Forthcoming Historical Fiction for 2007

This list of adult historical fiction titles has been compiled from publishers’ catalogs, publisher home pages, Publishers Weekly forecasts, Amazon US and UK, and information supplied by authors.  Titles and dates on this list are subject to change. We list mainstream and small press titles set in the 1950s and earlier. 

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January 2007

US Titles

Megan Abbott, The Song Is You, Simon & Schuster (about the mysterious and infamous murder of actress Jean Spangler in 1949)

Pamela Aidan, These Three Remain: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman, Touchstone (Pride and Prejudice sequel; third in trilogy)

Boris Akunin, Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog, Random House (first Sister Pelagia mystery, about a nun in a remote late 19th C Russian village who solves crimes)

Martin Amis, House of Meetings, Knopf (love triangle between two brothers and a Jewish girl in pogrom-poised Moscow in 1946)

Suzanne Arruda, Stalking Ivory, NAL (2nd Jade del Cameron mystery set in 1920 East Africa)

Antonia Arslan, Skylark Farm, Knopf (lie of a family struggling for survival during the Armenian genocide in Turkey in 1915)

Ellis Avery, The Teahouse Fire, Riverhead (explores the shifting cultural ground of late 19th century Japan through the story of Aurelia, an orphaned American girl)

Stephen Baxter, Emperor, Ace (alternate history epic set in Roman Britannia)

Emma Darwin, The Mathematics of Love, Morrow (a novel weaving together two narratives of Waterloo and its aftermath)

David Stuart Davies, Forests of the Night, Minotaur (PI in WWII-era London
in which Johnny Hawke investigates the death (and secret life) of a
middle-class girl)

Eva Etzioni-Halevy, The Garden of Ruth, Plume (novel of Ruth the Moabite, great-grandmother of David, future King of Israel)

James Fleming, White Blood, Atria (literary novel of an aristocratic family in 1917 Russia)

Margaret Frazer, The Traitor's Tale, Berkley Prime Crime (latest Dame Frevisse mystery, 15th C England)

David Fulmer, The Dying Crapshooter's Blues, Harcourt (mystery set in 19th C New Orleans)

Philippa Gregory, A Respectable Trade, Touchstone (novel of the 18th C British slave trade)

Barbara Hambly, Patriot Hearts, Bantam (novel of the women behind the presidency - Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Sally Hemings, and Dolley Madison)

Michael Lowenthal, Charity Girl, Houghton Mifflin (about a shameful chapter in American history, when 15,000 young women were incarcerated during WWI)

Norman Mailer, The Castle in the Forest, Random House (fictional chronicle of Hitler's boyhood)

Catherine Monroe, The King's Nun, NAL (about Amelia of Ardennes, advisor to Charlemagne in the 8th century)

Michael Phillips, Never Too Late, Bethany House (a former slave girl seeks a new life in the North)

Deanna Raybourn, Silent in the Grave, MIRA (first in a historical fiction series featuring Victorian sleuths Lady Julia Grey and Nicholas Brisbane)

Carme Riera, In the Last Blue, Overlook (novel of the Majorcan Jews in the 17th century)

Judith Merkle Riley, The Water-Devil, Three Rivers (conclusion to Margaret of Ashbury trilogy set in medieval England)

Dan Simmons, The Terror, Little, Brown (thriller based on the true story of two ice ships that disappeared in the Arctic Circle during the Franklin expedition in 1845)

Beverly Swerling, City of Glory, Simon & Schuster ("a novel of war and glory in old Manhattan")

Lalita Tademy, Red River, Warner (dramatic, intertwining story of two families in a poor settlement down Red River from Colfax, Louisiana, and their struggles during the tumultuous post-Civil War period)

UK Titles

Sue Allan, Jamestown Woman, domtom Publishing (the sequel to Mayflower Maid. Adventure and intrigue in colonial Jamestown of 1623 then returning to Lincolnshire in England and the outbreak of the English Civil War)

Miklos Banffy, They Were Divided, Arcadia (an exploration of the rapidly disintegrating course of events in central Europe just prior the WWI)

Frank Barnard, Band of Eagles, Headline (WWII fighter pilots are tested to their utmost in the battle for Malta)

Clare Colvin, Masque of the Gonzagas, Arcadia (in Northern Italy, change and upheaval undermine the certainties of the Renaissance)

Catherine Cookson, Tilly Trotter, Tilly Trotter Wed, Tilly Trotter Widowed, Headline (reprint of Cookson’s classic trilogy which follows the eponymous heroine’s journey from County Durham to America and back again)

G.W. Dahlquist, The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Penguin Viking (Victorian mystery)

Jose Luis de Juan, This Breathing World, Arcadia (mirrored stories of a homosexual Syrian scribe in first-century Rome who becomes a murderer and renowned man of letters, and of a present day American whose life and exploits parallel his historical predecessor’s) 

David Dickinson, Death on the Nevsky Prospect, Constable (Sixth in the popular Lord Powerscourt series set in St Petersburg)

Anna Jacobs, Bright Day Dawning, Hodder & Stoughton (Lancashire saga involving a young woman’s struggle to put her past behind her)

Rebecca Johns, Icebergs, Bloomsbury (A love story that stretches from WWII to the present day)

Ismail Kadare, Chronicle in Stone, Canongate (a young Albanian boy experiences the terrors of the Second World War)

Benjamin Markovits, Imposture, Faber & Faber (A Gothic romance that recreates the world of Lord Byron)

Giles Milton, Edward Trencom's Nose, Macmillan (A Byzantine riddle besets the eponymous hero as he discovers his family secrets)

Jody Shields, The Crimson Portrait, Black Swan (A haunting love story set during the Great War)

John Wilcox, Last Stand at Majuba Hill, Headline (Simon Fonthill’s latest adventure takes him to the 1881 Boer Uprising in South Africa)

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, Doubleday (the story of a young girl who steals books, her family and the boxer in the basement as they struggle to survive in Nazi Germany)

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February 2007

US Titles

William Dietrich, Napoleon's Pyramids, HarperCollins (The Alienist meets The Da Vinci Code, set against Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798-99)

Margaret Elphinstone, Light, Canongate (suspenseful family drama set on a tiny island off the Isle of Man in 1831)

Amanda Elyot, Too Great a Lady, NAL (biographical novel of Emma Hamilton)

Ariana Franklin, Mistress of the Art of Death, Putnam (medieval thriller set amid the Jewish community of 12th century Cambridge, England)

Nora Gallagher, Changing Light, Pantheon (romance between an artist and a scientist, set against the backdrop of Los Alamos and the making of the atomic bomb)

Diane Haeger, The Perfect Royal Mistress, Three Rivers (novel of Nell Gwynne, mistress of Charles II)

Georgina Harding, The Solitude of Thomas Cave, Bloomsbury USA (in which a
17th century sailor spends the winter alone in the Arctic)

Guy Gavriel Kay, Ysabel, Roc (time-slip fantasy novel set in Provence, as a dangerous, mythical tale from the past intrudes into the present)

Clare Langley-Hawthorne, Consequences of Sin, Viking (first in Edwardian mystery series featuring young heiress Ursula Marlow)

Giulio Leoni, The Mosaic Crimes, Harcourt (a Dante Alighieri mystery)

Erika Mailman, Woman of Ill Fame, Heyday (historical mystery featuring a "woman of ill fame" solving a murder of one of her fellow prostitutes in Gold Rush San Francisco)

Mayra Montero, Dancing to "Almendra", FSG (young journalist Joaquín Porrata in Mafia-dominated Cuba in 1957)

Selim Nassib, A Lover in Palestine, Europa (the impossible love affair between Golda Meir and a Palestinian aristocrat)

Ben Pastor, The Water Thief, Minotaur (in 304 AD, Aelius Spartianus
investigates the 200-year-old unsolved drowning death of Emperor Hadrian's
male favorite)

