Forthcoming Historical Novels for 2027
The Historical Novel Society lists a comprehensive range of titles from mainstream and small press publishers for novels set from ancient times to the mid-1970s.
Titles are listed alphabetically, by author last name, within their expected publishing month (see links below) and cover all historical fiction and all historical sub genres.
Details are pulled from publisher catalogues, websites and emails; Amazon; NetGalley; Edelweiss US & Canada Trade and BNCCatalist Canada Trade.
Information is compiled by Fiona Sheppard (US, CAN, UK, ANZ).
See our guide to forthcoming for 2026 for previous releases.
For children’s titles, see our guides to Children’s and YA historical novels out in 2027 and in 2026.
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This list is updated monthly, so plan to visit us again for more titles!
Last update: July 12, 2026
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January 2027
Sara Ackerman, The Volcano Keeper, Harper Muse (story of a woman determined to uncover the 1940s secrets of her family and the island she calls home, before they are lost forever)
Vicky Beeby, A Near Miss for the Flying Girls, Canelo (orphan Holly Hardwick had a lonely childhood, which brings her to befriend 10-year-old Sam who helps with putting out fires during the Blitz)
A. D. Bell, The Bookbinder’s Code, St. Martin’s (sequel to The Bookbinder’s Secret, set in 1903)
Anya Bergman, Marion of Sherwood, Firefinch (part folk horror, part feminist love story, part heroine’s quest, Marian’s story features universal themes of love, nature, selfhood and destiny)
Eleanor Buchanan, The Moonstone Sister, Headline Review (dual timeline second instalment of The Sea Stone Sisters series, combining magical realism with a family saga)
Grant Buday, Ugly John, Biblioasis (novel based on the life and times of Sir John A. MacDonald, Canada’s first prime minister, who was born in Glasgow in 1815 and died in Ottawa in 1891)
Elizabeth Camden, The Falcon’s Echo, Bethany House (a clean historical novel set at the US Navy Academy in the early 1900s)
Fiona Davis, The Jewel of Sugar Hill, Dutton (brings Eliza Jumel to life, a notorious woman from America’s infancy, who ignored social convention and achieved dizzying success)
Betty Firth, Heartbreak for the Variety Girls, Hera (next installment of the WWII Sweethearts of the Forces series)
Laura Frantz, The Saint and the Spy, Revell (draws readers into fog-draped London, where forbidden love blooms against a backdrop of spies, secrets, and high-stakes intrigue)
Kiersti Giron, The Scent of Orange Blossoms, Bethany House (a Christian romance set in Orange Co., California in 1910, with forbidden romance and women’s suffrage)
Yasushi Inoue, trans. J. Martin Holman, The Death of a Certain Woman, Transit (stories from rural prewar Japan that speak to the moment of childhood when the world of adults is as seductive as it is forbidden)
Deborah Johnson, Washington and Leigh, Blackstone (ghost story spanning sixty years and the lives of two families, one white, one Black, who are bound to each other in more ways than one)
Kristin Judd, Witches Three, Berkley (triple timeline story of love, courage, and motherhood, as three women across history test the bonds of magic running through them all)
Sarah Lefebve, A Promise to My Daughter, One More Chapter (story about love, loss and finding happiness in the darkest of times)
Howard Linskey, Treason and Plot, Canelo (dark mystery set at the end of an era, as Shakespeare’s life and loyalties are threatened, and the seeds for Macbeth are sown)
Susan Elia MacNeal, Last Mission to Paris, Minotaur (in London, 1966, three women, covert operatives during WWII, and the daughter of a fourth, search for the long-buried truth about the betrayal behind the wartime death of a fellow agent)
Faith Martin, Murder Among the Spires, HQ (book 4 of the Val & Arbie series set at Oxford University, 1927)
Mattea Orr, The Last Telegram of Mrs Hudson, Head of Zeus-Aries (first in a new historical mystery series that reimagines Sherlock Holmes’s mother and her lady’s-maid turned investigative partner)
Rob Osler, The Case of the Swindled Suffragist, Kensington (Chicago, 1899; amidst the women’s rights movement, a suffragist-heiress’s desire to escape an unhappy marriage draws detective Harriet Morrow into a whirlpool of deception, lies, and murder)
