Historical Fiction

After a chance encounter with an old friend, Simon Hanlon, an Irish architect, experiences a seizure, his first in almost thirty years. Soon, they come to him daily.As he awaits a brain operation, Simon turns his mind back to his childhood on a farm near...

A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years. An ambitious, delirious novel that tangles...

Set in the 17th century, Sexing the Cherry celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality. It is a story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever...

FINALIST FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE.A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023.“[A] powerful debut.” —The Washington Post.“An exceptional and stunningly original novel by a major new writer.” —Bernardine Evaristo, Booker...

A standalone companion to An Improbable Season, this Regency romance ⁠— perfect for fans of Bridgerton — is about following your heart, pursuing your dreams, and falling head over heels in love.Eleanor did not come to London to be proper and...

From the award-winning master of crime fiction, Denise Mina re-imagines the "Bonfire of the Vanities,” a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century—inspired by the fanatical Girolamo Savonarola.Girolamo...

An unforgettable novel of fearless women banding together to pursue the lives they want, inspired by the real-life historic Japanese courtesan strike.In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan...

A tale of contention over love and money—among dragons.Jo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The King's Peace, acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod. In 2002, she was voted the John W. Campbell Award...

1957 - Young Queen Elizabeth II is finding her way in a challenging world as the United Kingdom must adjust to having neither an empire nor a set place in post-war Europe. As she travels the world to try and build bridges, the Queen is advised by the...

City of Dreams by Don Winslow follows up last April 2022’s City on Fire. In the event you’re wondering “what’s with all these cities,” it’s because this is the second book in Winslow’s latest trilogy. Don Winslow...

The looming threat of a wildfire in Greece provides all the impetus this book needs to thrive with its dynamic characters and genuine human connection. This is an unforgettable story with a massive scope, an exacting tone and words that practically sing...

The long-awaited new book from multi-award winner Geoff Ryman.An extraordinary science-fiction novel about identity, divinity and alternate reality – the story of the son of God.“Women, of course, can not be sons of God,”In the village...

The Secret Hours is the heart-jumping prequel to the series that started with Slow Horses. Here you’ll learn how the pejoratively named "Slow Horses" got their name and made their way into the spy game. The chase is on!A gripping spy thriller...

A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Best Mysteries of 2022 Selection In this "sharply-drawn period piece" (New York Times), a magician-turned-sleuth in pre-war London solves three impossible crimes In 1930s London, celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees is...

1880s England On the bleak island of Ray, off the Essex coast, an idealistic young doctor, Simeon Lee, is called from London to treat his cousin, Parson Oliver Hawes, who is dying. Parson Hawes, who lives in the only house on the island—Turnglass...

The author of the acclaimed City Blues quartet delivers a spellbinding nineteenth-century-set gothic novel, as a penniless artist accepts a fateful commission to work on a supposedly haunted house. 'I'm not asking you to build something impossible...

An outstanding historical novel for fans of The Essex Serpent and Piranesi, Ray Celestin's Palace of Shadows can lay claim to having at its centre the most Gothic House of them all . . .I’m not asking you to build something impossible. I’m...

Grand Master Elmore Leonard is justifiably acknowledged as “the best writer of crime fiction alive” (Newsweek)—and, in fact, one of the very best ever, alongside other all-time greats like John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M...

From the author of The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Refugees is the second piece of fiction from a powerful voice in American letters, praised as “beautiful and heartrending” (Joyce Carol Oates, New Yorker),...

In The Winter King and Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell demonstrated his astonishing ability to make the oft-told legend of King Arthur fresh and new for our time. Now, in this riveting final volume of The Warlord Chronicles, Cornwell tells the...