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In a small 1990s Irish coast town, friendship becomes both refuge and risk for two women trapped by marriage, judgment, and the limits placed on their lives.
The Coast Road
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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In a small 1990s Irish coast town, friendship becomes both refuge and risk for two women trapped by marriage, judgment, and the limits placed on their lives. When Colette returns home and is denied access to her children, Izzy becomes her link to the life she lost. The Coast Road is a literary drama of female longing, repression, and the painful cost of seeking freedom.
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Winner of the Irish Book Awards Newcomer of the Year 2024
Shortlisted for the John McGahern Annual Book Prize
A poignant debut novel and work of Irish literary fiction about the lives of women in a claustrophobic coast town and the search for independence in a society that seeks to limit it.
“Murrin powerfully renders the ways that women’s freedom, individuality, and self-expression are stifled by religion, custom, and gossip.”—The New Yorker
“A painful, gorgeous debut.”—Elle
Set in 1990s Ireland, The Coast Road tells the story of two women—Izzy Keaveney, a housewife, and Colette Crowley, a poet. Colette has left her husband and sons for a married man in Dublin. When she returns to her home in County Donegal to try to pick up the pieces of her old life, her husband, Shaun, a successful businessman, denies her access to her children.
The only way she can see them is with the help of neighbour Izzy, acting as a go-between. Izzy also feels caught in a troubled marriage. The complex female friendship that develops between them in this powerful domestic drama will ultimately lead to tragedy for one, and freedom for the other.
Addictive as Big Little Lies with a depth and compassion that rivals the works of Claire Keegan, Elizabeth Strout, and Colm Tóibín, The Coast Road is a story about the limits placed on women’s lives in Ireland only a generation ago, and the consequences women have suffered trying to gain independence. Award-winning Irish author Alan Murrin reminds us of the price we are forced to pay to find freedom.
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Imprisoned as a witch and awaiting execution, Corrag is asked to recount the violence that placed her at the center of a Highland massacre and a political storm…
The Highland Witch
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Mystery
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Imprisoned as a witch and awaiting execution, Corrag is asked to recount the violence that placed her at the center of a Highland massacre and a political storm far larger than herself. As she tells her story to a man intent on using it for his own ends, The Highland Witch becomes a historical novel of love, survival, grief, and the transforming power of a woman’s voice.
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"This engrossing historical novel is essential for lovers of Scottish history. With its strong female protagonist, Fletcher's latest work casts a spell that will linger over readers long after they have finished the book." —Library Journal (starred review)
In 1692, brilliant, captivating Corrag—accused witch, orphaned herbalist, and unforgettable heroine—is imprisoned for her supposed involvement in a massacre in the Scottish highlands. Suspected of witchcraft and murder and awaiting her death, she tells her story to Charles Leslie, an Irish propagandist who seeks information to condemn the Protestant King William, rumored to be involved in the massacre. Hers is a story of passion, courage, love, and the magic of the natural world. By telling it, she transforms both their lives.
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A life built on duty begins to shift when freedom arrives in a form Madame Wu never expected.
Pavilion of Women
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction
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A life built on duty begins to shift when freedom arrives in a form Madame Wu never expected. In Pavilion of Women, an esteemed wife in an upper-class Chinese household steps back from domestic obligations and begins to explore intellect, desire, and selfhood in ways that unsettle everyone around her. It fits readers drawn to literary historical fiction about women, tradition, and the quiet force of personal awakening.
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A "vivid and extremely interesting" novel of an upper-class Chinese wife's quest for freedom, from the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth (The New Yorker).
At forty, Madame Wu is beautiful and much respected as the wife of one of China's oldest upper-class houses. Her birthday wish is to find a young concubine for her husband and to move to separate quarters, starting a new chapter of her life. When her wish is granted, she finds herself at leisure, no longer consumed by running a sixty-person household. Now she's free to read books previously forbidden her, to learn English, and to discover her own mind. The family in the compound are shocked at the results, especially when she begins learning from a progressive, excommunicated Catholic priest.
In its depiction of life in the compound, Pavilion of Women includes some of Buck's most enchanting writing about the seasons, daily rhythms, and customs of women in China. It is a delightful parable about the sexes, and of the profound and transformative effects of free thought.
