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The cardinal by Alison Weir – In Another Era
Thomas Wolsey is sent to Oxford by his uncle to be educated as a clergyman, and because of his intelligence he quickly stands out there. He makes a rapid rise and ends up at Court where he eventually serves the young Henry VIII - although the other nobles look down on him because of his…
20 books of Summer: the list – In Another Era
I was already hoping this challenge would not disappear - I would have joined in anyway. But Cathy at 746 Books has handed over the 20 Books of Summer Reading Challenge to two new hosts: Annabel at AnnaBookBel and Emma at Words and Peace. Love it! The concept of the challenge is still the same: the challenge starts at the…
The mourning necklace by Kate Foster – In Another Era
18th century, Edinburgh. Maggie Dickson is found guilty of infanticide and is sentenced to hang by the neck. But a few hours after her hanging, she awakens in her coffin and frightens her family when they are mourning in a pub just outside Edinburgh. Will they hang her twice? Good and kind Maggie was always…
War lord by Bernard Cornwell – In Another Era
Uhtred is old and back in Bebbanburg with Benedetta at his side. But then King Aethelstan, King Guthfrith of Northumbria and the Scottish King Constantine disturb his peace. They all want to become lord of Bebbanburg. When an epic battle between the pagan North and Christian Scotland vs. Aethelstan's dream of Englaland is looming, Uhtred…
The women by Kristin Hannah – In Another Era
When her twin brother Finley leaves for the Vietnam War, Frankie wants to be a hero too. She attends nursing school before leaving to Vietnam to serve in one of the field hospitals. There she finds herself in a daily horror that she wasn't prepared for, but at the same time she finds friendship with…
The sirens by Emilia Hart – In Another Era
When her boyfriend betrays her trust, Lucy starts to sleepwalk again. Subsequently, she loses control during a dream and has to flee. The only place she can think of to go is Cliff House in Comber Bay, where her sister Jess moved in six months ago. Jess and Lucy aren't very close, but surely her…
The queen of four kingdoms by Princess Michael Of Kent – In Another Era
Yolande Of Aragon travels to France to marry Louis II Of Anjou. Their marriage is a peace offer between the two kingdoms after years of fighting over the kingdom of Naples. It's love at first sight between the two of them and Louis is also a close friend of his nephew the French King Charles…
The Cornish witch by Elena Collins – In Another Era
Meghan discovers that her father has a second daughter with his first love who was given up for adoption. She heads to St. Mawgen Cove in Cornwall to search for Emma and for a well-deserved holiday after a painful break-up with her ex-boyfriend. She stays at The Ship's Inn, the only hotel of the town,…
There are rivers in the sky by Elif Shafak – In Another Era
In the 19th century, a boy is born into poverty by the London Thames. A snowflake falls in his face. They name him Arthur, and as a child, he will develop a fascination for the treasures of Nineveh in The British Museum. By that other river the Tigris, in 2014, Narin undertakes a trip to…
Mere by Danielle Giles – In Another Era
Norfolk, 990. Hilda came as a bastard child to the convent that is lead by the strict abbess Sigeburg and has now become the infirmarian. One day the proud Wulfrun joins them while she is searching for a missing servant boy Eadwig in the marshlands around the monastery. His disappearance sets in motion a series…
The queen and the countess by Anne O’Brien – In Another Era
The heiress Anne Beauchamp grants her husband Richard Neville a great deal of wealth and the title “Earl of Warwick” upon their marriage. Richard also supports his cousin-in-law The Duke Of York in his fight against the ill-advised Lancastrian King Henry VI ending in bloodshed in St. Albans. Henry's queen Margaret Of Anjou fights for…
Helen’s judgement by Susan C. Wilson – In Another Era
The beautiful princess Helen is married off to Menelaus of the house Atreus and torn away rather harshly from her former life in Sparta. Menelaus is not a bad husband, but Helen would rather have accepted the young Achilles his proposal. When Prince Paris of Troy comes to stay with them, he sets his eye…
Daughter of exile by Tana Rebellis – In Another Era
Aemilia Lepida finds shelter with her aunt Agrippina and her family after her mother Julia, the younger, is exiled. But as the daughter of an exile, her planned marriage to Claudius fails. She is eventually married off to the minor gentleman Torquatus and tries to find peace in her marriage. Meanwhile, ex-praetorian guard Titus tries…
