Forthcoming Historical Fiction for 2010

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

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January 2010

Kader Abdolah, The House of the Mosque, Canongate (the fall of the Shah and the Iranian Revolution through the eyes of one family)

Omair Ahmad, The Storyteller’s Tale, Viking (a tale-telling duel set in Delhi at the twilight of the Mughal empire)

Benita Brown, Starlight and Dreams, Headline (period story of girl longing for film stardom)

Monica Burns, Kismet, Berkley Sensation (historical romance set in 19th-century Morocco)

Christian Cameron, Tyrant: Funeral Games, Orion (latest in Alexander the Great series)

Tracy Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures, Dutton (novel of 19th c fossil hunter Mary Anning)

Maryse Condé, Victoire, My Mother’s Mother, Atria International (biographical novel about the author’s mestizo grandmother, who worked for a family of white Creoles in the French Antilles)

Bernard Cornwell, The Burning Land, Harper (rousing saga of Anglo-Saxon England)

David Dickinson, Death of a Wine Merchant, Constable & Robinson (latest in Lord Francis Powerscourt Edwardian crime series)

Sam Eastland, The Eye of the Red Tsar, Faber (thriller set during Stalin’s Great Terror)

Kate Emerson, Secrets of the Tudor Court: Between Two Queens, Pocket (Anne Bassett and her life as lady in waiting to two of Henry VIII’s queens)

June Francis, Sunshine and Showers, Allison & Busby (romantic saga set in 1920s)

Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone, Orion (latest in Outlander series, c18th)

Chris Greenhalgh, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, Riverhead (romantic tale of Coco Chanel's illicit affair with Igor Stravinsky, set in 1913 France)

Karen Harper, The Queen's Governess, Putnam (told in the voice of Queen Elizabeth I's governess, Katherine Ashley)

Panis Karnezis, The Spirit World, Jonathan Cape (serenity of a 16^th-c Spanish convent is shattered by the arrival of a mysterious box)

Eugenia Kim, The Calligrapher’s Daughter, Bloomsbury (young woman fighting for future in Japanese-occupied Korea, early c20)

Johanna Moran, The Wives of Henry Oades, HarperPress (1900s, man marries in San Francisco not knowing that his first wife, kidnapped by Maoris, has escaped and is trying to find him)

Richard Rayner, A Bright and Guilty Place, Constable & Robinson (crime noir set in 1920s Los Angeles)

Laura Joh Rowland, The Cloud Pavilion, Constable & Robinson (latest in crime series set in 17^th-c Japan)

M C Scott, Rome: The Emperor’s Spy, Bantam (thriller set in Nero’s Rome, with a spy pursuing St Paul as the prime suspect for the Fire of Rome)

Rebecca Stott, The Coral Thief, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (scientists and thieves in 19^th-c Paris)

Diane A.S. Stuckart, A Bolt from the Blue, Berkley Prime Crime (a Leonardo da Vinci mystery; the iron-fisted Duke of Milan calls upon Master da Vinci to invent the deadliest weapon ever—a flying machine.)

Frank Tallis, Deadly Communion, Century (detective story set in Imperial Vienna)

Jackson Taylor, The Blue Orchard, Touchstone (based on the life of the author’s grandmother, a child of Irish immigrants arrested for assisting a black doctor in “illegal surgeries” in 1955)

Charles Todd, The Red Door, Morrow (mystery of post-WWI England)

Kaki Warner, Pieces of Sky, Berkley Sensation (a romance of the Old West)

John Wilcox, The Shangani Patrol, Headline (latest in Simon Fonthill series: 1893 S Africa, conflict between Rhodes and the Matabeles)

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February 2010

Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin, Bloomsbury (generational story of Palestinian family forced from their home into a refugee camp in 1948)

Nathacha Appanah, The Last Brother, Quercus (boy in Madagascar in WWII befriends a European Jew in a prison camp and helps him escape)

Sam Barone, Conflict of Empires, Century (beginnings of Sumerian empire)

Sarah Blake, The Postmistress, Putnam (sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women—and of two countries torn apart by war)

Jane Borodale, The Book of Fires, Pamela Dorman/Viking (fireworks, fortune,and a young woman’s redemption, set in 1752 London)

Katharine Beutner, Alcestis, Soho (a re-imagining of Mycenaean Greece, a world peopled by capricious gods)

Cathy Marie Buchanan, The Day The Falls Stood Still, Hutchinson (love story of society girl and riverman set against the harnessing of the power of Niagara Falls in 1915)

