Historical Fiction from 2003

This list has been compiled from publishers’ catalogs, publisher home pages, Publishers Weekly forecasts, and Amazon.com.  Titles and dates on this list are subject to change.

Publishers/Authors: for additions or corrections, or to inquire about an address to send catalogs, please contact Sarah Johnson.  We list mainstream and small press titles set in the 1950s and earlier. 

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January 2003

US Titles

Conrad Allen, Murder on the Caronia, Minotaur (ocean liner mystery, early 20th century)

Margriet de Moor, Duke of Egypt, Arcade, $13.95 (multigenerational novel of Gypsies in Europe)

Sara Douglass, Hades’ Daughter, Tor (historical fantasy of ancient Greece)

Ellen Feldman, Lucy, WW Norton (FDR and Lucy Mercer, his wife’s social secretary)

Margaret Frazer, The Bastard’s Tale, Berkley Prime Crime (medieval mystery)

Dorothy Garlock, A Place Called Rainwater, Warner Books, $22.95 (romance set in Oklahoma in the late 1920s)

Brian Hall, I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company, Viking (a novel of Lewis & Clark)

Pete Hamill, Forever, Little Brown and Co., $25.95 (the transformation of New York City through one man’s eyes from 1741-present)

Brooks Hansen, The Monsters of St. Helena, Farrar Straus & Giroux, $24 (exile of Napoleon)

Conn Iggulden, Emperor: The Gates of Rome, Delacorte (two young boys in ancient Rome; adventure)

Michael Kilian, A Grave at Glorieta, Berkley Prime Crime (Civil War mystery)

Joe R. Lansdale, A Fine Dark Line, Mysterious Press, $24.95 (mystery set in 1950¹s Texas)

John Paul Lewis, Buffalo Gordon on the Plains, Forge (continued story of escaped slave Nate Gordon)

Martin Marcus, Freedom Land, Forge (Seminole War)

Colum McCann, Dancer, Metropolitan (Rudolf Nureyev)

Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt, Harvest Paperbacks, $15.00 (passion and obsession during 17th century English Civil War)

Nancy McKenzie, The Grail Prince, Del Rey (Galahad, son of Lancelot)

Eddie Muller, Shadow Boxer, Scribner (crime novel of 1948 San Francisco)

Tracie Peterson, Across the Years, Bethany House (Harvey girl in early Winslow, Arizona)

Michael Phillips, Angels Watching Over Me, Bethany House (two young southern girls in 1850s)

Candace Robb, A Spy for the Redeemer, Mysterious Press, $12.95 (7th novel in medieval mystery series)

Candace Robb, The Cross-legged Knight, Mysterious Press, $23.95 (8th novel in medieval mystery series)

Penina Keen Spinka, Dream Weaver, Dutton (prehistoric America and Greenland)

Janet Wallach, Seraglio, Doubleday (Aimee Dubucq, cousin of Empress Josephine)

Barbara Wood, The Blessing Stone, St. Martin’s Press (history of world through famous blue stone)

UK Titles

Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel (Headline) 1970s Israel                        

Killigrew & the New Passage by Jonathan Lunn (Headline) 19thC naval adventure series

The Dreaming Stones by Sarah Harrison (Hodder & Stoughton) Roman + 20th C                  

The Eternal Quest by Julian Branston (Hodder & Stoughton) 17thC Spain & Don Quixote

Jay Basu, The Stars Can Wait, Vintage (1940 Poland)

Tom Bradby, The White Russian, Bantam Press (1917 St Petersburg - thriller)

Lilian Harry Tuppence to Spend, Orion (Second World War - saga)

Thomas Holt, A Song for Nero, Little, Brown (1stC Rome)

Daniel Mason, The Piano Tuner, Picador (1880s London & Burma)

Takashi Matsuoka, Cloud of Sparrows, Hutchinson (19thC Japan)

Howard Norman, The Haunting of L., Picador (1920s - suspense)

Joseph O’Connor, Star of the Sea, Secker & Warburg (19thC - voyage from Ireland to New York)

Julie Otsuka, When the Emperor Was Divine, Viking (Second World War - Japanese Americans)

David Park, The Big Snow, Bloomsbury (1960s Ireland)

Christopher Peachment, Caravaggio, Picador Paperback (16th/17thC Italy)

Christopher Peachment, The Green and the Gold, Picador (17thC England)

Fiona Shaw, The Sweetest Thing, Virago (1800s York)

Mary Jane Staples, Changing Times, Corgi (1950s London - Adams family saga)

Jane Stevenson, The Pretender, Vintage (17thC Holland, Restoration London & Barbados)

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February 2003

US Titles

Bruce Alexander, Smugglers’ Moon, Putnam (Sir John Fielding mystery)

Robert Alexander, The Kitchen Boy, Viking (Bolshevik revolution, seen through the eyes of the Tsar’s kitchen boy)

Stephen Baxter, Evolution, Del Rey (epic of mankind’s evolution)

James Scott Bell, A Greater Glory, Bethany House (courtroom drama in 1900s Los Angeles)

Lindsey Davis, The Course of Honor, Mysterious Press, $12.95 (forbidden love story of the Roman Emperor Vespasian)

Louis Edwards, Oscar Wilde Discovers America, Scribner (1882: Oscar Wilde tours the USA)

Louise Erdrich, The Master Butchers Singing Club, HarperCollins (German soldier in post-WWI North Dakota)

Jonathan Falla, Blue Poppies, Delta (love and war during 1950s Chinese invasion of Tibet)

Robert Fowler, The Battle of Milroy Station, Forge (US Civil War novel)

Janice Galloway, Clara, Simon & Schuster (the legendary Schumanns, from the point of view of wife Clara)

R. Garcia y Robertson, Lady Robyn, Forge (timeslip, Wars of the Roses and now)

C.L. Grace, A Maze of Murders, St. Martin’s Minotaur (medieval mystery, Kathryn Swinbrooke)

