Historical Fiction

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Wet Ink
Wet Ink
Abigail Avis
London, 1969. Trapped in a loveless marriage and the monotony of suburban motherhood, Mitzy Barlow discovers an unexpected escape: writing steamy stories inspired by classic novels. When she begins secretly distributing them inside Tupperware containers at her parties, her private passion becomes a sensation among local housewives. Writing under the pseudonym Queen B, Mitzy sparks a quiet revolution in female desire, friendship, and freedom. But as rumours threaten her family’s reputation and livelihood, she must decide how much she is willing to risk to rewrite her own story.
United Kingdom 2027
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The Society of Forgotten Wives
The Society of Forgotten Wives
Pam Jenoff
In 1919 New York, Hazel Brister leaves her privileged past behind to rebuild her life on the Lower East Side. When a woman arrives seeking help finding her missing husband, Hazel uncovers a troubling pattern: a group of women have all been abandoned by husbands who have mysteriously vanished. Hoping to uncover the truth and launch her journalism career, Hazel joins forces with these resourceful women—but their investigation reveals dangerous secrets that reach closer to home than she ever imagined. Inspired by true events, this is a story of female solidarity, resilience, and women reclaiming their futures.
United States 2027
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The Jewel of Sugar Hill
The Jewel of Sugar Hill
Fiona Davis
In 1800s New York, Eliza Brown is determined to escape her humble beginnings and claim a place among the city’s elite. When she catches the attention of political figure Aaron Burr, she sees an opportunity to secure her future—but her ambitions threaten to expose secrets from her past. More than two centuries later, disgraced architect Abby Dorrance investigates her father’s mysterious death at the historic Morris-Jumel Mansion in Harlem. As she uncovers the house’s hidden history, Abby must choose between protecting her family’s legacy and saving the landmark from destruction. Moving between two eras, this compelling novel follows two ambitious women determined to shape their own destinies against society’s expectations.
United States 2027
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Daughters of the Pink City
Daughters of the Pink City
Alka Joshi
Jaipur, colonial India. Sixteen-year-old Deepa’s life is turned upside down when her mother mysteriously disappears, leaving her and her younger brother in the care of strict grandparents. In a world governed by tradition and rigid expectations for women, Deepa discovers kathak, a classical Indian dance that awakens her passion and offers a glimpse of freedom. Secretly training with a courtesan, she risks defying her family to pursue her art—and uncovers buried secrets about forbidden love, betrayal, and her mother’s past. A richly layered historical novel about female resilience, artistic expression, and the courage to choose your own destiny.
India 2027
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The Witch of Wall Street
The Witch of Wall Street
Marie Benedict
In Gilded Age New York, Hetty Robinson refuses to follow society’s expectations of a wealthy young woman. Instead of settling into a conventional marriage, she joins her father’s business and reveals an extraordinary talent for investing. After a devastating betrayal threatens everything she has built, Hetty vows never to depend on anyone again. Determined to forge her own financial empire, she takes on Wall Street’s most powerful men, including J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie. But behind the notorious nickname “The Witch of Wall Street” lies a more complicated woman: a fiercely independent financier, devoted mother, and shrewd investor whose actions would help save New York City from financial ruin. Inspired by the remarkable life of Hetty Green, this historical novel explores ambition, money, and the price women pay for power.
United States 2027
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Serious Music
Serious Music
Percival Everett
In 1918, Arthur Champion is a gifted young Black music scholar studying at the Oberlin Conservatory when a vindictive professor sends his life in an unexpected direction: he is drafted into the US Army and shipped to the trenches of the First World War. Surviving the horrors of the Somme, Arthur begins a remarkable journey through the jazz clubs of Paris and Harlem, eventually reaching the White House of President Woodrow Wilson. Along the way, he discovers the transformative power of his musical voice in a society determined to deny him ownership of his own talent. Blending dark humour with historical drama, Percival Everett examines racism, artistic freedom, and the struggle to claim one’s place in a world shaped by prejudice.
United States 2027
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Somewhere, Something Incredible
Somewhere, Something Incredible
Susan Meissner
San Diego, 1969. As America prepares to land a man on the moon, Gwen is struggling to keep her family together. After a head injury transforms her eighty-year-old mother, Lucille, into a bold, unpredictable woman who invites a much younger man into her home, Gwen fears that her mother is being taken advantage of. Meanwhile, Gwen’s eighteen-year-old daughter is grieving a friend lost to the Vietnam War. As the world stands on the threshold of an extraordinary achievement, three generations of women must confront grief, control, and the courage it takes to let go.
