Historical Fiction

A “gripping historical adventure” of ancient Vietnam based on the true story of two warrior sisters who raised an army of women to overthrow the Han Chinese and rule as...

Inspired by real historical events, The Mercies is a breathtaking story of love, fear and obsession, and the strength and courage of women. On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around...

The heartbreaking and completely unputdownable instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick about the pain and sacrifice of forbidden love, the lengths a mother will go...

A beautifully written and utterly captivating novel about female strength and the power of belief, set during Mussolini's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King casts a light on the...

THE ICONIC CLASSIC, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE BBC '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'The Color Purple is my go-to comfort novel. Every single time I read...

The heart-rending story of survival and endurance in Japanese-occupied Singapore Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only three survivors, one...

Delhi, 1997: It is India's fiftieth year of independence, the year of Hindu nationalists and atomic bombs. But twelve-year-old Adi has a bigger problem: his Ma has gone missing —...

A teen girl seeking retribution against her backstabbing former best friend finds her plans slightly derailed once she catches the eye of a familiar, handsome marquess. Bestselling author Amalie Howard...

The people of Salt Point are afraid of the world beyond their rural town. Most of them areborn, live and die never having gone more than twenty or thirty miles...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTRE FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE A THING IS MIGHTY BIG WHEN TIME AND DISTANCE CANNOT SHRINK IT It was a quote by Zora Neale Hurston. Malaya...

Assassin. Immortal. Spy. An ill-matched pair of spies pose as a couple to investigate a series of murders in 1930s Shanghai, from the author of These Violent Delights. Four years...

FOR FANS OF CELESTE NG and MIN JIN LEE. 'A riveting mother-daughter tale' Elle 'Spellbinding and intricately layered' E.M. Tran 'A gripping tale about motherhood' Heat 'This novel has everything you want' Meng...

WINNER OF THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A searing, gripping novel about a young Tamil woman living through the Sri Lankan civil war Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a...

Zhifu, China, 1882. Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped...

An epic historical heist novel of plundered treasure, savage empire, lasting love and a young man's dream to make his mark on the world. From an Indian American writer at...

Translated by Alison Anderson Awarded the Prix des libraires by France’s booksellers, a universal story about music and restoring one’s faith in others amid the aftermath of tremendous loss. Tokyo,...

An unexpected act of violence brings together two families in this propulsive and sweeping story of love, identity and the American experience. Set in New York and China over three...

Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought...

Montgomery, Alabama. 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference in her community. She wants to help women make their own choices for...

World Fantasy Award winner C. L. Polk casts magic over mid-century Chicago in Even Though I Knew the End, an extraordinary fantasy noir. A magical detective dives into the affairs...

A ragtag band of misfits gets swept up in Holy Land politics in Travelers Along the Way by Aminah Mae Safi, a thrilling YA remix of the classic legend of...

Translated by Dias Novita WuriA dazzling novella from a rising star of Indonesian literature that explores what it means to be a woman — whoever you are, wherever you are,...

Translated by YZ Chin By one of Southeast Asia’s most exciting writers, The Age of Goodbyes is a wildly inventive account of family history, political turmoil, and the redemptive grace...

A woman keeps her daughters safe in the wake of war and political trauma in Central and Latin America Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her...

Winner of the Prix Ethiophile, the Prix des racines et des mots, and the Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie AN AWARD WINNING NOVEL FOLLOWING THREE GENERATIONS TORN APART...

Translated by Takami Nieda A Zainichi Korean teen comes of age in Japan in this groundbreaking debut novel about prejudice and diaspora. Seventeen-year-old Ginny Park is about to get expelled...

A multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of modern-day showbiz When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and...

The acclaimed author of The Talented Ribkins deconstructs painful African American stereotypes and offers a fresh and searing critique on race, class, privilege, ambition, exploitation, and the seeds of rage...

'Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...'To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. 'Glorious' New York Times Book Review 'The compelling energy of a crime thriller...

A stunning novel detailing the real relationship between Vincent van Gogh and his mistress, model and muse, Sien Hoornik. The Hague, 1882, a howling winter's night. Sien and her daughter...

Feverishly energetic and playfully creepy, an unforgettable debut that hurtles through the ghostly secrets of Vietnamese history Two young Vietnamese women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless, both are...

In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and...

Meet Tony — the first Indian to set foot on American soil. Among the settlers, slaves, and indentured servants that make the treacherous journey across the Atlantic to the New...

A grimdark fantasy reimagining of the ancient Indian epic the Mahabharata. SOME BALLADS ARE INKED IN BLOOD Bled dry by violent confrontations with the Magadhan Empire, the Mathuran Republic simmers on...

A breathtaking blend of Mexican horror movies and dark occultism from the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic. Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out...

Paris, 1889. Luz Alana Heith-Benzan, heiress to the Cana Brava rum empire, has sailed all the way from Santo Domingo with one purpose: expanding her family's business. Enter James Evanston...

USA TODAY bestselling author Adriana Herrera returns with a new historical romance novel, following A Caribbean Heiress in ParisOne last summer.For Manuela del Carmen Caceres Galvan, the invitation to show...

Translated by An Seon Jae Two women's lives and identities are intertwined — through World War II and the Korean War — revealing the harsh realities of class division in...

1941, West Java. Love and revolution are in the air. And war is on its way. Shortly before the Japanese invade, the van Hoorn family throws their famous Sinterklaas party...

A captivating novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved'Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter' New York TimesAs...

A forbidden love between a Mexican heiress and a shrewd British politician makes for a tantalizing Victorian season.Ana Maria Luna Valdes has strived to be the perfect daughter, the perfect...

By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2021LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2021From 'one of Africa's greatest living writers'...

A stirring coming-of-age novel about guilt, loss, love and memory. Others Were Emeralds explores the inherent danger of allowing our misconceptions to shape our reality. This is the part in...

THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER The unforgettable new novel from the National Book Award-winning, Oprah Book Club-picked, Barack Obama pick, James McBride. In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the...

Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan – a dazzling queer historical fantasy of war and destiny set in an epic alternate China, and sequel to Sunday Times bestselling She...

The stage is set and the witch-hunt is about to begin… ‘I am no witch. I have not sold my soul to the devil for powers. What I am has...

A furious, blistering, deeply tender novel about family, violence and the hope of redemption, set against the vivid backdrop of 80s Manchester Wythenshawe, South Manchester. 1985. The Dodds family once...

A novel by Man Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri about life in the time immediately before the arrival of the Atlantic slave trade, which restores a lost history to the...

A dazzling new novel of friendship, identity and the unknowability of other people — from the international bestselling author of Home Fire, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction Sometimes...