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Bookliterati Book Reviews » Historical Fiction
3d ago
Publisher : Fairlight Books (18 April 2024)
Language : English
Hardcover : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 1914148509
ISBN-13 : 978-1914148507
Book Blurb
Florence, 1584. Rumours are spreading about the virility of a prince marrying into the powerful Medici family. Orphan Giulia is chosen to put an end to the gossip. In return she will keep her life – and start a new one with a dowry and her own husband. Cloistered since childhood and an innocent in a world ruled by men, Giulia reluctantly agrees, only to be drawn under the control of the Medicis’ lecherous minister.
Years later, marrie ..read more
Bookliterati Book Reviews » Historical Fiction
1w ago
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks (28 Mar. 2024)
Language : English
Paperback : 384 pages
ISBN-10 : 0063250934
ISBN-13 : 978-0063250932
Book Blurb
They were granddaughters of Queen Victoria and two of the most beautiful princesses in Europe. Princesses Alix and Ella were destined to wed well and wisely. But while their grandmother wants to join them to the English and German royal families, the sisters fall in love with Russia—and the Romanovs.
Defying the Queen’s dire warnings, Ella weds the tsar’s brother, Grand Duke Serge. Cultivated, aloof, and proud, Serge places h ..read more
Bookliterati Book Reviews » Historical Fiction
3M ago
Publisher : Macmillan; Main Market edition (15 Feb. 2024)
Language : English
Hardcover : 480 pages
ISBN-10 : 1035005670
ISBN-13 : 978-1035005673
Book BlurbIt would be the journey of a lifetime . . .
‘Women can be heroes, too’. When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances “Frankie” McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California’s idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different ..read more
Bookliterati Book Reviews » Historical Fiction
4M ago
Publisher : Avon (4 Jan. 2024)
Language : English
Paperback : 432 pages
ISBN-10 : 0008591512
ISBN-13 : 978-0008591519
Book Blurb
Paris, 1941. With Nazi occupation imminent, journalist Elodie Mitchell plans to return home to Chicago. But an unexpected invitation to a Josephine Baker show changes everything.
Mistaken for the star, Elodie is whisked backstage, where she uncovers an underground resistance movement hidden beneath the glitz and glamour.
Drawn into a whisper network of spies, Elodie accepts a perilous mission: to go undercover as Josephine’s cousin and gather vita ..read more
Bookliterati Book Reviews » Historical Fiction
5M ago
Publisher : Zaffre (28 Jun. 2018)
Language : English
Paperback : 656 pages
ISBN-10 : 1785767038
ISBN-13 : 978-1785767036
Book Blurb
A RULER DRIVEN BY GREED
THE FUTURE OF EGYPT AT STAKE
ONLY ONE MAN HAS THE POWER TO RESTORE BALANCE
In his long life, Taita has gone from slave to warlock, and now his wisdom and abilities are known throughout the kingdom. But even his immense skills cannot protect those close to him from the evil that lurks at the heart of Egypt in the form of Lord Naja, self-proclaimed Regent until the Prince comes of age.
Taita must summon all of his formidab ..read more
Bookliterati Book Reviews » Historical Fiction
6M ago
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks (26 Oct. 2023)
Language : English
Paperback : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 0063268248
ISBN-13 : 978-0063268241
Book Blurb
Cleo Davenport has heard the whispers: the murmured conversations that end abruptly the second she walks into a room. Told she was an orphan, she knows the rumor—that her father is none other than the Prince of Wales, heir to the British throne. And at her childhood home at Cairo’s Shepheard’s Hotel, where royals, rulers, and the wealthy live, they even called her “The Princess.”
But her life is turned upside down when she tu ..read more
Bookliterati Book Reviews » Historical Fiction
6M ago
Publisher : Matador (17 April 2023)
Language : English
Paperback : 360 pages
ISBN-10 : 1803136766
ISBN-13 : 978-1803136769
Book Blurb
Summer, 1814. Thomas Hammond is an apothecary surgeon in a village near London whose dreams of a grand medical career were ruined by a shameful secret. He longs to see his apprentice, his son Edward, become a great surgeon. His other apprentice is eighteen-year-old local orphan, John Keats. Thomas sees John as a daydreamer who wastes time reading. John asks Thomas how he copes with his patients’ suffering, but Thomas has no real answer. After ..read more
Bookliterati Book Reviews » Historical Fiction
7M ago
Publisher : Macmillan; Main Market edition (26 Sept. 2023)
Language : English
Hardcover : 752 pages
ISBN-10 : 1447278836
ISBN-13 : 978-1447278832
Book Blurb
1792 Revolution is in the air
A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to power, and with dissent rife, France’s neighbours are on high alert.
Kingsbridge is on the edge
Unprecedented industrial change sweeps the land, making the lives of the workers in Kingbridge’s prosperous cloth mills a misery. Rampant modernization and dangerous ..read more
Bookliterati Book Reviews » Historical Fiction
8M ago
Publisher : Zaffre (28 Jun. 2018)
Language : English
Paperback : 672 pages
ISBN-10 : 178576697X
ISBN-13 : 978-1785766978
Book Blurb
AN ANCIENT SCROLL
A 4,000 YEAR OLD LEGACY
A BATTLE FOR THE TRUTH
It is 4,000 years since the battle for the Egyptian Kingdom, and Duraid and Royan al Simma have just uncovered the tomb of the ancient Egyptian Queen, Lostris, alongside the secret scrolls of the most trusted servant of the Pharaoh, Taita. When the couple are the victims of a vicious attack that leaves Duraid dead, Royan realises that she must continue their joint work: to use the ..read more
Bookliterati Book Reviews » Historical Fiction
9M ago
Publisher : Mantle; Main Market edition (6 July 2023)
Language : English
Hardcover : 496 pages
ISBN-10 : 1509806911
ISBN-13 : 978-1509806911
Book Blurb
The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water. It is known only as the Ghost Ship. For months, its captain – Louise Reydon-Joubert – and her courageous crew has hunted pirates to liberate those enslaved during the course of their merciless raids.
But now the Ghost Ship is under attack – its hull splintered, its sails tattered and burnt, and the crew at risk of capture. But the bravest among them a ..read more