Historical Fiction

Maya Snow / Blade's Edge: Sisters of the Sword 2

In the second instalment of this stunning quartet, sisters Kimi and Hana are still disguised and in hiding. Hunted by their traitorous uncle, Hidehira, the girls await word from their mother while...

Lily Graham / The Last Restaurant in Paris

Paris 1944. To save her people, she served the enemy. In enemy-occupied Paris, as the locals go to bed starving and defeated by the war, music and laughter spill through the door of a little...

Lois Lenski / Indian captive

A fictional retelling of the experiences of twelve-year-old Mary Jemison, who after being captured by a Shawnee war party during the French and Indian War, is rescued and subsequently adopted by two...

Doug Armstrong / Soldier X

The anti-terrorist exercise on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport was to have been just another training job. But it leads Don Headley of the SAS to be reunited with some of the hardest troopers in...

Brian Callison / The Bone Collectors (Older Edition Small Paperback)

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Alistair Maclean / Breakheart Pass (Older Edition Small Paperback)

A magnificent tale of heart-stopping suspense from the highly acclaimed master of the genre. The Rocky Mountains, Winter 1873… One of the most desolate stretches of railroad in the West. Travelling...

John Leekley / Blue and the Gray (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Personal relationships are tested and lifestyles are altered as civil war divides the nation and the Hale and Geyser families must choose sides.   The picture shown is the actual book you will...

Taylor Theodore / Timothy of the Cay (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Having survived being blinded and shipwrecked on a tiny Caribbean island with the old black man Timothy, twelve-year-old white Phillip is rescued and hopes to regain his sight with an operation...

Michael Curtis Ford / The Ten Thousand (Older Edition Small Paperback)

In a novel of high adventure and riveting historical drama, Michael Curtis Ford brings to life an amazing true story from Ancient Greece - Xenophon's march of The Ten Thousand. A tale of war and...

Teresa Crane / Molly (Older Edition Small Paperback)

A rags to riches romantic saga of an impoverished young woman who escapes Ireland for a better life and a new family in nineteenth-century London. In the poor mud of Ireland, she dreamt of London, of...

Ellis Peters / A Rare Benedictine (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Peters has gained worldwide praise for her meticulous re-creations of 12th-century monastic life. Here, her chronicles continue with a Christmas story, a tale of robbery and attempted murder, and a...

Cy Endfield / Zulu Dawn (Older Edition Small Paperback)

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William Dietrich / The Rosetta Key (Ethan Gage Adventures) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Last seen in Napoleon's Pyramids, fleeing the forces of evil in a runaway hot-air balloon over Egypt, Ethan Gage undergoes further life-threatening adventures in this rollicking sequel. Nine months...

John Clive / Barossa (Panther Books) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

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Colleen McCullough / Ladies of Missalonghi,the (Older Edition Small Paperback)

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Claire Rayner / Soho Square: Book 4 (the Performers) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

In 1851 Lydia Mohun, the daughter of the famous actress, Lilith Lucas, comes to live in Soho Square. She dreams of the same success on the same stage and when Jonah Lackland's daughter Phoebe is...

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala / Heat and Dust (Older Edition Small Paperback)

'Heat and Dust' won the 1975 Booker Prize for Fiction. The story spans the past and the present, via the diary of an English girl who goes to India to reconstruct the story of Olivia, her...

Henry Gilbert / Robin Hood (Wordsworth Children's Classics) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Recounts the legend of Robin Hood, who plundered the king's purse and poached his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor.   The picture shown is the actual book you will receive   Our...

Peter Driscoll / Heritage (Older Edition Small Paperback)

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Daniel Easterman / The Seventh Sanctuary (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Within days of his attempted murder, David Rosen, an American archaeologist, learns that his parents and four of his colleagues have been killed. Convinced that the deaths are linked, Rosen and...

Helen Forrester / Yes, Mama: A Gripping Historical Family Saga Set in Liverpool (Older Edition Small Paperback)

From the author of four bestselling autobiographies and a number of equally successful novels, comes another moving tale. A triumph of innocence over hypocrisy… Alicia Woodman was born into a home...

Robert Charles Wilson / Darwinia (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Mars 1912, l'Europe et une partie de l'Angleterre disparaissent subitement, remplacés par un continent à la faune et à la flore non terrestres que l'on ne tarde pas à nommer la Darwinie. Pour...

Laura Rowland / The Samurai's Wife (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Sano Ichiro, special investigator to the shogun, discovers that he needs the help of his new wife Reiko more than ever after he finds himself embroiled in a case involving a sinister murderer.   The...

L.M. Montgomery / Emily's Quest (Older Edition Small Paperback)

"Emily and s Quest is the grand finale of the Lucy Maud Montgomery trilogy, set before World War I on Prince Edward Island, Canada. The orphan in "Emily of New Moon" and the hopeful student in "Emily...

Avi / The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (Older Edition Small Paperback)

As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.   The picture shown is...

Cecelia Holland / Railroad Schemes (Older Edition Small Paperback)

The adventures of a bank robber in 1850s California and the 15-year-old girl who keeps him company. He is King Callahan and he has declared war on greedy railroad barons, she is sweet Lily, who reads...

