Tag: Historical Fiction
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The Best Historical Fiction Books I’ve Read – 8 I’d Genuinely Recommend
Historical fiction is one of my favourite genres, but I’m quite picky about it. I want the history to actually matter. I want to feel immersed in a period, understand how people were shaped by it, and come away feeling like the setting was more than just decorative wallpaper. The books I tend to love…
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May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry: Historical Fiction That Feels Genuinely Different
May We Feed the King was one of those books I picked up because the premise sounded unusual. Historical fiction is one of my favourite genres, so I read quite a lot of it. That also means it can sometimes take a lot for a historical novel to feel genuinely fresh. When I spotted this…
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The Tarot Reader of Versailles by Anya Bergman: Revolution, Tarot and a 4-Star Read
This post contains affiliate links. If you buy through one of these links, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I picked up The Tarot Reader of Versailles by Anya Bergman after seeing it talked about quite a lot and then spotting it in Sainsbury’s for about £8 (plus it…
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Babylonia by Costanza Casati: Power, Passion and a Woman Who Refuses to Stay Small
It took me a while to get round to reading Babylonia but having seen the reviews I was expecting a rich historical retelling. I kid you not, I came out of it completely obsessed. This book was bold, brutal, and utterly addictive storytelling at its finest – I genuinely could not put it down. Set…
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July Reading Wrap-Up
I’m not entirely sure how we’ve reached the end of July already, but somehow here we are – and I managed to read 7 books, and a grand total of 2,326 pages along the way. There was true crime, feminist non-fiction, memoir, forensic science, historical fiction and bit of literary fiction for good measure. A…
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Perspectives by Laurent Binet: Whodunnit in Florence
Have you ever picked up a book and thought, “Wait…have I ever read anything quite like this before?”. That was me, immediately after reading the prologue of Persepctives by Laurent Binet. Told entirely through 176 letters exchanged between a host of very real, very dramatic figures from Renaissance Florence, Perspectives is part murder mystery, part…
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Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall: Tears, Trials and Tangled Hearts
I can’t stop thinking about Broken Country. I was completely obsessed with this book – so much so that I found myself pausing at certain moments to take it all in. I’ve never teared up reading a book before, but when I reached those final few pages, I realised I had tears in my eyes.…
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