Historical

For fans of Trust by Hernan Diaz, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr and Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt, Rooms for Vanishing is an epic novel of grief and hope and one family blown apart - across the globe, across time, across parallel possibilities - by war.

From internationally bestselling author Joseph Kanon, hailed by the Sunday Times as 'the most accomplished spy novelist working today', comes a thriller set in WW2 Shanghai, a seductive and corrupt setting defined by wealth, crime and a dazzling nightlife.

An award-winning first novel about art, sisterhood and madness, inspired by the two daughters of painter Thomas Gainsborough, who spent their lives trying and failing to live up to the perfect image the world so admired in their portraits

Destined to become a modern-day classic, The Storm We Made is a dazzling saga about the horrors of war and the power of familial love, for fans of Pachinko, All the Light We Cannot See and Wandering Souls.

An epic love story with the pulse of a thriller that asks: what would you risk for a second chance at first love?

Sunday Times bestselling novelist Alison Weir returns with the spellbinding story of Mary I, the princess who became Bloody Mary.

An epic literary historical novel set during the Golden Age of Piracy, about the life of the infamous female pirate Mary Read.

A beautiful Chelsea town house. A chance to fulfil her dreams. A life adventure awaits...

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An enchanting and unforgettable historical mystery from the acclaimed author of The Night Tiger

A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family´s ties to a vanished American Kingdom in this riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand. Nikki Berry hasn´t seen her grandmother in years, due to a mysterious estrangement inherited from her mother. So when the elder calls out of the blue with an urgent request for Nikki to visit her

From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, worldwide bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, The Women is the story of a generation, of epic love and profound loss. It is both an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and a story of a nation - and a world - divided by war.

When Ruth Handler walks into the boardroom of the toy company she co-founded and pitches her idea for a doll unlike any other, she knows what she's setting in motion. It might just take the world a moment to catch up.

Greco-Roman mythology and the mystery of the vanished Roanoke colony collide in this epic adventure filled with sapphic longing and female rage—a debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller, Jennifer Saint, and Natalie Haynes. Before, Scopuli. It has been centuries since Thelia made the mistake that cost her the woman she loved—Proserpina, the goddess of spring. As the handmaidens charged

'A book that shifted my life... Epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant' VIOLA DAVIS 'Will rewire the mind of whoever reads it... you don't emerge from the journey unaffected' NNEDI OKORAFOR A PATTERNIST NOVEL: BOOK ONE It begins when two immortals meet in an African forest. Doro is an ancient spirit who, for thousands of years, has cultivated a small village of people in search of perfec

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the author of The Bear and the Nightingale. “A wonderful clash of fire and ice—a book you won´t want to let go of.”—Diana Gabaldon, author of Outl

ONE OF NPR’s “BOOKS WE LOVE" 2024 NAMED ONE OF THE OBSERVER’S 10 BEST NEW NOVELISTS FOR 2024 "The stakes could barely be higher in Leo Vardiashvili’s propulsive page-turner…It’s a spellbinding achievement."—The Financial Times “Has a commercial-fiction spring in its step.… Vardiashvili also has captured the winking, world-weary humor and magic-realist touches that mark a lot of literature from

From Willow Smith and Jess Hendel comes a powerful and groundbreaking historical saga about an African warrior in the world of the Vikings. “Intimate, tender, and fiercely epic.”—Tomi Adeyemi, author of Children of Blood and Bone Lore, legend, and history tell us of the Vikings: warrior kings on epic journeys of conquest and plunder. But the stories we know are not the only stories to tell. Ther

A gorgeous edition of a classic tale to share with the next generation, Little Women is a coming-of-age story of virtue and true love in nineteenth-century America. A true classic, Little Women follows the lives of Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy March, four spirited sisters living in Civil War–era America. Join the Marches as they navigate New England life with a father at war, financial hardships, and t

Towles delivers a sophisticated and entertaining debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. Elegant and captivating, "Rules of Civility" turns a Jamesian eye on how spur-of-the-moment decisions define life for decades to come.