S. J. Parris, Rebel’s Gambit, Hemlock (1601; when the body of a Scottish envoy washes up on the banks of the Thames, the Queen’s most powerful spymaster, Robert Cecil, is accused of arranging the murder)
Alexis Schaitkin, Two Lives, Celadon (novel about the fate of two children sent to the English countryside to escape the onset of World War II, and the aftermath of the decisions they made there)
Sally Smith, A Case of Fear and Favor, Raven (Gabriel Ward KC returns in the third installment of the cozy British mystery series, set in Edwardian early 20th-century)
Benjamin Taylor, The Cloud of Knowing, Turtle Point (composer Rafael Bogenschine killed himself at the height of his fame in 1967; his 90-year-old wife Francie finally decides to cooperate with a biographer)
Jan Turano, A Dash of Decorum, Bethany House (historical Gilded Age novel is an opposites-attract rom-com packed with mistaken identity, a fake relationship, and slow-burn romance)
Marie Tureaud, Beneath, It Sleeps, Kensington (Gothic novel set in 18th century Ireland, where a young woman on the run from her past goes undercover within the infamous Hellfire Club)
February 2027
Dee Andrew, The Fevered World, She Writes (story of a father and daughter on the medical front of the Spanish Flu and World War I, each fighting the same invisible enemy from opposite sides of the world)
Libby Ashworth, The Sewing Class Girl, Canelo (saga based around the cotton crisis, unemployment and people living on relief)
Abigail Avis, Wet Ink, Dutton (London, 1969; a story of desire and ambition in which Mitzy Barlow builds a Tupperware empire by slipping erotic short stories in with her orders, accidentally sparking a feminist revolution in her London suburb)
Ronald H. Balson, Last Train from Budapest, St. Martin’s (1944; suspenseful tale of courage, brotherhood, and the fight for a future beyond fear; inspired by real historical heroes with a determination to do good and overcome evil)
Mark Barber, The Order, Zmok Books (when two Holy Order knights return from a failed crusade, they find themselves dragged into a new war against an even deadlier foe)
Rick Bleiweiss, The Cupid Killer and Other Murderers, Blackstone (mystery, romance, political upheaval, and danger collide in this new addition to the Pignon Scorbion series, set in 1910)
Chelsea Bobulski, A Match for the Marquess, Haven (opposites-attract romance set in Edwardian-era England)
Theresa Donovan Brown, Bay Lands, She Writes (after inheriting a rancho in 1874, a young Californian woman takes on the slave traffickers and robber barons of Gilded Age San Francisco)
Michael Cary, Monument, Lyons Press (novels follows a young drifter’s ascent from prairie tragedy to the dark rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany)
Mary Connealy, Heart of an Outlaw, Bethany House (Rocky Mountain Marshals #3 in which Stella’s outlaw-past makes her the perfect guide to help US Marshals capture her dangerous uncle)
Caitlin Devlin, The Prettiest People, Lake Union (dual timeline tale explores the impossible choices women faced in an era when loyalty could be as dangerous as betrayal)
Lucy Diamond, The Storyteller’s Secret, Headline Review (a witty tale of sisterhood that spans a century; set in 1929, 1940s and present day)
Melanie Dickerson, A Proposal Reconsidered, Bethany House (sweet Regency romance comes with second chances and revived dreams)
Anne Driscoll, The Emerald Coat She Wears, She Writes (Irish historical mystery, inspired by a real-life 17th-century feud, in which a modern-day woman uncovers dangerous ancestral secrets)
Charles B. Fancher, The Pinewoods Legacy, Blackstone (paints a portrait of small-town love, loss, and redemption in the Jim Crow Alabama, 1905; companion novel to Red Clay)
Donna B. Gawell, Rachelle’s Hidden Star, Histria (a simple DNA test unearths a grandmother’s hidden Jewish past in WWII Poland)
Alan Hlad, The Jeweled Book, Kensington (intertwining multiple timelines novel draws on the true story of an ill-fated book to create a tale of obsession, artistry, mystery, and hope)
Julia Keller, Cold Dark Deep, Mysterious Press (when a child’s body is discovered in tumultuous 18th-century London, a struggling writer dares to become an unlikely force for social justice)
