Historical Fiction

From Tanya Landman, author of the 2015 Carnegie Medal winner Buffalo Soldier, comes a heart-stopping tale of love, corruption and the power of choice. Blood on her lips. Blood on...

'A magical, magnificent novel, that amounts to a secret history of an America we think we know, but never really knew' Marlon James The people of Salt Point are afraid...

London, 1563. England is a troubled nation. Catholic plots against the young Queen Elizabeth spring up all over the country. The herald William Harley known to everyone as Clarenceux -...

London, 1900. Hester Stanmore watches in disbelief as the jury declares her attacker 'not guilty', and the courtroom erupts into chaos. The man in the dock is being congratulated as...

Nell Reece has never known her mother, and her father's burden of guilt about his wife has kept him cowed for years, working as a common labourer on his sister's...

In a time of violent change, a young man, struck by lightning, is believed to be marked by the gods as a keeper of the Norse religion's greatest secret. Stolen...

It is 1702, and in the lawless Caribbean sea young Matthew Loftus determines to captain his ship, the Cornelius, by honest trade rather than piracy and plunder. But his crew...

We can't choose who we love. We can choose who we fight for. 'A powerful story that proves how love itself requires courage' Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads...

It is little more than two years since the Norman victory at Hastings- a time of discontent, with the kingdom under occupation and still coming to terms with its foreign...

If Captain Anthony and his friends are smugglers, surely they would be smuggling stuff into the Colony, yet they were talking about 'taking them off in a whaleboat'. What on...

1982 and Sami is far from home, trapped in war-torn Beirut, a city under siege by the Israelis. All he wants is to go home to his family in Sri...

From the internationally bestselling creator of Claude and Mr Penguin comes a brand-new tongue-in-cheek murder mystery series, stylishly illustrated in black and white, and perfect for fans of Robin Stevens,...

Book One in the Praire Winds Series Captured by Indians, Jessie King learns to suvive when unexpected lessons of friendship ans love sustain her.

In LAST STAND AT SABER RIVER, a Civil War veteran returns home to find a Yankee's private army living on his land, while another enemy waits to strike... Paul Cable...

The early wealth of Queensland was dependent on slavery, know in Australia as blackbirding. Unsuspecting natives from the South Sea Islands were tricked or forced aboard slave ships and then...

On the fifteenth of February, 1879, the day on which Queen Supayalat of Mandalay ordered eighty members of of royal family to be clubbed to death, Maria Beresford celebrated her...

A group of foreigners in the northeastern town of Shishan finds the status quo upset when Helen Frances, a young woman with a middle class upbringing but a fatal flaw,...

Richard Sharpe and the Destruction of Almeida, August 1810 Bold, professional and determined, Richard Sharpe embarks on a desperate mission. He must recover the treasure, vital to the success of...

A powerful debut from an authentic new voice for the Doubleday list. THE BOOK OF ECHOES is a sweeping, uplifting and inspriational story of how a boy from Brixton and...

Author: Victoria HoltBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron BooksCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical romance chronicles the tumultuous journey of a young governess entangled in the dark secrets of a powerful French...

Author: R. D. BlackmoreBinding: HardbackPublished: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1951Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsSet against the wild, romantic...

Author: S. Ish-KishorBinding: HardbackPublished: Chatto and Windus, 1963Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsThis historical novel, A Boy...

Author: Alison WeirBinding: HardbackPublished: Review, 2021Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: SignedThis compelling historical non-fiction work chronicles the intricate lives and dramatic fortunes of...

Author: Jack HigginsBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron , 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markings-

Author: Rolf BoldrewoodBinding: HardbackPublished: CURREY O'NEIL, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis classic Australian novel, Robbery Under Arms, plunges readers into the thrilling...

Author: Bianca Maria ScarpiBinding: HardbackPublished: Prestel, 1990Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work meticulously chronicles the history and artistic significance of the iconic bronze Lion of Venice,...

Author: Curt JohnsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Octopus, 1975Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsArtillery by Curt Johnson presents a comprehensive account of the evolution and impact of these...

Author: Iris NesdaleBinding: HardbackPublished: Orchid Publications, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis historical narrative, The Fettered & The Free, chronicles the lives of individuals navigating complex societal constraints...

Author: R.R. VialBinding: PaperbackPublished: by the author, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis wartime memoir presents R. R. Vial’s firsthand account of...

Author: Bill ScottBinding: HardbackPublished: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis historical novel presents a tense story set in an Australian mining town, where...

Author: Melvyn BraggBinding: HardbackPublished: Secker & Warburg, 1969Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsThis poignant historical novel chronicles the arduous life of a farm laborer in...

Author: James BarkeBinding: HardbackPublished: COLLINS, 1954Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThe Well of the Silent Harp presents a compelling historical narrative, immersing readers in the vibrant world of 18th-century Scotland....

Author: James BarkeBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1948Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Song In The Green Thorn Tree is a compelling historical novel that chronicles...

Author: Nathaniel HawthorneBinding: HardbackPublished: READER'S DIGEST, 1990Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis classic American novel, The Scarlet Letter, presents a compelling historical romance...

Author: Wilbur SmithBinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday, 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBirds Of Prey plunges readers into a thrilling historical adventure set against the tumultuous backdrop of the 17th-century...

Author: Kate MosseBinding: HardbackPublished: Phoenix, 2005Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: SignedSet in the medieval Languedoc region of France, Labyrinth weaves a gripping historical...

BASED ON REAL HISTORICAL EVENTS A TIME FOR VENGEANCE AD 9, German frontier- Close to the Rhine, a Roman centurion, Lucius Tullus , prepares to take his soldiers on patrol....

Historically very little is known about Spartacus. We know that he came from Thrace, a land north of Greece, that he once fought in the Roman legions and that, during...

**READ SALLY GARDNER'S LATEST SPELLBINDING HISTORICAL NOVEL, THE BRIDE STONE, NOW** SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN 2023 Neva is born into a world of trickery and illusion, where fortunes...

This is the next searing adventure from the bestselling author of "The Last Legion." The 4th century BC, a village in Syria: A woman, dressed in rags and covered in...

Alison Weir was already one of Britain s most popular historians when she wrote her first novel, Innocent Traitor, which stormed the Sunday Times bestseller list to a chorus of...

The Diary of Charlotte McKenzie, Melbourne, 1918-1919. As the horrors of the First World War are drawing to a close, a danger has arisen that will kill more people around...

Alexander the Great faces the challenge of the Persian 'Centaur'; It is now 334 AD, and Alexander has smashed the Persian armies at the battle of the Granicus and is...

Condemned to a hovel, beaten by a merciless commander, crushed by the weather and forced to survive on starvation rations: no one looking at Paul would ever guess that he...

Author: Kate MosseBinding: HardbackPublished: PHOENIX, 2025Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: SignedSet in the medieval Languedoc region of France, Labyrinth weaves a gripping historical...

Author: Colleen McculloughBinding: HardbackPublished: Guild Publishing., 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerSet in the early 20th century Australian outback, The Ladies Of Missalonghi unveils the quiet, yet determined, life...

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...

The 3rd novel of Tariq Ali's Islam Quartet, and is the fictional history of Iskender Pasha's family, which mirrors the chronic turbulence and growing degeneration of the Empire they have...