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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 Casebook of Victor Frankenstein: A Novel
by Peter Ackroyd
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 7 Sep 2010
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| When two nineteenth-century Oxford students—Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley—form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most accomplished and prolific authors. |
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Wolf Hall: A Novel
by Hilary Mantel
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 1 Sep 2010
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| In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power. |
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Broken Jewel: A Novel
by David L. Robbins
Hardcover: Nov 2009
Paperback: 31 Aug 2010
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| New York Times bestselling author David L. Robbins presents a riveting novel of war, love, and survival, set against the backdrop of an improbable rescue, the Los Baños prison raid -- one of the most daring episodes of World War II. |
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The Lacuna: A Novel
by Barbara Kingsolver
Hardcover: Nov 2009
Paperback: 25 Aug 2010
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| In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. |
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The Children's Book: A Novel
by A.S. Byatt
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 10 Aug 2010
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| A spellbinding novel that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children's book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves. |
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The Quickening Maze: A Novel
by Adam Foulds
Paperback: 29 Jun 2010
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| In 1837 the great poet John Clare finds himself in High Beach - a mental institution on the outskirts of London. Soon another famed writer, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and grows entwined in the cloistered world of High Beach and its residents. (Paperback Original) |
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The Stalin Epigram: A Novel
by Robert Littell
Hardcover: May 2009
Paperback: 1 Jun 2010
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| The Stalin Epigram is a fictional rendering of the life of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century - and one of the few artists in Soviet Russia who daringly refused to pay creative homage to Joseph Stalin. |
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Far Bright Star
by Robert Olmstead
Hardcover: May 2009
Paperback: 25 May 2010
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| Napoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, leads an expedition of inexperienced soldiers into the mountains of Mexico to hunt down Pancho Villa. But things go terribly wrong; his troop is brutally attacked, and Napoleon, left by his captors to die in the desert, reflects on his past as he struggles to survive. |
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