We had a fantastic line up of our exciting new Historical Fiction titles featured in the March 1st issue of Booklist. Find out more about these titles and more below!
Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
- The author of the acclaimed Crooked Heart returns with a comic, charming, and surprisingly timely portrait of a once pioneering suffragette trying to find her new passion in post-World War I era London.
America Was Hard to Find by Kathleen Alcott
- In the wake of an affair, the lives of an astronaut and a radical are forever altered by the political fault lines of the 1960s, setting off a series of events ricocheting from anti-Vietnam activism to the Apollo program to the AIDS crisis, in this sprawling multigenerational novel.
The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung
- An exhilarating, moving novel about a trailblazing mathematician whose research unearths her own extraordinary family story and its roots in World War II.
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
- A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing historical thriller that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London—a remarkable literary debut with echoes of Alias Grace, The Underground Railroad, and The Paying Guests.
The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang
- Rin’s story continues in this acclaimed sequel to The Poppy War—an epic fantasy combining the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters.
The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams
- The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives and A Certain Age creates a dazzling epic of World War II-era Nassau—a hotbed of spies, traitors, and the most infamous couple of the age, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
Westside by W.M. Akers
- A young detective who specializes in “tiny mysteries” finds herself at the center of a massive conspiracy in this beguiling historical fantasy set on Manhattan’s Westside—a peculiar and dangerous neighborhood home to strange magic and stranger residents—that blends the vivid atmosphere of Caleb Carr with the imaginative power of Neil Gaiman.
The Summer Country by Lauren Willig
- The New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious novel yet—a sweeping, dramatic Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados.
Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini
- From the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, an enthralling historical saga that recreates the danger, romance, and sacrifice of an era and brings to life one courageous, passionate American—Mildred Fish Harnack—and her circle of women friends who waged a clandestine battle against Hitler in Nazi Berlin.
The Song of the Jade Lily by Kirsty Manning
- Kirsty Manning makes her U.S. debut with this gripping historical novel that tells the little-known story of Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during World War II.
One Night in Georgia by Celeste O. Norfleet
- Set in the summer of 1968, a provocative and devastating novel of individual lives caught in the grips of violent history—a timely and poignant story that reverberates with the power of Alice Walker’s Meridian and Ntozake Shange’s Betsey Browne.
The Chocolate Maker's Wife by Karen Brooks
- Australian bestselling novelist Karen Brooks rewrites women back into history with this breathtaking novel set in 17th century London—a lush, fascinating story of the beautiful woman who is drawn into a world of riches, power, intrigue,…and chocolate.
The Lost Daughter by Gill Paul
- From Gill Paul, the author of Another Woman’s Husband and The Secret Wife, comes a powerful new chapter in her Romanov saga…a gripping journey through the decades and across the continents, a novel of eternal love, devastating loss, and courage against all odds.
The Accidentals by Minrose Gwin
- Following the death of their mother from a botched backwoods abortion, the McAlister daughters have to cope with the ripple effect of this tragedy as they come of age in 1950s Mississippi and then grow up to face their own impossible choices—an unforgettable, beautiful novel that is threaded throughout with the stories of mothers and daughters in pre-Roe versus Wade America.
Meet Me in Monaco by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb
- Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly’s whirlwind romance and unforgettable wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey along the Côte d’Azur in this page-turning novel of passion, fate, and second chances.
The Peacock Summer by Hannah Richell
- From internationally bestselling author Hannah Richell comes this compelling story of hidden secrets, forbidden love, and a mysterious old house.
In Another Time by Jillian Cantor
- A sweeping historical novel that spans Germany, England, and the United States and follows a young couple torn apart by circumstance leading up to World War II—and the family secret that may prove to be the means for survival.
Outside Looking In by T.C. Boyle
- In this stirring and insightful novel, T.C. Boyle takes us back to the 1960s and to the early days of a drug whose effects have reverberated widely throughout our culture: LSD.
The American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear
- Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines” (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror, and survival.
The Quintland Sisters by Shelley Wood
- In Shelley Wood’s fiction debut, readers are taken inside the devastating true story of the Dionne Quintuplets, told from the perspective of one young woman who meets them at the moment of their birth.
Say No to the Duke by Eloisa James
- New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James returns with the fourth novel in her breathtaking Wildes of Lindow Castle series.
One Fine Duke by Lenora Bell
- The third book in USA Today bestselling author Lenora Bell's sexy School for Dukes series is a Dracula-Northanger Abbey mash-up, with a dash of James Bond’s Miss Moneypenny.
Brazen and the Beast by Sarah MacLean
- New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with the next book in the Bareknuckle Bastards series about three brothers bound by a secret that they cannot escape—and the women who bring them to their knees.
The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare
- Another scintillating romance from USA Today bestselling author Tessa Dare. Wealthy and ruthless, Gabriel Duke clawed his way from the lowliest slums to the pinnacle of high society—and now he wants to get even.
The Duchess in His Bed by Lorraine Heath
- USA Today bestselling author Lorraine Heath delivers a scintillating story of a widow who has never known true desire—and the man who intends to show her the meaning of real passion.
To Wed an Heiress by Karen Ranney
- New York Times bestselling author Karen Ranney returns to her royally seductive and heart-stirring series as a runaway heiress and an impetuous earl fight for love against scandal, ruin, and a shadowing danger.
You can find more Historical Fiction titles in our Edelweiss catalogs here.
-Lainey