Historical Fiction

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD 'Funny, fast-paced and dark... with dialogue that absolutely crackles' ELODIE HARPER...

An estate on the line. A marriage of convenience. A bride with a hidden past... Read the spellbinding new Regency novel from multi-award-winning author Sally Gardner. AN ESTATE ON THE...

A Convenient Bride For The Soldier Ex-soldier Frederick Challenger may own a share of London's most secret gentlemen's club, but he has long since stopped sampling its delights...until a beautiful...

'Bloody and beguiling.' THE TIMES 'A salty, action-packed saga.' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Perfect for Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell fans.' DAILY EXPRESS Spanning the sacking of England's south coast by...

Don't miss LION HEARTS , the final heart-stopping novel in the Essex Dogs trilogy from bestselling historian Dan Jones - available to pre-order now. 'Draws you in page by page....

A thrilling middle grade YA adventure from internationally bestselling children's author, Anna Woltz London, September 1940. Deep in the tunnels of the Underground, hidden from the bombs, four teenagers meet....

The course of true love never did run smooth, but now you have only yourself to blame. No more throwing books across the room in frustration at the naive, hasty...

' Boudicca's Daughter is Elodie Harper's masterpiece.' Costanza Casati, author of Babylonia 'One of the best books I have ever read.' Bea Fitzgerald, author of Girl, Goddess, Queen 'Certainly my...

An estate on the line. A marriage of convenience. A bride with a hidden past... Read the spellbinding new Regency novel from multi-award-winning author Sally Gardner. AN ESTATE ON THE...

An estate on the line. A marriage of convenience. A bride with a hidden past... Read the spellbinding new Regency novel from multi-award-winning author Sally Gardner. AN ESTATE ON THE...

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES SHE IS the daughter of a disgraced physician, forced to work in the kitchen of a great eighteenth-century Spanish house, hiding her intense agoraphobia from...

A page-turning, laugh-out-loud historical adventure by comedian and broadcaster Iszi Lawrence (as seen on Netflix and Sky History) , perfect for fans of Horrible Histories . Sunil and his scientist...

'One of my favourite webcomics of all time' Alice Oseman Boy moves to new city. Boy meets vampire. They kiss, then become friends. But both would like something more... A...

From the multi-award-winning author - a beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel telling the story of a young girl's battle for survival and search for the truth in occupied Vienna **WINNER OF...

The Times top ten bestseller 'As tightly tuned as a thriller' Telegraph 'A marvel' Kiran Millwood Hargrave 'Compelling, vividly described magic' Observer 'Historical fiction as it should be written' Mail...

The Times top ten bestseller 'As tightly tuned as a thriller' Telegraph 'A marvel' Kiran Millwood Hargrave 'Compelling, vividly described magic' Observer 'Historical fiction as it should be written' Mail...

'A beautiful, perfect, moving read' - Cecelia Ahern, author of PS, I Love You The outstanding novel from the Carnegie Medal-winning, former Laureate na nOg Sarah Crossan; thought-provoking and moving,...

' Beautiful and heartbreaking ... I absolutely loved it ' MONICA ALI 'A poignant, captivating, beautifully woven family saga. As honest as Elena Ferrante, with the folkloric intensity of Tea...

The Duke's Runaway Bride - Jenni Fletcher From shopkeeper... to Duke's wife. When Beatrix, Duchess of Howden, writes to her estranged husband offering a divorce, she's stunned when he arrives...

* THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * 'An enthralling read' GUARDIAN 'A thrilling blend of fantasy and horror, richly imagined and masterfully executed' SFX 'Terrific . . . A book...

From the author of the Gael Song trilogy, an epic new historical fantasy set in the tumultuous, magical world of medieval Ireland during the time of the Norman invasion. Over...

THE THRILLING NEW HISTORICAL ADVENTURE NOVEL FROM BOYD AND BETH MORRISON - DUEL OF BEASTS - AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW! The thrilling new historical adventure in the Tales of the...

