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Book, Crime, Genres, Historical Fiction, History, Locations, Reviews

Book Review: The Homes

A thousand unwanted children live in The Homes, a village of orphans on the outskirts of Glasgow. Lesley was six before she learned that most children live with their parents. Continue reading Book Review: The Homes

Mrs PMay 26, 2022May 26, 2022Leave a comment
Book, Genres, Historical Fiction, History, Reviews, Romance

Book Review: A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting

Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. This is 1818 after all, and only men have the privilege of seeking their own riches. Continue reading Book Review: A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting

Mrs PMay 23, 2022Leave a comment
Book, Crime, Genres, History, Locations, non-fiction

Book Review: Broadmoor Women

Broadmoor, Britain’s first asylum for criminal lunatics, was founded in 1863. In the first years of its existence, one in five patients was female. Continue reading Book Review: Broadmoor Women

Mrs PMay 19, 2022May 19, 2022Leave a comment
Book, Genres, Historical Fiction, History, Reviews

Book Review: The Orphanage Girls

Ruth dares to dream of another life – far away from the horrors within the walls of Bethnal Green’s infamous orphanage. Luckily she has her friends, Amy and Ellen – but she can’t keep them safe, and the suffering is only getting worse. Surely there must be a way out? Continue reading Book Review: The Orphanage Girls

Mrs PMay 17, 2022May 23, 202231 Comments
Book, Genres, Historical Fiction, History, Locations, Reviews

Book Review: Black Butterflies

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city into ethnic enclaves; each morning, the residents – whether Muslim, Croat or Serb – push the makeshift barriers aside. Continue reading Book Review: Black Butterflies

Mrs PMay 17, 2022Leave a comment
Book, Crime, Genres, Historical Fiction, History, Reviews

Book Review: A Taste for Killing

Godfrey Bowyer, the best but least likeable bow maker in Worcester, dies of poisoning, though his wife Blanche survives. Continue reading Book Review: A Taste for Killing

Mrs PMay 12, 2022Leave a comment
Book, Genres, Historical Fiction, History, Mythology, Reviews

Book Review: Arcadian Nights

Taking as his starting point many of the famous tourist sites in the Peloponnese, where the stories are set, John Spurling freshly imagines key narratives from the Greek canon. Continue reading Book Review: Arcadian Nights

Mrs PMay 5, 2022May 9, 2022Leave a comment
Book, Contemporary Fiction, Genres, Historical Fiction, History, Locations, Reviews

Book Review: The Secret of Karabakh

You are not who you think you are. Your future is not what you think it will be.
You are in danger… Continue reading Book Review: The Secret of Karabakh

Mrs PApr 28, 2022Apr 28, 20221 Comment
Book, Genres, Historical Fiction, History, Reviews

Book Review: The Belles of Waterloo

Maria, Georgy and Harriet navigate their first throes of passion, scandal, and love in the heady pre-war atmosphere of Brussels in 1815. Continue reading Book Review: The Belles of Waterloo

Mrs PApr 21, 20221 Comment
Authors, Book, Genres, History, Locations, non-fiction, Reviews

Book Review: The Real Kenneth Grahame

He wrote one of the most quintessentially English books, yet Kenneth Grahame was a Scot. Continue reading Book Review: The Real Kenneth Grahame

Mrs PApr 19, 2022Apr 21, 2022Leave a comment

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