Karen Harper, The Thorne Maze, Minotaur Books (Elizabeth I mystery series)

Aimee Liu, Flash House, Warner Books, $24.95 (suspense set in India and Central Asia at the start the of Cold War)

Obery M. Hendricks, Living Water, HarperSanFrancisco (fiction of the Samaritan woman)

Jeffrey Marks. A Good Soldier, Silver Dagger Mysteries (historical mystery starring Ulysses S. Grant)

Valerie Martin, Property, Doubleday (antebellum South during a slave rebellion)

Robert Nye, Falstaff, Arcade, $14.95 (fictional story of Shakespeare¹s Sir John Falstaff, set in Elizabethan England)

Robert Nye, The Voyage Destiny, Arcade, $24.95 (story of Sir Walter Releigh, set in Elizabethan England)

Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club, Random House (19th century literary club discovers series of murders inspired by Dante’s Inferno)

Anne Perry, Seven Dials, Ballantine (latest Thomas Pitt Victorian mystery)

Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller, Daughter of the Loom, Bethany House (19th century Lowell, Massachusetts)

Mary Reed and Eric Mayer, Four for a Boy, Poisoned Pen Press (fourth John the Eunuch mystery set in 6th century Byzantium)

Susan Squires, Danelaw, Leisure (romance in Anglo-Saxon England)

S.M. Stirling, Conquistador, Plume (alternate history; Europeans never reached America)

Paul Sussman, The Lost Army of Cambyses, St. Martin’s Press (archaeology adventure in the near East)

Michael Walsh, And All the Saints, Warner Books, $24.95 (fictionalized memoir of Owen Madden, Irish mobster, set in New York City)

Paul West, Cheops, New Directions (ancient Egypt)

Marly Youmans, The Wolf Pit, Harvest Paperbacks, $14.00 (story of two Virginians during the American Civil War)

UK Titles

The Cloud Chamber by Clare George (Hodder & Stoughton) 1930s-40s love/spy story set around the birth of the atomic bomb

Wintering by Kate Moses (Hodder & Stoughton) Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes

Seven Dials by Anne Perry (Headline) 19thC mystery series

Ophelia’s Revenge by Rebecca Reisert (Hodder & Stoughton) Hamlet’s Ophelia

The Legatus Mystery by Rosemary Rowe (Headline) Roman Britain mystery series

The Haunted Abbot by Peter Tremayne (Headline) Dark Age Irish mystery series       

One Man’s Justice by Akira Yoshimura (Canongate) 1940s US-occupied Japan

Charlotte Bingham, The Wind off the Sea, Bantam (Post-war Sussex)

Emma Blair, Finding Happiness, Time Warner (1920s Glasgow & Paris)

Anita Burgh, The House at Harcourt, Orion Paperback (19thC West Country - saga)

Harriet Scott Chessman, Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, Century (19thC Paris - art history)

Catherine Dunne, Another Kind of Life, Picador (19thC Ireland)

Alexander Fullerton, Flight to Mons, Little, Brown (1st World War adventure)

C.C. Humphreys, Blood Ties, Orion (Renaissance Europe - Jean Rombaud adventure)

Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat, Faber Paperback (1960s Dominican Republic)

Elizabeth Lord, From Bow to Bond Street, Piatkus (20thC East End - saga)

Valerio Massimo Manfredi, The Last Legion, Macmillan (Roman Europe)

Edward Marston, The Frost Fair, Allison & Busby (17thC - mystery)

Valerie Martin, Property, Abacus (19thC America’s Deep South)

Andrew Motion, The Invention of Dr Cake, Faber (19thC - alternative history of the poet Keats)

James Nelson, By Force of Arms, Corgi (18thC America - naval adventure)

Chris Paling, The Repentant Morning, Jonathon Cape (1930s Soho & Spain)

Manda Scott, Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle, Bantam Press (Iron Age Britain)

Slobodan Selenic, Fathers and Forefathers, The Harvill Press (Early 20thC Belgrade)

Norman Spinrad, The Druid King, Little, Brown (1stC BC Gaul

Kate Taylor, Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen, Chatto & Windus (1890s Paris, 1942 France & present-day Canada)

Valerie Wood, The Doorstep Girls, Corgi (19thC Hull - saga)

Jane Yardley, Painting Ruby Tuesday, Doubleday (1960s Essex)

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March 2003

US Titles

Steven Barnes, Zulu Heart, Aspect, $24.95 (alternate history; racial unrest in a reimagined America circa 1860)

Charlotte Bingham, The Chestnut Tree, St. Martin’s Press (English saga, WWII homefront)

Rosanne Bittner, Into the Valley: The Settlers, Forge (romantic historical during American Revolution)

Leah R. Cutter, Paper Mage, ROC (fantasy; Chinese village during T’ang Dynasty)

Gioia Diliberto, I Am Madame X, Scribner (life of woman from John Singer Sargent’s famous painting)

Randy Lee Eickhoff, The Red Branch Tales, Forge (translation of Ulster Cycle)

Anne Enright, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch, Atlantic Monthly (19th century Irishwoman who became Paraguay’s Eva Peron)

John Faunce, Lucrezia Borgia, Crown (biographical novel; Renaissance Italy)

Denise Giardina, Fallam’s Secret, W W Norton (modern-day woman in Cromwell’s England)

Diane Glancy, Stone Heart, Overlook (novel of Sacajawea)

Alan Gordon, Widow of Jerusalem, Minotaur Books (13th century Constantinople; mystery)

Tracy Grant, Beneath a Silent Moon, William Morrow (intrigue in 19th century Europe)

Maureen Jennings, Let Loose the Dogs, Minotaur Books (19th century Toronto; mystery)

Thomas Keneally, Office of Innocence, Doubleday (young priest in WWII-era Sydney)

David Liss, The Coffee Trader, Random House (17th century Netherlands; adventure)

