Historical Fiction

Based on a riveting historical episode, "The Stalin Epigram" is a fictional rendering of the life of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century -- and...

'One of my all-time favourite novels.' Tsitsi Dangarembga 'The first African novel in English to draw international attention. ' New York Times 'The forerunner of an entire school of African...

Francis Tucket and his adopted family, Lottie and Billy, are heading west in search of Francis's parents on the Oregon Trail. But when winter comes early, Francis turns south to...

The second book in a darkly romantic Rapunzel reimagining from the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of WHEN THE MOON HATCHED. I want him to hurt. To bleed. I...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBlockbuster bestseller Rebecca Ross returns to the world of international sensation Divine Rivals with her most epic story yet. Before Iris sat at her typewriter and...

Now a major TV seriesThe Sunday Times bestsellerShortlisted for the Women's Prize for FictionLonglisted for the Booker Prize 'It is a book not read, but lived' Telegraph 'Her Cromwell novels...

From the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller of The Prince Without Sorrow comes the breathtaking second instalment of the Obsidian Throne trilogy, an epic fantasy of betrayal, memory, and the fight...

An unforgettable story about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles... San Francisco, 1906. In...

THE HOLY CITY IS NO PLACE FOR MERCY 'Matthew Plampin should rank with the best' Sunday Times 'Plampin is heartbreakingly good' The Times 'Gripping, immersive, at times very funny and...

*A Times Best Book of the Year*From the author of The Ashes of London , comes a new historical mystery set in the last days of WWII 'Ten out of...

A KING WITH A SCORE TO SETTLE. A DEMON DRIVEN TO REBEL. A GIRL WHO HOLDS THE POWER OF THE GODS. The epic conclusion to the fantasy trilogy set in...

A Stylist Best Book of 2020 You're free to decide your future. But how do you escape the ghosts of the past? A stunning debut novel with echoes of Yaa...

WHATEVER LIFE BRINGS, THE SHOW MUST GO ON ... 1910. With the disappearance of her mother and the sudden death of her father, Lena instantly loses any security she has...

'It was a special protection from the gods that Silver Frond's beauty manifested itself only after the barbarians had left...A beautiful child-woman, in that intriguing in-between stage when people could...

Edward I of England and Philip IV of France are at war. Philip, by devious means, has managed to seize control of the English duchy of Aquitaine in France, and...

England, late 1930s, and Alice Wright - restless, stifled - makes an impulsive decision to marry wealthy American Bennett van Cleve and leave her home and family behind. But stuffy,...

Home is where life begins and love never ends. She longed to be reunited with her family. The compelling new novel from the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of...

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 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,...

Kathryn Stockett's first novel since the global bestselling phenomenon THE HELP- the sweeping story of a group of underestimated women and an 11-year-old orphan girl whose fates converge in Mississippi...

An Observer , Guardian, Financial Times , Sunday Times South Africa , Irish Times, Irish Independent , Big Issue and Strong Words Pick of the Year An Irish Times and...

A totally absorbing, tense and dark 12th-century medieval crime story with a charming and engaging hero, the Chevalier Galeran. Blue Blood is set in Chartres. In 1134, a fire destroyed...

In 1731, leaving their home and the Age of Reason behind them, two brothers set sail from a castle in Portugal and travel ...up. Bartolomeu has built the world's first...

'Ridonkulously funny and every kid should get their hooter into this Total Winner of graphic novel' - JENNY PEARSON, The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates 'Hugely enjoyable, surreal chaos'...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA harrowing work of Holocaust memoir and historical narrative, A Generation of Wrath: A Story of Embattlement, Survival and Deliverance...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerSet against the vivid backdrop of fourth-century BCE Greece and Sicily, The Mask of Apollo is a richly imagined work...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of early English fiction, The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jack chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.A landmark work of historical memoir and primary source literature, Historical Memoirs of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsSet against the raw, unforgiving landscape of nineteenth-century Australia, A Fringe of Leaves is a sweeping work of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsSet against the sun-drenched landscapes of Italy and Australia, The Lemon Farm is a mid-twentieth-century literary novel by Australian author...

Edition: First English EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA darkly comic work of Israeli literary fiction, Fortunes of a Fool by Aharon Megged...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA gripping work of literary fiction, Delcorso's Gallery chronicles the harrowing journey of Nick DelCorso, a seasoned war photographer whose...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA sweeping adventure romance set against the dramatic landscapes of southern Africa, Benita: An African Romance chronicles the perilous journey...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA beloved classic of Victorian literature, Tom Brown's School Days chronicles the formative years of young Tom Brown as he...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA work of historical fiction for young readers, The Dutchman Bold: The Story of Abel Tasman chronicles the remarkable...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of Czech literature, The Bass Saxophone presents two novellas — the title story and Emöke — that...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet in a devastated seventeenth-century Polish village still reeling from the Cossack massacres, Satan...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark of the classic detective fiction genre, Trent's Last Case chronicles the investigation of Philip Trent, an amateur sleuth...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark of English literature, The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property; Indian Summer of a Forsyte chronicles the lives of the...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA masterwork of Edwardian and early twentieth-century literary fiction, Over the River serves as the concluding volume of John Galsworthy's End of...