A Far Better Thing by H. G. Parry
If you’re very fortunate, all a fairy will ask of you will be to steal a bone from a grave. They need them to grow buildings for the Children’s Quarter in...
Tagged: Historical Fiction
The Vaster Wilds: A Novel by Lauren Groff
Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff is a stunningly shocking fever dream, a narrative that “follows a girl’s escape from a nameless colonial settlement into the unforgiving terrain of America.” [NY Times]...
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Natalie Haynes, in her new novel A Thousand Ships, explores the Trojan War through the experiences of the goddesses, princesses, Amazons, townswomen, and captives who in some cases drove it forward...
Light on Bone by Kathryn Lasky
In Light on Bone, Kathryn Lasky takes us to the New Mexico Ghost Ranch of 1934, gifting us with its beauty as seen through the eyes of artist Georgia O’Keeffe. Although...
Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson
Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery of 2025, Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson is set on the fictional Ralston Island in the Thousand Islands archipelago...
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
To retrieve history we need rigour, integrity, unsparing devotion and an impulse to scepticism. To retrieve the past, we require all those virtues, and something more. If we want added value...
Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor
Set on a fictional Welsh island in 1938, Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor introduces its reader to eighteen-year-old Manod Llan, a lifelong islander, who feels a deep attachment to her small...
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Anyone who has ever watched a film with time-travel, or read a book with time-travel, or dissociated on a delayed public transport vehicle by considering the concept of time-travel, will know...
Clear by Carys Davies
“The Welsh writer Carys Davies has, over the course of three impeccably elegant novels to date, revealed herself as a model of restraint. Each book has been short and concise, with...
The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron
This novel is a swashbuckling success! Here are just a few reasons why I highly recommend it. Now, from what she could glean from the idle chatter of those passing through,...