Jess Kidd, Little Spark, Atria (19th-century novel in which lifelike machines walk, old bones lie buried beneath the marsh grass, and a young orphan born with power confronts the truth of her origins)
Harini Nagendra, Murder in the Crocodile’s Lair, Pegasus (Kaveri Murthy is enjoying herself in Mysore, India, until an old friend from Bangalore turns up dead)
F. H. Petford, A Ghost Hunter’s Guide to Untimely Death, Hodder & Stoughton (third instalment in the Alma Timperley Mystery series of quirky paranormal cosy crime mysteries)
Francine Rivers, The Woman Between, Tyndale (historical Western, set in 1875, about a young woman faced with an impossible choice)
Ronald Lee Robertson, Goliath, Scribner (a fateful feud simmers between a preacher and his protégé in this retelling of David and Goliath, set on a family farm in the American South, against the backdrop of the Great Migration)
Hannah Rothschild, Masterpiece, Hutchinson Heineman (story of four people whose lives are bound together by a single work of art; settings 1470, 1922, 1944 and 2014)
Jill Eileen Smith, The Table of Mercy, Revell (retelling the little-known story of the Syrophoenician woman from the New Testament who was forever changed by an encounter with Jesus)
Sarah Sundin, The Refuge of Le Chambon, Revell (1942; a historical romance set in France, with a marriage of convenience and Jewish refugees)
Katherine Tozer, The Art of Poison, Firefinch (crime story about a scandalous murder trial of socialite Madeleine Hamilton Smith in mid-19th-century Glasgow)
Johanna van Veen, The Literary Remains of Cornelia Feyen, Bloomsbury (lighthearted epistolary novel that intertwines Dutch faerie folklore with a sapphic love story)
Clare Whitfield, The Last Handmaid, Head of Zeus-Aries (gothic historical thriller inspired by the alleged most prolific female serial killer – set in 1604 Hungary)
Clare Willis, The Inheritance, Hodder Paperbacks (inspirational WWII historical novel of love, war, friendship and forgiveness)
Karen Witemeyer, Wooing the Wallflower, Bethany House (single-parent Western romance with a bookish heroine and a brooding cowboy hero)
Evie Woods, The Heirloom, HarperCollins (on the wild coast of Ireland an ancient heirloom helps two people unlock secrets of their past as they discover that their story began four centuries ago)
March 2027
Michael Arnold, The Hemlock Throne, Canelo (3rd in the Savage Isle series, set as the Celtic resistance is on the verge of breaking)
Heesung Baek, Where the Light Leads, Pegasus (novel about an architect who helps a dying man uncover the family secrets embedded in the walls of a Parisian mansion)
Ellen Barker, Lulu in the Loop, She Writes (set in Saint Louis in an era of social upheaval, novel takes a look at friendship, community, and figuring out adulthood)
Marie Benedict, The Witch of Wall Street, St. Martin’s (the story of Hetty Green, a self-made woman and the richest woman of the Gilded Age)
Michael Bible, The Terrible, Dalkey Archive (Russian past and American present blur through the delusional confession of a man claiming to be Ivan the Terrible’s brother)
Rhys Bowen, Clare Broyles, A Whiff of Scandal, Minotaur (Molly Murphy returns with her first investigation under her own detective agency)
F. L. Bullard, Hunting with Mark, Histria (based on true story, novel bridges the power corridors of 1920s Tammany Hall, capturing the post-WWI reality of the veterans who built the modern American century)
KJ Charles, The League of Lost Souls, Tor (gothic fantasy set in the 19th to early 20th-century England)
Christina Courtenay, The Mists of Time, HQ (a Viking enemies to lovers dual timeline romance)
Thomas O. Davenport, O’Malley’s Grail, Rare Bird (novel about war, trauma, guilt, memory, and the search for redemption in the aftermath of atrocity; a portrait of a man—and a nation—searching for meaning and healing among the ruins)
Sara DiVello, The Ace of Spades, Blackstone (when a celebrity bad boy is murdered in Jazz Age New York, a reporter, a detective, and a wife navigate the dangerous gap between truth and power)
A. B. Dozier, Honor, Blair (unravels the murder of a young woman within the world of organized crime in 1920s Baltimore)
Jim Eldridge, Murder at the Vatican, Allison & Busby (the renowned detectives Daniel and Abigail Wilson are asked to investigate a suspected assassination attempt from within the Vatican’s walls)
