Historical Fiction

King Asa has ruled for many years, but his time is running out. The unfortunate mistakes of the past continue to haunt him, and trouble is brewing in Judah. The...

"I was twenty-one years old when the letter arrived. It was the most exciting letter I ever received. Written in my father's untidy scrawl, it had obviously been sent in...

It was on my 17th birthday that I first heard - or felt - God's voice. In those days, we seemed to have a happy extended family in Anathoth and...

Stacey Casey is a fun and adventurous middle grade series that will take kids on a wild ride into the past. On their journey, readers will discover surprising and sometimes...

A murder. A missing manuscript. An undying love. Thisbe Chisholm wants to be a writer. It's 2007, a time of digital revolution and skyrocketing property prices, but she's an old-fashioned...

Angelo, a young Hussar colonel and expert swordsman, has had to escape into France from his native Piedmont after killing an Austrian police-spy in a duel. Travelling the roads of...

August, 1098.Having destroyed Kerbogha s army, the crusaders are at last secure in Antioch.But internal quarrels still consume them- Raymond and Bohemond are almost at war over who should possess...

Baker by day, spy by night - Alice Eclair leads an exciting double life! A mysterious message sends Alice on a mission aboard France's most glamorous train. She must uncover...

From the author of Safiyyah's War - winner of the Indie Book Award, the Week Junior Book Award, the Jhalak Children's & YA Prize and The Diverse Book Award. 'Historical...

From Sunday Times bestselling author, dive back into this lush and dreamlike world of Ava Reid's dark academic masterpiece A Study in Drowning in this stunning sequel and conclusion. All...

the epic new African novel from the bestselling author of tears of the Maasai.Beyond Mombasa tells the unforgettable story of Ronald and Florence Preston, the pioneering Victorian-era couple who, with...

Set onboard an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour-de-force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an...

GEORGE HART just wants to serve his Queen and honour his family. It's not that simple. BASTARD He doesn't know his father, only that he's a pillar of the Establishment....

A vengeful, bloody queen imprisons her own half-sister... England 1554, and twenty year old Princess Elizabeth is a captive of Queen Mary. She longs for liberty - and in Honor...

The Night Ship is an enthralling tale of human brutality, fate and friendship - and of two children, hundreds of years apart, whose destinies are inextricably bound together. ONE SHIPWRECK....

Shikimori seems like the perfect girlfriend- cute, fun to be around, sweet when she wants to be... but she has a cool dark side that comes out under the right...

The captivating sequel to Foul Lady Fortune , by the New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights. Winter is drawing thick in 1931 Shanghai, as is the ever-nearing...

In a magical ancient Britain, bards sing a story of treachery, love and death. This is that story. For fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, Lucy Holland's Sistersong retells the folk...

Catherine Cookson was one of the world's most beloved writers. Her books have sold millions of copies, and her characters and their stories have captured the imaginations of readers around...

A searing story of passion, betrayal, battles and love, this is Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' stripped of superstition, and its power and beauty refined into fewer words where good balances the evil...

With an introduction by Victoria GlendinningThe third volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy.A decrepit warship sails on the last stretch of its voyage to Sydney Cove. It has been blown...

Malaya, 1942. Nisha's home is destroyed by war and she and her mother, Amma, flee to her father's ancestral house in England, perched on a cliff top on the cold...

She holds the key to a kingdom's future... When young Mary Howard receives the news that she will be leaving her home for the grand court of King Henry VIII,...

'Outstanding' Washington Post . ALEXANDRIA, 47 BC. For three centuries, the House of Ptolemy has governed the Kingdom of Egypt . Cleopatra - seventh of her name - rules from...

In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings - Ilmari, Matti and the politicized young Aino - are...

A Faulkner-esque Classic of Trinidadian literature - No Pain Like This Body is a lost masterpiece of contemporary fiction. 'A masterpiece of hurt' New York Times WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY...

Join Lizzie and the gang as they try to uncover the identity of the mysterious phantom. In Victorian London a masked figure has been robbing houses and evading the police....

Lizzie is proud of her psychic powers so becomes enraged at the fakery she sees all around her. People are flocking to see Douglas Grant a man who claims to...

Lizzie and the circus are in Whitby a town that doesn't seem to want them there. The only friendly faces are the glamorous Maharajah and his beautiful but secretive wife....

In rural Bethnal Green, Lizzie Brown takes pity on a couple of drunks and gives them a free palm reading.y However, she is horrified when she has a vision of...

Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, she was able to face the difficult, lonely times more easily because of...

Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely--until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at...

'Deliciously dark' Natasha Ngan, New York Times bestselling author of Girls of Paper and Fire In glittering Shanghai, a monster awakens . . . The brilliantly imaginative New York Times...

A fast-paced historical romance adventure, set on the mighty Murray River in the 1890s with a flawed but loveable heroine. 1890s, River Murray, Northern Victoria Georgina Calthorpe is unhappy living...

Discover the extraordinary lives of the inspiring girls who have lived throughout history at 6 Chelsea Walk.Andie loves living in Chelsea. Amongst the fashion, music and art galleries along the...

'I have no idea how long I have been incarcerated in these ancient walls . . . Let me explain how I find myself in this predicament . . .'...

In fifteenth-century Constantinople, Prince Constantine saves the life of a broken-hearted girl. But the price of his valour is high. John Grant is a young man on the edge of...

12-year-old Mary's beloved grandmother is near the end of her life. Letting go is hard - until Granny's long-dead mammy appears. Her ghost has returned to help her dying daughter...

A historical time-slip adventure for middle grade readers, from the Carnegie Medal-winning author of Apache and Buffalo Soldier . Alfie Wright? Alfie Wrong , more like. Alfie has never really...

Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he's the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor house in England, they...

The Fortune Hunter, the New York Times bestselling novel by Daisy Goodwin, is a lush, irresistible story of the public lives and private longings of grand historical figures. Empress Elizabeth...

Now in paperback, Douglas Galbraith's The Rising Sun is an extraordinary tour de force of historical fiction in the tradition of Caleb Carr's The Alienist and David Liss's A Conspiracy...

Sarah Waters meets The Girls in this haunting, wickedly perceptive debut set in an all-girl school and seeking to answer the timeless question- Who has authority over a woman's body?...

From the best-selling author of Savage Longings comes the tale of Minnesota Territory settler Marjorie Zimmerman and her handsome, proud Dakota Indian warrior, as together they fight to overcome the...

Finding himself the man of the family, London dancing master Alec Valcourt moves his mother and sister to remote Devonshire, hoping to start over. But he is stunned to learn...

Horatio Nelson is our most famous military hero. His statue dominates the capital, he has adorned our currency, his last words have passed into folklore, and HMS Victory, his flagship...

Three women bound together by the strands of fate Charlotte-Rose de la Force, exiled from the court of the Sun King Louis XIV, has always been a great teller of...