Historical Fiction

In Lois Lowry's unforgettable Newbery Medal–winning novel, a ten-year-old Danish girl's bravery is tested when her best friend is threatened by Nazis in 1943.As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie...

In a companion volume to his award-winning adaptation of The Odyssey, the incomparable graphic novelist Gareth Hinds masterfully adapts Homer’s classic wartime epic.More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced each other in an epic battle that...

A POPSUGAR Best Book of December 2020An AMAZON Editors Pick December 2020A SHE READS Best Historical Fiction Novel Winter 2021A BUSTLE Most Anticipated Winter 2021 ReadA LIBRO.FM Influencer Pick, December 2020Inspired by true events on Korea's Jeju...

Discover the extraordinary, luminous novel that everyone is talking about, perfect for fans of The Binding, The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock and The Doll FactoryIn an age defined by men, it will take something extraordinary to show four women who they truly...

Pitching the reader into the heady milieu of eighteenth-century Paris, Mazzola's haunting narrative of vanished children and sinister mechanical experiments is an irresistible read perfect for fans of The Binding and The Essex Serpent.   Paris, 1750...

A dazzling, lyrical YA retelling of Greek myth, from Jessie Burton, internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse."A powerfully feminist, elegiac, and original twist on this old story." -Madeline Miller, bestselling author of The...

Winner of the 2021 Edgar Award – G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial AwardFinalist for the Lambda Literary Awards   An NPR Best Book of the Year"Gripping, subtle, magnificently written." —The New York Times Book Review"A delectable page-turner . . ...

(Available after May 30th, 2022)From the Booker Prize nominee and New York Times best-selling author of Great Circle, a piercing, irresistible first collection of short stories exquisite in their craft and audacious in their rangeA love triangle plays...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2006 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZELondon, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but...

"A deftly-plotted tale about ambition and belonging, Bright Ruined Things takes Shakespeare’s The Tempest and brilliantly reimagines its themes of family and love. Cohoe writes with a magic that dazzles and cuts right to the core." - Chloe Gong, New York...

"Every page is a delight—this is what would happen if a trainee James Bond was asked to solve an Agatha Christie mystery, and it's brilliant."—Stuart Turton, bestselling author of The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn HardcastleMarion Lane and the Midnight...

(Available after July 30th, 2022)Cat Sebastian returns to Georgian London with a stunning tale of a reluctant criminal and the thief who cannot help but love her.   Marian Hayes, the Duchess of Clare, just shot her husband. Of course, the evil, murderous...

From the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Murder on the Ballarat Train, the next historical mystery featuring the intrepid amateur sleuth Phryne Fisher. What happens when this train reaches its deadly destination? Phryne is determined...

In this “thrilling, seductive, and utterly absorbing” (Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author) historical suspense novel in the tradition of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile and Ruth Ware’s The Woman in Cabin 10, pre-war tension and...

(Available after April 30th, 2022)The glittering RMS Queen Mary. A nightclub singer on the run. An aristocratic family with secrets worth killing for.London, 1936. Lena Aldridge wonders if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for...

A woman on the sidelines for one of the most sensational scandals of the 1920s takes center stage in this historical adventure, with a writing style that nods to the manner of Ms. Christie herself. A scintillating new take on the intriguing, real-life...

A mother’s secret past and her daughter’s present collide in this richly atmospheric novel from the acclaimed author of The Animals at Lockwood Manor.  In the summer of 1973, Ruth and her four friends were obsessed with pre-Raphaelite paintings—and a...

"Exhilarating...A wildly imagined, head-spinning, deeply intelligent novel." - The New York Times Book Review   "[W]ildly inventive…[Helen Oyeyemi's] prose is not without its playful bite." –Vogue The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy Snow...

From the internationally bestselling author Jeffrey Archer comes Only Time Will Tell, the first in the ambitious Clifton Chronicles series that tells the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph.The epic tale of...

A Long Petal of the Sea meets Cold Mountain in this sweeping historical saga following a Mexican army nurse and an Irish soldier who must fight, at first for their survival and then for their love, amidst the atrocity of the Mexican-American War—from the...