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Songs of the Dead Road by Carolyn Newton

A heavy, sensory wartime story that highlights the power of art and music in the face of tragedy
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https://independentbookreview.com/2026/02/02/songs-of-the-dead-road-by-carolyn-newton/

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Emma Darwin's new novel The Bruegel Boy is available now from Holland House Books. Link below, or search emma darwin the bruegel boy
https://www.emmadarwin.com/the-bruegel-boy/

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Just moved to wandering.shop from my previous server; the wonderful historians.social is fading away at the end of October. I am delighted to be here! I write historical fiction, the Owen Archer mysteries set in 14th c York, the Kate Clifford mysteries set in 15th c York, & the Margaret Kerr trilogy set in early 14th c Scotland. So glad to be here among fellow writers and readers. (Pic is the Maggie, my owner.) #cats #York #medieval #historymystery #historicalnovel

A Journal of the Plague Year

Historical novel by Daniel Defoe
First published 1722

Unlike the massive volume of Robinson Crusoe, AJOFPY is a length accessible to the modern reader. It tells of the author’s experiences during the Great Visitation of 1665, when bubonic plague struck the city of London. A grim picture of life during an epidemic and the gamble the right is taking with our lives.

Defoe was a brilliant writer, one of the first people to write proto-novels in the West. The book doesn’t read like a journalist exposé but as a story set in one of the worst of times.

And no need to pay Amazon for the privilege of reading it. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/376

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Book review, Salman Rushdie's Victory City:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f4534d99-45a8-44e0-a937-81ae9e5afff2

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Poul Anderson's 1960 historical novel The Golden Slave, a roller-coaster ride of action, betrayal and sudden changes in fortune in ancient Rome but with more to it than that. With characters who are not just modern people in historical costume.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/06/poul-andersons-golden-slave.html

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🔥Oh this book is on fire!! 🧯🧯🧯
#ZadieSmith's #biofiction / #historicalnovel The Fraud is based on a famous 19th c criminal trial & features a remarkable Black character, as well as authors #CharlesDickens & William Ainsworth

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1860359825

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The latest issue of #Planet: The Welsh Internationalist quarterly magazine is out and the lovely editors gave me a spot in the #review section. So here's my thoughts in Rebecca F. John's #HistoricalNovel Vulcana, just published this spring by #honno

And if you haven't yet got a subscription for this wonderful indie #magazine from Wales, what's keeping you?

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https://www.planetmagazine.org.uk/planet-online/251/review/rita-singer

Robert Graves had a unique and idiosyncratic approach to historical fiction. Best-known for I, CLAUDIUS but COUNT BELISARIUS, set against the background of Justinian's attempt to reconquer the Roman Empire in the West, is very much worth reading.

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LOVE AND MURDER IN PARIS and Versailles—a gorgeously suspenseful historical novel captures all the opulence and desperate poverty of 17th century France, and the all-consuming court scandal of the Affair of the Poisons. SOLID A

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-disenchantment-celia-bell/1142014152?ean=9780593317174

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