Morgan Llywelyn, 1949, Forge (continues her epic history of 20th century Ireland)

Joe Martin, Fire in the Rock, Ballantine (“red hot south” of the 1950s)

Bharati Mukherjee, Desirable Daughters, Hyperion Books, $13.95 (multigenerational story of an Indian family)

Elizabeth Nunez, Bruised Hibiscus, Ballantine (murder in 1954 Trinidad)

Robin Paige, Death at Glamis Castle, Berkley Prime Crime (Victorian mystery)

James Patterson, The Jester, Little Brown (medieval adventure)

Michael Pearce, The Snake Catcher's Daughter, Poisoned Pen Press (Eighth Mamur Zapt mystery set in early 20th century Egypt)

Patrick Rambaud, The Retreat, Grove Press (Napoleon’s invasion of Russia)

James Reasoner, Zero Hour, Forge (WWII in the south Pacific)

John Maddox Roberts, The Tribune’s Curse (SPQR VII), Minotaur Books (mystery set in ancient Rome)

Laura Joh Rowland, The Dragon King’s Palace, Minotaur Books (17th century Japan, mystery)

Lauraine Snelling, More than a Dream, Bethany House (Scandinavian immigrants in 1897 Minnesota)

Martin Stephen, The Desperate Remedy, St. Martin’s Press (Gunpowder Plot)

Karen Stolz, Fanny and Sue, Hyperion Books, $22.95 (Story of twin sisters, set in St. Louis during the Great Depression)

Miles Hood Swarthout, The Sergeant’s Lady, Forge (campaign to capture Geronimo)

Victoria Thompson, Murder on Mulberry Bend, Berkley Prime Crime (Victorian-era New York City, mystery)

Barry Unsworth, The Songs of the Kings, Doubleday (story of the Trojan War)

Alan Wall, The Lightning Cage, St. Martin’s Press (ghost of an 18th century poet)

Richard S. Wheeler, The Deliverance, Forge (#13 in Barnaby Skye western series)

Niall Williams, The Fall of Light, Warner Books, $13.95 (Irish family saga, 19th century)

UK Titles

Beneath a Silent Moon by Tracy Grant (Headline) 19thC London                                             

The Loveday Scandals by Kate Tremayne (Headline) Cornish series, like Poldark

Miles McGinty by Tom Gilling (Headline) early 20thC Australian aviators

None but the Brave by Joy Chambers (Headline) WWII story                                                  

The Blue Noon by Robert Ryan (Headline) Englishman in France, WWII                     

The Jester by James Patterson (Headline) 11thC France, returning Crusader

The Islesman by Nigel Tranter (Hodder & Stoughton) 14thC Hebrides

A Vote for Murder by David Wishart (Hodder & Stoughton) Roman mystery series                 

The Last Girl by Stephen Collishaw (Hodder & Stoughton) WWII Lithuania                             

Wegener’s Jigsaw by Clare Dudman (Hodder & Stoughton) early 20thC discoverer of continental drift

Maggie Bennett, A Carriage for a Midwife, Century (18thC Hampshire - saga)

James Lee Burke, White Doves at Morning, Orion (American Civil War)

Lilian Harry, A Girl Called Thursday, Orion Paperback (20thC Portsmouth - saga)

Milton Hatoum, The Brothers, Bloomsbury (19th/20thC Brazil)

Jeannie Johnson, A Penny for Tomorrow, Orion (1950s Bristol - saga)

Jeffrey Lent, Lost Nation, Picador (19thC America)

David Liss, The Coffee Trader, Abacus (17thC Amsterdam)

William Brodrick, The Sixth Lamentation, Little, Brown (1944 England - thriller)

Margaret Chappell, Cookley Green, Corgi (20thC Suffolk - saga)

Margaret George, Mary Called Magdalene, Macmillan (1stC - biblical)

Janet Gleeson, The Serpent in the Garden, Bantam Press (18thC London - mystery)

Pip Granger, The Widow Ginger, Corgi (1950s Soho - saga)

Helen Humphreys, The Lost Garden, Bloomsbury (Second World War Devon)

Lee Jackson, London Dust, Arrow (Victorian London - mystery)

Alexander Kent, Man of War, William Heinemann (19thC West Indies - 3rd Adam Bolitho naval adventure)

Allan Mallinson, The Sabre’s Edge, Bantam Press (1824 India - Matthew Hervey adventure)

Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Spartan, Pan Paperback (Ancient Sparta)

Juan Marsé, Lizard Tails, The Harvill Press (Post-war Barcelona)

Annie Murray, Chocolate Girls, Pan Paperback (20thC Birmingham saga)

Richard Powers, The Time of Our Singing, William Heinemann (Post-war America)

Thomas Steinbeck, Down to a Soundless Sea, Allison & Busby (Early 20thC California)

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April 2003

US Titles

Tom Bradby, The White Russian, Doubleday (historical thriller, 1917 St. Petersburg)

Elizabeth Chadwick, The Winter Mantle, St. Martin’s Press (William the Conqueror’s niece)

Jennifer Chiaverini, The Runaway Quilt, Plume (the Underground Railroad)

Tom Connery, Honour Redeemed, Berkley (naval adventure in Napoleonic era)

Patricia Cornelius, My Sister Jill, St. Martin’s Press (POW returns home after WWII)

Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe’s Havoc, HarperCollins (latest Sharpe military adventure)

Will Davenport, The Painter, Bantam (novel of Rembrandt)

Benedict and Nancy Freeman, The Search for Joyful, Berkley (hometown America during WWII)

Gunter Grass, Crabwalk, Harcourt (sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff during WWII)

Diane Haeger, My Dearest Cecelia, St. Martin’s Press (Civil War saga; the love of General Sherman)

Homeric, The Blue Wolf, St. Martin’s Press (Genghis Khan)

Robert Hough, The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, Atlantic Monthly (female animal trainer in Barnum & Bailey circus during 1930s)

