Historical Fiction

Bernard Cornwell / Sharpe's Tiger (Hardback)

Sharpe #1   India, 1799The citadel of Seringapatam is under siege. Navigating this dangerous kingdom of bejewelled palaces and poverty, Private Richard Sharpe embarks on a rescue mission to save a senior officer from the clutches of the Tippoo...

Bernard Cornwell / Sharpe's Triumph (Hardback)

Sharpe #2   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...

Patrick O'Brian / The Hundred Days (Hardback)

Aubrey & Maturin Novels - Book 19   This novel sees Aubrey and Maturin in the thick of Europe's attempt to prevent the French emperor from regaining his power.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the...

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...

Eilís Dillon / The Island of Ghosts (Hardback)

When Dara and Brendan go missing after a sailing trip their sisters Barbara and Cait set out to find them. But once they reach the Island of Ghosts they too become captives of Mr Webb.       This book is second hand, and while you...

Craig Larsen / The Second Winter (Large Paperback)

WINNER - National Indie Excellence Award 2017 for Literary FictionBRONZE WINNER - Foreword INDIES 2016, War & MilitaryHONORABLE MENTION - San Francisco Book Festival 2017, General Fiction"A great historical novel, a touching family saga, and a noir...

Raymond Khoury - The Last Templar ( HB Slipcased SIGNED Numbered Edition)

1291 AD, Acre - As the city burns under the onslaught of the Sultan’s men the Falcon Temple sets sail, carrying a small band of knights and a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order’s Grand Master. The ship vanishes without a trace...

Robert Harris / V2 ( Signed by the Author ) (Large Paperback)

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

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Pat Barker / The Regeneration Trilogy ( Regeneration | The Eye in the Door | The Ghost Road) (Hardback)

A trilogy of novels set during World War 1 which mingle real and fictional characters. "The Ghost Road" won the 1995 Booker Prize.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Paula Astridge / In The Way Of The Reich

Hermann Goering, one of the most senior members of the Third Reich, was one of those responsible for murdering millions. His brother Albert risked his own life to rescue hundreds of Jews from the nazi death machine. Ernst Udet won the Blue Max for...

Valerie Wood / The Doorstep Girls

Ruby and Grace had grown up in the slums of Middle Court, the poorest place in Hull. Friends since early childhood, they had supported each other in bad times and good. But their two families were bound together by more than friendship, and secrets...

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...

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...

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...

Gerald Griffin - The Collegians - Talbot Press Classic - HB Reprint 1953

Young Hardress Cregan is a collegian and a rogue, with a wicked, roving eye. Although he is courting his wealthy cousin Anne, he has also embarked on a passionate love affair with the lowly - but very beautiful - Eily O'Connor. Hardress knows that his...

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 Boylan / Home Rule (Hardback)

When aristocratic Englishwoman Elinore Dubois married a handsome young Irishman, her mother warned her that he would give her ten children and leave her destitute. In fact there are only nine Devlins, but in a two-roomed Dublin tenement, Elinore vents...

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...

Emma Donoghue / The Paris Express (Large Paperback)

Emma Donoghue, the “soul-stirring” (Oprah Daily) nationally bestselling author of Room, returns with a sweeping historical novel about an infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station.Based on an 1895 disaster that went...

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...