Genevieve Graham, Island of Orphans, Simon & Schuster (novel about a young woman’s promise to look after two orphaned children aboard an Irish famine ship quarantined in 1847 Quebec, and her efforts to honour that promise when they are separated)
Christopher Hadley, The One and Only Tree, William Collins (travels back and forth along the east-west routes forged by crusaders, pilgrims and merchants, through seven millennia of real and imagined time)
June Harrington, Merely a Matter of Time, Wildthorn (slow-burn love story between two gifted arcane scientists who fall back in time only to fall for each other)
Olivia Hawker, Riddle Song, Lake Union (portrait of one family’s fate, swept up in the turmoil of life in post–World War I America)
Joe Hill, Hunger, Headline (Boston, 1776; the dead have been speaking to Captain Amos Crowe since the Battle of Bunker Hill, and now he must track down a witch hidden deep behind enemy lines)
Samantha Lee Howe, Bride in Funeral Clothing, No Exit (former army mechanic Mel Greenway investigates the abduction of bride-to-be Lorelie Courtney at the crumbling Avonby estate in post-war Britain)
Amy Haywood Hughes, Isle of Home Summer, She Writes (fictional glimpse into the childhood and heart of Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low—the visionary optimist who challenged social norms in 1912)
Isabel Ibañez, Witch Dance, Saturday Books (historical fantasy where forbidden magic, a deadly mystery, and a slow-burn romance collide in 1518 Renaissance Strasbourg)
Tara Johnson, A Risky Pursuit, Bethany House (new historical Western romance series, where Emma Leigh talks her way into a dangerous Pinkerton assignment to help capture notorious outlaw Jesse James)
Stephanie Kallos, Monarch’s Row, Avid Reader Press (a loose retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac set in the UK before, during, and after World War I, following Enid Asquith’s isolated childhood and a wartime love triangle)
Jane Kirkpatrick, Beyond the Breaking Waves, Revell (novel highlights the difficulty of pioneer life and the hope found in faith, community, and new beginnings)
Terri Lewis, Bodies in Arabesque, She Writes (1970s coming-of-age story of two ballerinas whose choices after getting pregnant—one before Roe v. Wade and one after—affect their friendship, careers, and life paths)
Norman Lock, The Old Man and the Heath, Belleview Literary Press (a reimagined novel of King Lear, resurrected from the heath to bear witness at time’s end, and six stories that present the Bard’s bit characters anew)
Trish B. MacEnulty, The Woman with the Wicked Face, Histria (biographical novel captures the birth of the Hollywood studio system and the original on-screen vamp, Theda Bara, who defined the early silent film era)
Mollie McNeil, The Curve of the Light, She Writes (novel about a young woman who flees her rural home for San Francisco in 1919, bent on unearthing a guarded family secret)
Emily Mitchell, Far Ocean, Black Lawrence Press (tells the story of 18th-century botanist and explorer Jeanne Baret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe)
Syd Moore, The Final Act of Daphne Devine, Magpie (Daphne and one-time lover Jack have been sent to deliver The Grimoire, a centuries-old book filled with mysticism and spells, to a prominent SS officer)
Duncan Murrell, The Last Lilies of Giverny, Harper Select (Claude Monet captured light on the canvas in a way that changed art forever, but his own life holds dark secrets in this dual timeline novel set in 1914 and 1866)
Geraldine Norman, Learning to Drink What Came After, Allison & Busby (follows Geraldine in the drinking dens of Soho alongside artists and criminals, during the last days (and nights) of 1970s Fleet Street to the glamour of post-glasnost Saint Petersburg)
Tracie Peterson, What Time is Given, Bethany House (Christian historical western frontier novel set in a Pacific Northwest Washington coal mining small town)
Terrie Petree & Hollands, After the Wolf, Arcade (through faith, art and madness, debut taps into the deepest recesses of the search for belief and belonging in the religious embers of an evolving nation)
Rachel Rose, The Scarlet Daughter, Blackstone (illegitimate daughter, at the center of The Scarlet Letter, is a heroine who defies her station to become a portraitist for nobility and an avenger of wronged women)
