Historical Fiction

Alyxandra Harvey / A Breath of Frost

   Emma Day and her two cousins, Gretchen and Penelope, are uninterested in their debutante lives. All the boring balls, tiresome curtsying and polite conversation leave much to be desired. Then a...

Nadine Dorries / The Four Streets

   The first book in a heartbreaking trilogy set in post-war Liverpool by bestselling author Nadine Dorries. 1950s Liverpool. In the tight-knit Irish Catholic community of the Four Streets, two...

C.W. Gorten / The Confessions of Catherine de Medici

    I was ten years old when I discovered I might be a witch...The sixteenth century: the era of queens. Catherine de Medici is an impressionable, mystical girl. She is orphaned and taken hostage...

N.M. Kelby / White Truffles in Winter

    White Truffles in Winter imagines the world of the remarkable French chef Auguste Escoffier, who changed the way we eat through his legendary restaurants at the Savoy and the Ritz. A man of...

Essie Fox / The Somnambulist

   Every heart holds a secret... The stunning Victorian Gothic debut from an incredibly talented new author'Some secrets are better left buried...'When seventeen-year-old Phoebe Turner visits...

Arthur Conan Doyle / Sherlock Holmes's Greatest Cases

   The greatest adventures of the greatest detective of them allThe most famous of all fictional detectives in a selection of his most challenging cases, including the stories A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA...

Marek Halter / Sarah

    People may know that Abraham, the great Patriarch of the Old Testament, was the first man to spread God's word. But how many know of his wife, Sarah? How she was born into a wealthy and...

Adele Geras / Troy

    Who can resist a goddess? The most famous war in history is brought to life through the eyes of two sisters. Marpessa is gifted with God-sight, Xanthe has the healing touch. But then...

Alex Connor / The Bosch Deception

    A TRUTH CONCEALED. Brabant, 1473. A clandestine brotherhood hides a secret that could bring down the Catholic Church. Their chosen hiding place - the art of Hieronymus Bosch. A TERRIBLE...

Colum McCann / This Side Of Brightness

    On a bitter winter's day in 1916, deep below the streets of New York, a group of men is working in one of the huge pressurized tunnels that will make up the subway system. Suddenly, a tiny...

Margaret Dickinson / Fairfield Hall

   A compelling saga from Margaret Dickinson, Fairfield Hall charts the changing fortunes of Annabel Constantine, in the devastating lead up to the First World War.Ruthlessly ambitious Ambrose...

Chris Petit / The Butchers of Berlin

   'One of Britain's most visionary writers' DAVID PEACE`An appalling, beautifully-lit abyss' ALAN MOOREA dark, chilling and mesmerising thriller set in wartime Berlin, for fans of Joseph Kanon and...

Beth Underdown / The Witchfinder's Sister

   'The number of women my brother Matthew killed, so far as I can reckon it, is one hundred and six...'THE PAGE-TURNING RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB BESTSELLER'A compelling debut from a gifted...

William Nicholson / Motherland

    In the summer of 1942, Kitty is an ambulance driver stationed in Sussex. She meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando, and Larry, a liaison officer under the command of Mountbatten. Kitty falls...

Francis Spufford / Golden Hill

   Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2016Winner of the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2017Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize 2017Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction...

Philippa Gregory / Stormbringers

    Luca Vero is a member of the secret Order of Darkness, tasked with searching out and reporting signs of the end of the world. Breaking his journey in Piccolo, he finds a place filled with...

Allan Mallinson / Rumours Of War

   Portugal 1826 Newly returned from India, Matthew Hervey joins a party of officers sent to lend support to the Portugese regent. But the Peninsula is a place redolent with memories. For it was...

Robert Fabbri / Rome's Executioner ( Vespasian Series - Book 2 )

   Thracia, AD 30: Even after four years military service at the edge of the Roman world, Vespasian can't escape the tumultuous politics of an Empire on the brink of disintegration. His patrons in...

Pat Baker / Life Class

   From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls The first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and...

A.L. Kennedy / Day

   Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all -...

Beverley Eikli / Reluctant Bride

    Can honour and action banish the shadows of old sins? Emily Micklen has no option after the death of her loving fiance, Jack, but to marry the scarred, taciturn, soldier who represents her...

Henry James - What Maisie Knew - Penguin Modern Classics Edition - 1982 ( Originally 1897)

After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. And when both take...

Barclay Linwood / Bad Guys

   Zack Walker Mystery #2Much to his family's relief, stay-at-home writer Zack Walker finally gets a job outside of the house. Surely, becoming a journalist will keep his overactive imagination in...

E.L. Doctorow / Ragtime

   Set in turn-of-the-century New York, E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime seamlessly blends fictional characters and realistic depictions of historical figures to bring to life the events that defined...

Mick Finlay / Arrowood

   `Crackles with energy and wit' - The TimesLondon Society takes their problems to Sherlock Holmes. Everyone else goes to Arrowood.1895: London's scared. A killer haunts the city's streets. The...

