Historical Fiction

Recent historical fiction releases.
Updated August 12, 2025
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These Days
Lucy Caldwell
Paper Book
From 'one of Ireland's most essential writers' (Sunday Times) comes the exquisite story of two sisters trying to survive in life and love against the backdrop of the Belfast Blitz.
The Listeners: A Novel
Maggie Stiefvater
Paper Book
A beguiling, powerful and heartbreaking novel from an exceptional voice in fiction, The Listeners is the story of ordinary people thrown together in extraordinary circumstances, and the things we do to survive. 'Cinematic and so very satisfying... a phenomenally...
The Pretender
Jo Harkin
**Selected as a book of summer 2025 by the Guardian, Daily Mail, Sunday Times and i paper** Wolf Hall meets Demon Copperhead in a sharply ambitious, brilliantly imagined and hugely entertaining story of intrigue, deceit, revenge and...
The Hounding: A Novel
Xenobe Purvis
Paper Book
'Extraordinary . . . clever, strange and beautifully written' THE TIMES 'Prompts thoughts of both THE CRUCIBLE and THE VIRGIN SUICIDES . . . Purvis is an exquisitely accomplished wordsmith.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A taut, tense...
My Name Is Emilia del Valle
Isabel Allende
'A spellbinding masterpiece' SANTA MONTEFIORE'Isabel Allende is a literary treasure' KRISTIN HANNAH 'A captivating novel of love and war from one of our most revered storytellers' KATE MORTON The new historical novel from literary legend Isabel...
Polostan
Neal Stephenson
Paper Book
'Inventive' THE TIMES From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new trilogy--an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age. ...
The Paris Express
Emma Donoghue
Paper Book
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Room and The Pull of The Stars, Emma Donoghue takes readers on a thrilling ride through a simmering turn-of-the-century Paris on the edge of a dazzling future. 'Ratchets up the pace until it's hurtling along as...
Christmas with the Queen
Hazel Gaynor
Paper Book
Curl up this winter with a heart-warming Christmas romance for fans of The Crown and Downton Abbey! 'A page-turning festive read, full of will they/won't they romance, intriguing glimpses of royal life behind palace doors, and inspiring culinary treats. As delicious as a...
There Will Be Bodies
Lindsey Davis
Paper Book
Ten years after the eruption of Vesuvius, the surrounding countryside lies buried and barren. But the destroyed cities and luxury villas on the Bay of Naples are not utterly lost. Flavia Albia and her husband Tiberius Manlius are tasked with restoring one villa and identifying any...
Good Dirt
Charmaine Wilkerson
Ebby Freeman's life has always been marked with tragedy. First, the death of her brother Baz, killed in an anonymous armed robbery when they were teenagers. Then her perfect fiance Henry deserting her on the day of their wedding, without an explanation. When Ebby arrives in a...
The Eights
Joanna Miller
Paper Book
'Entertaining and moving...I came to love these four women as though they were my sisters' TRACY CHEVALIER 'I ADORED it. What a fantastic read. My book of the year' JILL MANSELL - They knew they were changing history. They didn't know...
The Lotus Shoes
Jane Yang
Paper Book
THE CAPTIVATING, HEART-RENDING STORY OF TWO WOMEN IN 1800S CHINA 'Brilliantly written, masterful storytelling, and hard to put down. This story will stay with me for a very, very long time' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz ...
The Devil Three Times: A Novel
Rickey Fayne
'A major new talent announces himself' Attica Locke, New York Times bestselling author of Guide Me Home and Bluebird, Bluebird 'A debut of enormous ambition that succeeds on every level. .. a page-turning, rollicking novel' Nathan Harris, New York Times...
The Sirens
Emilia Hart
Paper Book
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Weyward: FOUR SISTERS, SEPARATED BY HISTORY, BOUND BY THE SEA 'Beautiful and magnificent' Jennifer Saint, author of ARIADNE 'A profoundly moving and rich historical story wrapped up in a contemporary murder mystery...
The Antidote
Karen Russell
'Powerful' Financial Times 'A pure dust storm of utter genius' DAISY JOHNSON 'As profound as it is wonderfully strange' LAUREN GROFF What do we choose to remember and what do we allow ourselves to forget? Visit the...
The Queen of Fives
Alex Hay
Paper Book
'Imagine Bridgerton crossed with Hustle (only 10 times better!)' ⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐⭐ 'Scoundrously entertaining, I loved everything about it' ⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐⭐ 'One major plot twist had me actually shouting at the book' &...
Circle of Days
Ken Follett
Paper Book
'Monumentally epic . . . a superb novel' LEE CHILD From the master of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world's greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge. A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT Seft, a talented flint...
Happy Land
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
'Exactly the novel we need right here, right now' TAYARI JONES 'Astonishing' JODI PICOULT 'Exhilarating' CHARMAINE WILKERSON A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family's ties to a vanished American...
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