Tag: Historical Fiction
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Emily Goes To Exeter by M. C. Beaton
Emily Goes To Exeter is the first in the series of the travelling matchmaker series by M.C. Beaton. I listened to this on audiobook through BorrowBox. There was a good […]
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The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks
I picked up this book because I love films and I read Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks (short stories) last year but was underwhelmed by it. This, Hanks first novel, […]
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Medusa by Jessie Burton
Medusa by Jessie Burton is a fast-paced Greek Mythology reimaging following our main character Medusa and her head of snakes who ends up exiled to an island to live her […]
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Arctic Star by Tom Palmer
Daisy sent us her review; she gave the book 5 stars! “I think this book is very interesting and gripping because there is a lot of suspense building up in […]
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Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
This book is part of our Centenary Collection. Eye of the Needle was one of the BBC’s 100 Books that Shaped Our World and no wonder, as it is one […]
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Any Human Heart by William Boyd
Written in 2009 and in the style of a journal, this is a beautifully written book. The journal is written by Logan Mountstuart and covers most of the early 21st […]
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An Astronomer In Love by Antoine Laurain
This book has a wonderful cover which first attracted me to the story, and it has proved a lovely read. Translated from the French, this is the story of two […]
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Cane Warriors by Alex Wheatle
Cane Warriors is a powerful and fast paced book which explores the true story of slavery and the slave uprising in Jamaica in the 1760s. If you don’t know the […]
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A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
This crime story was recommended to me by a colleague and I am glad that he did. The story is set in 1920’s India, at the height of the British […]