Historical Fiction

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodWhat does it mean to be truly noble in a world that no longer recognises nobility? Sons of Kings, originally published in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFrom one of Britain's most versatile and quietly commanding storytellers comes The Lily Hand and Other Stories, a collection that showcases Edith...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: marking '4' on title page. Set against the rugged industrial landscape of Victorian...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: minor nicks/tears on endpapers. Price clipped dj. In the quiet English countryside, a woman arrives to inhabit...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedSet against the turbulent backdrop of the Mexican-American War and the mid-nineteenth century American Southwest, The Wine...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: fep clipped. Set against the glittering spectacle of a royal coronation in mid-twentieth-century London, Paul...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedSet against the turbulent backdrop of post-revolutionary Russia, Cruelty is a morally charged novella that chronicles the story of Venka Malyshin, a...

Edition: 5th ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most celebrated and enduring works of modern Chinese literature, The True Story of...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the rich, magnolia-scented backdrop of antebellum New Orleans, The Chess Players...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Small sticker residue on fep, otherwise internally sound. In the shadowy world of Cold War intelligence, Charles...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: FEP missingCondition remarks: Worn boards. Pages yellowed. Clean text. In the heart of Soviet Ukraine, amid the...

Edition: later repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: **GERMAN TEXT ONLY**In the frozen waters of the Baltic Sea, on the night of January 30, 1945, the German passenger...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: Faded and worn cloth. DJ - chipped and worn with some loss. Binding remains tight....

Edition: 5th ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Set against the roaring furnaces and coal-blackened valleys of nineteenth-century Wales, Rape of the Fair...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the crossroads of myth, mysticism, and the mundane, A Glastonbury Romance presents one of the most ambitious and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. All b&w plates intact. Small pencil marking on front cover. One of the most celebrated works to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFive of Wilbur Smith's most celebrated novels — When the Lion Feeds, The Diamond Hunters, Eagle in the Sky, Gold Mine, and Shout at...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodThree of Victorian literature's most enduring masterworks are gathered in this essential omnibus edition from The Library of World Classics, uniting Thomas Hardy's unflinching vision of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the sunbaked villages and dreaming spires of Victorian England, Jude Fawley — a stonemason of fierce intellect and crushing ambition — reaches desperately toward...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the restless, modernising England of the Victorian era, Thomas Hardy's A Laodicean: A Story of To-Day presents a compelling portrait of a woman caught...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersWhat if the story of Jesus of Nazareth was not...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersA haunting masterpiece of psychological tension, Madame Solario unfolds...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the shadow of the Second World War, a young RAF Pilot-Bombardier named Patrick poured his heart onto paper in...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Mild chipping around edges of spine of jacket. Some staining at back of jacket....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodLong before Australia had a literary tradition to call its own, Henry Savery — convict, bankrupt, and inveterate observer — was quietly laying its...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the windswept villages of rural Siberia comes a pair of quietly devastating novellas by one of Soviet Russia's most celebrated prose writers, Valentin...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThe Australian goldfields of the 1850s were a crucible of ambition, danger, and transformation — and Frontiers of Gold, the second volume in Brian...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the turbulent landscape of post-revolutionary China, Pearl S. Buck's The Three Daughters of Madame Liang chronicles the story of a formidable matriarch who...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom the fertile imagination of one of Soviet Russia's most celebrated literary voices comes The Badgers, a searing portrait of a nation tearing itself apart at...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the soot-blackened coalfields of northern France, a desperate and hungry young man named Étienne Lantier arrives seeking...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the smoky industrial backdrop of the Five Towns in the English Midlands during the latter half...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the smouldering backdrop of a Caribbean island teetering on the edge of political collapse, Guerrillas is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the pen of Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian master Naguib Mahfouz comes Wedding Song, a brilliantly constructed narrative that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageVictorian England was a world of stark contradictions — pious morality on the surface, and a teeming, scandalous...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the tenements of Pennsylvania to the glittering, treacherous corridors of Washington D.C., Ceremony of the Innocent chronicles the tragic life of Ellen Porter, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn a South Africa torn apart by civil war and authoritarian collapse, a quiet, disfigured man named Michael K sets out on an extraordinary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the suffocating atmosphere of provincial Bordeaux, François Mauriac's The Unknown Sea charts the moral and spiritual disintegration of a bourgeois family consumed by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA sun-drenched street in Port of Spain, Trinidad, becomes the entire world for a young boy growing up amid a cast of unforgettable misfits, dreamers,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the dense, sweltering jungles of New Guinea during World War II, a lone Australian soldier finds himself entangled in a conflict that is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the turbulent wake of the infamous Bounty mutiny, Captain Richard Bolitho sails into the treacherous waters of the South Pacific, where...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodThree of the most gripping tales to emerge from the shadow of the Second World War are united in this powerful anthology,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: slight lean to book.Beneath the cold, crushing depths of the Atlantic, a German U-boat crew wages a desperate war of nerves, endurance, and...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the dawn chaos of an amphibious assault on a rocky Turkish peninsula, a story of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the sun-scorched theatres of the Second Boer War, one man's legend blazes as brightly as the African veld — and ends just as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the turbulent heart of eighteenth-century Edinburgh, a young woman's fate hangs on the thinnest thread of justice. The Heart of Midlothian chronicles the gripping...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the dying embers of the Second World War, where betrayal and survival are the only currencies that matter, The Day Before...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a society perfects the art of sorting its citizens by intelligence and ability alone? Michael...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the sun-scorched, famine-ravaged nation of Kush — a fictional sub-Saharan African state — Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû, a devout Muslim and fiercely anti-American head...