Tag: Historical Fiction
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The Berlin Wife
by Marion Kummerow When shy, beautiful Edith first met Jewish-born Julius it was love at first sight. Julius swept her off her feet, whisking her from humble beginnings into the sparkling society and glittering ballrooms of Berlin’s powerful elite. It felt like all her dreams had come true. But her perfect world begins to crack with rumblings of the…
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The Cardinal
By Alison Weir AN EXTRAORDINARY RISE TO POWER. A TRAGIC FALL FROM GRACE. It begins with young Tom Wolsey, the bright and brilliant son of a Suffolk tradesman, sent to study at Oxford at just eleven years old. It ends with a disgraced cardinal, cast from the King’s side and estranged from the woman he…
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The Elopement
Gill Hornby 1820. Mary Dorothea Knatchbull is living under the sole charge of her widowed father, Sir Edward – a man of strict principles and high Christian values. But when her father marries Miss Fanny Knight of Godmersham Park, Mary’s life is suddenly changed. Her new stepmother comes from a large, happy and sociable family…
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts
by Katherine Arden Amid the falling shells of Flanders Field, magic and mystery fills the air… January 1918: Laura Iven, a Canadian nurse, returns home from the war, only to receive devastating news – her brother Freddie is dead. But something doesn’t quite make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura heads back to Belgium,…
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James
by Percival Everett The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he flees to nearby Jackson’s Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape…
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The Mitford Affair
by Marie Benedict The Mitford Affair is a historical novel by Marie Benedict published in 2023. The novel is set in 1930s and 1940s Europe, tracing the ascendancy of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany through the family dynamics and love affairs of the famous real-life Mitford sisters. Between the World Wars, the six Mitford sisters–each more beautiful, brilliant,…
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The Kingmaker
by Sir Graham Brady David Cameron. Theresa May. Boris Johnson. Liz Truss. Rishi Sunak. Five prime ministers, one explosive memoir. Kingmaker lifts the lid on the leadership battles that have defined British politics for a decade and a half. The last fourteen years have seen turbulence at the centre of politics that is perhaps unique in British…
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The Dance Tree
by Kiran Millwood Hargrave Strasbourg, 1518. In the midst of a blisteringly hot summer, a lone woman begins to dance in the city square. She dances for days without pause or rest, and as she is joined by hundreds of others, the authorities declare an emergency. Musicians will be brought in to play the Devil out…
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Dark Days at the Beach Hotel
by Francesca Capaldi Can she save the hotel… and her reputation? Helen Bygrove is managing the hotel, now that her husband has been conscripted. Against all expectations, Helen and her team are doing marvellously, despite the shortages brought by war. Even the exacting Lady Blackmore agrees. But then the calm is shattered when poison pen…