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Boleyn Traitor drops readers into the Tudor court at its most dangerous, where survival depends on knowing when to speak, when to watch, and when to betray.
Boleyn Traitor
Historical Fiction · Biographical Fiction
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Boleyn Traitor drops readers into the Tudor court at its most dangerous, where survival depends on knowing when to speak, when to watch, and when to betray. Through Jane Boleyn, Philippa Gregory turns court politics into something sharp, intimate, and deeply unsettling, with ambition and fear pressing in from every side. This is historical fiction built on power plays, family loyalties, whispered secrets, and the constant threat of losing everything with one wrong move.
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#1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA Today) Philippa Gregory returns with a dazzling historical novel of ambition, betrayal, and survival in the court of Henry VIII.
“Gregory skillfully captures the lust for power and wealth that overcomes those who serve a mentally unstable ruler.”--Library Journal
“Richly atmospheric, Gregory’s novel delivers a riveting portrait of Jane and drama of the cunning stakes involved in trying to survive Henry’s reign.”--Booklist
Jane Boleyn watches from the shadows of the Tudor court, where secrets are currency, every choice is dangerous, and even the faintest whisper can seal the fate of queens.
For Jane, survival demands playing every role required of her: a loving wife who conceals her doubts, a devoted sister to Anne Boleyn at the height of her power, and an obedient spy who carefully wields her words. But in a court ruled by ambition and a tyrant’s sword, Jane must rely on her sharp wit and skillful maneuvering to outthink those around her, knowing that one wrong move could cost her everything.
Philippa Gregory masterfully shines a spotlight on the untold story of Jane Boleyn, peeling back the myths to reveal a complex portrait of a woman who dared to survive at any cost. Perfect for fans of thrilling historical drama and readers captivated by the intrigue of the Tudor period, Boleyn Traitor is a must-read.
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This will appeal to readers who want historical fiction and mythology retellings centered on women usually pushed to the margins of epic stories.
The Silence of the Girls
Historical Fiction · Pre-History | Ancient History · War Fiction
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Briseis, once a queen, becomes Achilles' captive after the Greeks destroy her city and must survive life among the conquered women of the Greek camp as the Trojan War moves toward its end, with a 3.9-star average from more than 120,900 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want historical fiction and mythology retellings centered on women usually pushed to the margins of epic stories.
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a brave and masterful retelling of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War.
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award • Finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction
One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Washington Post, The Economist, Financial Times
Here is the story of the Iliad as we’ve never heard it before: in the words of Briseis, Trojan queen and captive of Achilles. Given only a few words in Homer’s epic and largely erased by history, she is nonetheless a pivotal figure in the Trojan War. In these pages she comes fully to life: wry, watchful, forging connections among her fellow female prisoners even as she is caught between Greece’s two most powerful warriors. Her story pulls back the veil on the thousands of women who lived behind the scenes of the Greek army camp—concubines, nurses, prostitutes, the women who lay out the dead—as gods and mortals spar, and as a legendary war hurtles toward its inevitable conclusion. Brilliantly written, filled with moments of terror and beauty, The Silence of the Girls gives voice to an extraordinary woman—and makes an ancient story new again.
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In The Ultra Betrayal, OSS agent Conor Thorn is sent to track down a missing Swedish cryptographer whose disappearance could put critical Allied intelligence at risk.
The Ultra Betrayal
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Spy Thriller · World War 2
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In The Ultra Betrayal, OSS agent Conor Thorn is sent to track down a missing Swedish cryptographer whose disappearance could put critical Allied intelligence at risk. When the search leads from England to Stockholm and his MI6 colleague vanishes as well, Thorn is pulled into a deeper Nazi conspiracy with consequences for the wider war effort. This is a fast-paced WWII espionage thriller with codebreaking, covert operations, and high-stakes intrigue.
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One man's dark deal with the Nazis could bring the Allies to their knees …
The well researched WWII espionage series continues with fast-pased action and historical adventures.
Autumn, 1942. Rule breaker OSS Agent Conor Thorn is assigned a mission to help the Allied war effort when a key Swedish cryptographer stationed in England goes missing.
Thorn is determined to find him before critical information falls into enemy hands, but when his MI6 colleague vanishes trailing the code-breaker to Stockholm, Thorn is plunged yet again into a sinister Nazi conspiracy.
