Historical Fiction

A teenage girl's difficult journey towards adulthood in a time of war. "A school story for grownups that is also about our inability or refusal to protect children from history" SARAH MOSS "Of all Szabo's novels, Abigail deserves the widest readership...

Thomas Brussig’s classic German novel, The Short End of the Sonnenallee, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of the Wall.Young Micha Kuppisch lives on the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE. International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story—an epic tale that threads together a century of Korean history. In contemporary Seoul, a laid-off...

Now in paperback, Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos is a dramatic love story that unfolds as the GDR implodes—“an intimate account of obsessive, transgressive passion” (Claire Messud, Harper’s) An epic storyteller with the most...

In this sexy and scandalous historical romance the New York Times bestselling author of This Man delivers the story of a successful businessman as he’s pulled away from his work and under the spell of the alluring Taya Winter. Frank Melrose is...

"Habila's fictionalization...reveals the true casualties of oppression better than any news or history."—Library Journal. Lomba is a young journalist living under military rule in Lagos, Nigeria, the most dangerous city in the world. His mind is...

Now back in print for the first time since 1969, a stunning novel about childhood, marriage, and divorce by one of the most interesting minds of the twentieth century.Dream and reality overlap in Divorcing, a book in which divorce is not just a...

“A very real, passionate retelling of Morgan le Fay's story, with detail about political and magical lives, and the women who are such a vital part of the tale.” —Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author.“Sophie...

New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora’s Jar. Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered...

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy comes the powerful third installment to the Women of Troy series.I never saw Cassandra as a victim. I saw a woman as focused on a single aim as any raptor stooping to its prey; but then, I...

The third book in award‑winning author Claire North's Songs of Penelope Trilogy, a "powerful, fresh, and unflinching" (Jennifer Saint) reimagining that breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world...

From the author of The Familiars comes another slice of atmospheric historical fiction, as the residents of a house for fallen women collide with a millionairess in fear of her recently released stalker. From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of...

The author of the bestselling Pandora returns with another richly atmospheric gothic page-turner, as a disgraced physician discovers dark secrets in an eighteenth-century Welsh backwater. Meirionydd, 1783. Henry Talbot has been dismissed from his post...

A darkly atmospheric debut, Thomas' Civil War-set page-turner centres on aspiring playwright-turned-witchfinder Nicholas Pearce and the moral dilemma his unique and supernatural ability burdens him with. England, 1645. After his half-brother dies,...

LONDON, 1940. As enemy planes fly over the city, twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond is trying to make the best of things. She has a dull but steady job at the Ministry of Information, a friend to share gin and secrets with, and an attic room of her own...

Summer, 1660. Cromwell is dead and Charles Stuart has been restored to the throne. Men who supported the Protectorate are being hunted down as traitors. 'S. G. MacLean can make any historical period sing with life' Antonia HodgsonBy the summer of 1660...

The international bestselling author of The Secret River and A Room Made of Leaves returns with a fictionalised account of her grandmother’s life, commemorating a strong female character making the best out of the times and society she was born in...

Margaret Meyer's debut is unlike any witch hunt novel you've ever read. A midwife finds herself thrust into the midst of a witch hunter's investigation when she is enlisted to search for evidence of "witches' marks" on the bodies of the accused. But is...

Return to the heady Regency world of Bridgerton with the fourth sublime instalment in Julia Quinn's bestselling series, this time focusing on Penelope and Colin's relationship. The fourth book in Julia Quinn's globally bestselling, Regency-set,...

A brand-new Ancient Egyptian epic from the number 1 bestselling author.Global bestselling author of River God and The New Kingdom, Wilbur Smith, returns with the next epic book in his brand-new Ancient Egyptian series.IN THE RUINS OF BATTLEA HERO MUST...