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New For You - Historical Fiction - April 2025

Dive into the past with this selection of the latest Historical Fiction titles.

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  • A novel about magic, memory and land that confronts the history of land theft from Native Americans, set in America’s Dust Bowl.
    Book, 2025London : Chatto & Windus, 2025. — FICTION
  • 1945 Germany, a young boy named Benno bears witness to something he barely understands. Compassionate exploration of the aftermath of war.
    Book, 2025London : Virago, 2025. — FICTION
  • A daring dancer must take her twin brother's place as a riveter high atop the in-progress Empire State Building to save her family from ruin.
    Book, 2025New York, N.Y. : Gallery Books, 2025. — FICTION
  • A young journalist visits reclusive artist, Edouard Tartuffe, in Provence over the summer of 1920. He slowly becomes entangled in the the peculiar household.
    Book, 2025London : John Murray, 2025. — HISTORICAL
  • In 1966 Vienna, Robert Simon, a determined man from a war orphanage, refurbishes a rundown café creating a refuge for customers amid the city’s changes.
    Book, 2025Edinburgh : Canongate Books, 2025. — FICTION
  • A scandal at midnight: After a disastrous first Season, Lady Daisy Patterdale is relieved to be back home with her books. Looking for peace, she rows out to the island on the lake where she encounters Captain Lord Benjamin Bramhall who's been…
    Book, 2025Sydney : Mills & Boon, 2025. — ROMANCE
  • A Piece of Red Cloth

    a Novel From Arnhem Land

    It's early in the wet season. A flock of crested terns sweeps into the bay and dives towards Batjani. The birds are saying the foreigners are coming, as they do every year, but why are they so full of menace?
    Book, 2025Crows Nest, New South Wales : Allen & Unwin, 2025. — HISTORICAL
  • For fans of Burial Rites and Elmet, when the preserved body of a woman is discovered in a bog near an isolated village community, rumours begin to fly. To some, the body is an omen, heralding misfortune to come. To others, hers is a story waiting to…
    Book, 2025London : Doubleday, 2025. — MYSTERY
  • August 1914: Edie Lawrence has never played by the rules. When war is declared, she disguises herself as a man to join the war effort and write about her experiences. But she also wants to catch news of her beloved Nate, who has already been sent to…
    Book, 2025London : Penguin Books, 2025. — HISTORICAL
  • An extraordinarily accomplished debut novel—a love story, mystery, and philosophical puzzle—told in the singular voices of the residents of a Beaux Arts apartment building in Belgium in 1939.
    Book, 2025London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025. — FICTION