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  • Checkmate by Dorothy Dunnett

    Checkmate by Dorothy Dunnett

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.Sixth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles , Checkmate takes place in 1557, where Francis Crawford of Lymond is once again in France, leading an army against England...
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    mystery  military  war  suspense  historical  fantasy  europe  france
  • Ponniyin Selvan-Part 1-Fresh Floods by Kalki

    Ponniyin Selvan-Part 1-Fresh Floods by Kalki

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Ponniyin Selvan is Kalki’s magnum opus based in the 10th century and presents the early life of Raajaraajan and the kings of Chozha Empire. Though written more than 60 years ago this saga is timeless, reeling the readers in its gripping plot which is interwoven with intrigue, conspiracies and romance...
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  • Ponniyin Selvan- Whirlwinds : Part 2 by Kalki

    Ponniyin Selvan- Whirlwinds : Part 2 by Kalki

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Whirlwinds, the exciting second part of Kalki R Krishnamurthy's historic magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan, our hero Vallavarayan Vandhiyathevan's adventures continue as he rides into marshy quagmires, befriends a mysterious girl, becomes the object of intense suspicion by the wily Pazhuvettarayars - and meets the hero of his dreams...
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    war  mystery  suspense  historical  fantasy  length-long
  • Sword of Slaughter by Kalki

    Sword of Slaughter by Kalki

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Kalki Krishnamurthy’s Ponniyin Selvan is a masterpiece that has enthralled generations of Tamil readers. Many authors have written phenomenal books in Tamil literature after Kalki Krishnamurthy, but Ponniyin Selvan remains the most popular, widely-read novel...
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    war  suspense  mystery  historical  fantasy  length-long
  • Whirlwinds by Kalki

    Whirlwinds by Kalki

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Whirlwinds, the exciting second part of Kalki R Krishnamurthy's historic magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan, our hero Vallavarayan Vandhiyathevan's adventures continue as he rides into marshy quagmires, befriends a mysterious girl, becomes the object of intense suspicion by the wily Pazhuvettarayars - and meets the hero of his dreams...
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    war  mystery  suspense  historical  fantasy  length-long
  • The Sun Sister by Lucinda Riley

    The Sun Sister by Lucinda Riley

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The Sun Sister is the sixth epic story in the Seven Sisters series by the number one international bestseller Lucinda Riley.To the outside world, Electra d'Apliese seems as though she is the woman who has everything: as one of the world's top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous...
  • The Shadow Sister (The Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley

    The Shadow Sister (The Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Following on from the bestselling The Seven Sisters and The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series, loosely based on the mythology of the Seven Sisters star cluster...
  • Falls the Shadow by Sharon Kay Penman

    Falls the Shadow by Sharon Kay Penman

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Simon de Montfort was a man ahead of his time in the thirteenth century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his way into an English earldom and marriage with a sister of the English king, Henry III. A charismatic, obstinate leader, Simon soon lost patience with the king's incompetence and inability to keep his word, and found himself the champion of the common people...
  • The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

    The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective...
  • Aztec by Gary Jennings

    Aztec by Gary Jennings

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Aztec is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America...
  • The Souls of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright

    The Souls of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Wren Blythe has long enjoyed being among the Northwoods, helping her father with programming at a youth camp. But when a little girl in the area goes missing, an all-out search ensues, reviving the decades-old campfire story of Ava Coons, the murderess, who still roams the woods. Joining the search, Wren stumbles upon the Coons cabin ruins and a rotting porcelain doll...
  • The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

    The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever...
  • The City of Tears by Kate Mosse

    The City of Tears by Kate Mosse

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Following on from the Sunday Times number one bestseller, The Burning Chambers, Kate Mosse's The City of Tears is the second thrilling historical epic in The Burning Chambers series, for fans of Ken Follett and Dan Brown...
  • Dovetail by Karen McQuestion

    Dovetail by Karen McQuestion

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Hello Love comes a spellbinding new novel of enduring love, family secrets, and mysterious death.Joe Arneson’s ordinary life is upended by troubling dreams of himself as a different man in another place and time. It isn’t until he visits his estranged grandmother, Pearl, in her Wisconsin hometown that a startling connection emerges...
  • Beyond the Horizon by Ella Carey

