Historical

Roman Elegy

by Sabine Gruber

A model of literary craftsmanship, a novel of the interpretation of memory and coming to terms with the past.

I'll Get By

by Janet Woods

Meggie Elliot is a young woman of above average intelligence, and on the brink of adulthood. Living with her aunt and uncle in London at the outbreak of World War 2 she's intent on going to university, then...

The Barbed Crown

Ethan Gage #6

by William Dietrich

In this latest adventure by New York Times bestselling author William Dietrich, Ethan Gage is out to foil Napoleon's coronation as emperor, play double agent between France and England, and turn the tide of...

The Son

by Philipp Meyer

Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, The Son is an utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through...

The Perfume Collector

by Kathleen Tessaro

An inheritance from a mysterious stranger . . .

An abandoned perfume shop on the Left Bank of Paris . . .

And three exquisite perfumes that hold a memory . . . and a secret

London, 1955: Grace Monroe is a fortunate...

The Illusion of Separateness

by Simon Van Booy

The characters in Simon Van Booy's The Illusion of Separateness discover at their darkest moments of fear and isolation that they are not alone, that they were never alone, that every human being is a link in...

Camp Nine: A Novel

by Vivienne Schiffer

Camp Nine is a wonderfully written novel of World War II in southeast Arkansas

Flora: A Novel

by Gail Godwin

The family members Helen depended on are gone. She lost her mother some years before, and her beloved grandmother has just passed away. And now her father has left town to work on a top secret military project...

Flowers for Miss Pengelly

by Rosemary Aitken

Cornwall, 1911: Young lady's maid Effie Pengelly is confused and alarmed when charming Constable Alexander Dawes questions her about an unidentified, now deceased man who came to the town asking for her whereabouts....

Frances and Bernard

by Carlene Bauer

Loosely inspired by Robert Lowell and Flannery O'Connor, this absorbing, charming novel brings us into mid-century New York and the lives and letters of two writers-- their intense friendship, their discussions...

So Red the Rose

by Stark Young

Young's novel of war coming to the Natchez region of Mississippi has long been considered one of the best of Civil War novels. "If you would understand what was best in the Old South, its attitude toward life,...

Night Rider

by Robert Penn Warren

Warren's first novel, set during the "tobacco wars" that raged in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early part of this century. Percy Munn is one of Warren's innocent idealists whose delusions become murderous as...

The Quince Seed Potion: A Novel

by Morteza Baharloo

This novel is set against the backdrop of Iran's turbulent modern history, is a saga of an indentured servant's devotion and love for his masters during the years 1928 to 1981.

Julia

by Otto De Kat & Ina Rilke

One summer's afternoon in 1981, a factory owner, Christiaan Dudok, is found dead in his study having taken his own life. He has left no suicide note, but on his desk is a newspaper from 2 April 1942, reporting...

Mesmerized

by Alissa Walser & Jamie Bulloch

Mozart's Vienna. A crucible for scientific experimentation and courtly intrigue, as Europe's finest minds vie for imperial favour.

In a colourful, chaotic private hospital that echoes with the shrieks of hysterical...

The Red Kimono: A Novel

by Jan Morrill

Race and forgiveness in World War II era Arkansas

Fragments of the Ark: A Novel

by Louise Meriwether & Kim Shealy Jeffcoat

Explores the American Civil War through the eyes of its most deeply wounded souls

For King or Commonwealth

by Richard Woodman

An exhilarating high seas adventure set during the English Civil War|1649. England has been torn asunder by a civil war that has pitted Parliamentarians against Royalists. Captain Kit Faulkner, bound to the...

Memories Are Made of This

by June Francis

From one of the genre’s best-loved names, an enthralling historical saga set in 1950s’ Liverpool|Liverpool, 1954. Young Jeanette Walker often wonders what became of her mother who disappeared without trace...

Templars in America: From the Crusades to the New World

by Tim Wallace-Murphy & Marilyn Hopkins

Templars in America explodes the myth that Columbus was the first European to discover the Americas. Using archival and archaeological sources, Tim Wallace-Murphy and Marilyn Hopkins reveal the Venetian connection...