Historical Fiction

Huge floodwaters have engulfed a remote Victorian goldfield, reducing the prospect of digging up a fortune from very slim to impossible, and adding disease to the many possibilities of sudden...

There was once no greater advocate for revolution than Michel Wery. No voice spoke louder, was more impassioned, on the need for a new order, for an end to disparity...

'A gorgeously written, surrealist folktale that goes bone deep. Compelling, thought-provoking, thrilling, haunting , Yvonne Battle-Felton's Curdle Creek is simply a marvel ' Paul Tremblay, author of THE CABIN AT...

* Icarus 17, the fourth book in the gripping Lachlan Kite thriller series is available to pre-order now!* The second book in Charles Cumming's gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX...

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...

'Traces Diana's journey from shy schoolgirl to blushing bride with verve, wit and a dash of foreboding' Daily Mail 'Touching and distinctive' Rachel Hore 'Riveting, revealing, an absolute must-read' Imogen...

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...

A nobleman must work with a dashing soldier to save his sister from a mystical bargain gone awry in this irresistible Regency romance from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material...

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...

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...

Set on a New Zealand Navy frigate during theKorean War, Boy Seaman Russell Purchas is determined to prove he can be brave when it comes to battle with the Communists....

Mid-13th century India. Princess Rani's marriage to a prince from Kashi is imminent, even though she has only lived thirteen rainy seasons. But the princess and her sisters are kidnapped...

Something is happening. I can hear bullets going off, and people are running down towards the Eureka field... In 1854 Rosa Aarons and her family travel from London to the...

1953. When a funeral brings the Langdon family together once more, they little realize how much, over the coming years, each of their worlds will shift and change. For now...

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...

Sylvia Hoveden has travelled from England to find her twin brother, Felix, in Australia. But when she arrives she meets another girl, Anje Otsoa, who is also looking for someone,...

'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...

Paris, 1815. Napoleon has just surrendered at Waterloo and is due to begin his exile. Meanwhile, Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, has just arrived in Paris to...

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...

England in the closing days of the reign of King John is brought vividly to life by one of our finest historical novelists. Despite having signed the Magna Carta and...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2023 This extraordinarily affecting debut novel captures life inside the Siege of Sarajevo. Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse...

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...

The Texas Valentine Twins - Cathy Gillen Thacker A Sweetheart deal. Wyatt Lockhart is bound to regret moving in with Adelaide Smythe. She's broken the Texas rancher's heart before, and...

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,...

Friendship forms in the midst of war between a young German boy and a Russian bomber-dog, in this poignant and gripping historical adventure. East Prussia, Germany, 1945. War is raging...

Inspired by the life of Rose Bertin, Katherine Woodfine's stunning Little Gem is written with an evocative sense of period furthered by fresh and beautiful full-colour illustrations by Kate Pankhurst....

The second captivating novel featuring intrepid heroine Tatty Crowe and the fascinating world of Sydney's Victorian funeral business, from bestselling historical fiction author Deborah Challinor. Sydney, 1871. Twenty-five-year-old widow Tatty...

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...

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...

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...

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...