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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 Queen's Lover: A Novel
by Vanora Bennett
Hardcover: Mar 2010
Paperback: 8 Mar 2011
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| A fictionalized account of the life and loves of Catherine de Valois, a woman of enormous courage who became a great queen of two countries. Readers who enjoy top-quality historical fiction will be swept away by this epic love story set against the rich backdrop of 15th-century England and France—and by this remarkable woman who triumphed magnificently by making her own rules. |
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Heresy
by S.J. Parris
Hardcover: Feb 2010
Paperback: 1 Feb 2011
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| Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page-turning murder mystery set on the sixteenth-century Oxford University campus. |
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The Postmistress
by Sarah Blake
Hardcover: Feb 2010
Paperback: 1 Feb 2011
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| The Postmistress is an unforgettable tale of the secrets we must bear, or bury. It is about what happens to love during wartime, when those we cherish leave. And how every story - of love or war - is about looking left when we should have been looking right. |
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Parrot and Olivier in America
by Peter Carey
Hardcover: Apr 2010
Paperback: 11 Jan 2011
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| From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America. |
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Daughters of the Witching Hill: A Novel
by Mary Sharratt
Hardcover: Apr 2010
Paperback: 5 Jan 2011
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| Daughters of the Witching Hill brings history to life in a vivid and wrenching account of a family sustained by love as they try to survive the hysteria of a witch-hunt. |
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Alice I Have Been
by Melanie Benjamin
Hardcover: Jan 2010
Paperback: 1 Jan 2011
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| Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole –and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling. |
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Remarkable Creatures
by Tracy Chevalier
Hardcover: Jan 2010
Paperback: 26 Oct 2010
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| A voyage of discoveries, a meeting of two remarkable women, and an extraordinary time and place enrich bestselling author Tracy Chevalier's enthralling new novel. |
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The Lieutenant
by Kate Grenville
Hardcover: Sep 2009
Paperback: 14 Sep 2010
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| Winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, Kate Grenville's The Lieutenant - a stunning follow-up to her Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning book, The Secret River, is a gripping story about friendship, self-discovery, and the power of language along the unspoiled shores of 1788 New South Wales. |
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