Historical Fiction

Wilbur Smith / The Tiger's Prey

 The Malabar coast is full of dangers: greedy tradesmen, fearless pirates, and men full of vengeance. But for a Courtney, the greatest danger might just be his own family...After his father's...

Robert Graves / Claudius the God

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Mary Paulson-Ellis / The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing

 From The Times bestselling author of The Other Mrs Walker - Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2017 - comes Mary Paulson-Ellis's second stunning historical mystery, The Inheritance of Solomon...

Bairbre Toibin / The Rising

 When Margaret Dempsey, daughter of a prosperous town merchant, falls in love with Michael Carty, son of a Fenian farmer, her family strongly disapprove. Bound closer by adversity, the couple enter...

Susanna Gregory / A Plague On Both Your Houses

  In the tradition of Ellis Peters, A Plague on Both Your Houses introduces the physician Matthew Bartholomew, whose unorthodox but effective treatment of his patients frequently draws accusations...

Meg Keneally / Fled

 A fierce and heart-breaking historical debut, perfect for fans of The Light Between Oceans and based on the incredible true story of convict Mary Bryant.Highway robberConvictRunawayMotherJenny...

Kathryn Stockett / The Help (Large Paperback)

 Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver. Some lines will never be crossed.Aibileen is a black maid: smart, regal, and raising her...

M. R. Lovric / Carnevale (Large Paperback)

  1782: the 13-year old daughter of a Venetian merchant family is lured naked from her bath by a stray cat and finds herself in the arms of Casanova. Twenty-five years later, her renown as a...

Jeffrey Archer / Nothing Ventured (Hardback) ( William Warwick Series - Book 1 )

 Nothing Ventured is the incredible and thrilling novel by the master storyteller and bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer.This is not a detective story,...

David Fiddimore / Charlie's War

 My old skipper once told me to always expect the unexpected. I should have listened to him . . .When a plane crash leaves Charlie Bassett rested from the RAF, he receives unexpected orders - to...

Leah Fleming / The Postcard

 FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE LAST PEARL AND DANCING AT THE VICTORY CAFE, this is a beautiful novel about family secrets and redemption.1930s, London. Caroline grew on a secluded Scottish estate...

Kate Furnivall / The Far Side of the Sun

 *** THE Sunday Times TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHOR ***'Wonderful . . . hugely ambitious and atmospheric' Kate MosseDiscover a brilliant story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the...

Allan Massie / Augustus

  Augustus was the founder of the Roman Empire, adopted son of Julius Caesar, friend and later foe of Mark Antony, patron of Horace and Virgil. Frank and forceful, this putative autobiography...

Boris Akunin / Special Assignments : Erast Fandorin 5

  Boris Akunin's well-loved, inimitable hero faces two very different adversaries: one, a deft, comedic swindler and master of disguise, whose machinations send ripples spreading through the...

Steven Saylor / Last Seen in Massilia

 As civil war between Caesar and Pompey engulfs the Roman world, Gordianus the Finder receives an anonymous message informing him of the death of his son Meto who has been acting as a double agent...

Victor Hugo / Les Miserables (Hardback)

 Les Miserables is a magnificent, sweeping story of revolution, love and the will to survive set amidst the poverty stricken streets of nineteeth-century Paris.Part of the Macmillan Collector's...

Tom Phelan / The Canal Bridge (Large Paperback)

  This searing novel, set in the trenches of Flanders and the Irish midlands, tells of two friends from a rural town who join the British army and the devastating effect the First World War has on...

Patrick O'Brian / The Hundred Days

 Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and...

A O'Connor / The Left-Handed Marriage (Large Paperback)

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Orla McAlinden / The Flight of the Wren (Large Paperback)

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Philippa Gregory / The Lady of the Rivers (Large Paperback) ( Cousins War - Book 3 )

Number 1 bestselling author Philippa Gregory continues her series, "The Cousins War", with Jacquetta Woodville, mother of the White Queen. Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman...

Caroline Scott / The Photographer of the Lost

 **A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK**For fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and 1917 comes a moving story about how hope and love will prevail against all odds.'This excellent debut is a melancholic...

Frances Liardet / We Must Be Brave

 We can't choose who we love.We can choose who we fight for.'A powerful story that proves how love itself requires courage' Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing'Storytelling at its best'...

Freda Lightfoot / Dancing on Deansgate

 Where there's community, there's courage...Jess Delaney has always longed for independence. But when the Blitz reaches Manchester, she is locked in the cellar by her feckless mother, Lizzie. As...

Dan James / Unsinkable

 A DOOMED VOYAGEApril 14th 1912. The maiden voyage of the world's most luxurious passenger liner, Titanic.A DARK PASTEach passenger has their own reason to make the crossing, but for former Special...

Imre Kertesz / Fateless

 Gyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, gets the day off school to witness his father signing over the family timber business to the firm's bookkeeper - his final business transaction before being...

Dilly Court / Nettie's Secret

 The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.Taking one last look around her attic room in Covent Garden Nettie knows there is no turning back, they must run for their lives...London, 1875...

Louis Begley / Wartime Lies

  Set in Poland in 1939, this novel looks at the impact of the Holocaust on the individual. The author was awarded the 1991 Irish Times-Aer Lingus Prize for fiction for this novel.       All...

