Historical Fiction

In 1882 human remains were discovered at the Sinkings, a lonely campsite near Albany, Western Australia. The surgeon conducting the autopsy claimed they were those of a woman. Why, then,...

Master storyteller Tom Palmer returns with a deeply moving and beautifully told novel of friendship and belonging, inspired by the incredible true story of the Windermere Boys. " The best...

Alternating between 1961 and 1973, The Hollow Girl is the stunning new literary suspense novel from the award-winning author of The Silent Listener. HARROWFORD HALL A safe haven for lost...

Charles Dickens captures the spirit of Christmas in this classic holiday novella A Christmas Carol , Dickens's timeless tale of greed, regret, and reform-featuring a beautiful new look! In one...

A Stylist Best Book of 2020 You're free to decide your future. But how do you escape the ghosts of the past? A stunning debut novel with echoes of Yaa...

The year is 1905 and King Edward VII has invited himself and his mistress to a shooting weekend with the Dilbernes. Now Isobel, the Countess, must turn a run-down mansion...

From the bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden , Kate Morton brings us her trademark mix of secrets, lies, and intricately layered mysteries in The...

WHATEVER LIFE BRINGS, THE SHOW MUST GO ON ... 1910. With the disappearance of her mother and the sudden death of her father, Lena instantly loses any security she has...

'It was a special protection from the gods that Silver Frond's beauty manifested itself only after the barbarians had left...A beautiful child-woman, in that intriguing in-between stage when people could...

In the village of Melford, a local lord is executed for a spate of vicious murders. It's not until the killing begins again, and the dead lord's son alleges that...

The death of Lord Henry Fitzalan on the feast of St Matthew, 1303, is a matter widely reported but little mourned. Infamous for his lecherous tendencies, his midnight trysts with...

The golden summer of 1303 and Oxford is plunged into chaos. The severed heads of beggars have been tied by their hair to the trees in woods outside the city....

1303 and the Old Man of the Mountain remembers back to when he nearly killed Edward I thirty years before. He now decides to release an imprisoned leper knight to...

November 1302, and Sir Hugh Corbett, Edward I's Keeper of the Secret Seal, together with his manservant, Ranulf, and messenger, Maltote, are sent to Mortlake Manor on the Norfolk coast...

In early 1302 a violent serial killer lurks in the city of London, slitting the throats of prostitutes.And when Lady Somerville, one of the Sisters of St Martha, is murdered...

It is 1301 and a fragile peace exists between Edward of England and Philip IV of France. In the fetid alleys and slums of London and Paris it is a...

Edward I of England and Philip IV of France are at war. Philip, by devious means, has managed to seize control of the English duchy of Aquitaine in France, and...

1286 and on a storm-ridden night King Alexander III of Scotland is riding across the Firth of Forth to meet his beautiful French bride Yolande. He never reaches his final...

1284 and Edward I is battling a traitorous movement founded by the late Simon de Montfort, the rebel who lost his life at the Battle of Evesham in 1258. The...

England, late 1930s, and Alice Wright - restless, stifled - makes an impulsive decision to marry wealthy American Bennett van Cleve and leave her home and family behind. But stuffy,...

Married at sixteen. A queen at twenty-five. Declared insane by the husband she adored, and locked up by her beloved father. Juana la Loca was the last true queen of...

Home is where life begins and love never ends. She longed to be reunited with her family. The compelling new novel from the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of...

A darkly romantic Rapunzel reimagining from the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of WHEN THE MOON HATCHED. "What a pretty flower to keep locked in a big, rocky tower."...

The compelling new bestseller from the author of The Mersey Daughter and Winter on the Mersey. Alice Lake and her friend Edith have had everything thrown at them in their...

A brilliant, hilarious one-off novel in the Skulduggery Pleasant universe, from number-one-bestselling author Derek Landy. This time, the bad guys take the stage. Tanith Low, now possessed by a remnant,...

Secondhand Australian Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2821 Twenty-two titles spanning six decades of Australian fiction, from George Johnston's beloved My Brother Jack and Roger McDonald's 1915 to Peter Carey's Amnesia...

Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2823 Twenty-one titles spanning the full arc of modern literary fiction — from Kafka's The Trial and Hemingway's short stories to four Philip Roth...

Kathryn Stockett's first novel since the global bestselling phenomenon THE HELP- the sweeping story of a group of underestimated women and an 11-year-old orphan girl whose fates converge in Mississippi...

An Observer , Guardian, Financial Times , Sunday Times South Africa , Irish Times, Irish Independent , Big Issue and Strong Words Pick of the Year An Irish Times and...

A totally absorbing, tense and dark 12th-century medieval crime story with a charming and engaging hero, the Chevalier Galeran. Blue Blood is set in Chartres. In 1134, a fire destroyed...

It is 1854, and with the certainty of land behind her, Sarah flees her home for the uncertainties of life in the new colony. In steerage, she joins the other...

Over one hundred years have passed since Dirk Struan founded Hong Kong's oldest trading company. But now, the Noble House is in danger. As Hong Kong itself becomes the deadly...

"Haunting and bittersweet, lush and vivid, this extraordinary story has lived with me since I first read it." -- Naomi Novik, author of His Majesty's Dragon The world is ending....

In 1731, leaving their home and the Age of Reason behind them, two brothers set sail from a castle in Portugal and travel ...up. Bartolomeu has built the world's first...

"Crichton's ultimate adventure."-- San Francisco Chronicle " Pirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action....A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure." -- USA Today "Riveting....Great entertainment....The pages and minutes fly by."...

'Fast-paced and exciting. This is Chinn's first foray into Tudor fiction, and I hope it won't be her last. An ideal read for fans of Philippa Gregory and Joanna Courtney'...

'Ridonkulously funny and every kid should get their hooter into this Total Winner of graphic novel' - JENNY PEARSON, The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates 'Hugely enjoyable, surreal chaos'...

A deliciously gothic story of wishes and curses - a new dark fairy tale set against a Victorian backdrop full of lace and smoke. Once upon a time Ella had...

Secondhand Vintage Adventure Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2793 Ten Choose Your Own Adventure classics — all from the iconic R.A. Montgomery run of the series — are joined by three...

Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2825 A box dominated by D.H. Lawrence — eight titles spanning his novels, novellas, travel writing, and collaborations — alongside four Compton Mackenzie comedies,...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. small tear on title page. A thrilling work of science fiction and detective...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA sweeping work of historical fantasy and satirical fiction, My First Two Thousand Years: The Autobiography of the Wandering Jew chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA rare and charming work of early twentieth-century Australian fiction, Letters From Queer Street: Being Some Of The Correspondence Of...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Binding loose - pages still intact. A landmark work of literary criticism and appreciation, Pre-Raphaelite and Other Poets presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA harrowing work of Holocaust memoir and historical narrative, A Generation of Wrath: A Story of Embattlement, Survival and Deliverance...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark of Soviet literature, Virgin Soil Upturned: A Novel, Book One chronicles the turbulent collectivization of a Don Cossack...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA gripping work of historical naval fiction, A Brig of War chronicles the perilous adventures of Nathaniel Drinkwater, a young...