Genre Historical Fiction Books

North by Northanger

Mr & Mrs Darcy Mystery - Volume 3

Carrie Bebris is writing a series of books as ‘sequels’ to the original Jane Austen novel, Pride and Prejudice and I have read a few of them now. I really like them. Ms Bebris has captured the flavour of the original books extremely well; she is true to all the characters (although I’m horribly shocked [...]

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Pride and Prejudice

Review of "Pride and Prejudice" to come

The System of the World

The Baroque Cycle - Book 3

Review of "The System of the World" to come

The Confusion

The Baroque Cycle - Book 2

Review of "The Confusion" to come

And Less Than Kind

The Doubled Edge - Book 4

Review of "And Less Than Kind" to come

By Slanderous Tongues

The Doubled Edge - Book 3

This is the 3rd book in Lackey’s prequel series about elves – I haven’t read the ‘later’ series, but I am confused why I don’t have reviews of Books 1 and 2 here – I have certainly read them! Perhaps it was just before I started this site a year ago? Doesn’t seem that long [...]

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Quicksilver

The Baroque Cycle - Book 1

Neal Stephenson’s work are always intricate works, and this is no exception. I read it on my ipod touch, as I had given an ebook copy of The Baroque Cycle to my husband several years ago, but never had means to read it myself. On the ipod it comes out to over 3000 pages, although [...]

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Northhanger Abbey

My daughter gave me a copy for Christmas, as we were missing it from the shelves. Love that girl so much! … Northhanger Abbey is, of course, classic Jane Austen. It is apparently, the first book she completed, but for unknown reasons the publisher who purchased it allowed it to languish – eventually she bought [...]

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