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Title: The House of Velvet & Glass Author: Katherine Howe Publisher: Voice Genre: Historical Fiction Pages: 418 How I Read It: Hard cover purchased by me. Synopsis: Katherine Howe, author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, returns with an entrancing historical novel set in Boston in 1915, where a young woman stands on the cusp of a new century, torn [… Read More]

Title: Loving Frank Author: Nancy Horan Publisher: Ballantine Books Genre: Historical Fiction Pages: 384 How I Read It: Hard cover from the library. Synopsis: I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by.  I want to swim in the river.  I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles [… Read More]

Title: Above All Things Author: Tanis Rideout Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Genre: Historical Fiction Pages: 357 How I Read It: ARC received from the publisher – The views expressed in my review are mine alone and I have received no compensation for these opinions. Synopsis: In 1924, George and Ruth Mallory are happily in love, ensconced with their three children in [… Read More]

Title: Blindspot Author: Jane Kamensky & Jill Lepore Publisher: Spiegel & Grau Genre: Historical Fiction Pages: 500 How I Read It: ARC received from the publisher – The views expressed in my review are mine alone and I have received no compensation for these opinions. Synopsis: “Tis a small canvas, this Boston,” muses Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter who, having [… Read More]

Title: Maisie Dobbs Author: Jacqueline Winspear Publisher: Soho Press Genre: Historical Mystery Pages: 294 How I Read It: Hard cover from the library. Synopsis: She started as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen.  Her employer, Lady Rowan Compton, a suffragette, took the remarkably bright youngster under her wing and became her patron, aided by Maurice Blanche, [… Read More]

Title: A Dangerous Inheritance Author: Alison Weir Publisher: Hutchinson Genre: Historical Fiction Pages: 537 How I Read It: ARC received from the publisher – The views expressed in my review are mine alone and I have received no compensation for these opinions. Synopsis: England’s Tower of London was the terrifying last stop for generations of English political prisoners. A Dangerous Inheritance [… Read More]

Title: The Swan Thieves Author: Elizabeth Kostova Publisher: Little Brown & Company Genre: Historical Fiction Pages: 565 How I Read It: Hard cover purchased by me. Synopsis: Robert Oliver, a renowned painter, has brutally attacked a canvas in the National Gallery of Art.  What would compel an artist to destroy something he values beyond all else?  From the confines of his [… Read More]

Title: Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War Author: Jessica James Publisher: Patriot Press Genre: Historical Fiction Pages: 468 How I Read It: Kindle edition purchased by me. Synopsis: Honor & conviction clash with loyalty & love in this award-winning romantic Civil War novel that pits brother against brother. This is the tale of Colonel Alexander Hunter, a dauntless [… Read More]

Title: The Lincoln Conspiracy Author: Timothy L. O’Brien Publisher: Ballantine Books Genre:  Historical Fiction Pages: 346 How I Read It: ARC received from the publisher – The views expressed in my review are mine alone and I have received no compensation for these opinions. Synopsis: A nation shattered by its president’s murder.  Two diaries that reveal the true scope of [… Read More]

Title: Jane: The Woman Who Loved Tarzan Author: Robin Maxwell Publisher: Tor Books Genre:  Historical Fiction Pages: 320 How I Read It: ARC received from the publisher – The views expressed in my review are mine alone and I have received no compensation for these opinions. Synopsis: Cambridge, England: 1905. Jane Porter is hardly a typical woman of her time. [… Read More]