The Beasts of Paris
By: Stef Penney
3.75
Format: 352 pages, ebook
Enter the world of Haussmann's newly built City of Light: a dazzling, panoramic novel of love and s…
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1. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
2. The List of Suspicious Things
By: Jennie Godfrey
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. Henry Henry
By: Allen Bratton
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V's wa… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- lgbt
"Make life, make life, make life. What sort of life? We can prune and water and weed ourselves, but we can't stop the rot once it gets in."-Allen Bratton, Henry Henry
4. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
By: Kate Atkinson
3.71
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
5. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
6. 73 Dove Street
By: Julie Owen Moylan
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The page-turning and evocative new novel set in 1950s London from the author of That Green Eyed Gir… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
8. Disobedient
By: Elizabeth Fremantle
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
I'll show you what a woman can do . . . Rome 1611. A jewel-bright place of change, with sumpt… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
9. Restless Dolly Maunder
By: Kate Grenville
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
10. The Square of Sevens
By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson
4.14
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her long-dead mother … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"If time with those we love is measured by the hourglass, then God’s greatest cruelty is not to let us see the size of that vessel."-Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens
11. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
12. The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #3)
By: Kate Mosse
4.05
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Next in the #1 Sunday Times bestselling series, New York Times bestselling author Kate Mosse return… read more
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- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
13. Ritual of Fire (Cesare Aldo #3)
By: D.V. Bishop
4.41
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Florence. Summer, 1538.A night patrol finds a rich merchant hanged and set ablaze in the city’s mai… read more
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- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
14. Fifteen Wild Decembers
By: Karen Powell
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A creative re-imagining of the short life of Emily Brontë, one of England’s greatest writers Pra… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
15. The Three Graces
By: Amanda Craig
3.75
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
Ruth, Diana and Marta are three very different friends having a last 'adventure before dementia' af… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
16. The Burial Plot
By: Elizabeth Macneal
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable his… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
17. The Beholders
By: Hester Musson
3.62
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
SOME HOUSES ARE HAUNTED BY THE LIVING June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of th… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
18. The Shadow Key
By: Susan Stokes-Chapman
4.09
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
There's something mysterious about the village of Penhelyg. Will unlocking its truth bring light or… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
19. The Revels
By: Stacey Thomas
3.33
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The stage is set and the witch-hunt is about to begin… ‘I am no witch. I have not sold my soul t… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
20. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
By: Kate Atkinson
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more
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- fiction
21. The Puzzle Wood
By: Rosie Andrews
3.37
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Deep in the woods, something is stirring. When Miss Catherine Symonds arrives to take up a posit… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
22. The Man in Black: Stories
By: Elly Griffiths
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This bumper collection of short stories by the No 1 bestselling author features all her best-loved … read more
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- adult
- fiction
23. Shy Creatures
By: Clare Chambers
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
24. The Beasts of Paris
By: Stef Penney
3.75
Format: 352 pages, ebook
Enter the world of Haussmann's newly built City of Light: a dazzling, panoramic novel of love and s… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- literature
- historical
- war
- france
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
25. The Darkest Sin (Cesare Aldo #2)
By: D.V. Bishop
4.21
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The Darkest Sin is an atmospheric historical thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in Renaissance Florence … read more
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- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
26. The Echoes of Us
By: Emma Steele
4.13
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
A captivating love story on an epic scale, for fans of The Time Traveler's Wife and The Man Who Did… read more
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- fiction
27. Guilty by Definition
By: Susie Dent
4.12
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
The debut murder mystery from the resident genius of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent. … read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
28. Frankie
By: Graham Norton
4.53
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
Frankie Howe has lived a long life, her small flat is crammed full of art, furniture - and memories… read more
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- fiction
29. Precipice
By: Robert Harris
4.23
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more
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- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"-Robert Harris, Precipice
30. The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3)
By: Pat Barker
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
The follow-up to Pat Barker's Number One bestseller THE WOMEN OF TROY Continuing the story of th… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
31. Barrowbeck
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.69
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
For centuries, the inhabitants of Barrowbeck, a remote valley on the Yorkshire-Lancashire border, h… read more
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- fiction
