Sebastian Faulks, Where My Heart Used to Beat, Henry Holt (story of war, memory, and desire that sweeps through the 20th century) Lauren disclafani unc mac program office series#Robert Fabbri, The Furies of Rome, Corvus (Latest in Roman adventure series set during the life of Vespasian) Suzannah Dunn, The Lady of Misrule, Pegasus (Lady Jane Grey in the Tower of London) Helen Dunmore, Exposure, Hutchinson (Cold War London, 1960: Lily suspects that her husband’s arrest for passing information to the Soviets is part of a cover-up, unaware that he may be guilty of a worse crime) Phillip DePoy, A Prisoner in Malta, Minotaur (historical mystery involving Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe) Cooper, River of Ink, Bloomsbury (Language, love and revolution in 13thC Sri Lanka)īernard Cornwell, Warriors of the Storm, Harper (latest in Uhtred saga set in Anglo-Saxon England) ![]() Cook, Because You Despise Me, DSP Publications (thriller set in Morocco during WWII gay themes) Connell, Spoils of Victory, Berkley (a US Army investigator in postwar Germany delves into a dangerous black market world) Melody Carlson, Your Heart’s Desire, Center Street (inspirational romance set in California just after WWII) Martin’s (debut novel about a couple fleeing pursuers during Sherman’s march through Georgia)Īndrea Camilleri, The Brewer of Preston, Mantle (Comic novel set in a town in 1870s Sicily recently unified with Italy whose populace rebels by wreaking havoc on an opera being put on by their pompous Italian governor) Brackston, The Case of the Fickle Mermaid, Pegasus (Gretel of fairy tale lore solves a mysterious case involving mermaids in 18th-c Bavaria historical fantasy/mystery)Ĭarrie Brown, The Stargazer’s Sister, Pantheon (Georgian-era astronomer Caroline Herschel and her brother William) Martin’s (one woman’s fight for survival and love in revolutionary Russia) Melanie Benjamin, The Swans of Fifth Avenue, Delacorte (novel about Truman Capote’s scandalous, headline-making, and heart-wrenching friendship with Babe Paley and New York’s society “swans” of the 1950s) Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time, Jonathan Cape (In this story about art and power, compromise, cowardice and courage set in 1937, a man waits all night in a Leningrad apartment block, expecting to be taken to the Big House from which few return) Martin’s (novel of suspense, cooking, and revenge in early 19th-century England) Martine Bailey, A Taste for Nightshade, St. ![]() Mark Alder, Son of the Morning, Pegasus (novel of the Hundred Years War, historical fantasy where angels and demons choose sides on the battlefield) Leila Aboulela, The Kindness of Enemies, Grove (in 2010, a half-Russian, half-Sudanese history professor researches the life of Imam Shamil, the 19th-c Muslin leader told from both viewpoints) Details were compiled by Sarah Johnson (US) and Sarah Cuthbertson (UK), and were based on publisher descriptions.įor newer titles, check out of lists of forthcoming adult historical novels for 2021 and for children and YA for 2021. We list mainstream and small press titles set in the 1960s and earlier.
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