Best Historical Fiction

  The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle is based on true events – when clothes rationing during WWII leaves young brides in challenging situations, a group of women comes up with an idea to start a charity to give out white wedding dresses. In the process, they lift spirits and learn resilience. England, 1942. In the village of Aldhurst, as Grace is preparing for her wedding, she finds her mother’s wedding dress visibly damaged by moths, and in need of mending. Thus, she seeks help with the Sewing Circle. In London, Cressida Westcott, a noted couturier, has just lost her home and her design house in the London Blitz. She is forced to seek shelter with her estranged family in Aldhurst. Estrange from her family, because she is a woman of strong character, who broke from conventions and that put a rift between her and her brother, the late owner of Aldhurst Manor. Violet Westcott is ecstatic to have her famous aunt at the manor, but at the same time she receives conscription letter, which is ve

  This haunting story of Anja follows her mother, Freydis Eiriksdottir, from Vinland saga - a strong-willed woman, who defied the odds of her society.  Greenland, 1012 AD. Anja Freydisdottir secretly has been resenting her mother and praising her father for his warmth and kindness. Not knowing that she’s been deceived by her conniving father, she, at the age of fifteen, is about to find out how deceitful he is when he sells her for the highest dowry, which he will be pocketing according to the agreement reached before Anja was born. In exchange, her mother gains freedom from her father. Anja has been hearing whispers about her mother’s adventures in Vinland, and supposedly her brutality. The side Anja picks is very clear. But she is strong headed like her mother, and with her mother’s push she defies the expectations of her society when opportunity strikes. Anja’s journey takes her to Vinland, with quite a different turn. In Greenland, she witnesses some brutality towards women from th

  Inspired by real events. Iceland, 1829. The District Commissioner Blondal pays a visit to a District Officer Jonsdottir, forcing him and his family to keep someone in custody in their tiny hut until execution. Agnes is being accused of murder and is being moved to an isolated farm in northern Iceland to await her execution. Reverend Toti agreed “to visit the condemned woman, and he had questioned his decision every day since.” Margaret, Jonsdottir’s wife, disapproves of being forced to shelter a convict. But she is very practical and Agnes, who was a servant once, is being made useful and put to many daily chores. In a tiny hut where the whole family lives, Agnes shares her story with Reverend Toti. When he listens to her story, the whole family does, as it is hard not to in such small space. Upon hearing her version of the story and seeing her every day’s hard work and her being knowledgeable and helpful in dire situations with other people, they start questioning the accusations. I