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We were the lucky ones by Georgia Hunter – In Another Era
When the Germans invade Poland, the Polish Jewish family Kurc is broken up. Brothers Genek and Jakob travel to Lviv to fight in the Polish army, but that city is taken by the Russians not much later. Mila and her daughter Felicia move back in with her parents in Radom, where her younger sister Halina…
The queen’s lady by Joanna Hickson – In Another Era
Joan Vaux, Lady Guildford, is a close servant and friend to Queen Elizabeth Of York. But when the heir to the throne Arthur suddenly dies soon after his marriage to the Spanish princess Catherine Of Aragon, Elizabeth is determined to give the king another son. When she dies in childbirth, king Henry VII is so…
Seven stones to stand or fall by Diana Gabaldon – In Another Era
Seven Stones to stand or fall collects seven short novellas from the Outlander universe. So this will be a short review as I can't give a summary, neither can I tell a lot about all these stories as they might contain spoilers for the big books. There are three short stories about Lord John Grey,…
Medea by Rosie Hewlett – In Another Era
Medea was born a princess of Colchis with a gift from the goddess Hecate: magic - just like her aunt Circe. But her father abhors magic, until he begins to see that it's also a powerful weapon. When Colchis obtains the Golden Fleece that makes its owner invincible, all heroes of Greece and beyond flock…
The stone rose by Carol McGrath – In Another Era
Isabella of France is betrothed to the English heir to the throne - the later Edward II. As queen, she soon notices that Edward is under the influence of his favourite Piers Gaveston. It's even whispered that the two are intimate. Isabella doesn't believe any of this and also finds it exaggerated when her uncle…
The other Gwyn girl by Nicola Cornick – In Another Era
In the 17th century, Rose Gwyn ends up in jail when she tried to steal the crown jewels with her husband. She has to plead with her sister Nell, the king's famous mistress, for her freedom. In the 21st century, Jess moves to Fortune Hall where her famous sister Tavy is running a TV show,…
The ghost ship by Kate Mosse – In Another Era
Louise Reydon-Joubert travels to Paris with her grandparents Minou and Piet to collect her father's inheritance who died together with Louise's mother Martha. But when the king is assassinated, it's no longer safe for Huguenots in the city. Louise does now have enough money to support her own household in La Rochelle, a protestant stronghold,…
Stormbird by Conn Iggulden – In Another Era
William De La Pole and Derry Brewer seek a way to obtain peace in the Hundred-Years War between England and France - at the request of king Henry VI who is nothing like his warlike father Henry V. A marriage between Henry and the French princess Margaret Of Anjou is thus in the making. But…
The rose code by Kate Quinn – In Another Era
Osla Kendall is a Canadian debutante in London who meets Prince Philip of Greece just before the start of WWII. However, Osla wants to be more than a silly society girl and so is called up to work at Bletchley Park. On the train, she meets Mab who has also received a note to work…
I am Livia by Phillys T. Smith – In Another Era
Livia Drusilla's father and her brand-new husband Claudius Tiberius Nero side with Brutus and the republic after Caesar's assassination. When Mark Antony and Caesar's young heir Octavian join forces against the assassins, Livia must flee the city with her husband and infant son Tiberius. In their flight, they escape death several times and on her…
The eighth life by Nino Haratischwili – In Another Era
In a small Georgian town, a chocolatier is famous for his hot chocolate recipe. His four daughters help him with the business, but meanwhile calls for Georgian independence clash with the revolution launched by Lenin and his Bolsheviks in Russia. Two of the daughters, Stasia and Christine will both find love and much grief in…
Time and chance by Sharon Kay Penman – In Another Era
Eleanor and Henry have been rulers of a vast empire from England to Aquitaine for several years. The Plantagenet dynasty also seems secure when they sire son after son. But such a vast empire creates many challenges and uprisings from Wales to Brittany. And when Henry appoints his chancellor Thomas Becket archbishop of Canterbury, he…
My ten favourite books of 2023 – In Another Era
Last week you got an insight into my bookish year in numbers, today I present you with my 10 favourite reads. All my five-star books are of course included and then there was the difficult choice to pick six books from all those four-star-books. I decided to list the books that I still remember very well…
