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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews, excerpts, reading guides and more of exceptional historical fiction.
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The Printmaker's Daughter: A Novel
by Katherine Govier
Paperback: 22 Nov 2011
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| Vivid, daring, and unforgettable, The Printmaker's Daughter shines fresh light on art, loyalty, and the tender and indelible bond between a father and daughter. |
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Take Me Home
by Brian Leung
Hardcover: Oct 2010
Paperback: 15 Nov 2011
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| Take Me Home is a powerful story about friendship and love set against the stunning backdrop of 1880's Wyoming and based in the pages of history. |
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City of Tranquil Light: A Novel
by Bo Caldwell
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 25 Oct 2011
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| Inspired by the lives of the author's maternal grandparents - City of Tranquil Light is a tender and elegiac portrait of a young marriage set against the backdrop of the shifting face of a beautiful but torn nation. |
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Some Sing, Some Cry: A Novel
by Ntozake Shange, Ifa Bayeza
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 11 Oct 2011
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| Shange and Bayeza give us a monumental story of a family and of America, of songs and why we have to sing them, of home and of heartbreak, of the past and of the future, bright and blazing ahead. |
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Bright and Distant Shores: A Novel
by Dominic Smith
Paperback: 13 Sep 2011
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| From the award-winning author of The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre and The Beautiful Miscellaneous comes a sweeping historical novel set amid the skyscrapers of 1890s Chicago and the far-flung islands of the South Pacific. |
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The Mistress of Nothing: A Novel
by Kate Pullinger
Hardcover: Jan 2011
Paperback: 6 Sep 2011
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| The American debut of an award-winning novel about a lady's maid's awakening as she journeys from the confines of Victorian England to the uncharted far reaches of Egypt's Nile Valley. |
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The Golden Mean
by Annabel Lyon
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 6 Sep 2011
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| A startlingly original first novel by "this generation's answer to Alice Munro" (The Vancouver Sun) - a bold reimagining of one of history's most intriguing relationships: between legendary philosopher Aristotle and his most famous pupil, the young Alexander the Great. |
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Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy
by Ken Follett
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 30 Aug 2011
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| The first novel in The Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants follows the fates of five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. |
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