Historical Fiction

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE.WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD.'An extraordinary achievement.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Fabulously rich, highly compelling.' INDEPENDENT'Chock-full of sublimity and sin...

We've seen the musical, watched the movie, and re-read the original novel dozens of times. Finally, this is the origin story we've all been waiting for. Get to know the girl behind the witch in this dazzling coming-of-age tale. What happened to young...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. "A delicately woven novel with an utterly original premise, it ensnared me from the very first page.” — Emilia Hart, bestselling author of Weyward From the acclaimed author of the #1 international...

A love story, a coming-of-age tale and a war novel wrapped in one, the incomparable Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping story that reintroduces us to the Del Valle family who we met in The House of the Spirits.In this spellbinding historical...

This smash bestseller about privileged Vassar classmates shocked America in the sixties and remains “juicy . . . witty . . . brilliant” (Cosmopolitan). At Vassar, they were known as “the group”—eight...

A very special bottle of wine sends 4 neighbors back to 1950s Paris, where they each find the key to a happy future.“A glorious time-slip caper... Just wonderful”  — Daily Mail.When Hubert Larnaudie, chair of the management...

A NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER. A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE. A vibrant tale of love, companionship, and renewal set against the transformations of 1960s Vienna. “How I loved this book! Filled with truth after truth,...

For the first time ever, stories from the Second Age of Middle-earth have been collected in one volume. Not only that, but it’s also illustrated in watercolor and pencil by none other than Alan Lee! Adhering to the timeline of “The Tale of...

The second fierce, fresh and gloriously romantic YA Greek myth re-imagining, from Bea Fitzgerald, growing TikTok superstar and Sunday Times bestselling author of GIRL, GODDESS, QUEEN.Princess. Priestess. The most beautiful girl in Troy. Cassandra is used...

Read Alice Munro’s dark and powerful exploration of the human heart in this ten-story collection. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009. ‘Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and...

A “revelatory” (The Boston Globe), “exhilarating” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of twelve stories that “[redraw] the boundaries between fiction and memoir” (O: The Oprah Magazine), from Nobel...

Eight stunning stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “a true master of the form” (Salman Rushdie).“Open Secrets is a book that dazzles with its faith in language and in life.”—The New York Times...

“A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces.” —Madeline Miller“A shining tour de force about a long friendship’s respects, disrespects, loyalties and moralities.” —Ali Smith From the...

If you're looking to lose yourself in a great story, start here: longing, lost love, scientific inquiry, Perry's prose will transport— and transform — you.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Telegraph, Washington Post, The New Yorker...

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. Not all who are fallen want to be...

“Spy Line is vigorous and sleazy, psychologically complex and action-packed. And it is always exciting.” —Daily Mail. Bernard Samson is a spy on the run, forced to abandon his life and job and plunge into hiding. But in the...

The award-winning literary thriller from one of Italy's most exciting feminist writers, for fans of Sophie Mackintosh, Elena Ferrante and Sarah Moss. One morning, a teacher disappears into the woods. As whispers fill her classroom and relatives scour...

"Joseph Andras writes with the swiftness of lightning."–Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer.A biographical historical fiction retelling of Ho Chi Minh's immigration and radical life in underground Paris in the 1920sFleeing persecution...

In this haunting novel about the enduring bonds of womanhood, a young girl weaves together the truth behind her family history and the secrets that resonate through generations.   Eighteen-year-old Alice Ribeiro is constantly fighting—against...

Discover the full story of the sorceress Medea, one of the most reviled and maligned women of Greek antiquity, in this “haunting, deeply moving” (Claire Legrand, New York Times bestselling author) debut in the tradition...