15 must-read historical books like Robinsheugh by Eileen Dunlop

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Robinsheugh

By: Eileen Dunlop

4.29

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

Sent to spend the summer with her aunt at a 200-year-old Scottish mansion, a young girl finds herse…

If you liked the historical plot in Robinsheugh by Eileen Dunlop , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Laura Ingalls and her family live deep in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Their log cabin is surrounded… read more

Similar categories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1) book and Eileen Dunlop's Robinsheugh

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim s… read more

Similar categories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8) book and Eileen Dunlop's Robinsheugh

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

3.87

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more

Similar categories in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park book and Eileen Dunlop's Robinsheugh

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I was quiet, but I was not blind."

-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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4. Battles at Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #4)

By: Miss Read

4.60

Format: None pages,

Feelings are running high in the Cotswold village of Thrush Green. The rector's plan for the neglec… read more

Similar categories in Miss Read's Battles at Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #4) book and Eileen Dunlop's Robinsheugh

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #1)

By: Miss Read

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Miss Read's charming chronicles of small-town life have achieved an almost legendary popularity wor… read more

Similar categories in Miss Read's Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #1) book and Eileen Dunlop's Robinsheugh

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #2) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

6. Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #2)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet Laura Ingalls . . . . . . the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books. P… read more

Similar categories in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #2) book and Eileen Dunlop's Robinsheugh

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. News from Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #3)

By: Miss Read , John S. Goodall

3.70

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Miss Read's News from Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #3) book and Eileen Dunlop's Robinsheugh

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. Winter in Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #2)

By: Miss Read

3.70

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

In the follow-up to Thrush Green, the arrival of a stranger in the village stirs ripples of specula… read more

Similar categories in Miss Read's Winter in Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #2) book and Eileen Dunlop's Robinsheugh

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

9. Gossip from Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #6)

By: Miss Read

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

GOSSIP FROM THRUSH GREEN returns readers to the delightful English village, neighbor to Fairacre, f… read more

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10. A Little Princess

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett , Nancy Bond

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary … read more

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11. Return to Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #5)

By: Miss Read , John S. Goodall

3.97

Format: 649 pages, Paperback

Miss Read's delightful chronicles of life in Thrush Green continue with RETURN TO THRUSH GREEN. It'… read more

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12. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

Similar categories in Robert Harris's Act of Oblivion book and Eileen Dunlop's Robinsheugh

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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13. Matrix

By: Lauren Groff

3.68

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furie… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Groff's Matrix book and Eileen Dunlop's Robinsheugh

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"All souls are limited in the circles of their own understanding."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"Women in this world are vulnerable; only reputation can keep them from being crushed."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"Foolish creature, old Marie would say to that child. Open your hands and let your life go. It has never been yours to do with what you will."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"How slow the final flowering of good intentions can be, the poisonous full bloom taking place centuries beyond the scope of the original life."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

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14. The Other Bennet Sister

By: Janice Hadlow

4.16

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

Mary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice’s five Bennet sisters, emerges from the shad… read more

Similar categories in Janice Hadlow's The Other Bennet Sister book and Eileen Dunlop's Robinsheugh

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Watching what happens isn’t the same as being part of it."

-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

"And anyway, in our house, no-one is obliged to sparkle. Which, I find, makes it far more likely that they might."

-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

"If I don’t have the genius to create a thing of beauty myself, at least I have the judgement to appreciate the art of others."

-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

"...in truth, there is no state that better demonstrates real firmness of affection than the ability to remain quietly comfortable together without conversation."

-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

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15. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

Similar categories in Zadie Smith's The Fraud book and Eileen Dunlop's Robinsheugh

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

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16. Sisters

By: Daisy Johnson

3.48

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

A New York Times Notable Book (2020) from a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: … read more

Similar categories in Daisy Johnson's Sisters book and Eileen Dunlop's Robinsheugh

  • fiction
"If brains are houses with many rooms then I live in the basement."

-Daisy Johnson, Sisters

"Grief is a house with no windows or doors and no way of telling the time."

-Daisy Johnson, Sisters

"She has always known that houses are bodies and that her body is a house in more ways than most."

-Daisy Johnson, Sisters

"Settembre è la persona che avrei sempre voluto essere. Io sono una forma ritagliata dall'universo, trapunta di stelle che continuano a morire - e lei è la creatura che riempie il vuoto che io lascio …"

-Daisy Johnson, Sisters

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17. Mrs England

By: Stacey Halls

3.91

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's Mrs England book and Eileen Dunlop's Robinsheugh

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

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18. Christmas with the Savages

By: Mary Clive

3.37

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Seen through the eyes of a prim little eight-year-old, and based on real events and people, this no… read more

Similar categories in Mary Clive's Christmas with the Savages book and Eileen Dunlop's Robinsheugh

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #3) by Kate Mosse

19. The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #3)

By: Kate Mosse

4.05

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Next in the #1 Sunday Times bestselling series, New York Times bestselling author Kate Mosse return… read more

Similar categories in Kate Mosse's The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #3) book and Eileen Dunlop's Robinsheugh

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. The Fortnight in September

By: R.C. Sherriff

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more

Similar categories in R.C. Sherriff's The Fortnight in September book and Eileen Dunlop's Robinsheugh

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. Robinsheugh

By: Eileen Dunlop

4.29

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

Sent to spend the summer with her aunt at a 200-year-old Scottish mansion, a young girl finds herse… read more

Similar categories in Eileen Dunlop's Robinsheugh book and Eileen Dunlop's Robinsheugh

  • childrens
  • ghosts
  • time travel
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy

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Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.18

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3.50

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Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

3.87

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Angela Thirkell

3.58

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Jan Struther , Greer Garson

3.92

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Elizabeth Goudge

4.16

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Barbara Pym

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