Historical Fiction

Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Lenin in Zurich - HB - 1976

A typically informative Solzhenitsyn narrative that explores the psychology of the man who, in search of a revolution, came to change the face and culture of Russia. Solzhenitsyn's short novel (of chapters previosuly publihsed in the much longer Red...

Lauren Willig / Two Wars and a Wedding (Large Paperback)

September 1896: An aspiring archaeologist, Smith College graduate Betsy Hayes travels to Athens, desperate to break into the male-dominated field of excavation. In the midst of the heat and dust of Greece she finds an unlikely ally in Charles, Baron de...

Natasha Pulley / The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (Large Paperback)

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street #2 Step back into the enchanting world of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. This extraordinary sequel takes readers to Japan, where time, destiny and love collide to electrifying effect For Thaniel Steepleton,...

Jason Goodwin / The Snake Stone (Large Paperback)

Yashim the Eunuch #2 The Snake Stone   Jason Goodwin   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing...

Lesley Pearse / The Girl With The Suitcase (Large Paperback)

She took another woman’s place. Now she must live with the consequences... Discover an unforgettable novel from the 10-million-copy bestselling author, Lesley Pearse. -- London, 1941. When shy Mary meets glamorous Elizabeth, their worlds...

Daniel Ford - Michael's War - HB - 2003

John Dowds / Remembering Betsy Gray (Large Paperback)

Remembering Betsy Gray is set in Ireland during 1795-98 and follows the journey of a young Irish woman who dreamt it was possible for the people of her beloved country to overcome centuries of sectarian hatred and build a new society in which...

Diney Costeloe / Evil on the Wind (Large Paperback)

Living with the rising tyranny of the Nazis and their determination to make their Reich Jew Free, Ruth and her family run a desperate race to escape the Nazi terror as it marches inexorably to its ‘final solution’ of the Jewish Problem. This...

Brinsley MacNamara - The Clanking of Chains ( A story of Sinn Féin) - Anvil Press Vintage PB

A paperback REPRINT edition, Anvil Press, of Brinsley Macnamara's The Clanking of Chains, first published in 1919- 20 by Maunsel. Originally titled as The Clanking of Chains - A Story of Sinn Féin. John Weldon, who used the penname Brinsley...

Patrick Deville / Plague and Cholera (Large Paperback)

  Paris, May 1940. Nazi troops storm the city and at Le Bourget airport, on the last flight out, sits Dr Alexandre Yersin, his gaze politely turned away from his fellow passengers with their jewels sewn into their luggage. He is too old for the...

Lee Karr / Dark Cries of Gray Oaks (Large Paperback)

Orphaned Briana Anderson was grateful to be offered the job as companion to the mentally ill seventeen-years-old girl, and to be staying at the luxurious Ponce de Leon Hotel and health spa in St. Agustine, Florida. Cassie's eyes were a deep, empty...

Ger Fitzgibbon / Songs For A Burning City (Large Paperback)

On the evening of December 11, 1920, a production of The Gondoliers is in full swing at the Cork Opera House when word comes through that the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries are rampaging through the streets and setting buildings on fire. Songs for a...

Michael Arnold / Traitor's Blood (Large Paperback)

Civil War Chronicles #1 Traitor's Blood , the first in The Civil War Chronicles, Michael Arnold's acclaimed series of historical thrillers, sees battle-scarred hero Captain Stryker, 'the Sharpe of the Civil War', confront his nemesis.'Stands in...

Karen Hesse / Young Nick's Head (Large Paperback)

The year is 1768. Nicholas Young's mind is made up. He's had enough! Enough of the cruel butcher to whom he is apprenticed and enough of his indifferent father lurking somewhere in the background of his existence. He's had enough of the squalor of...

Bernard Cornwell / Azincourt (Large Paperback)

An extraordinary and dramatic depiction of the legendary battle of Agincourt from the number one historical novelistAzincourt, fought on October 25th 1415, St Crispin's Day, is one of England's best-known battles, in part through the brilliant depiction...

Christopher de Vinck / Ashes

A deeply touching novel about two young women whose differences, which once united them, will tear them apart forever, during Hitler’s Nazi occupation of Belgium and France. Based on true events.For fans of All The Light We Cannot...

Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (Canterbury Classics 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.Hardcover, this edition in illustrated red boards, with gilt finish to page block ends...

James Ryan / South of the Border (Hardback)

It is autumn 1942, and young Balbriggan teacher Matt Duggan arrives on his first posting at the small town of Rathisland in the Irish midlands, barely alive to the global war raging outside. Lawn tennis alternates with Church and classroom politics, as...