    Beyond the Horizon by Ella Carey

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Suddenly, it became hard to breathe and the sound of the engine throbbed in Eva’s head. The plane crashed and skidded. She heard the wail of sirens. The last thing she remembered was pulling her body across the tarmac an inch at a time—before her world went black.Sweetwater, Texas, 1943. Eva has always wanted to fly away...
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    war  military  historical  fantasy  length-medium
  • A Family Affair by Mary Jane Staples

    A Family Affair by Mary Jane Staples

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    1926 was the year of the General Strike, but Adams Enterprises, under the wily management of Sammy Adams, youngest entrepreneur in Walworth and Lambeth, was doing very well. All the Adams brothers worked in the business, and so did two of the wives, Emily and Susie. There was just one dark cloud on the horizon - the impending trial of Gerald Ponsonby...
  • On Mother Brown's Doorstep by Mary Jane Staples

    On Mother Brown's Doorstep by Mary Jane Staples

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The big event of the Walworth year was to be the wedding of Sammy Adams, King of Camberwell, to Miss Susie Brown. Everyone was looking forward to it, and Susie was particularly overjoyed when her soldier brother suddenly turned up on leave from service in India in time for the approaching 'knees-up'...
  • Blood Eagle by Tim Hodkinson

    Blood Eagle by Tim Hodkinson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Einar and the Wolf Coats undertake a dangerous mission to war-torn Northern France in this thrilling Viking adventure from Tim Hodkinson.936 AD. Brittany is torn apart by war. Many nobles have sought refuge in King Aethelstan's England, including Louis, prospective king of Francia. Einar and the Wolf Coats, disillusioned by events in Norway, are also at Aethelstan's court...
  • Heretic by Bernard Cornwell

    Heretic by Bernard Cornwell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    With Calais in English hands, hostilities are suspended, but Thomas' quest to find the Holy Grail continues. His cousin Guy of Vexille still pursues him with deadly purpose, convinced that there is a link between Thomas and what he covets...
  • Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières

    Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters...
  • Two For Three Farthings by Mary Jane Staples

    Two For Three Farthings by Mary Jane Staples

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Horace was ten, Ethel seven, when Jim Cooper, home from the trenches, minus an arm and just about managing on his own, found them huddled in a doorway on a wet night in Walworth. Slightly against his better judgement he took them in, fed them cocoa, and put them to sleep in his bed. A few days later he found that - somehow - he had become the unofficial guardian of Horace and Ethel...
  • The Premonition at Withers Farm by Jaime Jo Wright

    The Premonition at Withers Farm by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In 1910 Michigan, Perliett VanHilton is a self-proclaimed rural healer, leaving the local doctor, George Wasziak, convinced she practices quackery. It doesn't help that her mother, Maribeth VanHilton, is a Spiritualist who regularly offers her services to help others speak to their dearly departed...
  • The Archer's Tale by Bernard Cornwell

    The Archer's Tale by Bernard Cornwell

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, now available in paperback—the first book in the Grail Series--a spellbinding tale of a young man, a fearless archer, who sets out wanting to avenge his family's honor and winds up on a quest for the Holy Grail...
  • A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett

    A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns in a mysterious accident involving a small circle of boys. The drowning and its aftermath initiates a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many lives...
  • Vagabond by Bernard Cornwell

    Vagabond by Bernard Cornwell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the sequel to The Archer's Tale—the spellbinding tale of a young man, a fearless archer, who sets out wanting to avenge his family's honor and winds up on a quest for the Holy Grail.In 1347, a year of conflict and unrest, Thomas of Hookton returns to England to pursue the Holy Grail...
  • Down Lambeth Way by Mary Jane Staples

    Down Lambeth Way by Mary Jane Staples

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Adams family of Walworth were poor, cheerful, and above all respectable - even though they sometimes had to seek a little help from the pawnbroker. Mrs Adams - affectionately called Chinese Lady by her children - was a widow, her soldier husband having gone, rather carelessly, to a hero's death on the Northwest Frontier...
  • A Man Called Blessed (The Caleb Books Series Book 2) by Ted Dekker

