Historical category: 104939 books

New York Times bestseller: A “highly superior historical novel” about the bond that grows between two men in ancient Athens (Saturday Review). Alexias is a young aristocrat living during the end of Athens’s Golden Age. Prized for his beauty and athletic prowess, Alexias studies under...

Awards for Courier First Place, Indie Excellence Award, Political Thrillers 2015 Runner Up, Wild Card Category, New England Book Festival 2014 Honorable Mention, Fiction Category, Hollywood Book Festival 2014 Honorable Mention, General Fiction, San Francisco Book Festival 2014 Honorable Mention, Wild...

Osceola, the great Seminole War leader, was captured on Old Kings Road in Florida in 1835. He was meeting under a white flag of truce. His capture under a white flag was debated in Congress, the Court of England and capitols throughout the world. This well researched historical fiction account reveals...

Historical fiction doesn't get much better than this' ANGUS DONALD, author of The Outlaw Chronicles. 'Matthew Harffy's tale of England in the Dark Ages is nothing less than superb' HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY. 'Murder, betrayal and vengeance fuel tribal warfare and personal combat. Beobrand...

**“Utterly irresistible…The Gold Eaters is truly the gold standard to which all fiction — historical and otherwise — should aspire.” — Buzzfeed A sweeping, epic historical novel of exploration and invasion, of conquest and resistance, and of an enduring love that must overcome the...

Red Cloud—the only Native American leader ever to win a war against the United States Army. In the 1860s he destroyed Captain William J. Fetterman’s command, closed the Bozeman Trail, and forced the United States to a peace conference. A brilliant military strategist, Red Cloud honed his skills...

Two brothers. One woman. A nation at war. A compelling story of war, brotherly love, romance and betrayal during World War One. "I would say this novel is far superior to Pat Barker's Regeneration." Vast in scope and intimate in the portrayal of three lives swept along...

Set in Ireland during the turbulent early 20th century, Patricia Falvey's sweeping novel explores an unlikely friendship between two girls of vastly different backgrounds, as each tries to overcome the barriers set by class and birthright... On a June morning in 1900, Rosie Killeen crosses...

Winner of the 2018 Spur Award for Historical Novel A sweeping historical novel of the American West that follows the dramatic life of Daytime Smoke, Nez Perce son of explorer William Clark. The Coming is an epic novel of native-white relations in North America, intimately told through...

“We are transported. We are consigned to the ends of the Earth. And we are therefore as good as dead to the realm and its judges. There can be no hope of reprieve…” Gabriel Carver, the convict hangman of Sydney Prison, knows that none of his kind may depart Australia’s penal colony...

“A tour de force combining a commanding mastery of historical fact and detail, a comprehensive understanding of the human spirit, and a poetic quality of expression that transforms the hearts of all those it touches.” -The Japan Foundation Newsletter Kumagai Naozane was a Japanese warrior...

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to publish Nobel Prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s epic work March 1917, Node III, Book 1, of The Red Wheel. The Red Wheel is Solzhenitsyn’s magnum opus about the Russian Revolution....

I was mesmerized by the way the author captured the realism of how World War II was experienced through the eyes of the soldiers and their families A must-read for all generations. Jim Walsh, former president of the 307th Bomb Group Association The Chaplains Cross is a thought-provoking, inspirational,...

--Lyra Grand Prize Winner-- --NIEA Winner-- --IPPY Silver Medal Winner-- --Grace Award Winner-- --BRAG Medallion Winner-- --IndieFab Book of the Year Finalist-- --Realm Award Semi-Finalist-- Acclaim for Storming: “Dropping (literally) dieselpunk fantasy elements smack into the...