Historical fiction

Compass

Mathias Énard

Translated by Charlotte Mandell

Death and Mr Pickwick

Stephen Jarvis

Dictator

Robert Harris

The Dying Grass

William T. Vollmann

The Evening Chorus

Helen Humphreys

Four Soldiers

Hubert Mingarelli

Translated by Sam Taylor

Girl at War

Sara Nović

A God in Ruins

Kate Atkinson

Golden Age

Jane Smiley

The Green Road

Anne Enright

The King

Kader Abdolah

Translated by Nancy Forest-Flier

The Last Flight of Poxl West

Daniel Torday

Léon and Louise

Alex Capus

Translated by John Brownjohn

The Lost Child

Caryl Phillips

Matei Brunul

Lucian Dan Teodorovici

Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth

Maud’s Line

Margaret Verble

Mislaid

Nell Zink

Miss Emily

Nuala O’Connor

Mrs Engels

Gavin McCrea

News from Berlin

Otto de Kat

Translated by Ina Rilke

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

On Earth as It Is in Heaven

Davide Enia

Translated by Antony Shugaar

The Passenger

Cormac McCarthy

A Place Called Winter

Patrick Gale

The Pope’s Daughter

Dario Fo

Translated by Antony Shugaar

The Remembered Soldier

Anjet Daanje

Translated by David McKay

Roman Elegy

Sabine Gruber

Translated by Peter Lewis

Rush Oh!

Shirley Barrett

The Sacco Gang

Andrea Camilleri

Salt Creek

Lucy Treloar

The Secret Chord

Geraldine Brooks

Signs for Lost Children

Sarah Moss

Song for an Approaching Storm

Peter Fröberg Idling

Translated by Peter Graves

Swallowing Mercury

Wioletta Greg

Translated by Eliza Marciniak

Sweet Caress

William Boyd

The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Tightrope

Simon Mawer

Traveller of the Century

Andrés Neuman

Translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia

The Turner House

Angela Flournoy

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Natasha Pulley