Title: Simon the Fiddler Author: Paulette Jiles Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Year of Release: 2020 Genre: Historical Fiction, Military History, Civil War, Adventure Fiction, Western Release Date: 20th April 2020 Rating: 🌟🌟 Synopsis In March 1865, the long and bitter War between the States is winding down. Till now, twenty-three-year-old Simon Boudlin has evaded military…
Title: This Lovely City Author: Louise Hare Publisher: Harper Collins Australia Genre: Historical Fiction, Fiction Year of release: 2020 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Release: 24th February 2020 Synopsis The drinks are flowing. The music’s playing. But the party can’t last. London, 1950. With the Blitz over and London still rebuilding after the war, jazz musician Lawrie Matthews…
Author: Pip Williams Publisher: Affirm Press Year of Release: 2020 Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction Release Date: 31st March 2020 Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and…
Author: Kerry Barrett Year of release: 2020 Publisher: HQ Digital UK, Harper Collins Publishers UK Genre: Historical Fiction, Woman’s Fiction, Crime and thriller Release date: 2nd June 2020 Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis London, 1910. Twenty-one-year-old Esther Watkins would do anything for the Suffragette cause. Imprisoned, force-fed and beaten, she is determined to fight for what she believes is right –…
Author: Tea Cooper Year of Release: 2019 Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Australia Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery Release Date: 16th December 2019 Rating:🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis Maitland 1913. Miss Elizabeth Quinn is something of an institution in Maitland Town. For longer than anyone could remember she and her brother, businessman Michael, have lived in the impressive two-storey stone…
Author: Ann Patchett Year of release: 2019 Publisher: Bloomsbury Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction Release Date 24TH September 2019 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His…
Author: Kerri Turner Year of release: 2020 Publisher: Harlequin Australia Genre: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Wartime, WW11, Women’s Fiction An enthralling story of one woman’s determined grab for freedom after WW2 from a talented new Australian voice. ‘PART CABARET, PART BURLESQUE, AND LIKE NOTHING YOU’VE EVER SEEN BEFORE! GENTLEMEN, AND LADIES IF YOU’VE DARED TO COME, WELCOME…
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert Year of Release: 2019 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Release Date: June 4th 2019 Genre: Historical, Modern & Contemporary, Fiction, General Fiction, Fiction Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 “Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live.”― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls Synopsis In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing…
Author: Anne Enright Year of Release: 2020 Publisher: Penguin Random House UK Release Date: 18th February 2020 Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, General Fiction Rating: 🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theatre legend. As her daughter Norah retraces her mother’s celebrated career and bohemian life, she delves into long-kept secrets, both her mother’s…
Author: Bridgett Collins Year of release: 2019 Publisher Harper Collins Australia Genre: Fantasy, Historical Fiction, LGBT, Romance Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis Books are dangerous things in Collins’s alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-century England. It’s a world in which people visit book binders to rid themselves of painful or treacherous memories. Once their stories…
