Historical Fiction

London, 1785. When the body of a West Indies planter is found pegged out in the grounds of St Paul's Cathedral, suspicion falls on one of the victim's former slaves,...

On a storm-driven night, wreckers drive a merchant ship onto a rocky shore in Ireland. An abbess is slaughtered and six religieuse abducted. An ageing scholar is murdered in the...

The book titled Comanche Moon (Export Edition) by the author Larry McMurtry. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

__________________ 'Splendid' - Mail on Sunday With an introduction by Lord Mouser-Hunt, this is the journal of Mrs Chippy, the cat who accompanied the carpenter Harry "Chippy" McNeish on Ernest...

As they are preparing to return to Ireland, Fidelma and Brother Eadulf receive a mysterious summons. Eadulf's childhood friend, Brother Botulf, has requested their presence at Aldred's Abbey at midnight...

In this spellbinding new novel, bestselling author Alan Gold re-creates one of the most notorious stories of the Bible. Seductive, passionate and surprising, Jezebel's story is like no other. For...

#1 New York Times Bestseller In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth , a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on...

The Bird Artist, Howard Norman's spellbinding new novel, is set in Newfoundland in 1911. Fabian Vas's story, told with disarming simplicity and grace, takes place against a spare and profoundly...

The book titled The Dying Trade by the author David Donachie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

For five decades Harold Robbins has been celebrated worldwide as our country's number one storyteller. The author of a spectacular series of critically acclaimed, international bestsellers, he is frequently cited...

An official tie-in edition to accompany Sofia Coppola's highly anticipated new film based on this atmospheric novel of sexual tension and Southern gothic When an injured Union soldier is found...

Having fled Rome and a stultifying marriage, Isabel Osmond is in London, brooding on the recent disclosure of her husband's shocking , years-long betrayal of her. What should she do...

At the heart of this panoramic, multidimensional narrative is the compelling struggle of a young woman to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. Faber leads us back...

A PopSugar Best Book of the Year! Readers of Heather Morris's The Tattooist of Auschwitz and watchers of The Queen's Gambit won't want to miss this amazing debut set during...

Set in the period between October of 1798 and November of 1799, "The Rosetta Key" continues the story of our hero, Ethan Gage, and his quest for the magical "Book...

Jack Audley has been a highwayman. A soldier. And he has always been a rogue. What he is not, and never wanted to be, is a peer of the realm,...

A darkly romantic Rapunzel reimagining from the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of WHEN THE MOON HATCHED. "What a pretty flower to keep locked in a big, rocky tower."...

A monumental new roman series is here. 3rd century Rome, like you've never seen it before: murder, coup, terror on the streets, counter-rebellions and civil war. In a single year...

The new novel from the author of the much-loved Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels. The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval tapestries....

The Book of Harlan opens with the courtship of Harlans parents and his 1917 birth in Macon, Georgia. After his prominent minister grandfather dies, Harlan and his parents move to...

Three women. A small, isolated town. A decades old mystery. 1933. Cornelia Stover is not the kind of woman the menfolk of Boldville, New Mexico, expect her to be. A...

THE THEATRE MAY SEEM GLAMOROUS, BUT SECRETS WAIT BEHIND THE CURTAIN 1926. Running a theatre may appear to be all about the showbiz, but times are hard at The Empire....

For anyone who loves the enchanting old-world charm of I Capture the Castle and the wartime adventure of How I Live Now, this is a book to be treasured. For...

Named a Best Book of the Month by CNN and MSNBC Named a Most Exciting New Book of Fall by PopSugar #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory's new...

This New York Times bestseller from "one of the great storytellers of our time" ( San Francisco Book Review ) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell...

'Full of tension and danger... powerfully atmospheric' JENNIFER SAINT 'A beautifully crafted thriller... Breathtaking and bone-chilling' MANDA SCOTT 'Maitland is a superlative historical novelist' REBECCA MASCULL --- Whispers haunt the...

From award-winning master storyteller Michael Morpurgo, author of the acclaimed War Horse, comes a moving historical story inspired by the Foundling Museum. A lonely boy struggles to cope with school...

The first in a brand new series from the fevered imagination of the award-winning, bestselling author of MR GUM. Welcome to the last days of Pompeii as you've NEVER imagined...

A funny, magical story about family and imagination from Patricia Forde, perfect for children learning to read. Natalie's sister Lola has climbed up a tree and won't come down. She...

The book titled Beneath the Aurora by the author Richard Woodman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A Welsh princess. A Roman general. Their love story lost to time... The land of the Silures, 382 AD A marriage of power. It's 382 AD and Elen, a princess...

A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well. "Until that moment Diego had not...

The wonderful new novel from the much loved author of 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' and 'Falling Angels'. Flames and funerals, circus feats and seduction, neighbours and nakedness: Tracy Chevalier's...

Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. They are the claimants and kings who...

Brazenly kidnapped from her sister Heather's engagement ball, Eliza Cynster is spirited north from London to Edinburgh. Desperate and determined to escape, she seizes upon the first possible champion who...

Christian, I need your help. There is no one else I can turn to . . . L.' When Christian Allardyce, sixth Marquess of Dearne, reads these words, his world...

Michael Anstruther-Wetherby is a rising member of Parliament - a man destined for power. And with his connections to the wealthy and influential Cynster family his future appears assured. Except...

When a mysterious lady, her face hidden by a black veil, begs Gabriel Cynster for his help, he cannot refuse her plea. For despite her disguise, Gabriel finds the woman...

'One to savour and re-read again and again' LIZ HYDER ___________________ THE MONSTER THEY SEEK MAY NOT BE THE ONE THEY FIND ' The Bone Hunters has cemented Joanne Burn's...

An evocative, unputdownable novel about the infamous Salome. Discover the woman behind the myth, in this epic and opulent novel, perfect for fans of Jennifer Saint, Madeline Miller, Philippa Gregory...

Seventeen novels spanning continents, decades, and the full sweep of human emotion — this is the kind of collection that keeps the bedside table stacked for months. From Jodi Picoult's...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis classic Western adventure, The Border Legion, transports readers to the rugged landscapes of the American frontier, where lawlessness and honor clash...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: FEP missing Markings: No markingsThis gripping documentary novel plunges readers into the clandestine world of Cold War espionage, chronicling the tense cat-and-mouse game...

Edition: First editionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsThis historical novel reimagines the life and legend of Australia's most infamous outlaw, Ned Kelly, through a series of fictional...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerThe historical narrative The War For A Persian Lady chronicles a compelling saga set against the...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: foxing on FEPThis captivating historical account, Sydney Revels (The Eighteen-Fifties) Of Bacchus, Cupid, And Momus, chronicles the vibrant...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Front pastedown shows a small nick exposing the netting, otherwise the interior remains clean and firm.The Forgotten Manuscripts...