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...

1775. Commissioner Nicolas Le Floch is on a diplomatic mission to Vienna, ostensibly to deliver a bust of Marie Antoinette to her mother, the Empress Maria Theresa. His real task,...

Tarn grapples with the loss of her brother at Dunkirk as she faces the threat of Nazi invasion in the Cumbrian countryside in this gripping wartime tale from Tom Palmer....

The discovery of a dragon egg could mean a ticket to the skies for aspiring aeronauts Kitty and Harris in this page-turning adventure, inspired by a real historical event. Twins...

Welcome to the Ooperato Belleza . . . it might save his life, or it just might be the end of him! Damelas Chademantaigne picked a poor night to flee...

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,...

'A novel of tremendous beauty . . . A wonderful achievement' Sarah Waters 'A beautiful and extraordinary book' Philip Pullman When Suzanne, a shy 17-year-old, meets the brilliant but troubled...

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...

This is the story of three women. The first is brought back from the dead, and follows her saviour to adventure. The second is seeking the sorcerer who trained her,...

A nobleman must work with a dashing soldier to save his sister from a mystical bargain gone awry in this irresistible Regency romance from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material...

Berlin, 1989. Anne Simpson, an American who works as a translator at the Joint Operations Refugee Committee, thinks she is in a normal marriage with a charming East German. But...

War makes heroes of men, but at what price? As the twentieth century dawns, Guv Sutro, against his father's will, becomes a pioneer of aviation, a fighter ace on the...

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...

The celebrated American writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce mysteriously disapeared in Mexico during its civil war. In this brilliant novel, Carlos Fuentes imagines the fate of Bierce among Pancho Villa's...

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...

Hornblower gets his first independent command in this installment of C. S. Forester's beloved series, "the most popular modern saga of the days when ships were wood and men were...

Horatio Hornblower, only seventeen years old, gets his sea legs in this "absolutely compelling" ( San Francisco Chronicle ) first installment of C. S. Forester's classic naval adventure series. The...

" 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...