Historical Fiction

A dramatic and beautiful novel about composer and priest Antonio Vivaldi's two great loves - his mistress and his music. "A warm and compelling story ... vivid and alive" Kate...

The story is set in the 1850s and begins in County Clare, Ireland. A young Irishman Michael Keogh, a shipwright, returns home to assist Edmund, his father in his small...

'A chilling exploration of power, love and grief' - JULIA ARMFIELD 'I am in awe of this wonderful book' - EDWARD CAREY 'Terrifyingly brilliant . . . intoxicating and beautiful'...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO...

' An atmospheric and gripping standalone thriller' - THE TIMES The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times and one million copy bestselling author of The English Fuhrer. In...

Would you risk the future to change the past? Greenwich, London, 1894. Luna, Konstantin and Aidan are time-travelling thieves, stealing artefacts from the future to bring progress forward. And they...

The story of the Second World War as seen through the eyes of an extraordinary young man in quite extraordinary circumstances. 'Fascinating and convincing' THE TIMES . 17 September 1944:...

She believed I was meek and unassuming, because for sixteen years, that was all I'd ever been... Cursed at birth, 16-year-old Drinn has been kept away from everyone - moved...

'A full throttle, adrenaline-laced espionage page-turner . . . Get ready to blast off and enjoy the ride!' Jack Carr, former Navy SEAL Sniper and #1 New York Times bestselling...

Turn a Blind Eye is the third instalment in the gripping story of Detective Inspector William Warwick, by the master storyteller and Sunday Times number one bestselling author of the...

'Stunning, moving, and remarkable' Nguyen Phan Que Mai , internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing and Dust Child 'A celebration of complicity and love among women' Pilar Quintana ,...

'Once again, Christina Courtenay has transported me through time to a world that feels more than real . . . I can only recommend that you read this absorbing, energising...

A Waterstones YA Book of the Month! Sisterhood, seances and solving murder, perfect for fans of Bridgerton and Laura Wood. Mysterious deaths in the family. A young woman left to...

A party of swashbuckingly evil pirates. Two rival spies. One fake marriage. What could possibly go wrong . . . Find out in the riotously funny and joyfully romantic third...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION 'A joyously funny and absurd steampunk frolic that satirises both the era in which...

WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION PRIZE ' Magnificent .' -The Times ' Outstanding .' - Independent ' Deeply...

A masterful sequel to Brittany N. Williams's stunning YA historical fantasy debut, That Self-Same Metal. There's danger in the court of James I. Magical metal-worker Joan Sands must reforge the...

A house fire, Vienna, 1933: thirteen-year-old Max is orphaned, disfigured and adopted by an Aryan family who change his identity - and his prospects - for the better.A house fire,...

'A soulful and perfectly unsentimental writer...' - MOHSIN HAMID December, 1907: one morning after a night of drunken carousing in the city, Hanna and his friend Zakariya return home to...

'Women are never lazy. They don't know what it is to be quiet. They are Semiramides, and Cleopatras, and Joan of Arcs, Queen Elizabeths, and Catharine the Seconds . ....

'Mary Renault is a shining light' HILARY MANTEL 'Mary Renault's portraits of the ancient world are fierce, complex and eloquent' MADELINE MILLER The sequel to The King Must Die. The...

NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLER #1 GLOBE AND MAIL HISTORICAL FICTION BESTSELLER One of NPR's Best Books of 2017! One of Bookbub's Biggest Historical Fiction Books of 2017!...

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...

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...

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....

'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...

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...