Historical Fiction

In this singularly powerful novel, bestselling author Louis Bayard brings Oscar Wilde's wife Constance and two sons out from the shadows of history and creates a vivid and poignant story...

The third novel in this epic, thrilling series of war and villainy on the high seas, featuring Captain Nathan Peake. Nathan Peake charts a perilous course through the treacherous seas...

Secondhand Classic Literature Bargain Book Box SP2906 Twenty-four vintage Penguin and Faber paperbacks spanning two millennia — Chaucer to Colette, Seneca to John Wyndham, Victor Serge to Muriel Spark. Each...

A bold bookseller tries to matchbreak her friend's engagement to an earl . . . until she finds herself falling for him instead. The one thing Constance Martin wants most...

WARRIORS OF GOD, the second volume of the Hussite Trilogy by Andrzej Sapkowski, author of the bestselling Witcher series, depicts the adventures of Reynevan and his friends in the years...

**Longlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger Award** 'A gripping thriller' THE TIMES | 'Dark and enthralling' ANDREW TAYLOR | 'Devilishly good' DAILY MAIL 'I couldn't put it down' 'A story...

Jack Haines, The Earl of Lambourne, has been accused of adultery with the Princess of Wales and has fled to his native Scotland until the scandal subsides. But Jack gets...

For Freedom's Cause is a historical, romantic thriller set in England and Australia between the world wars. It follows the adventures and growing relationship between a working class English army...

Growing up in Munich in the 1930's, young Moishe loves to hear his sister, Rachel, read him his favorite story: a fairy tale about an evil mirror broken and scattered...

The book titled A Wheel of Stars by the author Laura Gilmour Bennett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Her only hope for survival... Handsome, wealthy and respected, Sir Mark Turner is the most sought-after bachelor in all of London--and he's known far and wide for his irreproachable character....

** Winner of the 2024 BARNES AND NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZE | Longlisted for the 2024 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE and the 2025 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN...

'Packed full of action, excitement, peril and romance on the high seas, this is the sapphic pirate book of my dreams' SARAH UNDERWOOD, author of Lies We Sing to the...

'An enchanting love story with a fierce, complex heroine and a swoon worthy hero. The Luna sisters have arrived . . . and the London season will never be the...

The book titled Eve: Her Story by the author Penelope Farmer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Inspired by first century AD warrior women, Janet Paisley's Warrior Daughter is a gripping adventure about one young woman's struggle to survive in the harsh Celtic wilderness. 2,000 years ago...

Amelia Willoughby has been engaged to the Duke of Wyndham for as long as she can remember. Literally. A mere six months old when the contracts were signed, she has...

My Lady's Trust Laura Martin assured herself she would be safe among strangers. But would the cloak of anonymity she wore also protect her from the discerning gaze of the...

THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES concludes the story of Ayla, her mate Jondalar, and their little daughter, Jonayla, taking readers on a journey of discovery and adventure as Ayla struggles...

Martinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master, Father Cleophas, with a mission. They must return to Grenada, the island they once called home, and...

It is 1629, and there is mutiny in the air aboard the Dutch ship Batavia as she plies her way towards Java with her precious cargo. Jan, a cabin boy,...

Twenty-six-year-old Katie Macauley has placed all her hope in Hope Springs, a small town in the 1870 Wyoming Territory. But if she wants to return home to Ireland to make...

'Monumentally epic . . . a superb novel' LEE CHILD 'A tour de force' PETER JAMES From the master of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of...

Seductive, moving and full of insight into the desperate acts committed by individuals when fighting for their lives, MUSSOLINI'S ISLAND is a novel of sexuality and desire, and the secrets...

When Lieutenant Commander Philip Queeg is given the captaincy of the destroyer-minesweeper USS Caine, Ensign Willie Keith believes that the tough Naval Academy graduate will bring much needed discipline to...

Tassie Smith's childhood is violently disrupted when a stranger appears on her mother Grace's, doorstep claiming to have inherited the family house and fortuneIt emerges that he is Tassie's long-lost...

Stunned by a dramatic appeal from his otherwise cool mother-in-law, Falco cannot resist. His brother-in-law, Aulus, has been diverted from his route to Athens University by a man whose newly...

Secondhand Drama & Poetry Bargain Book Box SP2875 A great extension to your Shakespeare library — fourteen Arden Shakespeare volumes alongside a rare Delacroix-illustrated Hamlet and two beautifully illustrated comedies....

Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2869 Twenty-one literary fiction titles spanning Booker winners, Nobel laureates, and some of the finest writing in English from the 1960s to the 1990s...

Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2858 Seventeen novels and story collections from Nobel laureate Doris Lessing, spanning her African realist fiction, the Children of Violence sequence, the Canopus in...

A sweeping, multifaceted tale of a young Native American pulled between the cherished traditions of a heritage on the brink of extinction and an encroaching white culture, Gardens in the...

You're invited to a show to remember at the prestigious Buckingham Hotel . . . London, 1942. The war is far from over for soldier Raymond de Guise. His wife,...

Eloise and her family have moved to Orleans. Eloise's loneliness at her new school feeds her fascination of Joan of Arc. One day, by the river bank, she hears a...

Curl up with Book Four in the gorgeous Bobby Girls series now! 1916. Poppy is being transferred to an enormous new munitions complex in Gretna, on the Scottish border. Even...

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...

The past can't be locked away forever... _________________________________________________________________ *Perfect for fans of Kate Morton, Eve Chase & Lucinda Riley* Sweeping from the French Riviera to the wind-blown Cornish cliffs, lose...

A robbery, a lynching, and a mourning mother shake up the Yada Yadas. I had never felt so violated! The Yada Yada Prayer Group was "gettin' down" with God in...

'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 ,...

It is the late summer of 1938, Europe is about to explode, the Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie for Paramount...

'Highly recommend for anybody who loves Roman history, written by one of its true masters' PETER GIBBONS 'Epic in scope and intimate in historical detail' MATTHEW HARFFY 'Authentic, fast-paced and...

Mrs Porter Calling is the uplifting and heartwarming third historical novel from AJ Pearce, the beloved author of Dear Mrs Bird 'Brilliant, utterly charming and uplifting' - Jill Mansell, author...

In the summer of 1845, following years of passionate political dispute, New York City at long last formed a Police Department. The potato, a crop that can be trusted to...

England in the 1630s: turbulent times, with fears of foreign invasion and Catholic conspiracies rife. John Brigge, a farmer and coroner, is respected in his North Country community, but harbours...

A riveting novel about the remarkable life-and many loves-of author H. G. Wells. H. G. Wells, author of "The Time Machine" and "War of the Worlds," was one of the...

The book titled All Quiet on the Western Front by the author Erich Maria Remarque. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A soaring love story set in Napoleonic France This irresistible literary debut novel was inspired by the life of Sophie Blanchard, one of the first women to fly. In Paris,...