My Bookish year in numbers – In Another Era
Time to have a look at my 2023 reading year. You can find my Year in books from Goodreads here, but I keep additional data in my bullet journal. General I read 43 books in 2023. Three books less than in 2022 and three books more than my reading goal of 40. These 43 books…
The revels by Stacey Thomas – In Another Era
When Nicholas Pearce's half-brother dies in the Civil War, he is summoned home as a replacement by his not-so-loving father. Besides, Nicholas hides a deadly secret: he hears the voices of the dead. To his disdain, his father sends him along with a famous witch hunter and so Nicholas becomes everything he loathes. I was…
Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Alison Weir – In Another Era
After their father's death, Anna's brother Wilhelm becomes Duke of Kleve and forges a plan to marry his sister to King Henry VIII of England, who has just lost his third wife in childbirth. To do so, Anna must leave her past secrets behind in Kleve. She unwillingly becomes the Protestant hope of the reformists…
Books I can’t wait to read in 2024 – In Another Era
With 2024 around the corner, I took a look at the list of books that will be published in 2024. And I made up this list of the releases I'm eagerly awaiting. Hera - Jennifer Saint My next Greek myth fix from Saint will be about the goddess of goddesses: Hera, wife of Zeus. Expected…
Atalanta by Jennifer Saint – In Another Era
Being a baby girl and not a boy to the king of Arcadia, Atalanta is abandoned on a mountaintop. Raised by a she-bear, she ends up with the nymphs under the protection of the goddess Artemis. In the woods, Atalanta becomes a lightning-fast runner and embraces her talent for archery. When Jason call for all…
The bone fire by S.D. Sykes – In Another Era
Oswald De Lacy flees with his family to his friend Godfrey's remote Castle Eden to escape the plague. Oswald knows from experience with the previous outbreak that it will kill without mercy and he wants to protect his son Hugh, his wife Filomena and his aging mother. Godfrey locks in a strange bunch of people…
The lady of the ravens by Joanna Hickson – In Another Era
While visiting the fallen queen Margaret Of Anjou as a child, Joan Vaux discovers the legend behind the ravens of The Tower Of London. Should they ever leave the building, the kingdom will fall. Not much later, Joan enters the household of Margaret Beaufort. When Margaret's son Henry Tudor wins the throne at the battle…
Little by Edward Carey – In Another Era
Although small in stature Marie Grosholtz becomes a maid for the doctor Curtius together with her mother. When they move to Paris, they start a business in wax heads. That way, Marie gets in touch with the court of Versailles, but the French Revolution lurks around the corner. It seemed interesting to read something about…
The temple of Fortuna by Elodie Harper – In Another Era
In this third volume of The Wolf Den trilogy, we meet Amara in Rome as the wealthy concubine of Demetrius, former counselor to the just-deceased emperor Vespasian. But Amara still longs for her old lover Philos and her daughter Rufina who reside in Pompeii. But several challenges will await her in Pompeii: her old pimp…
Lamentation by C.J. Sansom – In Another Era
$In 1546, King Henry VIII's health is deteriorating. The court splits into two factions: the Catholics who want a return to Rome and the reformists who absolutely want to avoid that. Queen Catherine Parr is also in the fireline, especially after the burning of Anne Askew. When Matthew Shardlake is summoned to Whitehall to help…
Wolves of winter by Dan Jones – In Another Era
After the battle of Crécy, Loveday Fitztalbot and young Romford along with the other remaining Essex dogs hope to receive their pay to return home. But the war is not over and King Edward III is keen to capture a port city under the English flag. His eye falls on Calais, but that will be…
Written in my own heart’s blood by Diana Gabaldon – In Another Era
I've been a huge Outlander fan ever since I read the first book before watching the first season of the TV series. Unlike some others, I also liked the later books focusing more on John Grey and his family - maybe because I read the full John Grey series in between. The seventh book The…
War of the wolf by Bernard Cornwell – In Another Era
Uhtred has finally become lord of Bebbanburg. Shortly afterwards, he's already lured out of the castle on a mission to Mercia as Aethelstan is under siege in Ceaster. Meanwhile, the Norsh leader Skoll is advancing in Northumbria and he's determinded to kill Uhtred and his son-in-law Sygtriggr to become king of Northumbria. In Wessex, King…
