Historical Fiction

By Orson Scott Card

The plagues of Egypt to the parting of the crimson Sea, the tale of Moses is likely one of the best and colourful within the previous testomony. Now that tale is introduced vividly to lifestyles in a fictional environment. Stone Tables explores how God may well take traditional males like Moses and Aaron, with all their weaknesses, and remodel them into prophet and priest. Nationally well known writer Orson Scott Card brings new insights to an age-old tale. His artistic fictionalization of the occasions of scripture and historical past lends a clean and engaging standpoint. yet this is often greater than simply an exciting story. "My attempt is to ensure that those that learn this tale emerge with an knowing of ways reliable humans fight with one another and with their realizing of God's will as they struggle to make a few first rate use in their years of life," writes Card. It's a message as well timed at the present time because it used to be whilst Moses led Israel to freedom greater than millennia in the past.

By Guy Gavriel Kay

In accordance with the troubadour tradition that rose in Provence throughout the excessive heart a long time, this panoramic, soaking up novel fantastically creates another model of the medieval world.

The matriarchal, cultured land of Arbonne is hire by means of a feud among its strongest dukes, the noble troubador Bertran de Talair and Urte de Miraval, over long-dead Aelis, lover of 1, spouse of the opposite and as soon as inheritor to the country's throne.

To the north lies militaristic Gorhaut, whose population worship the militant god Corannos and are governed by means of corrupt, womanizing King Ademar. His leader consultant, the excessive priest of Corannos, is decided to irradicate the worship of a feminine deity, whose fans stay to the south.

Into this cauldron of brewing catastrophe comes the mysterious Gorhaut mercenary Blaise, who takes carrier with Bertran and averts an test on his lifestyles. The revelation of Blaise's lineage and a declare for sanctuary through his sister-in-law units the degree for a brutal conflict among the 2 cultures. Intertwined is the story of a tender lady troubadour whose function indicates the sweep of the drama to come back.

By Tom Holt

In 1037, a senior civil servant of the Byzantine empire faces a tedious trip to Greece, escorting the military payroll. His basically partners are a detachment of the Empire's elite shield, recruited from Viking Scandinavia. whilst the wagon sheds a wheel, he passes the time speaking with veterans, who've a striking tale to inform; the Viking discovery of America.As he documents the tale, years later, he additionally considers its impression at the fourth member of the celebration; a tender Norwegian guardsman who went directly to turn into King Harald Hardradi, who died invading England in 1066.

Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Abacus (3 Mar 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0349117411
ISBN-13: 978-0349117416

By Suzannah Dunn

A queen introduced low by means of love compromised and gear abused – the tragedy of Mary Tudor.

These are determined instances for Mary Tudor. As England’s first ruling queen, her pleasure could be entire whilst she marries Philip, the speeding Prince of Spain. yet regardless of her ardent devotion, he’s making it painfully visible that he cares little for his new spouse – and her fight to supply an inheritor basically makes him less warm in the direction of him. Lonely and depressed, Mary starts off to vent her affliction on her humans – and England turns into a spot of cruelty, persecution and fear.

Mary’s negative fall from grace is visible throughout the eyes of Rafael, a Spanish sundial maker who's a part of the Prince’s flamboyant entourage. He turns into the single individual that she trusts, yet his existence – and new-found love – can be stuck within the chaos that follows…

By Melvyn Bragg

The beautiful end to at least one of Britain's most interesting post-war sagas. Following The Soldier's go back, heralded as "a novel written in high quality metal sentences and granite paragraphs" through the Washington submit, and the both tremendous A Son of battle, Melvyn Bragg brings "one of the best sagas of postwar Britain" (London Sunday Telegraph) to a beautiful end. Set within the Fifties, this soaking up novel follows the intertwined fates of individuals crossing limitations of their lives. Alive with a large solid of characters, Crossing the strains vividly portrays the spirit and surroundings of the mid-century and the profound adjustments occurring on the time, in morals, faith, track, and social category. relocating and evocative, this masterly novel and the 2 that experience preceded it are rightfully hailed as modern classics.

By Julie McElwain

While very good FBI agent Kendra Donovan stumbles again in time and reveals herself in a nineteenth century English fortress lower than danger from a vicious serial killer, she scrambles to resolve the case ahead of it takes her life—200 years ahead of she was once even born.

Beautiful and impressive, Kendra Donovan is a emerging famous person on the FBI. but her route to specialist good fortune hits a velocity bump in the course of a disastrous raid the place part her staff is murdered, a mole within the FBI is exposed and he or she herself is significantly wounded. once she recovers, she is going rogue and travels to England to assassinate the guy liable for the deaths of her teammates.

