Historical Fiction September 2025
Recent Releases
The book of lost hours : a novel
by Hayley Gelfuso

In 1938, 11-year-old Lisavet Levy becomes trapped in a mysterious library of memory called the time space, where her path intertwines with American timekeeper Ernest Duquesne, whose 1965 death compels his niece Amelia to uncover buried truths amid shifting histories and shadowy CIA intrigue.
Dear Miss Lake : a novel
by A. J. Pearce

During wartime, advice columnist Emmy Lake and the Woman's Friend staff relocate to the countryside, where Emmy balances rural life, a looming wedding and the possibility of war correspondence, in the fourth novel of the series following Mrs. Porter Calling.
Etiquette for lovers and killers : a novel by Anna Fitzgerald Healy
Etiquette for lovers and killers : a novel
by Anna Fitzgerald Healy

In 1964 Eastport, Maine, the bored and curious Billie McCadie becomes entangled in a glamorous and deadly mystery involving love letters, secret pasts and murder, all while questioning if she's just a bystander or the heroine of her own story.
Katabasis : a novel by R. F. Kuang
Katabasis : a novel
by R. F. Kuang

Alice has sacrificed everything to work with Professor Grimes at Cambridge, the world's greatest magician, but when he dies in a magical accident and is sent to Hell, she and rival Peter follow him, using only tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them. Illustrations.
The last assignment : a novel by Erika Robuck
The last assignment : a novel
by Erika Robuck

In 1956, grief-stricken and estranged from her husband, war photojournalist Dickey Chapelle takes on a dangerous mission with a refugee aid group, and after a harrowing Soviet imprisonment, resolves to expose the human cost of war from the front lines.
Marion Lane and the raven's revenge by T. A. Willberg
Marion Lane and the raven's revenge
by T. A. Willberg

"London, 1960. Marion Lane, a twenty-five-year-old apprentice detective at the elusive Miss Brickett's Investigations & Inquiries, is busier than ever and determined to prove herself worthy of an official Inquirer badge. But when her close friend's girlfriend, Darcy, is targeted by a dangerous gang leader and seeks out the Inquirers' assistance, Marion cannot help but get involved. Just when Marion thinks she has the situation under control, Darcy disappears and the agency receives a package containing a dead raven. Everyone is puzzled by what the threat could mean, except for Marion. She recognizes it as the same calling card left on her mother's doorstep just before she died. With harrowing twists and turns, Marion Lane and the Raven's Revenge follows Marion's most personal case to date. To uncover who is behind these ominous packages and find Darcy, she must piece together how they are related to her mother's mysterious death and secretive past"
Rosa by any other name by Hailey Alcaraz
Rosa by any other name
by Hailey Alcaraz

In a Romeo and Juliet-inspired retelling set during the civil rights era, a Mexican American girl is driven to join a movement for justice after her white classmate and best friend from the barrio are tragically murdered.
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