Historical Fiction

From Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, a sweeping, romantic compulsively readable historical saga about a Duke’s daughter—the perfect Victorian lady—who secretly moonlights as an amateur sleuth for high society’s inner circle.    Victorian London was...

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.It’s 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is...

An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South.For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a...

(Available after 3-20 days)A fae prince with a poisoned heart. A mortal girl with a magical voice. Neither one believes in fairy tales.City waitress Lara has the voice of an angel and no idea she's marked as the fated mate of a silver-eyed royal from...

Charlotte Holmes’s brilliant mind and deductive skills are pulled into a dangerous investigation at sea in the new mystery in the bestselling Lady Sherlock series.After feigning her own death in Cornwall to escape from Moriarty’s perilous attention,...

USA Today and Globe & Mail Canadian bestseller is back with a brand new gripping and heartfelt historical novel! Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but does nothing to heal the pain of spending every minute waiting to hear the worst… As the Second...

THE GODS MUST BE FAVOURED...Norway, AD 785. A wild place, a place of blood, a place where the gods hold sway . . .Sigurd Haraldarson and his oathsworn band are winning fame and reputation. But to confront his hated enemy - the oath-breaker and betrayer...

Norway AD785. A land of petty kingdoms and ambitious men...When King Gorm betrays Jarl Harald and puts his family to the sword, he makes a terrible mistake. He fails to kill Harald's youngest son, Sigurd. Hunted by powerful men and hiding in a sacred...

Sigurd Haraldarson has proven himself a great Viking warrior and a dangerous enemy. He has gone a long way towards avenging the murder of his family. Yet his vengeance is not complete. The oath breaker King Gorm - who betrayed Sigurd's father - still...

(Available after 3-20 days)From the bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say comes a poignant novel about the fault in memories and the lies that can bond a family together—or tear it apart.With her father recently moved to a care facility for his...

A novel of the emotional intricacies of trauma and exile, from the author of international bestselling RuFinalist of the New Academy Prize in LiteratureFinalist Scotiabank Giller PrizeWinner du Prix du Gran Public au salon du livre de MontrealWinner of...

What is lost when knowledge is withheld?In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who work in the bindery at Oxford...

Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of the grand and mysterious mansion, a local delivery man makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called and the small town of Tambilla...

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for FictionWinner of 2015 Canada Reads PrizeWinner of Grand Prix littéraire ArchambaultFinalist for the 2012 Soctiabank Giller PrizeFinalist for the 2018 New Academy Prize in LiteratureLonglisted for the...

WINNER OF THE LIBRIS AWARD FOR BEST FICTION & BEST AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROGER WRITERS' TRUST FICTION AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE In the wilds of seventeenth-century...

Arthur Conan Doyle famously killed off Sherlock Holmes in 1893, in the short story 'The Final Problem', but was tempted to bring him back to life ten years later, in the thirteen tales that comprise The Return of Sherlock Holmes. While the outcry that...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes,...

Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the bestselling author of The German Girl.Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a...

An orphaned girl, a grim moorland manor with hundreds of empty rooms, strange cries in the night, and a walled garden, with its door locked and the key buried. These are the ingredients of one of the most famous and well-loved of children's classics, an...

“Bridgerton lovers have found their next read. J. J. McAvoy is a welcome new voice in historical romance.”—New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean, on Aphrodite and the DukeAn heiress and an outcast—a match made for scandal . . .With her brother,...