Michael Morpurgo / Arthur High King of Britain

   An enchanting take on the legend of King Arthur from War Horse author and former Children's Laureate, Michael Morpurgo.Marooned on a sandbank, a boy faces certain death. With the sea closing in...

Rita Bradshaw / A Winter Love Song

   A Winter Love Song is a heartwarming and moving story of survival and love from bestselling author Rita Bradshaw. Bonnie Lindsay is born into a travelling fair community in the north-east in...

Jennifer Egan / Manhattan Beach

   * Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction* New York Times Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017* Longlisted for the...

L. S. Hilton / Domina

   'Fantastically good fun - sharp, sexy and intelligent . . . Something of a masterpiece' Sunday Mirror'Like a ritzy 50 Shades meets The Da Vinci Code. It's got sex, shopping, a few Old Masters and...

Dilly Court / The River Maid

   The first in a stunning new series from Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly CourtLondon, 1854: twenty-year-old Essie Chapman lives with her father in poverty stricken Limehouse, working on the river...

Santiago Roncagliolo / Red April

    The war against the Shining Path is over. Yet when a charred and mutilated body is discovered during Carnival, the people of the small town of Ayacucho understand that death has once more...

Kate Mosse / The Burning Chambers (Large Paperback) ( Joubert Family Chronicles - Book 1 )

 

C. J. Sansom / Dark Fire ( Shardlake Series - Book 2 )

   Winner of the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, Dark Fire is the second thrilling historical crime novel from C. J. Sansom.It is 1540 and the hottest summer of the sixteenth century. Matthew...

Winston Graham / The Stranger from the Sea

    A novel from the Poldark series which continues the adventures of the 18th century Cornishman.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in...

Nancy Carson / The Railway Girl

   Only tragedy can save her...Lucy Piddock meets Arthur Goodrich, solid, kind and dependable; a stonemason by trade working in his father's Black Country business. Arthur seems to be the ideal...

Hillary Jordan / Mudbound

   NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, GARRETT HEDLUND & MARY J. BLIGE When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she...

Gemma Jackson / Through Streets Broad and Narrow

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Jane Smiley / Some Luck

   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...

Cormac James / The Surfacing

   THE SURFACING is set largely on board a ship in the 1850s, searching for Franklin's lost expedition. It's a challenging and dangerous endeavour in a very male world - that is until Morgan, the...

Geling Yan / The Flowers of War

   December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we...

Josephine Cox / Her Father's Sins

    Queenie seemed born to suffer. Her mam died giving birth to her, her drunken father George Kenney ignored her unless he was cursing her, and only beloved Auntie Biddy provided an anchor for...

Amanda Quick / Lie By Moonlight

    During an investigation into a woman's death, gentleman thief turned private inquiry agent Ambrose Wells finds himself at Aldwick Castle - and in the middle of chaos. The building is in...

Edna O'Brien / The Light of Evening

   Edna O'Brien returns to the world of her debut novel, The Country Girls, in an inspired account of a dying mother and her daughterFrom her hospital bed in Dublin, the elderly Dilly awaits the...

Dee Williams / Ellie of Elmleigh Square

   Ellie Walsh lives in a battlefield. Her out-of-work father, selfish sisters and violent, bitter mother, Ruby , are constantly fighting - and Ellie is always caught in the crossfire. So when a...

Dilly Court / The Christmas Card

   The perfect heartwarming romance for Christmas, rich in historical detail. She turned the picture of the Christmas card over with her frozen hands, a pretty picture of a family gathering at...

Liza Klaussmann / Villa America

   Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos - all are summer guests of Gerald and Sara Murphy. Visionary, misunderstood, and from vastly...

Melissa de l Cruz / Alex and Eliza

   The love story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler - based on the story that inspired the bestselling musical Hamilton.1777. Albany, New York. As battle cries of the American Revolution...

Andrew Greig / That Summer

    'That Summer' presents a romance set against the backdrop of the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940. A young pilot, Len Westbourne, falls for Stella Gardam, a radio operator. Both know...

AJ Pearce / Dear Mrs Bird

   The Richard & Judy Book Club Pick and Sunday Times Bestseller.'The sweetest, most uplifting, lovely book about courage, friendship, love.' - Marian Keyes, author of The Break.London, 1941. Amid...

Belinda Alexandra / Tuscan Rose

   A mysterious stranger known as 'The Wolf' leaves an infant with the sisters of Santo Spirito. A tiny silver key hidden in her wrappings is the one clue to the child's identity. When Rosa turns...

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

Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of...

Philippa Gregory / The Taming of the Queen ( Tudor Court Novels)

 Why would a woman marry a serial killer? Because she cannot refuse... Kateryn Parr, a thirty-year-old widow in a secret affair with a new lover, has no choice when a man old enough to be her father...