Category: Historical Fiction
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CIRCUS OF WONDERS by Elizabeth Macneal
Macneal takes us back to Victorian England. It is 1866 and everyone is a bit manic over the circus life. The freaks, the oddities, the animal tamers, and of course those human wonders. Jasper Jupiter has a plan for his Circus of Wonders. To be the biggest circus anywhere. He believes it is his destiny…
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OUR KIND of PEOPLE by Carol Wallace
Welcome to the Gilded Age in New York City. The war is over and the elite of the city are getting back to balls and debuts and other pursuits. In Helen Wilcox’s case, it means finding suitable matches for her two daughters on a shoestring budget. While Helen comes from money, She has married for…
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A Man of Honor by Barbara Taylor Bradford
A prequel to A Woman of Substance A Man of Honor tells us the story of Balckie O’Neill at 13. His future in Ireland seems bleak. His family is dead except for his two cousins, and he is now sailing to England to see his Uncle Patrick who has a job lined up in his…
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THE BALLERINAS by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
Three friends meet in the prestigious Paris Opera Ballet as teens. Delphine, the narrator of the story, Lindsay and Margaux. The story bounces between then and now. Fourteen years ago, Delphine gave up her soloist spot at the POB to go to St. Petersburg. She also held a secret that could undo all of their…
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THE SISTERS SWEET by ELIZABETH WEISS
The Sisters Sweet is a vaudeville act. Cooked up by twins Harriet and Josie’s parents. The father is really worthless and the mother is cold and distant. No one can keep a job so the father thinks up an act for the girls. Dancing and singing siamese twins. Only they are not siamese twins. So…
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NO SHADOW WITHOUT LIGHT by LUKE GRACIAS
The long-awaited sequel to The Devil’s Prayer. On 06/06/06, the world’s population crossed 6.66 billion. Any further increase could only occur at the cost of other species and future generations. The rise of the population has reached critical mass. This in turn has triggered the Devil’s Game. A hunt around the world for twelve missing…
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City of Time and Magic by PAULA BRACKSTON
Book Four in the Found Things Series finds our Xanthe still upset about Liam who was snatched in time by Mistress Flyte. She is determined to find a way to get him back in his own time and by her side. I was thrilled that Xanthe gets to meet Elizabeth from Brackston’s The Witch’s Daughter!…
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MISS ELIZA’S ENGLISH KITCHEN by ANNABEL ABBS
The story of two real-life women who together create a cookbook at a time when women were not expected to even venture into the kitchens. Eliza Acton and Ann Kirby become unlikely friends and brought forth the first cookery book for private homes. They were the first to list ingredients as well as cooking times.…
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THREE SISTERS by HEATHER MORRIS
From the author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka’s Journey, comes the latest from Heather Morris. Three Sisters. The story of three sisters. Cibi, Magda and, Livia, who in 1929 Slovakia, make a promise to their father that they will always stay together no matter what comes. It is years later when the youngest,…
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Darjeeling Inheritance by LIZ HARRIS
Charlotte Lawrence loves living in Sundar. She follows her father around learning all she can about the tea plantation. It’s all she has ever wanted. After eleven years in England, Charlotte has finished her studies and is coming home by boat with a suitable companion named Ada Eastman. Arriving home to find her father has…
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