Tova Reich, My Holocaust, HarperCollins

David Adams Richards, The Friends of Meager Fortune, MacAdam/Cage (love, envy, and betrayal during the dying days of the lumber industry in mid-20th century Canada)

Cecilia Samartin, Broken Paradise, Atria (two cousins grow up in Castro's Cuba and 1950s America; UK title was Ghost Heart)

Walter Satterthwait, Dead Horse, Dennis McMillan (reimagines the mysterious
death of Emily Davies Vanderbilt Thayer Whitfield in 1935)

Alison Weir, Innocent Traitor, Ballantine (novel of Lady Jane Grey)

UK Titles

Charlotte Bingham, The White Marriage (romance set in 1950s England)

John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust as he is caught up in the evils unleashed in Berlin)

Rita Bradshaw, Skylarks at Sunset, Headline (family drama set in London during the Blitz)

Justin Cartwright, The Song Before It Is Sung (a novel of mystery and passion spanning 1930s Oxford, pre-war Prussia and contemporary Britain)

Clare Clark, The Nature of Monsters, Viking (Eliza Tally leaves home after being jilted)

Catherine Cookson/Rosie Goodwin, Tilly Trotter’s Legacy, Headline (Cookson’s classic heroine lives on in this new saga by Rosie Goodwin)

Bryce Courtenay, Brother Fish, Michael Joseph (three different people from different backgrounds involved in a saga spanning 80 years and four continents)

Anna Davis, The Shoe Queen (Forbidden love and shoes in 1920s Paris)

Georgina Harding, The Solitude of Thomas Cave, Bloomsbury (August 1616 and the whaling ship , Heartsease sets out for the Arctic. One man is left behind to face the Arctic winter alone)

Sarah Harrison, A Spell of Swallows, Hodder & Stoughton (in interwar England, a vicar’s wife finds herself attracted to a mysterious stranger)

Pam Jenoff, The Kommandant's Girl, MIRA (life of a young Polish wife during the WWII resistance)

Derek Johns, Wintering, Portobello (quietly shocking tale of a young boy’s coming of age in post-war Glastonbury)

R. N. Morris, A Gentle Axe (winter 1867 in St Petersburg and two frozen bodies are found in Petrovsky Park)

Tony Park, African Sky (adventure set in Rhodesia during WWII)

Steven Pressfield, The Afghan Campaign, Doubleday (the mayhem of Alexander the Great’s campaign in 330BC)

Jessica Stirling, Blessings in Disguise, Hodder & Stoughton (Irish immigrants struggle to build a new life in mid-Victorian Glasgow)

Anne Whitfield, The Gentle Wind's Caress, Robert Hale (a Victorian saga set in Yorkshire, England) 

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March 2007

US Titles

Thalassa Ali, Companions of Paradise, Bantam (a young woman caught between marital discord and political upheaval that follows the British victory in 1840s Afghanistan)

Kurt Andersen, Heyday, Random House (imagined romp through the boisterous coming of age of America)

Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, Touchstone (Pride & Prejudice sequel; what happens when a penniless relative of the Darcys inherits a fortune and comes to London to live as a socialite)

Linda Lee Chaikin, The Midwife of St. Petersburg, WaterBrook (tale of romance and danger set against the madness of the Bolshevik revolution)

Tracy Chevalier, Burning Bright, Dutton (novel of William Blake and his times)

Frances de Pontes Peebles, Title TBA, Morrow (in 1930s Brazil, about two sisters; one who wages a guerilla war against Brazilian land barons, while the other becomes a society dame)

Ruth Downie, Medicus, Bloomsbury USA (historical mystery set in ancient Rome)

Alexandre Dumas, The Last Cavalier, Pegasus ("the adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon" - last novel of Dumas, newly rediscovered)

Dave Duncan, The Alchemist's Apprentice, Ace (the apprentice of Nostradamus must untangle a maze of magic and murder; historical fantasy)

Arabella Edge, The God of Spring, Simon & Schuster (about controversial French artist Theodore Gericault)

W. Michael and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, People of the Nightland, Forge (prehistoric novel set 11,500 years ago, during the Great Flood, as the Laurentide ice sheet melted)

David Gemmell, Troy: Shield of Thunder, Del Rey (historical fantasy
adventure set in ancient times)

Joan Grant, Scarlet Feather, Overlook (follows Pinayah, daughter of a clairvoyant Indian mother)

Joan Grant, Winged Pharaoh, Overlook (novel of early dynastic Egypt)

Alfred Hayes, The Girl on the Via Flaminia, Europa (poignant love affair informed by the aftermath of war; set in occupied Rome during the final months of WWII)

Elizabeth Hickey, The Wayward Muse, Atria (about the triangle between William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and the woman they both love)

Steve Hockensmith, On the Wrong Track, Minotaur (2nd mystery with cattle
drovers-turned-detectives, set in the 1890s West)

Linda Holeman, The Moonlit Cage, Three Rivers (story of Darya, the brutalised but courageous wife of an 19th C Afghan tribesman, and David Ingram, the enigmatic Englishman who saves her)

James D. Houston, Bird of Another Heaven, Knopf (about a California woman, half Indian, half Hawaiian, who became a consort and confidante of the last king of Hawaii)

Pam Jenoff, The Kommandant's Girl, MIRA (life of a young Polish wife during the WWII resistance)

Walter Keady, The Dowry, Thomas Dunne (postwar drama in rural Ireland,
circa 1946)

Giulio Leoni, The Mosaic Crimes, Harcourt (a Dante Alighieri mystery)

Ki Longfellow, The Secret Magdalene, Crown (novel written as the gospel of Mary Magdalene)

Naguib Manfouz, Three Novels of Ancient Egypt, Knopf (omnibus of Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopsis of Nubia, Thebes at War)

Sandor Marai, The Rebels, Knopf (troubled group of young men on the cusp of life and death in WWI)

Donald McCaig, Canaan: A Novel of Post-Civil War America, Norton (epic novel of the post-Civil War period, spanning 20 years, through the eyes of a Santee woman who marries an ex-slave)

Harold Burton Meyers, The Death at Awahi, Texas Tech University Press (in
the fictional Awahi Pueblo in 1923, a white man is found dead in a ritual
murder)

Giles Milton, Edward Trencom's Nose, Thomas Dunne

Anchee Min, The Last Empress, Houghton Mifflin (sequel to Empress Orchid, about the woman who presided over the last decades of the Ch'ing Dynasty)

R.N. Morris, The Gentle Axe, The Penguin Press (Porfiry Petrovich, the
detective from Crime and Punishment, as protagonist and sleuth in 1860s
Russia)

Robert Olmstead, Coal Black Horse, Algonquin (coming-of-age tale set during the Civil War; a boy searches for his lost father on the Gettysburg battlefield)

Anne Perry, At Some Disputed Barricade, Ballantine (book 4 in WWI mystery
series)

Christi Phillips, The Rossetti Letter, Pocket (traces the adventures of a 17th C Venetian courtesan and the contemporary historian researching her fate)

Anthony Romano, When the World Was Young, HarperCollins (Italian-American family in 1950s Chicago)

Joel Rose, Blackest Bird: A Novel of Murder in Nineteenth Century New
York, Norton (High Constable Jacob Hays is charged with solving a collection of murders in 1841 New York City)

C.J. Sansom, Sovereign, Viking (latest Matthew Shardlake mystery set in Tudor England)

Steven Saylor, Roma, St. Martin's Press/Constable (UK) (multi-generational epic about the first 1000 years of Rome, from its Bronze Age origins as a trading post on the Tiber to its rise as a world capitol under Augustus)

Robert Anthony Siegel, All Will Be Revealed, MacAdam/Cage (in late 19th
century New York, a pornographer attends a séance conducted by a crooked
medium)

Julian Stockwin, Command, McBooks (Kydd sea adventure, book 7)

Joanne Sundell, A... My Name's Amelia, Five Star (romantic western with a deaf heroine, set in 1880 Colorado Springs)

Brenda Rickman Vantrease, The Mercy Seller, St. Martin's Press (religious intrigue in 15th century Europe)

Richard Wiley, Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show, Univ. of Texas (novel of globalization, Japanese etiquette, American ideals, and Machiavellian philosophy set in 1854 Japan, as Commodore Matthew Perry opens trade with Japan to America)

UK Titles

Lyn Andrews, Far From Home, Headline (teenager leaves her Irish village to seek her fortune in 1920s Liverpool)

Alessandro Baricco, An Iliad, Canongate (fiction retelling of the Siege of Troy)

Pamela Evans, When the Boys Come Home, Headline (a family struggles not to abandon hope during the London Blitz)

Philippe Grimbert, Secret, Portobello (a lonely boy in post-war Paris creates a dream world in order to connect to his half-brother who died in a concentration camp)

Simonetta Angela Hornby, The Marchesa, Viking (unprecedented woman's perspective on the incestuous hypocrisy of Sicilian aristocracy during a dramatic time in history)

Thomas Keneally, The Widow and Her Hero, Spectre (an Australian widow tries to unravel the tangled secrets and deceptions of her doomed husband who went down in covert operations in WWII)

Rachael King, The Sound of Butterflies (in 1903 Thomas Edgar sets out on an expedition to the Amazon in search of a mythical butterfly. When he returns he is changed beyond recognition)

Allan Mallinson, Man of War (another in the Captain Mathew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons series. It is 1827 and Hervey faces the greatest crisis of his career)

Santa Montefiore, Sea of Lost Love, Hodder & Stoughton (after a family tragedy, an aristocratic young woman’s quest to unravel family secrets takes her from 1950s Cornwall to Southern Italy)

Albert Sanchez Pinol, Cold Skin, Canongate (in the years following WWI, on the edge of the Antarctic Circle, a ship picks up a deranged castaway who had witnessed an unnameable horror)

Robert Ryan, Dying Day, Headline (a woman searches for her sister, a spy, who went missing in WWII France)

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April 2007

US Titles

Nick Drake, Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead, HarperCollins (first in trilogy of novels set in ancient Egypt; detective Rai Rahotep, hired by Akhenaten, must discover why Nefertiti has vanished)

Susanne Dunlap, Liszt's Kiss, Touchstone (about a young pianist caught in a triangle with Franz Liszt and Marie d'Agoult in Paris during the 1832 cholera epidemic)

Cathy Marie Hake, Bittersweet, Bethany House (humorous historical romance set in 19th century America)

Oakley Hall, Love and War in California, Thomas Dunne (love and war, as
the title suggests, in WWII-era California)

Reina James, This Time of Dying, St. Martin's Press (romance set in London during the closing weeks of WWI, as the flu pandemic sweeps the globe)

Phillip Jennings, Goodbye Mexico, Forge

Jane Kirkpatrick, A Tendering in the Storm, WaterBrook (book 2 in Change and Cherish Historical Series; novel of Emma Giesy, early Oregon pioneer)

Sheila Kohler, Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness, Other Press (biographical novel of Lucy Dillon, a French aristocrat who saved her family from the Terror)

Margit Liesche, Lipstick and Lies, Poisoned Pen Press (WWII-era thriller featuring a female spy sent to infiltrate a German spy ring in Detroit)

Rose MacMurray, Afternoons with Emily, Little Brown (a surprising friendship between a young woman and the poet Emily Dickinson)

Thomas Mallon, Fellow Travelers, Pantheon (about the competing claims of faith, love, and politics during the McCarthy era)

Henning Mankel, Depths, New Press (naval engineer is haunted by a woman he
meets off the coast of Sweden during WWII)

Edward Marston, Painted Lady, Allison & Busby (a socialite's husband is
murdered)

Judith Miller, In the Company of Secrets, Bethany House (inspirational historical fiction set in Pullman, Illinois, in the 19th century)

Bruce Olds, The Moments Lost, FSG (assigned to cover the bloody, Wobblie-led
1913 copper mine strike in northern Michigan, Franklyn is drawn into an
illicit, passionate affair with one of the strike's most militant leaders)

Arturo Perez-Reverte, The Sun Over Breda, Putnam (latest in Captain
Alatriste series of action-adventure novels)

Anne Perry, We Shall Not Sleep, Ballantine (book 5 in WWI mystery series)

Chuck Pfarrer, Killing Ché, Random House (1967: a disillusioned CIA assassin pursues Ché Guevara through the jungles of Bolivia)

Arthur Phillips, Angelica, Random House (Victorian thriller told from four perspectives)

Allison Pittman, Speak Through the Wind, Multnomah (an abandoned girl grows up in NYC, San Francisco, and Wyoming of the mid-19th century)

Jean Plaidy, The Queen's Secret, Three Rivers (novel of Katherine of Valois and Owen Tudor, reprint)

Charles F. Price, Nor the Battle to the Strong, Frederic C Beil ("novel of
the American Revolution in the South")

Amanda Quick, The River Knows, Putnam (deception and dark secrets in late Victorian London)

Alvin Rakoff, Baldwin Street, Bunim & Bannigan (boy's coming of age in the
Jewish community in Kensington Market in 1930s Toronto)

Victoria Redel, The Border of Truth, Counterpoint (a Jewish refugee, about
to be returned to Nazi-occupied Europe, writes to Eleanor Roosevelt to
intervene)

Cheryl Sawyer, The Winter Prince, Signet Eclipse (romantic epic about Rupert of the Rhine, nephew of Charles I, and Mary Villiers, Duchess of Richmond)

Kim Vogel Sawyer, Where Willows Grow, Bethany House (inspirational novel set in Kansas during the Depression)

Caroline Seebohm, The Innocents, Algonquin (fictionalizes the glitterati of WWI-era New York and France)

Mark Slouka, The Visible World, Houghton Mifflin (a man's quest to understand his mother's past during WWII; and, failing to do so, re-creates it)

Susan Vreeland, Luncheon of the Boating Party, Viking (the Impressionist movement in Paris, circa 1880, centered on Renoir)

Michael Wallner, April in Paris, Doubleday (the impossible love between a German soldier and a French Resistance fighter in occupied Paris)

Tim Willocks, The Religion, FSG (epic historical adventure set in 1565 during the siege of Malta)

UK Titles

Kader Abdolah, My Father’s Notebook (an Iranian man living in Europe struggles to decipher the cuneiform-code diary that his death-mute father wrote as a boy in Persia)

Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe, Canongate (originally published in 1945, this is the tale of soldiers on the bleak Tarter Steppe waiting for the enemy to advance)

Joseph Connolly, Jack the Lad and Bloody Mary (in 1939 Jack and Mary are in love and happy but, with the approaching war, Jack is inveigled into underworld activities and their lives are changed forever) 

Hilary Green, Now Is the Hour, Hodder & Stoughton (the adventures of four young women—a dancer, a singer, a magician, and a pianist—during WWII)

Cora Harrison, My Lady Judge, Macmillan (Historical mystery set in 16th century Ireland)

Peter Ho Davies, The Welsh Girl, Sceptre (intertwined stories of a German Jewish refugee, a German POW, and a teenage girl in 1940s Snowdonia)

Rosemary Rowe, A Coin for the Ferryman, Headline (murder mystery set in Roman Britain)

Joel Rose, The Blackest Bird, Canongate (a novel of murder, grave-robbing, and gangs in 1840’s New York, featuring the hopelessly romantic Edgar Allen Poe)

Wilbur Smith, The Quest (an epic adventure set in ancient Egypt)

Michael Wallner, April in Paris, John Murray (in his off-duty hours, a young German soldier passes as a French civilian in occupied Paris, then falls in love with a Resistance leader)

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May 2007

US Titles

Douglas Abrams, The Lost Diary of Don Juan, Atria (picaresque adventure set during Spain's Golden Age)

Rilla Askew, Harpsong, Univ. of Oklahoma (a love story, infused with the folk tradition, about Dust Bowl heroes who didn't leave for California)

Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue, Random House (strength of
family during WWII)

Wayne Caldwell, Cataloochee, Random House (novel of place and family, set in the mountains of western North Carolina from the Civil War until 1928)

Anthony Capella, The Wedding Officer, Bantam ("novel of culinary seduction" set in Naples in 1943)

Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, HarperCollins (what if Alaska became the homeland for Jews after WWII instead of Israel?  an homage to 1940s noir)

Clare Clark, The Nature of Monsters, Harcourt (in 18th century London, one woman's triumph over the dark forces of science)

Robert Conroy, 1945, Ballantine (alternate history in which Japan never surrenders during WWII, forcing America to carry out a perilous invasion)

Bob Cupp, The Edict: A Novel from the Beginnings of Golf, Knopf (in St. Andrews, Scotland, in 1457, Caeril Patersone competes for the title of champion golfer; sport, intrigue, politics, romance)

Lindsay Davis, Saturnalia, Minotaur (Marcus Didius Falco mystery, set during Saturnalia in Rome circa 76 AD)

Laura Dietz, In the Tenth House, Crown (in Victorian England, a medium with an exclusive clientele is pursued by an upper-class doctor determined to prove her a fraud)

David Downing, Zoo Station, Soho (in Nazi Germany, a British journalist is
caught between warring intelligence services)

Michael Curtis Ford, The Fall of Rome, St. Martin's Press (novel of the downfall of the world's greatest empire)

Margaret Forster, Lady's Maid, Ballantine (novel of Elizabeth Wilson, witness to the courtship between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning)

Mark Frost, The Second Objective, Hyperion (fictionalizes the true story
of a German operation during WWII)

Newt Gingrich and William Fortschen, Pearl Harbor, St. Martin's (alternate history, first in trilogy about WWII, focusing on the Japanese decision-making that forced them into conflict with America)

Kathleen Ann Goonan, In War Times, Forge (Sam Dance, a young enlisted man in 1941, comes across a device that may stop the war - but which has consequences he can't have imagined)

Alan Gordon, The Lark's Lament, Minotaur (Fools' Guild mystery set in 1204 AD)

Travis Holland, The Archivist's Story, Dial (an archivist laboring in the basement of Lubyanka Prison in 1939 Moscow decides to rescue one of Isaac Babel's long-lost short stories)

Conn Iggulden, Genghis: Birth of an Empire, Delacorte (a novel of Genghis Khan)

Maureen Jennings, A Journeyman to Grief, McClelland and Stewart (Detective
Murdoch investigates the abduction of a young woman in 1858 Toronto)

Paulette Jiles, Stormy Weather, Morrow (stirring work of fiction set against the dark days of the Great Depression)

Lesley Kagen, Whistling in the Dark, NAL (family life, coming of age, and murder during the summer of 1959)

Paola Kaufmann, The Sister, Overlook (a novel of Emily Dickinson)

Rosalind Laker, To Dance with Kings, Three Rivers (multi-generational novel about women at Versailles)

Mary Mackey, The Notorious Mrs. Winston, Berkley (romantic epic set during the Civil War, based on a true story)

Benjamin Markovits, Imposture, Norton (a bookish woman becomes involved
with John "Polly" Polidori, a physician obsessed with Byron)

Charles McCarry, Christopher's Ghosts, Overlook (espionage novel, beginning in Europe in the late thirties)

Mark Mills, The Savage Garden, Putnam (two murders 400 years apart, in the Tuscan hills, and the ties that bind them together)

Marlo Schalesky, Veil of Fire, Cook (novel of the worst firestorm in Minnesota history, in 1894, and its aftermath)

Manda Scott, Dreaming the Serpent-Spear, Delta (4th volume in Boudica
series)

Mitch Silver, In Secret Service, Touchstone (a young woman inherits Ian Fleming's account of his own spying during WWII and must finish it to find out why people are trying to kill her)

Wilbur Smith, The Quest, St. Martin's (historical adventure of ancient Egypt, continuing the story of Taita, master of magic and the supernatural)

Rebecca Stott, Ghostwalk, Spiegel & Grau (a contemporary Cambridge murder mystery becomes entangled with a real historical mystery involving Isaac Newton's alchemy)

Heather Terrell, The Chrysalis, Ballantine (international thriller tracing a mysterious Dutch masterpiece through the clutches of the Nazis and into the dark underbelly of today's art world)

D.J. Taylor, Kept: A Victorian Mystery, HarperCollins

Robert W. Walker, Shadows in the White City, HarperCollins (Inspector Alistair Ransom myster set in early 20th c Chicago)
 

UK Titles

Anita Amirrezvani, The Blood of Flowers, Headline (a young girl comes of age in 1620s Iran)

Peter Behrens, The Land of Dreams, Canongate (a young man leaves Ireland during the Great Famine and seeks his luck in Liverpool, Wales, Quebec, and Boston)

James Bradley, The Resurrectionist, Faber (a gothic thriller set in 19th century London)

Gyles Brandreth, The Oscar Wilde Murders, John Murray (Oscar Wilde elicits the help of a young Arthur Conan Doyle to crack a murder case in 1880s London)

Helen Bryan, War Brides, Michael Joseph (the lives of five very different women are about to collide in the sleepy little village of Crowmarsh Priors)

Ben Faccini, The Incomplete Husband, Portobello (in post-war Italy, a woman, widowed too young, watches the men in her life try and fail to bridge the gap where home and hope used to be)

Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women, Pan Macmillan (an American Western with an unusual twist)

Ariana Franklin, Mistress of the Art of Death, Bantam Press (murder, mystery and malice in medieval Cambridge)

Liu Hong, Wives of the East Wind, Headline (interwoven lives of two women, spanning four decades in 20^th century China)

Robert Lohr, The Secrets of the Chess Machine, Viking (historical adventure of a legendary invention, in 1770 Vienna, that astounded all who crossed its path)

Annie Murray, Where Earth Meets Sky, Macmillan (a sweeping love story following a journey from the Midlands to the Himalayas in early 20th century)

Linda Newbery, Set in Stone, Black Swan. (a chilling novel set in 19th century where love, ambition and desire exist side by side)

Victor Pemberton, A Long Way Home, Headline (a girl searches for her family in Blitz-ravaged London)

Anne Perry, We Shall Not Sleep, Headline (final novel in Perry’s epic WWI quintet)

Justine Picardie, Daphne (a tale of obsession and possession, stolen manuscripts and forged signatures)

Zina Rohan, The Officer’s Daughter, Portobello (epic tale of discovery, concerning a young woman’s journey for WWII Poland to Siberia and British Persia)

Mark Slouka, The Visible World, Portobello (clandestine love affair in Nazi-occupied Prague has far-reaching consequences which reverberate through the decades, across thousands of miles)

Kate Tremayne, The Loveday Revenge, Headline (eighth novel in the Loveday Family saga series)

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June 2007

US Titles

Megan Abbott, Queenpin, Simon & Schuster (feminine twist on a classic story of underworld seduction during the Golden Era of Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano)

Jonis Agee, The River Wife, Random House (Jacques Ducharme, a frontier river pirate, and the five women whose lives he touches)

Tamera Alexander, Remembered, Bethany House (historical romance and adventure, about a Frenchwoman searching for her father in the Colorado mining camps)

Anita Amirrezvani, The Blood of Flowers, Little Brown (about a young woman in 17th century Persia whose gift as a rug weaver transforms her life)

Jesse Browner, The Uncertain Hour, Bloomsbury USA (a haunting and intimate account of the Roman author Petronius’s last twelve hours)

Vincent Louis Carella, The Serpent Box, Perennial (coming-of-age novel set in post-WWII Appalachia)

Maxim Chattam, The Cairo Diary, Minotaur (historical thriller set in 1928 Cairo and 2005 Mont St. Michel)

M. Allen Cunningham, Lost Son, Unbridled (biographical novel of Rainer Maria Rilke, spanning western Europe from 1875 to 1927)

Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key, St. Martin's Press (an American journalist uncovers her French family's wartime secrets; interconnected novel set in modern-day Paris and occupied France)

Annie Dillard, The Maytrees, HarperCollins (portrait of a bohemian married
couple in Provencetown, Massachusetts, from WWII to the present)

Anthony Flacco, The Last Nightingale, Ballantine (a serial killer in 1906
San Francisco tracks an orphan who's the last surviving member of the
Nightingale clan)

Deeanne Gist, Courting Trouble, Bethany House (follows one woman's unusual search for a spouse at the outset of the Lone Star oil boom in 1890s Texas)

Ann Granger, The Companion, Minotaur (a young woman hired as a companion to a well-to-do London matron in 1864 must investigate the death of her predecessor)

W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV, The Double Agents, Putnam (a Men at War novel, WWII adventure)

George Hagen, Tom Bedlam, Random House (sweeping, funny, and moving novel set against the backdrop of Victorian England)

Kathryn Miller Haines, The War Against Miss Winter, HarperCollins (historical mystery featuring an actress in WWII-era NYC)

Pete Hamill, North River, Little Brown (love story set against the background of NYC's toughest streets, circa 1934)

Homer Hickam, The Far Reaches, St. Martin's Press (continues WWII adventure saga featuring Capt. Josh Thurlow in the South Pacific)

Penelope Lively, Consequences, Viking (sweeping saga of three generations of women of London, from WWII onward)

Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach, Talese (witty and tender portrait of a wedding night gone disastrously wrong, set on the outskirts of Oxford in 1962)

Peter Charles Melman, Landsman, Counterpoint (literary novel of the Civil War, a tale of redemption and romance seen through the lens of Elias Abrams, a Jewish confederate soldier from New Orleans)

Emily Mitchell, The Last Summer of the World, Norton (the life and art of
WWI-era art-photography pioneer Edward Steichen)

Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter, Ecco/HarperCollins (prejudice and emotional scars as an immigrant family from Nazi Germany settles in a small town in upstate New York)

Jane Orcutt, All the Tea in China, Revell (fast-paced novel of an Englishwoman on her own in the Far East in the early 1800s)

Delia Parr, Refining Emma, Bethany House (gentle historical fiction set in upstate NY in Victorian times)

Judith Pella, Bachelor's Puzzle, Bethany House (historical drama in which members of a ladies' sewing circle in Maintown, Oregon, eagerly await the arrival of the new circuit-riding preacher - who turns out to be an opportunist)

Chandra Prasad, On Borrowed Wings, Atria (transports readers to the male-dominated world of 1930s Yale, through the eyes of an unlikely female narrator)

Ferrol Sams, Down Town, Mercer University Press (introduces piano-playing,
poetry-loving Buster Holcombe, a lawyer in a Georgia town in the
post-Civil War period)

Victoria Thompson, Murder in Chinatown, Berkley Prime Crime (10th Gaslight Mystery set in turn-of-the-century NYC)

Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher, Simon & Schuster (life of legendary western photographer Edward S. Curtis is the basis for an exploration of history and family)

UK Titles

Margaret Caine, Roses for Rebecca, Hodder & Stoughton (an unwed mother’s struggle in post-war London)

George Hagen, Tom Bedlam, Sceptre (a young man leaves his 1860s London tenement for a new life in South Africa)

James Hogg, Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Canongate (reissue of a novel, originally published in 1824, of a straight-laced Calvinist boy, who, under the thrall of a mysterious stranger, commits a series of murders)

James Jackson, The Blood Rock, John Murray (Malta, 1565: the legendary Hospitaller Knights of St. John battle to defend Malta from the siege of the Ottoman Empire)

Michael Jecks, Dispensation of Death, Headline (new Knights Templar mystery set in 1325 England)

Penelope Lively, Consequences, Fig Tree (the lives of three generations of women during WWII)

Andrew Martin, Murder at Deviation Junction, Faber (a Jim Stringer murder mystery set in 1900s England)

Tamara McKinley, Lands Beyond the Sea, Hodder & Stoughton, (British convicts in Australia clash with Aborigines fighting for their sacred land)

Simon Scarrow, The Generals, Headline (the second of Scarrow’s epic quartet focusing on Wellington and Napoleon)

Tim Severin, Corsair, Macmillan (17th century swashbuckling pirate adventure)

Owen Sheers, Resistance, Faber (alternative history set in 1944 as the Germans invade England)

Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mercy, Canongate (gothic mystery involving a modern woman whom becomes embroiled in the tangled tale of an obscure 19^th century scientist)

Dee Williams, After the Dance, Headline (a young woman’s quest for romance in the world of the 1930s Swingtime dancehall)

Robyn Young, Crusade, Hodder & Stoughton, (second book in the Brethren trilogy, chronicling Will Campbell’s rise in the Knights Templar)

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July 2007

US Titles

Justin Allen, Slaves of the Shinar, Overlook (epic fantasy of the ancient world, about a young nomadic thief making his way to the fabled city of Ur)

Maggie Anton, Rashi's Daughters: Book 1, Joheved, Plume (first in trilogy about the three daughters of Talmud scholar Rashi in 11th century France)

Ursula Bacon, Eternal Strangers, M Press (fictionalized account of the author's parents, Jews who fled Nazi Germany and landed in Shanghai, China, the only port open to them)

Ellen Baker, Keeping the House, Random House (a newlywed housewife in the conformist 1950s falls in love with a great abandoned house in town and begins to unravel a family's dark secrets)

Stephen Baxter, Conqueror, Ace (book 2 in alternate history series, set three centuries after Rome fell)

David Blixt, The Master of Verona, St. Martin's Press (novel set in 1314 Italy and starring Pietro Alaghieri, son of the poet Dante; explains the origin of the famous Capulet-Montague feud from Romeo & Juliet)

Rhys Bowen, Her Royal Spyness, Berkley Prime Crime (1930s London mystery series, featuring a penniless twentysomething member of the extended royal family)

Justin Cartwright, The Song Before It Is Sung, Bloomsbury USA (a novel of mystery and passion spanning 1930s Oxford, pre-war Prussia and contemporary Britain)

Susan Carroll, The Huntress, Ballantine (Catriona O'Hanlon, a pagan Irishwoman accused of witchcraft, must foil a plot against Queen Elizabeth)

Eugene Drucker, The Savior, Simon & Schuster (about a German musician forced to play for concentration camp inmates during WWII)

Charles Finch, A Beautiful Blue Death, Minotaur (Victorian debut mystery featuring a gentleman detective and his friend, Lady Jane)

Debra Finerman, Mademoiselle Victorine, Three Rivers (Victorine Laurent, a dancer in the Paris Opera ballet, becomes the mistress and muse of Edouard Manet)

Margaret Forster, Keeping the World Away, Ballantine (historical novel about a deceptively simple painting and its effect on several women's lives)

Kathleen Givens, Rivals for the Crown, Pocket (romantic historical novel set during the war for Scottish independence in the 14th century)

Jason Goodwin, The Snake Stone, FSG (historical mystery featuring Yashim, the eunuch investigator, set in 19th C Istanbul; sequel to The Janissary Tree)

Michael Landon Jr., and Tracie Peterson, One More Sunrise, Bethany House (inspirational fiction about a crop-duster whose life turns around after he survives a flying accident)

Robert Lohr, The Chess Machine, Penguin Press (historical adventure of a legendary invention, in 1770 Vienna, that astounded all who crossed its path)

William Martin, The Lost Constitution, Forge (historical epic following a
lost draft of the Constitution, ending at Boston's Fenway Park)

George Robert Minkoff, The Maps of the Storms, McPherson & Co (continuing
the fictionalized diaries of Captain John Smith, part 2 of the In the Land
of Whispers trilogy)

Michelle Moran, Nefertiti: A Novel, Crown (biographical novel about this Egyptian queen)

