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Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell: The Act Of Grief [Review]

September 27, 2020October 8, 2020 BookerTalk 25 Comments Book Reviews, Hamnet, historical fiction, Maggie O'Farrell

From the day she learned about the early death of William Shakespeare’s son, Maggie O’Farrell was haunted by the connection

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Book Reviews British authors 

Gillespie and I by Jane Harris: masterful deception [book review]

July 21, 2020July 21, 2020 BookerTalk 12 Comments historical fiction, Jane Harris, OrangePrize

I picked up Gillespie and I by Jane Harris in an airport bookshop, hoping it would keep me so engrossed

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Sample Sunday: 3 historical fiction novels

June 20, 2020January 24, 2021 BookerTalk 10 Comments C J Sansom, historical fiction, James Bradley, John Boyne, TBR, World War 1

I need your help to decide whether to keep three historical fiction novels I have had on my “owned but

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Alis Hawkins and the reader’s machine gun test #Cwtch Corner

June 12, 2019December 16, 2019 BookerTalk 3 Comments Alis Hawkins, Cwtch Corner, historical crime fiction, historical fiction, Sphere Books, Welsh literature

Cwtch Corner: where authors from Wales get to talk about their work, what inspires their writing and their favourite authors

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Now We Shall be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller [book review]

October 19, 2018October 14, 2020 BookerTalk 18 Comments Andrew Miller, historical fiction

Now We Shall be Entirely Free is an atmospheric adventure tale, set at the height of the Napoleonic wars, that

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