Gretchen Moran Laskas, The Midwife’s Tale, Dial (woman in prewar Appalachia)

Edward Marston, The Owls of Gloucester, Minotaur Books (Domesday mystery series)

Robert Mrazek, Unholy Fire, St. Martin’s Press (Civil War novel)

Earl Murray, Blood and Bitter Wind, Forge (thriller; California gold rush)

James L. Nelson, Glory in the Name, William Morrow (novel of Confederate Navy)

Delia Parr, Home to Trinity, St. Martin’s Press (1830s Pennsylvania)

Elizabeth Peters, Children of the Storm, William Morrow (latest Amelia Peabody)

Irene Radford, Guardian of the Promise, DAW (historical fantasy of Elizabethan England)

Michael Raleigh, The Blue Moon Circus, Sourcebooks (1920s circus life)

S.K. Rizzolo, Blood for Blood, Poisoned Pen Press (mystery set in Regency London)

Mary Ryan, Hope, St. Martin’s Press (1869, Colorado gold rush)

C. J. Sansom, Dissolution, Viking (destruction of monasteries under Henry VIII, in the style of Name of the Rose)

Joan Schweighardt, Gudrun’s Tapestry, Beagle Bay (one woman’s quest to eliminate fifth century Europe’s greatest threat: Attila and his Huns)

UK Titles

Lady Magdalen by  Robin Jenkins (Canongate) 17thC Scotland, Montrose’s wife

Murder Imperial by Paul Doherty (Headline)     Roman mystery                                                           

The Accomplice by Kathryn Heyman (Headline) 17thC, wreck of the Batavia                          

Painted Highway by Audrey Howard  (Hodder & Stoughton) 19thC Pennine canal saga           

Seaflower by Julian Stockwin (Hodder & Stoughton) 18/19thC naval adventure series  

Poppy Silk by Michael Taylor  (Hodder & Stoughton) 19thC Birmingham saga

Elizabeth Aston, Way of the World, Orion (Regency London)

Alessandro Baricco, Silk, Vintage (1860s France)

Anita Burgh, The Visitor, Orion (19thC Devon - saga)

Margaret Doody, Aristotle and the Secrets of Life, Century (330BC Athens - mystery)

Nicholas Drayson, Confessing a Murder, Vintage (19thC mystery)

Margaret Forster, The Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Chatto & Windus (1901-95 fictional memoir)

John MacLachlan Gray, The Fiend in Human, Century (1850s London - mystery)

Liz Jensen, War Crimes for the Home, Bloomsbury (Second World War Bristol - suspense)

John Lawton, Sweet Sunday, Orion Paperback (1960s New York)

Arnost Lustig, Lovely Green Eyes, Vintage (Second World War Germany)

Kien Nguyen, The Tapestries, Abacus (1900s Vietnam)

Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio, Vintage (5thC, 14thC & Second World War Provence)

Arturo Perez-Reverte, The Fencing Master, Vintage (1868 Spain)

Debbie Taylor, The Fourth Queen, Michael Joseph (18thC Morocco)

Barbara Trapido, Frankie & Stankie, Bloomsbury (1950s South Africa)

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May 2003

US Titles

Walter Boyne, Dawn, Forge (novel of the Wright Brothers)

Frederic Dion, The Blue Wolf, St. Martin's Press (Genghis Khan)

Tom Franklin, Hell at the Breech, William Morrow (political violence in historical Alabama)

Cristina Garcia, Monkey Hunting, Knopf (Chinese-Cuban family in 1857)

Cathie John, In the Name of the Father, CC Comics (mobsters in 1946 Kentucky, historical mystery)

Larry McMurtry, The Wandering Hill, Simon & Schuster (an epic western adventure)

Christopher Peachment, Caravaggio, Thomas Dunne Books (novel of this artist)

James Reasoner, Savannah, Cumberland House (Civil War Battle series #9)

Nino Ricci, Testament, Houghton Mifflin (novel of Jesus)

Madeleine Robins, Point of Honor, Forge

Anita Shreve, All He Ever Wanted, Little Brown (literary romance in 19th century New England)

Indu Sundaresan, The Feast of Roses, Atria (love story of Emperor Jahangir and Mehrunnisa in 17th century India)

Chantal Thomas, Farewell My Queen, George Braziller (companion to Marie Antoinette)

Grace Tiffany, My Father Had a Daughter, Berkley (Judith Shakespeare)

Rose Tremain, The Colour, Farrar Straus & Giroux (gold rush in 19th century New Zealand)

Frederick Turner, 1929, Counterpoint (novel of the Jazz Age)

Mary Yukari Waters, The Laws of Evening, Scribner (Japanese society between WWII and westernization; stories)

UK Titles

Discovery of Slowness by Sten Nadolny (Canongate) 19thC explorer John Franklin     

Haunted Ground by Erin Hart  (Hodder & Stoughton) ancient Ireland/modern mystery  

Dynamo by Tariq Goddard (Hodder & Stoughton) , “darkly funny” story set in Stalin’s Russia

Sebastian Barry, Annie Dunne, Faber Paperback (1950s Ireland)

Carol Birch, Turn Again Home, Virago (1930s onwards, England)

Jessica Blair, Time & Tide, Piatkus (19thC Yorkshire - saga)

Luther Blissett, Q, William Heinemann (Reformation Europe)

Elizabeth Chadwick, The Falcons of Montabard, Time Warner (11thC England & the Holy Land)

Diane Cosgrove, That Munro Girl, Orion (1920s Dundee - saga)

Michele Desbordes, The Maid’s Request, Faber (16thC France)

Margaret Dickinson, Twisted Strands, Pan Paperback (First World War saga)

Sarah Dunant, The Birth of Venus, Little, Brown (Renaissance Florence)

Per Olov Enquist, The Visit of the Royal Physician, Vintage (18thC Denmark)

