New for You - Historical Fiction - November 2024Like this list

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• Terra Incognita

  Turney, Simon

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  A Roman force undertakes a dangerous expedition to find the source of the river Nile.

• The Modern Fairies

  Pollard, Clare

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  A novel inspired by real events, about the delights and dangers of storytelling in dark times.

• Rapture

  Maguire, Emily, 1976-

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  A young woman in the 9th century avoids a future as a wife or a nun by disguising herself as a man and devoting her life to study, eventually finding herself at the heart of political intrigue and gossip.

• The Booklover's Library

  a Novel

  Martin, Madeline

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  In wartime London it is the power of books that brings people together.

• The Sky Beneath Us

  Valpy, Fiona

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  An uplifting story of love and loss, courage and adventure. Set in 1927 and 2020 Nepal following two women as they embark on adventures that take them worlds away from everything that is familiar.

• City of Laughter

  a Novel

  Fruchter, Temim

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  A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years.

• Eleanore of Avignon

  a Novel

  DeLozier, Elizabeth

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  Eleanore of Avignon is the story of a woman who is unwilling to bend to the limitations her society places upon her when she becomes the unlikely apprentice to the pope’s physician at the most challenging and dangerous moment in medieval…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shy Creatures

  Chambers, Clare, 1966-

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  A life-affirming novel about all the different ways we can be confined, how ordinary lives are built of delicate layers of experience, the joy of freedom and the transformative power of kindness

• The Starlets

  a Novel

  Kelly, Lee

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  Real life is turning out to be stranger than a script for the silver screen. Vivienne Rhodes thinks she’s finally landed her break playing Helen in Apex Pictures’ big-budget Troy epic, A Thousand Ships, an anticipated blockbuster meant…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Jewel of the Blues

  Chenault-Kilgore, Monica

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  Set in the sparkling 1920s jazz era, The Jewel of the Blues pulls back the curtain on all the romance, danger and drama in the bustling backstage life of a young performer.