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10 best books like The North Water (Ian McGuire): The Underground Railroad, To The Bright Edge of the World, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, Green Island, The Heaviness of Things That Float, The Many, His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae, The Quality of Mercy, Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone), Daniel O'Thunder

The Underground Railroad
AuthorColson Whitehead
ISBN0385542364
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad,...
To The Bright Edge of the World
AuthorEowyn Ivey
ISBN0316242853
Set again in the Alaskan landscape that she brought to stunningly vivid life in The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey's second novel is a breathtaking story of discovery and adventure, set at the end of the nineteenth century, and of a marriage tested by a closely held secret.

Colonel Allen Forrester receives...
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
AuthorAndrew Miller
By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a stunning historical novel with the grip of a thriller, written in richly evocative, luminous prose.

One rain-swept February night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous...
Green Island
AuthorShawna Yang Ryan
ISBN1101874252
A stunning story of love, betrayal, and family, set against the backdrop of a changing Taiwan over the course of the twentieth century.

February 28, 1947: Trapped inside the family home amid an uprising that has rocked Taipei, Dr. Tsai delivers his youngest daughter, the unnamed narrator...
The Heaviness of Things That Float
AuthorJennifer Manuel
ISBN1771620871
Jennifer Manuel skilfully depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last forty years living alone on the periphery of a remote West Coast First Nations reserve, serving as a nurse for the community. This is a place where truth and myth are deeply intertwined and stories are “like...
The Many
AuthorWyl Menmuir
ISBN1784630489
On the surface, his move to the isolated village on the coast makes perfect sense. But the experience is an increasingly unsettling one for Timothy Bucchanan. A dead man no one will discuss. Wasted fish hauled from a contaminated sea. The dream of faceless men. Questions that lead to further questions....
His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
AuthorGraeme Macrae Burnet
ISBN1910192147
In 1869, a brutal triple murder in the remote Wester Ross village of Culduie leads to the arrest of a seventeen-year-old crofter, Roderick Macrae. There is no question of Macrae’s guilt, but it falls to the country’s most eminent legal and psychiatric minds to uncover what drove him to his bloody...
The Quality of Mercy
AuthorBarry Unsworth
ISBN0091937124
Spring of 1767: Erasmus Kemp has brought back fugitive settlers from America, among them Sullivan, an Irish fiddler....The Quality of Mercy is rich and rewarding historical fiction of the highest order from the master, Barry Unsworth.

It is the spring of 1767 and Erasmus Kemp has brought...
Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)
AuthorKamal Al-Solaylee
ISBN1443441430
Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction and the Trillium Book Award

A Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Life, Walrus, CBC Books, Chatelaine, Hill Times, 49th Shelf and Writers’ Trust Best Book of the Year

With the urgency and passion of...
Daniel O'Thunder
AuthorIan Weir
ISBN1553654358


•Library Journal Best Books 2011: Historical Fiction selection
•Finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
•Finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Fiction Award
•Finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award
•Finalist for the Ethel Wilson...
Terror on the Alert
AuthorRobert W. Mackay
ISBN1771510811
The year is 1962 and the Cuban Missile Crisis is brewing. Naval lieutenant Ted Hawkins is sent to sea aboard the HMCS Alert. The submarine’s mission is to shadow an aggressive Soviet submarine. Hampered by claustrophobia caused by a trauma, Ted is forced to deal with both his fears and a superior, Alert's...
Everland
AuthorRebecca Hunt
ISBN1905490658
Two groups, almost a hundred years apart, find themselves on the same desolate Antarctic island in this tense and compelling novel by Rebecca Hunt.

1913: Dinners, Millet-Bass, and Napps - three men bound not by friendship, but by an intense dependence founded on survival - will be immortalised...
Serious Sweet
AuthorA.L. Kennedy
ISBN0224098446
A good man in a bad world, Jon Sigurdsson is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work for a government engaged in unmentionable acts. A man of conscience.

Meg Williams is ‘a bankrupt accountant — two words you don’t want...
The Collector of Lost Things
AuthorJeremy Page
ISBN1408704188
What must it be like to hold a wild bird not much larger than a small child, and know for certain that within your arms, you are holding the last one of a species? Inspired by a true story of 19th century European explorers who killed an entire species of a beautiful Penguin-like bird called the Great Auk,...
War and Turpentine
AuthorStefan Hertmans
Shortly before his death in 1981, Stefan Hertmans' grandfather gave him a couple of filled exercise books. Stories he’d heard as a child had led Hertmans to suspect that their contents might be disturbing, and for years he didn’t dare to open them.

When he finally did, he discovered unexpected...
Work Like Any Other
AuthorVirginia Reeves
Roscoe T Martin set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the twentieth century: electricity. It became his training, his life’s work. But when his wife, Marie, inherits her father’s failing farm, Roscoe has to give up his livelihood, with great cost to his sense of self, his marriage,...
The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language
AuthorJoseph Piercy
ISBN1843178834
The Story of English illustrates the compelling history of how the relatively obscure dialects spoken by tribes from what are now Denmark, the Low Countries and northern Germany, became the most widely spoken language in the world, and of how that language evolved during the last two millennia.

Chronologically...
The Candle Man
AuthorAlex Scarrow
ISBN1409108198
First, the blurb : 1912. Locked in an eerily quiet dining room on the Titanic, a mysterious man tells a young girl his life story as the ship begins to sink. It all starts in Whitechapel, London in 1888...

In the small hours of the night in a darkened Whitechapel alley, young Mary Kelly stumbles...
Black Water
AuthorLouise Doughty
ISBN0374114013
From the author of Apple Tree Yard comes a masterful thriller about espionage, love, and redemption.

John Harper is in hiding in a remote hut on a tropical island. As he lies awake at night, listening to the rain on the roof, he believes his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what is going...
Death and Mr. Pickwick
AuthorStephen Jarvis
ISBN0374139660
Death and Mr. Pickwick is a vast, richly imagined, Dickensian work about the rough-and-tumble world that produced an author who defined an age. Like Charles Dickens did in his immortal novels, Stephen Jarvis has spun a tale full of preposterous characters, shaggy-dog stories, improbable reversals,...
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