Ken Follett, Hornet Flight, Pan Paperback (1940s thriller)

Michael Curtis Ford, Gods & Legions, Orion Paperback (Ancient Rome - epic)

Winston Graham, Bella Poldark, Pan Paperback (19thC - finale to the Poldark saga)

Günter Grass, Crabwalk, Faber (Second World War Germany - literary)

Joanne Harris, Holy Fools, Doubleday (17thC France)

Helen Hollick, A Hollow Crown, William Heinemann (11thC England - Emma of Normandy)

Evelyn Hood, A Sparkle of Salt, Time Warner (20thC Scotland - saga)

Elizabeth Knox, Billie’s Kiss, Vintage (1900s Scotland)

Jaan Kross, Treading Air, The Harvill Press (20thC Estonia)

Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island, Bantam Press (1950s USA - crime)

Judith Lennox, Middlemere, Macmillan (1940s/50s England)

Judith Lennox, Written on Glass, Pan Paperback (Post-war saga)

Eva-Marie Liffner, Camera, The Harvill Press (1900s & present-day London)

M.R. Lovric, The Floating Book, Virago (15thC Venice)

Shan Sa, The Girl Who Played Go, Chatto & Windus (1930s Manchuria)

Jeremy Seal, The Wreck at Sharpnose Point, Picador Paperback (19thC Cornwall - mystery)

Anita Shreve, All He Ever Wanted, Little, Brown (1920s New England and Florida)

Edith Templeton, Gordon, Viking (Post-war London)

Adam Thorpe, No Telling, Jonathon Cape (1968 Paris)

Jennifer Vanderbes, Easter Island, Little, Brown (1913 & 1970s Easter Island)

Penny Vincenzi, Into Temptation, Orion Paperback (Post-war - Lytton family saga)

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June 2003

US Titles

Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Ghosts of Netley, Bantam (latest Jane Austen mystery)

Alice Borchardt, The Raven Warrior, Ballantine (historical fantasy of Guinevere)

Anne Doughty, The Woman from Kerry, Severn House (Irish saga)

Virginia Ellis, The Photograph, Ballantine (the days before Pearl Harbor; romantic historical)

Dorothy Garlock, Mother Road, Warner (romantic historical set during Great Depression)

Tim Gautreaux, The Clearing, Knopf (family saga set in Louisiana after WWI)

Newt Gingrich and William Fortschen, Gettysburg, Thomas Dunne (alternate history Civil War)

Katherine Govier, Creation, Overlook (John James Audubon in Newfoundland)

Erica Jong, Sappho's Leap, WW Norton (novel of Sappho)

Graham Joyce, The Facts of Life, Atria (Coventry, England, during and after WWII)

Jane Kirkpatrick, Every Fixed Star, WaterBrook (frontier novel)

Patrick Larkin, The Tribune, Signet (mystery/thriller set in Roman Syria and Galilee in A.D. 19)

Gillian Linscott, The Garden, Allison & Busby

Maile Maloy, Liars and Saints, Scribner (Catholic family in California, WWII to present)

Juliet Marillier, Wolfskin, Tor (1st in historical fantasy trilogy set during the Viking era)

Jean Plaidy, The Rose Without a Thorn, Crown (novel of Catherine Howard; reprint)

Manda Scott, Dreaming the Eagle, Delacorte (Boudica)

Barbara Scrupski, Ruslan, Crown (young countess in Tsarist Russia)

Julian Stockwin, Seaflower, Scribner (sea adventure in 1797)

Jennifer Vanderbes, Easter Island, Dial Press (women on Easter Island just before WWI, and today)

Marianne Wiggins, Evidence of Things Unseen, Simon & Schuster (WWI veterans in Tennessee)

Jonathan Wilson, A Palestine Affair, Pantheon (British-ruled Palestine of the 1920s)

UK Titles

Virginia by Jens Christian Grøndahl (Canongate) 1940s German occupied Denmark     

Foreign Fruit by JoJo Moyes (Hodder & Stoughton)     England, 1950s/present                        

A Life Everlasting by Miranda Hearn (Hodder & Stoughton) 18thC London     

Jane Alison, The Love-Artist, Allison & Busby (Ancient Rome - Ovid)

Clare Colvin, The Mirror Makers, Hutchinson (Court of Louis XIV)

Lindsay Davis, The Accusers, Century (1stC Rome - 15th Marcus Didius Falco mystery)

Susanna Gregory, A Killer in Winter, Little, Brown (1354 Cambridge - Matthew Bartholomew mystery)

Rosie Harris, Patsy of Paradise Park, Arrow (20thC Liverpool - saga)

Tom Hiney, The Grave at Shapanga, Viking (1870s Africa - David Livingstone)

James Holland, The Burning Blue, William Heinemann (Second World War - saga)

Sebastian Japrisot, A Very Long Engagement, Vintage (Post First World War - thriller)

Michelle de Kretser, The Hamilton Case, Chatto & Windus (1930s Ceylon)

Ken McCoy, Catch a Falling Star, Piatkus (20thC - saga)

Eduardo Mendoza, A Light Comedy, Vintage (1940s Spain)

Jean-Christophe Rufin, The Siege of Isfahan, Picador Paperback (18thC Persia & Russia - adventure)

C.J. Sansom, Dissolution, Macmillan (16thC - crime)

Paul Theroux, The Stranger at the Palazzo d’Oro, Hamish Hamilton (1960s Sicily)

Edwin Thomas, The Blighted Cliffs, Bantam Press (19thC England - crime)

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July 2003

US Titles

Allen Appel, In Time of War: An Alex Balfour Novel, Carroll & Graf (timeslip, today and Civil War era)

Alice Borchardt, Raven Warrior, Ballantine (Arthurian fantasy)

Paul Doherty, The Gates of Hell, Carroll & Graf (mystery of Alexander the Great)

Barbara Ewing, The Trespass, St. Martin’s Press (1849 England; young woman flees to New Zealand to escape danger)

