Historical Fiction

Every Hour Until Then

Book Review Every Hour Until Then by Gabrielle MeyerHistorical Fiction | Romance | Time Travel | Christian Fiction | Mystery ★★★★★ The time has come for one of my most anticipated reads of 2025 — Every Hour Until Then by Gabrielle Meyer — to hit shelves. And let me tell you, this did not disappoint. […]

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The Amalfi Curse

Book Review The Amalfi Curse by Sarah PennerFantasy | Historical Fiction | Fiction | Magical Realism From the bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary comes another historical dual-timeline novel featuring powerful women, an incredible setting, and a dash of magic. When Harper Collins Canada reached out to see if I’d be interested in an advance

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The Dark Library

Book Review The Dark Library by Mary Anna EvansMystery | Historical Fiction | Gothic Secrets are rampant in the small town of Bentham-on-Hudson, but perhaps nowhere more so than Estella Ecker’s childhood home, Rockfall House. Returning home and taking up a teaching position at the local college, Estella searches for answers to her mother’s mysterious

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The Resistance Painter

Book Review The Resistance Painter by Kath JonathanHistorical Fiction | Dual Timeline Last year, two of my top historical reads for the year just happened to feature the Polish Resistance during WWII. The Warsaw Sisters by Amanda Barratt and The Keeper of the Hidden Books by Madeline Martin were both breathtaking and poignant, and opened

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Follow Me to Africa

Book Review Follow Me to Africa by Penny HawHistorical Fiction I’ve absolutely adored Peggy Haw’s past books (The Invincible Miss Cust and The Woman at the Wheel) and was so excited to see another biographical fiction about an influential, and perhaps lesser-known, historical woman. Follow Me to Africa explores the life of Mary Leakey, a

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The Girls of the Glimmer Factory

Book Review The Girls of the Glimmer Factory by Jennifer CoburnHistorical Fiction | WWII | Holocaust A couple of years ago, I stumbled across Jennifer Coburn’s novel Cradles of the Reich, a dark story centred around the Lebensborn maternity homes in Nazi Germany. The book has stuck with me to this day, and I can’t

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The Kennedy Girl

Book Review The Kennedy Girl by Julia Bryan ThomasHistorical Fiction When a mysterious stranger offers Mia a job modelling in Paris for the House of Rousseau, she takes a risk and sets off for what she hopes is a better life. But not everything is as it seems, and soon Mia finds herself pulled beyond

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The Secret War of Julia Child

Book Review The Secret War of Julia Child by Diana R. ChambersHistorical Fiction | WWII We all know Julia Child. But what about Julia McWilliams — the thirty-year-old who took a job working for America’s first espionage agency in WWII? The woman she was before she met her husband, Paul Child, and before she mastered

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Across the Ages

Book Review Across the Ages by Gabrielle MeyerHistorical Romance | Christian Fiction | Time Travel From the creaking timbers and salty sea air aboard an 18th-century pirate ship to the glittering but dangerous speakeasies of the roaring twenties, Gabrielle Meyer’s newest novel takes us on an unforgettable time-traveling adventure! Across the Ages is the fourth

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Betrayal at Blackthorn Park

Book Review Betrayal at Blackthorn Park by Julia KellyMystery | Historical Fiction | WWII After the first book in this series (A Traitor in Whitehall) hit my top ten favorite reads last year, Betrayal at Blackthorn Park quickly became one of my most-anticipated reads of 2024. So when the publisher reached out to let me

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