28 Top historical books like Burnt Offerings by Danielle Devlin

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Burnt Offerings

By: Danielle Devlin

3.91

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

How far would you go to save yourself when the truth can't set you free? Scotland, 1589. Bess…

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Cover of The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G. MacLean

1. The Bookseller of Inverness

By: S.G. MacLean

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Black Drop (Laurence Jago, #1)

By: Leonora Nattrass

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This is the confession of Laurence Jago. Clerk. Gentleman. Reluctant spy. July 1794, and the str… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Daughters of Night

By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson

4.17

Format: 580 pages, Hardcover

From the brothels and gin-shops of Covent Garden to the elegant townhouses of Mayfair, Laura Shephe… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The Maiden

By: Kate Foster

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. The Last Witch of Scotland

By: Philip Paris

3.95

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Being a woman was her only crime. Scottish Highlands, 1727. In the aftermath of a tragic fire… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. Now She is Witch

By: Kirsty Logan

3.54

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

She dug her mother's grave in the poison garden so it would stay hidden... From the snowy winter… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Hemlock Cure

By: Joanne Burn

3.73

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1665 and the women of Eyam keep many secrets. Isabel Frith, the village midwife, walks a d… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. 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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10. 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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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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

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11. 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
"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

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12. A Haunting in the Arctic

By: C.J. Cooke

3.78

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

1901-ben ​járunk. A fiatal nőt, Nickyt megtámadják, majd egy bálnavadász hajó, az Ormen fedélzetén … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

By: Victoria Mackenzie

3.85

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"

-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

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14. Fair Rosaline

By: Natasha Solomons

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Was the greatest ever love story a lie? The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capule… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Fyneshade

By: Kate Griffin

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Many would find much to fear in Fyneshade's dark and crumbling corridors, its unseen master and sil… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. The Witches of Vardø

By: Anya Bergman

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Norway, 1662. A dangerous time to be a woman, when even dancing can lead to accusations of witchcra… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. 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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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The Burnings

By: Naomi Kelsey

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Nothing scares men like witchcraft . . . 1589. Scottish housemaid Geillis and Danish courtier Ma… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Hex

By: Jenni Fagan

3.85

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floor… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"A witch-pricker's finger can be pointed at any one of us. It chose me."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I’ve got the voice of a siren – it’s not a voice to launch a thousand ships, it’s a voice to sink them."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"- You know what really brings the storms, Geillis? - What? - A storm arrives at the exact second when a girl learns she'll never be free"

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I have memories to give away before I meet God — so you can have them, Iris from the ether. Are you listening? Nobody else will write them down."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

Cover of The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather

20. The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz

By: Jack Fairweather

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

How do you keep fighting in the face of unimaginable horror?This is untold story of one of the grea… read more

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  • historical
"So long as the prisoners could believe in the greater good, they were not defeated. Witold's men perished in many terrible ways, but they did so with a dignity that Nazism failed to destroy."

-Jack Fairweather, The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz

"The camp [Auschwitz] had already developed nicknames for those on the edge of starvation: cripples, derelicts, jewels, but the most common was "Musselmänner," or "Muslims," seemingly in reference to …"

-Jack Fairweather, The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz

Cover of Queen Hereafter by Isabelle Schuler

21. Queen Hereafter

By: Isabelle Schuler

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

“Suspenseful, atmospheric and full of twists and turns, I loved the brutal, backstabbing world that… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Nothing Left to Fear From Hell by Alan Warner

22. Nothing Left to Fear From Hell

By: Alan Warner

3.35

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

A BATTLE LOST. A DARING ESCAPE. A LONG WALK INTO OBLIVION. In the aftermath of the catastroph… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. 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
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24. Columba's Bones

By: David Greig

4.30

Format: 175 pages, Kindle Edition

In a bloody, brutal raid, Abbot Blathmac is slain on the steps of his monastery for refusing to giv… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. The Ghost Cat

By: Alex Howard

3.61

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A charming novel for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and How to Stop Time , following a cat thr… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness by Allyson Shaw

26. Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness

By: Allyson Shaw

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Ashes & Stones is a moving and personal journey, along rugged coasts and through remote villages an… read more

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  • historical
Cover of The King's Witches by Kate   Foster

27. The King's Witches

By: Kate Foster

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The King’s Witches by Kate Foster is a gripping and beautiful historical novel, giving an unforgett… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Dark Island (Orkney Mysteries, #1) by Daniel Aubrey

28. Dark Island (Orkney Mysteries, #1)

By: Daniel Aubrey

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Midwinter in Orkney. Six hours of daylight. A race against time to catch a killer.Reporter Freya Si… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Book of Witching by C.J.  Cooke

29. The Book of Witching

By: C.J. Cooke

4.23

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A mother must fight for her daughter’s life in this fierce and haunting tale of witchcraft and reve… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Burnt Offerings by Danielle Devlin

30. Burnt Offerings

By: Danielle Devlin

3.91

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

How far would you go to save yourself when the truth can't set you free? Scotland, 1589. Bess… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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31. May All Your Skies Be Blue

By: Fíona Scarlett

4.42

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

'Poignant . . . I loved it!' ELAINE FEENEY 'A beautiful, deeply affecting story.' DONAL RYAN 'Hugel… read more

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