Can Thorn stop prized secrets from triggering more wartime carnage?
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Betrayed, buried alive by the system, and very much not in the mood to forgive, Edmond Dantès turns injustice into something far more dangerous in The Count of…
The Count of Monte Cristo
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction
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Betrayed, buried alive by the system, and very much not in the mood to forgive, Edmond Dantès turns injustice into something far more dangerous in The Count of Monte Cristo. What begins with wrongful imprisonment grows into an enormous story of escape, hidden fortune, and exquisitely calculated revenge against the men who ruined his life. It is a classic for a reason: dramatic, ruthless, and completely committed to the long game.
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The epic tale of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge, in its definitive translation
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to use the treasure to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas' epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s.
Translated with an Introduction by ROBIN BUSS
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It fits readers who want romantic tension, class conflict, and a Dickens-inspired historical retelling.
Olivia Twist
Teen + Young Adult · Historical Fiction · Historical Romance · Historical Thriller
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A hidden past collides with high society in Olivia Twist, where survival instincts and stolen identities refuse to stay buried. Olivia has built a new life after years on London’s streets, but her loyalty to the children she left behind and her growing connection with Jack threaten everything she has tried to become. It fits readers who want romantic tension, class conflict, and a Dickens-inspired historical retelling.
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Olivia Twist is an innovative reimagining of Charles Dickens' classic tale Oliver Twist, in which Olivia was forced to live as a boy for her own safety until she was rescued from the streets. Now eighteen, Olivia finds herself at a crossroads: revealed secrets threaten to destroy the "proper" life she has built for herself, while newfound feelings for an arrogant young man she shouldn't like could derail her carefully laid plans for the future.
Olivia Brownlow is no damsel in distress. Born in a workhouse and raised as a boy among thieving London street gangs, she is as tough and cunning as they come. When she is taken in by her uncle after a caper gone wrong, her life goes from fighting and stealing on the streets to lavish dinners and soirees as a debutante in high society. But she can’t seem to escape her past … or forget the teeming slums where children just like her still scrabble to survive.
Jack MacCarron rose from his place in London's East End to become the adopted "nephew" of a society matron. Little does society know that MacCarron is a false name for a boy once known among London gangs as the Artful Dodger, and that he and his “aunt” are robbing them blind every chance they get. When Jack encounters Olivia Brownlow in places he least expects, his curiosity is piqued. Why is a society girl helping a bunch of homeless orphan thieves? Even more intriguing, why does she remind him so much of someone he once knew? Jack finds himself wondering if going legit and risking it all might be worth it for love.
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It fits readers who want historical fiction with tension, humanity, and dark humor under fire.
Jeep Show
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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A war meant to stay at a distance closes in fast in Jeep Show, where an enlisted entertainer finds himself trapped inside one of World War II’s most brutal turning points. Jim Tanzer enters the Ardennes expecting to raise morale, then must survive chaos, fear, and impossible choices as the Battle of the Bulge erupts around him. It fits readers who want historical fiction with tension, humanity, and dark humor under fire.
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2025
In December 1944, as German forces launched their surprise counterattack in the Ardennes, U.S. Army Private Jim Tanzer was carrying a rifle. He didn’t expect to fire it.
Jim is an enlisted entertainer in the Army’s Morale Corps (MOS 442)—one of the little-known performers sent to sustain the morale of combat infantry at the front, where the USO could not go.
Assigned to a Jeep show unit led by fellow enlisted entertainer Mickey Rooney, Jim performs for weary soldiers just a mile or two from the fighting. It’s risky duty—but still safer than combat.
Until it isn’t.
Jim is older than most privates and never expected to be there. A former show-business dropout, he could have stayed home on a fatherhood deferment. His wife is furious he enlisted—and no longer answers his letters. Now, instead of song-and-dance routines, Jim is navigating checkpoints, nervous sentries, and the creeping realization that the war may not respect his assignment.
When Jim is caught in the opening moments of the German offensive that will become the Battle of the Bulge, his war changes instantly.
Ordered to carry a captured German map back to VIII Corps Headquarters, Jim must stay ahead of advancing SS divisions—and avoid being shot by jittery American sentries along the way.
