Historical Fiction

A disillusioned revolutionist grappling with who he was and who he has become in disguise, set in one of the most turbulent times in modern Thailand history A story told...

Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Trust is a sweeping, unpredictable novel about power, wealth and truth, set against the backdrop of turbulent 1920s New York. Perfect for...

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying ill-fated passengers in a haunted car: a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere...

There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories. Luz "Little Light" Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older...

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean He thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke made light show, there must be a way for memories to...

Hope and circumstance define a young woman’s life in this heartbreaking tale of lost innocence, set in politically volatile 1990s Nigeria, from an exciting and fresh voice in global literature....

A groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed debut novel of friendship and freedom that crosses continents and centuries, in a timeslip story exploring the legacy of slavery, selected as The Times Children's Book...

An evocative novel set in 1930s Indochine about an American who journeys there in the name of family fortune, the glamorous world she finds herself in — and the truth...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the...

The captivating sequel to Foul Lady Fortune, by the New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights. A lover in peril. A nation under threat. The clock is ticking...

A Jekyll and Hyde RemixIn this gothic YA remix of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, a teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance and the...

Two teen vigilantes set off on an action-packed investigation to expose corruption and deliver justice in this YA historical fiction novel inspired by real seventeenth century Latinx teenagers. By day...

FROM THE BOOKER-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF HOW MUCH OF THESE HILLS IS GOLD A rapturous novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world...

A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic — a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over...

From the author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, a novel that goes straight to the heart of a family, in all their hopes, desires and regrets. A year...

**Includes a new foreword by Pankaj Mishra** From the award-winning author of Sojourn, a mesmerising novel about the powerful undercurrent of cultural and familial tradition in a society enthralled with...

A stunning collection of short stories from the award-winning author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth. Set across Bombay and Calcutta, Amit Chaudhuri's stories range from a divorcee about...

A sweeping tale of life and death, set in the Syrian capital at the turn of the twentieth century. December, 1907: one morning after a night of drunken carousing in...

The chronicler of contemporary London, acclaimed and bestselling author Zadie Smith, returns with her first historical novel Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? In...

Mexican history and Mesoamerican mythology meet in this thrilling historical fantasy with magic, intrigue, treachery, romance, and adventure. The empire of Montezuma II has long fallen, a city raised on...

A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial, about a young author writing about the secret love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl —...

The prize-winning story of a Senegalese soldier in the trenches, told in hypnotic, powerful prose. Alfa Diaye and Mademba Diop are two of the many Senegalese tirailleurs who fight in...

Translated by Sam Taylor Watch us Dance combines the youth, vibrancy and allure of Andre Aciman with the historical fiction force of Maggie Shipstead, and the exquisite sense of place...

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of...

Edinburgh, 1923. Evelyn Hazard is a young woman living a comfortable and unremarkable middle-class life. One day, her quiet existence is shattered when her steady, reliable husband Robert makes a...

Translated from the Chinese by Gigi Chang THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" — NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME. CHINA , 1237 A.D. Genghis Khan is dead, but...

A captivating historical novel based on the true story of Anita Hemmings, the first Black student to attend the prestigious Vassar College by – passing as white. For fans of...

Translated by Will Hobson All for one, and one for all! The young D'Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis are 'the inseparables' — ready to sacrifice everything...

Let us descend, and enter his blind world' Dante's Inferno Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent...

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney –...

In this transfixing novel, a young woman comes of age in 1960s- and 1970s-era Bombay, a vanished world that is complex and indelibly rendered. Vidya’s childhood is marked by the...

The final chapter in Alka Joshi’s New York Times bestselling Jaipur trilogy takes readers to 1970s Paris where Radha’s budding career as a perfumer must compete with the demands of...

From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos — and how their destinies are entwined across decades, anointed by Hernan Diaz...

PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel Finalist​Shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeA “rich, ambitious debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the ways in...

Perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman, Isabel Allende, and Sarah Addison Allen, this is a gorgeously written novel about a family searching for the truth hidden in their past and...

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK “A knockout of a novel…we predict [Infinite Country] will be viewed as one of 2021’s best.” —O, The Oprah Magazine I often wonder if we...

Combining the haunting power of Toni Morrison’s Belovedwith the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa Gregory’s A Respectable Trade, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s groundbreaking novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history — the...

StoriesPraised as “utterly remarkable” and “deeply resonant” by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a bold and brilliant debut collection, in the vein of The Refugees,...

“This powerful novel should join classics like Ernest J. Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.”—New York Times...

In this stunning debut novel — a tale of self-discovery and feminist awakening — a feisty Nigerian-Ghanaian girl growing up amid the political upheaval of late 1960s postcolonial Ghana begins...

“A fascinating epic tale.” — The New York Post An Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their lives...

From the critically acclaimed author of The Library of Legends comes a vividly rendered novel set in WWI France about two young women — one Chinese, one French — whose...

A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free Black woman who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest...

A breathtaking and ambitious debut novel that chronicles the journey of multiple generations of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to...

Set during the partition of British India in 1947, a time when neighbor was pitted against neighbor and families were torn apart, award-winning author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel brings to...

The Asian literary phenomenon of the 90s. More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian...

Boardwalk Empire meets The Vanishing Half with a touch of earth magic in this sexy and action-packed historical fantasy set in the luminous Golden Twenties from debut author Desideria Mesa,...

Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2023‘A hugely impressive debut’ SARAH WATERS‘[A] haunting and moving story’ SUNDAY TIMES‘A powerful and inspired achievement. This one is not to...

Now with a beautiful new cover and a foreward from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull. In this re-imagining of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo, African American missionaries join forces with...

A powerful, personal novel about women and justice, from one of this country's most loved and clear-eyed storytellers. It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with...