Lady Morgan surveys her life at Camelot: an unhappy marriage and a vengeful husband determined to keep their son from his queen's clutches, a true love she can't be with,...

In this spellbinding novel, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets. Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother...

She needs a home, he needs a bride ... neither wants to fall in love. 1402, the Anglo-Scottish border. To fulfil his father's dying wish, border laird Lachlan Elliot must...

'Paul Halter is France's answer to John Dickson Carr' Martin Edwards The ultimate locked-room mystery. In Paul Halter's The Fourth Door , the impossible becomes reality. A haunted room. An...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR LISA SCOTTOLINE RETURNS 'A compelling thriller with dashes of romance and excellent twists!' New York Times and #1 International Bestselling author, Karin Slaughter When Julia's...

'Mothers who have come before. Daughters who have died in blood. Sons lost to the dark. Hear me' 'Ancient Rome provides rich plunder for fantasy writers...Godstorm is a grand addition...

Multi-award-winning author Tom Palmer shines a light on life under wartime occupation, in a beautifully told story inspired by the childhood of Hollywood legend Audrey Hepburn. As the brutal Second...

From the author of the multi-million-copy classic, and The Heart's Invisible Furies. A devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront the sins of her past and a present...

A mysterious creature called a Hullabaloo has attached itself to a sixth grader named Jack in this beautifully illustrated and humorous graphic novel that celebrates our differences and life's changes....

1367: Europe stands on the brink of total war. Political alliances are beginning to rupture. No state is immune: England, France, the Holy Roman Empire, Milan, Genoa, Venice, Constantinople ....

Christy Awards 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR and winner for best Historical Fiction 2023, by multiple-time Christy winner and widely-acclaimed author, Amanda Barratt. "As superbly written as it is haunting...

1593: Elizabethan London seethes with political and religious intrigue, while across the sea thousands perish in the flames of the Spanish Inquisition. On the surface Roderigo, the Queen's physician, is...

Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to...

Generations of readers have fallen in love with the Cornwall of Winston Graham's magical Poldark saga. The stories of the Poldark family - Ross Poldark, strong, independent squire at Nampara...

Club Tome Book Award Winner, 2025-2026 As World War II enters her backyard, a young girl tries to cope with the war and keep her family together by completing a...

A suspense-filled retelling of the dark summer that should have broken Mary Shelley - but inspired her to write Frankenstein instead . . . Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816. Eighteen-year-old...

An exhilarating, suspenseful naval thriller set in the Second World War, as gripping as Nicholas Monsarrat's The Cruel Sea Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks. Set in the...

In the swoon-worthy finale of her Love on Holiday series, Christy Carlyle takes readers to the breathtaking coast of Ireland where a pretty, young countess's secretary agrees to impersonate her...

She was given two choices... Georgiana Bridgerton isn't against the idea of marriage. She'd just thought she'd have some say in the matter. But with her reputation hanging by a...

A laird's daughter kidnaps a Highlander-and loses her heart... in New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands' new historical romance Lady Evina Maclean has heard much about Rory Buchanan's skill...

4 starred reviews! Orange Is the New Black meets Walter Dean Myer's Monster in this gritty, twisty, and haunting debut by Tiffany D. Jackson about a girl convicted of murder...

Don't miss this heart-stopping drama from the nation's favourite storyteller! Will the sleeping shadows of a family's past torment a new generation? Twenty years ago, an unspeakable crime tore Jack's...

The brand new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop ! 'Heartwarming and full of wonder ... a spellbinding tale' Barnes & Noble Reads 🎻🎻🎻 On...

'An impressive unputdownable debut' The Historical Novel Society The Hundred Years' War comes to life in this spellbinding tale of love, betrayal and conspiracy ... A quest born on the...

'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'...

In this elegant gothic horror tale set in post-revolutionary Russia, two formerly aristocratic sisters race to uncover their family's long-buried secrets in a house haunted by a past dangerous -...