Changes

Newest Historical Fiction Reviews (view source)

Revision as of 12:44, 15 January 2014

280 bytes removed , 12:44, 15 January 2014

no edit summary

[[Category:Historical Fiction|*]]

[[Category:New Reviews|Historical Fiction]]__NOTOC__

{{newreview

|title=Wake

|author=Anna Hope

|rating=3.5

|genre=Historical Fiction

|summary=Wake:

1 Emerge or cause to emerge from sleep<br>

2 Ritual for the dead<br>

3 Consequence or aftermath

We often hear the term ''Broken Britain'' in reference to modern society, but the Britain presented in ''Wake'' epitomises the term completely. This is a country reeling from the aftermath of the Great War. Unemployment is rife, food scarce and every family has been touched and scarred forever by the events of the preceding years.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857521942</amazonuk>

}}

{{newreview

|title=Keane's Company

|summary=Landish Druken is a great hulk of a man who lumbers through his hometown of St John's, Newfoundland. Although he thinks of himself as a writer, he has never written a word he didn't feel compelled to burn, and everyone knows him as the wayward son of accomplished sealing captain Abram Druken. Landish escaped to study literature at Princeton, where he met best friend Padgett 'Van' Vanderluyden, the 'dud' son of an industrial tycoon and a rumoured homosexual, but he broke his promise to join his father's sealing empire on his return in 1893, and now lives in poverty and disgrace.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099572036</amazonuk>

}}

~~{{newreview~~

~~|title=Stay Where You Are And Then Leave~~

~~|author=John Boyne~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Confident Readers~~

|summary=Alfie is just five years old when the Great War breaks out in 1914. His father joins up straightaway. Cheerful letters come from Georgie for a while and Alfie's mother reads them to him. But then the letters grow miserable and frightening. Alfie's mother stops reading them aloud and hides them away - but Alfie finds them anyway. And then the letters stop altogether. Alfie is told that his father is on a secret mission and can't write, but he sees through the lie immediately. And then, one day, a chance meeting tells Alfie exactly what has happened to his father. He's home from the front but he's in hospital, suffering from a condition nobody understood at the time: shell shock.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857532936</amazonuk>~~

}}

Sue

Bureaucrats, Administrators

132,585

edits