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Fall back in time with these historical fiction picks ⌛🗺️

Updated July 17, 2025
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The ladies rewrite the rules
Allain, Suzanne
Paper Book
From the author of Mr. Malcolm's List comes a delightful romantic comedy set in Regency England about a widow who takes high society by storm. Diana Boyle, a wealthy young widow, has no desire to ever marry again. Particularly not to someone who merely wants her for her...
The rose arbor
Bowen, Rhys
CD
Sea of poppies
Ghosh, Amitav
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008 'Sea of Poppies boasts a varied collection of characters to love and hate, and provides wonderfully detailed descriptions . . . utterly involving and piles on tension until the very last page' Sunday Times ...
The life of Herod the Great
Hurston, Zora Neale
Paper Book
'The Life of Herod The Great - like Hurston herself - is a masterpiece, a miracle, and a marvel. In other words, treasure for the whole world' Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage * In the 1950s Zora Neale Hurston penned a historical novel reconsidering the...
Miss Morgan's book brigade a novel
Skeslien Charles, Janet
Paper Book
" The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the "captivating, richly drawn" (Woman's World) The Paris Library returns with a brilliant new novel based on the true story of Jessie Carson--the American librarian who changed the literary landscape of France...

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