Tag Search: historical fiction

Sea of Poppies

krc2560 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:59:48 +1000

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

jane eyre — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:38:39 +1000

“ I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb….

Spartan: A Novel

Midnight — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:25:09 +1000

These eyes...he'd seen them before, staring at him, but he didn't remember where, or when. He remembered, without knowing why. In this epic story filled with passion, courage, and adventure, the author of the internationally bestselling Alexander trilogy tells the tale of two warriors united by blood and torn apart by law. This is the saga of a Spartan family, unraveled by a harsh custom of their people that causes them to abandon one of their own.

A Northern Light

mrsterry.thomas — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:42:23 +1000

Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace's drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder.

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

mrsterry.thomas — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:17:03 +1000

A wonderful middle-grade novel narrated by Kenny, 9, about his middle-class black family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When Kenny's 13-year-old brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they happen to be in Birmingham when Grandma's church is blown up.

Dreaming the Hound, Boudica Series (#3)

Midnight — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:45:23 +1000

AD 57: Caradoc is lost forever, betrayed to Rome and exiled in Gaul, leaving Boudica bereft, to lead the tribes of the west in an increasingly bloody resistance against Roman occupation.

Witch of Cologne

admin — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:36:42 +1100

The story of Ruth bas Elazar Saul, a Jewish midwife who returns to her home, outside Cologne. Imbued with the radical ideas of Spinoza and with ancient Hebrew Kabbalism, her methods of dealing with illness lead to accusation of witchcraft and imprisonment. From the author of Quiver, an epic love story of the 17th century.

The Feast of All Saints

admin — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:35:55 +1100

Set in New Orleans before the American Civil War, this is the story of the "Free People of Color", descended from slaves, and their French and Spanish owners. Among their number is Marcel, an artist in the making, also his gentle sister Marie and Anna Bella, a beautiful young courtesan.

The Mists of Avalon

admin — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:20:56 +1100

Morgaine, gifted with the Sight and fated with her brother-lover's doom, recounts the glorious tragedy of Camelot's brief flowering - not as a tale of knightly deeds, but as a woman's rounded view of society in the crucible of change.

Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle

admin — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:12:02 +1100

This is the first book in the Boudica series. In AD 60, Boudica, war leader of the Eceni, led her people in a final bloody revolt against the occupying armies of Rome. It was the culmination of nearly twenty years of resistance. This book recreates the beginnings of a story so powerful its impact has survived through the ages.