by envisionmg | Nov 29, 2021 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Staff Reading
“Clementine is a seventy-two year-old reformed con artist with a penchant for impeccably tailored suits. Her life of crime has led her from the uber-wealthy perfume junkies of belle epoque Manhattan, to the scented butterflies of Costa Rica, to the spice markets...
by envisionmg | Nov 18, 2021 | Historical Fiction, Staff Picks
This House is Haunted by John Boyne “This House Is Haunted is a striking homage to the classic nineteenth-century ghost story. Set in Norfolk in 1867, Eliza Caine responds to an ad for a governess position at Gaudlin Hall. When she arrives at the hall, shaken by...
by envisionmg | Nov 8, 2021 | Historical Fiction, Staff Picks
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid “Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job,...
by envisionmg | Apr 27, 2020 | Historical Fiction, Staff Review
Having just finished The Nightingale, a wonderful novel by Kristin Hannah, I was so excited to read it’s in production to become a movie, with an expected release date of December 2020! I’m not surprised The Nightingale was Goodreads Best Historical fiction...
by envisionmg | Feb 27, 2019 | Historical Fiction, Jen Recommends
London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation despite their nation’s recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin,...
by envisionmg | Nov 19, 2018 | Historical Fiction, Jim Reviews
I have to say I can’t actually remember how I stumbled on this book. I may have been trolling the internet for historical fiction and found it that way. At any rate I ended up with this rather esoteric work of historical fiction that I loved. Sadly we...
