Category Archives: Historical Fiction

What Angels Fear by C.S. Harris

Posted on April 10, 2015 by bseat

Sebastian Alistair St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, a title he received when his elder brothers died much to the chagrin and disappointment of his father, the Fifth Earl of Hendon, was having a very troublesome day. In the very early hours … Continue reading →

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

Posted on March 6, 2015 by bseat

“Disturbingly fabulous” is what one reader said about this book and I have to agree.  There is the lyrical prose that Flanagan uses while describing the horrors of how the Japanese used POWs to build the Thai-Burma railway, the deep … Continue reading →

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The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Posted on February 13, 2015 by bseat

What a stunning surprise to open a recently written book whose style is reminiscent of of a great 19th century novel by Dickens or Wilkie Collins!  With an intricate plot of grave misunderstandings, murder, a missing person, a great love, … Continue reading →

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All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Posted on February 6, 2015 by bseat

In a small town in Germany a young boy and his sister, find a radio. The boy, Werner, is remarkably adept at figuring out how to repair it and soon he and his sister and the other orphans who live with … Continue reading →

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The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

Posted on January 23, 2015 by bseat

Our narrator is a repulsive man. A self obsessed pornagrapher and drug user, he is driving on a lonely stretch of wilderness road with an open bottle of bourbon in his lap. As he reaches for it the bottle it … Continue reading →

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All Soul’s Trilogy by Deborah Harkness

Posted on January 9, 2015 by bseat

Witches, magic, hidden manuscripts, a sexy vampire, time travel- it is all here in this wonderful trilogy by Deborah Harkness. Beginning in A Discovery of Witches we are introduced to Diana Bishop, a descendant of  one of the Salem witches … Continue reading →

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Love and Treasure by Ayelet Waldman

Posted on September 26, 2014 by bseat

One of the last things her grandfather did was give Natalie a necklace and ask her to find the owner and return it.  He had acquired the rather remarkable necklace with the peacock design during the war in 1945 and … Continue reading →

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Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Posted on September 5, 2014 by bseat

Ursula Beresford Todd was born on a snowy February day in 1910, and then she died. On the same snowy day in February, 1910, Ursula was born again, into the same loving family as before.  She does not realize that … Continue reading →

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The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon

Posted on August 1, 2014 by bseat

Sometimes reading a book becomes a long term commitment, in this case, a commitment of 23 years and counting!  When I read Outlander, the first book in this series in the early 1990’s I was hooked by the characters, the … Continue reading →

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Pendragon’s Banner Trilogy by Helen Hollick

Posted on July 4, 2014 by bseat

Do you remember the feeling when a book opened your eyes and you had this amazing “Aha!” moment?  Well one of my favorite memories of that was when I read The Once and Future King by T. H White and … Continue reading →

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