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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
On a painful, freezing Easter Monday in 1917, Private Robert
Gooding Henson of the Somerset Light Infantry is launched into the
Battle of Arras. Robert is twenty-three years old, a farmer's boy
from Somerset, who joins up against his father's wishes. Robert
forms fast friendships with Stanley, who lied about his age to go
to war, and Ernest, whose own slippery account betrays a life on
the streets. Their friendship is forged through gas attacks, trench
warfare, freezing in trenches, hunting rats, and chasing down
kidnapped regimental dogs. Their life is one of mud and mayhem but
also love and laughs. This is the story of Robert's journey to
Arras and back, his dreams and memories drawing him home. His story
is that of the working-class Tommy, the story of thousands of young
men who were caught in the collision between old rural values and
the relentlessness of a new kind of war. It is a story that
connects the past with the present through land, love and blood.
Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London’s orbital ring road with her flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, passing on messages from beloved dead ancestors.
But behind her plump, smiling persona hides a desperate woman: she knows the terrors the next life holds but must conceal them from her wide-eyed clients. At the same time she is plagued by spirits from her own past, who infiltrate her body and home, becoming stronger and nastier the more she resists…
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize, Hilary Mantel’s supremely suspenseful novel is a masterpiece of dark humour and even darker secrets.
____________________ Soon to be a six-part TV series co-produced by
the BBC and A24, directed by Shane Meadows and starring Tom Burke,
George MacKay and Thomas Turgoose WINNER OF THE 2018 WALTER SCOTT
PRIZE ____________________ 'Powerful, visceral writing, historical
fiction at its best. Benjamin Myers is one to watch' - Pat Barker
'Phenomenal' - Sebastian Barry 'Superb' - The Times
____________________ From his remote moorland home, David Hartley
assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a
criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the
biggest fraud in British history. They are the Cragg Vale Coiners
and their business is 'clipping' - the forging of coins, a
treasonous offence punishable by death. When an excise officer vows
to bring them down and with the industrial age set to change the
face of England forever, Hartley's empire begins to crumble.
Forensically assembled, The Gallows Pole is a true story of
resistance and a rarely told alternative history of the North.
____________________ 'One of my books of the year ... It's the best
thing Myers has done' - Robert Macfarlane, Big Issue Books of the
Year
As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women
intertwine as the past and present collide in New York Times
bestselling author Chanel Cleeton’s atmospheric new novel.
With the Great War finally behind them, many Americans flock to South
Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy
industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a
glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly
burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a
town like Miami, appearances can be deceiving, and one scandal can
change everything.
Years later following the tragic death of her parents in Havana, Carmen
Acosta journeys to Marbrisa, the grand home of her estranged older
sister, Carolina, and her husband, Asher Wyatt. On the surface, the
gilded estate looks like paradise, but Carmen quickly learns that
nothing at Marbrisa is as it seems. The house has a treacherous legacy,
and Carmen’s own life is soon in jeopardy . . . unless she can unravel
the secrets buried beneath the mansion’s facade and stop history from
repeating itself.
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The Prince
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Vito Bruschini; Translated by Anne Milano Appel
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The Family
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Naomi Krupitsky
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Would you be brave enough to fight back? When 12-year-old Janet's
village is under threat- she decides to take action. It's a
split-second decision that could cost her everything: her home, her
family - even her life. Can Janet save her village from being wiped
out? Or will her family and friends be forced from their homes to
face an uncertain future? Based on real life events, Fir for Luck
is a tale of the brutal Highland Clearances, when land owners cared
more about sheep than people. 'Steeped in atmosphere, tension and
the lyric cadences of the Highlands, Janet's tale lights a fire of
courage and hope in a shameful and tragic period of Scotland's
past. Henderson's debut is brave and beautiful.'
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The White Wolf
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Paul Feval; Adapted by Jean-Marc Lofficier, Randy Lofficier
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'A soulful and perfectly unsentimental writer...' MOHSIN HAMID
December, 1907: one morning after a night of drunken carousing in
the city, Hanna and his friend Zakariya return home to their
village near Aleppo-only to discover a scene of tragedy. A
devastating flood has levelled their homes, shops and places of
worship, and their neighbours, families and children are nearly all
dead. Their lives will never be the same. Tracing Hanna's life
before and after the flood-when he embarks on a search for the
meaning of life-No One Prayed Over Their Graves is a portrait of a
wider society on the verge of great change; from the provincial
village to the burgeoning modernity of the city, where Christians,
Muslims, and Jews live and work together, united in their love for
Aleppo and their dreams for the future.
** LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER ** THE WESTERN FRONT,
JULY 1918 Gregor Reinhardt is a young lieutenant in a stormtrooper
battalion on the Western Front when one of his subordinates is
accused of murdering a group of officers, and then subsequently
trying to take his own life. Not wanting to believe his friend
could have done what he is accused of, Reinhardt begins to
investigate. He starts to uncover the outline of a conspiracy at
the heart of the German army, a conspiracy aimed at ending the war
on the terms of those who have a vested interest in a future for
Germany that resembles her past. The investigation takes him from
the devastated front lines of the war, to the rarefied heights of
society in Berlin, and into the hospitals that treat those men who
have been shattered by the stress and strain of the war. Along the
way, Reinhardt comes to an awakening of the man he might be. A man
freed of dogma, whose eyes have been painfully opened to the
corruption and callousness all around him. A man to whom calls to
duty, to devotion to the Fatherland and to the Kaiser, ring
increasingly hollow...
Internationally bestselling author Sophie Irwin brings us another delightful, escapist historical romance, led by an audacious heroine who has suddenly inherited a fortune—but it has strings attached…
When shy Miss Eliza Balfour married the austere Earl of Somerset, twenty years her senior, it was the match of the season--no matter that he was not the husband Eliza wanted.
