Historical

On Canaan's Side: A Novel

Walter Scott Prize 2012

by Sebastian Barry

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From the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of "The Secret Scripture" comes a magnificent new novel that is the story of the twentieth century in America.

Told in the first person, as a narrative...

Next to Love

by Ellen Feldman

“War . . . next to love, has most captured the world’s imagination.”—Eric Partridge, British lexicographer, 1914 A story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave, Next to Love follows the lives of...

Madame Bovary's Daughter

by Linda Urbach

Picking up after the shattering end of Gustave Flaubert’s classic, Madame Bovary, this beguiling novel imagines an answer to the question Whatever happened to Emma Bovary’s orphaned daughter? One year after...

Amerikan Eagle: A Novel

by Alan Glenn

A good cop. A bad choice. Let history be the judge.

In 1943, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Sam Miller is a cop supporting a family and trying to stay on the right side of his boss, the law, and his conscience....

Three Maids for a Crown: A Novel of the Grey Sisters

by Ella March Chase

In the second novel from Ella March Chase, we meet sixteen-year-old Jane Grey, a quiet and obedient young lady destined to become the shortest reigning English monarch. Her beautiful middle sister Katherine...

A Beggar at the Gate

by Thalassa Ali

Set in nineteenth-century British India, Thalassa Ali’s dazzling debut, A Singular Hostage, introduced us to Mariana Givens, the Englishwoman who risked everything to save a young Indian orphan from certain...

A Singular Hostage

by Thalassa Ali

In a land of exotic splendor, a young Englishwoman finds herself guardian of an orphan child believed by a dying maharajah to be endowed with magical gifts. It is a role that will take her on a perilous journey...

Disaster Was My God: A Novel of the Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud

by Bruce Duffy

The author of the critically acclaimed novel The World as I Found It brilliantly reimagines the scandalous life of the pioneering, proto-punk poet Arthur Rimbaud.

Arthur Rimbaud, the enfant terrible of French...

The Wild Rose

by Jennifer Donnelly

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The Wild Rose is a part of the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with The Tea Rose and continued with The Winter Rose. It is London, 1914. World War I...

The Cost of Sugar

by Cynthia McLeod

The Cost of Sugar is an intriguing history of those rabid times in Dutch Surinam between 1765-1779 when sugar was king. Told through the eyes of two Jewish step sisters, Eliza and Sarith, descendants of the...

Among the Wonderful: A Novel

by Stacy Carlson

In 1842 Phineas T. Barnum is a young man, freshly arrived in New York and still unknown to the world. With uncanny confidence and impeccable timing, he transforms a dusty natural history museum into a great...

Led By The Stars

by David Luders

300 years before William the Conqueror brings feudalism to England, there is a like case in the Pacific islands. But there, two races meet, neither knowing until then that there are any others in the world....

String of Pearls

by Swindells Madge

A story of passion and courage against the backdrop of World War II - Helen Conroy's happy family is shattered when her husband asks for a divorce. Then, in September, 1942, US troops pour into Mowbray. Captain...

Golden Image

by Henry Bendow

A fascinating insight into the life of Benvenuto Cellini, a 16th century sculptor, who was the greatest goldsmith ever known. His work remains the standard against which other goldsmiths are still measured today....

The Wordsmith's Tale

by Stephen Edden

Stephen Edden is an exciting new name in historical fiction. Writing with modern cadences and style about three generations of a poor Anglo-Saxon family, he brings alive the reality of life in the 11th century...

Snow Eagle

by Shirley A. Roe

Snow Eagle, Shaman of the Tlingit is well respected by the people of the north. As member of the Elder Council and Shaman he is responsible not only for the safety and welfare of his people but for securing...

Resistance

by Owen Sheers

1944. After the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, half of Britain is occupied . . . Young farmer’s wife Sarah Lewis wakes to find her husband has disappeared, along with all of the men from her...

They Were Divided

by Miklós Bánffy

The final part of Bánffy trilogy reflects the rapidly disintegrating course of events in Central Europe.

They Were Counted

by Miklós Bánffy

This novel paints an unrivaled portrait of the vanished world of pre-1914 Hungary, as seen through the eyes of two young Transylvanian cousins, Count Balint Abady and Count László Gyeroffy.

They Were Found Wanting

by Miklós Bánffy

They Were Found Wanting takes up the tale of the two Transylvanian cousins, their loves and very different fortunes, a year after They Were Counted ends.