Historical Fiction

Virginia, 1850: 'Ain't many choices for a slave woman. Just know everything I do is for you. You are meant to see freedom. I's makin' sure.'Pheby Delores Brown was born...

A powerful new novel about grief and mourning from the acclaimed and prize-winning author of The Old Drift I don't want to tell you what happened; I want to tell...

VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE*...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller THE MOTHERS, a powerful new novel about the parallel lives of estranged twin sisters who choose to live in two very...

A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where Reasons End Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in...

The first volume of a new trilogy telling the saga of one French family between 1946 and 2016. Alsace, 1944. Mathilde finds herself falling deeply in love with Amine Belhaj,...

CHOSEN BY BARACK OBAMA AS A FAVOURITE READ OF 2020NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKTOP TEN BOOKS OF 2020, NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST From a...

A searing novel, a powerful call for collectivism, and one of the biggest American debuts of 2021 When the world collapses, where will you run? After rolling blackouts and epic...

The stunning conclusion to the instant New York Times bestselling quartet that began with The Beautiful. The Sylvan Vale and the Sylvan Wyld are at war. Now that the unsteady...

This timely and surprising novel about a family’s search for answers following the disappearance of their mother from the New York Times bestselling author Nancy Jooyoun Kim explores “immigration, identity,...

Two girls’ lives are irrevocably intertwined the summer of 1985 in the streets of Brooklyn, New York, and neither will ever be the same in this coming-of-age story that spans...

In the tradition of Khaled Hosseini, powerful storytelling that brings to life the lives of Palestinians in an epic novel that will move you to tears. Palestine, 1941. In the...

A furious and beautiful book from an internationally bestselling author of formidable standing — on sex and power, persecution and resistance Winner of the Palestine Book Award Nahr has been...

Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette From a young Palestinian writer comes this compelling look at the Israel/Palestine conflict, from both the perspective of an Israeli soldier in 1949 as well as...

Her decision changed history. Now her family must survive it. Destined to become a modern-day classic, The Storm We Made is a dazzling saga about the power of familial love...

For fans of The Miniaturist and The Confessions of Frannie Langton comes this award-winning novel of illuminating historical fiction. Meet Charles Ignatius Sancho: his extraordinary story, hidden for three hundred...

A stunning new voice in fiction: a novel of love, murder and greed set in Costa Rica and the US. Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the...

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephen Jones as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he...

Four generations of women experience love, loss, war and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and, finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping...

An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spires. It is the...

Behind every strong woman are the women who raised her. Some are bound by the blood in their veins, some are bound by the love they have to give: this...