New For You - Historical Fiction - April 2025Like this list

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• The Antidote

  Russell, Karen, 1981-

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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.

• Once the Deed Is Done

  Seiffert, Rachel, 1971-

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  1945 Germany, a young boy named Benno bears witness to something he barely understands. Compassionate exploration of the aftermath of war.

• Grace of the Empire State

  a Novel

  Tizzard, Gemma

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  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.

• The Artist

  Steeds, Lucy (Novelist)

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  A young journalist visits reclusive artist, Edouard Tartuffe, in Provence over the summer of 1920. He slowly becomes entangled in the the peculiar household.

• The Café With No Name

  Seethaler, Robert, 1966-

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  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.

• The Patterdale Siblings

  Burrows, Annie

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Piece of Red Cloth

  a Novel From Arnhem Land

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  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?

• Greater Sins

  Griffiths, Gabrielle

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Women of War

  Morrish, Louise

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 33 Place Brugmann

  Austen, Alice (Screenwriter)

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  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.