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McGuire is back in the icy north, the familiar terrain of his superb North Water, but this time the quarry is gold. Wrap up well for this C18th expedition into cold, darkness, violence and r... read more

White River Crossing

Ian McGuire

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Historical fiction filtered through a contemporary lens: Perry's lyrical debut layers courtly intrigue, archival sleuthing and blurry parallel lives.

May We Feed the King

Rebecca Perry

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The reissue of these novels by Cary - once a great bestseller - is an inspired choice by Everyman. Featuring the ex-con Sara Monday, the disgraced lawyer Tom Wilcher and the irresistibly raf... read more

Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim, The Horse’s Mouth ...

Joyce Cary

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A noir caper from the notoriously reclusive, quintessentially postmodern 88-year-old author of Gravity's Rainbow.

Shadow Ticket

Thomas Pynchon

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Based on a C17th Danish witch trial and set in a world where magic is a real power and rightly feared.

The Wax Child

Olga Ravn

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In 1741, Vitus Bering was shipwrecked off Kamchatka and the surviving crew began to devour the noble herbivore that became known as Steller's sea cow: it was hunted to extinction within thir... read more

Beasts of the Sea

Iida Turpeinen

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It is 1899 and a hack English writer is off for a belated honeymoon with his American heiress... The great Banville follows du Maurier, Mann and Highsmith to Venice for the setting of his ee... read more

Venetian Vespers

John Banville

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The story of the C9th Pope Joan is brought to life in this frolic through early Medieval Europe. We follow the gifted, motherless Agnes from an unconventional childhood all the way to the to... read more

Rapture

Emily Maguire

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From one of Austen's biographers, here is an entertaining novel in which Jane and her family are on holiday in Sidmouth in 1801, where her naval brother is on leave and handsome strangers st... read more

Six Weeks by the Sea

Paula Byrne

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Gloriously gothick fantasy about Pier Francesco Orsini, the creator of the Italian 'garden of the monsters' with its vast stone mouths and leaning buildings. An historical novel to beat them... read more

Bomarzo

Manuel Mujica Lainez

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A passionate love affair across the social divide in the years after the Spanish Civil War. First English translation of Mars?'s 1996 masterpiece.

Last Evenings with Teresa

Juan Marse

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Pioneering life in Nebraska in the late C19th, told through the eyes of a young orphan sent to live with his grandparents. This novel, first published in 1918, is utterly transporting and en... read more

My Antonia

Willa Cather

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The third and final volume of Mytting's superb trilogy.

The Night of the Scourge

Lars Mytting

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A man contemplating marriage is unsettled by his past. By the author of Spies in Canaan.

Ghost Wedding

David Park

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An episodic, multi-generational tale set in the Finnish wilderness - and defined by it too.

Tangled Roots

Maria Turtschaninoff

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Racketteers, bent politicians and suspect emigres in 1950's London.

Smoke and Embers

John Lawton

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A train journey in the Belle Epoque, complete with a cast of rich and poor with an anarchist along for the ride. A gripping historical novel.

The Paris Express

Emma Donoghue

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Reimagines Moby Dick from a female perspective. The heroine, born on the Kent coast in 1843, disguises herself as a cabin boy on a ship to NY and then joins a whaler...

Call Me Ishmaelle

Xiaolu Guo

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A rich, atmospheric novel based set among the people and events of the artist's life: his wife, his eldest daughter, and a young Russian emigr?e employed in the household.

Madame Matisse

Sophie Haydock

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Narrated by Mozart in three periods of his life: as a child in London, as an angst-ridden youth in Paris, and as a man in sight of his own death in Leipzig. Charlatans and aristocrats abound... read more

Allegro: A Novel

Ariel Dorfman

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Harvey’s previous novel before her radiant Booker-winning Orbital was this dazzlingly skilful mystery set in a medieval village, in which the priest is obliged by the sinister visiting rur... read more

The Western Wind

Samantha Harvey

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In the third book of this remarkable sequence, the Greeks sail for home after a decade of war, leaving Troy a wasteland, and taking with them the captive Trojan women.

The Voyage Home

Pat Barker

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Six centuries are nothing to Orsola Rosso, daughter of a C15th glassmaker in Murano, who overcomes tradition to become a glassmaker herself. Time seems to pass in a very different way in Ven... read more

The Glassmaker

Tracy Chevalier

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Two sisters meet a couple of wordly young men at a student party in post-War Bristol and accept their invitation a few days later, with startling consequences: a novella by a subtle writer.

The Party

Tessa Hadley

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Quiet, forgetful lives in a small town on the Austro-Hungarian border are shaken up by the events of 1989: an epic of historical complicity, brilliantly executed.

Darkenbloom

Eva Menasse

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The daughter of the Dean of Westminster investigates the murder of an antiquarian, a theft and ghostly visions. There's an amiable parrot too, called Cuthbert.

The Bells of Westminster

Leonora Nattrass

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1938: a famous novelist dies, leaving his manuscript to his young typist with a cryptic dedication. Atmospheric spy story set between London and Vienna.

Midnight in Vienna

Jane Thynne

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An audacious reimagining of the rise of China's first Ming emperor, in which a peasant girl steals her dead brother's identity and with it his glorious destiny. Thrilling stuff.

She Who Became the Sun

Shelley Parker-Chan

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A novel based on the life of Mary Wortley Montagu.

A Woman of Opinion

Sean Lusk

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This powerful story is set in 1851 in the Arctic: a Lutheran minister's Sami convert has a son who inconveniently has a love affair with the minister's daughter.

The End of Drum-Time

Hanna Pylvainen

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Reprint of a fine novel shortlisted for the 1981 Booker Prize, in which a couple fall in love during a day trip on the Rhine in 1851.

Rhine Journey

Ann Schlee

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Gothic tale of murder and secrets in C19th London, from the author of The Doll Factory.

The Burial Plot

Elizabeth Macneal

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Set during Nigeria's Biafran War. The author has twice been short-listed for the Booker prize.

The Road to the Country

Chigozie Obioma

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A love story set in Essex, much occupied with astronomy - by the author of The Essex Serpent.

Enlightenment

Sarah Perry

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A tale of desire, suspense and revenge, set in Holland the long shadow of WW2.

The Safekeep

Yael van der Wouden

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Drawing on the author's own experiences of WW2, the novel's protagonist rebels against the pressures of family and politics in Fascist Italy. First published in 1949. By the author of Forbid... read more

Her Side of the Story

Alba de C?spedes

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