Historical Fiction Archives

5-STAR REVIEW: THE GERMAN NEXT DOOR By Gosia Nealon

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 29 May 2025

Publication Date: May 28, 2025 Poland, 1943. “We owe you our lives.” The elderly woman clasps my hands before climbing the attic ladder to hide with her family. I am filled with anger,...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE BELGIAN GIRLS by Kathryn J. Atwood

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 28 May 2025

Publication Date: May 8, 2025 I have just been condemned to death. I will be shot tomorrow. Long live the King. Long live Belgium. When the Germans overrun Brussels during the First World War,...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE EMERALD TWINS by Helen Fripp

Book Reviews Amy Wilson - 26 May 2025

Publication Date: May 22, 2025 An impossible choice. Three generations of secrets. And an unbreakable promise. France, 1944. In an opulent hotel room above the streets of Paris, a mother sobs and clutches her twin...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: EVERY HOUR UNTIL THEN by Gabrielle Meyer

Time Travel Amy Wilson - 20 May 2025

Timeless Series: Book 5 Publication Date: May 20, 2025 Gifted with the ability to time-cross between Victorian-era London and World War II Washington, DC, Kathryn faces two lives fraught with danger. In 1938 amid...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE ARTIST AND THE FEAST by Lucy Steeds

Women's Fiction Amy Wilson - 9 May 2025

Publication Date: May 6, 2025 Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction, The Artist and the Feast is a captivating novel of love, art, food, desire and thwarted ambition, which builds propulsively over one...

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....