Title: The Specimens Author: Mairi Kidd Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Black & White Publishing Publication Date: 26th September 2024 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: Up the close and down the stair, meet the women of Burke and Hare Edinburgh, 1828. Two women - one rich, one poor - must navigate life against a frenzied backdrop of medical … Continue reading The Specimens by Mairi Kidd – Blog Tour Review
Category: Historical Fiction
The Witch’s Daughter by Imogen Edwards-Jones – Blog Tour Review
Title: The Witch’s Daughter Author: Imogen Edwards-Jones Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Aria Publication Date: 10th October 2024 (Paperback) Rating: 4/5 Cover: Summary: A city burning. A revolution raging. A woman on the run. Nadezhda has never wanted to be a witch. But the occult is in her blood. Her mother, Militza, conjured Rasputin and introduced … Continue reading The Witch’s Daughter by Imogen Edwards-Jones – Blog Tour Review
The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook – Blog Tour Review
Title: The Madstone Author: Elizabeth Crook Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Bedford Square Publisher Publication Date: 26th September 2024 Rating: 4.5/5 Cover: Summary: Texas hill country, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he sees a stagecoach leave a passenger stranded. The man, a treasure hunter, persuades Benjamin to help track down … Continue reading The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook – Blog Tour Review
Costanza by Rachel Blackmore – Blog Tour Review
Title: Costanza Author: Rachel Blackmore Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Renegade Books Publication Date: 1st August 2024 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: Rome, 1636: In the scorched city of Rome, the cobbled streets hum with gossip and sin...Costanza Piccolomini is a respectable young wife - until she meets Gianlorenzo Bernini, the famed sculptor and star of Roman … Continue reading Costanza by Rachel Blackmore – Blog Tour Review
Junction of Earth and Sky by Susan Buttenwieser – Blog Tour Review
Title: Junction of Earth and Sky Author: Susan Buttenwieser Genre: Historical/Literary Fiction Publisher: Manilla Press Publication Date: 1st August 2024 Rating: 4.5/5 Cover: Summary: Coming of age in 1940s England, Alice's life is thrown into chaos under the shadow of the war. Forced to let go of her hopes and dreams, she finds herself uprooted … Continue reading Junction of Earth and Sky by Susan Buttenwieser – Blog Tour Review
The Betrayal of Thomas True by A. J. West – Blog Tour Review
Title: The Betrayal of Thomas True Author: A. J. West Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Orenda Publication Date: 4th July 2024 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Book Summary: The only sin is betrayal…It is the year 1715, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One night, lost amongst the squalor of London's hidden back … Continue reading The Betrayal of Thomas True by A. J. West – Blog Tour Review
The Bedlam Cadaver by Robert J. Lloyd – Blog Tour Review
Title: The Bedlam Cadaver Author: Robert J. Lloyd Genre: Historical Fiction/Mystery Publisher: Melville House Publishing Publication Date: 20th June 2024 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Book Summary: In late 17th Century London rich young women are being kidnapped, then murdered. Harry Hunt, formerly of the Royal Society but now a rich gentleman, is falsely accused. To clear … Continue reading The Bedlam Cadaver by Robert J. Lloyd – Blog Tour Review
Hold Back the Night by Jessica Moor – Blog Tour Review
Title: Hold Back the Night Author: Jessica Moor Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Manilla Press Publication Date: 9th May 2024 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Book Summary: From the Observer debut novelist of the year, comes a blistering, heart-wrenching new novel of complicity and atonement, delving into one nurse's experience of the little-known history of conversion therapy and the heart-breaking … Continue reading Hold Back the Night by Jessica Moor – Blog Tour Review
The Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman – Book Review
Title: The Shadow Key Author: Susan Stokes-Chapman Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Harvill Secker Publication Date: 18th April 2024 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: There's something mysterious about the village of Penhelyg. Will unlocking its truth bring light or darkness?Meirionydd, 1783. Dr Henry Talbot has been dismissed from his post in London. The only job he can … Continue reading The Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman – Book Review
All the Broken Places by John Boyne – Book Review
Title: All the Broken Places Author: John Boyne Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Penguin Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel.Gretel Fernsby is a quiet woman leading a quiet life. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany … Continue reading All the Broken Places by John Boyne – Book Review
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