Three days later, supporting the exhausted 101st Airborne at Bastogne, Jim’s chances of surviving shrink by the hour. Then General McAuliffe orders a Christmas Day mission that becomes Jim’s ultimate test.
Sure, his marriage—and all his troubles—will be over if he’s killed in action.
But what if he’s captured? What if he runs?
The show must go on. But how long can Jim hold off the final curtain?
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Mila Pavlichenko is a quiet history student and single mother until war turns her into Lady Death, the sniper whose deadly precision makes her a national hero.
The Diamond Eye
Historical Fiction · World War 2
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Mila Pavlichenko is a quiet history student and single mother until war turns her into Lady Death, the sniper whose deadly precision makes her a national hero. As she moves from the brutal Eastern Front to the polished chaos of wartime Washington, this novel follows her through grief, danger, unlikely friendship, and the personal cost of becoming a legend. A gripping blend of biographical fiction, wartime suspense, and emotional depth.
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Don’t miss the thrilling new novel from Kate Quinn, The Briar Club!
New York Times Bestseller
The bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable work of WWII historical fiction about a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story.
In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son—but Hitler’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper—a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death in this gripping historical thriller. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour.
Still reeling from war wounds and devastated by loss, Mila finds herself isolated and lonely in the glittering world of Washington, DC—until an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer the possibility of happiness.
But when an old enemy from Mila’s past joins forces with a deadly new foe lurking in the shadows, Lady Death finds herself battling her own demons and enemy bullets in the deadliest duel of her life.
Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is a haunting piece of biographical fiction about heroism born of desperation, of a mother who became a soldier, of a woman who found her place in the world and changed the course of history forever.
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A strong match for readers drawn to melancholic queer historical romance centered on faith, redemption, grief, and recovery.
Never After
LGBTQIA+ · Historical Fiction · Romance · Gay Romance · Historical Romance
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Never After follows Michael “Micha” Dashwood, who is penniless and struggling with opium in nineteenth-century London when illness brings him into the care of Reverend Thomas Mandeville. As Micha recovers and Thomas confronts his own grief and desires, trust grows between them despite the burdens of their pasts and questions of faith, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 400 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to melancholic queer historical romance centered on faith, redemption, grief, and recovery.
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From fan-favorite author Alexis Hall comes a story of faith, redemption, and love—a melancholic tale of queer romance set in nineteenth-century England.
On the grim streets of London, a young man succumbs to his demons. Discarded by his lover and left penniless and alone, Michael “Micha” Dashwood uses sex to pay the bills and opium to numb the pain.
When a sudden illness strikes, all seems lost. But hope finds Micha in the shape of the Reverend Thomas Mandeville. Haunted by grief of his own, Thomas cannot bear to ignore another man’s plight. He brings the ailing Micha home to heal in his parish at Nettlefield.
As Micha recovers under Thomas’s care, he begins to realize that some people in this world are worthy of trust. Thomas, in turn, learns the truth of his own needs and desires. Between the secrets of the past and the burdens of the present, their future together seems impossible. Questions of faith and the shadow of opium continue to haunt them both.
Yet possibilities, like miracles, can be found wherever you look for them.
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This fits WWII fiction readers who want action, suspense, and wartime stories rooted in the courage of ordinary sailors rather than polished heroics.
CONVOYS OF WAR
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
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Convoys of War drops readers into the brutal, unglamorous danger that kept Britain supplied through World War II, where merchant sailors faced Arctic storms, U-boats, bombers, sabotage, and the chaos of D-Day with no guarantee of making it home. Across these four naval thrillers, James Pattinson leans into the grit, tension, and lived-in authenticity of men pushed into extraordinary peril at sea. This fits WWII fiction readers who want action, suspense, and wartime stories rooted in the courage of ordinary sailors rather than polished heroics.
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It fits literary historical fiction readers who want an intimate, haunting novel about fate, choice, and whether a single life can alter catastrophe.
Life After Life
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Mystery · Thriller
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Death arrives before memory can settle, and each return carries Ursula Todd into another version of the same century shadowed by war. In Life After Life, Ursula lives and dies through shifting possibilities as history closes in around her. It fits literary historical fiction readers who want an intimate, haunting novel about fate, choice, and whether a single life can alter catastrophe.
