Reviews

Please note: we are getting an enormous number of requests to review books; if you don't hear back within a month, please understand that we are not a review site primarily and have to strike a balance. We will certainly get back to you if we think we can fit in a review.

Watch this space for future reviews by The History Girls of works of historical fiction and non-fiction.

Here are links to reviews we have carried on this site so far:

MY LIFE IN HOUSES by Margaret Forster. Reviewed by ...

07 Feb 2015

The History Girls: MAGNA CARTA By DAN JONES: Some ...

24 Dec 2014

 

Review: All The Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr

16 Nov 2014

 

THE PIERCED HEART by Lynn Shepherd . A review by ...

07 Dec 2014

The Secret World of Christoval Alvarez review by Mary ...

01 Aug 2014

 

The History Girls: Belle - a film review Catherine Johnson

14 Jul 2014

The History Girls: Book Review: Girl with a White Dog

15 Apr 2014

Book Review: Girl with a White Dog. By Anne Booth. (Post by Marie-Louise Jensen). 

 

Other Women, The History of the Mistress - A review by ...

23 Aug 2013

Other Women, The History of the Mistress - A review by Leslie Wilson. 

 

THAT WOMAN by Anne Sebba. A review by Adèle Geras

07 Jan 2014

 

THE LAST RUNAWAY by Tracy Chevalier. A review by

07 Nov 2013

THE LAST RUNAWAY by Tracy Chevalier. A review by Adèle Geras.

 

The History Girls: Dark Aemilia - Review by Ann Swinfen

17 Jul 2014

The History Girls: 12 Years A Slave Review Catherine ...

14 Jan 2014

IN ZODIAC LIGHT by Robert Edric....a review by Adèle Geras

07 Jun 2013

The History Girls: PURE by Andrew Miller. A review by ...

07 Mar 2012

A review by Adèle Geras. 

 

THE SCENT OF DEATH by Andrew Taylor: review and ...

07 Jan 2013

THE SCENT OF DEATH by Andrew Taylor: review and interview by Adèle Geras.

 

LIONHEART by Stewart Binns - one for the History Boys!

06 Dec 2013

Leslie Wilson compares the original German version of Alone in Berlin with its English edition.

Several History Girls review Louisa Young's My Dear I wanted to Tell You.

Sue Purkiss reviews Sally Nicholls' All Fall Down.

Marie-Louise Jensen reviews Y.S. Lee's novels.

Mary Hoffman reviews She-wolves by Helen Castor 

Mary Hoffman reviews Blood Sisters by Sarah Gristwood