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Historical

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The Hive’s latest HISTORICAL FICTION book reviews!


  • Book ReviewsHistoricalSpeculative
    By Lucy Nield
    June 14, 2022
    156
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    THE DARK BETWEEN THE TREES by Fiona Barnett (BOOK REVIEW)

    ‘Alice was a historian, which meant that part of her wanted that connection to people over the centuries, people who would never and could never meet ...
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  • Book ReviewsHistoricalTranslation
    By Jonathan Thornton
    April 21, 2022
    381
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    The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman, The Arabic Epic of Dhat Al-Himma (edited and translated by Melanie Magidow, 2022) BOOK REVIEW

    “When Mazlum told her of her uncle’s suggestion, Fatima laughed outright. Then her eyes flashed and she spoke softly. ‘I swear, even if the most powerful ...
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  • Alternate HistoryBook ReviewsFantasyHistoricalHistorical
    By Jonathan Thornton
    August 24, 2021
    893
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    A MAN LIES DREAMING & THE LUNACY COMMISSION by Lavie Tidhar (BOOK REVIEWS)

    “But there you are wrong, for this is no longer the world you knew, the world any of us knew. That world is dead, everything is ...
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  • Book ReviewsHistoricalScience Fiction
    By Jonathan Thornton
    January 14, 2021
    1231
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    THE OLD DRIFT by Namwali Serpell (BOOK REVIEW)

    “Indeed, the workings of animal biology seemed to mirror the workings of human society. Joseph’s ecology lecturer introduced the students to three terms for how organisms ...
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  • Book ReviewsHistoricalHorror
    By James Latimer
    June 15, 2020
    1588
    1

    RING SHOUT by P. Djèlí Clark (Book Review)

    I have been following the career of P. Djèlí Clark for some time (including a review and interview on this site) so when the e-ARC of ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyHistorical
    By T.O. Munro
    June 15, 2020
    1280
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    DARK RIVER by Rym Kechacha (Book Review)

    I’ve been keen to read Rym Kechacha’s debut novel “Dark River” from the moment I heard about its central premise, twin timelines set 8000 years apart ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyHistoricalHistorical
    By Nils Shukla
    February 18, 2020
    1351
    2

    LANCELOT by Giles Kristian (Book Review)

    ‘I feel like a ghost myself. A soul lingering long after the body has been given to the flame or earth. Seeking all that it has ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyHistoricalHistorical
    By Nils Shukla
    November 7, 2019
    1562
    2

    THE PURSUIT OF WILLIAM ABBEY by Claire North (Book Review)

    ‘The Great War had been coming for such a long time. It was born in the hearts of our ruling men the day they were held ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyHistoricalHistorical
    By T.O. Munro
    January 29, 2019
    2800
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    Where Oblivion Lives by T. Frohock (Book Review)

    Where Oblivion Lives takes us once more into Frohock’s world of Los Nefilim –  a fantasy creation overlaid on historical reality as intrinsically and indivisibly as ...
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  • Books and Booze (Feature)
    Books and BoozeFeaturesHistorical
    By T L Greylock
    October 19, 2017
    2198
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    Books & Booze: The Lions of Al-Rassan

    Warning: this edition of Books & Booze contains Stage 9 Book Adoration Let’s just get this out of the way, and then maybe we can level ...
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