Historical Fiction

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...

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...

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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...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingSet against the turbulent backdrop of World War II, Silver Wings Santiago Blue is a sweeping, passionate saga that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew battles have seared themselves into a nation's soul as deeply as Gallipoli, and Jack Bennett's gripping novel brings that defining campaign to vivid, visceral life....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodOne of Australia's most controversial and enduring true stories comes alive in Kit Denton's The Breaker, a gripping account of Harry Breaker Morant — bush poet,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodSet in the wild, untamed Northern Territory of Australia during the early twentieth century, Capricornia is a sprawling, savage masterpiece that chronicles the lives of white...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodCaddie is one of Australia's most remarkable and enduring autobiographical works — a raw, unfiltered account of a woman's desperate struggle to survive the grinding poverty...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels have captured the sprawling, sun-baked spirit of colonial Australia with as much wit and irreverence as Such Is Life. Written under the pseudonym Tom...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels in the canon of Australian literature carry the raw moral weight of For the Term of His Natural Life, Marcus Clarke's monumental chronicle of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels capture the indomitable spirit of human endurance with the power and grace of Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice. Set against the brutal backdrop...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew adventure novels have burned as brightly in the literary imagination as Beau Geste, P.C....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the scrublands of post-Civil War Florida, a young boy named Jody Baxter discovers an orphaned fawn and brings it home, forging a bond that will...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodSet against the sweeping, sun-scorched landscapes of colonial Australia, Robbery Under Arms is a landmark novel of adventure and moral reckoning that chronicles the rise and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingSet against the sweeping backdrop of the American Civil War and Reconstruction-era Georgia, Gone With the Wind chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew novels in the English literary canon match the audacious vitality of The History of Tom Jones: A...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAgainst the brooding, untamed expanse of Egdon Heath — a landscape so vivid it becomes a character unto...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew novels capture the intoxicating collision of American innocence and European sophistication with such precision as The Ambassadors....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodWhat begins as the madcap misadventures of a sun-baked Castilian nobleman who has read too many chivalric...

Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the heart of Western literature stands a poem of unrelenting power — The Iliad, Homer's sweeping account of...

Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFirst published in 1726, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels stands as one of the most audacious and enduring works in...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew novels have captured the restless spirit of American freedom quite like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the heart of Honoré de Balzac's Père Goriot lies one of literature's most devastating portraits of parental...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew opening lines in all of literature carry the quiet thunder of Call me Ishmael — and from...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodSet against the rarefied air of a Swiss Alpine sanatorium in the years preceding the First World War,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew novels in the American literary canon have so radically dismantled the conventions of storytelling as William Faulkner's...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew works in the English language have endured as magnificently as Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales — a dazzling...