7 Top historical books like The Swan's Nest by Laura McNeal

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The Swan's Nest

By: Laura McNeal

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great 19th-cent…

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1. Deadish: A hilarious behind the scenes novel about surviving hospital politics

By: Alex Lancer

3.68

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Ashley and Chris, two junior surgeons in Serenity Hospital, struggle with management and Consultant… read more

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  • fiction
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2. The Tower

By: Flora Carr

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held ho… read more

Similar categories in Flora Carr's The Tower book and Laura McNeal's The Swan's Nest

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Infinite Stranger

By: Wendy Skorupski

4.28

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

On a snowy February morning in 1978, eighteen-year-old Leah Cavanagh meets Brother Matthew Haddon w… read more

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  • romance
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4. All Our Yesterdays: A Novel of Lady Macbeth

By: Joel H. Morris

3.72

Format: 363 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and piercing debut, set ten years before the events of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, about th… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The Painter's Daughters

By: Emily Howes

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown… read more

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  • romance
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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6. Jackie

By: Dawn Tripp

4.34

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In this mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, acclaimed author Dawn Tripp has crafted… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"not only because of the pleasure it will bring, but because the power of ideas, and the ability to express them, is the greatest power we have."

-Dawn Tripp, Jackie

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7. All in Monte Carlo: Inspired by True Events

By: Anna Shilling

4.00

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Four women, four ways to revenge… A Monaco insider reveals what life is like in the world's richest… read more

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  • romance
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8. The Croaking Raven (The Shakespeare Murders, #1)

By: Guy Hale

4.44

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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9. Under Her Roof

By: A.A. Chaudhuri

4.14

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

'A nail biting, claustrophobic thriller with a plot that will give you shivers, and a twist that wi… read more

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10. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

Cover of The Swan's Nest by Laura McNeal

11. The Swan's Nest

By: Laura McNeal

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great 19th-cent… read more

Similar categories in Laura McNeal's The Swan's Nest book and Laura McNeal's The Swan's Nest

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • poetry
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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12. The Betrayal of Thomas True

By: A.J. West

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It is the year 1710, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One … read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. A Memory Of Song: First Verse Of The Last Ballad (The Last Ballad, #1)

By: Scott Palmer

4.04

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In a dying land, the armies of the dead hold sway. And those who rule them are more god than human.… read more

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14. Spencer Edwards: Emperor of the Galaxy

By: Alex Prior

4.24

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

In this gripping and spectacular rollercoaster of an adventure, a fourteen-year-old Earth boy is ch… read more

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15. descended

By: Ingrid J. Adams

4.44

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Nominated for Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 2024, the NSW Premier's Literary Award 2024, the 2… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
Cover of Summer Kind Of Love (Seasons Of The East Coast, #1) by Charlène Boutin

16. Summer Kind Of Love (Seasons Of The East Coast, #1)

By: Charlène Boutin

3.88

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

It’s official: I’m spending a full month on the ocean shores of Cape Breton. Alone. Avery is … read more

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  • romance
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17. Season for Murder: Poisoning in the Quirky Cotswold British Village sets the scene for more Light Hearted Murder Mystery (The FitzMorris Family Mysteries)

By: Anna A Armstrong

4.07

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Enjoy a visit to the idyllic Cotswolds where the blackberry jam is delicious, the pumpkins are ripe… read more

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  • fiction
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18. Seeing Dead

By: Edgar D. Jackson

4.53

Format: 642 pages, Paperback

Seeing Dead a sci-fi mystery set in Scotland, and it focuses on the mysterious disappearance of a s… read more

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19. The Paintress: Interwoven stories based on the life of a forgotten Scottish artist.

By: Jane Anderson

4.59

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

Dual timeline around the life of a forgotten artistThe joys and traumas of love, ambition, and moth… read more

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20. For the Love of Mark Twain: A Cozy Academia Friends-to-Lovers Story (Professors Falling: Romantic Comedies in Academia, #1)

By: Kalyn Gensic

4.24

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

Lucy O’Shields is comfortable. She’s the secretary for the English Department she graduated from, a… read more

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21. Just One Weekend

By: Catherine Aitken

4.61

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Sandy wants adventure. Bored waiting for her husband to give up so they can travel the world, s… read more

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