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It fits readers who want emotionally rich World War II fiction shaped by sacrifice, family devotion, and the long afterlife of grief.
What the Silent Say
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · World War 2
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War fractures one family across oceans, years, and promises that may prove impossible to keep. In What the Silent Say, two brothers face the Pacific theater from different fronts while a wife, a child, and a cache of letters carry the cost of their choices into the next generation. It fits readers who want emotionally rich World War II fiction shaped by sacrifice, family devotion, and the long afterlife of grief.
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A Military Writers Society of America gold medal winner. Inspired by a remarkable true story and brought to life in cinematic detail, an unforgettable tale of courage, sacrifice, and the unbreakable bonds of family.
Florence, South Carolina 1944: Lieutenant Raymond Sellers bids farewell to his brother Jimmie, the weight of what lies ahead hanging heavy in the air. The brothers have always been inseparable—Raymond, the steady protector, Jimmie, the wild-hearted dreamer. But as Raymond embraces his pregnant wife Evelyn one last time, war is about to test the bonds of family in ways they never imagined.
As a summer storm shakes the windows, Evelyn brings her baby into a world at war. Across the vast Pacific theater, Raymond leads his men through brutal combat while Jimmie fights in the skies. One battle forces Raymond to choose between the family he promised to protect and the brothers he swore to never leave behind. Eighteen years later, a daughter finds a cache of letters in her father's desk and is shocked to find that some acts of courage echo across generations.
From the flowering dogwoods of South Carolina to the chilling trenches of Okinawa, What the Silent Say reminds us that even in our darkest hours, the human spirit has the capacity to endure. If you love anything by Kristin Hannah, Amy Harmon, or were moved by Band of Brothers, this book is a must-read.
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A strong match for readers drawn to World War II historical fiction centered on survival, medical courage, and resistance inside the camps.
The Angel of Auschwitz
Historical Fiction · World War 2
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Inspired by true events, The Angel of Auschwitz follows Dr. Gisella Perl after she is deported to Auschwitz, where her medical training becomes a means of survival and resistance as she tries to protect women under Josef Mengele’s rule, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 1,000 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to World War II historical fiction centered on survival, medical courage, and resistance inside the camps.
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In a place built for death, one woman fought to save life.
An elderly doctor stands before a room of students in a lecture hall. What unfolds is a story of courage, brutality and survival.
When Dr Gisella Perl is deported to Auschwitz, her medical training becomes the only thing that can keep her alive. Forced into the women’s barracks under the command of Josef Mengele, she faces starvation, disease and relentless brutality. Every day she must make impossible choices, using her skills to save the women the camp has marked for death.
As she endures hunger, violence and the loss of everyone she loves, Gisella refuses to surrender the one thing the Nazis cannot take from her: her duty to protect life. In the shadows of the infirmary, she becomes a quiet force of resistance, risking her life to shield others from the fate worse than death…
Inspired by true event, The Angel of Auschwitz is a powerful and deeply human novel about survival, sacrifice and a doctor who fought back in the only way she could. Perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka’s Journeyand The Sisters of Auschwitz.
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War tears Norah Chambers and Sister Nesta James from everything familiar, then binds them together in a prison camp built to crush hope.
Sisters Under the Rising Sun
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · World War 2
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War tears Norah Chambers and Sister Nesta James from everything familiar, then binds them together in a prison camp built to crush hope. In Sisters Under the Rising Sun, two women survive shipwreck, captivity, and relentless hardship by holding fast to friendship, duty, and the will to protect others. It’s a historical novel shaped by endurance, shared courage, and the emotional force of women resisting despair in wartime.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a story of sisterhood and survival, inspired by a true story.
A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris.
In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again.
Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese she joins the terrified cargo of people, including the heartbroken Norah, crammed aboard the Vyner Brooke merchant ship. Only two days later, they are bombarded from the air off the coast of Indonesia, and in a matter of hours, the Vyner Brooke lies broken on the seabed.
After surviving a brutal 24 hours in the sea, Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of a remote island, only to be captured by the Japanese and held in one of their notorious POW camps. The camps are places of starvation and brutality, where disease runs rampant. Sisters in arms, Norah and Nesta fight side by side every day, helping whoever they can, and discovering in themselves and each other extraordinary reserves of courage, resourcefulness and determination.