Joachim Schmidt, trans. Jamie Lee Searle, Ósmann, Ferryman of the North, Bitter Lemon Press (historical fiction inspired by the true life of Jón Magnússon Ósmann (1862–1914), a legendary ferryman from northern Iceland)
Sharma Shields, Duckling, Henry Holt (retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s life and literary lineage is a testament to how imagination lives on even after the story has ended)
Dana Stabenow, The Iron Trail, Head of Zeus-Aries (undercover Pinkerton agent Clare Wright, who’s still in Fred Harvey’s employ, must find a killer in this mystery set in a bustling US frontier town during the 1890s)
Andrew Taylor, Treason, Hemlock Press (1688; Marwood’s investigation leads him to uncover a deadly and treasonous conspiracy, one that threatens the crown and the stability of the nation. Cat and Marwood series)
Charles Todd, A Deadly Cost, Mysterious Press (in 14th installment of the Bess Crawford mystery series, the wartime nurse investigates the disappearance of an old friend)
Rose Warner, The Teacher’s Secret, Canelo (when a new group of injured servicemen arrive at the village hospital, Nell discovers amongst them a man from her past, one she was hoping not to meet again)
Jacqueline Winspear, Charlie Bright, Soho (San Francisco, 1947; novel shines the spotlight on a rapidly changing America and the earliest glimmers of Silicon Valley, in a tale of a heroine demanding, and finding, justice)
Jaime Jo Wright, What the Forest Hides, Bethany House (dual timeline gothic mystery ghost story based on the 1936 disappearance of a little girl into the ominous woods)
April 2027
Anita Abriel, The Graduates, Blackstone (spotlights three protagonists at the pinnacle of each decade following their college graduation—through the swinging 60s, the liberating 70s, and the power-hungry 80s)
Nick Beckett, The Book of Martyrs, Pegasus (1595; a former thief and a famed astrologist are engulfed by persecution and murder during England’s Golden Age)
A. K. Blakemore, Doom Painting, Scribner (1381; narrative roves across England during the Peasants’ revolt and gives birth to its leader Wat Tyler, an opportunistic and mercurial rogue whose morality is birthed by the cause)
Maren Chase, We Have Hours Left ‘til Morning, Bloomsbury Archer (romantic speculative novel about two time-travel agents who fall in love after meeting again and again …… and again)
Séverine Cressan, trans. Sam Taylor, The Wet Nurse, Little, Brown/Brazen (feminist debut thriller about the lives of 18th-century village women; the domination of men over their bodies and their tooth and nail fight for survival)
Kay Daly, Wilton House, Regal House (17th-century poet Lady Mary Wroth finds scandal and independence through her writing and, four centuries later, inspires a young literary scholar to declare her own independence)
Liz Denchfield, The Spymaster’s Wife, Bedford Square (nineteen-year-old new wife Elizabeth finds her ‘diplomat’ husband’s espionage career affects every aspect of their life when they are posted to Cyprus in 1968)
Joanne Bischof DeWitt, A Love Beyond Persuasion, Tyndale (a young woman wrestles with the pain of her past and her hopes for the future in this retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, in Ohio 1899)
Gordon Doherty, The Eagle & the Wolf, HarperCollins (Age of Attila series—as Hun hordes and Germanic tribes maraud through Imperial lands, Attila the Hun and General Flavius Aetius find their fortunes entangled with the chaos)
Carol Drinkwater, The Girl From Marseille, Corvus (a novel of love, freedom and community set in Provence, 1938)
Claudia Durastanti, trans. Jamie Richards, Missitalia, S&S Summit (three women in three moments in time, connected across ancient and future worlds in this feminist saga, western, and speculative fiction mix)
Sean Ferrell, In the Fields We Thirst, Gallery (historical horror novel set during the devastation of World War I, where the terrors of the battlefield reveal something far worse than enemy fire across the dark, frozen trenches)
Elinor Florence, Grasslands, Simon & Schuster (historical novel set in the Western Canadian wilderness featuring two sisters, one who marries and goes to Canada, then disappears, the other who follows her from London to the NW Territories)
