Historical Fiction

Mad Boy is a rollicking, picaresque novel about family and perseverance set during America’s "forgotten war" of 1812. Young Henry Phipps is on a qu...

Franois Villon, wayward poet and notorious outlaw, disappeared from view in 1436, aged 32. Nothing is known of what happened to him after he was ba...

Richard Francis's stunning novel Crane Pond is the story of Samuel Sewall, loving father and husband, anti-slavery advocate, defender of Native Ame...

As a child, isolated from the world in a secretive military encampment with her distant mother, she turns for affection to a sympathetic soldier an...

translated by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood All Vienna knows that the inhabitant of number 10 Seilerstatte is none other than Christopher Alt, piano m...

The past isn’t over. It isn’t even past. For Jonathan, a third generation Greek American who has never set foot in his ancestral homeland, a journe...

translated by Adriana Hunter In 1919, in a small town in the province of Berry, France, under the sweltering temperatures of summer heat wave, a wa...

Set during the first half of the twentieth century, this is the story of the Brunis, a family of farmers from the Italian Padan Plain who have work...

translated by Stephen Sartarelli From the author of the Inspector Montalbano series comes the remarkable account of an exceptional woman who rises ...

translated by Katherine Gregor In a medieval Venice undone by devastating famine and excessive, orgiastic Carnival festivities of all kinds, the pr...

translated by Brendan Freely and Yelda Türedi Altan’s “Ottoman Quartet” spans the fifty years between the final decades of the 19th century and the...

translated by Alison Anderson Coeur was the King of France’s visionary First Banker who, with his tours of the Far East, his public criticism of th...

translated by Howard Curtis They say Frasquita knows magic, that she is a healer with occult powers, that perhaps she is a sorcerer. She does indee...

Julek has assumed countless different identities, lived with numerous families, and worked as a secret agent for the Resistance. He was raised in a...

Sir Edward Feathers has progressed from struggling young barrister to wealthy expatriate lawyer to distinguished retired judge living out his last ...

translated by Antony Shugaar August 15, 1839. Messina, Italy. In the home of Marshall don Peppino Padellani di Opiri, preparations for the feast of...

translated by Antony Shugaar Athens, 411 BC. In the countryside, just outside the city gates, two veterans, Trasillo and Polemone, live in adjacent...

translated by Antony Shugaar Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most vilified figures in modern history. The daughter of a notorious pope, she was twice...

translated by Stephen Sartarelli Raffadali, province of Agrigento, 1920s. The Sacco brothers are free men with strong ideas about socialism and the...

translated by Howard Curtis October 1493. Florence is still mourning the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Columbus’ ships have only recently reach...

translated by Anne Mathai and Marie-Louise Naville Little known, little remembered, this is the story of Begum Hazrat Mahal. The soul of the 1857 W...

translated by Ann Goldstein The "provocative" novel about hard-living teenagers in poverty-stricken postwar Rome, by the renowned Italian filmmaker...

Maria Sirena tells stories. She does it for money--she was a favorite in the cigar factory where she worked as a lettora--and for love, spinning go...