Genre: Historical Fiction (54 Listed volumes)
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David Coventry
The Invisible Mile
A re-imaging of a true story, The Invisible Mile is a novel about the capacity of the human mind and body when stretched to their absolute limits. -
Jean-Christophe Rufin
The Dream Maker
Based on the true story of Jacques Coeur, The Dream Maker is the story of a Steve Jobs of the Middle Ages. Coeur was the King of France’s visionary First Banker who contributed to bringing France out of darkness and toward the Renaissance and modernity. An adventure novel, a novel of ideas, and... -
Andrea Camilleri
The Revolution of the Moon
From Andrea Camilleri, author of the Inspector Montalbano series, comes the remarkable account of an exceptional woman who rises to power in 17th century Sicily and brings about sweeping changes that threaten the iron-fisted patriarchy, before being cast out in a coup after only 27 days. -
Sarah Moss
Signs for Lost Children
Award-winning author Sarah Moss's most recent work of historical fiction is a portrait of a young couple's unconventional marriage as it's tested by separate quests for identity in work and life. Set in the Victorian Age, Signs for Lost Children grapples with central themes of early feminism, mental... -
Julie Lekstrom Himes
Mikhail and Margarita
Ranging between lively readings in the homes of Moscow's literary elite to the Siberian Gulag, Mikhail and Margarita recounts a passionate love triangle while painting a portrait of a country whose towering literary tradition is at odds with a dictatorship that does not tolerate dissent. -
Rohan Wilson
To Name Those Lost
A powerful page-turner about a father and son in search of each other in a lawless age and a violent land, To Name Those Lost is a tale of guilt, vengeance, fatherhood, and redemption that recalls the novels of Cormac McCarthy and those of Booker-Prize winning author Richard Flanagan. -
Richard Francis
Crane Pond
Richard Francis's stunning novel Crane Pond is the story of Samuel Sewall, loving father and husband, anti-slavery advocate, defender of Native American rights, and presiding judge at the Salem Witchcraft trials in 1692, where he sentenced twenty innocent women to death. -
Joan London
The Golden Age
The Golden Age is an immensely satisfying and generous-hearted story about displacement, recovery, resilience, and love. -
Dario Fo
The Pope's Daughter
In his first ever novel, Nobel laureate Dario Fo recounts the story of Renaissance Italy’s most powerful and immoral family and their favorite daughter, Lucrezia Borgia. -
Jean-Christophe Rufin
The Red Collar
A delicate literary novel that asks the question “What is the meaning of loyalty?”