Historical Fiction

Author: D.A. RaynerBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1960Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsD.A. Rayner's "The Crippled Tanker" is a gripping work of naval fiction that plunges...

Author: Rudyard KiplingBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann/Octopus, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collection presents a comprehensive look at Rudyard Kipling's masterful storytelling, encompassing his beloved animal fables, historical fantasy,...

Author: E. BarringtonBinding: HardbackPublished: George G. Harrap & Co, 1926Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Faded and dull...

Author: J. Sinclair StevensonBinding: HardbackPublished: Religious Tract Society, 1925Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis historical fiction novel, "The Knights Of A...

Flora Bonnington lives in a world in which it is unattractive for a lady to express her opinions, and all excitement should be confined to the ballroom. But Flora wants...

When Millicent Fairweather boards the Opportunity to journey to America, she's confident a better life awaits. Before she knows it, she's taken out of steerage to be a nanny to...

By A.D. 1150 the Anasazi had created an empire in the Southwest that would never again be equaled in North America. Master astronomers, traders, and architects, they built extraordinary roads...

Completing the trilogy that includes the bestselling novels Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits, Portrait in Sepia is a stunning novel about memory and family secrets. Set...

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A brilliant, hilarious one-off novel in the Skulduggery Pleasant universe, from number-one-bestselling author Derek Landy This time, the bad guys take the stage. Tanith Low, now possessed by a remnant,...

It's the fourth Skulduggery Pleasant adventure... only Skulduggery Pleasant himself is lost on the other side of a portal, with only some evil gods for company. Can he possible survive?...

Avery is a little curious child who simply loves history and... can travel in it! Every title is an adventure in history bringing together fiction and non-fiction: follow the "fictional"...

It's 1956 - the year the Olympic Games came to Melbourne. Jack Spiller and his small town mates are caught up in the excitement of the torch relay. But when...

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten, true story of one of the US's first female deputy sheriffs....

It matters not who you are born to but where you are made. It is 1597 and Kit Skevy and Mariner Elgin have just robbed the wrong grave. 'Vividly told,...

Rose's granddad takes her on a trip to Ypres, Belgium to visit the graves of those who died in the Great War. It's the day before Valentine's Day, but Rose...

1922: cousins and best friends, Sophie and Tilly, are looking for love and adventure. Sophie, orphaned at six, when her tea planter parents died suddenly of fever in India, has...

"Witty, warm and wonderfully bold." Elle McNicoll"Everything I could possibly want in a book." Laura Ellen AndersonFall under the spell of Witchspark. A magical adventure series perfect for fans of...

'I was up past midnight finishing this book! The mystery kept me turning the pages, and I felt like I'd known Maven and Reeve forever.' - Amie Kaufman, New York...

The fight for equality begins in the streets. The history of inequality is a long and terrible one. And it's not over yet. Short, sharp and devastating, The War of...

From the bestselling author of The Miniaturist . Jessie Burton's Hidden Treasure is the phenomenal page-turning story of two children whose lives collide when they find an ancient treasure with...

An exciting, middle-grade adventure from debut talent, Penny Boxall; perfect for fans of Netflix's plucky ENOLA HOLMES, the voice of Hana Tooke's THE UNADOPTABLES, and the caper of Katherine Rundell's...

Follow Alice on her adventure in the third of four exciting stories about a gifted girl in a time of war. It's 1918 . . . and the war has...

Follow Alice on her adventure in the second of four stories about a gifted girl in a time of war. It's 1918 . . . and Alice has never felt...

It's 1850 . . . and Nellie is returning to Adelaide after searching for the Thompson family at the Burra. She's keen to get back to her best friend, Mary,...

Follow Nellie on her adventure in the third of four exciting stories about an Irish girl with a big heart, in search of the freedom to be herself. It's 1850...

It's 1864 . . . and Poppy is on the road again, heading to the town of Wahgunyah. On the way she meets a stranger who seems to know something...

Heroism or cowardice? A stunning story of the First World War from a master storyteller. Told in the voice of a young soldier, the story follows 24 hours in his...

A middle grade novel about a crystal chandelier shaped like a galleon that splinters into a thousand pieces, a girl abandoned as a baby on the steps of an opera...

A French village, new friends, fabulous food, a local mystery to be solved and . . . a ghost. She snaps the locket shut. Just as quickly as he appeared,...

**The international bestseller** An unforgettable historical debut set in Second World War Brussels: exploring love, resistance and courage in all their forms 'I adored it ... It finds courage and...

When Jo Harper falls in love with a maverick archaeologist, Doug Marshall, she also falls into Doug's obsession with one of history's greatest mysteries of exploration: one hundred fifty years...

Set in Mississippi during the 1900s, Visible Spirits tells of two brothers, Leighton and Tandy Payne, and the haunting legacy of their tough planter father Sam. Leighton, the elder, sold...

"In this sweeping, immersive novel, Clare McHugh draws readers into the mesmerizing world of the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria - Princess Vicky - as she emerges into a powerful...

Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in 17th-century Holland, obtains her first job as a servant in Vermeer's household. Griet loves being drawn into his artistic life and leaving...

A captivating historical novel based on the true story of Anita Hemmings, the first Black student to attend the prestigious Vassar College by - passing as white. For fans of...

One of the great untold love stories - how the Grimm brothers discovered their famous fairy tales - filled with drama and passion, and taking place during the Napoleonic Wars....

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 !...

A religious academic is mutilated on one of the city's finest streets. The grave of a famous colonel is ravaged. A shday entrepreneur is slaughtered while dashing for a train....

In misty 19th-century Edinburgh a headstrong orphan girl is taken to a hunting lodge and sacrificed to a mysterious figure - 'the lamplighter'. Twenty years later four prominent men are...

In the turbulent final years of the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Meng is a minor bureaucrat in the government of the Mongol conquerors. He is also an extraordinarily gifted artist whose...

It's 1864 . . . and Poppy, disguised as a lost princess from India, has joined a travelling medicine show. Join Poppy in the final of four exciting stories about...

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