Clare Whitfield / People of Abandoned Character (Large Paperback)

Marry in haste . . . Murder at leisure? London, 1888: Susannah rushes into marriage to a young and wealthy surgeon. After a passionate honeymoon, she returns home with her new husband wrapped around her little finger. But then everything changes...

Arturo Pérez-Reverte / The Siege (Large Paperback)

Cádiz, 1811. While the city is under siege from the marauding French army, an even greater menace is lurking within the city walls: a serial killer is on the loose, flaying young women to death. Each of these murders takes place near where a...

Leo Hollis / The Phoenix (Large Paperback)

Opening in the 1640s, as the city was gripped in tumult leading up to the English Civil War, THE PHOENIX charts the lives and works of five extraordinary men, who would grow up in the chaos of a world turned upside the architect, Sir Christopher...

AnneMarie Brear / Kitty McKenzie (Large Paperback)

1864 - Suddenly left as the head of the family, Kitty McKenzie must find her inner strength to keep her family together against the odds. Evicted from their resplendent home in the fashionable part of York after her parents' deaths, Kitty must fight...

Conn Iggulden / Dunstan (Large Paperback)

A spellbinding story of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the brutal world of tenth-century England.I have broken my vows. I have murdered innocents. I have trod down the soil over their dead face with my bare heels, and only the moon as...

Marcus Sedgwick / The Monsters We Deserve (Large Paperback)

'Do monsters always stay in the book where they were born? Are they content to live out their lives on paper, and never step foot into the real world?' The Villa Diodati, on the shore of Lake Geneva, 1816: the Year without Summer. As Byron, Polidori, and...

Elizabeth Newark / Jane Eyre's Daughter (Large Paperback)

A passionate young woman of high courage... IN THIS SEQUEL TO JANE EYRE , young Janet Rochester is consigned to Highcrest Manor and the guardianship of the strict Colonel Dent while her parents journey to the West Indies. As Janet struggles to make a...

Morgan Llywelyn / 1972 (Large Paperback)

1972: A Novel of Ireland's Unfinished Revolution The Irish Century series is the narrative of the epic struggle of the Irish people for independence through the tumultuous twentieth century. Morgan Llywelyn's magisterial multi-novel chronicle of that...

Jennifer Johnston - The Captains and the Kings - HB Reprint 1972

A hardcover third printing ( in the year of publication) 1972. Small format hardcover, published by Hamish Hamilton UK .  A poignant debut novel of age, loneliness and friendship across divides... Mr Prendergast, an elderly Anglo-Irishman, is living...

Stefania Auci / The Florios of Sicily (Large Paperback)

Based on the true history of the uncrowned kings of Sicily: the story of a family, restless and ambitious, shrewd and determined to be richer and more powerful than anybody else. In this grand, sweeping epic inspired by the real lives of...

Andrew Chapman / Ikon (Large Paperback)

It is early in the 15th Century. A strange procession, wending its way up a mountainside on a small Greek island, is witnessed by a young goat herd, Ioánnis. He does not know that what he has stumbled upon is to have a profound effect on his life,...

Gore Vidal/ Washington, D.C. (Large Paperback)

Washington, D.C., is the sixth installment in Gore Vidal's acclaimed seven-volume series of historical novels about the American past. It offers an illuminating portrait of our republic from the time of the New Deal to the McCarthy era.Widely...

Joseph Bruchac / Code Talker (Large Paperback)

After being taught in boarding school that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.   This book is second hand, and...

M A Long / Shadows on the Queen (Large Paperback)

A St Albans Medieval Mystery Two men are brutally murdered by strangers in an alley in medieval London on a cold night in November 1275. A royal nuncio, Simon Lowys, is sent to discover how the murders are connected to a coven of witches, the...

Siân Busby / A Commonplace Killing (Large Paperback)

On a damp July morning in 1946, two schoolboys find a woman’s body in an abandoned churchyard in Holloway, north London. She had been strangled and left on a pile of rubble with her clothes and handbag left intact. The police assume that the...

Bryce Courtenay / Tommo & Hawk (Hardback)

  Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of 15 in Hobart Town. Together they escape their troubled pasts and set off on a journey into manhood. From whale hunting in the Pacific to the Maori Wars of New...

