Category: historical fiction
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Book review: The British Booksellers by Kristy Cambron
A poignant story of love rediscovered amidst the backdrop of the Forgotten Blitz bombings.
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Book review: The City by S.C. Mendes
Haunted by his wife’s murder and his child’s disappearance, detective Max Elliot retreats to the opium dens of Chinatown to cope with grief. However, when a gruesome case resembling his wife’s brutal slaying emerges, the police force calls on Elliot’s expertise, leading him into the sinister depths of “The City,”…
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Book review: The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing in the summer of 1962, and her brother is the last person to have seen her. Decades later, the unsettling mystery connects with the life of Norma, a woman who grew up questioning why her skin color differed from her parents. In this gripping…
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Book review: The Girl on the Boat (The Emerald Sisters Book 1) by Kate Hewitt
In 1939, as the SS St Louis sails towards Cuba, Sophie Weiss, her family, her newly made friends, and 900 more German Jews anxiously await their fate, only to be refused entry. Their only offense is being Jewish.
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Book Review: A Long Petal of the Sea
In the late 1930s, civil war grips Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life intertwined…
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Book Review: The Glittering Hour
Selina Lennox is a Bright Young Thing. Her life is a whirl of parties and drinking, pursued by the press and staying on just the right side of scandal, all while running from the life her parents would choose for her. Lawrence Weston is a penniless painter who stumbles into…
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Book Review: The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Love in the time of tragedy is the most sacred form of love. “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” by Heather Morris tells the story of Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, who was plunged into the horrors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death concentration camp meant as the culmination of the anti-Semitic policies of…
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