Now, ten years later, Eliza is widowed. Suddenly, she is left titled, rich, and, for the first time in her life, utterly in control of her own future. She’s always lived by society’s conventions, but now, Eliza has resolved to do as she wants. And what she wants is to head to Bath with her cousin Margaret, pursue painting, learn to drive, and flirt with Bath’s most alluring new resident, the infamous Lord Melville.
But when the ripples of Eliza’s behavior reach her late husband’s nephew—who broke Eliza’s heart, years ago--Eliza will learn that freedom does not come without consequences. The only way to ensure she can keep her fortune is to avoid all scandal—but where’s the fun in that?
From the author of A Witch in Time comes a haunting tale of ambition, obsession, and the eternal mystery and magic of film – perfect for fans of The Night Circus and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.
1968: Gemma Turner once dreamed of stardom. Now she’s on the cusp of obscurity. When she’s offered the lead in a radical new horror film, Gemma believes her luck has changed – but her dream is about to turn into a nightmare. One night, between the shadows of an alleyway, Gemma disappears on set and is never seen again. Yet she’s still alive. She’s been pulled into the film. And the script – and the monsters within it – are coming to life. Gemma must play her role perfectly if she hopes to survive.
2007: Gemma Turner’s disappearance is one of Hollywood’s greatest mysteries – one that’s haunted film student Christopher Kent ever since he saw L’Étrange Lune for the first time. The screenings only happen once a decade, and each time, there is new, impossible footage of Gemma that shouldn’t exist. Curiosity drives Christopher to unravel the truth. But answers to the film’s mystery may leave him trapped by it forever . . .
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All Our Yesterdays
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Natalia Ginzburg; Translated by Angus Davidson
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From "one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy" (New
York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a
war. This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy
from 1939 to 1944, from the anxious months before the country
entered the war, through the war years, to the allied victory with
its trailing wake of anxiety, disappointment, and grief. In the
foreground are the members of two families. One is rich, the other
is not. In All Our Yesterdays, as in all of Ms. Ginzburg's novels,
terrible things happen--suicide, murder, air raids, and bombings.
But seemingly less overwhelming events, like a family quarrel,
adultery, or a deception, are given equal space, as if to say that,
to a victim, adultery and air raids can be equally maiming. All Our
Yesterdays gives a sharp portrait of a society hungry for change,
but betrayed by war. During the period described in the novel,
Natalia Ginzburg was married to the writer Leone Ginzburg. Because
of his underground activities, he was interned under Mussolini's
reign, along with his family, in a restricted area in the Abruzzi.
When the Ginzburgs later moved to Rome, Leone was arrested and
tortured by the fascists, and killed, leaving Natalia alone to
raise her three children. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our
Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a
broad range of books for readers interested in fiction--novels,
novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire,
historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery,
classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics
including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While
not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a
national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are
sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise
find a home.
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021 'A dazzling
piece of historical re-imagining and a revolutionary sermon, a
furious denunciation of inequality' - The judges of the
International Booker prize. The fight for equality begins in the
streets. From the internationally bestselling author of The Order
of the Day: Eric Vuillard once again takes us behind the scenes at
a moment when history was being written. The history of inequality
is a long and terrible one. And it's not over yet. Short, sharp and
devastating, The War of the Poor tells the story of a brutal
episode from history, not as well known as tales of other popular
uprisings, but one that deserves to be told. Sixteenth-century
Europe: the Protestant Reformation takes on the powerful and the
privileged. Peasants, the poor living in towns, who are still being
promised that equality will be granted to them in heaven, begin to
ask themselves: and why not equality now, here on earth? There
follows a violent struggle. Out of this chaos steps Thomas Muntzer:
a complex and controversial figure, who sided with neither Martin
Luther, nor the Roman Catholic Church. Muntzer addressed the poor
directly, encouraging them to ask why a God who apparently loved
the poor seemed to be on the side of the rich. Eric Vuillard tells
the story of one man whose terrible and novelesque life casts light
on the times in which he lived - a moment when Europe was in flux.
As in his blistering look at the build-up to World War II, The
Order of the Day, Vuillard 'leaves nothing sleeping in the shadows'
(L'OBS).
In the year 1492, the Inquisition has all of Spain in its grip. After centuries of pogrom-like riots encouraged by the Church, the Jews - who have been an important part of Spanish life since the days of the Romans - are expelled from the country by royal edict. Many who wish to remain are intimidated by Church and Crown and become Catholics, but several hundred thousand choose to retain their religion and depart; given little time to flee, some perish even before they can escape from Spain.
Yonah Toledano, the 15-year-old son of a celebrated Spanish silversmith, has seen his father and brother die during these terrible days - victims whose murders go almost unnoticed in a time of mass upheaval. Trapped in Spain by circumstances, he is determined to honor the memory of his family by remaining a Jew.
On a donkey named Moise, Yonah begins a meandering journey, a young fugitive zigzagging across the vastness of Spain. Toiling at manual labor, he desperately tries to cling to his memories of a vanished culture. As a lonely shepherd on a mountaintop he hurls snatches of almost forgotten Hebrew at the stars, as an apprentice armorer he learns to fight like a Christian knight. Finally, as a man living in a time and land where danger from the Inquisition is everywhere, he deals with the questions that mark his past. How he discovers the answers, how he finds his way to a singular and strong Marrano woman, how he achieves a life with the outer persona of a respected Old Christian physician and the inner life of a secret Jew, is the fabric of this novel. The Last Jew is a glimpse of the past, an authentic tale of high adventure, and a tender and unforgettable love story. In it, Noah Gordon utilizes his greatest strengths, and the result is remarkable and moving.
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