Tag Archives: Historical
Book of the Little Axe
by Lauren Francis-SharmaAmbitious and masterfully wrought, Lauren Francis-Sharma’s Book of the Little Axe is an incredible journey, spanning decades and oceans from Trinidad to the American West during the tumultuous days of…
The Devil’s Slave
by Tracy BormanThe acclaimed biographer of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell returns with the second novel in her historical trilogy set in the early years of…
Animalia
by Jean-Baptiste Del AmoA prizewinning and word-of-mouth literary sensation in France, Animalia is an extraordinary epic that retraces the history of a modest French peasant family over…
The Parisian
by Isabella HammadA “sublime” (Zadie Smith) debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey…
The Heavens
by Sandra NewmanA work of rare literary brilliance and emotional power, The Heavens is a mesmerizing novel of love and dreams that moves between a reimagined…
The Western Wind
by Samantha HarveyHailed as “this generation’s Virginia Woolf” (Telegraph) and “one of the UK’s most exquisite stylists” (Guardian), Samantha Harvey’s breathtaking new novel is a medieval…
The New Inheritors
by Kent WascomThe third novel from “one of the most exhilarating historical novelists in the country” (Washington Post), set in New Orleans, the Mississippi coast, Cuba,…
The King’s Witch
by Tracy BormanThe first in a trilogy of historical novels set at the dramatic endpoint of the Tudor reign and the dangerous start of the Stuart…
Deep River
by Karl MarlantesFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War, a rich family saga about Finnish immigrants…
Birdcage Walk
by Helen DunmoreFrom the bestselling author of The Siege and Exposure and the first-ever winner of the Orange Prize comes a new novel set in Bristol at the height of the romantic era that follows a freethinking young woman in her marriage to a ruthless property developer….