Peter Carey, Parrot & Olivier in America, Faber (improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, 18^th-c)

Amelia Carr, A Song at Sunset, Headline Review (woman investigates WWII rift between her mother and grandmother)

Clare Clark, Savage Lands, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (in 1704, a Frenchwoman travels to colonial Louisiana to marry one of the struggling settlers)

David Donachie, The Admirals’ Game, Allison & Busby (Late 18^th-c naval adventure set against the Siege of Toulon)

Patricia Falvey, The Yellow House, Center Street (delves into the passion and politics of Northern Ireland at the beginning of the 20^th century)

Ben Farmer, Evangeline, Overlook (novel inspired by Longfellow’s eponymously titled epic poem)

Margaret Forster, Isa and May, Harvill Secker (writing a thesis on grandmothers in history, Isamay uncovers family secrets involving her own grandmothers)

Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear, Coming of the Storm, Pocket (first book in new series about Native American and European first contact)

Kathleen Grissom, The Kitchen House, Touchstone (novel in which a white indentured servant girl lives and works with black slaves)

Pedro Juan Gutierrez, Our GG in Havana, Faber (a man who may or may not be Graham Green arrives in Havana in 1955)

Dana Hand, Deep Creek, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (historical thriller inspired by the 1887 massacre of Chinese miners in Hells Canyon, the middle-aged judge who went after their slayers, and the sham race-murder trial that followed)

Robert Harris, Conspirata, Simon & Schuster US (part 2 of Roman trilogy, about Cicero, in which the future of democracy is decided, and revenge is the coin of the realm; titled Lustrum in the UK)

Alon Hilu, The House of Dajani, Harvill Secker (love, honour and betrayal in 19^th-c Palestine)

Ellen Horan, 31 Bond Street, Harper (fictionalized account of the greatest tabloid scandal in 19th-century American history)

M K Hume, King Arthur: The Bloody Cup, Headline Review (last in new Arthurian trilogy)

Angela Huth, Once a Land Girl, Constable Robinson (sequel to Land Girls, set in the Women’s Land Army during WWII)

Susanna Kearsley, Season of Storms, Allison & Busby (grandson of 1920s Italian playwright finds the past intrudes when he stages his grandfather’s masterpiece)

Mark Keating, The Pirate Devlin, Hodder & Stoughton (adventure in the golden age of piracy)

Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Matthew's Story, Putnam (novel about the most unlikely of apostles, third book in Jesus Chronicles)

Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Headline Review (Jamaica during the last years of slavery)

Katharine McMahon, The Crimson Rooms, Putnam (a dramatic mystery about love, secrets, and discovery in post–World War I London)

Robin Maxwell, O, Juliet, NAL (new take on the mesmerizing young woman and poetess who inspired Shakespeare’s most famous female character)

Maria McCann, The Wilding, Faber (family secrets and passions in the years after the English Civil War)

Donna Milner, The Promise of Rain, Quercus (Canadian girl helps her father come to terms with WWII experiences in the Far East involving a terrible secret)

Andrew Pepper, The Detective Branch, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Inspector Pyke joins the newly-formed detective section of the Metropolitan Police in c19th London)

Brandy Purdy, The Boleyn Wife, Kensington (Lady Jane Rochford, the woman who betrayed two of Henry VIII's queens--Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard; previously self-published as Vengeance Is Mine)

Manuel Rivas, Books Burn Badly, Harvill Secker (panorama of 20^th-c Spain seen through the eyes of a group of friends)

Mary Rourke, The Prophetess, Crown (about the Hebrew prophet Isaiah and his formidable wife, Jael)

Eli Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love, Viking (two parallel narratives— one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz)

Dan Simmons, Black Hills, Reagan Arthur (weaves together the stories of Paha Sapa, Custer, and the American West)

Jill Eileen Smith, Abigail, Revell (2^nd in series about King David’s wives)

Ciji Ware, Island of the Swans, Sourcebooks Landmark (biographical epic about Jane Maxwell, 4th Duchess of Gordon, rival of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire)

Lauren Willig, The Betrayal of the Blood Lily, Dutton (6th in Pink Carnation Napoleonic-era spy series, in which Miss Penelope Deveraux travels to India)

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March 2010

Lyn Andrews, A Secret in the Family, Headline (mid 20^th-c saga set in Liverpool and Ireland)

