Historical

We are not makers of history. We are made by history

THE LAST DAYS OF NIGHT

Graham Moore

The Last Days of Night is a fascinating new novel that's based on real-world events and tells an amazing story about the people who were fighting for the right to bring electricity into every single American home. It's a book about great achievements...

A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN

Betty Smith

A wonderfully written book, in which you can know Brooklyn in the early Twentieth Century from an interpretation of the little girl. The Francie Nolan is a really interesting person. She adores her father, despite he is addicted to alcohol for man...

THE TEA GIRL OF HUMMINGBIRD LANE

Lisa See

Li-yan has her whole life centered around farming of tea with her family. She's used to all the various rituals and the daily routine. However, when a car arrives at her village's gate - the first vehicle that any of the locals has ever seen in their...

THREE SISTERS, THREE QUEENS

Philippa Gregory

From Philippa Gregory, a bestselling author, comes Three Sisters, Three Queens, a tremendous historical novel of epic proportions about Mary and Margaret, King Henry VIII's own sisters. Another vital character in the story is Katherine, and the 3 lad...

THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY

Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

London in the late forties: The spirited young writer Juliet receives an amazing letter one day. The sender is a farmer from the island of Guernsey and he accidentally buy a book which previously belonged to her. Between the writer and the farmer th...

THE FLAME BEARER (SAXON TALES)

Bernard Cornwell

As far as historical war series go, Saxon Tales has always been on top of the list. The Flame Bearer is the latest installment in the game-changing saga, and it follows the making of modern-day England. The critics are calling it one of the greatest...

THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES

Sue Monk Kidd

A fourteen-year-old girl Lily Owens grew up with her father, a peach farmer, and Rosaleen a housekeeper. This woman is only one who loves her. Lily is going through a strong sense of guilt, feeling responsible for a death of her mother ten years befo...

THE HELP

Kathryn Stockett

Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962: The young Skeeter is frustrated. After graduating, she spends all day on the parental cotton farm. More over the Skeeter is the only one without a ring on her finger. All her girlfriends already marred. It is one of ma...

RED SPARROW: A NOVEL

Jason Matthews

Jason Matthews is one of the greatest writers of espionage thrillers in the 21st century, and pretty much every single book by him becomes an international bestseller. You can't put a Matthews novel down, simply because they're all super-addictive. R...

THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY

Erik Larson

Erik Larson, an internationally known author of groundbreaking bestsellers, wrote a gripping, captivating story based on the real events of the 1893 Fair in the US. Back then, a terrifying killer used the celebration as a cover to lure innocent folks...