Nestle Up With These December New Historical Fiction Releases

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How do you like your historical fiction, distant or within-living-memory close? These new historical fiction releases for December provide both, from thirteenth-century Bruges (modern-day Belgium) to New York in the 1980s. There are generational family sagas and haunting portraits of post-colonial life. If youโ€™re still looking for a few more historical fiction books to read before the end of the year, then youโ€™ll be happy you found your way here.

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Canticle by Janet Rich Edwards

Release date: Dec 2, 2025

A sixteen-year-old in thirteenth-century Bruges runs away from an unwelcome marriage only to find a new home amongst a group of religious women. The Beguines are strong-willed, independent women who have sworn themselves, not to the Church, but to a life of religious devotion. But there are those who do not appreciate women practicing religion outside the strict confines of the Church, and as tension grows between the Beguines and a bishop, Aleys and the women around her will have to plumb the depths of what it means to sacrifice for love.

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