Historical Fiction

East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer and servant, has lived for more than four decades in her beloved coastal village of Cleftwater. Everyone knows Martha, but no one...

A novel of murder, love and espionage. A cryptic summons from Lady Marchamont launches a London bookseller on an odyssey through the back alleys and secret corridors of 17th-century Europe....

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything . . . London, 1754. Six years after...

'An unashamedly escapist page-turner' Daily Mail In an exclusive London restaurant, Julia Lovat is given a gift that will change her life. The antique book of Jacobean embroidery delights her,...

An epic story set against the backdrop of post-war Singapore about a woman who finds herself torn between love and duty, perfect for fans of Dinah Jefferies and Jenny Ashcroft....

For fans of Katie Flynn and Sheila Jeffries, A Winter Hope is a heart-warming festive novel from the Queen of family saga, and author of The Winter Baby and The...

This recently rediscovered novel from the author of The Second Sex is the compulsive story of two close friends growing up and falling apart. 'Life without her would be death'...

A geeky girl whose life revolves around yaoi manga and a quiet gamer boy are old friends, but when they start working in the same office, they decide to date....

No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium. A book of the year...

FREEDOM WORTH FIGHTING FOR. LOVE WORTH WAITING FOR Escape this summer with the unforgettable wartime love story and Richard & Judy Bookclub pick 'The French House is a beautifully wrought...

Two sisters. One brutal murder. A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself . . . A new series f rom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of...

The Deveraux family were among the most important members of 1920s San Francisco society, and the wedding of their daughter, Eleanor, to wealthy banker Alexander Allen would be the highlight...

A Guardian Best Thriller Novel of 2023 Zoe Ball's Radio 2 Book Club pick Mesmerising, haunting and utterly remarkable, this is a devastating story of fantasy and obsession inspired by...

During the Second World War, life in the iconic Bryant & May match factory is grimy and tough. Annie, Rose, Pearl and Millie carry on making matches for the British...

The incomparable Danielle Steel breaks new ground as she takes us to nineteenth-century England, where a high-born young woman is forced out into the world - and begins a journey...

In this gripping novel, Melvyn Bragg brings an extraordinary episode in English history to fresh, urgent life. At the end of May 1381, the fourteen-year-old King of England had reason...

' Wonderful . . . I loved The Midnight House' RACHEL HORE, Sunday Times bestselling author of One Moonlit Night ' Love love love this book! Fabulous female characters ....

'Victoria Hislop's view of history in her novels is, like the writer herself, a compassionate and generous one' Scotsman The gripping new novel by Sunday Times Number One bestseller Victoria...

IF YOU DON'T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON'T KNOW ROME! A Sunday Times bestseller. Shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. Simon Scarrow's veteran Roman soldier heroes face a...

The Sunday Times bestselling novel-"a dense, intricate historical thriller in the tradition of Hilary Mantel" (Sophie Hannah). It's 1792, on a cold winter night in Berkeley Square. As the city...

The enthralling new novel from the ten-million-copy, Number One bestselling author Is there a murderer across the street? It's 1964 and twenty-three-year-old Katy Speed is fascinated by Gloria and the...

The hilariously funny full-colour graphic novel series from award-winning author and illustrator of the Pizazz series, Sophy Henn. Perfect for fans of Bunny vs Monkey, Dogman and Donut Squad !...

Meg just wants her family to be together at Christmas. But her mother's illness gets worse every day and her sister is off doing god knows what. So when Meg...

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous of all fictional detectives but, across the Atlantic, he had plenty of rivals. Sherlock Holmes is the most famous of all fictional detectives but,...

October 1897: on the Eve of All Saint's, when graves are said to open and spirits walk, a young Parisian girl, Leonie Vernier, disappears without trace from her Aunt's country...

Jack Audley has been a highwayman, a soldier, and he has always been a rogue. What he is not, and never wanted to be, is a peer of the realm....

Set in seventeenth-century rural England, BONE HOUSE is the tale of two women. One is large, voluptuous and charismatic - a prostitute to whom many, not just men, are drawn....

The first book in Terry Pratchett's fantastically funny trilogy, The Bromeliad. Imagine that all around you, hidden from sight, there are thousands of tiny people. They are four inches tall,...

WARRIOR QUEENS AND ROMAN INVADERS DO BATTLE IN THE FINAL VOLUME OF THIS THRILLING EPIC FANTASY TRILOGY. Caesar's soldiers have murdered, massacred and pillaged their way through Gaul and loom...

The new novel from Dilly Court. The heartwarming and nostalgic new novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of The Beggar Maid. Motherless since she was five, Mirabel...

A commemorative 75th anniversary edition of Tolkien's classic book, including a revised introduction, a map, a copy of Tolkien's unpublished short story which he expanded for publication, his notes for...

'Highly recommend for your summer reading' Reader Review Can one house hold a lifetime of secrets? Corfu, 1930 The moment Thirza Caruthers sets foot on Corfu, memories flood back: the...

Read the brand-new heart-wrenching historical novel from Tessa Harris, The Florence Sisters , now! 'If you're a fan of WWII historical fiction [and] a courageous woman not willing to settle...

England, 1940. Can Maggie keep her family - and her secret - safe? An emotional and heartbreaking wartime novel for fans of Diney Costeloe, Dilly Court and Mandy Robotham. When...

The highly anticipated sequel to the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE 'Bloody brilliant' V.E. Schwab'A ripping read' Joe Abercrombie Gabriel de Leon has saved the Holy Grail from...

A Small Revolution in Germany is about growing up, or refusing to accept what growing up means; it's about the small dishonest pacts that people make with their own futures;...

Luck Uglies was a name whispered around the docks and darkest taverns, places the law dare not tread... Rye has grown up hearing the legend of the Luck Uglies -...

In the fourth and final volume of the The Straits Quartet, Charlotte Macleod is the English concubine. Her love affair with Zhen, wealthy Chinese merchant, is an open scandal to...

In Volume 3 of The Straits Quartet, young, beautiful and wealthy widow Charlotte Macleod leaves Batavia in the 1850s and returns to Singapore for the English education of her two...

In Volume 2 of The Straits Quartet, Charlotte Macleod is nineteen, pregnant, and alone in 1842. She is fleeing a scandalous liaison with her married Chinese lover, a liaison which...

Like Chinese silk, The Red Thread is, by turns, gentle and strong, exploring a love that breaks through the divide of race and culture, a love that is both deeply...

Kittie always hoped she'd marry for love. But her father had other plans... It is 1794, and Scotland is in turmoil. Almost fifty years after the battle of Culloden and...

An extraordinary, vivid, haunting and stunning novel magnificently crafted taking you into a time of tragic history that molded a nation out of exploration and discovery, wanton carnage, savagery, courage...

Boys and men of Berlin. A captivating journey through their lives, love affairs and misdemeanours across the city's turbulent history. Felix and Walther bestride a deep class divide, forging an...

A love story, a happy end, a lively attack, haute-couture dresses and haute-cuisine meals: some quotable characters, some agreeable sex, some very witty lines - what else can you want...

The Whanganui River at the turn of the twentieth century is a busy thoroughfare, taking sightseers through the spectacular landscape by paddle steamer and acting as highway for the sparse...