Are you bored of reading the usual rom-com novels, where a rich CEO falls in love with an average girl or a small-town girl meets her childhood best friend after 10 years? Perhaps, it is time to ...

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Revolving around two career criminals and a Thameside mansion, The Burial Plot is a gripping historical thriller about murder, deception, and a young woman’s struggle to seize power from a dangerous ...

I think this was the first historical fiction ... with all the best intentions, a tendency to romanticise it, but Barker was very clear-eyed in these books, which I later took as a salutary ...

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Historical romance novels not only set the standards high but also let you escape from the reality of today’s relationships. If you wish to immerse yourself in historical romance novels, then here are ...

By Jac Jemc Allegra Goodman’s novel “Isola” tells the story of a 16th-century Frenchwoman’s extraordinary fight for survival. By Joumana Khatib The Best Historical Fiction of 2024 ...

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Read on for our pick of the best historical crime novels around. Calcutta, 1919. Former Scotland Yard Detective Captain Sam Wyndham, along with Sergeant Surendranath Banerjee, is tasked with solving ...