Mrs Degas by Arthur Japin – In Another Era
The painter Edgar Degas has been blind for some time and is now evicted from his beloved home in Paris. A young woman helps him pack, but also asks him many questions about his time in New Orleans and about his niece Estelle, his one true love. This is the second Arthur Japin novel I…
Historical novels about the Tudors – In Another Era
Similar to my blog post about Greek myth retellings, the idea is to create a list of historical fiction novels set during the Tudor era. I'll not include historical mysteries such as the famous Shardlake books by C.J. Sansom (I'll do a separate list of historical mysteries some day, pinky promise!). Whenever I read a…
Katheryn Howard, the tainted queen by Alison Weir – In Another Era
When Katheryn Howard's mother dies, she ends up in Lambeth in the household of her grandmother Agnes Tilney, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk. Agnes is the guardian of many young ladies from the huge Howard family, and Katheryn notices that those ladies allow men in their room at night. First, Katheryn falls in love with…
The secrets of the rose by Nicola Cornick – In Another Era
Hannah Armstrong heads to her hometown of Bamburgh to investigate the local heroine Grace Darling for her next book, but once there she discovers that her stepmother Diana is hiding some secrets and her childhood friend Aaron is no longer speaking to her twin brother Brandon. While looking into Grace's story, she becomes enchanted by…
The clockwork girl by Anna Mazzola – In Another Era
Paris 1750. Madeleine is recruited as a police spy, une mouche. Her task: to infiltrate as a maid in the household of Mr. Reinhart, a clockmaker, to discover what he is up to with all his strange experiments. Reinhart's daughter Veronique has also just returned home and wants to learn her father's trade. The two…
The burgundians: a vanished empire by Bart Van Loo – In Another Era
Bart Van Loo is a Belgian historian who previously wrote books about Napoleon and France but became really famous in Belgium after releasing his non-fiction book that reads like a novel about the Burgundians. He made a podcast about it, went to every town to give a talk, visited every talk show on tv and…
Go tell the bees that I am gone by Diana Gabaldon – In Another Era
**This is the 9th book in the Outlander series, so if you haven't read it or you are not up to date with the TV series it's best not to read any further because my review will inevitably contain spoilers. ** It's 1797 and it will take two more years until the famous battle of…
My ten favourite books of 2024 – In Another Era
Last week I shared my bookish year in numbers. Now it's time to select my ten favourite reads out of 46 books. I had a great reading year with many books that received 4 or 4,5 stars but no 5-star-reads. Am I becoming a bit picky on what I regard as a top read? Probably.…
My Bookish year in numbers – In Another Era
Time to look back at 2024 in books. And before listing my favourites, I'll start with sharing some numbers based on Goodreads and my bullet journal. General I read 46 books in 2024. That's pretty much around the average for the past few years. Those 46 books accounted for 20,618 pages, which is a record.…
Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn – In Another Era
Thea is the Jewish slavewoman of Lady Lepida Pollia and after a visit to the Colosseum she falls in love with the gladiator Arius whom they call The Barbarian. However, Lepida also has her eye on him. Emperor Domitian, meanwhile, is in power after the death of his brother Titus and his niece Julia is…
The household by Stacey Halls – In Another Era
Charles Dickens and the wealthy banking heiress Angela Bourdett-Coutts establish Urania Cottage in Shepherd's Bush, a home where fallen women are given a second chance. Martha is the first to arrive, looking for a new life, while she's still searching for her missing sister Emily. Not much later, she's joined by Josephine, who has just…
Books I can’t wait to read in 2025 – In Another Era
In less than a few weeks we're already celebrating the New Year. Time to look ahead: which books are going to be published next year that I'm greedy to read? The sirens - Emilia Hart I loved Weyward and liked Hart's writing style, so I'm curious for her next book. The sirens is again a…
The Paris library by Janet Skeslien Charles – In Another Era
Odile has just secured her dream job at the American Library in Paris and soon she makes a new friend Margaret, an Englishwoman. But it's 1939 and war is looming. The Germans are occupying Paris. Her twin brother Remy is in the army, her father and sweetheart Paul remain police officers in the city and…
