Historical Fiction

New South Wales, 1856: Miles McGinty and Isabel Dowling are born on the same night into different worlds. Miles is the illegitimate son of an actress in a troupe of...

A gripping tale of a daring heroine testing her wits against a backdrop of secrets, spies and smugglers in perilous Far North Queensland in the late nineteenth century and based...

It has been twenty years since the Romans first occupied Britannia, and the rebellion by Boudica and her people nears its bloody climax. Now, as the Roman army marches on...

Scottish entrepreneurs aimed to cut a road across the infested swamps of Panama's Darien peninsula. Seen through the eyes of young Scot, Roderick Mackenzie, this book describes the horrors and...

Based on real events, I WAS JANE AUSTEN'S BEST FRIEND is the secret diary of Jenny Cooper, Jane Austen's teenage friend and confidante. Their evenings are a blur of beautiful...

"The sweetest, most uplifting, lovely book about courage, friendship, love ... It'll be huge; it deserves to be" Marian Keyes, author of The Break London, 1940. Emmeline Lake and her...

The Texas Valentine Twins - Cathy Gillen Thacker A Sweetheart deal. Wyatt Lockhart is bound to regret moving in with Adelaide Smythe. She's broken the Texas rancher's heart before, and...

More than three centuries ago, Nicholas Winters irrevocably altered his genetic makeup in an obsession-fueled competition with alchemist and Arcane Society founder Sylvester Jones. Driven to control their psychic abilities,...

From the winner of the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize. 'A jewel of a novel- luminous, vivid, and deftly shaped.' FIONA McFARLANE Told from five different points of view, each one...

From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta...

Author: Irving StoneBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell and Co, 1971Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA novel about Sigmund Freud--the complex man whose life was a tumultuous drama of courage,...

Author: Sir W. S. GilbertBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan Co. Ltd, 1979Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Yeomen of the Guard is a celebrated comic opera. This work unfolds...

Author: Robert StandishBinding: HardbackPublished: Peter Davies, 1950Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThe story of two upright Britons, Peter and his wife, Sue, and the conflict in their...

Author: Robert GravesBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1957Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA self-confessed forger, cheat, thief, and petty criminal, William Palmer was also a surgeon...

From The Times bestselling author of The Other Mrs Walker - Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2017 - comes Mary Paulson-Ellis's second stunning historical mystery, The Inheritance of Solomon...

In the final days of the Chinese empire, Orchid, a beautiful 17-year-old from an aristocratic but impoverished family, is pushed into the maelstrom of politics when she is chosen to...

He races to complete their mission against escalating odds - his task made more perilous when he loses his heart. She's determined to defy convention and live a solitary life...

Arrows will fly. Swords will swing. Heroes will fall. Legends will survive. And the Holy Land will never be the same. 1190 AD: Richard the Lionheart has launched his epic...

A mother can never be free until she finds her children... The Good Morning America Book Club Pick February 2023 is a soaring novel inspired by true events. 'A strong...

A groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed debut novel of friendship and freedom that crosses continents and centuries, in a timeslip story exploring the legacy of slavery, selected as The Times Children's Book...

Freedom - in eleventh-century France, it is a luxury enjoyed by only the King and nobility. For the serf, it is surely worth fighting for. But is it worth dying...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME * A NEW YORK TIMES READER TOP 100 PICK FOR BEST BOOKS OF...

You don't need me to tell you Keneally is a brilliant storyteller, but with Fanatic Heart he proves it once again. ARTS HUB The novel's resonance for our own times...

THE MITFORDS AT WAR It's 1941, and the Mitford household is splintered by the vicissitudes of war. To bring the clan together - maybe for one last time - Deborah...

'Sophisticated and moving... Powerful' Sunday Times 'A deep, immersive recreation of a pivotal moment in history' A. D. Miller 'If ever there were a historical novel with up-to-the-minute resonance, this...

_______________ PRAISE FOR WITCH WARS: 'This is a witch story like no other - and it's a blast!' - Bookseller 'Brilliantly magical' - Tom Fletcher Book Club _______________ The third...

Reads like a modern classic. Sharp, funny, original - I thought this was brilliant' - Sam Copeland, author of the bestselling Charlie Changes into a Chicken 'What a FEAST! A...

Anna Funder, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and author of Stasiland, offers a thrilling tale and powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the...

An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, two stories of love--all are brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest...

Stunning new novel from the three-times Booker shortlisted author of The Statement. Set in the late 1850s in France and Algeria, Brian Moore's outstanding new novel blends political intrigue, moral...

Secondhand Fiction Bargain Book Box Embark on a captivating journey through the human experience with our Secondhand Fiction Bargain Book Box! This thoughtfully curated collection brings together a diverse array of...

At the dawn of the seventeenth century everyone believed that the Sun revolved around the Earth. Yet some men knew that the heavens did not move as they should. And...

When her brother, Edward, announces his engagement to Elizabeth, Mariah sees no reason not to rejoice. It transpires, however, that her new sister-in-law and mistress of Addison Terrace, Reading, has...

Cairo, 1887. A beautiful September day. Pernod Ballantyne and his fiancee, Amber Benbrook, stroll hand in hand. The future is theirs for the taking. But when Penrod's jealous former lover,...

January 1474, in the deep cold of an ice-bound Danzig: a man is spending a frivolous winter not facing up to his responsibilities. It is the merchant Niccolo, diviner, soldier,...

A romantic and exhilarating historical adventure about a girl who must unlock the secrets within Paradise Lost to save her father--perfect for fans of Revolution and Code Name Verity --from...

Taking the reader from Victoria's wild shipwreck coast to the artists' studios of revolutionary Paris and the bloody battlefields of Flanders, this sweeping novel reimagines the volatile history of the...

From a remarkable new Australian author comes THE ANCHORESS, a story set within the confines of a stone cell measuring seven paces by nine. Tiny in scope but universal in...

After she steals a bonnet, Mary becomes a prisoner on a ship bound for Australia.

1677, on a late summer's evening two ships lurk off the coast of southwest Ireland. They are Barbary corsairs from North Africa, slave catchers. As soon as it is dark,...

About the Book Historical Fiction books set their characters and plot at some time in the past, providing adequate background on the customes and mores of that time to make...

Author: Xavier HerbertBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1961Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis novel portrays the lives and relationships of soldiers and women during a time of conflict....

Author: Mrs. Rundle CharlesBinding: HardbackPublished: T. Nelson and Sons , 1891Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis narrative follows the Schönberg-Cotta family. The story unfolds through...

Author: Norman Verschuer WallaceBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby, Australia, 1976Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis narrative transports you to the rugged landscapes of the Australian outback, where a young...

Author: MacNeill, Hannah (edited by Rev. H.B. Macartney and introduction by Rev. D.S. McEachran)Binding: HardbackPublished: Marshall Brothers, London, 1897Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis biography...

Author: Arnold BennettBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 2004Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Old Wives' Tale deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance...