Boggs, The Cobbler of Spanish Fort and Other Frontier Stories, Five Star (an old-timer sets the record straight by telling the true story of the real cobbler of Spanish Fort) Marie Benedict, Her Hidden Genius, Sourcebooks Landmark (fictionalised story of Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) who unlocked the secrets of DNA only to die in anonymity)Īnn Bennett, The Child Without a Home, Bookouture (dual time-line novel Inspired by the lives of the forgotten orphans of World War Two)Ĭharlotte Betts, Letting in the Light, Piatkus (next installment of the Spindrift Trilogy, set in 1914, Cornwall) Jabari Asim, Yonder, Simon & Schuster (novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-19th century) Libby Ashworth, The Convict’s Wife, Canelo (based on real events, a Lancashire saga of one woman’s journey of love, family and survival) Leah Angstman, Out Front the Following Sea, Regal House (at the onset of King William’s War between French and English settlers in 1689 New England, Ruth Miner is accused of witchcraft for the murder of her parents and must flee the brutality of her town) Sarah Death), Son of Svea, Other Press (comedy of the progress and ruin of the industrial welfare state, told through the story of a single family) Frances Riddle), Violeta, Ballantine (story of Violeta del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century) We also have a list of Forthcoming children’s and YA historical novels for 2022.

See our guide to Forthcoming Historical Novels for 2021 for the previous year’s releases. Other than short excerpts, please link to this page rather than copying the entries – thank you! Details are compiled by Fiona Sheppard (US, CAN, UK, AUS) and are based on publisher descriptions. The Historical Novel Society lists mainstream and small press historical titles for books set in eras up to the early 1970s.

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