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Historical Fiction Books
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The Wilding
Maria McCann
February 2010 Book of the Month.
Set just after the English Civil war this historical family drama is rich in historical detail. McCann has obviously researched the period well and it comes through...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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The Lace Reader
Brunonia Barry
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
With any novel set in Salem, Massachusetts, you sort of know it is going to be haunted with the legacy of witchcraft and this one uses that...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/12/2009
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Under This Unbroken Sky
Shandi Mitchell
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
If I had a star choice for the month this would be it. It is a devastating, powerful tale of poverty, endurance, jealousy, hardship and sadness, set...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/02/2010
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The Wives of Henry Oades
Johanna Moran
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
Based on a true story this debut is riveting from the start. A historical novel but written in a very modern voice and as funny as it...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Evil on the Wind
Diney Costeloe
From the opening pages this book grips and unsettles the reader, beginning with the German authorities terrorising Jewish families in the middle of the night, rampaging through the streets burning homes and businesses. The reader is immediately drawn in to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/11/2009
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Springtime in Burracombe
Lilian Harry
The latest in her Dartmoor-based series takes us on to 1953, Coronation year, and the ups and downs of the village. People fluctuate between tragedy and bliss in another involved, heart-warming tale. Perfect nostalgia.
Comparison: Marcia Willett, Debbie...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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The Gladiator
Simon Scarrow
If you are unaware of the Roman army officers Macro and Cato you are missing out. One is old and a veteran, the other young and clever, and together they get involved in all sorts of situations and overcome great...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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The Given Day
Dennis Lehane
A big novel in every way, packed with action, in a time of huge social upheaval, for this is Boston 1918-1919. With strikes, poverty, racism, corruption, anarchist bombs, riots on the streets and the arrival of the world flu pandemic,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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The Lost Daughter of Happiness
Geling Yan
A great book for a book club read with much to discuss in this tale of a young Chinese girl, Fusang, kidnapped from her homeland and forced in to prostitution in San Francisco. Her beauty and understated charm lead to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 17 January 2010.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009.
The latest novel from prize-wining author Sarah Waters is a gothic ghost story, set in a run-down country house just after...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2010
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Sacred Hearts
Sarah Dunant
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 31 January 2010.
Convent life, you’d imagine, is one you choose – a vocation. But this
searing story of the nuns of Santa Caterina in 16th-century Italy
reveals how enforced convent entry was common...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2010
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Music and Silence
Rose Tremain
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Joanna Trollope...
Rose Tremain’s historical novels are big gems. My favourite is Music And Silence. It’s a book you just inhabit as you read.
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
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Historical fiction is such a great way to experience the past. It’s fascinating, thrilling and you learn from it. Wonderful! The best way to make sure you’re ahead of history is through our emails, which will guide you to the latest and best so you can... Live ancient Egypt (Christian Jacq) or real life in 18th Century London (Maureen Waller)... Experience the terrifying menace of Vesuvius (Robert Harris) or get a fix on Troy as it actually was (Michael Wood)... Play politics at the mercurial court of Henry VIII (Philippa Gregory) or watch as the Romanov dynasty self-destructs (Carolly Erickson)... Analyse Napoleon’s misguided march on Moscow (Adam Zamoyski) or share an ordinary soldier’s experience of the Great War (Richard Holmes)...
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Their Finest Hour and a Half
Lissa Evans
The making of a propaganda film in the 40s – the script ideas, the untrained people involved, the petty jealousies, the atmosphere of ‘making do’ in wartime and the utter...
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A Penny a Day
Lilian Harry
Lilian Harry is one of those lovely authors whose fans may argue about whether her April Groves books are better than her Burracombe ones. Well, now you have a book...
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Raven: Blood Eye
Giles Kristian
January 2010 Debut of the Month.
A really good yarn with constant changes of pace, action and drama as the Vikings sweep on...
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The Book of Negroes
Lawrence Hill
A hard-to-put-down, excellent read of slavery, harrowing but full of love and hope. The characters are very real and the writing is gripping. Based on fact, the actual document of...
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Twelve
Jasper Kent
A slow building mystery, an historical tour-de-force, a tale of creeping horror, Jasper Kent’s superb novel is a masterful blending of all three. The elusive and secretive vampires are strangely...
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An Echo in the Bone
Diana Gabaldon
The long wait is over and the seventh instalment in the Outlander series is here. Packed full of historical detail and characters galore, settle down with 800 plus pages of...
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The Swan Thieves
Elizabeth Kostova
February 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
From the author of the brilliantly atmospheric The Historian, comes this mesmerising psychological mystery that revolves around the conflicting powers of art. Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe...
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The Month Before's Featured Books
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The Death Maze
Ariana Franklin
Ariana Franklin was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library 2009 - the prize awarded for an author's body of work.
A very special historical murder mystery and a wonderful...
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Guernica
Dave Boling
Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 20 May 2009.
A literary page-turner, an epic story of love and war straddling the dreadful bombing during the Spanish Civil War and an...
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Cathedral of the Sea
Ildefonso Falcones
An epic of the 14th century which follows the entire life of a Barcelona boy and the cathedral he comes to love and helps to build. Powerful, moving, engrossing, it...
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Revelation
C J Sansom
The killer takes his methods of killing from the Book of Revelation in a period beset with religious violence, for this is the wane of the reign of Henry VIII....
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What I Saw and How I Lied
Judy Blundell
Winner of the prestigious National Book Award.
Julia Eccleshare's comment:
Utterly gripping and beautifully told, this is a stunning rite of passage novel full of powerful and conflicting emotions, which captures Evie’s...
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Palace Circle
Rebecca Dean
A family saga of the aristocratic and political circles of London and Cairo from 1911-1941. Infidelities, spying, high society, intrigue and passions sweep you through a multi-voiced narrative of a...
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The Hidden Oasis
Paul Sussman
Fast paced action adventure with a plane-load of enriched uranium disappearing in the Sahara and twenty years later being discovered in a sacred place. Its cargo must now be ‘hushed...
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The Jewel Box
Anna Davis
1920’s London and Grace is a society girl who also writes a weekly gossip newspaper column which each chapter charmingly starts with. This is sister rivalry/husband seeking stuff with lots...
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City of Thieves
David Benioff
A tale of an unlikely friendship bent on a seemingly impossible task performed to gain their freedom. We are in the Siege of Leningrad, the city is starving and our...
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