    A Man Called Blessed (The Caleb Books Series Book 2) by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    One man holds the key to locating the Ark of the Covenant—but he’s hidden deep in the desert and no one has seen him since he was a boy. In this explosive sequel to Blessed Child, Jewish soldier-turned-archaeologist Rebecca Soloman leads a team deep into the Ethiopian desert to find the one man who may know the final resting place of the Ark of the Covenant...
  • The Immortals of Meluha by Amish Tripathi

    The Immortals of Meluha by Amish Tripathi

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    1900 BC. In what modern Indians mistakenly call the Indus Valley Civilisation. The inhabitants of that period called it the land of Meluha a near perfect empire created many centuries earlier by Lord Ram, one of the greatest monarchs that ever lived. This once proud empire and its Suryavanshi rulers face severe perils as its primary river, the revered Saraswati, is slowly drying to extinction...
  • A Year of Ravens by Ruth Downie, Stephanie Dray

    A Year of Ravens by Ruth Downie, Stephanie Dray

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Britannia: land of mist and magic clinging to the western edge of the Roman Empire. A red-haired queen named Boudica led her people in a desperate rebellion against the might of Rome, an epic struggle destined to consume heroes and cowards, young and old, Roman and Celt . . . and these are their stories. A calculating queen sees the sparks of revolt in a king’s death...
  • Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini

    Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    “Last Wednesday he had been engaged in moving an audience of Rennes to anger; on this Wednesday he was to move an audience of Guichen to mirth...”Once he was André-Louis Moreau, a lawyer raised by nobility, unconcerned with the growing discontent among France’s lower class—until his friend was mercilessly struck down by a member of the aristocracy.Now he is Scaramouche...
  • The Swift and the Harrier by Minette Walters

    The Swift and the Harrier by Minette Walters

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dorset, 1642. England is on the cusp of civil war.Jayne Swift, a daughter of the Dorset gentry, has resisted all offers of marriage and instead trained as a physician, using her skills to tend to her Royalist father's tenants and the local population. When civil war sweeps England she vows to remain neutral and aid the injured whether they be Royalist or Parliamentarian...
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    war  mystery  military  historical  fantasy  length-long
  • The Watchmaker's Daughter by Dianne Haley

    The Watchmaker's Daughter by Dianne Haley

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Hiding the worn piece of paper among her father’s watch deliveries, her eyes fill with tears at the memory of her brave friend walking towards the Nazi soldiers, and the sharp sound of gun fire. Her friend sacrificed herself so that she could deliver this message...
  • The Circus Train by Amita Parikh

    The Circus Train by Amita Parikh

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    At the World of Wonders, Europe's most magnificent travelling circus, every moment is full of magic, and nothing is as it seems--especially for the people who put on the show Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within the circus, even as the daughter of the extraordinary headlining illusionist, Theo...
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    war  20th century  fantasy  historical  length-long
  • Night Train to Marrakech by Dinah Jefferies

    Night Train to Marrakech by Dinah Jefferies

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    MARRAKECH 1966 Vicky Baudin steps onto a train winding through Morocco, looking for the grandmother she has never met. It’s an epic journey that’ll take her to the edge of Atlas Mountains – and closer to the answers she’s been craving all her life. But dark secrets whisper amongst the dunes. And in unlocking the mystery of Clemence’s past, Vicky will unearth great danger too . .
  • Wait for Me: A Novel by Santa Montefiore

    Wait for Me: A Novel by Santa Montefiore

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From #1 internationally bestselling author Santa Montefiore comes a gripping new novel of enduring love and devastating secrets, sweeping across England during WWII to Australia five decades later, based on a true story.Rupert promised he was going to come back. All Florence had to do was wait...
  • A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

    A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom...
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    mystery  suspense  historical  fantasy  length-long
  • Firstborn by Tosca Lee

    Firstborn by Tosca Lee

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee comes the much-anticipated, high-speed sequel to The Progeny. Face-to-face with her past, Audra Ellison now knows the secret she gave up everything—including her memory—to protect. A secret made vulnerable by her rediscovery, and so powerful neither the Historian nor the traitor Prince Nikola will ever let her live to keep it...
  • Tales of Love, Madness and Death by Horacio Quiroga