Barbara Hambly, Days of the Dead, Bantam (Benjamin January mystery, 1835 Mexico)

Anna Jacobs, Our Lizzie, Thomas Dunne Books (Lancashire saga)

Stephanie Johnson, The Sailmaker's Daughter, St. Martin's Press (sweeping historical novel set in the Fiji Islands)

J. Ardian Lee, Sword of King James, Ace (timeslip, 18th century Scotland)

Sharyn McCrumb, Ghost Riders, Dutton (Civil War-era mystery and family saga)

Diana Norman, A Catch of Consequence, Berkley (romantic historical adventure set in 18th century Boston and Scotland)

Mel Odom, Hunters of the Dark Sea, Tor (19th century whaling adventure)

Michael Pearce, The Mingrelian Conspiracy, Poisoned Pen Press (Mamur Zapt mystery set in 1908 Cairo)

Jean Plaidy, The Lady in the Tower, Crown (novel of Anne Boleyn; reprint)

David Poyer, A Country of Our Own, Simon & Schuster (the US Civil War at sea)

Van Reid, Mrs. Roberto, Viking (quirky adventures in turn-of-the-century Maine)

Jonathan Tel, Freud's Alphabet, Counterpoint (novel of Freud's last days, circa 1939)

Adriana Trigiani, Lucia, Lucia, Random House (girl from Italian immigrant family in 1950s Greenwich Village)

Dawn Clifton Tripp, Moon Tide, Random House (three women in village on Massachusetts coast, 1913 to 1938)

Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs, Soho (historical mystery)

Richard Zimler, Hunting Midnight, Delacorte (secret Jews in 19th century Portugal)

UK Titles

Anne Barker, Derbyshire Deception, Robert Hale (18/19thC, romance)

Alice Borchardt, The Raven Warrior, Bantam Press (Dark Age Britain - Arthurian fantasy)

Anne Douglas, Ginger Street, Piatkus (20thC Scotland - saga)

Umberto Eco, Baudolino, Vintage (1204 Constantinople & the 4th Crusade)

Patricia Finney, Gloriana’s Touch, Orion (Elizabeth I - thriller)

Lilian Harry, A Promise to Keep, Orion (Second World War - saga)

Iris Gower, The Rowan Tree, Bantam Press (19thC Wales & London)

Margaret Kaine, Ring of Clay, Hodder & Stoughton (1950s Potteries saga)

Des Morley, Another Kind of Darkness, Robert Hale (WW2, Italy)

Rebecca Reisert, Ophelia’s Revenge, Sceptre (Hamlet’s Ophelia)

Olen Steinhauer, The Bridge of Sighs, William Heinemann (Post-war Europe - crime thriller)

Janet Mary Tomson, Binding with Briars, Robert Hale, (1920s Isle of Wight)

Jeanne Whitmee, Pride of Peacock, Robert Hale (Women’s Land Army WW2)

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August 2003

US Titles

Gillian Bradshaw, Render unto Caesar, Forge (a young Alexandrian Greek in ancient Rome)

Bill Brooks, Pretty Boy, Forge (Depression's most dangerous outlaw, Pretty Boy Floyd)

David Cruise and Alison Griffiths, Vancouver, HarperCollins (epic novel of this Canadian city)

Pip Granger, The Widow Ginger, Poisoned Pen Press (1954 Soho, mystery)

William Heffernan, A Time Gone By, Simon & Schuster (murder and corruption in 1940s New York City)

Edward P. Jones, The Known World, HarperCollins (in antebellum Virginia, a freed slave has slaves of his own)

Aaron Latham, The Cowboy with the Tiffany Gun, Simon & Schuster (epic of the American west in the 19th century)

Rosalind Miles, The Maid of the White Hands, Crown (Book 2 in Tristan & Isolde trilogy)

P.G. Nagle, Red River, Forge (her latest Civil War novel)

Anne Perry, No Graves as Yet, Ballantine (beginning of new mystery series set in 1914 England)

John Cowper Powys, Owen Glendower, Overlook (reprint of this classic novel of 15th century Wales)

David L. Robbins, Last Citadel, Bantam (WWII-era thriller)

Jacqueline Sheehan, Truth, Free Press (literary historical)

Sarah Smith, Chasing Shakespeares, Atria (literary mystery-who wrote Shakespeare’s plays?)

Norman Spinrad, The Druid King, Knopf (Vercingetorix, the great Gallic warrior)

Bodie and Brock Thoene, First Light, Tyndale House (novel of Jesus)

Larry Watson, Orchard, Random House (obsession and betrayal in mid-20th century rural Wisconsin)

UK Titles

Miklos Banffy, The Phoenix Land, Arcadia (20thC Hungary)

Benita Brown, In Love and Friendship, Headline (1890s Newcastle saga)

Paul Doherty, An Evil Spirit out of the West, Headline (ancient Egypt)

Paul Doherty, The Plague Lord, Headline (Marco Polo and Kublai Khan)

Margaret Elphinstone, Voyageurs, Canongate (1812, Canadian wilderness)

Freda Lightfoot, Dancing on Deansgate, Hodder & Stoughton (WW2 Manchester)

Sharon Milburn, Lord Whitley’s Bride, Robert Hale (Regency romance)

C.W.Reed, A Chained Satan, Robert Hale (20thC family saga, now in East Africa)

Fay Sampson, The Silent Fort, Robert Hale (1stC Britain after Roman invasion)

Simon Scarrow, The Eagle and the Wolves, Headline (4th in Roman army series)

Joan Smith, A Tall Dark Stranger, Robert Hale (Regency romance)

Adam Williams, Palace of Heavenly Pleasure, Hodder & Stoughton (Boxer Rising)

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September 2003

US Titles

Juliana Baggott, The Madam, Atria (woman who becomes a madam in 1924 Florida)

