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September 08, 2013

Book Review: Royal Inheritance

September 08, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

Pretty young Audrey has grown up in the Tudor court thinking she's the daughter of King Henry VIII's tailor - but what if her real father is the king himself?

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historical fiction, Keeping up with the tudors, September 2013, tudor fiction
July 31, 2013

Book Review: The White Princess

July 31, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

"The Cousins' War" - Philippa Gregory's ongoing novelization of the Wars of the Roses - reaches an epic turning point in her latest book, about the precarious founding of the Tudor dynasty

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August 2013, fiction, historical fiction, Keeping up with the tudors, Philippa Gregory, tudor fiction
July 28, 2013

Book Review: Night Pilgrims

July 28, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The latest events in the life of immortal, imperturbable Count Saint-Germain find him in Crusades-era Egypt

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July 28, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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historical fiction, July 2013, Vampires
July 27, 2013

Book Review: Insert Title Here

July 27, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

Rousing naval action and atmospheric period drama share the stage in S. Thomas Russell's latest novel, by any other name

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July 27, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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fiction, historical fiction, July 2013
June 22, 2013

In Paperback: The Malice of Fortune

June 22, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

Two of the most famous names of the Italian Renaissance - Machiavelli and Leonardo Da Vinci - team up to untangle a series of horrific murders!

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June 22, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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historical fiction, June 2013, leonardo da vinci, Machiavelli
May 22, 2013

Book Review: Sacred Games

May 22, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

As if the tensions between Athens and Sparta at the 80th Olympiad weren't bad enough, now there's a dead Spartan - and the chief suspect is Athenian. Young everyman investigator Nico is on the case.

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May 22, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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historical fiction, May 2013, Steve Donoghue
April 03, 2013

Book Review: Roses Have Thorns

April 03, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A young Swedish girl travels to England and becomes a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I herself

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April 03, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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April 2013, fiction, historical fiction, Keeping up with the tudors, tudor fiction
April 02, 2013

Book Review: The Chalice

April 02, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

An intelligent, sensitive Dominican novice finds herself at the heart of passionate conspiracies in the England of Henry VIII

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April 02, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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April 2013, fiction, historical fiction, Keeping up with the tudors, tudor fiction
March 30, 2013

Book Review: The Tale of Raw Head & Bloody Bones

March 30, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

Jack Wolf's risk-taking debut explores the boundaries of insanity and rationality

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March 30, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, historical fiction, March 2013
March 24, 2013

Classics Reissued: Shadows and Strongholds

March 24, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

In a welcome reprint, a brave but untried young 12th century knight must learn how to fight - and take a bride

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fiction, historical fiction, March 2013
March 19, 2013

Book Review: All the Light There Was

March 19, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

In this historical novel, the Armenian community of Paris negotiates the arrival of the Nazis - and a young girl navigates her first romance

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March 19, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, historical fiction, March 2013, world war two
March 14, 2013

Book Review: After Rome

March 14, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

When Roman troops left Britain forever, the locals were forced to fend for themselves - and in Morgan Llywelyn's latest historical novel, two cousins take two very different approaches to a world after Rome.

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fiction, historical fiction, March 2013
February 09, 2013

Book Review: The Aviator's Wife

February 09, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A new novel tells the story of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, famous author and wife of an even more famous jerk.

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February 09, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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Charles Lindbergh, February 2013, fiction, historical fiction
January 10, 2013

Book Review: The Midwife's Tale

January 10, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A formidable York midwife must use all her skill and human insight to save the life of a friend accused of murder

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January 10, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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fiction, historical fiction, January 2013, mystery
November 30, 2012

Entitled to Extravagance: Some Historical Fictions of Anthony Burgess

November 30, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Some of Anthony Burgess' most accomplished inventions roam into the past, to Shakespeare and Marlowe's England and Jesus' Judea. How well has his historical fiction stood up across the years?

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Fiction, Literary Criticism, Arts & Life
Anthony Burgess, December 2012, fiction, gore vidal, Hamlet, historical fiction, James Joyce, literary criticism, Michael Moorcock, Robert Graves, Salman Rushdie, shakespeare, Steve Donoghue, virginia woolf
November 29, 2012

Book Review: Kafka in Love

November 29, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Franz Kafka was eternally affianced but never married - maybe more in love with the concept of love than with any particular woman. A new novel intensely dramatizes the writer and his passions.

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November 29, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, historical fiction, Kafka, November 2012
November 11, 2012

Book Review: Princess Elizabeth's Spy

November 11, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The redoubtable WWII code-breaking sleuth Maggie Hope returns, this time to safeguard the young girl who will one day come to the throne as Queen Elizabeth II

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November 11, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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historical fiction, Keeping up with the Windsors, mystery, November 2012
September 18, 2012

Book Review: Blood Eye (Raven, Book One)

September 18, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Now in the U.S.: an epic, gore-spattered series about a roving band of Viking warriors!

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September 18, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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fiction, historical fiction, September 2012, vikings
September 15, 2012

Book Review: The Unfaithful Queen

September 15, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Young, vain, unfaithful Catherine Howard, Henry VIII's fifth wife, regularly draws writers intent on finding heroism in her brief life & times; Carolly Erickson is the latest aspirant.

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September 15, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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fiction, historical fiction, September 2012, tudor fiction
September 15, 2012

Book Review: I, Jane

September 15, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The meek and dutiful Jane Seymour, mother of Henry VIII's long-sought male heir, takes center stage in a new historical novel about her life and times.

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September 15, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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fiction, historical fiction, jane seymour, Keeping up with the tudors, September 2012, tudor fiction
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