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Book Review / Historical Fiction Posted on: February 20, 2018July 25, 2018

Golden Hill, by Francis Spufford

Cash money is so common that it’s hard to imagine a time when it was […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction Posted on: December 8, 2017August 16, 2024

The Maze at Windermere, by Gregory Blake Smith

Shakespeare said it first: “The course of true love never did run smooth.” This is […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction Posted on: September 28, 2017September 24, 2017

Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi

The multi-award winning family saga Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi, deserves all the praise it’s received. The […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction Posted on: June 11, 2017

Where the Light Falls, by Allison Pataki and Owen Pataki

Allison and Owen Pataki’s Where the Light Falls is the story of two parallel lives during […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction Posted on: May 1, 2017

The Pagoda Tree, by Claire Scobie

Maya was born to dance. When she dances to tell the stories of the Hindu pantheon, […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction Posted on: April 30, 2017

La Créole by Cheryl Sawyer

When a white writer writes an African American or African character, I worry—especially when that […]

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Book Review / Historical Fantasy Posted on: January 25, 2017

An Almond for a Parrot, by Wray Delaney

Wray Delaney has concocted a delightfully scandalous historical fantasy in An Almond for a Parrot. In […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction Posted on: December 12, 2016

The Butcher’s Hook, by Janet Ellis

Curiosity is a dangerous thing—especially when it’s coupled with amorality as it is in Janet […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction Posted on: July 14, 2016

Ross Poldark, by Winston Graham

Coming home from war is hard. Coming home from war to learn that the woman […]

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Alternate History / Book Review / Historical Fantasy / Historical Fiction / Metafiction Posted on: July 9, 2016

Mr. Eternity, by Aaron Thier

Being a literature major and librarian has given me a more-than-healthy skepticism about what I […]

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