Historical Fiction

It's "captivating from the very start and entertaining to the very end" (India Holton, The League of Gentlewomen Witches) as family secrets and scandalous mystery combine in this delightfully witty...

Marcus Valerius Aquila has scarcely landed in Britannia when he has to run for his life - condemned to dishonorable death by power-crazed emperor Commodus. The plan is to take...

The book titled Spartan by the author Valerio Massimo Manfredi. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Audacious', 'a page-turner' and ' has the makings of a feminist classic' INDEPENDENT A gripping and heartbreaking novel that reimagines life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshaws'...

The book titled Last Citadel: A Novel of the Battle of Kursk by the author David L Robbins. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Secondhand Romance & Women's Fiction Bargain Box — 18 Books Eighteen novels for readers who want heart, humour, and the occasional ugly cry. This box moves from Cecelia Ahern at...

Secondhand Literary & Historical Fiction Bargain Box — 18 Books This one is the box for readers who mean business. Alongside contemporary literary fiction from Rachel Joyce, Justin Cartwright, Will...

Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Box — 18 Books A wonderfully varied collection that moves from Booker-shortlisted Indian literary fiction to Will Self at his most formally audacious, from fin-de-siècle Vienna...

Secondhand Literary & Historical Fiction Bargain Box — 18 Books Eighteen literary novels, novellas, and story collections — and a genuinely exceptional one at that. This box opens with Salley...

Secondhand Literary & Historical Fiction Bargain Box — 18 Books Eighteen novels and story collections for readers who want their fiction to do something more than pass the time. This...

Secondhand Literary & Historical Fiction Bargain Box — 18 Books Eighteen books, one irresistible stack. This carefully curated collection spans continents and centuries — from revolutionary Cuba to the colonial...

The true story of a luxury steamship lost in 1912, and its haunting curse, inspire a tale of fatal desire, theft and greed. Praise for Jewel Sea : ' Kelly...

Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Brooklyn after the Civil War, Libertie Sampson was all too aware that her purposeful mother, a practicing physician, had a vision...

The heart-stopping new blockbuster by the bestselling author of The Fallen Woman. Violet Nash has grown up in the shadows of her father Charlie's shattered dreams. It's been years since...

Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then...

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...

__________________ '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...

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...

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 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....

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 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...

'A novelist at the height of his powers' La Croix 'You have the ingredients Balzac would have cooked with. And it is exactly those great 19th century novels that Lemaitre...

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...