The Ballad of Lord Edward and Citizen Small
By: Neil Jordan
3.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
‘It would begin with the burning mail coaches, my Citizen told me. And end with the citadel of fre…
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1. The Professor
By: Charlotte Brontë
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Professor is Charlotte Brontes first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and con… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
2. Tinkers
By: Paul Harding
3.99
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
An old man lies dying. Propped up in his living room and surrounded by his children and grandchildr… read more
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3. Where You Once Belonged
By: Kent Haruf
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Heavy-built Jack Burdette is quite literally too big for his boots - and too big, certainly for the… read more
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4. Night Watch
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.79
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. The Caretaker
By: Ron Rash
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. The Romantic
By: William Boyd
4.15
Format: 451 pages, Paperback
Set in the 19th century, The Romantic is the story of life itself. Following the roller-coaster for… read more
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- historical
- ireland
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
By: Katie Lumsden
3.67
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
A gripping and atmospheric debut that is at once a chilling gothic mystery and a love letter to Vic… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"But I did not want the future he had planned for me. I did not want a future chosen by anyone but myself."-Katie Lumsden, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
"I said nothing. Too many reasons, too many sins. But he was right. It did not feel wrong. It felt less wrong than anything had in a long time."-Katie Lumsden, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
8. Chenneville
By: Paulette Jiles
4.13
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
9. Help Wanted
By: Adelle Waldman
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more
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- fiction
10. The City of Tears (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #2)
By: Kate Mosse
4.23
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Following on from the Sunday Times number one bestseller, The Burning Chambers, Kate Mosse's The Ci… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
11. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
12. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- historical
13. The Great Divide
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.70
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide
14. All the Little Bird-Hearts
By: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
3.80
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
Sunday lives with her sixteen year old daughter Dolly, the same house she has lived in all her life… read more
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- fiction
15. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
By: Joseph O'Connor
4.05
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more
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- historical
- ireland
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
16. Silver Alert
By: Lee Smith
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This funny and endearing novel of family, secrets, and aging follows an elderly man who heads off o… read more
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- fiction
17. Lucky
By: Jane Smiley
3.13
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musicia… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
18. Whale Fall
By: Elizabeth O'Connor
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
19. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
20. 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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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"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
21. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
22. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
23. The Alternatives
By: Caoilinn Hughes
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
24. The Ghost Woods
By: C.J. Cooke
3.98
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in folklore… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
25. Joan
By: Katherine J. Chen
3.96
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Girl. Warrior. Heretic. Saint? A stunning secular reimagining of the epic life of Joan of Arc, in t… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"What would I gain by being a man?" she says. "A cock, a deeper voice, hair across my chest. I would not become stronger. I am already strong." And, she thinks, I would inherit several weaknesses of m…"-Katherine J. Chen, Joan
"You must make your own map of the world. Search out your own piece of sky and patch of earth, your own awning to sleep under when it is raining and it feels the sun may never shine again, for there w…"-Katherine J. Chen, Joan
26. The Forester's Daughter
By: Claire Keegan
4.07
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
27. Nora: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce
By: Nuala O'Connor
4.05
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed Irish novelist Nuala O’Connor’s bold reimagining of the life of James Joyce’s wife, muse,… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
28. The Good Ones
By: Polly Stewart
3.19
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing work of literary suspense that illuminates the push and pull of female friendship and… read more
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- fiction
29. The Walled Garden
By: Sarah Hardy
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A luminous debut novel about love, the trauma of war and the miracle of human resilience, for reade… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
30. The Ballad of Lord Edward and Citizen Small
By: Neil Jordan
3.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
‘It would begin with the burning mail coaches, my Citizen told me. And end with the citadel of fre… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- ireland
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