Maggie Bennett, The Carpenter’s Children, Allison & Busby (WWI romantic saga)

Vanora Bennett, The Queen's Lover, Morrow (novel of Catherine de Valois, widow of Henry V, and Owen Tudor; titled Blood Royal in the UK)

Rhys Bowen, The Last Illusion, Minotaur (Molly Murphy is hired to protect Harry Houdini after the on-stage death of his assistant)

Clare Clark, Savage Lands, Harvill Secker (French colonists in 18^th-c Louisiana)

Barbara Cleverly, A Darker God, Bantam (latest Laetitia Talbot mystery, set in the world of archaeology in the 1920s)

Barbara Cleverly, Strange Images of Death, Constable Robinson (1920s crime series with Joe Sandilands)

Beatrice Colin, The Songwriter, John Murray (1916: the lives and loves of a songwriter, dancer and political exile from Russia as America joins the war)

Lynn Cullen, The Creation of Eve, Putnam (set in the 16th-c Spanish court, based on the life story of Sofonisba Anguissola, the first renowned female portraitist of the Renaissance)

Clive Cussler with Jack DuBrul, The Silent Sea, Putnam (the sixth adventure of the Oregon and its crew, set in 1941)

Anna Dean, A Gentleman of Fortune, Allison & Busby (Regency romance)

David Dickinson, Death of a Wine Merchant, Soho Constable (Lord Francis Powerscourt investigation)

Pamela Evans, Harvest Nights, Headline (family secrets in 1920s London and Kent)

David Gibbins, The Mask of Troy, Headline (adventure set in 1871 Greece, 1945 Germany and present day)

Almudena Grandes, The Frozen Heart, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (secrets of a political dynasty and love story set in and after the Spanish Civil War)

Bruno Hare, The Lost Kings, Simon & Schuster (adventure on 19^th-c India/Afghanistan border)

Carsten Jensen, We The Drowned, Harvill Secker (four generations of seafaring Danes spanning 1840s to 1940s)

Thomas E Kennedy, In the Company of Angels, Bloomsbury (victim of Pinochet’s regime in 1970s Chile seeks healing in Copenhagen)

Joseph Kanon, Stardust, Simon & Schuster (mystery and politics in 1945 Hollywood)

Philip Kerr, If the Dead Rise Not, Putnam (latest in the Bernie Gunther series of post-WWII thrillers, set in 1954 Havana)

Bernard Knight, A Plague of Heretics, Simon & Schuster (latest in Crowner John medieval crime series)

Jacqueline Lepore, Descent Into Dust, Avon A (Victorian woman discovers she's a vampire hunter; historical gothic)

Carol McCleary, The Alchemy of Murder, Forge (intrepid reporter Nellie Bly as detective at the 1889 Paris World's Fair)

Shona MacLean, A Game of Sorrows, Quercus (second in historical thriller series set in c17th-Scotland, Alexander Seaton goes to Ireland where his mother’s family are under a curse)

Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, Jonathan Cape (a family trying to survive in the Ethiopian revolution of the 1970s)

Anchee Min, Pearl of China, Bloomsbury USA (powerful story of the friendship of a lifetime, based on the life of Pearl S. Buck)

Howard Frank Mosher, Walking to Gatlinburg, Shaye Areheart (novel of love, war, and the racial divide, taking place Vermont to the Great Smoky Mountains in 1864)

Jill Pitkeathley, Dearest Cousin Jane, Harper (novel of Jane Austen’s cousin Eliza de Feuillide)

Jim Powell, The Breaking of Eggs, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (life-changing journey of a man from Paris to WWII Poland, Midwest America and the Berlin Wall)

Deanna Raybourn, The Dead Travel Fast, Mira (Gothic fiction, the adventures of a British woman in 1850s Transylvania)

Sean Thomas Russell, A Battle Won, Michael Joseph (second in maritime adventure series set in 1793)

Julia Stoneham, Girl at the Farmhouse Gate, Allison & Busby (Women’s Land Army girls in Devon during WWII)

D J Taylor, Chime of a City Clock, Constable Robinson (1920s comedy noir)

Jenny White, The Winter Thief, Norton (Kamil Pasha mystery set in 1888 Istanbul)

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April 2010

Ace Atkins, Infamous, Putnam (crime novel about George "Machine Gun" Kelly, set during the first days of the modern FBI)

Ann Baker, [untitled], Headline (RAF widow finds new romance in WWII saga)

