Historical Fiction

Delightful Regency romance from the author of the Agatha Raisin series Raven-haired Minerva, eldest daughter of an impecunious vicar, When the Reverend Charles Armitage, an impecunious country vicar in Regency...

Though he returned from America penniless, Nathan Stramer still daydreams of a better life. Raising six children with his wife Rywka in a poor area of Tarnow, he chases hare-brained...

In the dark heart of Sicily, Fabrizio, the formidable Prince of Salina, rules over his kingdom. Known as "The Leopard", his power extends from the opulent drawing rooms of Villa...

The Door of No Return, on the island of Goree off the coast of Senegal, is where millions of Africans last touched their home continent's soil, before they were transported...

1843. On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet isolation until the day he finds a man unconscious on the beach below the cliffs....

The perfect book club read FOR FANS OF CELESTE NG and MIN JIN LEE. ' A riveting mother-daughter tale' Elle ' Spellbinding and intricately layered ' E.M. Tran 'A gripping...

By day she champions women's rights but by night she plots romance! No young lady can be more devoted to the teachings of the infamous blue stocking Mrs Waverley than...

Young Adult edition - including new foreword and Q+A by the author plus further additional material The incredible bestselling true story. For readers of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas...

686 AD. The Byzantine Empire is a shattered rump. The armies of Arabia have overrun its African and Syrian provinces. Meekal the Magnificent, the Greek turncoat who rules Damascus, dreams...

'Abercrombie is in a class of his own' JOE HILL 'An unholy delight' PIERCE BROWN ' Hilarious, profound, tragic, and so thrillingly paced' NICHOLAS EAMES 'An incredibly fun, incredibly action-packed...

Beth is a woman of rare courage and fortitude, but there is danger and heartbreak to be endured before she can find peace and happiness... Don't Cry Alone is an...

Lily and Sarah Brown s childhood is an unhappy one. Sarah escapes by marrying Ralph Turner, a Sunderland dock worker, but Lily doesn t trust Ralph a dark volatile man...

AD 1203: ROBIN HOOD MUST TURN THE TIDE OF WAR Normandy Ablaze AD 1203: England and France are locked in a brutal struggle for power. The fate of the embattled...

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...

As a lover of animals and nature, Beatrix Hathaway has always been more comfortable outdoors than in the ballroom. Even though she participated in the London season in the past,...

'Absorbing' Sunday Times , Historical Fiction Picks 'I was blown away by this dark, enchanting story of witchcraft, power and injustice' Mary Chamberlain 'A mesmerising combination of gothic horror and...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure...

Norwich, 1901: Edith Holler spends her days among the eccentric denizens of the Holler Theatre, warned by her domineering father that the playhouse will literally tumble down if she should...

Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld prize ______ 'Sumptuous. Elegant, beautifully paced... completely absorbing' The Guardian 'Extraordinary... a triumph' New Statesman 'Audacious' Financial Times ______Proust's oceanic novel In Search of Lost Time...

In 1760, Guillaume le Gentil, astronomer to King Louis XV, sets sail for India. He hopes to record the transit of Venus, but rough seas - and war with the...

When Hubert Larnaudie invites the fellow residents of his Parisian apartment building to drink a bottle of 1954 Beaujolais, he has no idea of its special properties. The next morning,...

Amerigo Jones grows up poor but surrounded by love in Jazz Age Kansas City. A precocious young dreamer, he longs for the college education that his parents could not have....

The award-winning literary thriller from one of Italy's most exciting feminist writers, for fans of Sophie Mackintosh, Elena Ferrante and Sarah Moss One morning, a teacher disappears into the woods....

'Gripping, gruesome, dark and dripping' A.F. Harold Nobody talks about the strange happenings in Maimsbury. No one speaks of the hooded figures glimpsed in the woods, nor the children's game...

Matsuo is born to be a samurai, but as he is being trained in the art of war he realises he was meant for a different art altogether. Turning his...

Seventeen-year-old Brynhild is in a fever - she can't quiet the screaming world inside her. Following the brutal end of an intense affair, she flees Norway for America to begin...

1983, Moscow. Twenty-one-year-old Ella dreams of stardom and playing Natasha Rostova in War and Peace at the Moscow Theatre Academy. One day when meeting her friend Vlad in the city,...

When Meesh banded together with Fairy Princess Nouna to save the underworld, she never expected she'd have to . . . do it again someday. Though, as Meesh grows into...

A stunning full-colour illustrated adaptation of H. G. Wells' sci-fi classic, from the illustrator of A Boy Called Christmas and The Iron Man . 1894. Across space, this earth is...

The seductive, vibrant new novel from international bestselling author Leila Slimani. Morocco, 1968. As she stands at the window, Mathilde reflects on the opportunities before her. Looking out at her...

There were three men and two women . . . One had half a face. One had iron legs. The others all had one or both arms missing. There were...

'Original, intelligent and beautifully written. . . alive with period detail.' DAILY MAIL 'A gem of a book.' ELODIE HARPER, THE WOLF DEN TRILOGY 'Such a joy.' JO BROWNING WROE,...

'The most enthralling kind of historical fiction.' HILARY MANTEL 'Fresh, wholly original . . . a delight.' THE TIMES 'Vivid and amusing.' SPECTATOR 'Very enjoyable.' BIG ISSUE From the author...

1956, the Scottish Highlands: Aaron and Robbie, a schoolmaster's son and a farmer's boy, are fast friends with a shared passion for diving, but very divergent ideas of what they...

Magic shows and mysteries abound in this showstopping new standalone from a bestselling author who has sold close to a million copies of these middle-grade adventures! The English seaside, 1920s...

See the origins of Chainsaw Man mastermind Tatsuki Fujimoto! See the origins of the mad genius who created Chainsaw Man ! This short story manga collection features Tatsuki Fujimoto's earliest...

See the origins of Chainsaw Man mastermind Tatsuki Fujimoto! See the origins of the mad genius who created Chainsaw Man ! This short story manga collection features Tatsuki Fujimoto's earliest...

Secrets never keep for long. After the sudden death of her husband, Silva struggles to find her way in a life that is now so different than the one she...

Spend 24 hours immersed in the rich and fascinating everyday lives of the Vikings. Between the infamous Lindisfarne raid in 793 CE and the Norman conquest of 1066, the peoples...

One of the most anticipated novels of the year - the captivating and powerful untelling of Romeo & Juliet . . . The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline...

Wednesday's child is full of woe... Warwickshire, 1865 Nessie Carson will do anything to keep her family together after her mother is killed, her father abandons them and they are...

Karen thinks there's a ghost in her house! But she has never really seen the ghost of Old Ben Brewer ... until now. Karen and her stepsister, Kristy, have found...

At the outbreak of World War I, eleven-year-old Elsie Clarke is shipped off to Wales to attend Miss Coleridge's Academy for Gifted Youths. What at first appears to be an...

A teenage girl whose passion for photography leads her to a new school, a new dorm, and a new love triangle. This new edition contains all three volumes of the...

As seen on the Today show A work of fiction inspired by a true story, Matt Tavares's debut graphic novel dramatizes the historic struggle for gender equality in high school...

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful, kind princess, and her wicked maid. One day, the wicked maid stole the princess's face, and with it her name, her betrothed...

'A deliciously dark twist on Romeo and Juliet ' Natasha Ngan, New York Times bestselling author of Girls of Paper and Fire In glittering Shanghai, a monster awakens . ....

Inspired by real history, Rules of the Heart is the sweeping new novel from the bestselling author of The Other Bennet Sister, Janice Hadlow. Propriety of conduct was never my...