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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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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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Private Life
by Jane Smiley
Hardcover: May 2010
Paperback: 14 Jun 2011
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| A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman’s life, from the 1880s to World War II. |
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The Confessions of Catherine de Medici: A Novel
by C. W. Gortner
Hardcover: May 2010
Paperback: 24 May 2011
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| From the fairy-tale châteaux of the Loire Valley to the battlefields of the wars of religion to the mob-filled streets of Paris, The Confessions of Catherine de Medici is the extraordinary untold journey of one of the most maligned and misunderstood women ever to be queen. |
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The Long Song: A Novel
by Andrea Levy
Hardcover: Apr 2010
Paperback: 26 Apr 2011
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| The author of Small Island tells the story of the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom in nineteenth-century Jamaica. |
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A Visible Darkness: A Mystery
by Michael Gregorio
Hardcover: Apr 2009
Paperback: 26 Apr 2011
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| Dark, intelligent, and vividly written, A Visible Darkness continues a masterful series of historical mysteries that portray a past torn between nationalism and humanism, superstition and science. |
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A Fierce Radiance: A Novel
by Lauren Belfer
Hardcover: Jun 2010
Paperback: 1 Apr 2011
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| From the New York Times bestselling author of City of Light comes a compelling, richly detailed tale of passion and intrigue set in New York City during the tumultuous early days of World War II. |
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Galore: A Novel
by Michael Crummey
Paperback: 29 Mar 2011
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| Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us. |
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel
by David Mitchell
Hardcover: Jun 2010
Paperback: 8 Mar 2011
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| A magnificent mix of luminous writing, prodigious research, and heedless imagination, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is the most impressive achievement of its eminent author. |
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