Peter K. Gikandi, Goma, S&S/Saga (Mombasa, 1898; based on a true story, debut brims with history and magic in a time and place where Christians, Hindus, Muslims, and Africans once collided)
Michelle Griep, The Winds of Stormhaven, Bethany House (historical romance threaded with mystery and peril and set on the rugged coast of England in 1877)
Stacey Halls, The Sitting Tenant, Bonnier (when Celia and Gregory Ringrose buy their first home in 1960, the only catch is the house comes with a sitting tenant, who seems normal, keeps herself to herself, and causes no trouble)
Emilia Hart, The Enigmas, St. Martin’s (novel about a woman who must turn back time to save her sister’s life, set against the backdrop of wartime Britain; set in London 1940 and 1915)
Lucy Holland, The Last Verse of the Harp Lord, Head of Zeus-AdAstra (fantasy novel set in Celtic Britain and based on traditional Welsh and Celtic myths and history)
Jane Kirkpatrick, Beyond the Breaking Waves, Revell (Christian fiction of pioneer life, faith, friendship and community set on the Oregon coast)
Wen-yi Lee, Where Rivers Made the Gods, Tor (Singapore, 1975; a city of warring gangs, blazing fire, and fading gods in this fantasy sequel to When They Burned the Butterfly)
Gay Marris, Fresh Blood on the Avenue, Bedford Square (residents of suburban Atbara Avenue enter 1970 with more dark and twisted goings-on behind closed doors in this dryly funny follow up to A Curtain Twitcher’s Book of Murder)
Ruta Mukerji, The Scalpel’s Edge, Simon & Schuster (Dr. Lydia Weston undertakes to clear the name of a woman surgeon embroiled in a medical scandal, set against the backdrop of the 1876 World’s Fair)
Milena Palminteri, Like the Bitter Orange, 37 Ink (spanning four decades, from the rise of fascism to the first stirrings of women’s independence, explored in a textured portrait of a changing Sicily)
Elaine Hume Peake and Don Keith, The Long Homecoming, Severn River (novel of duty, doubt, and the uneasy dawn of the Cold War is a testament to the soldiers who won one war—and were asked to fight another in the shadows)
Jennifer Robson, The Timefarers, William Morrow (magical novel featuring a secret society of time travelers, an Oxford student with extraordinary powers, and the discovery of a lifetime)
Abigail Savitch-Lew, Livonia Chow Mein, Simon & Schuster (story of family history and political upheaval centered around a Chinese family-owned restaurant in Brooklyn, and its impact on Jewish and Black residents over the course of a century)
Michelle Shocklee, The Poet of Moonshine Hill, Tyndale (dual timeline Southern novel about one woman torn between loyalty and the law and another seeking answers about a Depression-era arrest warrant in a National Park Service database; set in 1933 and 1983)
May 2027
Joy Callaway, The Last Role of Luella Vining, Harper Muse (June 1956; reclusive superstar Luella Vining announces she’ll appear on a press tour for her new film, the only problem is that Luella’s dead)
Reeta Chakrabarti, An Impossible Woman, HarperCollins (Paris, 1930; a novel about the price of genius, the hunger of ambition, and what it costs a woman to live entirely on her own terms)
Mary-Lou Stephens, The Hobart Hotel, HQ Fiction AU (dual timeline story of glamour, intrigue and two women who will gamble their lives to survive)
Julian Stockwin, Injured Honour, Hodder & Stoughton (book one in the Harry Wylde naval series, set in 1791, where one officer must claw his way back from disgrace to redemption)
Alison Weir, The Pretender’s Wife, Headline Review (tale of love, ambition, tragedy about the man who swears he is Richard Plantagenet – the young prince thought to have been murdered in the Tower twelve years earlier)
June 2027
Sophie Benoit, The Distinct Pleasure of Loathing You, Zando Slow Burn (a daring woman must share her home with a grumpy captain; Bancroft Sisters Regency Romance, Book 2)
July 2027
August 2027
Robert Knott, Opium Rose, Putnam (lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch must quell a brewing showdown in the early 1880s)
Craig Shreve, The Maroon King, Counterpoint/S&S Canada (a tale of rebellion, survival and the birth of freedom amid 16th-century Spanish Colonialism)
September 2027
Ken Follett, The Deep and Secret Things, Grand Central/ Quercus (tells of the rise and fall of a young man and his legacy, set against the backdrop of the Victorian era, at a time of immense social and industrial change)
