Historical Fiction

The engrossing and propulsive historical fiction debut from a talented new writer, for readers of Geraldine Brooks' Year of Wonders , Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet , Lauren Groff's Matrix , Robyn...

From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland , comes a rich, layered and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship, To Sing of War . Longlisted 2024...

The Lord's Maddening Miss - Lucy Morris A sunny Miss, a scowling bachelor. A recipe for disaster...or romance? Since returning from Waterloo, Lord Hawksmere has been a bad-tempered recluse. Having...

This Time is a novel about Richard III in the twenty-first century. It rediscovers the fifteenth-century Richard III through the travails he must endure as he attempts to unravel the...

'Behind doors is another story. Behind doors you can do what you like.' Sophia - rational, demure, and hiding a 'little weakness' - has recently married the charismatic Mr Zedland....

When Lydia celebrated her coming of age, the whole of her Exmoor village celebrated with her. Two men attracted her interest that night- handsome, ambitious Gus Pascoe, who coveted the...

A WORLD OF WONDER AND MIRACLES UNFURLS IN THIS TIMELESS COMING-OF-AGE FANTASY 'That most rare and precious thing: a brand-new classic, both wholly original and wonderfully nostalgic. It's an absolute...

'A herculean achievement . . . strong plot and strong characterisation' The Times It is 1862 and Japan is a land in chaos as the power of the Shogun wanes...

'A gripping thriller and Belkin is a character many readers will want to encounter again' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Remarkable ... If only all first novels were as enthralling as this'...

He's dead. She's deadly. The bad guys don't stand a chance. The fourth book in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series. Skulduggery is gone, sucked into a parallel dimension. There is...

'An intoxicating blend of romance, mystery, and magic' 1919 May Day Kit Arton-Price should be celebrating. It's his engagement party and, unlike many young men of his generation, he survived...

Dive in to this funny and debut heart-warming magical (and musical!) adventure from star of stage and screen, Matt Lucas - a festive modern classic for young readers of 8-12!...

Author: Thomas KeneallyBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsSchindler's Ark presents a powerful historical narrative, recounting the extraordinary efforts of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who...

In 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress and an elderly Italian aristocrat. Living at the...

'Mesmerising... the work of a writer possessed of a rare power and vision' - Daily Telegraph One evening, Gillis - a young Scottish minister who technically doesn't believe in god...

Miss Cassidy is no ordinary governess. She can tutor the most wayward child, tell stories in multiple languages and fix any household crisis. But she also deals with problems of...

"A work of fiction that is both a potent portrait of early 19th-century Edinburgh but also a story about female agency or the lack of it. The result is a...

Following his hugely celebrated debut novel, THE YELLOW BIRDS , Kevin Powers returns to the battlefield and its aftermath, this time in his native Virginia, just before and during the...

From her ranch home in Montana in the 1920s, Nettie Brady dreamed of joining the rodeo circuit and becoming a star. Defying her mother's wishes and trading her skirts for...

1927. Transatlantic flight fever grips the globe.The Honourable Miss Elsie Mackay, glamorous ex-film star turned bold aviator, sets her sights on becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic....

In 1947, Elisabeth Mander's German nephew comes to stay: Stefan Landau, her dead sister's teenage son, whom she hates and loves before she's even set eyes on him. Orphaned by...

The first volume of The Ptolemies Quartet triumphantly brings to life the dark and glittering history of ancient Alexandria and the Greek Pharaohs of Egypt, whose extraordinary dynasty spanned twelve...

The book titled On the Trail of King Richard III by the author L.M. Ollie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

On February 16,1944, Anne Frank recorded in her diary that Peter, whom she at first disliked but eventually came to love, had confided to her that if he got out...

New York Times and USA Today Bestseller! R. A. Salvatore returns with one of fantasy's most beloved and enduring icons, the dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden, in an all-new trilogy full...

In Nazi-occupied Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is called upon for a selfless act of bravery to help save her best friend from a terrible fate. Winner of the Newbery Medal....

A devout iconographer must paint an exiled saint in this sumptuous gothic romantasy full of slow-burn tension and windswept moors, for fans of DIVINE RIVALS and A STUDY IN DROWNING...

Author: Beth BrowneBinding: PaperbackPublished: Self published, Gippsland, Victoria, June, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA sweeping historical saga, Tapestry Of The Frontier...

Author: Michael MorpurgoBinding: PaperbackPublished: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2017Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the backdrop of World War I, Private Peaceful...

Author: Anthony TrollopeBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1994Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Inscription on slipcase. This poignant Victorian novel chronicles the lives of interconnected families in rural...

'Beautiful and timely' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater 'Everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. Haven is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.' - Maggie O'Farrell, author...

Author: William Stuart LongBinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday, Sydney, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis sweeping historical novel chronicles the arduous journey and foundational struggles of early European settlers in...

Author: William Stuart LongBinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday, Australia, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis sweeping historical novel transports readers to the tumultuous early days of Australian settlement, where pioneers...

Author: William Stuart LongBinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis sweeping historical saga, The Settlers, chronicles the arduous journey and foundational struggles of a...

Author: Maurice DruonBinding: HardbackPublished: RUPERT HART-DAVIS, 1956Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis gripping historical novel chronicles the tumultuous life of Isabella, daughter of Philip...

Author: William Stuart LongBinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThe Empire Builders by William Stuart Long is an epic work of historical fiction that chronicles the...

Author: William Stuart LongBinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis sweeping historical saga chronicles the arduous journeys and desperate hopes of those drawn to the promise...

Author: William Stuart LongBinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markings-

A USA TODAY bestselling novel! As Paris rebuilds in the aftermath of World War II, Kat Fontaine never expected the skills she learned in a French chateau kitchen to be...

A dazzling literary thriller - the story of Sigmund Freud assisting a Manhattan murder investigation. Think SHADOW OF THE WIND meets THE HISTORIAN. THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER is an inventive...

As the King's young cousin, an admired scholar living in Italy, it falls to Reginald Pole to make the case for Henry's divorce from Katherine of Aragon. And it falls...

In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of...

"Well-plotted, extremely perceptive." - Kirkus Reviews. An avid player of the numbers game, Hubert Cooley dreams of the "hit" that will allow him to abandon his demeaning job and the...

Author: W. S. Kent HughesBinding: HardbackPublished: GEOFFREY CUMBERLEGE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1946Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerSlaves Of The Samurai by...

Author: Mary Kent Hughes (T/Major Thornton, R.A.M.C.)Binding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1946Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis historical narrative chronicles the experiences...