    Tales of Love, Madness and Death by Horacio Quiroga

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    This is an English translation of the famous collection of 18 weird tales of Horacio Quiroga, which is presented as a Spanish/English bilingual edition.Most of the stories are dark and strange and describe situations that offer no clear way out for the protagonist...
  • The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley

    The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Kingdoms, an epic Cold War novel set in a mysterious town in Soviet Russia...
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    mystery  suspense  war  20th century  historical  fantasy  m-m  queer
  • Dawn of Empire by Sam Barone

    Dawn of Empire by Sam Barone

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Five millennia ago, on the eastern bank of the river Tigris, the course of human history changed forever . . .The people of Orak cherish their peaceful village and the life they have made. Though not proficient with the bow or sword, they possess a weapon far stronger: the ability to coax food from the ground. This is why the barbarian leader Thutmose-sin hates and fears them...
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    military  war  historical  fantasy  length-long
  • Awakening by Tracy L. Higley

    Awakening by Tracy L. Higley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Awakening Critically-Acclaimed Romantic Suspense Novel Kallie Andreas is a mystery, even to herself. Seven years ago Kallie woke up in a New York City museum, injured and traumatized. Alone and unclaimed...
  • When We Were Gods by Colin Falconer

    When We Were Gods by Colin Falconer

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Caesar, Antony, Cleopatra, Augustus. Only one can rule. Only one can live.Alexandria, 51 BC: When Cleopatra VII assumes the throne of Egypt, the Roman empire rules the Mediterranean with an iron fist. But Cleopatra has an audacious plan to change the course of history. Allied first with Caesar and then with his protégé Marc Antony, she dares to challenge the might of Rome...
  • Dreaming Death by J. Kathleen Cheney

    Dreaming Death by J. Kathleen Cheney

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the Novels of the Golden City, J. Kathleen Cheney created a “mesmerizing” (Publishers Weekly) realm where magic, history, and intrigue combine. Now, she presents a new world ruled by psychic talents and fatal magic... Shironne Anjir's status as a sensitive is both a gift and a curse...
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    suspense  mystery  fantasy  historical  magic  length-long
  • The Smoke Hunter by Jacquelyn Benson

    The Smoke Hunter by Jacquelyn Benson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Indiana Jones meets Lara Croft in Benson's engrossing action thriller."-RT Book Reviews, Top Pick THE DEBUT OF A CAPTIVATING VOICE AND RIVETING STORYTELLER!Frustrated suffragette and would-be archaeologist Ellie Mallory stumbles across a map to a city that shouldn't exist, a jungle metropolis alive and flourishing centuries after the Mayan civilization mysteriously collapsed...
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    suspense  mystery  historical  fantasy  length-long
  • The Clockmaker’s Wife by Daisy Wood

    The Clockmaker’s Wife by Daisy Wood

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The world is at war. And time is running out…London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter – leaving behind her husband, Arthur, the clockmaker who keeps Big Ben chiming. When Arthur disappears, Nell is desperate to find him...
  • The Clockmaker’s Wife by Daisy Wood

    The Clockmaker’s Wife by Daisy Wood

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The world is at war. And time is running out…London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter – leaving behind her husband, Arthur, the clockmaker who keeps Big Ben chiming. When Arthur disappears, Nell is desperate to find him...
  • The Clockmaker’s Wife by Daisy Wood

    The Clockmaker’s Wife by Daisy Wood

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The world is at war. And time is running out…London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter – leaving behind her husband, Arthur, the clockmaker who keeps Big Ben chiming. When Arthur disappears, Nell is desperate to find him...
  • The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse

    The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Carcassonne 1562: Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father’s bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE. But before Minou can decipher the mysterious message, a chance encounter with a young Huguenot convert, Piet Reydon, changes her destiny forever...
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    mystery  suspense  historical  fantasy  length-epic
  • The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes

    The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Berlin 1933. Following the success of her debut novel, American writer Althea James receives an invitation from Joseph Goebbels himself to participate in a culture exchange program in Germany. For a girl from a small town in Maine, 1933 Berlin seems to be sparklingly cosmopolitan, blossoming in the midst of a great change with the charismatic new chancellor at the helm...
  • The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes

    The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    For fans of The Rose Code and The Paris Library, The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who believe in the power of books to triumph over the very darkest moments of war. Berlin 1933...
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