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Virginia Woolf, Talland House, and Historical Fiction

Sep 13, 2020

This is a guest post by author Maggie Humm. Thanks Maggie! Amazon have classified my debut novel, Talland House, as historical fiction, but the...

Review: The Secret Messenger

Aug 28, 2020

Mandy Robotham's novel of the Nazi occupation of Venice—and the Venetian resistance that fought against fascism in many different ways—is an...

Black Panthers vs. Nazis: Meet Patton’s All-Black 761st Tank Battalion that Transformed Race Relations and Made America Better

Jul 25, 2020

This is a guest post from author Samuel Marquis. Thanks Samuel! In Soldiers of Freedom: The WWII Story of Patton’s Panthers and the Edelweiss...

Review: Daughter of the Reich

Jun 20, 2020

This review features some minor spoilers. Set in 1930s Germany, Hetty, the daughter of an SS officer, falls in love with a Jewish boy. What could...

Review: The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir

May 28, 2020

Adorable English village? Check. Multiple points of view with interconnected stories and relationships? Check. WWII Blitz stuff? Check. Dry British...

Review: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

May 22, 2020

It would appear that author Taylor Jenkins Reid knows the exact combination to make me go from casually enjoying a book one minute to sobbing for an...

Review: To Have and to Hoax

Apr 26, 2020

Martha Waters, I believe, may have a direct line to my brain. In her debut novel, To Have and to Hoax, Waters managed to pluck out my favorite...

Review: A Murderous Relation

Mar 18, 2020

The fifth instalment of the Veronica Speedwell Mysteries series was released last week and I, naturally, pre-ordered it and devoured it. The gothic...

Review: Daisy Jones & the Six

Dec 29, 2019

I inhaled this audiobook over the course of the No Man's Land that are the days between Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. I tend to go through...

The 5 Best Books I Read in 2019

Dec 10, 2019

December is usually the time people reflect on the last year: the ups, the downs, and, most importantly, the very good books we've read. Here are my...

Review: Dear Mrs. Bird

Nov 11, 2019

When readers discuss the historical fiction genre, humor doesn't come up very often. The past, in its most dramatic periods, makes for a great book...