20th Century
epub |eng | 2023-06-19 | Author:Kate Quinn

PATROCLES I stood in the chariot and felt the adulation, the joy, the euphoria that greeted Achilles whenever he entered the fray. Back in Opois, I had been celebrated, but ...
( Category: Historical Fiction January 30,2024 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-05 | Author:Charlie Fenton [Fenton, Charlie]

I wouldn’t hurt Henry like that. In fact, I would never kill anyone. Even Katherine, who I hated most in the world, I would never kill. April 1531 – York ...
( Category: Historical Fiction January 28,2024 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-27 | Author:Carubia, Christopher [Carubia, Christopher]

VII We marched through the canabae, the civilian settlement that lay on the south western bank of the Ouse, and onto the stone bridge that crossed the river towards the ...
( Category: Historical Fiction January 28,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-01-09 | Author:Álvaro Enrigue [Enrigue, Alvaro]

While He Who Looses the Rain of Words and Governs the Songs Lest We Be Like the Flowers and Bees That Last But a Few Days was singing the interminable ...
( Category: Historical Fiction January 28,2024 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-05 | Author:Paul Bentley [Bentley, Paul]

It was the ninth day since the crossing of the Horn, and the Lascaris brothers and others were dining with the Autocrats in the Chamber of the German Empress, when ...
( Category: Historical Fiction January 25,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-04-10 | Author:Tom Lloyd [Lloyd, Tom]

Seventeen ‘How could this happen?’ Juliet stands in the middle of their chamber, hands raised to the heavens as she looms over her seated husband. By contrast Romeo is calm, ...
( Category: Historical Fiction January 18,2024 )
epub |eng | 2022-02-03 | Author:Annabel Abbs [Abbs, Annabel]

‘That’s beautiful, miss,’ I say, hoping she will carry on reciting, for the sound makes me feel like I do when she touches me. Less alone, I think. That I ...
( Category: Historical Fiction January 18,2024 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-29 | Author:Michael Wills [Wills, Michael]

After exchanging greetings, Torkil said, “Abbetissa, I have a request from Earl Harold for my sister to accompany me on a visit to him in Boseham. He has—” The nun ...
( Category: Historical Fiction January 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-06 | Author:Gray Rodgers, David [Gray Rodgers, David]

XVI At first view the villa appeared normal for an October Sunday afternoon. Connor strained his ears for the sound of the turmoil he expected to find within; but he ...
( Category: Historical Fiction January 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-06 | Author:Bennett, Jon [Bennett, Jon]

“How can you not deny this?” Moltouloku pointed his fat, gold-laden finger at Urfa. “We all can see the profit you gain from Roman friends. Yet when are we to ...
( Category: Historical Fiction January 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-30 | Author:Kim, Nathaniel H.C. [Kim, Nathaniel H.C.]

The scouts Chagadai sent out returned two days later with good news. They located Megujin and his Tatars following the Ulja River for the Uldza Valley. I smiled to myself. ...
( Category: Historical Fiction January 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2021-08-26 | Author:Hare, Vijay [Hare, Vijay]

THE CEREMONY BREEZED by mercifully quickly, although to the spectators in the atrium outside it surely dragged on for hours. The reek of cloying incense filled Orbus’ nostrils, as the ...
( Category: Historical Fiction January 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-09-20 | Author:Rachel McLean & Joel Hames [McLean, Rachel & Hames, Joel]

CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE The site where they’d found the knife was a bust. An office overlooked it, and there was even a balcony. But speaking with the site manager, Nina discovered ...
( Category: Historical Fiction December 22,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-30 | Author:Nigel Tranter [Tranter, Nigel]

16 Alastair had to wait, with some impatience, for the weeks to pass until the usual Yuletide visit of the duke and Mary Gray to Strathearn before he could seek ...
( Category: Historical Fiction December 22,2023 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2022-12-30 | Author:George Edwardson [Edwardson, George]

Mick acknowledged, ruefully, that he had not been the best of correspondents and apologised. His thin excuse was regimental duties and actions on various of the islands away from the ...
( Category: Historical Fiction December 17,2023 )