13 Top historical fiction books like Island Song by Madeleine Bunting

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Island Song

By: Madeleine Bunting

4.19

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

It is 1940. Guernsey has been bombed, and is now occupied, by the Germans. A year earlier, young, n…

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Cover of Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home by Susan         Hill

1. Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home

By: Susan Hill

4.23

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This is a year of reading from home, by one of Britain's most distinguished authors. Early one autu… read more

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2. The Shadows in the Street (Simon Serrailler, #5)

By: Susan Hill

4.00

Format: 45 pages, Hardcover

Simon Serrailler is on sabbatical on a Scottish island, recovering from an exhausting murder invest… read more

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  • fiction

3. Quentins

By: Maeve Binchy

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

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4. The King's Curse (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #7)

By: Philippa Gregory

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Hardcover

The final novel in the Cousins' War series, the basis for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries… read more

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5. Death of a Dentist (Hamish Macbeth, #13)

By: M.C. Beaton

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A DENTIST: A Hamish Macbeth Myste… read more

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6. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more

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7. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

By: Eimear McBride

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eimear McBride's debut tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young w… read more

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8. The Forgotten Waltz

By: Anne Enright

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this extraordinary novel, Anne Enright explores the momentous drama of everyday life; the volati… read more

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9. Bournville

By: Jonathan Coe

3.81

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Wait for Me

By: Santa Montefiore

4.13

Format: 400 pages, ebook

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of An Italian Girl in Brooklyn comes a captivating new nov… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. The Dog of the North

By: Elizabeth Mckenzie

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award-longlisted author of The Portable Veblen Penny Rush has problems. H… read more

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  • fiction
"How could she know? We discover things about our spouses no one else ever will. Marriage is one long striptease of the soul."

-Elizabeth Mckenzie, The Dog of the North

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12. The Rose Garden

By: Tracy Rees

4.13

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

The Rose Garden is a richly imagined historical novel full of intrigue and secrets, spanning the lu… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. The Book of Fire

By: Christy Lefteri

3.83

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

In present-day Greece, deep in an ancient forest, lives a family: Irini, a musician, who teaches ch… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Tackle!

By: Jilly Cooper

3.74

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Jilly Cooper's legendary hero returns! Rupert Campbell-Black, undefeated race-horse owner and ha… read more

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  • fiction
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15. Queen Macbeth

By: Val McDermid

3.77

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

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  • fiction
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17. Paper Cup

By: Karen Campbell

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What if going back means you could begin again? Rocked by a terrible accident, homeless Kelly ne… read more

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  • fiction
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18. The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant

By: Kayte Nunn

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A cache of unsent love letters from the 1950s is found in a suitcase on a remote island in this mys… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Mother's Boy

By: Patrick Gale

4.16

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

One of the joys of Gale's writing is how even the smallest of characters can appear fully formed, d… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. A Song of Me and You

By: Mike Gayle

3.95

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Helen and Ben parted as heartbroken 18-year-olds and went their very separate ways.Twenty years lat… read more

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  • fiction
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21. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

By: Helen Czerski

4.23

Format: 446 pages, Hardcover

A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more

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22. The Sunrise Sisterhood

By: Cathy Bramley

4.38

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Three generations of women, and the summer that saved them. The holidays are here, and in Salcom… read more

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  • fiction
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23. The Birdcage

By: Eve Chase

3.67

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Kat, Flora and Lauren are half-sisters who share a famous artist father - and a terrible secret. … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.53

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkn… read more

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  • fiction
"It was as if her life had been brought to a full stop: she couldn't look forward, couldn't picture what tomorrow night bring."

-Ragnar Jónasson, The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)

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25. A Marriage of Fortune

By: Anne O'Brien

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

England, 1469. As the War of the Roses rages on, Margaret Paston knows that there is only one way t… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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26. The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

By: Elizabeth George

4.19

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are forced to confront the … read more

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  • fiction
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27. The Girl from the Channel Islands

By: Jenny Lecoat

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An extraordinary story of triumph against impossible oddsThe year is 1940, and the world is torn ap… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"If she was the only one of her family left, she considered, she carried a responsibility now. She needed to stand up straight again, get a grip on herself."

-Jenny Lecoat, The Girl from the Channel Islands

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28. The Garnett Girls

By: Georgina Moore

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this brilliant debut novel full of heart and warmth, three very different sisters--and their fre… read more

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  • fiction
"It wasn't until the small daily gestures of affection disappeared in a marriage that you noticed them or knew how much you relied on them to break up the grind of work and childcare. They were the be…"

-Georgina Moore, The Garnett Girls

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29. A Room Made of Leaves

By: Kate Grenville

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney-had wr… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"We were two sets of people inhabiting the same space, each set going about its affairs as if the other were not there."

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

"What he and I had made together was honest and important. But his orbit, like mine, lay elsewhere. We had been given a gift from the universe, a momentary precious conjunction. It was not meant to la…"

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

"That was a place a person had to travel through alone. I met there a cold indifferent truth: that every person -- even a loved person, and I was not loved -- was alone. On the whole globe, there was …"

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

"My husband had no one and that must be why some central part of him, some steady sense of who he was, had years ago gone like a mouse to hide away in its hole. But he could never admit the pain. He h…"

-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

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30. The Royal Game

By: Anne O'Brien

3.75

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The inspirational story of the Pastons, a family who rose from obscurity to the very heart of Court… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Island Song by Madeleine Bunting

31. Island Song

By: Madeleine Bunting

4.19

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

It is 1940. Guernsey has been bombed, and is now occupied, by the Germans. A year earlier, young, n… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine Bunting's Island Song book and Madeleine Bunting's Island Song

  • world war ii
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

23 Top fiction books like Island Song by Madeleine Bunting

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The Shadows in the Street (Simon Serrailler, #5)

Susan Hill

4.00

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Jonathan Coe

3.81

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Wait for Me

Santa Montefiore

4.13

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The Dog of the North

Elizabeth Mckenzie

3.61

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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