A L Berridge, Honour and the Sword, Michael Joseph (military adventure set in  Thirty Years’ War)

Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings The Hangman’s Bag, Orion (second in murder mystery series set in 1950s English village)

Kenneth Cameron, The Second Woman, Orion (latest in Edwardian crime series)

Elizabeth Chadwick, To Defy a King, Sphere (story of Mahelt Marshal and Hugh Bigod; baronial revolt in 13^th-c England)

Stephanie Cowell, Claude and Camille: A Novel of Monet, Crown (the tragic love story of the young, unknown Claude Monet and his great love and muse Camille Doncieux)

William Dietrich, The Barbary Pirates, Harper (Ethan Gage historical adventure novel)

Paul Doherty, The Mysterium, Headline (latest 14^th-c Hugh Corbett mystery)

R S Downie, Ruso and the Root of All Evils, Michael Joseph (3^rd in Roman detective series: Ruso is called home to Gaul from Britain by family problem)

Roddy Doyle, The Dead Republic, Jonathan Cape UK / Viking US (last in a trilogy about Henry Smart, an Irish Republican whose life spans 20^th-c Irish history)

Helen Dunmore, The Betrayal, Fig Tree (Leningrad, 1952: a doctor and his family are compromised when he treats the child of a secret policeman)

Jeremy Duns, Free Country, Simon & Schuster (spy thriller set in Cold War 1960s)

Christy English, The Queen's Pawn, NAL (a novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine and her rival, Princess Alais of France)

Ariana Franklin, A Murderous Procession, Putnam (4th in Adelia Aguilar series, in which she travels to Palermo with Henry II's daughter Joanna)

Daisy Goodwin, The Last Duchess, Headline Review (19^th-c wealthy American heiress marries impoverished English duke)

Graham Hancock, Entangled, Century (two women, one Stone Age, one modern, tackle forces of evil)

Liz Curtis Higgs, Here Burns My Candle, WaterBrook (novel of the age of Robert Burns)

Sarah A. Hoyt, No Will But His, Berkley (novel of Catherine Howard)

Maureen Lee, Martha’s Journey, Orion (mother’s quest for justice for her soldier son in WWII)

Christy Lefteri, A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible, Quercus (tale of love lost and found set during Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974)

Michelle Lovric, The Book of Human Skin, Bloomsbury (murder, love and bibliomania in 18^th-c Peru and Venice)

Carol McCleary, The Illusion of Murder, Hodder & Stoughton (murder, round-the-world chase and international intrigue in 1889)

Kelly O'Connor McNees, The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, Putnam (imagines a love affair that would threaten Louisa's writing career; set in New Hampshire in 1855)

Jude Morgan, A Little Folly, Headline Review (aristocrat’s restricted offspring find new freedom in ?18^th/19^th-c London)

Anne Perry, The Sheen on the Silk, Ballantine US / Headline UK (1272: woman in Byzantium investigating the exile of her brother is caught up in the religious conflict and the crusades)

Elizabeth Peters, A River in the Sky, Morrow / Constable Robinson (Amelia Peabody Edwardian murder mystery set in the Middle East)

Philip Pullman, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, Canongate (retelling of the life of Christ)

Kate Quinn, Mistress of Rome, Berkley US / Headline Review UK (Jewish slave girl and gladiator defy evil emperor Domitian in 1^st-c Rome)

Anthony Riches, Arrows of Fury, Hodder & Stoughton (second in military adventure series set on Hadrian’s Wall in the 180s AD)

Robert Ryan, The Great Train Robbery, Headline Review (how the police tracked down the gang who held up a mail train in 1963 – based on a true story)

Vanitha Sankaran, Watermark, Avon A (a mute young woman in 1320 Narbonne, France, discovers her literary voice)

Simon Scarrow, The Fields of Death, Headline Review (last in quartet about Wellington and Napoleon)

Mary Sharratt, Daughters of the Witching Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (the true story of Bess Southerns, the most notorious of the Pendle Witches, and her granddaughter Alizon Device, set in Lancaster, England, circa 1612)

Dan Simmons, Black Hills, Quercus (Sioux shaman takes on ghost of Gen Custer after Battle of Little Bighorn and later tries to blow up the Mount Rushmore carvings)

Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters, St. Martin's (sweeping debut novel of an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War, as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of two men)

Natasha Solomons, Mr Rosenblum’s List, Sceptre (Arriving in England in 1937 Jewish Mr R attempts to transform himself into an Englishman)

Paul Waters, The Philosopher Prince, Macmillan (two young Romans ally themselves with imperial prince Julian in a struggle against the tyranny of the 4^th-c Roman empire)

Alison Weir, The Captive Queen, Hutchinson (story of Eleanor of Aquitaine)

Sally Zigmond, Hope Against Hope, Myrmidon (historical romance set 1837 in Leeds, Harrogate and Paris, telling of the trials and triumphs of two young sisters)

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May 2010

Sarah Blake, The Postmistress, Viking (the fates of three American women are linked by a letter one of them receives during WWII)

Harold Carlton, Heaven, Hell and Chanel, Orion (models and designers in 1960s Paris haute couture)

Tishani Doshi, The Pleasure Seekers, Bloomsbury (Welsh-Indian family from 1960s)

Anna Elliott, Dark Moon of Avalon, Touchstone (a novel of Trystan and Isolde, set in a brutal 6^th-century Britain; 2^nd in trilogy)

Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg, Berkley (sweeping novel of love and intrigue in Tsarist Russia)

Ann Granger, A Better Quality of Murder, Headline (crime novel set in Victorian London)

Lesley Kagen, Tomorrow River, Dutton (literary thriller set in 1968 Virginia)

Mitchell Kaplan, By Fire, By Water, Other Press (novel of the crisis of faith at the heart of the Inquisition in 15th-c Spain)

Guy Gavriel Kay, Under Heaven, Roc (historical fantasy evoking the Tang Dynasty of 8th-c China in a story of honor and power)

Yasmina Khadra, What The Day Owes The Night, William Heinemann (families in colonial Algeria 1936-1962)

Louise Levene, Vision of Loveliness, Bloomsbury (black comedy set in 1960s London)

Pat McIntosh, A Pig of Cold Poison, Constable Robinson/Soho Constable (crime series set in medieval Scotland)

Rani Manicka, The Japanese Lover, Hodder & Stoughton (Ceylonese woman in Malaya falls in love with a Japanese captor in WWII)

Zachary Mason, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, Jonathan Cape (forty re-imaginings of passages from the Odyssey)

Anchee Min, Pearl of China, Bloomsbury (novel about Pearl S. Buck, early 20^th-c China)

David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Sceptre (Clerk newly-arrived in the 1799 Dutch East Indies finds himself caught between Eastern and Western cultures)

Margaret Muir, Floating Gold, Hale Books (Age-of-sail nautical adventure set in 1802)

Robert B. Parker, Blue-Eyed Devil, Putnam (historical western in Cole & Hitch series)

Imogen Robertson, The Anatomy of Murder, Headline Review (murder and espionage in London in 1781) 

Jenny Rooney, The Opposite of Falling, Chatto & Windus (set in the early days of flight, a young flying machine designer invites an Englishwoman and her companion on a balloon trip over Niagara Falls)

Laura Joh Rowland, Bedlam, Overlook (the further secret adventures of Charlotte Bronte)

Anthony Sattin, Winter on the Nile, Hutchinson (Florence Nightingale’s life-changing journey down the Nile in 1849)

Nicholas Shakespeare, Inheritance, Harvill Secker (wealth, betrayal and lost opportunities from early 20^th-c Turkey to modern London)

Robin Oliveira, My Name Is Mary Sutter, Viking (a young woman's struggle to become a doctor during the Civil War)

Peter Smalley, The Pursuit, Century (latest in c18th naval adventure series)

Pip Vaughan-Hughes, The Fools’ Crusade, Orion (Petroc of Auneford joins the King of France’s crusade to Egypt)

Joseph Wallace, Diamond Ruby, Touchstone (novel set in the Roaring 20's about a girl who can out-pitch any major league baseball player)

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June 2010

Richard Blake, Blood of Alexandria, Hodder & Stoughton (last in trilogy set in the dying days of the Roman Empire)

Ann Brashares, My Name is Memory, Riverhead (novel of reincarnation and true love through time)

Jeanine Cummins, The Outside Boy, NAL (debut novel about an Irish gypsy boy's childhood in the 1950s)

Clive Cussler & Justin Scott, The Spy, Putnam (action & intrigue set in 1908)

Lindsey Davis, Nemesis, Century (latest in Falco Roman detective series)

Lindsey Davis, Falco: The Official Companion, Century (the one we’ve all been waiting for)

Alan Furst, The Spies of the Balkans, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (espionage in the 1941 British coup in the Balkans)

