Historical Fiction

michael Anstruther-wetherby Is A Man Destined For Power. Except That Michael, For All His Political Skill And Intelligence, Lacks The Most Important Elemen...

James Macklin Chase was a poor Pennsylvanian who dreamed of making it rich in California. But at the turn of the century, the money to be made was in oil, c...

Wanderlust is the story of Audrey Driscoll. Orphaned young, Audrey has grown up caring for her eccentric millionaire grandfather and her demanding younger ...

The place: Afghanistan. The Assignment: To find a missing American girl whose parents have not heard from her since her impetuous marriage to a young Afghan...

"Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin's The American Heiress. The story of Cora Cash...

A Royal Pain... The illegitimate daughter of a prince and a notorious courtesan, Lucia has been confined to schools and convents for most of her life. But...

“…Sweeping and intimate, warm and gripping. I loved it!” —Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache novels ...

Two lives converge one stormy night on a train headed to cleveland Lucy is traveling by herself via train to Jacob's Crossing to help care for her cousi...

A Best Book of the Year Washington Post • Seattle Times • The Oregonian National Public Radio • Amazon • Kirkus Reviews Publishers Weekly • The ...

In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of...

an Epic Adventure Of Heroism, Tragedy, Honor, And Betrayal, And The Culmination Of Larry Mcmurtry's Acclaimed Western Saga That Began With lonesome Dove, C...

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when...

A Sweeping Family Saga And Love Story That Offers A Vivid And Unique Portrayal Of Life In War-torn 1941 Bucharest And Life Behind The Iron Curtain During Th...

3 books of epic historical adventure now in one digital box set.A family torn apart. A king with an iron fist.Will their faith be strong enough to help the...

The New York Times Called Sir Edward Feathers One Of The Most Memorable Characters In Modern Literature. A Lyrical Novel That Recalls His Fully Lived Life, ...

Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic comes a vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spir...

The masterly epic, The Irish Century, continues in 1949, a sequel to 1916 and 1921.The struggle of the Irish people for independence is one of the compellin...

Carmen Aguirre. A Play.Categories: Literature & Fiction Historical FictionBiographical

This is the fourth book in a series of historical fiction novels inspired by the mass migration of thousands of desperate pilgrims from the Palatine region ...

It was 1709 in the German Palatine during the coldest winter in 500 years. Anna Seiler despaired as her farm animals died, her winter wheat froze in the gro...

An Oprah Book Club Selection! Lalita Tademy's epic novel is based on the lives of four generations of African American women and is the result of years of ...

From “America’s preeminent spy novelist” (The New York Times) comes a fast-paced, mesmerizing thriller of the French resistance fighters working secre...

From New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh comes the third novel in the Horsemen Trilogy, in which a proper English lady discovers how desirable sh...

A New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick-the unique and deeply moving saga of four generations of African-American women whose journey from s...

Product Description Taking place over the course of an eventful week in 1963 Hong Kong, James Clavell’s Noble House is a masterfully woven novel of tr...

FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON COMES A DAZZLING COLLECTION OF NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN GHOSTLY TALES.'Terrific - every bit as good as an MR James collect...

This is the story of Boudica: the last defender of Celtic culture, the only woman openly to have led her warriors into battle, the only British warrior to s...

The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written, soon to be a film adapted by Tom Stoppard and starring ...

A New York Times bestseller. Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv...

From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling epic portrait of Paris that leaps through centuries as it weaves the tales of families whose ...

meridon Knows She Does Not Belong In The Dirty, Vagabond Life Of A Gypsy Bareback Rider. The Half-remembered Vision Of Another Life Burns In Her Heart, Ev...

AN UNFORGETTABLE HEROINE, A KING MISUNDERSTOOD BY HISTORY, A LOVE STORY THAT HAS NEVER BEEN TOLD In A Rose for the Crown, we meet one of history's allege...

Now a major motion picure, adapted from the acclaimed Broadway musical, starring Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, and Sacha Bar...

Machiavelli And Leonardo Da Vinci Team Up To Expose A Serial Killer When Pope Alexander Dispatches A Vatican Courtesan To Discern The Truth About His Belove...

beatrice Lacey, As Strong-minded As She Is Beautiful, Refuses To Conform To The Social Customs Of Her Time. Destined To Lose Her Family Name And Beloved W...

this Brilliant Epic Novel Set In New York And Prague Introduces Us To Two Misfit Young Men Who Make It Big By Creating Comic-book Superheroes. Joe Kavalie...

Johnstone Country. Be Quick Or Be Dead. In A Twist Of Fate, Slash And Pecos Are Riding Hard For The Law, Dispensing Justice As They See Fit, And Determined ...

There are those who walk among us who are no longer alive, but not yet crossed over. They seek retribution…vengeance…to warn. Among the living, few int...

Inman, An Injured And Disillusioned Confederate Soldier, Embarks On A Harrowing Journey Home To His Sweetheart, Ada, Who Herself Is Struggling To Run The Fa...

Jean M. Auel’s enthralling Earth’s Children series has become a literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. In a brilliant novel as vivid...

"A stellar debut . . . about an unconventional family, fear, hatred, violence, chasing love, losing it and finding it again just when we need it most."--The...

It is 1790. After ten years’ training in the great medical schools of Europe, Alec Gordon has returned to Scotland to take up the post of physician in th...

A dazzling, multilayered novel that not only encompasses a searing love story but, with its epic reach, encapsulates the fate of the world. Mumbai has emp...

when The Vision Came, He Was In The Bathtub. So Begins The Madness Of Louis Daguerre. In 1847, After A Decade Of Using Poisonous Mercury Vapors To Cure Hi...

Recently rediscovered by art historians, and one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era, Artemisia Gentileschi led...

In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into...

A publishing event: a major new, epic novel from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pi...

From The New York Times-bestselling Author Of Matterhorn And What It Is Like To Go To War, A Rich Family Saga About Finnish Immigrants Who Settle And Tame T...