Sisters under the Rising Sun is a story of women in war: a novel of sisterhood, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances, from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and Three Sisters.
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Good for readers who want classic war fiction, moral conflict, and sweeping character-driven stories.
The Young Lions
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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A New York Times bestseller called a “masterpiece” by The Boston Globe, The Young Lions follows three soldiers on different sides of World War II, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 1,500 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want classic war fiction, moral conflict, and sweeping character-driven stories.
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One of the great World War II novels, this New York Times–bestselling "masterpiece" captures the experiences of three very different soldiers (The Boston Globe).
Standing alongside Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and James Jones's From Here to Eternity, The Young Lions is one of the most powerful American novels to tackle the Second World War. Ambitious in its scope and robust in its prose, Irwin Shaw's work is also deeply humanistic, presenting the reality of war as seen through the eyes of ordinary soldiers on both sides. The story follows the individual dramas—and ultimately intertwined destinies—of Christian Diestl, a Nazi sergeant; Noah Ackerman, a Jewish American infantryman; and Michael Whitacre, an idealistic urbanite from the New York theatrical world.
Diestl first appears as a dashing ski instructor in Austria, mouthing his loyalty to Nazi ideals. As the war progresses, Diestl's character continues to erode as he descends into savagery. Ackerman must endure domestic anti-Semitism and beatings in boot camp before proving himself in the European theater. Eventually, as part of the liberating army, he comes face-to-face with the unimaginable horrors of the death camps. Whitacre, trading cocktail parties for Molotov cocktails, confronts the barbarism of war, and in fighting simply to survive, finds his own capacity for heroism.
Shaw's sweeping narrative is at once vivid, exciting, and brutally realistic as well as poignant in its portrayal of the moral devastation and institutional insanity of war. Penned by a master storyteller at the height of his craft, The Young Lions stands the test of time as a classic novel of war and the human experience.
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When the land stops giving, survival becomes a test of pride, endurance, and what a family can bear without breaking.
The Time It Never Rained
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · Western
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When the land stops giving, survival becomes a test of pride, endurance, and what a family can bear without breaking. In The Time It Never Rained, Charlie Flagg faces the relentless drought crushing 1950s West Texas, refusing outside aid even as the cost of holding on grows steeper. It reads as a stark, character-driven western about resilience, stubbornness, and life shaped by an unforgiving landscape.
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Winner of the Spur and Western Heritage Award for Best Western Novel. "One of the dozen or so best novels written by an American in this century." —Jon Tuska, editor of The American West in Fiction
"The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance." —Elmer Kelton, Seven-time Spur Award–winning author
Rio Seco was too small to afford a professional manager for its one-room Chamber of Commerce.
And Rio Seco, meaning "dry river" in Spanish, symbolizes the biggest enemy of the ranchers and farmers in 1950s Texas, an enemy they can't control: drought. To cranky Charlie Flagg, an honest, decent rancher, the drought of the early 1950s is a battle that he must fight on his own grounds. Refusing the questionable "assistance" of federal aid programs and their bureaucratic regulations, Charlie and his family struggle to make the ranch survive until the time it rains again—if it ever rains again.
Charlie Flagg, among the strongest of Elmer Kelton's memorable creations, is no pasteboard hero. He is courageous and self-sufficient but as real as his harsh and unforgiving West Texas home country. His battle with an unfathomable foe is the stuff of epics and legends.
"Elmer Kelton does not write Westerns. He writes fine novels set in the West. Here a reader meets flesh-and-blood people of an earlier time, in a story that will grab and hold you from the first to the last page." —Dee Brown, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
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A stretch of ruined ground becomes the point where ambition, survival, and conscience collide.
Sinner’s Cross
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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A stretch of ruined ground becomes the point where ambition, survival, and conscience collide. In Sinner's Cross, soldiers on both sides of the Second World War are driven toward a worthless patch of forest that powerful men have decided is worth dying for. A grim war novel that focuses on fractured loyalties, moral exhaustion, and the human cost of strategy.
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Survival can demand one kind of strength, but conscience asks for another.
