Historical

Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore: A Novel

by Stella Duffy

"A bravura performance: a witty, moving, sexy book that bursts with as much color and excitement as the city of Constantinople itself." -Financial Times

Roman historian Procopius publicly praised Theodora of...

The Woman Who Heard Color

by Kelly Jones

"Kelly Jones is a wonderful writer, and definitely one to watch." -Nicholas Sparks

Lauren O'Farrell is an "art detective" who made it her mission to retrieve invaluable works stolen by the Nazis during the darkest...

Ken Follett EPIC HISTORICAL COLLECTION

by Ken Follett

Epic Historical Collection Ken Follett Dive into the #1 New York Times bestselling author's masterpiece of medieval drama, The Pillars of the Earth, and its long-awaited sequel, World Without End. Sweeping from...

The Hat

by Babette Hughes

The Hat begins with the brief, chilling murder of the godfather of the Jewish bootlegging world. The killer disappears without a trace and then in flashback we meet Kate Brady who has just been fired from her...

A Corruptible Crown

by Bradshaw Gillian

The compelling sequel to the English Civil War novel London in Chains - It is 1648, and the Civil War has been resurrected by a king still determined to be an absolute ruler and a parliament unable to agree...

Dessa

by Val Creese

Dessa is set between 1908-1936 in England, Assam and South Africa, and its story includes little known aspects of submarine warfare in World War One. Dessa is a girl from a large working class family out to...

The Philosopher Prince

by Paul Waters

355AD. In a late-Roman world of ambitious bureaucrats and power-hungry courtiers two young friends of the British nobility, Drusus and Marcellus, have fallen foul of the prevailing authority. There is no place...

UNMAKING OF PAKISTAN: IF BOSE HAD LIVED: A Historical Novel

by Colonel Anil A Athale & & Lieutenant General Eric A. Vas

Synopsis The central figure of this work of fiction is the late Indian leader, Subash Chandra Bose. Over fifty years ago, one of the enduring human tragedies occurred when the Indian sub-continent was divided...

The Root and the Flower

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 1935

by L.H. Myers & Penelope Fitzgerald

Set in the war-torn world of Mughal India and first published in the gathering darkness of the 1930s, The Root and the Flower is an epic story of intrigue, murder, and romance; of Tantric abandonment and Buddhist...

Burr: A Novel

by Gore Vidal

Burr is the opening volume in Gore Vidal's great fictional chronicle of American history, each of which is being republished in the Modern Library .  Burr

From the Hardcover edition.

The Woman Who Wrote the Bible

by Mary J Burns

Like the women of the Red Tent, even the daughter of King David lived in a world ruled by men. But this woman was born to break the rules of both men and God in order to learn the art of writing, and with it,...

The Eloquence of Blood

by Judith Rock

An exciting new discovery" (Library Journal) returns to seventeenth-century Paris with a new historical novel of intrigue.

Christmas in Paris, 1686. The spirit of the season is shattered when Martine Mynette...

The Twelfth Enchantment

by David Liss

Lucy Derrick is a young woman of good breeding and poor finances. After the death of her beloved father, she is forced to maintain a shabby dignity as the unwanted boarder of her tyrannical uncle, fending off...

Becoming Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette #1

by Juliet Grey

This enthralling confection of a novel, the first in a new trilogy, follows the transformation of a coddled Austrian archduchess into the reckless, powerful, beautiful queen Marie Antoinette. Why must it be...

City of Promise: A Novel of New York's Gilded Age

New York City #4

by Beverly Swerling

Beverly Swerling’s epic saga continues as New York emerges from the Civil War into the Gilded Age—a city marked by soaring expansion and teeming with unbridled ambition and dazzling glamour. Joshua Turner...

Josefina's Sin: A Novel

by Claudia H. Long

A thrilling and passionate debut about a sheltered landowner’s wife whose life is turned upside down when she visits the royal court in seventeenth-century Mexico.

When Josefina accepts an invitation from the...

To Die For: A Novel of Anne Boleyn

Ladies in Waiting #1

by Sandra Byrd

To Die For, is the story of Meg Wyatt, pledged forever as the best friend to Anne Boleyn since their childhoods on neighboring manors in Kent. When Anne’s star begins to ascend, of course she takes her best...

The Clay Dreaming

by Ed Hillyer

May 1868 – an Aboriginal Australian cricket team begins a tour of England. One of the players is on a quest to explore his Truth, or Dreaming. Sarah Larkin’s quiet routine, divided between her father's sick...

The Forbidden Dream of the Forbidden City

by Louis Kwong

Ji Zu initially lived an idyllic life in a secluded village. Her fate was changed completely when her beauty caught the attention of the young commander of a Chinese in pursuit of the Japanese. Years later during...

Those Who Walk in Darkness

by Theodore Kohan

Action, surprises, and betrayal-these are the ingredients of THOSE WHO WALK IN DARKNESS, a sweeping immigrant family saga. From Bessarabia (today's Moldova) at the start of the twentieth century to Boston in...