Title: The Girl From Venice Author: Martin Cruz Smith Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub Date: 18 October 2016 Genre: Historical Thriller, Venice, WW2, Romantic *Recommended What a lovely world to escape into for a couple of rainy afternoons! Venice during WW2 is fertile ground for romance and other thrilling underworldly goings-on and Martin…
Category: Historical
Sacrifices
Title: Sacrifices Author: Maggie Voysey Paun Publisher: PublishNation Pub. Date: 11 November, 2015 Genre: Mystery, Fiction, Historical After a stroke, Rose is lost in her past where her young son, Joseph, went missing in the African jungle. Lilia, out of a need to understand the mystery behind some of the things she finds out…
Pretty Paper
Title: Pretty Paper Author: Willie Nelson with David Ritz Publisher: Blue Rider Press Pub. Date: 22 November, 2016 This is a warm holiday story made to fit Willie Nelson’s song Pretty Paper. A tale, or fable, as it has been called, that is both a glimpse into the early years of Willie’s career and…
Anna and the Swallow Man
Title: Anna and the Swallow Man Author: Gavriel Savit Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 26 January 2016 Genre: YA, Historical Fiction, War Anna is a young girl in 1939 Poland when the Germans come and take away her father. Left alone to fend for herself, she falls into the care of the Swallow Man, who…
The Last Days of Night
Title: The Last Days of Night Author: Graham Moore Publisher: Random House Pub Date: 16 August 2016 Genre: Historical fiction. Mystery, Drama The billion dollar lawsuit and epic battle between the powerful corporations of Westinghouse and Edison to capture the nation’s electrical future seems to hinge on a beautiful liar, the unreliable ramblings of…
Sick on You
Title: Sick on You Author: Andrew Matheson Publisher: Penguin Random House Publication Date: 2 August, 2016 First off, I put off reading this one because I thought it was a YA romance. I didn’t even look past the bold title on the cover (not the part that actually says what the book…
Eirelan
Title: Eirelan Author: Liam O’Shiel Series: Book 1, Saga of the Latter-Day Celts Publishing platform: CreateSpace Publication Date: November 11, 2011 Genre: Speculative Fiction, Alt-Future, Semi-Medieval Low-Tech Science Fiction, Recommended, Future Historical Fiction First off, I interrupted my reading of this book with several family emergencies, and I always itched to get…
The Infidel Stain
Title: The Infidel Stain Author: M.J. Carter Publisher: Penguin Random House, March 29th, 2016 Series: The Blake and Avery Mystery Series Genre: Historical, Mystery, Crime, Suspense This title is a stand alone novel in the series and does not release until march 29th, so while you are waiting you should read the first in the…
Stormy Weather
Title: Stormy Weather Author: Paulette Jiles Narrator: Colleen Delaney Publisher: HarperAudio, May 8, 2007 Genre: Literary Fiction, Historical, recommended Paulette Jiles is a one of a kind talent, and in honor of her soon to be released title News of the World, (William Morrow, October 4, 2016, pre-order it now) I decided to revisit and…
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