The Tower by Flora Carr – In Another Era
Mary, Queen of Scots, is pregnant when she is taken prisoner in Lochleven Castle, only accompanied by two of her 'minor' ladies - a Scot named Jane and one of her French ladies nicknamed “Cuckoo”. Mary is not only imprisoned but will be forced to abdicate in favor of her son James. Not much later,…
The graces by Siobhan MacGowan – In Another Era
Rosaleen Moore grows up in the Irish village of Clare with a gift. She sometimes sees what will happen in the future, just like her grandmother who was touched by 'The graces'. The only downside: she predicts the bad things that will happen and that gets her into trouble. She moves to an aunt in…
Joan by Katherine J. Chen – In Another Era
Joan of Arc lives in Donremy, a French village near 'the border' with Burgundy. France is at war with Burgundy and England, and the Dauphin is hiding in Southern France. When Donremy is raided by the English and Joan's sister Catherine is raped, she resolves to take revenge. This takes her on a quest in…
Nero by Conn Iggulden – In Another Era
In his old age, Emperor Tiberius returns to Rome to execute his right-hand man Sejanus in cold blood for taking too much power. When it's later revealed that he was also responsible for the death of Tiberius' only son, the Emperor murders his entire family and all his friends. He also brings back to Rome…
The king’s witch by Tracy Borman – In Another Era
Frances Gorges is the daughter of one of Elizabeth I's favorite ladies. When the queen is dying, Frances tries to ease her suffering with her knowledge of plants and medicine. But when the new King James Stuart comes to London that knowledge is suddenly dangerous. James is on a witch hunt. It's doesn't help Frances…
The rivals of Versailles by Sally Christie – In Another Era
A fortune-teller predicted that young Jeanne-Antoinette Du Poisson would hook a king, and so her her family wants to get her into the bed of Louis XV, King of France. When his favorite mistress Marie-Anne De Mailly-Nesle suddenly dies, she takes her chance. Louis falls for the daring and attractive girl. But the Court does…
The map of bones by Kate Mosse – In Another Era
After a personal trauma, Suzanne Joubert travels with her grandmother Florence to Southern Africa, a Dutch colony hosting French refugees - mostly Huguenots. Besides finding a new home, Suzanne wants to find out the truth about Louise Joubert-Reydon, who disappeared several decades ago after arriving in the same country. 100 years later, Isabelle Lepard also…
A divine fury by D.V. Bishop – In Another Era
Cesare Aldo has been tasked with night patrol for many months now by secretario Bindi because of a past conflict. But during one of his patrols, he finds a corpse in a public piazza pointing to the church and the victim had his tongue cut in two. Together with Carlo Strocchi, he must find the…
Lady of the English – In Another Era
When Matilda's husband, the German emperor, suddenly dies, she returns to the court of her father Henry I in England. The latter has remarried Adeliza Of Louvain but the couple remains childless, so Matilda becomes the heir to the throne. But the court does not like the idea of a queen in her own right…
The armor of light by Ken Follett – In Another Era
Sal Clitheroe loses her husband in a stupid accident caused by the squire Will Riddick. Afterwards, Will also beats her son Kit. She decides to leave for Kingsbridge where she knows only Amos Barrowfield for whom she spins wool. The latter has just inherited his father's business but gets into conflict with the nobleman Hornbeam.…
20 books of Summer: the recap – In Another Era
Oh yes, I almost forgot to write a recap for this challenge hosted by Cathy of 746 books who recently announced that it was the last time she is hosting this one. She did an amazing job all these years, so many thanks! And I hope the challenge will continue in some form. This challenge started…
Queen hereafter by Susan Fraser King – In Another Era
Margaret travels with her family to England from Hungary, as her father Edward the Exile is heir to the English throne. But Edward dies a few days after their arrival, and when the old king (Edward The Confessor) dies, William of Normandy invades the kingdom to claim the throne. Margaret flees with her mother, sister…
Weyward by Emilia Hart – In Another Era
In the 17th century, Altha Weyward is in custody for killing a man by witchcraft and awaiting trial. In the mid-20th century, young Violet Ayres is shielded from the world by her father, she knows nothing about her mother - who died suddenly - until she finds a mysteriously carved W in her bedroom. In…