Historical Fiction spotlight

Signal Fires

by Callum Wrenn

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

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Synopsis

A wartime beacon chain, two brothers on opposite ends of it, and orders that make sense only from very far away.

Archival historical fiction at its most patient and most rewarding.

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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

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4.2

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4.5

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

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4.4

by Sadeqa Johnson

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

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