Robert J. Begiebing, Rebecca Wentworth's Distraction, University Press of New England (mid-18th century Portsmouth and provincial New Hampshire; New England character and history)

James Scott Bell, A Higher Justice, Bethany House (courtroom drama set in turn-of-the-century Los Angeles)

Michelle Black, The Second Glass of Absinthe, Forge (latest in her mystery series set in the Victorian West)

Win Blevins, So Wild a Dream, Forge (mountain men in the 1820s West)

Carmen Boullosa, Cleopatra Dismounts, Grove/Atlantic (literary novel of Cleopatra)

A.B. Daniel, Incas: The Light of Machu Picchu, Book 3, Scribner (latest in Incan trilogy)

Annabel Davis-Goff, The Fox's Walk, Harcourt (WWII saga)

Will Eisner, Fagin the Jew, Doubleday (graphic novel; Oliver Twist retold through Fagin's perspective)

Max Evans, Now and Forever, University of New Mexico Press (love, friendship, rivalry, and betrayal in 1950s New Mexico)

Roberta Gellis, Lucrezia Borgia and the Mother of Poisons, Forge (Renaissance mystery, with Lucrezia as detective)

Kate Horsley, Careless Love, University of New Mexico Press (idealistic 19th century Bostonian goes west, bound for Nevada)

John MacLachlan Gray, The Fiend in Human, St. Martin's Press (historical thriller)

Lian Hearn, Grass for His Pillow, Putnam (fantasy set in an alternate feudal Japan)

Frederick Highland, Ghost Eater, St. Martin's Press

Yu Hua, To Live, Anchor (Communist Civil War through Cultural Revolution in China)

Frances Itani, Deafening, Atlantic Monthly Press (love, war, and deafness in WWI Ontario)

Maxine Hong Kingston, The Fifth Book of Peace, Knopf (Vietnam veterans)

J.D. Landis, The Taking, Ballantine (New England gothic novel set around flooding of the Quabbin Reservoir)

James Conroyd Martin, Push Not the River, St. Martin's Press (romantic epic set in 18th century Poland)

Bill Mesce, Jr., The Defender, Bantam (courtroom thriller set during WWII)

Earl Murray, Blood and Bitter Wind, Forge (novel of California gold fields)

Sena Jeter Naslund, Four Spirits, William Morrow (historical Birmingham, Alabama)

Ann Parker, Silver Lies, Poisoned Pen Press (historical mystery, 1879 Rocky Mountains)

I.J. Parker, The Hell Screen, St. Martin's Minotaur (mystery of 11th century Japan, second Sugawara Akitada)

Owen Parry, Bold Sons of Erin, William Morrow (historical mystery, Abel Jones series)

John Cowper Powys, Owen Glendower, Overlook (reprint of classic historical of 15th century Wales)

Michele Roberts, The Mistressclass, Henry Holt (Bronte story retold in contemporary times)

Ted Riccardi, The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, Random House ("lost adventures" of Holmes)

Penny Vincenzi, No Angel, Overlook (British 1920s family saga)

Walter Wangerin, The Crying for a Vision, Paraclete Press (rise and fall of the Lakota Indians; religious novel)

UK Titles

Anne Bryant, Rose, Robert Hale (18thC romance)

Jill Dawson, Wild Boy, Sceptre (France after 1789)

Rose Doyle, Gambling with Darkness, Hodder & Stoughton (1940s Dublin)

Amanda Grange, Carisbrooke Abbey, Robert Hale (18th or 19thC romance)

Audrey Howard, Reflections from the Past, Hodder & Stoughton (Lancs saga)

Anna Jacobs, Our Mary Anne, Hodder & Stoughton (1905 Lancs saga)

Gillian Kaye, A Double Deception, Robert Hale, (Regency romance)

Peter Tremayne, Badger’s Moon, Headline (medieval Irish mystery)

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October 2003

US Titles

Bruce Alexander, The Price of Murder, Putnam (latest Sir John Fielding)

Alan Brennert, Moloka'i, St. Martin's Press (young girl growing up in 1890s Honolulu, who at the age of six is diagnosed with leprosy and sent to Kalaupapa on the island of Moloka'i; her life in exile and beyond)

Barbara Chase-Riboud, Hottentot Venus, Doubleday (based on true story of Sarah Baartman, African bushwoman in 19th century Europe)

Bernard Cornwall, Heretic, HarperCollins (medieval adventure)

Ivan Doig, Prairie Nocturne, Scribner (Harlem Renaissance)

Ruth Glover, Bitter Thistle, Sweet Rose, Five Star (novel of women pioneers)

Carolyn Hart, Letter from Home, Berkley Prime Crime (historical mystery set in 1944 small town Oklahoma; newspaper reporter as detective)

Sarah A. Hoyt, Any Man So Daring, Ace (final book in Shakespearean fantasy trilogy)

Stephen Hunter, Havana, Simon & Schuster (adventure novel set in 1953 Cuba)

Terry Kay, The Valley of Light, Atria (heartwarming tale of 1948 North Carolina)

Raymond Kennedy, The Romance of Eleanor Gray, University Press of New England (coming-of-age story set in rural Massachusetts in 1910)

Christian Jacq, The Empire of Darkness (ancient Egypt, 1st novel in Queen of Freedom trilogy)

Kij Johnson, Fujoki, Forge (medieval Japanese fantasy)

Kate Kingsbury, No Clue at the Inn, Berkley Prime Crime (Christmas mystery set in Edwardian England)

Lisa Lenard-Cook, Dissonance, University of New Mexico Press (modern-day piano teacher inherits diaries of a composer who survived a concentration camp)

Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror, ReganBooks (Snow White re-imaging, set in historical Italy)

Susanna Moore, One Last Look, Knopf (1836 Calcutta)

Thomas Moran, Anja the Liar, Putnam (woman's personal recovery from WWII; desperation and intrigue)

