Dark and disturbing... engrossing historical fiction
Explore a gripping collection of dark and disturbing historical fiction books that will engross you with their haunting narratives. Uncover chilling tales from the past that linger long after the last page.
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The Apple
by Michel Faber
In this collection, Michel Faber revisits the world of his bestselling novel 'The Crimson Petal and the White', briefly opening doors onto the lives of …
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The Linnet Bird
by Linda Holeman
“For you, I will write of it all—part truth, part memory, part nightmare—my life, the one that started so long ago, in a place so …
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The Dress Lodger
by Sheri Holman
In a novel set in London during the Industrial Revolution, a prostitute borrows a blue dress to attract a higher class of client and is …
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Mirabilis
by Susann Cokal
It's a defiant act of generosity - when she was twelve years old, her sainted mother, the two priests suspected of being her father, and …
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Vindication
by Frances Sherwood
Sherwood recreates the life and times of Mary Wollstonecraft, the trailblazing English feminist. Abetted by an unruly intelligence and an unquenchable romanticism, Sherwood's Mary survives …
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Wideacre
by Philippa Gregory
Set in 18th century England, "Wideacre" introduces Beatrice Lacey, a heroine who makes Scarlett O'Hara look like a simpering weakling. Readers will fall in love …
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Tipping the Velvet
by Sarah Waters
“Erotic and absorbing…Written with startling power.”—The New York Times Book Review Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, …
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Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
“Oliver Twist with a twist…Waters spins an absorbing tale that withholds as much as it discloses. A pulsating story.”—The New York Times Book Review The …
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Dragonwyck
by Anya Seton
Longing for an adventure away from her farm duties, eighteen-year-old Miranda Wells accepts her distant cousin's invitation to spend time with him at his gothic …
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The Observations
by Jane Harris
The Observations is a hugely assured and darkly funny debut set in nineteenth-century Scotland. Bessy Buckley, the novel's heroine, is a cynical, wide-eyed, and tender …
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Alias Grace
by Margaret Atwood
The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments reveals the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century in …
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My Heart Laid Bare
by Joyce Carol Oates
Mythic in scope and ballad-like in the telling, "My Heart Laid Bare" is the sweeping saga of the fortunes and misfortunes of a family of …
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An Inconvenient Wife
by Megan Chance
Uncomfortable with the paternalistic dependencies and prudery of New York society, Lucy Carleton, the daughter of one of the oldest and wealthiest families in 1880s …