Historical Fiction

Gill Paul / The Collector's Daughter (Large Paperback)

A Novel of the Discovery of Tutankhamun's TombBestselling author Gill Paul returns with a brilliant novel about Lady Evelyn Herbert, the woman who took the very first step into the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, and who lived in the real Downton Abbey,...

Robert Graves - I, Claudius - HB - 1988 ( Originally 1934)

  Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In I, Claudius he watches from...

Jean Plaidy - The Passionate Enemies - HB - 1976

Hardcover, published by Robert Hale London, 1976, presumed first edition.  In very good condition, light tanning to pages, not ex library ( as many Robert Hale editions were destined for)  The Passionate Enemies is the final book in her Norman...

Rosalind Miles / The Maiden Of White Hands (Large Paperback)

The second of the 'Isolde' novels.The second book in the magnificent Arthurian trilogy, set in one of the most provocative periods in history and legend, continues the story of Isolde, the only daughter of Ireland's ruling Queen, and her struggle between...

Ben Kane / Hannibal: Enemy of Rome (Large Paperback)

Hannibal #1 The first in a brilliant new series set during the Second Punic War, from the bestselling author of The Forgotten Legion Chronicles.In the First Punic War, the Roman legions defeated and humiliated Carthage, their only serious rival for...

Jo Harkin / The Pretender (Large Paperback)

A sweeping historical novel in the vein of Hilary Mantel and Maggie O’Farrell set during the time of the Tudors’ ascent.The Pretender tells the story of Lambert Simnel, who was raised in obscurity as a peasant boy to protect his safety,...

Sue Reid, Jill Atkins, Vince Cross / War Stories: Home and Away (Large Paperback)

  It isn't just men that war makes heroes.KITTY signs up as a Red Cross nurse in a military hospital and is soon nursing casualties of the war raging in Europe.SOPHIE joins the Resistance movement in northern France and becomes involved in...

Oriana Ramunno / Ashes in the Snow (Large Paperback)

Auschwitz, 1943.It’s snowing outside and Block 10 looks even bleaker than usual. Gioele Errera, a young Jewish boy imprisoned in the camp, finds the body of an SS officer. Detective Hugo Fischer is sent to investigate the unexplained...

Mary Novik / Muse (Large Paperback)

Richly engaging historical adventure in the vein of The Winter Palace and The Malice of Fortune . Muse is the story of the charismatic woman who was the inspiration behind Petrarch's sublime love poetry. Solange Le Blanc begins life in the...

Bernard Cornwell / Sharpe’s Assassin (Hardback)

Bernard Cornwell with his iconic hero, Richard Sharpe.Outsider.Hero.Rogue.And the one man you want on your side.   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...

Sandra Gulland / Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe (Large Paperback)

Josephine Bonaparte #2 Set in Paris at the end of the eighteenth century, Josephine begins to awaken to the reality of her recent marriage to 'the Corsican' Napoleon Bonaparte. Through Josephine's diary entries and Napoleon's impassioned - almost...

Enda McLaughlin - Memoir for the WASP - PB

A fictionalised novel retelling of the true events off the coast of Donegal in 1884, when the Britosh gunboat The Wasp ean around and was shipwrecked on the coast of Tory Island.  Paperback, Glendale Press, 1989. 

Christine Wells / One Woman's War (Large Paperback)

World War II London: When Victoire "Paddy" Bennett first walks into the Admiralty's Room 39, home to the Intelligence Division, all the bright and lively young woman expects is a secretarial position to the charismatic Commander Ian Fleming. But...

Vanessa Chan / The Storm We Made (Large Paperback)

A spellbinding, sweeping novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading Japanese forces during WWII – and the shocking consequences that rain upon her community and family.Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s family is...

Ellis Peters / The Fourth Cadfael Omnibus (Large Paperback)

Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #10-12 The fourth omnibus edition of Ellis Peters' compulsive and bestselling mediaevel whodunnits.The Pilgrim of Hate: As pilgrims gather at Shrewsbury to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the translation of Saint...

C.J. Sansom / Dissolution ( Shardlake Series - Book 1 ) (Large Paperback)

Matthew Shardlake #1 Exciting and elegantly written, Dissolution is an utterly compelling first novel and a riveting portrayal of Tudor England. The year is 1537, and the country is divided between those faithful to the Catholic Church and those...

Sarah Harrison / The Grass Memorial (Large Paperback)

In The Grass Memorial three individuals - a young officer in the Light Brigade, an American fighter pilot flying out of East Anglia in World War Two, and a thoroughly modern woman, a singer-songwriter - have one numinous place in common: the Bronze...

Philippa Gregory, Kate Kerrigan, Alice Peterson / 3 in One Omnibus - Of Love and Life : The Constant Princess | Recipes for a Perfect Marriage | Look the World in the Eye (Large Paperback)

Of Love and Life: 3 novels in 1 omnibus      The Constant Princess: Splendid and sumptuous historical novel from this internationally bestselling author, telling of the early life of Katherine of Aragon. We think of her as the...

Andrew Taylor / The Fire Court (Large Paperback)

Marwood and Lovett #2 From No.1 bestselling author Andrew Taylor comes the sequel to the phenomenally successful The Ashes of LondonSomewhere in the soot-stained ruins of Restoration London, a killer has gone to ground…The Great Fire has...

Defne Suman / The Silence of Scheherazade (Large Paperback)

Set in the ancient city of Smyrna, this powerful novel follows the intertwining fates of four families as their peaceful city is ripped apart by the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. On an orange-tinted evening in September 1905, Scheherazade is born to...

