Historical Fiction

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    by Rohinton Mistry

    With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India.

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    by E.M. Forster

    A masterful portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the modern world.
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    by Laurens van der Post

    This is a story of an almost vanished Africa; a world of myth and magic in which the indigenous peoples of the continent lived for uncountable centuries before the Europeans came to shatter it.

  • 7,00 

    by Khaled Hosseini

    Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.

  • 5,00 

    by Ian McEwan

    Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.

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    by Charles Dickens

    Bleak House is one of Dickens’s most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.

     

  • 8,00 

    by Kamila Shamsie

    Beginning on August 9, 1945, in Nagasaki, and ending in a prison cell in the US in 2002, as a man is waiting to be sent to Guantanamo Bay, Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of love and betrayal.

  • 9,00 

    by Joseph Heller

    Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel’s strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller’s classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage.

  • 7,00 

    by Jonathan Safran Foer

    “Imagine a novel as verbally cunning as A Clockwork Orange, as harrowing as The Painted Bird, as exuberant and twee as Candide, and you have Everything Is Illuminated . . . Read it, and you’ll feel altered, chastened — seared in the fire of something new.” — Washington Post

  • 6,00 

    Fortune’s Rocks #1

    by Anita Shreve

    A meditation on the erotic life of women, an exploration of class prejudices, and most of all a portrayal of the thoughts and actions of an unforgettable young woman.

  • 7,00 

    by Cecilia Samartin

    Cecilia Samartin offers heart wrenching insight into the tender balance between hope and grief that shapes the immigrant heart and exposes the struggles of everyday people amid political turmoil.

  • 7,00 

    by Harper Lee

    From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird.

  • 6,00 

    by Charles Dickens

    Dickens’s magnificent novel of guilt, desire, and redemption.

     

  • 9,00 

    Willie Chandran #1

    by V.S. Naipaul

    Half a Life finds the veteran Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul on familiar territory, blending autobiography and fiction in an exploration of the “half lives” of individuals brought up in the English colonies and educated in metropolitan cities.

  • 7,00 

    by Jamie Ford

    Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an extraordinary story of commitment and enduring hope.

  • 6,00 

    by Charlotte Brontë

     Since its publication in 1847 Jane Eyre has never ceased to be one of the most widely read of English novels.

  • 6,00 

    by Ken Kesey

    Out of the mists of Oregon lore, Ken Kesey has summoned a long-remembered story he first heard as a boy from his father around a campfire …

  • 7,00 

    Little Women #1

    by Louisa May Alcott

    Little Women is one of the best-loved children’s stories of all time, based on the author’s own youthful experiences.

  • 6,00 

    by Joseph Conrad

    First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century.

  • 6,00 

    Blood in the Sun #1

    by Nuruddin Farah

    “Nuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events.” — Nadine Gordimer

  • 6,00 

    by Arthur Golden

    This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary story of a geisha – summoning up a quarter century from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan’s dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation.

  • 8,00 

    by Herman Melville

    One of the great American novels, if not even the greatest, Moby Dick epically combines rip-roaring adventure, a meticulously realistic portrayal of the whaling trade and a profound philosophical disquisition on the nature of good and evil.

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    by Virginia Woolf

    Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, “The longest and most charming love letter in literature,” playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf’s close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West.
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    by Robin Talley

    Told in dual narratives, New York Times bestselling author Robin Talley weaves together the lives of two young women connected across generations through the power of words. A stunning story of bravery, love, how far we’ve come and how much farther we have to go.

  • 5,00 

    by Giles Kristian

    The first book in a thrilling Viking trilogy that launched the career of acclaimed historical novelist Giles Kristian – who’s now confronting the tumult and devastation of the English Civil War in The Bleeding Land…

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    by Seamus Deane

    Seamus Deane has created a luminous tale about how childhood fear turns into fantasy and fantasy turns into fact. Breathtakingly sad but vibrant and unforgettable, Reading in the Dark is one of the finest books about growing up–in Ireland or anywhere–that has ever been written.

  • 4,00 

    by Tatiana de Rosnay

    Writing about the fate of her country with a pitiless clarity, Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and denial surrounding this painful episode in French history.

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    by Ken Kesey

    The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest…

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    The Hundred-Year-Old Man #1

    by Jonas Jonasson, Rod Bradbury (Translator)

    Already a huge bestseller across Europe, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared is a fun and feel-good book for all ages.

  • 4,00 

    Adventures of Tom and Huck #1

    by Mark Twain

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel’s schoolboy protagonist, Thomas Sawyer, whose reputation precedes him for causing mischief and strife.

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    by Alexandre Dumas

    Historical suspense with an introduction and notes by David Coward.

  • 5,00 

    by Arthur Miller

    Arthur Miller’s classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 – ‘one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history’ – and the McCarthyism which gripped America in the 1950s.

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    by John Preston

    A brilliantly realised account of the most famous archeological dig in British history, now a major motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James.

  • 6,00 

    The Forsyte Chronicles #1-3

    by John Galsworthy

    John Galsworthy, a Nobel Prize-winning author, chronicles the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle-class Forsyte family through three generations, beginning in Victorian London during the 1880s and ending in the early 1920s.

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    Canongate’s The Myths #16

    by Philip Pullman

    This is a story. In this ingenious and spell-binding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman revisits the most influential story ever told.

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    by Upton Sinclair

    One of the most powerful, provocative and enduring novels to expose social injustice ever published in the United States.