Historical Fiction September 2025
Recent Releases
The Book Club for Troublesome Women : A Novel
by Marie Bostwick


In suburban Virginia of the 1960s, Margaret Ryan forms an impromptu book club with three neighbors, discovering shared dissatisfaction with societal expectations, as the group bonds over personal struggles, feminist ideas and the transformative power of friendship during a
ife-changing year.
The Jackal's Mistress : A Novel
by Chris Bohjalian

Managing her gristmill amid the turmoil of war in 1864 Virginia, Libby Steadman must choose whether to risk treason and aid a gravely injured Union officer left to die, while her desperate hope for news of her imprisoned husband collides with the harsh realities of war.
The Pretender
by Jo Harkin

In 1480s England, peasant boy Lambert Simnel is thrust into royal intrigue as he is declared a hidden heir to the throne and must face court politics, rebellion and an alliance with the cunning Joan that could shape the fate of the monarchy.
Typewriter Beach : A Novel
by Meg Waite Clayton

1957. Isabella Giori is ten months into a standard 7-year studio contract when she auditions with Hitchcock. Just weeks later, she is sequestered by the studio's "fixer" in a charming little Carmel-by-the-Sea cottage for a secret rendezvous. There, she is awoken by the clack and ding of a typewriter at the cottage next door. Lâeon Chazan is annoyed as hell when Iz interrupts his work on yet another screenplay he won't be able to sell, because he's been blacklisted. But soon he's speeding down the fog-shrouded Carmel-San Simeon highway, headed for the isolated cliffs of Big Sur, with her in the passenger seat. 2018. Twenty-six-year-old screenwriter Gemma Chazan, in Carmel to sell her grandfather's cottage, finds a hidden safe with a World War II-era French passport, an old camera with film still in it, two movie scripts, and a writing Oscar that is not in her grandfather's name-raising questions about who the screenwriter known simply as Chazan really was.
Homeseeking
by Karissa Chen

Separated by war and reunited after 60 years, Haiwen and Suchi navigate decades of love, loss and survival across continents, as their shared past clashes with their hopes for a second chance at life
The Paris Express : A Novel
by Emma Donoghue

Set on a fateful 1895 train journey to Paris, a diverse group of passengers--including politicians, a medical student, an inventor, and an anarchist--navigate personal ambitions and hidden motives, culminating in a disaster that forever changes their lives
The Sunflower House : A Novel
by Adriana Allegri

Allina Gottlieb's peaceful life in 1939 Germany shatters when she is forced to work as a nurse in Hochland Home, a facility for breeding Aryan children, where she conceals her Jewish identity and develops a risky relationship with Karl, an SS officer with his own hidden secrets.
The Boxcar Librarian : A Novel
by Brianna Labuskes

During the Great Depression, Works Progress Administration editor
Millie Lang is sent to Montana to investigate sabotage at her project and uncovers a mystery surrounding Alice Monroe, her Boxcar Library, and the disappearance of librarian Colette Durand years earlier.
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