Posts tagged with ‘Historical Fiction’
April 23, 2012
HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL MAGIC-REALIST tale of 1920s Alaskan settlers and their wild, enigmatic foster daughter.
Grade: A MINUS
THE SNOW CHILD
Hachette/Reagan Arthur Books
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels
April 8, 2012
ENTHRALLING NOVEL TELLS the story of a 1950s Jane Eyre type, a brave and intellectually curious Scots orphan.
Grade: A MINUS
THE FLIGHT OF GEMMA HARDY
Harper
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, Scotland
March 24, 2012
THE GREAT VIETNAMESE-AMERICAN NOVEL may be this tale of a family fragmented by secrets as much as by diaspora.
Grade: A MINUS
THE REEDUCATION OF CHERRY TRUONG: A NOVEL
St. Martin's Press
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Asian-American Writers, Historical Fiction, Novels, Vietnam, Vietnamese-American Writers
March 19, 2012
MARVELOUSLY CRAFTED, HAUNTING psychological mystery set in the art world of Victorian Scotland.
Grade: A MINUS
GILLESPIE AND I
Harper Perennial
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels
March 9, 2012
19th CENTURY NEW ORLEANS is the setting for a well-crafted, complex mystery with a free man of color as sleuth.
Grade: B PLUS
RAN AWAY
Severn House
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels
February 28, 2012
SWEEPING EPIC ADVENTURE follows a Spanish woman from poverty to success as a couturiere to wartime espionage.
Grade: B PLUS
THE TIME IN BETWEEN
Atria
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, Spain, Women's Fiction, World War II
February 14, 2012
DARK AND DREAMLIKE novel follows a young girl’s harrowing 1861 journey across the US’s western frontiers.
Grade: SOLID B
BOHEMIAN GIRL
University of Nebraska Press
2011
Tags: Historical Fiction, Novels, Solid B Reviews
February 3, 2012
THE GREAT BERYL BAINBRIDGE’S final novel is a haunting (if uneven) tale of two misfits caught up in history.
Grade: B PLUS
THE GIRL IN THE POLKA DOT DRESS
Europa Editions
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels
January 21, 2012
GRIM, ATMOSPHERIC TALE traces the impact of Nazi occupation on the island of Guernsey, and on one girl’s family.
Grade: B PLUS
THE BOOK OF LIES
Harper Perennial
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, World War II
January 18, 2012
WORLD WAR II THRILLER with an all-star cast of science fiction writers and scientists; fun historical caper!
Grade: SOLID B
THE ASTOUNDING, THE AMAZING, AND THE UNKNOWN
Simon and Schuster
2011
Tags: Historical Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Thriller