Historical Fiction

Before Jekyll and Hyde, there was someone else ... The Haunting of Mr and Mrs Stevenson is a gothic delight. It tells the story of Robert Louis Stevenson's friendship with...

'So heart-rending and familiar, and so brilliantly, unforgettably different.' - Morris Gleitzman, bestselling author of Once Emma is a young student about to be drawn into what will become the...

'Masterful, magnificent. A passionate story of survival. This story will stay with me for a long time.' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz The war is over, but...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller, a mesmerising story of love, regret and a restless search for answers While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War...

It's March 1916, and Joseph Reavley, stumbling across the wastes of no man's land to rescue a comrade, is badly wounded. Sent home on sick leave, he finds recovery slow...

A heart-breaking story of survival, where life or death relies on the smallest chance and happiness can be found in the darkest times. Fans of The Choice and The Tattooist...

In the latest sizzling Victorian novel from the compelling world of the mysterious Arcane Society, a paranormal killer pushes an unlikely duo's powers and passions to the limit. Virginia Dean...

Lambeth, London, 1859. By the time Dora Damage discovers that there is something wrong with her husband, Peter, it is too late. His arthritic hands are crippled, putting his book-binding...

A beautiful book of simple yet powerful wisdom for anyone who loved THE SECRET or THE CELESTINE PROPHECY, by the author of THE ALCHEMIST. 'Only he who gives up is...

Agent Moose, the best (worst) secret agent in the Big Forest, and his slightly-more-intelligent sidekick Owlfred are on the case in this new full colour graphic novel series. Something fishy...

A historical opera of sweeping proportions, The Cradle and the Sword hurtles the reader from the classical ages of Greece and Persia back into the mists of prehistory, chronicling the...

The incredible true story of Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon's discovery of the tomb of the Ancient Egyptian boy King At the beginning of the 20th century, a young unknown...

A missing man, a stolen baby and a plot of land where nothing grows. Are they connected? One person knows. 1948 : Sugar Creek seemed such a welcoming town for...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 "The kind of book for which the word "rollicking" was invented."-New York Times Book Review Aprim and properlady thief must save her...

Tragedy and terror threaten one brave Jewish girl during the Holocaust in this inspiring war story about never giving up. Fourteen-year-old Rivka Resnik survives the brutal massacre of her family...

Alsace, 1944. Mathilde finds herself falling deeply in love with Amine Belhaj, a Moroccan soldier, billeted in her town, fighting for the French. After the Liberation, Mathilde leaves France, following...

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm Perhaps no other stories possess as much power to enchant, delight, and surprise as those penned by the immortal Brothers Grimm. Now,...

Though her path to the throne was long and paved with treachery, Jane Seymour would win the heart of her king-and heal her own. Jane Seymour of Wiltshire is not...

From the author of The King's Favorite -a new novel based on a dazzling and decadent true story of Restoration England. The daughter of a poor nobleman, Louise leaves the...

As extraordinary an achievement as Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson's new novel is set in the 17th century, in another world of secrets, codes and conflict. Having challenged Robert Harris in his...

Inspired by a true story, My Mother's Secret is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German...

'A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic, this book wholly enchanted me' Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches Enter the world of...

Decimus Rex has been wounded - badly! Gladius goes in search of help, but when he returns, Decimus has disappeared. There's no other thing for it, the friends have to...

By the 1860s, the Pilasters are one of the world's greatest banking families, with connections that reach from the City of London to far-afield colonies. However, as the family grow...

In 1945, Hannah Weiss, a Jewish-Austrian scientist, is removed from her laboratory at the Los Alamos National Lab and taken to Leavenworth Prison for interrogation. Major Jack Delaney, a rising...

Beloved author Wayne Johnston returns to the territory of his #1 national bestseller The Colony of Unrequited Dreams with this sweeping tale of ambition, remorse and hope. A World Elsewhere...

PART OF BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST: 'Those of you who've been waiting for Obreht's next novel won't be disappointed' 'SPECTACULAR' Guardian 'A WONDER' Daily Mail 'SPARKLING' The Times 'EXQUISITE'...

The story of a young woman's journey through love, motherhood and loss in 1920s Ceylon Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper is newly married to a rich and charming widower, eager to join...

An adorable graphic novel series about best friends, cute dogs, and all the fun (and trouble) that comes with them. This funny and heartwarming series is the Baby-Sitters Club for...

GOLDFINCH is the epic finale in the TikTok sensation, Plated Prisoner series by bestselling author Raven Kennedy . . . One king caged my body. Another has caged my mind....

A young woman is put on trial. She has accused her painting teacher of the darkest betrayal - he accuses her of being a immoral liar. What really happened, and...

In the pantheon of best-selling authors, Colleen McCullough is without peer. From the heights of THE THORNBIRDS to the finely rendered TIM, no one has created more excitement. And now,...

Panoramic, sweeping, monumental, haunting- a story of four families which spans the centuries of Russia. In this vast and gorgeous tapestry of a novel, serf and master, Cossack and tsar,...

National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2013 They lied to protect their country. He told the truth to save it. A gripping historical thriller from the bestselling...

One of the Roman novels from the bestselling historical fiction Falco series Fans of S. J. Parris, Donna Leon, Steven Saylor and C. J. Sansom will absolutely love this gripping...

The stirring story of Henry VIII's final marriage, to Katharine Parr. Delve deep into a superb, fictionalised account of Henry VIII's sixth Queen, the mysterious Katharine Parr, written by multi-million...

The third novel in the epic Masters of Rome series. Fortune's Favourites witnesses the power, mastery and cunning of two enigmatic rulers of Rome - Sulla, returning from exile, and...

"A glorious showstopper of a novel! With its glittering characters, intricately woven plot and chapters full of gorgeous Dior dresses, The Paris Gown will be turning all heads this year."--Natasha...

In war-torn France, Jo McMahon, an Italian-Irish girl from the tenements of New York City, tends to six seriously wounded soldiers in a makeshift field hospital. Enemy bombs have destroyed...

ELOISE'S STORY Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he'd proposed, figuring that she'd be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an...

From USA Today bestselling author Laura Lee Guhrke comes the story of a bargain, a marriage of convenience . . . and the chance for love to last a lifetime...

Valoree no longer has to masquerade as her murdered brother and scourge the oceans as Captain Red. She no longer has to command his pirate band in a quest to...

Portrait in Sepia is the best book Allende has published in the United States since her first novel of nearly two decades ago, The House of the Spirits ." --Jonathan...

He's dead. She's deadly. The bad guys don't stand a chance. The fifth book in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series. Skulduggery and Valkyrie are back - just in time to...

In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling...

The brand new epic family drama from the nation's favourite storyteller. Where can a daughter turn when her father's love is stolen away? When heart-broken Sarah Quinn is left to...