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Historical Fiction

Historical Fiction is a popular literary genre where the fictional plot takes place within a setting of real historical events. Take a step back in time with dramas, romances, mysteries and fantasies set in pivotal moments of our history.

Staff Picks:

Circle of Days

Circle of Days by Ken Follett is a historical fiction novel that delves into the intricacies of human relationships during...

The Soldier's Daughter

The Soldier's Daughter by Fiona McIntosh is a historical fiction novel that immerses readers in the post-World War I era....

The Girl with the Suitcase

The Girl with the Suitcase by Lesley Pearse is a gripping tale set during the 1930s and onwards, following a...

The Lost Bookshop

The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods invites readers into a magical world where a hidden bookshop holds secrets and forgotten...

All the Diamonds in Paris

All the Diamonds in Paris by Kristin Harmel is a captivating historical fiction novel set against the backdrop of occupied...

The Listeners

The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater is a captivating journey into a world where the boundaries between reality and the supernatural...

Atmosphere

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid is a general fiction novel that explores the intricate dynamics within a close-knit group of...

The Song of Achilles

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller reimagines the Greek myth of Achilles through the eyes of his companion Patroclus....

Historically Accurate (Fictional) Quotes:

There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”


― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.”


― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

Grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced.”


― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.”


― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Love is what remains when everything else is gone.”


― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds