Historical Fiction Archives

4-STAR REVIEW: A WEDDING FOR THE HOME FRONT GIRLS by Susanna Bavin

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 5 May 2025

The Home Front Girls Series: Book 4 Publication Date: May 2, 2025 Manchester, 1941: Amid the heartbreak of war, can the girls band together to give their friend the wedding she deserves? Kept apart by war work, bombs and...

3.5-STAR REVIEW: THE WORLD SO WIDE by Zilla Jones

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 30 April 2025

Publication Date: May 17, 2025 Felicity Alexander should be charming audiences at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, not under house arrest in Grenada in October 1983, as rumours swirl that United States troops are...

5-STAR REVIEW: HOUSES OF DETENTION by Jean Ende

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 30 April 2025

Publication Date: April 1, 2025 So, what’s a nice girl from a good family doing in a place like the Bronx House of Detention? Like many immigrants who flee persecution, when the Rosens...

4-STAR REVIEW: FANTAISIE by Michael Kenneth Smith

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 25 April 2025

Publication Date: March 4, 2025 The novel "Fantaisie" takes place in 1946 post-war Europe, following Jan Orlinski, a former Polish RAF pilot, and his lover Sophie Gordon. Jan takes a job flying cargo...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: AUTOLYCUS THE THIEF by Michail Sidiropoulos

Action/Adventure Amy Wilson - 23 April 2025

Publication Date: March 13, 2025 House and Family Follow the solitary journey of Autolycus as he searches for what he lost at a very young age—long before he became the grandfather of two of the most...

5-STAR REVIEW: DOWNEYOSHUN by Art Young REVIEWER’S CHOICE!

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 21 April 2025

Publication Date: April 22, 2025 Sally Osterhoff is a genius. When she grows up, she wants to be a mathematician, a teacher, and a carpenter; and she plans to swim in the 1968...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE KEEPER OF LOST ART by Laura Morelli

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 18 April 2025

Publication Date: April 15, 2025 During World War II, a girl makes an unbreakable connection with a boy sheltering in her family’s Tuscan villa, where the treasures of the Uffizi Galleries are hidden....

5-STAR REVIEW: I AM JAYVYN by Peter D. Brown – REVIEWER’S CHOICE!

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 10 April 2025

Publication Date: January 10, 2025 "I AM JAYVYN" is a compelling work of historical fiction positioned to remind readers of the key role the enslaved played in the development of America, and the...

5-STAR REVIEW: SAVING VINCENT by Joan Fernandez

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 9 April 2025

Publication Date: April 15, 2025 For historical fiction fans of women’s untold true stories, an early twentieth century novel about Jo van Gogh who battled the male-dominated art elite in her fifteen-year crusade...

4-STAR REVIEW: THREE COUSINS by Jessica Levine

Historical Fiction Sandy Saucier - 8 April 2025

Publication Date: April 8, 2025 Set during the excitement and tumult of the second wave of feminism and the sexual revolution, this coming-of-age novel about female friendship in the 1970s will appeal to...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE MYSTERIOUS BAKERY ON RUE DE PARIS by Evie Woods

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 7 April 2025

Publication Date: March 27, 2025 Nestled among the cobblestone streets of Compiègne, there existed a bakery unlike any other. Rumours were whispered through the town that its pastries offered a taste of magic, chasing...

5-STAR REVIEW: YANKEELAND by Lacy Fewer

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 27 March 2025

Publication Date: March 25, 2025 Fiercely independent and passionate, Brigid feels hindered by her family and the strict society of her small Irish town in the early 1900s. Brigid and her cousin Molly, who...