Catherine Hall, Days of Grace, Viking (suspenseful novel of repressed passion and WWII tragedy, set in London over a 50-year period)

Katie Hickman, The Pindar Diamond, Bloomsbury (Venice 1604: a jewel, an ex-lover and sinister forces)

Margaret Muir, The Condor's Feather, Ulverscroft (equestrian adventure set on the pampas of Patagonia in 1885)

Deborah Noyes, Captivity, Unbridled (centers on the true tale of the Fox sisters, supposed clairvoyants in 19th-century upstate New York, and the promise they offer up to a reclusive young woman)

Joseph O’Connor, Ghost Light, Harvill Secker (doomed courtship of an early 20^th-c Irish playwright and an Irish actress, and its aftermath)

Brenda Reid, The House of Dust and Dreams, Orion (love and friendship in 1930s Crete)

Alex Rutherford, Brothers at War, Headline Review (second in series set in 1530 during the Moghul empire in India)

Arliss Ryan, The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare, NAL (the woman who dared to be the equal of the Bard of Avon)

Rosemary Sutcliff, The Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles, OUP (reissue in one volume of three classic novels set in Roman Britain, The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch and The Lantern Bearers)

Deborah Swift, The Lady’s Slipper, Macmillan New Writing (1660 Westmorland: characters come into conflict over the beauty and magic of the lady’s slipper orchid)

Brian Thompson, The Player’s Curse, Chatto & Windus (Victorian crime series: Belle Wallis, a crime writer with a male pen name investigates her fiancé’s secrets)

Victoria Thompson, Murder on Lexington Avenue, Berkley Prime Crime (Gaslight Mystery set at a school for the deaf in New York City)

Kate Tremayne, The Loveday Vendetta, Headline (latest in family saga set in Cornwall in 18/19C)

Kaki Warner, Open Country, Berkley (romantic historical set on the American frontier, 2nd in Blood Rose trilogy)

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July 2010

Meira Chand, A Different Sky, Harvill Secker (three families caught up in Singapore’s struggle for independence 1920s-1950s)

Catherine Delors, For the King, Dutton (historical thriller set in Napoleonic France in the aftermath of the Revolution)

Ivan Doig, Work Song, Riverhead (Morrie Morgan, itinerant teacher, arrives in Butte, Montana, in 1919)

Beverly Jensen, The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay, Viking (a tale of two sisters over seventy years, from New Brunswick to New England)

Lee Langley, Butterfly’s Shadow, Chatto & Windus (continuing the story of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly on into 20^th-c America and Japan)

Adrienne MacDonnell, The Doctor and the Diva, Viking (set in 1903, story of romantic obsession, longing, and one woman's choice between motherhood and opera)

Fiona Mountain, Lady of the Butterflies, Putnam (story of scientist Eleanor Glanville, whose unconventional passions scandalized 17th-c Puritan society)

William Napier, [untitled], Orion (characters caught up in clash of East and West in the 1565 Siege of Malta)

Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge, Viking (love, violence and heartache in WWII Paris and Hungary)

Andrew Rosenheim, Fear Itself, Hutchinson (German-American FBI man investigates Nazi extremists trying to keep USA out of WWII and uncovers a sinister plot)

Harry Sidebottom, Warrior of Rome III: Lion of the Sun, Michael Joseph (Mesopotamia AD260 - latest in Roman military adventure series)

Ellen Clymer Schwab, Promise Bridge, NAL (friendship between a plantation mistress and a slave girl, set in the segregated pre-Civil War South)

Carey Wallace, The Blind Contessa's New Machine, Viking (love, blindness, and the invention of the typewriter, set in early 1800s Italy)

Katherine Webb, The Legacy, Orion (the heartbreaking legacy of betrayal in the multigenerational story of a family)

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August 2010

Ned Beauman, Boxer, Beetle, Sceptre (story of a fascist scientist and a Jewish boxer, set in 1934)

Cecelia Holland, The Secrets of Eleanor, Berkley (novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine)

Andrei Makine, The Life of an Unknown Man, Sceptre (St Petersburg from WWII to the present)

Ann Weisgarber, The Personal History of Rachel DuPree, Viking (the little-known story of African-American pioneers in the early 20th-c Badlands, seen through the eyes of a singular heroine)

Jeane Westin, His Last Letter, NAL (novel of the enduring relationship between Queen Elizabeth and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester)

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