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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction • Winner of the National Book Award • New York Times Bestseller
Renowned scholar Stephen Greenblatt brings the past to vivid life in what is at once a supreme work of scholarship, a literary page-turner, and a thrilling testament to the power of the written word.
3) Romola
Florence, 1492. Lorenzo de Medici has just died, leaving governance of the Florentine Republic to his son Piero, an unskilled ruler. Meanwhile, Tito Melema, a shipwrecked stranger, finds love with a young woman named Romola, the devoted daughter of a blind scholar. Though her...
A romance set on the highways of old England
On a cool crisp night in the Epping Forest, a stagecoach was moving amongst the shadows of a full silver moon.
"the moonlight gives the forest a magical glow", said Mary Gregory a passenger in the coach. The other passenger was her brother, Magistrate Sir Thomas Gregory, but he thought it felt less magical but more eerie and dangerous. He was seeing highwaymen and footpads in every shadow. The
The...
6) Bad Blood
<p>★ ★ ★ ★ ★ <em>"Bad Blood is a fantastic historical fiction novel that does not shy away from the dark complications of the world,"</em> - <strong>Reedsy Discovery</strong><br></p><p>★ ★ ★ ★ ⋆ (4.5 stars) <em>"Bad Blood is a riveting page turner with well-developed characters and vivid descriptions, transporting the reader back to a more violent, unsettled time in history,"</em>
...Discover the passionate bond between the Renaissance poet and the famed artist
NYC BIG BOOK AWARD—Winner in Historical Fiction
FOREWORD Indies Book of the Year—Finalist
In 1534, Michelangelo is no longer safe in Florence. Pope Clement VII, his childhood friend, summons him to Rome not only to protect him from his enemies but also to demand he paint a masterpiece
...She was the only woman in Venice who knew the secret...and it made her a criminal.
The Murano glassmakers of Venice are celebrated and revered. But now three of them are dead, killed for attempting to leave the city that both prizes their work and keeps them prisoners. For in the 17th century, the secret of their craft must, by law, never leave Venetian shores. Yet there is someone who keeps the secret while defying tradition. She is
...When soldiers attack the inhabitants of a Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Lithuania, Abigail manages to escape both the attack and her abusive husband, Reuven. She travels over land and sea to Venice, where she settles in another ghetto. Believing Reuven is dead, Abigail falls in...
NEW YORK TIMES BEST HISTORICAL FICTION OF 2020
"Only Katy Simpson Smith could have written a novel of such elegance, emotional power, and grace. The Everlasting, a quadruple love story spanning two millennia, is no less than the story of love itself—its frustrations and thrills, its blunders and transcendent glories. Meraviglioso."—Nathaniel Rich, author of King Zeno
From a supremely
...In sixteenth-century Venice, one young noblewoman dares to resist the choices made for her
Venice in 1509 is on the brink of war. The displeasure of Pope Julius II is a continuing threat to the republic, as is the barely contained fighting in the countryside. Amid this turmoil, noblewoman Justina Soranzo, just sixteen, hopes to make a rare love marriage with her sweetheart, Luca Cicogna. Her hopes are dashed when her father
...Claude is queen in name only. Can she outwit her rival, win her husband to her side, save her sister, and assert her power?...
Danger lurks beneath the glitter of the sixteenth century French court. The queen lies dying; the king has but months to live. Their two daughters, Claude and young Renée,are heiresses to the rich duchy of Brittany. Countess Louise, their guardian, schemes to steal their inheritance.
For years she
...<p>★★★★ <em>"There's a real feel for the period and understanding of the lives of these early Irish rebels, and the politicking between men jostling for power and position is complex, fascinating and makes for great fictional drama."</em> - <strong>Reedsy Discovery</strong><br></p><p><br></p><h3>A gripping, action-packed historical thriller set in the rebellion
...18) Soul Mountain
“If a successful novelist is one who tells us something new about the human spirit and a successful novel transports us to another world, then Gao and Soul Mountain have succeeded spectacularly.” — Washington Post Book World
An extraordinary work of immense wisdom and profound beauty by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
In 1983 Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer,
...Mary Gregory and Sir Justin Beaufort hate each other because they are victims of shotgun marriage and as Road agents, Gentleman John and Silver Buckles love each other truly in spite of their engagement to another who happens to be the other one although they don't know Mary thinks he's stark raving mad. Jack thinks she is not the woman he loves he knows she hates him too.
The marriage of Anglican, Edward FitzStephen, to Joan Farles is arranged to gain favor with Queen Mary Tudor, and preserve the wealthy family's manors. Love grows for Joan and Edward even when Edward's Anglican prelate uncle is burned at the stake. Can they save themselves and their families from further violence?
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