Disobedient by Elizabeth Fremantle – In Another Era
Artemisia Gentileschi helps her father Orazio with his work as a painter and it soon becomes clear that she may be more gifted than he is. However, when commissions aren't coming in as much as they hoped, Orazio wants to marry his daughter off to a wealthy husband. When Agostino Tassi enters Artemisia's life to…
The heretic queen by Michelle Moran – In Another Era
Being the niece of the heretic pharaoh Nefertiti - wife of Achanaton who abandoned the Gods, Nefertari is not exactly popular among the Egyptian courtiers. Fortunately, the future pharaoh Ramses is her best friend. However, when he marries the harem girl Iset, Nefertari realises she must become his chief wife in order to ensure her…
20 books of summer: the recap – In Another Era
I don't know about you but I'm even sadder than normal about the summer coming to an end. Here in Belgium, we had a very wet summer and spring was also not so sunny, so I'm hoping on an Indian Summer now. This also means that the 20 books of summer challenge hosted by Cathy…
Cities of women by Kathleen B. Jones – In Another Era
After a personal tragedy, Beatrice has to flee her home along with her mother which means she also has to give up her dream of becoming a book illuminator. In the 21st century, historian Verity is captured by a folio containing an illustration in a book by the medieval French writer Catherine De Pizan. Cities…
The steel beneath the silk by Patricia Bracewell – In Another Era
Emma of Normandy seeks an alliance with Thorkell who has deserted the Danes, driving a wedge between herself and her young son Edward. King Swein Forkbeard and his son Cnut - with the english Elgiva at his side - still want to conquer England from her increasingly elderly husband Aethelred II. And it looks like…
The darkest sin by D.V. Bishop – In Another Era
Otto officer Cesare Aldo is summoned to a women's convent at the behest of a wealthy merchant because there are rumours of men intruding at night. Once he gets in, a bloodied corpse of a naked man is found - stabbed more than a dozen times. One of the nuns is a killer, or so…
Review from the past: Once upon a river by Diane Setterfield – In Another Era
I started this book blog in August 2020, during one of the covid lockdowns. But of course, I’ve been reading historical fiction for a much longer time. Since 2012, I keep a record of every book I read on Goodreads and since 2014 I write reviews in Dutch on Goodreads. It’s nice to still have…
The women of Troy by Pat Barker – In Another Era
After the fall of Troy, all male Trojans (men, children and babies alike) have been slaughtered by the Greeks and the women divided among the great victors. In the meantime, Briseis has married Alcimus after the death of Achilles - by whom she is pregnant - and thus enjoys a little more freedom in the…
Hild by Nicola Griffith – In Another Era
When Hild's father Hereric, heir to the throne of Elmet, is poisoned, she moves with her mother and sister Hereswith to the court of her uncle King Edwin. Hild's mother Breguswith has ambitions for both her daughters, especially for Hild because she has dreamt that she will be 'The light of the world'. Hild receives…
In her own right by Amanda Schiavo – In Another Era
Mary is the only living child of her father Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon. She's the apple of his eye at court until he casts aside her mother for Anne Boleyn. Catherine is exiled, the catholic faith abandoned and Mary has to serve her new half-sister Elizabeth while being called a bastard herself.…
Venus in winter by Gillian Bagwell – In Another Era
At the age of twelve, Bess of Hardwick is sent away from home to serve in Lady Zouche's household. When Lady Zouche goes to Henry VIII's court as a lady in waiting to his fourth wife Anne Of Cleves, Bess witnesses first hard what it's like to be out of favour with the king. She…
City of vengeance by D.V. Bishop – In Another Era
Ex-soldier Cesare Aldo now works for the Otto - a kind of 16th-century Florentine police force - and must escort the Jew Samuel Levi safely from Bologna to Florence. However, they are attacked on the way home. Meanwhile in Florence, a young man dressed in women's clothes is murdered. Just before he dies, he utters…
Review from the past: Queen’s gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle – In Another Era
I started this book blog in August 2020, during one of the covid lockdowns. But of course, I've been reading historical fiction for a much longer time. Since 2012, I keep a record of every book I read on Goodreads and since 2014 I write reviews in Dutch on Goodreads. It's nice to still have…