Fiction

A chronicle of the life and love of Ansiau and Alis in 12th-century France. Set in the time of the Third Crusade, Zoe Oldenbourg's novel (a translation of ARGILE ET...

From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Yellow Birds comes a gorgeous, haunting love story set in the Virginia mountains and on the battlefields of World War I France....

A story of complicated families and a wartime secret that ripples down through the generations from a writer of exceptional talent. Tommaso is just about making it work: travelling abroad...

Sometimes when you are looking for the dead, you find the living. When Irene joins the International Tracing Service, she becomes consumed by a singular obsession: returning the belongings confiscated...

Compromised With Her Forbidden Viscount - Diane Gaston To escape scandal... she must elope with the enemy! Anna Edgerton and Viscount Willburgh were raised as sworn enemies. But when they're...

Tarpagnan, an army captain, has fallen in love with Gabriella Pucci, the mistress of Paris's greatest villain. As Tarpagnan searches the underworld for Gabriella, unknown to him, Grondin is searching...

The White Company is a motley group of English mercenaries, bound by unquestioning respect for social order, patriotism and lust for adventure, they make their way to fight in local...

Zummo - a 17th- century prodigy and creator of figures so realistic they look as though they might draw breath - has spent his life fleeing his past. Summoned to...

A moving novel from the bestselling author of HOW TO BE PARISIAN WHEREVER YOU ARE "A deeply moving book." -LEILA SLIMANI *** "A powerful exploration of family trauma." -LAUREN ELKIN...

Fulcun Geroy, a brooding young lord in eleventh-century Normandy, is torn between his love for God and his obsession with the wife of a rival at the court of William...

1587 and the Spanish are preparing to launch the Armada, their Holy Enterprise of England, to rescue the English from heresy and Elizabeth, their Witch-Queen. Ex-soldier David Becket, now responsible...

'An author who makes history come gloriously alive' The Times 'Meticulous research and strong storytelling' Woman & Home 'A sumptuous ride' Toby Clements , Daily Telegraph ********************** Eleanor of Aquitaine...

Michaelhouse is in uproar: Kenyngham the saintly but ageing Master has announced his retirement and with unseemly haste Runham arranges his own 'election' as his successor. Within days he has...

A gripping novel of love, murder and espionage. . . A cryptic summons from Lady Marchamont launches a London bookseller on an odessey through the back alleys and secret corridors...

High summer in the year of our Lord 1365, and Owen Archer finds himself once again called upon by Archbishop Thoresby to exercise his skills as detective. While York celebrates...

1953. Mei's 'gift' of speaking to ghosts is one that she has endeavoured to bury while fighting to survive as a refugee in post-war, post-revolution Hong Kong. When former silent...

From Edith Pargeter, who also wrote as Ellis Peter, BROTHERS OF GWYNNED is an epic quartet of novels telling the dramatic tale of Llewelyn, the first true Prince of Wales....

A heart-wrenching novel that captures the love affair between two unforgettable people: Ingrid Bergman and Robert Capa June, 1945. In newly liberated Paris, battle-ravaged photographer Robert Capa is drowning his...

Cold. Ruthless. Deadly. The myth of Lady Macbeth looms large. But behind the villainous portrait stands a real woman. This is her story . . . Scotland, 1020 AD -...

1513, King James IV lies dead on Flodden's field, his young heir entrusted to two loyal lairds. There are many who seek to supplant or control the boy-king, and as...

Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in south Germany, was one of the world's greatest mathematicians and astronomers. The author of this book uses this history as a background to his...

This is the second medieval mystery from Sharon Penman, following Justin de Quincy, knight in the service of Queen Eleanor. His duty is clear: to restrain his brother Prince John...

Can the greatest classical philosopher solve the oldest crime known to man? 330BC: it is the year that Alexander the Great sacked Persepolis and won the greatest fortune the world...

THE GRIPPING THIRD NOVEL IN THE MARGARET KERR MYSTERY SERIES FROM THE AUTHOR OF A TRUST BETRAYED AND THE FIRE IN THE FLINT Fans of Ellis Peters, S J Parris,...

The year is 1562. Lady Catherine Grey, cousin of Elizabeth I, has just been arrested along with her husband Edward. Their crime is to have secretly married and produced a...

'A book of such quality as to persuade you that historical novels are the true business of the writer.' Daily Telegraph A gripping, shocking story of history, enlightement and slavery...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodNew York City's smoky jazz clubs and glittering speakeasies of the 1930s pulse with danger in Rubout at the Onyx, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedSet against the vivid backdrop of Tang Dynasty China, Poets and Murder thrusts the brilliant magistrate Judge Dee into a...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodSet against the vivid, sun-scorched backdrop of a tropical island teeming with danger and mystery, The Voice of the Crab by Geraldine...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA race against time ignites in The Mason Codex, a gripping thriller by Jo Bannister in which an ancient manuscript becomes...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodA quiet English village is shaken to its core when its beloved curate is found dead under...

Edition: Second Impression Before Publication.Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: DJ is foxed with minor soiling to top-edge. Foxing to pages.A masterwork...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Edges scuffed from age war, foxed fore-edge and FEP. Set against the richly layered backdrop of Tang...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFirst published in 1867, Ivan Turgenev's Smoke is a masterwork of Russian realism that cuts to the heart...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the shimmering, perilous world of Arthurian legend, the Knights of the Round Table embark on the most sacred and impossible of missions — the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA lone woman surrounded by a circle of brooding, shadowed faces — welcome to Murder in White Pit, a gripping...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the sweeping grandeur of Australia's mighty Murray River in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, All the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingSet against the sweeping backdrop of war and upheaval, Dawn Like Thunder by Roderick Macdonald chronicles the fortunes...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom one of mid-century America's most compelling storytellers comes The Violent Shore, a visceral and emotionally charged novel that plunges...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the harrowing final chapter of one of World War II's most brutal sagas, thousands of Allied prisoners of war who survived...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the shadowy ruins of post-World War II Europe, The Eighth Dwarf plunges readers into a labyrinthine world...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the freezing skies above the Korean Peninsula, a war-weary Navy pilot must confront the brutal, unforgiving calculus of modern...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedWhen a mystery unfolds in the very birthplace of the world's greatest playwright, the stakes are as high as the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingBefore the age of commercial flight, one man dared to conquer the vast and unforgiving skies of Australia — Andy is the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodVictorian London's fog-shrouded streets conceal a multitude of secrets, and when a celebrated dancing lady is found dead under mysterious circumstances, Sergeant Bragg and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA lone figure trudges through a desolate winter landscape, bare trees clawing at a grey sky — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn an age when powered flight was barely a dream, H. G. Wells conjured a nightmarish vision of the skies transformed into a battlefield in The...