Historical fiction

'I was moved to tears by its quiet beauty and layered characters.

For fans of The Greatest Showmanand Water for Elephants, TheCandlelit Menagerie grabs hold and pulls readers into the dim halls of the exotic animal emporiums of London, over two centuries ago.

The dead and their secrets refuse to stay buried in this thrilling sequel to M.

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';The Forgotten is an utterly absorbing novel.

The Russian bestseller about love and second chances, brimming with warmth and humour In the tiny village of Maran nestled high in the Armenian mountains, a place where dreams, curses and miracles are taken very seriously, a close-knit community bickers, gossips and laughs, untouched by the passage of time.

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A Times Book of the Year, 2019 THE SECOND WORLD WAR IS OVER.

Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize Longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown Shortlisted for the 2020 Singapore Literature Prize 'A heartbreaking but hopeful story about memory, trauma and ultimately love.

'THE MOST IMPORTANT LIVING RUSSIAN WRITER' New Yorker A groundbreaking and gripping literary detective novel set in Soviet-era Russia, from the award-winning author of Laurus and The Aviator Can we ever really understand the present without first understanding the past?

Eighteenth-century London the lives of the sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity, become entwined with the nearby Fowler household, charged with providing safe harbour to a mysterious baby from far away.

Poe and Dupin return for another addictive historical mystery ';Deliciously morbid.

Bridgeport, Connecticut: 1913.

Set in a Tyneside fishing village, Herring Girl moves effortlessly between 1898 and 2007 as twelve-year-old Ben finds himself the unlikely conduit for Annie, a herring girl who lived and died a century earlier.

Ferret Skerritt ventriloquist by trade, conman by birth isn't expecting to find love at the 1898 Omaha World's Fair, a colourful world of flimflam men, snake-oil salesmen, occultists, and scandalous burlesques.

Das opulente Epos über die Frühgeschichte BayernsDer historische Roman »Der Krieger und die Königin« erzählt die Geschichte des ruhmreichen Kriegers Garibald und der Langobarden-Prinzessin Waltrada.

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The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novelsJulian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire.

In the spring of 1885, when horse prices reach an all-time high due to government purchases of horses for the cavalry, wealthy Colorado rancher, Maxwell Jax, decided to organize a wild horse roundup in the canyon lands of the Utah Territory.

And so, I am mad after all.

Gosport, 1943.

Travel, houseparties, smugglers, spies--and a mysterious highwayman.

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FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE 'I envy those about to discover Miracle at St.

Zwei Wochen kämpfen sie ums ÜberlebenHarald stammt aus einer Bergbaufamilie.

Tirol, 1954: Der zehnjährige Hans wird ohne das Wissen der Eltern von der Schule abgeholt und aufgrund "sittlicher Verwahrlosung" in eine Erziehungsanstalt gebracht.

Occupied France, 1944

In the shadow of the ravaged battlefields of Verdun, where the scars of the First World War never healed, Vianne, struggling to hold onto her crumbling family chateau, takes in her traumatized nephew Blaise after the arrest of her sister by the Nazis.

But when Blaise says he can see eerie figures in the fog and whispers from the forbidden forest beyond the fence, it seems something ancient and sorrowful stirs in the soil where soldiers of the Great War once bled. As strange guests arrive at the old house and secrets surface, Vianne must face the terrifying possibility that the brutal SS aren’t the only horrors she must face…

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