Tag Archives: Historical
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….
Saint Joan of Arc
by Vita Sackville-West“[A] book in which the most dramatic, significant, moving and inexplicable life story in secular history is told quietly and authoritatively, not merely in…
The Rising Sun
by Douglas Galbraith“Completely convincing . . . succeeds absolutely. Galbraith’s powers of description are immense . . . vivid enough to make the reader’s body ache…
Wanting
by Richard Flanagan“Flanagan sets his novel in the wilds of nineteenth-century Tasmania and evokes its inhabitants with exquisite precision. . . . An entirely unified meditation…
Valiant Gentlemen
by Sabina Murray…bore witness to so much of the history we live with now, brought to vivid, thrilling life here. This novel is made out of history but is every bit a…
The Undertaking
by Audrey Magee“A powerful creation . . . profoundly moving. Ms. Magee’s willingness to examine the darkest elements of the conflict in a novel that still…
The Train to Warsaw
by Gwen Edelman“With remarkable economy and finesse . . . unsentimentally and vividly, Edelman re-creates the chaos, the din, and the brutality as everything was stolen…
