Historical Fiction

Set in Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia, King Rat is an heroic story of survival told by a master story-teller who lived through those years...

Set in an ancient Viking world full of brooding Norse mythology and bloodthirsty battles, Viking - Odinn's Child is the stunning first volume in an epic historical fiction trilogy. Our...

An atmospheric love story set in Edwardian Suffolk. Commercial literary fiction at its best. Set on the windswept Suffolk coast, Footsteps tells the story of recently-widowed Helena Mayrick, who is...

The eagerly-awaited return to the acclaimed Morland Dynasty series, and the 100th novel by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles England, 1936 The reign of Edward VIII has begun, but danger for the monarchy...

Summer 1312. The brutal murder of King Edward II's favourite, Peter Gaveston, unleashes a horde of demons . . . Sir Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the Secret Seal, hastens to...

When two-year-old John Baron is rescued from war-torn France by his father's cousin, Ben, his future is irrevocably changed. John Baron is brought up as Ben's son, unaware that the...

All four Our Australian Girl- Poppy stories in one beautiful hardback edition, with a bonus new chapter by author Gabrielle Wang at the end! It's 1864 . . . and...

Birds of Prey is a 1997 novel by Wilbur Smith set in the late 17th century.[1] The novel was the first in the third sequence of the Courtney series of...

The highly anticipated, unforgettable new story from the internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning author of WONDER. When Silas Bird wakes in the dead of night, he watches powerlessly as three strangers take...

The Unexpected Duke - Julia Justiss A Duke in sudden need of a Duchess! When Lieutenant Hartley returns home, it's to become - reluctantly he might add - the new...

The year is 1946. A stunned Europe is beginning its slow recovery from the ravages of World War II. Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother...

A cross between The Boy in Striped Pyjamas and The Diary of Anne Frank. No Stars at the Circus is the beautifully told story of 10-year-old Jonas Albers, as written...

'A heart-warming tale about resilience, friendships and family, and the inestimable power of the written word' RUTH HOGAN 'A heart-warming depiction of strong female friendships tested by suffering - Annie...

New South Wales, 1856: Miles McGinty and Isabel Dowling are born on the same night into different worlds. Miles is the illegitimate son of an actress in a troupe of...

A gripping tale of a daring heroine testing her wits against a backdrop of secrets, spies and smugglers in perilous Far North Queensland in the late nineteenth century and based...

It has been twenty years since the Romans first occupied Britannia, and the rebellion by Boudica and her people nears its bloody climax. Now, as the Roman army marches on...

Scottish entrepreneurs aimed to cut a road across the infested swamps of Panama's Darien peninsula. Seen through the eyes of young Scot, Roderick Mackenzie, this book describes the horrors and...

AD 60. Macro and Cato - two battle-scarred heroes of the Roman army - face tribal uprisings and battles to the death with unmatched courage in barbaric Britannia. The hard-won...

Based on real events, I WAS JANE AUSTEN'S BEST FRIEND is the secret diary of Jenny Cooper, Jane Austen's teenage friend and confidante. Their evenings are a blur of beautiful...

From New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer comes an exuberant YA historical coming-of-age novel about a rising star French pianist, navigating his way into high society as he explores...

In this queer retelling of the classic novel and third book in Tirzah Price's Jane Austen Murder Mystery series, Mansfield Park is the center of a deadly accident (or is...

ROYALIST REBEL is the story of Elizabeth Murray, later Countess Dysart, during the English Civil War; a passionate, determined young woman dedicated to Ham House, the Royalist cause and the...

"The sweetest, most uplifting, lovely book about courage, friendship, love ... It'll be huge; it deserves to be" Marian Keyes, author of The Break London, 1940. Emmeline Lake and her...

More than three centuries ago, Nicholas Winters irrevocably altered his genetic makeup in an obsession-fueled competition with alchemist and Arcane Society founder Sylvester Jones. Driven to control their psychic abilities,...

A VANITY FAIR, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY AND LIT HUB 'MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019' 'A TREMENDOUSLY TALENTED WRITER' Ann Patchett NORA is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return...

From the winner of the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize. 'A jewel of a novel- luminous, vivid, and deftly shaped.' FIONA McFARLANE Told from five different points of view, each one...

In late nineteenth-century Devon, Hester Redding longs to experience the excitement and new ideas that the approaching century brings but family responsibilities tie her to an arranged marriage and a...

Georgie Blalock, the acclaimed author of The Other Windsor Girl , delivers an enchantingly reimagined fictional portrait of Wallis Simpson through the lens of her cousin who is engaged to...

The second book in a new epic fantasy trilogy by British author Jane Welch Silas has fled with the broken Chalice of OEnd, forcing the companions to flee into the...

THE EPIC CONCLUSION TO THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING ELEMENTS OF CADENCE DUOLOGY The stunning sequel to A River Enchanted finds the delicate balance between the human and faerie realm...

A heartbreaking new novel of grief, family and the enduring power of love from the author of We Must Be Brave When I open my eyes I see a small...

From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta...

Author: Irving StoneBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell and Co, 1971Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA novel about Sigmund Freud--the complex man whose life was a tumultuous drama of courage,...

Author: Sir W. S. GilbertBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan Co. Ltd, 1979Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Yeomen of the Guard is a celebrated comic opera. This work unfolds...

Author: Robert StandishBinding: HardbackPublished: Peter Davies, 1950Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThe story of two upright Britons, Peter and his wife, Sue, and the conflict in their...

Author: Robert GravesBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1957Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA self-confessed forger, cheat, thief, and petty criminal, William Palmer was also a surgeon...

From The Times bestselling author of The Other Mrs Walker - Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2017 - comes Mary Paulson-Ellis's second stunning historical mystery, The Inheritance of Solomon...

Texas Kidnapping Target - Laura Scott A child in jeopardy. A lawman on a mission. When an intruder attempts to kidnap rancher Mari Lynch's four-year-old son, she fears it's connected...

In the final days of the Chinese empire, Orchid, a beautiful 17-year-old from an aristocratic but impoverished family, is pushed into the maelstrom of politics when she is chosen to...

He races to complete their mission against escalating odds - his task made more perilous when he loses his heart. She's determined to defy convention and live a solitary life...

Georgie Blalock, the acclaimed author of The Other Windsor Girl , delivers an enchantingly reimagined fictional portrait of Wallis Simpson through the lens of her cousin who is engaged to...

The hilarious new graphic novel series packed with facts - perfect for fans of A Day in the Life of a Poo, a Gnu and You , Bunny Vs Monkey...

An enchanting take on the legend of King Arthur from War Horse author and former Children's Laureate, Michael Morpurgo. Marooned on a sandbank, a boy faces certain death. With the...

Arrows will fly. Swords will swing. Heroes will fall. Legends will survive. And the Holy Land will never be the same. 1190 AD: Richard the Lionheart has launched his epic...

A mother can never be free until she finds her children... The Good Morning America Book Club Pick February 2023 is a soaring novel inspired by true events. 'A strong...

A groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed debut novel of friendship and freedom that crosses continents and centuries, in a timeslip story exploring the legacy of slavery, selected as The Times Children's Book...

Freedom - in eleventh-century France, it is a luxury enjoyed by only the King and nobility. For the serf, it is surely worth fighting for. But is it worth dying...