Olaf Olafsson, Walking Into the Night, Knopf (William Randolph Hearst's butler)

Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller, These Tangled Threads, Bethany House (historical romance in mill towns of 19th century Massachusetts, inspirational)

Tracie Peterson, Silent Star, Bethany House (inspirational story set in 1940s Pennsylvania)

Jean Plaidy, Mary, Queen of France, Three Rivers Press (reprint of novel of Princess Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's sister)

Caroline Roe, A Poultice for a Healer, Berkley Prime Crime (latest in the Chronicles of Isaac of Girona set in medieval Spain)

Shan Sa, The Girl Who Played Go, Knopf (Manchurian town in 1930s)

Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver: Volume 1 of the Baroque Cycle, William Morrow (17th C and 18th C England; science and adventure)

Stephanie Grace Whitson, Secrets on the Wind, Bethany House (first in Pine Ridge Portraits series; history, mystery, romance, and faith in 19th century Nebraska)

UK Titles

Julia Bryant, Spirit of Nelson Street, Hodder & Stoughton (Portsmouth 1930 saga)

Jose Luis de Leon, This Palpitating World, Arcadia (1stC Rome & modern US)

Joanna Erle, The Quiet Rebel, Robert Hale (?18/19thC romance)

Tim Gautreaux, The Clearing, Sceptre (US, post WW1)

Elizabeth Hawksley, Highland Summer, Robert Hale (19thC romance)

Andrei Makine, A Hero’s Daughter, Sceptre (post WW2 Soviet Union)

Anne Perry, No Graves As Yet, Headline (1914 mystery)

Julian Stockwin, Mutiny, Hodder & Stoughton (4th in 18/19thC naval series)

Guy Walters, The Leader, Headline (30s/40s man who can save Britain from fascism)

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November 2003

US Titles

Lynn Austin, Fire by Night, Bethany House (Civil War through the eyes of two Northern girls, inspirational)

Maxence Fermine, The Black Violin, Atria (violin maker in 1797 Venice)

Patricia Finney, Gloriana's Torch (Elizabethan novel)

Diana Gabaldon, Lord John and the Private Matter, Delacorte (1st in trilogy featuring Lord John Grey, set in 1757 London)

Yu Hua, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, Knopf (cart-pusher struggling under the hardships of Mao's leadership)

Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Spartan, Atria (heroic tale set in ancient Sparta)

Robin Maxwell, The Wild Irish, William Morrow (novel of Elizabeth I)

Larry McMurtry, By Sorrow's River, Simon & Schuster (3rd in the Berrybender series set in the American West)

Michael Pearce, The Fig Tree Murder, Poisoned Pen Press (Mamur Zapt mystery set in Colonial Egypt)

Judith Pella, Toward the Sunrise, Bethany House (continuation of Daughters of Fortune saga set in 1942 Los Angeles, Russia, and the Philippines)

Anne Perry, A Christmas Journey, Ballantine (Christmas novella set in the world of Thomas Pitt)

Jane Stevenson, The Shadow King, Houghton Mifflin (Elizabeth of Bohemia)

Debbie Taylor, The Fourth Queen, Crown (adventures of Helen Gloag from 18th century Scotland to becoming a queen of Morocco, based on a true story)

Charles Todd, The Murder Stone, Bantam (mystery novel set in London during the Great War)

UK Titles

Alys Clare, A Dark Night Hidden, Hodder & Stoughton (medieval mystery series)

Ed. Arielle Eckstut, Pride And Promiscuity, Canongate (Austen’s lost sex scenes)

Melinda Hammond, The Dream Chasers, Robert Hale, (18thC romance)

Margaret James, Elegy for a Queen, Solidus Press (time-slip novel set in contemporary and Anglo-Saxon England)

Allan Massie, Caligula, Sceptre (Rome 1stC AD)

Robin Maxwell, The Wild Irish, Headline (16thC Ireland)

Alan Parker, The Sucker’s Kiss, Sceptre (Depression America)

Joan Smith, Tea and Scandal, Robert Hale (Regency romance)

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December 2003

US Titles

Jimmy Carter, The Hornet's Nest, Simon & Schuster (the American Revolution in the South)

Jane Finnis, Get Out or Die, Poisoned Pen Press (mystery set in Roman York in 91 AD)

Robert Harris, Pompeii, Random House (young engineer in ancient Rome discovers a tragedy about to happen)

Simon Hawke, The Merchant of Vengeance, Forge (Shakespearean mystery)

Ursula Hegi, Sacred Time, Touchstone (Italian-American family in the Bronx, 1953)

Evan Hunter, The Chisholms, Pocket (novel of the journey west made by a Virginia family)

Ben Jones, The Rope Eater, Doubleday (Arctic exploration during the Civil War; madness and survival)

Colleen McCullough, The Touch, Simon & Schuster (romantic story of an Australian family in the 1860s)

Antonio Morina, Sepharad, Harcourt

Priscilla Royal, Wine of Violence, Poisoned Pen Press (mystery set in 1270 England)

James Alexander Thom and Dark Rain Thom, Warrior Woman, Ballantine (Nonhelema, Peace Chief of the Shawnee Nation in 1774)

H.N. Turteltaub, The Sacred Land, Forge (adventure in ancient Phoenicia)

Richard S. Wheeler, The Exile, Forge (life and times of Thomas Meagher, Irish patriot in 1850s America)

UK Titles

Anne Barker, Fallen Woman, Robert Hale (?18/19thC romance)

June Barraclough, Family Circle, Robert Hale (1930s-1950s family saga)

Anthony Conway¸ The Brigadier’s Outcast, Hodder & Stoughton (1920s adventure)

Margaret Frazer, The Novice’s Tale, Robert Hale (medieval mystery)

Jude Morgan, Passion, Headline (Byron, Keats, Shelley from female viewpoint)

Nigel Tranter, Right Royal Friend, Hodder & Stoughton (17thC Scotland)

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