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==Historical fiction==
{{newreview
|author=Susan Fletcher
|title=Corrag
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=A small and dirty woman sits in a prison cell. With her bare feet and her matted hair and her damp, filthy clothes, she doesn't wonder at the word ''witch''. She has been called it all her life. Her mother called her ''witch'' before she named her. Her given name Corrag – was a corruption: for Cora (her mother) and Hag (which she'd get as used to as Cora had).
She sits through the snow of the winter, knowing that the sound she hears outside is the dragging of the logs for her pyre.
She was told, though, that a man would come. So she waits for him.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007321597</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=It's September 1666 and although the mortals' Civil War is over the war amongst the fae is still raging in London. There's now a greater threat to the Onyx Court and it could destroy everything when a spark starts a fire which for three days spreads through the city devouring everything in its path. Can the mortals and the fae unite to find a way to defeat a foe which neither can better on their own?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497185</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti
|title=Secretum
|rating=3.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Back in 2002, Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti shocked Italy with [[Imprimatur by Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti|Imprimatur]], a historical fiction novel which cast aspersions on the behaviour of past Popes. Despite being a very well researched and well-written mystery, it was boycotted in Italy, although it proved popular in other parts of the world. However, the lack of recognition in their home country meant that the follow up that such a good story deserved has been seven years in the making.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971047</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lauren Willig
|title=The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=I used to have months when I would gorge on chick lit before I got married. I lived in London and would wile away the tedium of the tube by escaping into easy, comforting reads of twenty-somethings who worried about shoes and shopping and men. It was reassuring to know that the girl, albeit after a series of highs and lows, would ultimately get the guy. I'm a different kind of person now, a stay at home mum more likely to be found playing in the park than shoe-shopping in London, and so it's been a while since I've felt like picking up a chick lit book. Something about this one intrigued me though. From the back cover blurb it's hard to tell if it's a historical novel, or contemporary chick lit, or perhaps some kind of mystery. I have a feeling that if you come to it with any particular expectations of it fulfilling one of these genres you might be disappointed. But if you see it as a fun, exciting, genre-less read then, hopefully, you won't be able to put it down.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007613</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elaine di Rollo
|title=A Proper Education for Girls
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=''A Proper Education for Girls'' is a knowing satire about Victorian attitudes towards women, focusing on the enduring bond between twin sisters, Alice and Lillian Talbot. The novel opens with a description of their father, a man with a very Victorian belief in Progress and a penchant for scientific experiment. He is obsessively devoted to his indiscriminate collection of 'interesting and useful artefacts' which has gradually subsumed their entire house. Mr. Talbot had expected his daughters to equal his enthusiasm and devote their entire lives to The Collection with only a bunch of old ladies (their aunts) for company, but, it didn't quite work out that way.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099513463</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Susan Wooldridge
|title=The Hidden Dance
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=It is 1933, and the SS Etoile has just left Southampton harbour en route for New York. On board is Lily Sutton, a timid, disturbed woman whose posh accent seems unsuited to her situation of travelling in steerage. Through a series of flashbacks to various years in Lily's life we learn why she is so frightened and what has brought her to make this secretive journey to New York. As well as learning about her romantic aspirations through the story we also see her stumble into a difficult situation on board ship that lends a crime mystery feel to the latter half of the book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007419</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Judith Lennox
|title=The Heart of the Night
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=When Kay is hired as Miranda's companion, she has no idea what to expect; she just knows that she would like to leave behind her quiet life in the English countryside. She quickly befriends Miranda and becomes her partner in crime, evading Miranda's 'aunt', really her father's ex-mistress, and seeking out adventures in a variety of European cities. Trouble begins, however, when Miranda meets Olivier, a young aspiring filmmaker who believes that Miranda would be a stunning actress. Unsurprisingly, Miranda truly falls in love with Olivier, which inadvertently leads to Kay's dismissal and return to England. Now separated, these best friends must find their way on their own throughout World War II. With Kay in England and Miranda in East Prussia, the women's lives are completely different, providing us with a huge backdrop in which to fall in love with these characters and become enchanted with their lives.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755344847</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Ryan
|title=Death on the Ice
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=In 1917, Captain Robert Falcon Scott's widow seeks to get a book on the market to redress the balance, to counter the rumour, public opinion and growing thought that not all was right with Scott and his exploits in Antarctica. Seemingly, in 2009, Robert Ryan seeks the same. However his book is certainly not just concentrating on Scott - we get a lot of Oates, Evans, the other Evans, and all the rest of the fatal party - as well as Shackleton, Amundsen and more.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755348354</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti
|title=Imprimatur
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=My history teacher at school would be stunned to see the number of historical fiction books I've been reading recently. He would be even more surprised to discover that I've mostly enjoyed them. Whilst I've always loved reading, history was a subject for which I showed great ineptitude and disinterest in my younger years. How times change.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971055</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marion Urch
|title=Invitation to Dance
|rating=3
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Lola Montez was an undeniably fascinating woman, a product of and producer of scandal. Born Eliza Gilbert to a young Irish girl and an English junior officer, she spent her early childhood in India before being shuffled off to relations in Scotland and then school in Bath. This novel chronicles her life and career as a Spanish dancer, all over Europe of the mid-nineteenth century and as far away as America and Australia.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863223958</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Eloisa James
|title=Duchess by Night
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=In this third instalment of the ''Desperate Duchesses'' series the focus is on Harriet, the Duchess of Berrow. A widow of two years, Harriet manages her vast estate, makes judgements in the local court (where the judge is only a drunken figurehead) and is generally settled into her life. But she feels unattractive, old and boring; ready to find another husband but doesn't attract too many dancers, never mind suitors, when she turns up at a costume ball dressed as a dumpy Mother Goose (complete with a stuffed bird). When her friend sets off on a visit to a permanent house party at a residence of a certain very disreputable Lord Strange (in order to create a scandal and entice a husband she never met back to the country), Harriet decides to go with her, but worried about the debauchery, she goes as a young man, a nephew of Duke Villiers who also accompanies the ladies.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340961082</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ben Kane
|title=The Forgotten Legion
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Since the release of ''Gladiator'', Roman life has been a growth industry in the entertainment world, with even ''Doctor Who'' visiting Pompeii at one point. The last time I visited Roman times in written form was when I was still doing Latin at school. Fortunately, Ben Kane's ''The Forgotten Legion'' is far more engrossing than school ever was.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848090102</amazonuk>
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