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Historical Fiction

4.2

by Karen Russell

Dust Bowl Nebraska, 1935: a 'prairie witch' banks the memories her neighbours cannot bear to keep.

Released 11 March 2025

Historical Fiction

4.2

by Allegra Goodman

A sixteenth-century French heiress is marooned on an island in the Gulf of St Lawrence with a lover, a nurse and no plan.

Released 4 February 2025

Historical Fiction

4.5

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

NASA, 1980. An astronomer joins the shuttle programme and falls for someone she cannot be seen to love.

Released 3 June 2025

Historical Fiction

4.4

by Sadeqa Johnson

Post-war Germany, and the mixed-race children history agreed to forget.

Released 10 February 2026

Historical Fiction

by Callum Wrenn

Her husband mapped a coastline that does not exist. She has to find out why.

Released 9 October 2025

Historical Fiction

by Callum Wrenn

Two brothers, four hundred miles of coast, and a chain of beacons neither is allowed to explain.

Released 11 April 2023