While fleeing from an unforeseen murderer herself, Kendra escapes right into a stairwell that provides sanctuary but if she stumbles out back, she is within the similar position - Aldrich citadel - yet in a special time: 1815, to be exact.

Mistaken for a lady's maid employed to aid with weekend visitors, Kendra is pressured to speedy adapt to the period of time until eventually she will be able to work out how she received there; and, extra importantly, the best way to come back domestic. even if, after the physique of a tender lady is located at the huge grounds of the county property, she begins to suppose there's a few objective to her extraordinary situations. Stripped of her twenty-first century instruments, Kendra needs to use her wits by myself which will unmask a crafty madman.

By Jack Whyte

Merlyn Britannicus, chief of the colony often called Camulod, is confronted with the duty of training his younger cost, Arthur, destiny King of the Britons. Fearing for the lifetime of his nephew while an assassination try out is thwarted, Merlyn takes Arthur and his boyhood partners Gwin, Ghilleadh, and Bedwyr, to the ruins of a long-abandoned Roman citadel faraway from Camulod. as soon as there, Merlyn realizes it's time for Arthur to develop into beneficial of the sword he's destined to wield later in his life-the strong Excalibur.

But past their idyllic hiding position, forces threaten the tenuous peace of Camulod. In Cambria, the dying of Arthur's father Uther has left his humans leaderless, and in Cornwall, Merlyn's enemy Peter Ironhair is collecting forces to ruin all Merlyn holds dear.

And Merlyn himself is suffering, simply because to be able to make his dream of a united Britain genuine, he needs to placed the individual he loves such a lot on the planet in mortal danger-he and Arthur needs to go back to Camulod.

By Lori Wick

Victoria "Smokey" Simmons stands silently on deck as her father's physique is diminished into the Atlantic, asking God for the power she is going to have to command the Aramis by myself. no longer eager to stay at sea without end, Smokey desires of the time while she will be able to exchange her lifestyles aboard send for a house and kin. whilst she meets one other captain, Dallas Knight, Smokey believes her dream will ultimately come real. yet conditions past their regulate and the schemes of a crafty pirate threaten to ruin this younger couple's desire for the long run.

By William Kennedy

In a new york lodge room, the "Love Nest Killings of 1908" ensue. however the secret of who killed whom, and why, doesn't resolve until eventually we discover the lives of Katrina Taylor and Edward Daughtery.
He is a first-generation Irish American and a profitable playwright. She is a high-born Protestant, a gorgeous seductive lady with complicated attitudes in the direction of existence. Their marriage is a passionate one, yet a cataclysmic inn fireplace adjustments it into whatever else altogether. relocating backward and forward among the Eighteen Eighties and 1912, The Flaming Corsage follows Katrina and Edward as different lives influence upon theirs-their socially adverse households; Edward's flirtatious actress paramour, Melissa Spencer; the health practitioner Giles Fitzroy, and his spouse; and Edward's pal, the cynical journalist Thomas Maginn.
The Flaming Corsage evocatively portrays during the lens of Albany's powerful Irishtown and English-Dutch aristocracy the seething, contradictory impulses of our humanity, lusts and furies that understand no bounds of time or position.

By Phil Rickman

All speak is of the End-time...and the lifeless are emerging. on the finish of the sunless summer time of 1560, black hearsay shrouds the loss of life of the only girl who stands among Lord Robert Dudley and marriage to the younger Queen Elizabeth. Did Dudley's spouse, Amy, die from an unintentional fall in a abandoned apartment, or was once it a calculated homicide? Even Dr John Dee, astrologer royal, adviser at the Hidden and one in every of Dudley's oldest pals, is doubtful. Then a rash promise to the Queen sends him to his family's previous domestic at the Welsh Border in pursuit of the Wigmore Shewstone, a crystal credited supernatural houses. With Dee is going Robert Dudley, thought of the main hated guy in England. They shuttle with the entourage of a London pass judgement on despatched to aim a sinister Welsh brigand with a legacy courting again to the conflict of Brynglas, during which with regards to 1000 Englishmen died by the hands of the Welsh. After the conflict, the various our bodies have been, in accordance with legend, obscenely mutilated. Now, at the similar haunted hill, one other useless guy has been came upon, equally slashed. Devious politics, small-town corruption, twisted faith and a brooding superstition go away John Dee remoted within the land of his father...