Beatrice Hitchman / All of You Every Single One (Hardback)

Capturing both the bohemian permissiveness of turn-of-the-century Vienna and the fear experienced by many of the city's residents following Hitler's 1938 annexation, Beatrice Hitchman traces the relationship of Julia, who has fled an unhappy...

Katie Hickman / The Pindar Diamond (Large Paperback)

The Aviary Gate #2 In a small town on the Italian coast, a mysterious woman washes ashore. She is crippled, mute, and clutches a bundle to her chest—a baby the townspeople insist is a real-life mermaid. It can only bring bad luck; they pay...

Jane Kirkpatrick / A Name of Her Own (Large Paperback)

Tender Ties Historical #1 Based on the life of Marie Dorion, the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest, A Name of Her Own is the fictionalized adventure account of a real woman’s fight to settle in...

Bruce Scates / On Dangerous Ground - A Gallipoli Story (Large Paperback)

A Gallipoli Story It is 1915, during World War I at Gallipoli, and Lt. Roy Irwin is missing. The young woman who loves him, and the men who fought beside him, begin their search for Lt. Irwin. Later, in 1919, historian C.E.W. Bean returns to Anzac...

Judith Goulding / Alabastron (Large Paperback)

Alabastron: A Story of Mary Magdalene Alabastron is historical fiction set in first century Judea during the three–year ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. The narrative unfolds through two Simon the Zealot, who is listed in the third chapter of...

Sallie Muirden / A Woman Of Seville (Large Paperback)

Paula Sánchez is famous in Seville. Now she is sitting for The Penitent Magdalen, along with Father Rastro and the monk Victor Maria, and watched over by the young painter Diego Velázquez. But Seville in 1616 is a dangerous place, and...

Kathryn Harrison / The Seal Wife (Large Paperback)

An extraordinary tale of desire set in the snowfields of 1917 Alaska. Bigelow is a scientist, meticulous and obsessive, a man of tightly coiled passion. Stationed in the tiny frontier town of Anchorage, Alaska in 1915, he builds a weather observatory, a...

Anne O'Brien / The Shadow Queen (Hardback)

From her first clandestine marriage, Joan of Kent’s reputation is one of beauty, rumour and scandal. Her royal blood makes her a desirable bride. Her ambition and passion make her a threat. Joan knows what she must do to protect her...

Bernard Cornwell / Sharpe's Assassin (Large Paperback)

Sharpe #21 SHARPE IS BACK.Outsider.Hero.Rogue.And the one man you want on your side.If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe . . .Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe is a man with a reputation. Born in the gutter, raised a foundling, he joined the...

Gillian Bradshaw / Cleopatra's Heir (Large Paperback)

The might and power of Julius Caesar, the man who conquered the known world. The beauty of Cleopatra, the woman who conquered the conqueror. Together they could have forged an empire whose power had never been seen before. Tragically, it was not meant to...

Valerio Massimo Manfredi / The Lost Army (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Douglas Glover / Elle: A Novel (Large Paperback)

Imagine a 16th-century society belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza, and you'll have an inkling of what's in store in Douglas Glover's outrageously Rabelaisian novel — his first in ten years. Elle is a...

Dexter Palmer / Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen (Large Paperback)

From the highly acclaimed author of Version Control a stunning, powerfully evocative new novel based on a true story—in 1726 in the small town of Godalming, England, a young woman confounds the medical community by giving birth to dead...

Jon Clinch / Marley (Large Paperback)

The acclaimed author of Finn “digs down to the bones of a classic and creates must-read modern literature” (Charles Frazier, New York Times bestselling author) with this “clever riff” (The Washington Post) on...

Lauren Liebenberg / The West Rand Jive Cats Boxing Club (Large Paperback)

Life on the Johannesburg mines is tough. Scorched by searing heat and choked by dust, it's a place of downtrodden women and hard-drinking men whose prejudices already seem out of date, even in 1958, at least to twelve-year-old Chris and Tommy. Kindled by...

Yvonne Roberts / A History of Insects (Large Paperback)

Against the backdrop of monumental change taking place in 1956 throughout the world, the cantonment of the British High Commission in Peshawar, Pakistan, remains a corner of traditional England, with all its nuances of snobbery and racism. The Jacksons'...

Charles Whiting / Kill Patton! (Large Paperback)

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Alan Monaghan / The Soldier's Return (Large Paperback)

The Soldier's Song Trilogy #2 Battered and broken by three years of fighting, Stephen Ryan returns to Ireland—and to the woman he loves—in the hope of a return to his old life. But instead, he finds the seeds of a new conflict are being...