The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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Ken Follett

In twelfth-century England, amid devastating civil war and religious strife, master builder Tom Builder and Prior Philip dedicate their lives to constructing the greatest Gothic cathedral Europe has ever seen.

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Anne Perry

In her haunting new Victorian novel, Anne Perry brings to rich and passionate life the city that she has made her own. Once more she shares the intimacy of London's opulent drawing rooms and guides readers through gaslit thoroughfares that echo with hooves on cobblestones, the cries of street vendors, the shouts of newsboys reporting the headlines . . . of two beautiful women found strangled in the studio of a well-known London artist. One of the victims is the wife of Hester Monk's colleague, surgeon Dr. Kristian Beck, a Viennese emigre who swiftly becomes the principal suspect. Now investigator William Monk and his wife seek evidence to save Beck from the hangman, hoping to penetrate not only the mystery of Elissa Beck's death, but the riddle of her life. . . .

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Madeline Miller

Banished by Zeus to the solitary island of Aiaia, the daughter of the titan Helios discovers she possesses the power of witchcraft, taming wild beasts and navigating treacherous encounters with Odysseus, Daedalus, and the Minotaur.

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Pip Williams

Growing up beneath the sorting table of the original Oxford English Dictionary in Victorian Oxford, young Esme collects discarded slips of words relating to women's daily labor and domestic lives.