Historical Fiction

Malaya, 1942. Nisha's home is destroyed by war and she and her mother, Amma, flee to her father's ancestral house in England, perched on a cliff top on the cold...

She holds the key to a kingdom's future... When young Mary Howard receives the news that she will be leaving her home for the grand court of King Henry VIII,...

In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings - Ilmari, Matti and the politicized young Aino - are...

A Faulkner-esque Classic of Trinidadian literature - No Pain Like This Body is a lost masterpiece of contemporary fiction. 'A masterpiece of hurt' New York Times WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY...

Join Lizzie and the gang as they try to uncover the identity of the mysterious phantom. In Victorian London a masked figure has been robbing houses and evading the police....

Lizzie is proud of her psychic powers so becomes enraged at the fakery she sees all around her. People are flocking to see Douglas Grant a man who claims to...

Lizzie and the circus are in Whitby a town that doesn't seem to want them there. The only friendly faces are the glamorous Maharajah and his beautiful but secretive wife....

In rural Bethnal Green, Lizzie Brown takes pity on a couple of drunks and gives them a free palm reading.y However, she is horrified when she has a vision of...

Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, she was able to face the difficult, lonely times more easily because of...

Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely--until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at...

A fast-paced historical romance adventure, set on the mighty Murray River in the 1890s with a flawed but loveable heroine. 1890s, River Murray, Northern Victoria Georgina Calthorpe is unhappy living...

Discover the extraordinary lives of the inspiring girls who have lived throughout history at 6 Chelsea Walk.Andie loves living in Chelsea. Amongst the fashion, music and art galleries along the...

'I have no idea how long I have been incarcerated in these ancient walls . . . Let me explain how I find myself in this predicament . . .'...

In fifteenth-century Constantinople, Prince Constantine saves the life of a broken-hearted girl. But the price of his valour is high. John Grant is a young man on the edge of...

12-year-old Mary's beloved grandmother is near the end of her life. Letting go is hard - until Granny's long-dead mammy appears. Her ghost has returned to help her dying daughter...

A historical time-slip adventure for middle grade readers, from the Carnegie Medal-winning author of Apache and Buffalo Soldier . Alfie Wright? Alfie Wrong , more like. Alfie has never really...

Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he's the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor house in England, they...

The Fortune Hunter, the New York Times bestselling novel by Daisy Goodwin, is a lush, irresistible story of the public lives and private longings of grand historical figures. Empress Elizabeth...

Now in paperback, Douglas Galbraith's The Rising Sun is an extraordinary tour de force of historical fiction in the tradition of Caleb Carr's The Alienist and David Liss's A Conspiracy...

Sarah Waters meets The Girls in this haunting, wickedly perceptive debut set in an all-girl school and seeking to answer the timeless question- Who has authority over a woman's body?...

From the best-selling author of Savage Longings comes the tale of Minnesota Territory settler Marjorie Zimmerman and her handsome, proud Dakota Indian warrior, as together they fight to overcome the...

Finding himself the man of the family, London dancing master Alec Valcourt moves his mother and sister to remote Devonshire, hoping to start over. But he is stunned to learn...

Horatio Nelson is our most famous military hero. His statue dominates the capital, he has adorned our currency, his last words have passed into folklore, and HMS Victory, his flagship...

Three women bound together by the strands of fate Charlotte-Rose de la Force, exiled from the court of the Sun King Louis XIV, has always been a great teller of...

When Patch runs up the gangway of steamship, The Pride and Glory, she isn't planning to hang around. But if she leaves her hiding place the constable who is chasing...

Paris, 1989: Alone in her luminous apartment on Ile Saint-Louis, Sylvie discovers a mysterious letter among her late lover Julien's possessions, launching her into a decades-old search for a child...

Late summer, Browerville, Minnesota, 1950: Life is just about perfect for Eddie Olczak. A man of unshakable faith, he derives intense pleasure from the life he's built as devoted husband...

As rhythmic as the swish of a loom, and as vibrant as a skein of brightly dyed wool, this lyrical picture book shares the history and practice of weaving through...

Assassin. Immortal. Spy. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights comes the first book in a captivating new duology following an ill-matched pair of spies...

Only An Heiress Will Do - Virginia Heath A marriage made in haste... repented at leisure? Major Adam Mayhew has returned from war to discover his family facing ruin. He...

Despite the best efforts of the Pharaoh Senusret and his generals, the beautiful acacia tree of Abydos is dying. But the beautiful priestess Isis has an idea: to save the...

The young scribe Iker has finally realised that, in pursuing Pharaoh Senusret with his hatred, he chose the wrong target. The real enemy, the one who is attacking the Tree...

An odyssey of a mother and daughter who fought the outback and won... but at a terrible cost. Susana Honan, from Ireland, aged 18, arrived in Brisbane on the Gauntlet...

Awesome, action-packed ancient historical novel set during the final years of the once-mighty Egypt of the Pharaohs... 526 BC and the empire of the Pharaohs is dying, crumbling under the...

When tragedy strikes Michele Windsor's world, she is forced to uproot her life and move across the country to New York City, to live with the wealthy, aristocratic grandparents she's...

'Smart, sexy, and oh-so romantic' Mary Balogh 'Grace Burrowes is a romance treasure' Tessa Dare Meet the highly unconventional Wentworth family in this charming USA Today bestseller with a Cinderella...

Sent away from Rome for mocking the repulsive heir apparent Gaius, high-born Marcellus Gallio resigns himself to several dreary years in Palestine. But within a few months he is ordered...

"You're smugglers?""That ain't what we call ourselves." His voice rumbled deep in his chest. "We're Gentlemen o' the Night."In the autumn of 1720, Isabelle does something which changes her life...

In this highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue , Felicity Montague must use all her womanly wits and wiles to...

Nimona is an impulsive young shape-shifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about...

The dashing gentleman and the determined lady both pursue the secrets of the Black Rose Society. But what they discover is forbidden passion and a dangerous desire.

A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations... Windsor, 1940. Secretly tasked with foiling a suspected plot, Sophie Klein is placed in the Royal Library...

Pinch's magic has finally arrived ... and it's causing a whole lot of trouble! Pinch Perkins is very excited that her Spark magic is finally here - she has been...

Gwen's war is over, but her greatest battle is about to begin. 'An engaging story of secrets, sacrifice and the persistence of love' Sunday Times 'A truly wonderful novel' Jill...