Category: historical fiction
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The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters is the sequel to The Last Hours and continues the story of Develish. It picks up shortly after the end of the previous book with Lady Anne trying to help her daughter Eleanor with her unexpected and unplanned pregnancy, while also helping the other inhabitants of Develish. The…
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The Mayfair Bookshop by Eliza Knight is an interesting piece of historical fiction. It tells the story of Nancy Mitford, a socialite in 1930’s and 40’s London, and Lucy St. Clair, a modern day book curator who travels to London to work. Nancy Mitford’s story starts in the early 30’s and covers how she works…
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The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory is the first book in The Plantagenet and Tudor series. It tells the story of Jacquetta, the young daughter of a French nobleman whose family has given shelter to the maid Joan. When Joan is turned over to the English, Jacquetta also finds herself with the English…
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Voyage of Malice is the second book in the Huguenot Connection Trilogy by Paul C. R. Monk and continues the story of the Delpech family. Having been separated for over a year now Jacob and Jeanne each work on trying to find a way to reunite their fractured family. Jacob has been placed in indentured…
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We move forward a decade or two with The Winter of the World, book two of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett. As Stalin consolidates power in Russia and Roosevelt becomes President while Hitler rises to power we meet the next generation of the same families we met in the first book, Fall of Giants.…
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The Last Hours by Minette Walters is an impressive piece of historical fiction. It covers the events of the black death and when it first entered England. The story focuses on one specific demesne in Dorset where Lady Anne of Devilish does whatever it takes to protect her serfs. Something that causes problems when her…
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Merchants of Virtue is the first book in the Huguenot Connection Trilogy by Paul C. R. Monk and it tells the story of the Delpech family starting in 1685. Jeanne Delpech has just returned, with her three children, to the family home in Montauban as she desires to have her next child be born in…
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Time to return to the world of Ancient Egypt with The Quest, the third book in the Ancient Egypt series by Wilbur Smith. Taita is visiting a remote sanctuary where he is getting his second sight ability unlocked when he first starts hearing rumblings and rumors of a highly evil sorceress that serves the Lie…
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I want to preface this by stating that I know next to nothing about art or art history but I really thought this book sounded interesting. Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier is about the creation of the painting Girl With A Pearl Earring by Vermeer. It tells the story of young Griet,…
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Sometimes I forget that the prettiest things can still have a bloody history. In the book Blood For Pearls by Peter Von Perle we see exactly how that can be the case. It tells the story of what was known as the Pearl Coast, an island known as Cubagua island and the site of a…