format: Paperback, 518 pages Publisher: Touchstone Publication date: 2006 ISBN-13: 978-0743272506 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ From the bestselling author of ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ comes a wonderfully atmospheric evocation of the court of Henry VIII, and the one woman who destroyed two of his queens. The…