Terri Brisbin / Once Forbidden (Highland Fling Romance) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Anice MacNab experiences only unhappiness in her marriage to the heir of the powerful clan MacKendimen, until she meets handsome Robert Mathieson, the blacksheep associate of the clan who had once...

James Riordan / The Sniper

Stalingrad snipers were a legend in their time. Their patience, keen eyes and ruthlessness helped win the Battle of Stalingrad and turn the tide of the Second World War. This is the true story of a...

Daniel Kehlmann / The Director

An artist's life, a pact with the devil, a novel about the dangerous illusions of the silver screen     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Pim Wangtechawat / The Moon Represents My Heart

PERFECT SUMMER ESCAPISM: THE TIME-TRAVELLING LOVE STORY YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN HOW FAR WOULD YOU TRAVEL TO FIND A LOVE LOST IN TIME? 'A beautiful exploration of family, love and loss across...

Preston Grassmann / Multiverses

A mind-blowing anthology of 18 stories bringing you the infinite Earths of the multiverse. Featuring Alix E. Harrow, Clive Barker, Ken Liu, Charlie Jane Anders, Annallee Newitz, Alastair Reynolds and...

. Amanda Quick / Tightrope

'A master storyteller' The Huffington Post *New York Times bestselling author* An unconventional woman and a man shrouded in mystery race against a killer... Trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn moved to...

Amanda Quick / The Lady Has a Past

'Quick's ambitious novel, set during the golden age of Hollywood, sparkles with wit and clever plotting' Publishers Weekly Escape into a glittering bygone world, where beauty and glamour meet...

Alena Dillon / Mercy House

"Never underestimate the power of a group of women. Fierce, thoughtful and dramatic-this is a story of true courage." -Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling author She would stop at nothing to...

Peter Ackroyd / The Lambs of London

For bored siblings Charles and Mary Lamb, the works of Shakespeare furnish a respite from the boredom and domesticity of their lives, until William Ireland, an antiquarian bookseller, claims to...

Dirk Bogarde / A Gentle Occupation

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Peter Carey / True history of the Kelly gang

"True History of Kelly Gang is the song of Australia, and it sings its protest in a voice at once crude and delicate, menacing and heart-wrenching. Carey gives us Ned Kelly as orphan, as Oedipus, as...

ELIE WIESEL / Day (Large Paperback)

"Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man." --The New York Times Book Review The publication of Day restores Elie Wiesel''s original title to the novel initially...

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman / In the Lion's Den (Large Paperback)

In 1861, the war that has threatened the United States for decades suddenly rips the country apart, pitting the industrial North against the agricultural South. President Lincoln dispatches Charles...

Dasa Drndic / Trieste (Large Paperback)

Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, north-eastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper clippings. Now an old woman, she waits to be reunited after sixty-two years with her son,...

Robert Seethaler / The Cafe with No Name (Large Paperback)

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ''How I loved this book... Seethaler is in his very own league'' Elizabeth Strout It is 1966, and Robert Simon has just fulfilled his dream by taking over a...

Adiva Geffen / Surviving The Forest (Large Paperback)

A consistent bestseller for over 3 years, Surviving the Forest is a powerful tribute to love and resilience and the captivating account of a woman's strength, based on a true story. Five shots on...

Jan-Philipp Sendker / The Art of Hearing Heartbeats (Large Paperback)

When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be--until they find a love letter he wrote many years...

Anya Seton / Katherine (Large Paperback)

This classic romance novel tells the true story of the love affair that changed history-that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of most of the British royal...

Gonzalo C. Garcia / Telenovela (Large Paperback)

Set in Santiago towards the end of Pinochet's dictatorship, TELENOVELA explores the secret lives of a family swept up in this dark period of Chile's history. There is Lucho: bullied by fellow...

Simon Scarrow / Day of the Caesars (Large Paperback)

The Sunday Times bestseller AD 54. Claudius is dead. Rome is in turmoil. And two brave heroes of the Roman army face the challenge of their lives. Simon Scarrow's DAY OF THE CAESARS is not to be...

Anne Perry / Resurrection Row (Large Paperback)

It is a most incredible sight: a corpse sitting at the reins of a hansom cab-and not just any corpse, but the body of a peer of the realm. To Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, this...

Jo Browning Wroe / A Terrible Kindness (Large Paperback)

Tonight nineteen-year-old William Lavery is dressed for success, his first black-tie do. It's the Midlands Chapter of the Institute of Embalmers Ladies' Night Dinner Dance, and William is taking...

Solveig Eggerz / Seal Woman (Large Paperback)

Having answered a Berlin newspaper advertisement for "strong women who can cook and do farm work," Sophie Charlotte finds herself married with two sons on an Icelandic sheep farm, trying to sever...

Josephine Rowe / Loving, Faithful Animal (Hardback)

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Bernice Rubens / Mother Russia (Hardback)

Book Blurb is: Anna Larionova is the daughter of a Count: Sasha Volynin, the son of a peasant. Their love flowers at the turn of the century and endures for most of its span - through the harshness...

Michael Morpurgo / Private Peaceful (Hardback)

When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his...