United States 2027
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Winter of the Bride
Winter of the Bride
Jane Yang
Two brides, a century apart, are bound to the same powerful Chinese family—and a haunting legacy neither can escape. In 1806, Jiayi, a servant chosen as the heir’s “little wife,” discovers that her marriage offers little protection from her husband’s scheming relatives. A hundred years later, Scarlet, a midwife determined to bring modern medicine to a remote village, arrives at the family estate after marrying into it. But whispers of a curse and the ghost of a former bride begin to blur the boundary between past and present. A haunting tale of love, tradition, and the secrets that bind generations of women.
China 2027
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Where the Jinn Consult
Where the Jinn Consult
Soraya Antonius
In the final years of British-ruled Palestine, Jerusalem’s privileged elite continue to enjoy their comfortable lives while the world around them edges towards catastrophe. When Maliha al-Ghal’s husband, a prominent Palestinian politician, is deported by the British, her carefully ordered existence begins to unravel. Her friend Violet Dhaishi, meanwhile, remains absorbed in social gatherings, shopping, and a secret affair with a British officer, oblivious to the escalating violence threatening their society. As bombings multiply and political tensions intensify, the Palestinian upper classes cling to their privilege, reluctant to acknowledge the forces gathering against them. Through interwoven lives, personal betrayals, and political intrigue, Soraya Antonius exposes the dangerous complacency of a society unable to recognise its impending dispossession. Both an intimate portrait of pre-Nakba Palestine and a fierce critique of colonial power and social privilege, Where the Jinn Consult captures the tragic distance between a world people believe will endure and the one they are about to lose.
Palestine 2027
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Newcomers: Book Three
Newcomers: Book Three
Lojze Kovačič
The war is ending, but for Bubi and his family, peace brings a new set of uncertainties. In Ljubljana, the arrival of communist rule transforms everyday life, leaving people to navigate shifting loyalties, political suspicion, poverty, and the demands of a society being rebuilt from the ground up. Bubi fears that his family’s German-speaking background will make them targets under the new regime. As he witnesses show trials, homelessness, and the upheaval of postwar life, he begins to question the ideals shaping the world around him. At the same time, his interest in art and literature deepens, offering him a way to understand a society caught between collective ambition and individual freedom. In this final volume of his autobiographical masterpiece, Lojze Kovačič captures the contradictions of a country emerging from war, where hope and oppression coexist and the search for belonging remains unresolved.
Slovenia 2027
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A Stranger in Corfu
A Stranger in Corfu
Alex Preston
On the Greek island of Vidos, just off the coast of Corfu, a secluded community of former MI6 officers lives in enforced retirement. These men and women have been exiled from the intelligence service—some too damaged by their past, others too compromised to be trusted. Surrounded by the beauty of the Ionian Sea, they attempt to settle old grudges, rekindle lost relationships, and forget the dangerous lives they once led. But their fragile peace collapses when one of the residents is found dead. As suspicion spreads through the community, former allies begin questioning one another, and buried secrets from decades of espionage threaten to surface. The island becomes a trap for people who have spent their lives deceiving others, where old betrayals carry deadly consequences and nobody’s version of the past can be trusted. Inspired by the hidden history of British intelligence, A Stranger in Corfu combines an atmospheric Mediterranean setting with the moral ambiguity of Cold War espionage. Alex Preston explores loyalty, betrayal, and the difficulty of escaping one’s past, asking what remains of people whose entire lives have been built around secrets.
Greece United Kingdom 2026
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The Young Will Remember
The Young Will Remember
Eve J. Chung
In the frozen winter of 1950, a plane carrying Chinese American journalist Ellie Chang is shot down over North Korea. Stranded behind enemy lines during the Korean War, Ellie fears she will never see her family again—until a mysterious woman steps forward and claims her as her missing daughter. The woman, who calls herself Emma, has spent years searching for her own child, lost in the aftermath of an earlier war. Although she knows Ellie is not her daughter, she refuses to leave another woman’s child to die. Taken in by Emma and a pastor’s family, Ellie must navigate a dangerous landscape where trust is scarce and survival depends on unlikely alliances. As American bombing intensifies, the group begins a perilous journey south. Along the way, their lives become entwined with the fate of Emma’s missing daughter and the buried traumas of the past. Through these women, Eve J. Chung reveals the human cost of war beyond the battlefield: the families torn apart, the lives forgotten by history, and the extraordinary courage required to protect one another. Moving and deeply compassionate, The Young Will Remember explores motherhood, sacrifice, and the bonds that can form between strangers amid unimaginable suffering.
North Korea South Korea 2026