Historical Fiction Archives

5-STAR REVIEW: THE UNDERGROUND BAKERY by Gosia Nealon

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 26 October 2026

Publication Date: October 22, 2026 Poland, 1943. “The Germans are here,” Jakub whispers over the pounding at the bakery door. I snatch my baby from her crib but there’s no time to hide,...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE DIARY AT THE IRISH ADOPTION HOUSE by Michelle Vernal

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 21 October 2026

The Irish Adoption House: Book 4 Publication Date: October 20, 2026 Ireland, 1939: ‘Please,’ my tearful voice breaks as I press the leather-bound diary into Sister Louise’s hands. ‘Give this to the family who...

5-STAR REVIEW: ROYAL WITCH by Philippa Gregory

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 20 October 2026

The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels: Book 1 Publication Date: October 20, 2026 Royal Witch: the gripping new novel from the international bestselling author. Ambition. Sorcery. Treason. How far will one woman dare to go? 1420. Eleanor...

5-STAR REVIEW: QUEEN OF LOMBARD STREET by Lisa Kleypas

Women's Fiction Amy Wilson - 20 October 2026

Publication Date: October 20, 2026 From New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas—a sweeping, richly layered Victorian novel about a trailblazing female economist who’s determined to build Britain’s first women’s bank, but she...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE FARTHER SHORE by Seth Fleisher

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 19 October 2026

Publication Date: October 20, 2026 TWO TIMELINES. ONE DEVASTATING INHERITANCE. Inspired by the true story of Eugène Marais, one of history's most extraordinary and forgotten minds. Southern Africa, turn of the twentieth century. Marais...

5-STAR REVIEW: UNWAVERING HEART by Angela Hunt

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 14 October 2026

Matriarchs: Book 2 Publication Date: October 27, 2026 When Rebekah is offered a marriage to Isaac--heir to wealthy and well-respected Abraham--she leaves behind the only world she has known and ventures into the sunbaked...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE FRENCH WIFE by Ann Bennett

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 9 October 2026

Publication Date: October 8, 2026 They thought her husband was a hero. Only she knew the truth… France 1943: Amelie Garnier loathes the enemy soldiers who occupy their sleepy French village. Forced to work...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE HANFORD NECKLACE by Shannon St. Hilaire

Family Life Amy Wilson - 7 October 2026

Publication Date: October 6, 2026 Gilmore Girls meets Oppenheimer in this dual-timeline family saga, set in a Manhattan Project town, about a granddaughter who uncovers her grandmother’s nuclear-age secrets and her own toxic...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE UNDERCOVER BOOKSHOP by Katherine Reay

Historical Fiction JoAnne - 6 October 2026

Publication Date: October 6, 2026 During the winter of 1950 in the small Cotswold village of Great Rollright, amateur sleuth Gemma Brown starts to suspect that the town’s best baker, Ursula Beurton, is...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: FORTUNE AND GLASS by John Mutter

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 6 October 2026

Publication Date: October 6, 2026 THE BOOK THIEF meets JOHN LE CARRÉ How do you stay human inside a regime built to erase you? Berlin, 1932. Germany' s fragile democracy is fracturing, its...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE THUNDER AND THE SILENCE by Roland Van Damme

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 5 October 2026

Publication Date: September 5, 2026 A sweeping historical novel revealing the man behind America's most enigmatic Founding Father-Benjamin Franklin, whose brilliance built a nation but shattered his family... From Boston's candlelit print shops to...

4-STAR REVIEW: RED SEAL by Rosa Kwon Easton

Historical Fiction Peggy K - 5 October 2026

Publication Date: October 6, 2026 A Korean mother and son navigate wars, displacement, and identity across decades and borders in a moving multigenerational saga by the author of White Mulberry. In 1943 Japan, the...