Historical Fiction

Beautiful, intoxicating and full of suspense, The Knowing is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution and how women survive and weaponize trauma. A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION...

Previously published as A Trail of Fire. Includes two never-published-before short stories from the bestselling author of the Outlander series. Previously published as A Trail of Fire. Includes two never-published-before...

Kit McBride is as rugged as they come, but the bookish cowboy is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime when he's saddled with a surprise mail-order bride....

An incomparable beauty. A promise to a king. A portrait that can never be completed. Longlisted for the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize When Emilia Lennox loses everything after her...

Our foremost storyteller returns with an audacious new novel, Machines Like Me. **Number One Sunday Times Bestseller** Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda,...

In this fifth and final book in The Girls Who Changed the World series, Ming Qong discovers who she is, and that she, too, will change the world. Ming has...

'THE HOTTEST ACTION WRITER AROUND' EVENING TELEGRAPH DISCOVER THE WILDLY ENTERTAINING, ACTION-PACKED JACK WEST SERIES Former SAS soldier Jack West is on a mission to save the world, no matter...

While centurions Macro and Cato are returning to Rome from a harrowing campaign against the Parthians, their transport ship is almost capsized by a tidal wave. They barely make it...

It is late summer 44AD and the battle-weary Roman legions are in their second year of campaigning against the British tribes. The troops' commander, General Plautius, is under considerable pressure...

The 5th century has dawned in blood. The fate of the Roman Empire lies in the hands of two men - Aetius and Atiila - the Roman and the hun....

Bridget Mulligan loves her husband. He is caring, loyal and dependable - everything a woman could ask for. But she can't quite forget Harry - the one that got away...

C12th Devon. Much of the country lies under the iron rule of the Royal Forest laws, with all hunting reserved to the King. The penalty for killing a deer on...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and "queen of royal fiction" ( USA TODAY ) Philippa Gregory comes a story about the devastating consequences of the slave trade in...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, a New York Times...

** CELEBRATING 21 YEARS OF OTORI ** THE HARSH CRY OF THE HERON is Book 4 in the five-part Tales of the Otori series. 'The best story of magic, love,...

No girl forgets her first crush. The least he could do is remember it. Chrissy James has only been home in small-town Levenham a few weeks when her teenage crush...

Gaelle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France. In a matter of months, her father and brother are killed, her mother descends into...

His name was Taggart and he rode with a price on his head through the bloodred canyons of Apache country. Behind him was a ruthless bounty hunter- the deadliest lawman...

The magnificent new novel by the bestselling and award-winning Kate Atkinson- 'Masterpiece' - Telegraph; 'Pageturner' - Evening Standard; 'Wise, funny and paced like a thriller' - Observer The magnificent novel...

Three girls. One city. Who will be the last flapper standing? i> t's Chicago 1924. Born into American high society, Gloria is the girl who has it all. Living the...

A sinfully sensuous story of a family plagued by scandal-and a shy young woman who discovers a passion beyond her wildest dreams... When her beloved father passes away, Florence Fairleigh...

New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh returns to the elegance and sensuality of Regency England as she continues the enthralling story of four remarkable women-friends and teachers at Miss...

At the opening of the War of 1812, the British control the most powerful navy on earth, and Americans are again victims of piracy. Bliven Putnam, late of the Battle...

When an unlikely pair of female samurai join forces, what begins as your run-of-the-mill quest for glory and revenge evolves into something much more complicated. Turns out fighting actual demons...

" Pope Joan has all the elements one wants in a historical drama-love, sex, violence, duplicity, and long-buried secrets. Cross has written an engaging book."- Los Angeles Times Book Review...

The Warrior King has brought peace to Britain - but for how long? Following a hard-fought victory, Arthur appears to have at last won the unity of the British Kingdoms....

N.B. R S Downie is published in the US as Ruth Downie and this book, RUSO AND THE DISAPPEARING DANCING GIRLS, is published in the US as MEDICUS: A NOVEL...

This is a gripping and original historical fiction in the tradition of "The Red Tent" and "Girl with a Pearl Earring". In 1769, when Helen Gloag runs away from her...

Menaced by England and riven by internal discord, Scotland in 1548 has only one hope for survival as a nation- an alliance with France to be sealed by the betrothal...

The exquisitely-researched standalone prequel series to Dorothy Dunnett's revered Lymond Chronicles, following the ancestors of Francis Crawford of Lymond in Continental Europe. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid...

In 1461, the mysterious enigmatic Nicholas is in Florence. Backed by none other than Cosimo de' Medici, he will sail the Black Sea to Trebizond, last outpost of Byzantium, and...

A compelling and moving story of three sisters growing up in 1920s Yorkshire They loved. They lost. They lived. In the small Yorkshire town of Cottenly - dominated by the...

Winner of the Reddit Fantasy Award for Best Debut 2018 'The best fantasy debut of 2018' - WIRED From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface comes...

The Ancient's Game is a thrilling new fantasy where one young woman must compete against the nation's elite for a coveted apprenticeship. Sixteen-year-old Kellan DuCuivre is the descendant of traitors....

DISCOVER THE EPIC CONCLUSION TO THE SWEEPINGLY ROMANTIC NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER DIVINE RIVALS TORN APART BY WAR Iris has returned home bruised and heartbroken from the front, but...

A LOVE STORY TO DEFY THE GODS The epic enemies-to-lovers fantasy novel filled with hope and heartbreak from number one SUNDAY TIMES bestseller Rebecca Ross A LOVE THAT CONQUERS ALL...

*Winner of the Aurora Award for Best Novel* From SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Kate Heartfield comes a glorious, lyrical retelling of one of Norse mythology's greatest epics 'With a brilliant...

The truth is waiting to be told ... 'Stunning' SANTA MONTEFIORE 'Spine-tinglingly good' AMANDA GEARD 'Incredible' LORNA COOK *** Cornwall, 1934. Violet Ellis is living in the shadows of her...

From the author of 2020's astonishing The Story of Silence comes another retelling of a chivalric legend, full of magic, myth and self-discovery. "Utterly enchanting" Publishers Weekly Beyond the stars,...

The prequel to the million-copy bestseller, A Woman of Substance, where, high on the Yorkshire moors, the story of Blackie O'Neill and Emma Harte begins... Orphaned and alone, 13-year-old Blackie...

From master storyteller MICHAEL MORPURGO, and illustrated by the award-winning EMMA CHICHESTER CLARK, comes a surprising, charming and uplifting twist on The Wizard of Oz, told by a very special...

Don't miss the brand new epic family drama from the nation's favourite storyteller... Will a dark shadow destroy her family? As a servant below stairs at the big manor house,...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction 'Simply exceptional...I envy anyone who hasn't...

Worldwide bestselling author Wilbur Smith will take you on an incredible journey on the thrashing seas off the coast of Africa in this glorious return to the series that made...

The brand new novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. BBC2's major TV show...

FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch' Andy McDermott A LOST MANUSCRIPT. A SAVAGE...

The Penobscot Expedition is an extraordinary story, one that has fascinated the author for years, and will now fascinate his readers. Summer 1779, a British force of fewer than one...