Howard Frank Mosher, On Kingdom Mountain, Houghton Mifflin (life and times of a woman determined to preserve a unique and endangered place, set in 1930 Vermont, on the Canadian border)

Stef Penney, The Tenderness of Wolves, Simon & Schuster (19th century story of a mother's desperate attempt to track down her son, even at risk of her own life)

Tracie Peterson, A Lady of High Regard, Bethany House (a socialite who works for Godey's Lady's Book insists on researching downtrodden seamen's wives on the Philadelphia docks)

Michael Phillips, Miss Katie's Rosewood, Bethany House (conclusion to the Carolina Cousins series; action, romance, and racial tension in post-Civil War America)

Barbara Quick, Vivaldi's Virgins, HarperCollins (Anna Maria del Violin, an orphan named after the instrument she plays, embarks on a journey of personal and artistic awakening in Vivaldi's Venice)

Joel N. Ross, White Flag Down, Doubleday (WWII-era thriller set in September 1942)

Susan Holloway Scott, Royal Harlot, NAL (novel of Barbara Villiers Palmer, Countess of Castlemaine, mistress of Charles II)

Lauraine Snelling, Sophie's Dilemma, Bethany House (Sophie Knutson discovers that life as a fisherman's bride in early 20th c Seattle is not all she had envisioned)

Olen Steinhauer, Victory Square, Minotaur (part of his Eastern European series, as Emil Brod, chief of the People's Militia, reopens the case that started his career in the 1940s)

Shirley Tallman, The Cliff House Strangler, Minotaur (historical mystery set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco featuring lawyer Sarah Woolson)

Daniel Wallace, Mr. Sebastian the Negro Magician, Doubleday (in 1950, magician Henry Walker learns the dark arts from the devil himself)

Will Thomas, The Hellfire Conspiracy, Touchstone (When an upper-class girl goes missing in the East End, enquiry agent Cyrus Baker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, link her disappearance to the murders of five girls in Bethnal Green)

UK Titles

Alys Clare, Heart of Ice, Hodder & Stoughton (12^th century Abbess Helewise investigates murder against the backdrop of the Black Death.)

Joy Chambers, For Freedom, Headline (Epic love story set against the backdrop of South East Asia during WWII.)

Kate Grenville, Lilian’s Story, Canongate (Lilian, born in Australia at the beginning of the 20^th century, seeks to invent her own story rather than allow it to be invented for her.)

Emily Hendrickson, Queen of the May, Robert Hale (Young Lady Samantha prefers horses to wedlock . . . until she meets Lord Charles.) 

Anna Jacobs, Heart of the Town, Hodder & Stoughton (New Lancashire saga about a young woman’s dream to leave her hometown for a career on the stage.) 

Fenella-Jane Miller, Lord Thurston’s Challenge, Robert Hale (Orphaned Charlotte is only allowed to remain at Thurston Manor if she is able to improve the dilapidated house and poor estate, which are in ruins.)

Bengt Ohlsson, Gregorius, Portobello (Complicated love triangle culminates in murder.

Louise Pakeman, Love’s Heritage, Robert Hale (Young Maggie Townsend travels to England to meet her distant relatives and discovers they are stranger than she had imagined.

Joan Smith, Delsie, Robert Hale (Regency romance: young woman is flung into marriage, only to become a widow and stepmother of a young daughter.)

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August 2007

US Titles

Maggie Anton, Rashi's Daughters: Book 2, Miriam, Plume (second in trilogy about the three daughters of Talmud scholar Rashi in 11th century France)

Amy Bloom, Away, Random House (story of Lillian Leyb, a Russian immigrant who comes to America alone in the 1920s)

Kate Furnivall, The Russian Concubine, Berkley (star-crossed love story set in war-torn 1928 China)

Diana Gabaldon, Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade, Delacorte (Lord John Grey pursues a deadly family secret and a clandestine love affair; set against the background of the Seven Years War)

Collette Gale, Unmasqued, Signet (an erotic novel of the Phantom of the Opera)

Sophie Gee, The Scandal of the Season, Scribner (reconstructs the real-life scandal that inspired Alexander Pope's famous poem "The Rape of the Lock")

Bea Gonzalez, The Mapmaker's Opera, Thomas Dunne (lush love story set in the Yucatan at the time of the Mexican Revolution, and featuring famed American naturalist Edward Nelson)

Tricia Goyer, A Shadow of Treason, Moody (book 2 of inspirational series set during the Spanish Civil War)

Sarah Grazebrook, Crooked Pieces, Allison & Busby (novel about the
Pankhursts and other suffragettes)

Lian Hearn, Heaven's Net is Wide, Riverhead (story of Lord Otori Shigeru, in this beginning to the Otori series, an epic tale of heartbreak set in feudal Japan)

Nancy Horan, Loving Frank, Ballantine (debut novel about the relationship between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney)

Raymond Khoury, The Sanctuary, Dutton (historical thriller set in 1750 Naples and 2003 Baghdad)

Mary Lawson, The Other Side of the Bridge, Dial (two brothers, sons of a farmer in the mid-1930s, and the beautiful young woman that frays their relationship further)

Bonnie Leon, To Love Anew, Revell (a young woman must make a new start in 19th century New South Wales)

Richard Lourie, A Hatred for Tulips, Thomas Dunne (fictionalized account of the man who betrayed Anne Frank)

Robert Low, The Whale Road, Thomas Dunne (historical adventure set in 10th C Europe, about a pack of Viking raiders whose fate takes them from the fjords of Norway to the Russian steppes in search of the lost treasure of Attila)

Deirdre McNamer, Red Rover, Viking (three Montana men who get swept up in the machinations of WWII and its fateful aftermath)

Diana L. Paxson, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ravens of Avalon, Viking (prequel to The Forest House, tells the story of the Roman conquest of Britain)

Rosemary Poole-Carter, Women of Magdalene, Kunati (misogyny, racism, and murder at the Magdalene Ladies' Lunatic Asylum, in the South after the Civil War)

John Cowper Powys, Porius, Overlook (a grand romance of the Dark Ages)

Lisa See, Peony in Love, Random House (three women in 17th century China who become emotionally involved with a famous opera known to cause lovesickness and even death)

Anya Seton, My Theodosia, Chicago Review Press (reissue of historical novel about Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of Aaron Burr)

Wesley Stace, By George, Little Brown (secrets and lies of four generations of a family of entertainers, told by two boys named George Fisher - one human, one a ventriloquist's dummy)

M.G. Vassanji, The Assassin's Song, Knopf (a would-be lordship of a Sufi shrine in 1960s India abandons his successorship to the throne for an "ordinary" life)

Robyn Young, Crusade, Dutton (ruthless western merchants try to reignite war in the Holy Land, circa 1274 AD; sequel to Brethren)

UK Titles

Bruno Arpaia, The Angel of History, Canongate (Two-fold narrative based on Walter Benjamin’s flight across Europe in 1940.)

Paul Doherty, Poison Maiden, Headline (Second in Doherty’s Mathilde of Westminster mysteries, set in the court of Edward II.)

Paul Doherty, The Templar, Headline (Epic novel depicting the founding of the Templar Order in 1095.)

Margaret Elphinstone, Light, Canongate (1831: a family’s existence at their lighthouse off the Isle of Man is threatened when an engineer comes to modernise the nation’s lighthouses.)

Emily Johnson, The Scoundrel’s Bride, Robert Hale (Lady Chloe must choose between an aging lord and a wicked rake.)

Jude Morgan, An Accomplished Woman, Headline (Thirty-year-old, Regency-era Lydia decides to enjoy her spinsterhood.)

Joan M. Moules, The Straw Hatter, Robert Hale (Eighteen-year-old Betsy is sold to a farmer and she is left to unravel the mystery of her father’s death.)

Margaret Muir, The Black Thread, Robert Hale (Amy discovers that the father who left home before she was born is not a rich adventurer but a recently released killer.)

Anne Whitfield, A Noble Place, Robert Hale (Family seeks to leave their tainted past behind when they emigrate to Australia in 1850.)

Adam Williams, The Dragon’s Tail, Hodder & Stoughton (Two lovers are torn apart by politics and history in China, on the eve of the Cultural Revolution.)

Sandra Wilson, Fashion’s Lady, Robert Hale (Impoverished Susannah Garland seeks to make her fortune as a London dressmaker.)

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September 2007

US Titles

Susan Wittig Albert, The Tale of Hawthorn House, Berkley Prime Crime (part of the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter series, set in early 20th century England)

Derek Armstrong, The Last Troubadour: Song of Montsegur, Kunati (historical thriller set against the backdrop of the 13th century Inquisition)

Lynn Austin, A Proper Pursuit, Bethany House (Violet Hayes ventures to Chicago during the time of the World's Fair to find her mother, and learns about high society, immigrant families, and the suffragette movement)

Lisa T. Bergren, The Betrayed, Berkley Praise (religious thriller set at the height of the Inquisition, sequel to The Begotten)

Andre Brink, A Chain of Voices, Sourcebooks (about the oppression of
slavery, spanning three generations)

Laurie Brown, Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake, Sourcebooks (modern woman cast back in time to Regency England; romance)

Anna Davis, The Shoe Queen, Pocket (sexy and romantic story of one woman's obsession, set in 1920s Paris)

Jane Dawkins, More Letters from Pemberley, Sourcebooks (further continuation of Pride and Prejudice, set 1814-19)

Dave DeWitt, Avenging Victorio: A Novel of the Apache Insurgency in New Mexico, 1881, Rio Grande Books (a rag-tag group of Apache warriors, led by an elderly man in his late seventies, takes on the U.S. Army’s Ninth Cavalry in revenge for the death of the great Apache war chief Victorio)

Gioia Diliberto, The Collection, Scribner (a woman discovers the glamour and ruthlessness of haute couture; set in 1919 Paris)

Michael Dobbs, Never Surrender, Sourcebooks (a novel of Winston Churchill)

James Duffy, The Fight for Rome, McBooks (action-adventure novel about the gladiators of ancient Rome)

Carola Dunn, The Bloody Tower, Minotaur (Daisy Dalrymple mystery, set at the Tower of London in 1926)

Carolly Erickson, The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon's Bird of Paradise, St. Martin's (novel of Josephine Bonaparte)

Tess Gerritsen, The Bone Garden, Ballantine (historical thriller shifting between the 1830s and present-day Boston, in which Boston medical examiner Maura Isles discovers the remains of a woman murdered almost two centuries earlier)

Tracy Grant, Secrets of a Lady, Avon A (romance and international intrigue during the Regency period; formerly titled Daughter of the Game)

Kerry Greenwood, Raisins and Almonds, Poisoned Pen (Phryne Fisher mystery in which she investigates the strange death of a devout young Jewish student in a bookshop)

Cathy Marie Hake, Fancy Pants, Bethany House (Britisher Sydney Hathwell, stranded in America and penniless when her fiance reneges, joins a relative in Texas on his ranch; he doesn't realize she's a woman and not a boy)

Cora Harrison, My Lady Judge, Minotaur (Mara, a female Brehon, investigates crimes in 16th c Ireland)

Georgette Heyer, An Infamous Army, Sourcebooks (Regency romance set around the Battle of Waterloo)

Peg Kingman, Not Yet Drown'd, Norton (Catherine Macdonald, a widow in 1822 Edinburgh, receives a package from her brother in India, who reportedly drowned the previous year - and travels there to solve the mystery)

David Leavitt, The Indian Clerk, Bloomsbury USA (based on the remarkable true story of the strange and ultimately tragic relationship between an esteemed British mathematician and an unknown, unschooled mathematical genius from India)

Erika Mailman, The Witch's Trinity, Crown (Amidst terrible famine in medieval Germany, a woman who has strange visions is accused of witchcraft by her daughter-in-law. Is she guilty or is her mind simply failing her?)

Alice McDermott, After This, Dial (portrait of an American family, caught in the tumultuous and impassioned mid-decades of the 20th century)

Judith Miller, Whispers Along the Rails, Bethany House (book 2 of Postcards from Pullman, trilogy about life in the historic company town of Pullman, Illinois)

Kathleen Morgan, A Fire Within, Revell (in 16th c Scotland, Caitlin Campbell falls in love with a rival clan member)

Nancy Moser, Just Jane, Bethany House (fictionalized account of Jane Austen's life)

I.J. Parker, Island of Exiles, Penguin (mystery of 11th century Japan)

Elliot Pattison, Bone Rattler, Carroll & Graf (mystery set during the French and Indian War)

David Peace, Tokyo Year Zero, Knopf (revisits a series of shocking crimes committed in post-WWII, bombed-out, American-occupied Tokyo)

Andromeda Romano-Lax, The Spanish Bow, Harcourt (in a dusty, turn-of-the-century Catalan village, the bequest of a cello bow sets young Feliu Delargo on the unlikely path of becoming a musician)

S. Thomas Russell, Under Enemy Colors, Putnam (novel of maritime mutiny set against the backdrop of the French Revolution)

Laura Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, Dutton (a California woman wakes up in the body of a woman in Regency England)

Frank Schatzing, Death and the Devil, Morrow (fast-paced thriller set in medieval Germany)

John Speed, Tiger Claws, St. Martin's Press (a novel of 17th century India, sequel to The Temple Dancer)

Kathy Steffen, First, There is a River, Medallion (romance set aboard a riverboat in the early 20th century)

Pamela Thompson, Every Past Thing, Unbridled (about Mary Jane Elmer, wife of 19th century painter Edwin Romanzo Elmer, as she searches for her previous lover in NYC in Nov 1899)

Gail Tsukiyama, Street of a Thousand Blossoms, St. Martin's (generational saga covering the years of the war and after, on the home front of Japan)

Nancy E. Turner, The Star Garden: A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine, St. Martin's Press (continuation of the diaries of an extraordinary pioneer woman, set in 1906)

Spring Warren, Turpentine, Black Cat (picaresque novel set in the American West)

Edmund White, Hotel de Dream, Ecco (reinvents the final days of literary giant Stephen Crane, in the seedy underbelly of turn-of-the-century NYC)

Michael C. White, Soul Catcher, Morrow (epic tale about a tracker and the runaway woman slave he pursues through a country on the verge of Civil War)

Barbara Wood, Daughter of the Sun, Griffin (about a woman of the ancient Aztecs)

UK Titles

Jose Eduardo Agualusa, Creole, Arcadia (Fradique Mendes, Portuguese aristocrat and adventurer, will bear witness to the end of the Portuguese slave trade and the Empire’s painful attempts to reinvent itself for the modern age.)

John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga, Headline (Re-issue of the classic family drama, beginning in 1880s London.)

Peter Tremayne, Dancing with Demons, Headline (Sister Fidelma’s investigations threaten to unbalance the five kingdoms of Ireland.)

