Historical Fiction

Author: Bruce ChatwinBinding: PaperbackPublished: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Spine has minor sun-fading and minor peels to corners.Bruce Chatwin's collected works, In...

'Enthralling' Daily Mail 'Fizzing with gossip, intrigue and wit' Mail on Sunday If you love The Crown , you will love this fictional look inside the life of Wallis Simpson......

Simon Mayo delivers the best of reading group fiction. A robust historical novel with a beating heart, MAD BLOOD STIRRING shines new light on one of life's oldest truths; sometimes,...

To find freedom, you must leave behind everything you've ever known. It is 1825. You and Ma have survived on the streets of London ever since the soldiers took Da...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2019 Set in a sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Steven Price's Lampedusa explores the final years of Giuseppe...

1952. With smog blanketing London, little Grace is in trouble. Her grandmother is dangerously ill but she doesn't want Grace to tell anyone as she's worried they will take her...

Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE Day and based on WWII atrocity the Katyn Massacre, When We Fall is a moving story of three lives forever altered...

1931, Cornwall. Gwenna Rosdew had no choice but to step up as head of the family after her father was arrested for his role in a smuggling scandal. As his...

Set on a 19th century farm in rural Lancashire near Liverpool, this heartwarming saga is the story of Poppy Appleton, a girl who grew up in ignorance and poverty but...

The blockbusting paperback of the second novel in the Top Five bestselling Warrior of Rome series AD256 - the spectre of treachery hangs ominously over the Roman world. The sparks...

Now a major TV seriesWinner of the Man Booker PrizeWinner of the Costa Book of the YearShortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 'Simply exceptional...I envy anyone who hasn't yet...

From the Costa Award-winning author Hilary McKay, comes a moving World War II story of family and friendship on opposite sides of a devastating conflict. The Swallows' Flight is the...

A stirring, dramatic story about finding connection, meaning and beauty in a time of darkness ... and the craving and savagery of the heart 'Suspenseful and thrilling' TANIA BLANCHARD 'Powerful...

A fresh, funny and accessible retelling of Jane Austen's classic story, with witty black and white illustrations throughout. Fanny Price is one of nine children, and her family are very...

The Mistletoe Wager Harry Pennyngton, Earl of Anneslea, is surprised when his estranged wife, Elise, arrives home for Christmas, especially as she is still intent on divorce! The festive house...

John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the stagecoach passengers learn who he is, they want...

A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation. On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of...

He's dead. She's deadly. The bad guys don't stand a chance. The fourth book in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series. Skulduggery is gone, sucked into a parallel dimension. There is...

Author: R. J. W. SelleckBinding: PaperbackPublished: HEINEMANN EDUCATIONAL AUSTRALIA, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the backdrop of political turmoil, this...

Author: Chris GoochBinding: PaperbackPublished: -Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image1792 presents a compelling historical graphic novel that vividly illustrates the tumultuous events...

Get ready to laugh your socks off at the fifth Knight Sir Louis adventure! A powerful magical object has been rediscovered, the Cauldron of Chaos. A scheming witch finds the...

The story of a family and a special dress, handed down from mother to daughter, during times of fortune, loss, tragedy and victory, by the world's favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel....

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...

New York's famed female detective duo, Pentecost and Parker, are back in their fourth audacious adventure. Perfect for fans of The Thursday Murder Club , The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel ,...

The first novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Roman series. It is 42 AD, and Quintus Licinius Cato has just arrived in Germany as a new recruit to the Second Legion,...

Author: Susanna Bavin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Manchester, 1940. War is raging and these girls will do everything they can on the home front - but is a...

Author: Michael Ball Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Another fabulous and entertaining read. I devoured it!' Santa Montefiore ESCAPE TO THE EMPIRE THEATRE WITH THE BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM MUSICAL...

Author: Alexandra Bracken Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The stunning sequel to the New York Times bestselling Passenger, from the critically acclaimed author of Lore. A riveting time-slip romantasy...

Author: Heather Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 One of the bestselling books of the 21st century, now a major Sky TV series starring Harvey Keitel and Melanie Lynskey...

Praise for Judy Summers: 'I thoroughly enjoyed this book... The characters are well drawn and believable' Lyn Andrews 'Fascinating insights into Victorian Liverpool and a heart-warming story make for an...

The end is nigh. Apocalypse has dawned. Everyone has gone ... everyone, that is, except for two dogs. Unbeknownst to Brownie and Apollo the world has turned to utter chaos....

The eagerly-awaited return to the acclaimed and epic Morland Dynasty series. England, 1936 The reign of Edward VIII has begun, but danger for the monarchy already looms on the horizon....

The eagerly-awaited return to the acclaimed and epic Morland Dynasty series. England, 1936 The reign of Edward VIII has begun, but danger for the monarchy already looms on the horizon....

The Binding meets The Vanishing Half in this extraordinary historical debut - perfect for readers who love gothic mysteries with books at the heart of them, as well as stories...

Thrilling adventure set alongside the Thames and the Tower of London in Tudor times More than a year has passed since Moss was released from the clutches of the Riverwitch....

A nobleman must work with a dashing soldier to save his sister from a mystical bargain gone awry in this irresistible Regency romance from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material...

'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...

The fourth novel in North America's Forgotten Past Cahokian story cycle, Star Path is an evocative tale about America's greatest pre-Columbian city by New York Times bestselling authors W. Michael...

From the globally bestselling author of the Chronicles of St Mary's series, a not-so-ladylike aristocrat meets the world's most unlikely butler, and together they bring a whole new meaning to...

The breathtaking debut novel of a daring young woman in 1930s New York, who takes her brother's place to risk her life above the city that never sleeps... As the...

'A heart-warming tale about resilience, friendships and family, and the inestimable power of the written word' RUTH HOGAN 'A heart-warming depiction of strong female friendships tested by suffering - Annie...

New Orleans, May 1862. The largest city in the ill-starred confederacy has fallen to Union troops. Twelve-year-old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, putting his mother Elise into a panic...

Amid the treachery of war and the whirl of revelry, no one is what they seem... Nights filled with lavish balls...lush, bucolic afternoons.... Removed to glamorous Brussels in the wake...

Robert Ryan brings one of the greatest epic journeys of all time to life in this captivating story of Captain Scott's last Antarctic expedition. January 18, 1912: Captain Robert Falcon...

When Caro Monday's mother disappears on one of her jaunts, she has no choice but to go and stay with a miserable woman that she's never met. Not only that...

'Orhan Pamuk is the sort of writer for whom the Nobel Prize was invented.' Daily Telegraph 'Pamuk is the real thing.' Observer ' One of the world's finest living writers.'...

It is the late 1600s on the high seas. A group of Barbary galley slaves plot as they ply the oars of a pirate ship. These ten men - unfortunates...

A gripping and heart-warming new saga of love, betrayal and secrets from Lynne Francis, author of A Maid's Ruin , perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin Kent,...