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What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can -- will she? Darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original: this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best.
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Quietly immersive in setting but emotionally sharp, this is historical fiction for readers who like their adventure grounded, thoughtful, and deeply human.
The Beast and the Silent Blue
Historical Fiction · Pre-History | Ancient History
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Set at the end of the Ice Age, The Beast and the Silent Blue follows an aging hunter who seems to have outlived his place in the tribe until the past comes roaring back in the form of old enemies and a creature thought gone from the world. As the land changes, game disappears, and tensions rise within the village, the story becomes a moving survival tale about loyalty, legacy, and the fight to protect what still matters. Quietly immersive in setting but emotionally sharp, this is historical fiction for readers who like their adventure grounded, thoughtful, and deeply human.
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10,000 Years Ago: The Ice Age has ended. The climate is warming. Large game animals are becoming rare. Wandering tribes battle for prime hunting territory on a narrowing peninsula between encroaching seas.
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To a few of the Prairie People, the limping Old One is still a hero. They remember when they were children and captured in the Raid of the Strangers and how he charged through a rain of spears to rescue them. But time and injury have taken their toll. The aged hunter has reached the end of his usefulness – except, perhaps, for teaching the young how to snare rabbits and squirrels. The Strong One wants him gone. Even his own vision spirit advises him that it would be better to end his days as a lone roamer than to remain a burden to the Village.
But as he plans his silent departure, he sees that the Strong One means to take his only female apprentice as a mate – even though it is clear the brave girl is drawn to another and would never freely give herself to the cruel leader.
One morning, a trumpeting roar fills the Prairie, the cry of a vanished animal only the Old One can name. The Hunters are curious but skeptical . . . and then the Strangers return.
A moving tale of courage, connection, and the power of story set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing environment and the extinction of a species.
This literary adventure was written by a novelist/psychologist and is told in a simple, classic style. It reflects a realistic understanding of the consciousness and social development of humans during the later Paleolithic period. Anyone curious about life in the Stone Age is likely to find it an exciting and immersive read. Those with an interest in the history and natural world of Florida (particularly concerning the area around Paynes Prairie and Gainesville) will recognize much of the geography, flora, and fauna depicted. Enthusiasts of prehistoric times should find accurate renderings of such subjects as hunting with an atlatl (or spear thrower) and knapping (shaping implements from stone).
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A sweeping fit for readers who enjoy medieval historical fiction, perilous journeys, clashing cultures, and court intrigue.
Silk Road
Historical Fiction · Pre-History | Ancient History · War Fiction
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Called “Spectacular historical fiction blazing with romance, intrigue and dramatic action” by Booklist, Silk Road follows disgraced Templar knight Josseran Sarrazini and Mongol princess Khutelun as they escort a Christian embassy across Asia to Kublai Khan’s court. Their journey brings burning deserts, bandits, tribal wars, assassins, political intrigue, and an unexpected attraction, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 17,900 Amazon reviewers. A sweeping fit for readers who enjoy medieval historical fiction, perilous journeys, clashing cultures, and court intrigue.
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A Templar knight. An irascible priest. A Mongol princess. An impossible journey.
The Holy Land, 1260: Josseran Sarrazini has nothing left to lose. Sent by the pope on a mission that will take him beyond the edges of the known world, he knows the journey is impossibly dangerous... and suspects he will never return. That suits him just fine.
But only days into the trek, Josseran wants to throttle the man he is sworn to protect - a sharp-tongued priest whose survival rests entirely in his hands.
Far to the east, Khutelun is the fearless daughter of a Mongol chieftain. She was raised in the saddle of a horse. She can hit a stag with an arrow at two hundred paces. And she considers no man her equal. But when she is ordered to escort the Christian ambassadors along the treacherous Silk Road, she meets her match in Josseran.
Together they face searing deserts, treacherous mountain passes, kidnappers and blood feuds - all on the road to the fabled city of Xanadu and the court of the great Kublai Khan. But survival may not be enough... because what awaits them at journey's end could change the fate of empires.
Perfect for fans of Wilbur Smith, Conn Iggulden and Ken Follett, Silk Road is a gripping historical thriller packed with danger, adventure and forbidden desire.
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