Clara’s Three Lives
Historical Fiction · World War 2
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Survival can demand one kind of strength, but conscience asks for another. In Clara’s Three Lives, a young German woman struggles through poverty, exploitation, and the rise of Nazi power before choosing to risk herself to protect Jewish women in hiding. This is historical fiction grounded in true events, shaped by moral courage, endurance, and the human cost of resisting evil.
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A Historical Novel Inspired by a True Story
She was a poor young German woman with nothing to her name, forced into prostitution just to survive. Yet in the darkest moments of her nation’s history, she risked everything to hide Jewish women, shielding them from the Nazis at the cost of her own safety.
Berlin, 1923. The city is still licking its wounds after the Great War. Citizens struggle to endure the crushing economic crisis as the Nazi movement quietly begins its rise. Clara, a young and impoverished woman living with her mother, clings desperately to her job. She doesn’t dream of changing the world. She doesn’t want to fight. All she longs for is to marry and live a simple, quiet life.
From 1923 to 1943, Clara battles through three turbulent decades to survive in a world rapidly descending into darkness. But after the Nazis seize power and war engulfs Europe, she realizes survival alone is no longer enough. At the height of the war, when evil seems unstoppable, Clara must make the ultimate choice: to stand by and close her eyes, or risk everything to save the lives of others.
Inspired by a woman’s real-life story and true events, this unforgettable novel is a tribute to all who believe that even in the blackest shadows, there can still be sparks of light.
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In Kapitoil, ambition and dislocation shape a young man’s uneasy rise through New York’s finance world on the edge of Y2K.
Kapitoil
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Contemporary Fiction
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In Kapitoil, ambition and dislocation shape a young man’s uneasy rise through New York’s finance world on the edge of Y2K. Karim arrives armed with brilliance and logic, only to find that success, loyalty, and belonging are far harder to calculate. This is literary fiction with a sharp corporate setting, cultural tension, and a coming-of-age arc shaped by identity and moral conflict.
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"A brilliant book. Karim Issar is one of the freshest, funniest heroes I've come across in a long time" in this coming of age novel set in NYC during Y2K (Ben Fountain, bestselling author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara).
"Sometimes you do not truly observe something until you study it in reverse," writes Karim Issar upon arrival to New York City from Qatar in 1999. Fluent in numbers, logic, and business jargon yet often baffled by human connection, the young financial wizard soon creates a computer program named Kapitoil that predicts oil futures and reaps record profits for his company.
At first an introspective loner adrift in New York's social scenes, he anchors himself to his legendary boss Derek Schrub and Rebecca, a sensitive, disillusioned colleague who may understand him better than he does himself. Her influence, and his father's disapproval of Karim's Americanization, cause him to question the moral implications of Kapitoil, moving him toward a decision that will determine his future, his firm's, and to whom—and where—his loyalties lie.
"An innovative and incisive meditation on the wages of corporate greed, the fundamental darkness of its vision lit by the author's great comic intelligence and wit." — Kathryn Davis, author of The Thin Place, Hell: A Novel, and Versailles
"[A] strong and heartfelt debut." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"This wonderfully assured debut novel, at once poignant, insightful, and funny, details Karim's passage through a new world of corporate sharks, Manhattan clubs, museums, Bob Dylan lyrics, and personal growth." —Booklist, starred review
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An orphan’s talent for shaping faces becomes both livelihood and burden in a city obsessed with spectacle, power, and death.
Little
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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An orphan’s talent for shaping faces becomes both livelihood and burden in a city obsessed with spectacle, power, and death. In Little, Marie is drawn from the margins of society into the worlds of royalty, revolution, and art as she grows into the woman history will remember as Madame Tussaud. This historical fiction novel blends macabre charm, class tension, and fierce determination.
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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE
"An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison. Dickens and David Lynch? Defoe meets Margaret Atwood? Judge for yourself." —Gregory Maguire, New York Times-bestselling author of Wicked
The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud.
In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation. As word of her artistic talent spreads, Marie is called to Versailles, where she tutors a princess and saves Marie Antoinette in childbirth. But outside the palace walls, Paris is roiling: The revolutionary mob is demanding heads, and . . . at the wax museum, heads are what they do.
In the tradition of Gregory Maguire's Wicked and Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, Edward Carey's Little is a darkly endearing cavalcade of a novel—a story of art, class, determination, and how we hold on to what we love.
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