Category: historical fiction
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The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield is book one of the series The Apollo Murders. Kazimieras Zemeckis, known as Kaz, is a former military pilot turned flight controller who is tasked with overseeing the upcoming NASA launch of Apollo 18. Something that is complicated by the Soviet Union launching Almaz, a spy space station with…
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The White Queen, book two of the Plantagenet and Tudor series by Philippa Gregory, picks up not long after the previous book The Lady of the Rivers. This time it follows the life of Elizabeth Woodville, eldest daughter of Jacquetta of Burgundy, who has recently been widowed when her husband, Lord Grey, was killed during…
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Ghost Riders is part of the Ballad Series by Sharyn McCrumb and focuses on a group of ghost riders from the American Civil War hiding in the Appalachian mountains. Rattler is an old Cherokee who has befriended the local reenactors and frequently visits their camps when they set up so he happens to be visiting…
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In The Music Makers by James D. Snyder we get not only a reflection of our own time but a glimpse into a potentially parallel point in history. It is 1989 and the people of East Berlin are struggling to break free of their dictatorship. Greta is a civics teacher, a rather eccentric one actually,…
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Sisters of the Great War is a work of WWI historical fiction by Suzanne Feldman. It tells the story of Ruth and Elise Duncan, two sisters from Baltimore, Maryland who are chafing under both societal restrictions and family restrictions. When Ruth is rather firmly denied the option to go to medical school to become a…
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Sold on a Monday is a rather heartbreaking piece of historical fiction by Kristina McMorris. In 1931 struggling reporter Ellis Reed manages to snap a disturbing photo that he doesn’t actually plan to publish. Two young children playing in their yard with a sign on the porch behind them that states 2 children for sale.…
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Land of Hope by Paul C. R. Monk is the third and final book in the Huguenot Connection trilogy. It picks up shortly after the end of the previous book with Jeanne continuing her journey to England. Her and Paul are traveling through Europe to a port where they can catch a ship. However, their…
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Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon is a story of dichotomies as it is both an incredibly motivating and uplifting story but also incredibly sad and heartbreaking. Based loosely on true events it tells the story of Nancy Wake, a reporter turned smuggler and spy who was on the ground in France during WWII. Told…
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The Rose Code by Kate Quinn was simply incredible. The story opens in 1947 days before Princess Elizabeth is set to marry Prince Phillip, Osla Kendall is the former girlfriend of Phillip who now works as a columnist for Tatler. As she is preparing herself for attending the wedding she receives an unusual letter written…
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Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally is the slightly fictionalized true story of Oskar Schindler. In the lead up to the Second World War he was an industrialist who managed to own an enamel factory where he was allowed to employ Jewish workers from the Kracow ghetto. At first he stayed concentrated on actually running a…