Category Archives: Historical Fiction
Tuesday’s Library Visit!
Yes, it is true, I went to the library AGAIN this week! I just love it there….! So here is what I took out this time: Tracy Chevalier: Remarkable Creatures – historical fiction Lynsay Sands: Bites – vampire thriller Eshkol Nevo: World Cup Wishes – contemporary fiction So now my shelf looks like this: (although [...]
Share on FacebookMonday’s Trip to the Library
Now I think I was a good girl yesterday when I went to the library. Not only did I return more books than I took out, but there was a book sale on, where every book was 20p, but I didn’t even look. Yay for me… I think! Haha! I did however take out 3 [...]
Share on FacebookThe Dresskeeper by Mary Naylus
Amazon synopsis: This title is suitable for children of ages 12 years & over. When Picky’s Mum forces her to look after Gran, who has dementia, Picky is accidentally transported back to the year 1685, where a man in a wig insists she is someone called Amelia and tries to kill her. Managing to get [...]
Share on FacebookThe Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent
Waterstones Synopsis: Martha Carrier was hanged on August 19th 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, unyielding in her refusal to admit to being a witch, going to her death rather than joining the ranks of men and women who confessed and were thereby spared execution. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and wilful, openly challenging [...]
Share on FacebookThe Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Waterstones Synopsis: A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her – but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews [...]
Share on FacebookLord Deverill’s Secret by Amanda Grange
Waterstone’s Synopsis: A simple trip to Brighton turns into a summer of adventure for Cassandra Paxton when she encounters the enigmatic Lord Deverill. She believes him to be a friend of her dead brother, but she soon finds that there is more to him than meets the eye. Lord Deverill is hiding a secret, and, [...]
Share on FacebookThe Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice
Waterstones Synopsis Set in the 1950s, in an England still recovering from the Second World War, THE LOST ART OF KEEPING SECRETS is the enchanting story of Penelope Wallace and her eccentric family at the start of the rock’n’roll era. Penelope longs to be grown-up and to fall in love; but various rather inconvenient things [...]
Share on FacebookEast of the Sun by Julia Gregson
Amazon description: Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naïve bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn t be happier to get away from her overbearing mother, and is [...]
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