Kenneth Cameron / The Second Woman

 A murder close to home. A tangled web of murder and revenge. Can amateur sleuth Denton keep himself and London safe?When a mysterious Polish woman is murdered next door, Denton suspects there is...

Alexander Kent / Cross Of St George

 In February 1813, with convoys from Canada and the Carribean falling victim to American privateers, Sir Richard Bolitho returns to Halifax to pursue a war he knows will not be won, but which neither...

Rosie Goodwin / The Blessed Child

 A perfect saga treat from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Mother's Grace, for fans of Dilly Court, Katie Flynn and Catherine Cookson.'A vibrant page-turner with entrancing characters'...

Lizzie Lane / War Baby

 The war has had a devastating effect on the Sweet Family with young Charlie Sweet, lost at sea, presumed dead and bombs falling on nearby Bristol.Still there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon in...

Kathleen Kent / The Traitor's Wife

 I'll not ask you to be mine ... I will never seek to blunt the fury in you, never, and will honour your will as my own. What say you? Can you be a soldier's wife?New England, 1673. Martha Allen, a...

Syd Moore / Strange Sight

 The La Fleur restaurant has a slew of unusual phenomena. Bonnet-clad apparitions pass through walls, blood leaks from ceilings and rats besiege the dining room. Experts from the Great Essex Witch...

Anna Dean / A Gentleman of Fortune

 Richmond, 1806. Miss Dido Kent has developed rather a taste for mysteries. Having solved the riddle of her niece's missing fiance and the body in the bushes at Belsfield Hall, she is finding her...

Jack Ludlow / A Bitter Field

  1938. As Hitler sets his sights on the Sudetenland, not everyone in Britain is willing to appease him. Convinced that the Fuehrer's land-hunger is insatiable, the head of the SIS recruits Cal...

Diney Costeloe / The Girl With No Name

 A heart-wrenching story from the bestselling author of The Throwaway Children.Thirteen-year-old Lisa has escaped from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport. She arrives in London unable to speak a...

Kate Williams / The Edge of the Fall

 In the aftermath of the Great War, the de Witt family are struggling to piece together the shattered fragments of their lives.Rudolf and his wife Verena, still reeling from the loss of their second...

Gaile Parkin / Baking Cakes in Kigali

 Shortlisted for the 2010 McKitterick PrizeAngel Tungazara runs a small business, baking cakes for the parties and celebrations of her neighbours. As her customers tell her their stories, Angel comes...

Jane Smiley / Some Luck (Hardback)

 Some Luck is the first novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize Jane Smiley; a literary adventure that will spans a century in America.1920. After his...

Ben Fergusson / The Spring of Kasper Meier (Large Paperback)

 The war is over, but Berlin is a desolate sea of rubble. There is a shortage of everything: food, clothing, tobacco. The local population is scrabbling to get by. Kasper Meier is one of these...

Katharine Grant / Sedition (Large Paperback)

  Motherless Alathea Sawneyford, her charms grown disturbing as she rebels against her father, has made the city's streets her own, while Annie Cantabile is constrained, by her own disfigurement...

Sam Barone / Dawn of Empire (Large Paperback)

 It's "The Magnificent Seven" meets "The Clan of the Cave Bear." There have been many huge epics of the Roman Age, of the Pharaohs, of Prehistory even but never the brutal, mysterious Bronze Age...

Paula McLain / Love and Ruin (Large Paperback)

 In 1937, courageous and independent Martha Gellhorn travels to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, and finds herself drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in...

Julie Watson / The White Mare (Large Paperback)

  AD 79 and Agricola, the ruthless governor of Roman Britain, is turning his attentions to the last unconquered territory in Britain - Alba, Scotland. Rhiann is a courageous and beautiful Scottish...

John Maher / The Luck Penny (Large Paperback)

  'The Luck Penny' is a tale of a man and a woman and the secret scriptures of the dead. It is a tale of coming to terms with that tragedy of tragedies - the death of a child.       All of...

Victoria Hislop / Those Who Are Loved (Large Paperback)

 'Victoria Hislop's view of history in her novels is, like the writer herself, a compassionate and generous one' ScotsmanThe gripping new novel by Sunday Times Number One bestseller Victoria Hislop...

Philippa Gregory / Tidelands (Large Paperback)

 'Gregory is an experienced storyteller and doesn't let you down. Tidelands is a gripping and intelligent portrait of a woman fighting to survive in a hostile world' THE TIMESTHE BRAND NEW SERIES...

Tatiana De Rosnay / The House I Loved (Hardback)

  From the "New York Times" bestselling author of" Sarah's Key" and "A Secret Kept" comes an absorbing new novel about one woman's resistance during an epoque that shook Paris to its very core...

M. R. Pete Hamill / Forever (Hardback)

 Departing the shores of Ireland, a young man named Cormac O'Connor sets out on a fateful journey to avenge the deaths of his parents and honor the code of his ancestors. His quest brings him to the...

Julith Jedamus / The Book of Loss

  THE BOOK OF LOSS takes the reader deep into the heart of 10th century Japan and into a female world of intense emotion. The mysterious narrator, and her rival Izumi, are both ladies-in-waiting...

Kathryn Harrison / A Thousand Orange Trees

 A sumptuous novel of love and loss set in 17th-century Spain. From the author of the bestselling novel, `The Binding Chair'.As Marie Louise de Bourbon, niece of Louis XIV, journeys south from...