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October 2007

US Titles

Jennifer Ashley, The Queen's Handmaiden, Berkley (Elizabeth Tudor as seen through the eyes of her governess's niece)

Hilary Bailey, Frankenstein's Bride, Sourcebooks (chilling sequel to
Frankenstein, about a female companion to the monster)

Sam Barone, Empire Rising, Morrow (epic novel set in ancient Mesopotamia)

Emily Brightwell, Mrs Jeffries and the Feast of St. Stephen, Berkley Prime Crime (Victorian mystery about Mrs Jeffries, housekeeper to the bumbling Inspector Witherspoon)

J.P.S. Brown, The World in Pancho's Eye, Univ of New Mexico (family saga set in 1930s New Mexico, based on the author's own experiences growing up and ranching in Depression-era Mexico and Arizona)

Donis Casey, The Drop Edge of Yonder, Poisoned Pen (who killed Uncle Bill McBride?  Alafair Tucker mystery set in 1914 Oklahoma)

Margaret Cezair-Thompson, The Pirate's Daughter, Unbridled (the glamorous world of 1940s Hollywood converges with West Indian society)

Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Ballantine (rollicking saga set a thousand years ago along the ancient Silk Road, about two wandering adventureres entangled in the politics of the Khazars)

Rita Charbonnier, Mozart's Sister, Crown (novel about Maria Anna Mozart, the older sister of Wolfgang, and a musical genius in her own right)

Barbara Cleverly, The Tomb of Zeus, Delta (beginning of new historical mystery series featuring headstrong archaeologist Laetitia Talbot, who arrives at a dig on the isle of Crete in 1928)

Claudia Dain, The Courtesan's Daughter, Berkley (romance, the match-making schemes of an infamous courtesan)

Ken Follett, World Without End, Dutton (sequel to The Pillars of the Earth, an epic of medieval cathedral building, set two centuries later)

Stephen Gallagher, The Kingdom of Bones, Crown (in Victorian London, a man accused of a series of gruesome murders struggles to clear his name and save his soul)

Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Calligraphy of the Witch, St. Martin's Press (about a Latina swept into the Salem witch trials by a devastating act of betrayal)

Pauline Gedge, The Eagle and the Raven, Chicago Review Press (reissue of Boudica novel, with new foreword by Donna Gillespie)

Amanda Grange, Mr Knightley's Diary, Berkley (Jane Austen's Emma from Mr Knightley's point of view)

William C. Hammond III, A Matter of Honor, Cumberland House (first volume in series of maritime novels set in the early United States)

Georgette Heyer, Cotillion, Sourcebooks (Regency romance about a sham
betrothal)

C C Humphreys, The Blooding of Jack Absolute, St. Martin's (swashbuckling historical adventure set in the wilds of the New World in the 18th century)

Douglas Jacobson, Night of Flames, McBooks (tale of love and determination about the lives of a married Polish couple when the Germans invade their country)

Rachael King, The Sound of Butterflies, Morrow (beauty, nature, obsession, and greed set in turn-of-the-century England and Brazil)

Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, The Jesus Chronicles: Mark's Story, Putnam (2nd in series about the life of Jesus, as seen from four writers of the Gospel)

Jane Lockwood, Forbidden Shores, Signet Eclipse (historical erotic romance set in 19th century Barbados)

Robert McCammon, The Queen of Bedlam, Pocket (Matthew Corbett mystery, set in 1702 Manhattan, in which he investigates the city's first serial killer)

Amy Myers, Tom Wasp and the Murdered Stunner, Five Star (When, in 1862, London chimney sweep Tom Wasp finds the dead body of his friend Bessie Barton, a beautiful red-headed artists' model, he vows to find her killer)

Joseph O'Connor, Redemption Falls, Free Press (Irish experience during the Civil War)

Maggie O'Farrell, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Harcourt (novel of family secrets, lost lives, and freedom bought by truth, set in the mid-20th century and now)

Anne Perry, A Christmas Beginning, Ballantine (new holiday mystery featuring Superintendent Runcorn, William Monk's ex-boss)

Caryl Phillips, Foreigners, Knopf (tells the stories of three black men whose lives speak to the role of the foreigner in English society: Francis Barber, Randolph Turpin, and David Oluwale)

Jean Plaidy, Loyal in Love, Three Rivers (fictionalized account of the life of Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I, reissue of Myself My Enemy)

Jose Rodriguez dos Santos, Codex 632: A Novel about the Secret Identity of Christopher Columbus, Morrow (quest to discover the true identity of Christopher Columbus)

Meir Shalev, A Pigeon and a Boy, Schocken (two stories of love separated by nearly half a century but connected by one magical act of devotion; set in contemporary Israel and during the 1948 War of Independence)

Edwin Shrake, Custer's Brother's Horse, Hardy (fast-paced western set in 1865 Texas)

Belinda Starling, The Journal of Dora Damage, Bloomsbury USA (to save her family, a bookbinder's wife must take over the family business; set in Victorian London)

Julian Stockwin, The Captain's Daughter, McBooks (a Kydd sea adventure)

Jo Walton, Ha'penny, Forge (thriller of resistance set in an England darkened by Fascism; sequel to Farthing)

Michele Ann Young, No Regrets, Sourcebooks (Regency romance featuring a
voluptuous heroine)

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November 2007

US Titles

Ronan Bennett, Zugzwang, Bloomsbury USA (thriller set in St. Petersburg, 1914, amid an international chess tournament)

Marie Bostwick, On Wings of the Morning, Kensington (sequel to Fields of Gold, in which the illegitimate son of Charles Lindbergh unwittingly follows his father's footsteps to a career in aviation in 1940s Oklahoma)

Barbara Taylor Bradford, The Heir, St. Martin's (family saga about the Deravenels; retells the Wars of the Roses story in Edwardian England, 2nd in series)

Clive Cussler, The Chase, Putnam (historical thriller set in 1906 and 1950, as a steam locomotive containing the bodies of three men from 44 years earlier is raised from the deep waters of a Montana lake)

Frank Delaney, Tipperary, Random House (tale of the love between a roving folk healer and an amateur historian, set againt he struggle of the Irish to repossess the land taken from them by England's colonization, spanning 1860 to 1922)

Diana Gabaldon, Lord John and the Hand of Devils, Delacorte (three of Lord John Grey's shorter adventures, set in 18th century Britain)

Dorothy Garlock, A Week from Sunday, Grand Central (new romance set in 1930s America)

Molly Gloss, The Hearts of Horses, Houghton Mifflin (Martha Lessen, a female horse-whisperer, tries to make a go of it in a man's world, circa 1917)

Amanda Grange, Lord Deverill's Secret, Berkley (romance and intrigue in Regency England)

John MacLachlan Gray, Not Quite Dead, Minotaur (literary thriller in which Dickens and Poe meet in 19th century America)
 
C.S. Harris, Why Mermaids Sing, NAL (Sebastian St Cyr mystery set in 1811 London; sons of prominent families have been found murdered in public places)

Elmer Kelton, Sons of Texas, Forge (saga of Texas in the 1830s, last in trilogy)

Kate Kingsbury, Shrouds of Holly, Berkley Prime Crime (Pennyfoot Hotel mystery set in pre-WWI rural England)

Al and Joanna Lacy, A Line in the Sand, Multnomah (family saga set in Texas in 1835, as Santa Anna is preparing to attack)

Rosalind Laker, The Golden Tulip, Three Rivers (story of Francesca Visser, painter apprenticed to Vermeer but betrothed against her will to a wealthy merchant; reissue)

Robin Maxwell, Mademoiselle Boleyn, NAL (about Anne Boleyn's early years, spent at the French court)

Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People, St. Martin's (2nd authorized sequel to Gone With the Wind)

Karen Mercury, Strangely Wonderful, Medallion (romance and adventure in 1828 Madagascar)

Jude Morgan, Symphony, St. Martin's (literary novel of Harriet Smithson and Hector Berlioz; love and obsession)

Yannick Murphy, Signed, Mata Hari, Little Brown (as she awaits trial for espionage, Margaretha Zelle, aka Mata Hari, tells stories to buy back her life from her interrogators)

Michael Pritchett, The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis, Unbridled (high-school history teacher writes a book about his famous namesake, Meriwether Lewis, that tells the rest of the story about why Meriwether ended his life)

Laura Joh Rowland, The Snow Empress, Minotaur (historical mystery of late 17th c Japan; Sano Ichiro's son is kidnapped)

Alan Spence, The Pure Land, Canongate (epic historical novel based on the life of the man who inspired Madam Butterfly)

James Tipton, Annette Vallon: A Novel of the French Revolution, HarperCollins (novel about Annette Vallon, William Wordsworth's French mistress)

Peter Tremayne, A Prayer for the Damned, Minotaur (Sister Fidelma mystery)

Angel Wagensein, Farewell, Shanghai, Other Press (two Jewish musicians flee Nazi Germany for Shanghai at the onset of WWII)