Historical fiction genre books (1709)


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Perfume : The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind EN

Rating: 4.1 (23 votes)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
'Born in sweaty, fetid eighteenth-century Paris, Genouille is distinctive even in infancy. He has "the finest nose in Paris and no personal odour". With wit, a Gothic imagination and considerable originality, Suskind has developed this simple idea into a fantastic tale of murder and twisted eroticism controlled by a disgusted loathing of humanity . . . Clever, stylish, absorbing and well worth reading' Literary Review

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Perspective(s) by Laurent Binet EN

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Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
A pulse-quickening murder mystery set in Renaissance Florence by the renowned author of HHhH. As dawn breaks over the city of Florence on New Year’s Day 1557, Jacopo da Pontormo is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. Above him are the frescoes he labored over for more than a decade—masterpieces all, rivaling the works of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. When guards search his quarters, they find an obscene painting of Venus and Cupid—with the face of Venus replaced by that of Maria de’ Medici, the Duke of Florence’s oldest daughter. The city erupts in chaos... continue

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Persuasion

Persuasion by Jane Austen EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, seems doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of wealth.

904.

Philida by Andre Brink EN

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Description:
This is what it is to be a slave: that everything is decided for you from out there. You just got to listen and do as they tell you. You don’t say no. You don’t ask questions. You just do what they tell you. But far at the back of your head you think: Soon there must come a day when I can say for myself: This and that I shall do, this and that I shall not. In Philida, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, André Brink—“one of South Africa's greatest novelists” (The Telegraph)—gives us his most powerful novel yet; the truly unforgettable story of a female slave, and her fierce determination to su... continue

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Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay EN

Rating: 4 (6 votes)
Country: Europe / Australia flag Australia
Description:
St. Valentine's day 1900 and a party of schoolgirls go for a picnic at Hanging Rock, some never return.; This title is also available as a film.

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Pillars of Salt by Fadia Faqir EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Jordan flag Jordan
Description:
Pillars of Salt is the story of two women confined in a mental hospital in Jordan during and after the British Mandate. After initial tensions they become friends and share their life stories.

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Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories by Amrita Pitam EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Pakistan flag Pakistan
Description:
"The skeleton ... [is] set against the background of religious and clan feuds on the eve of Partition ... That man is a compelling account of a young man born under strange circumstances and abandoned at the altar of God"--Page 4 of cover

908.
Pirate Diary

Pirate Diary : The Journal of Jake Carpenter by Richard Platt EN

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Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
The fictional diary of a ten-year-old boy who, in 1716 sets off from North Carolina to become a sailor, but ends up a pirate instead.

909.

Plains of Promise by Alexis Wright EN

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Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
In this brilliant debut novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page. Black and white cultures collide in a thousand ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the complex brutality of colonisation at St Dominic's mission. With her political awareness raised by work with the city-based Aboriginal Coalition, Mary visits the old mission in the northern Gulf country, place of her mother's and grand-mother's suffering. Mary's return re-ignites community anxieties... continue

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Pobeda 1946 : A Car Called Victory by Ilmar Taska EN

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Country: Europe / Estonia flag Estonia
Description:
Ilmar Taska's debut novel captures the distrust and fear among Estonians living under Soviet occupation after World War II. The reader is transported to a world seen through the eyes of a young boy, where it is difficult to know who is right and who is wrong, be they occupiers or occupied.