Gabriel's Moon by William Boyd
Category: Historical Fiction
In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain's greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London to the sun-soaked cobbles of Cadiz and the frosty squares of Warsaw, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession. Gabriel Dax is a young man haunte ...Show more
The Venice Hotel by Tess Woods
Category: Historical Fiction
When the lives of four very different women become entangled in a boutique Venice hotel, dark secrets unravel and not everyone who checked into the hotel will check out again. Signora Loretta Bianchi, the world famous cook at Venice's Hotel Il Cuore, is forced to choose between once-in-a-lifetime passi ...Show more
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
Category: Historical Fiction
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Exhilarating' GUARDIAN'Her writing has a timeless quality' THE TIMES'[Has] a visionary quality' OBSERVERA profound and explosive novel about a spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to surviveA servant girl escapes from a settlement. She carries nothing with ...Show more
North Woods by Daniel Mason
Category: Historical Fiction
'Truly outstanding' Mail on Sunday 'Mason teases out the joy and meaning in the sometimes small lives of his characters. North Woods has been heaped with praise and hype, and deservedly so. This is a book that treats life as a miracle and demands the proper awe from its readers' Antonia Senior, The Tim ...Show more
Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers
Category: Historical Fiction
The masterful new novel from Clare Chambers about love, family and the joy of freedom. In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be identified as the beginning of the decline. For Helen it was the weekend that the Hidden Man came to Westbury Park. C ...Show more
The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
A dazzling historical debut set in eighteenth-century Venice, about the woman written out of the story of history's greatest musical masterpiece **An Observer Debut Novelist of 2024** **Selected as a book of 2024 by the New Statesman and the BBC** 'Enthralling, passionate, vivid. The Instrumentalist is ...Show more
The First Friend by Malcolm Knox
Category: Historical Fiction
A tour de force set in 1938 Stalin Soviet Union, this chilling black comedy it is at once a satire and a thriller, a survivor's tale in which a father has to walk a tightrope every day to save his family from a monster and a monstrous society. 'Crackling with energy, irony, wit and terror, The First F ...Show more
The Lost Book Of Bonn: A Novel by Brianna Labuskes
Category: New Arrivals
For fans of The Rose Code and The Librarian Spy comes another literary themed historical novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books. Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn't stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany to help the Monu ...Show more
The Masterpiece by Belinda Alexandra
Category: New Arrivals
A wartime betrayal, a race against time ... and a secret hidden in a painting.The must-read new novel from the author of The French Agent and White Gardenia. Paris 1946: A young woman, Eve Archer, has come to Paris to find the father she never knew. She is soon caught up in a desperate race to prove her ...Show more
The Other Side of Paradise by Vanessa Beaumont
Category: Fiction
For fans of Downton Abbey, Gosford Park and After the Party. Duty, scandal, and a mother's desperate attempt to protect her sons from a secret that will destroy them. LONDON 1920 Jean Buckman, a young and innocent American heiress arrives in England to find a society decimated by war but resolutely clin ...Show more
The Days I Loved You Most by Amy Neff
Category: Historical Fiction
Every great love story deserves a great ending. An epic love story and a sweeping family saga, The Days I Loved You Most is beautifully constructed and so poignant. Perfect for lovers of Anne Tyler, Claire Lombardo and Emma Straub. Joseph and Evelyn's New England beach homes have been side by side for ...Show more
The Paris Affair by Fiona Schneider
Category: Historical Fiction
In Paris 1942 a woman disappears in the middle of the night, leaving behind the man she loves.French chef Sylvie was sent to Paris as part of the resistance, while German soldier Christoph is doing his duty to save his sister. As the two begin to discover the people beneath their uniforms, the rest of t ...Show more