Historical Fiction

Two sleepless teenagers find kinship as they escape to their school's astronomy observatory. Unable to sleep at night, Ganta Nakami is cranky in class and unpopular with his classmates. He...

It's 1986, and 'beautiful, radical ideas' are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In bohemian St Kilda she meets artists,...

Nan is captivated by the music hall phenomenon that is Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages...

The new sweet and wild romantic comedy from the creator of the hit manga and anime about food and family, Sweetness & Lightning! A desperate manga artist, called on to...

The new sweet and wild romantic comedy from the creator of the hit manga and anime about food and family, Sweetness & Lightning! A desperate manga artist, called on to...

A high school romantic comedy with five times the cute girls! A high school boy must work part-time to help five sisters study so they can graduate, but the only...

A Vietnam-era Breakfast Club bonds over music and their distaste for the Vietnam War and decides to take a stand against the US government and the violent racism in their...

A high school romantic comedy with five times the cute girls! A high school boy must work part-time to help five sisters study so they can graduate, but the only...

A high school romantic comedy with five times the cute girls! A high school boy must work part-time to help five sisters study so they can graduate, but the only...

A high school romantic comedy with five times the cute girls! A high school boy must work part-time to help five sisters study so they can graduate, but the only...

' Exquisite ' Financial Times 'Funny and moving, full of surprises and challenging ideas' Times Literary Supplement 'Deeply satisfying' Guardian 'O'Riordan imbues his narrative with an acutely modern awareness of...

The Quirks are a rather special family with rather magical powers and, sometimes, when the Quirks are involved, things don't quite go to plan! Just as the Quirks are settling...

Rural England, 1235 - Brother Petroc is living a simple life as a novice monk. Struggling to keep his soul fairly clean and worrying most about resisting the local girls,...

'The blue rectangle which enclosed me for a time and made me feel safe. The blue embrace...For six weeks, at the age of fifty-nine, one last dance with youth. It...

Behind doors is another story. Behind doors you can do what you like. Sophia - rational, demure, and hiding a 'little weakness' - has recently married the charismatic Mr Zedland....

The epic new novel in Conn Iggulden's bestselling EMPEROR series. Julius Caesar has been assassinated. A nation is in mourning. Revenge will be bloody. Rome's great hero Julius Caesar has...

THE PALE HORSEMAN is the compelling sequel to the bestselling THE LAST KINGDOM. Uhtred, Northumbrian born, raised a Viking and now married to a Saxon, is already a formidable figure...

'Wonderfully written, this is one of the best reads this year.' W oman's Day On the eve of the first world war, a little girl is found abandoned on a...

An innocent pawn. A kingdom without a king. A new dynasty will reign... 1415. The jewel in the French crown, Katherine de Valois, is waiting under lock and key for...

'Tense and fast-paced with refreshingly unique supernatural elements, this dark fantasy should win Rushby plenty of new fans.' - Publishers Weekly A spellbinding tale of sisterhood, betrayal and reclamation revolving...

When the starving Durbeyfields from the small village of Marlott discover a connection to the wealthy D'Urbervilles, they send their beautiful daughter Tess to the D'Urberville mansion to claim kinship...

Can a man be maimed by witchcraft? Can a severed head speak? Based on the most notorious of English witch-trials, this is a tale of magic, superstition, conscience and ruthless...

This book draws all the emotions out of you. I went from tears to snorting with laughter. It was both lighthearted and heart breaking, yet it inspires me to live...

The sensational historical fiction debut from Sunday Times bestseller Dan Jones. A BBC History 2022 Book of the Year! July 1346. The Hundred Years' War has begun, and King Edward...

Three powerful heroines - a queen, a sorceress and woman made of flowers - plot revenge against the villain who wronged them. A gorgeously dark debut novel inspired by Celtic...

A captivating story of friendship, love and betrayal - and finding hope in the darkness of war. For fans of The Paris Seamstress and The Pearl Thief . London, 1939....

In 406 BC, to seal a tenuous truce, the young Roman Caecilia is wedded to Vel Mastarna, an Etruscan nobleman from the city of Veii. The fledgling Republic lies only...

Robert Harris returns to Ancient Rome in his latest thriller. Julius Caesar is dead, and the lives of two teenaged boys are about to be changed forever. One is Caesar's...

Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal, 2018 Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Every summer Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to hunt birds....

A novelisation of ITV's SANDITON , an unfinished Jane Austen story Written only months before Austen's death in 1817, SANDITON tells the story of the joyously impulsive, spirited and unconventional...

A spellbinding new enemies-to-lovers fantasy series sending shockwaves through TikTok Has she been sent to save the realm or destroy it? As Spymaster to the Queen, Aya's blood oath ensures...

A epic tale of intrigue and danger, filled with tension, excitement and romance. New South Wales, 1947: When Shelly Wareing's husband Cole vanishes into the night, leaving only a note...

Brother Petroc is living a simple life as a novice monk in rural England. Struggling to keep his soul fairly clean and worrying most about resisting the local girls, he...

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'I want to tell a story. A long but simple story. A tale of long recovery. A tale of love. A tale of lost and found.' In his remarkable new...

'Please send snaps of my dear mother and father, my sisters Sarah and Evelyn, and my bonzer little poddy calf, Zeus.' It's 1917, three years into the Great War, when...

JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of...

A marvelous debut novel about love and basketball, time travel and rock'n'roll. Thirty years in the writing, Selden Edwards' dazzling first novel is an irresistible triumph of the imagination. Wheeler...

Scarlett, the sequel to Gone with the Wind, is the all-time first-day bestselling hardcover. Now its author, Alexandra Ripley, presents a sweeping saga of a powerful American dynasty at the...

The diary of Tilly Middleton, London, 1553-1559 12th February, 1554 Through my roof hole I am watching the final touches being put to the scaffold on Tower Green. It is...

Go with God and Fight Like the Devil. A fascinating hero and the pursuit of a sword with mythical power - this is the remarkable new novel by Britain's master...

A funny, life-affirming graphic novel from award-winning Australian creator Gus Gordon. Best friends Luis and Pablo spend their days wandering through nature, playing songs on the guitar, and eating pinecone...

A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR Who was the real George Eliot? In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling story of England's greatest...

In the 1600s Sara de Vos loses her young daughter suddenly to illness. In her grief, she secretly begins painting a dark landscape of a girl watching a group of...

A master storyteller's novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early Manhattan, Ravage & Son reflects the lost world of Manhattan's Lower East Side - the cradle of Jewish immigration...

Where there's muck, there's mettle Dolly Tomkins has always known what it is to live hand to mouth. In the mean streets of a Salford struggling under the mantle of...

'Real sagas with female characters right at the heart' Woman's Hour If you love Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin, you'll LOVE Glenda Young's 'a mazing novels!' (ITV's This Morning presenter...