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Category: Historical fiction

Book review: Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

I didn’t know anything about John Wilkes Booth apart from the fact that he assassinated Abraham Lincoln, so Booth was … More

biographical novel, theatre

Book review: The Colony by Audrey Magee

Lloyd is travelling to a remote Irish island because he wants to paint the cliffs. He is going in a … More

irish

Book review: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

I loved A Little Life so I was looking forward to getting to grips with another big book by Hanya … More

alternate history, dystopian, hanya yanagihara, lgbt+

Book review: The Dangerous Kingdom of Love by Neil Blackmore

In The Dangerous Kingdom of Love, lawyer, politician and philosopher Francis Bacon struggles to advance his place at the court … More

biographical novel, lgbt+, stuarts

Book review: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

I was interested in this novel because I recently read Conn Iggulden’s Conqueror series, which tells the story of Genghis … More

alternate history, china, coming of age, lgbt+

Book review: China Room by Sunjeev Sahota

China Room begins in a Punjabi village in the 1920s. Mehar is one of three young women who have just … More

coming of age, india

Book review: The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee

The Great Mistake is a novel based on the life and death of Andrew Haswell Green, the “Father of Greater … More

biographical novel, lgbt+

Series love: Ruth Downie’s Gaius Petreius Ruso mysteries

Ruth Downie’s crime series set in Roman Britain is my current favourite comfort read. Gaius Petreius Ruso is a Roman … More

historical mystery, series

Book review: The Drowned City by KJ Maitland (Daniel Pursglove #1)

The Drowned City is the first in a new series, and under a new name, by historical mystery writer Karen … More

historical mystery, series, spy thriller

Fifteen great novels about mothers

Of course, mothers are everywhere, in life and in fiction. There aren’t many novels that don’t have a mother in … More

anne enright, anne tyler, coming of age, deborah levy, elizabeth strout, emma straub, family saga, francesca jakobi, helen fitzgerald, humour, jesse loncraine, kiley reid, min jin lee, mother's day, revenge thriller, stephanie wrobel, theatre

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