George MacDonald Fraser / Flashman on the March (Large Paperback)

Flashman Papers #12 Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Who better to...

Boris Akunin / The State Counsellor (Erast Fandorin Novels - Book 6) (Large Paperback)

The reactionary Adjutant General Khrapov, newly appointed governor-general of Siberia and soon-to-be minister of the interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St. Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin, boards...

Ruth Ann Nordin / The Earl's Secret Bargain (Large Paperback)

Marriage by Deceit #1 Lord Davenport and Lord Pennella have just made a bet for the hand of Miss Regina Giles. The gentleman she chooses wins the loser’s estate.It’s the most daring wager at White’s, and quite possibly the most...

George A. Birmingham - Up the Rebels - Vintage 1923 HB

George Birmingham was the pseudonym of James Owen Hannay (1865-1950), an Ulster clergyman who was also a supporter of the Gaelic League. He was a prolific author, here giving an account of the new Irish Republic. Originally 1919, here in the third...

Fonzie Keogh - The Half Crown Man - PB

Jimmy, the half-crown man, is selling his usual wares but rumours start spreading about the extras he is offering. Elizabeth, the newly widowed pub landlady, is besotted with Dominic, the glamorous new curate in the parish. Her friend Marion warns her...

John A. McKinsey / The Lincoln Secret (Large Paperback)

Founded upon several historical theories about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, the novel takes the reader through Abraham Lincoln's life and death while the characters work to unravel several mysteries. The story follows two main A reporter who is...

Jeff Shaara / The Steel Wave (Large Paperback)

General Dwight Eisenhower commands a diverse army that must destroy Hitler’s European fortress. On the coast of France, German commander Erwin Rommel prepares for the coming invasion, as the Führer thwarts the strategies Rommel knows will...

Angela Elwell Hunt / Magdalene (Large Paperback)

Mary Magdalene.  The controversial woman with a past only one Man could forgive. A true love story that changed the face of history. "I was Miryam of Magdala, seller of fine fabrics and wife of Yaakov the fisherman. With my husband and son, I...

Desmond Astley-Cooper / In the Time of the Mulberry (Large Paperback)

Set in 19th-century Mount Lebanon, this is the story of Maryam, a young girl from a mountain village well-known for its silk cocoons. A chance encounter with love presents her with a dilemma which is made even more problematic by an outbreak of violence...

Matt Love / The Great Birthright: An Oregon Novel (Large Paperback)

In his fiction debut, Matt Love bends and twists the detective novel genre with hilarious, unexpected and political results. The premise: a Los Angeles developer is trying to privatize Oregon’s publicly-owned beaches, its vaunted “great...

Georgette Heyer / The Conqueror (Vintage Paperback)

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Donald McCaig / Jacob's Ladder (Large Paperback)

Widely acclaimed, with comparisons to Margaret Mitchell and Shelby Foote, Jacob's Ladder is a rich and poignant novel. It is the story of Duncan Gatewood, seventeen and heir to the Gatewood Plantation in Virginia. Duncan falls in love with Maggie, a...

Catherine Cookson / Novel Collection (7 Book Collection)

The Catherine Cookson Collection (7 Book Collection) Contains: the fifteen streets the mallen streak riley tilly trotter a house divided the cinder path kate hannigan     This collection is second hand unless otherwise stated in the description...

Graham Hurley / Raid 42 (Hardback)

1941. Dieter Merz is the Reich’s most celebrated fighter ace and his aerial prowess has brought him into close contact with the top echelons of Hitler's regime. But everything in the Nazi state still comes at a price. If Dieter wants help for an...

Bernard Cornwell / The Winter King (Hardback)

Arthur is set in his true period, the Dark Ages, in this novel. It is not a story of romance, but one of political and religious strife, and war. It describes Arthur's love for Guinevere, Lancelot's arrival, the conflict between Christianity and...

Len Deighton / Faith (Hardback)

First in a trilogy of novels featuring put-upon hero Bernard Samson. In this post-Cold War thriller, Deighton gives his, and Samson's, account of how the Wall fell and the West won. It has plot and counter-plot, descriptions and sly wit, and it is...

Jack Wolf / The Tale of Raw Head & Bloody Bones (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Joseph O'Connor / Shadowplay. (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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George Chesney - The Battle of Dorking : Reminiscences of a Volunteer - PB

Originally published in 1871, this was one of a host of 'what if' books published in the UK between the 1860's and the first world war , dealing with fears of an invasion - usually by Germany.  Told in the manner of an imaginary soldier looking back...

Colm McCann / TransAtlantic (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Colson Whitehead / The Underground Railroad (Large Paperback)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.Cora is...

Michael Crummey / Galore (Large Paperback)

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book and the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award; Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Book Award, and the Winterset...

Claire Messud / This Strange Eventful History (Large Paperback)

As Paris falls to the Germans, Gaston Cassar - honorable servant of France, devoted husband and father, currently posted as naval attache in Salonica - bids farewell to his beloved wife, aunt and children, placing his faith in God that they will be...

Amy Tan / The Valley of Amazement (Large Paperback)

 In fin de siecle Shanghai, Violet Minturn grows up at Hidden Jade Path, the city's most exclusive courtesan house. But when revolution comes, she is separated from her mother and forced to become a "virgin courtesan." Both Chinese and American,...

George Moore - A Drama in Muslin - HB 1992 ( Originally 1886 )

Always an ambitious novelist, George Moore realised early in the composition of his third novel, 'A Drama In Muslin', how his chosen subject - the sentimental education of five girls born into the gentry of the west of Ireland - could be extended to...

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...

Elizabeth Woodcraft / The Saturday Girls

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