Historical Fiction

Theresa Murphy / McFeeley's Rebellion (Hardback)

The regime of James II is under threat. An intelligence corps, formed under the leadership of Lord John Churchill, is designed to gather information on the Monmouth Rebellion and quash the rebels...

James MacManus / Black Venus (Hardback)

For readers who have been drawn to The Paris Wife or Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, Black Venus captures the artistic scene in the great French city decades earlier, when the likes of Dumas and...

James Lincoln Collier / Me and Billy (Hardback)

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Stuart Clark / The Sky's Dark Labyrinth (Hardback)

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Brian Moore - Black Robe ( HB First Edition- 1985)

North America. It is the beginning of the 17th century. To Father Paul, the Algonquin are pagans in need of salvation. To the Indians, Catholic priests are greedy and selfish. Accompanying Father...

Catrin Collier / Tiger Ragtime (Hardback) ( Beggars and Choosers - Book 6)

Homeless after the death of her grandmother but dreaming of stardom, Judy finds friendship, work and lodgings in Tiger Bay. David Ellis also finds himself drawn to this busy port. He is willing to do...

William Kennedy / Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes (Hardback)

When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will change his life...

Breena Clarke / Stand the Storm (Hardback)

Even though Sewing Annie Coats and her son, Gabriel, have managed to buy their freedom, their lives are still marked by constant struggle and sacrifice. Washington's Georgetown neighborhood, where...

Peter Ransley / Plague Child (Hardback)

The first instalment of a page-turning trilogy set against the backdrop of the English Civil War.September 1625: Plague cart driver, Matthew Neave, is sent to pick up the corpse of a baby. Yet, on...

Graham Salisbury / Eyes of the Emperor (Hardback)

Eddy Okubo lies about his age and joins the army in his hometown of Honolulu only weeks before the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Suddenly Americans see him as the enemy—even the U.S. Army doubts the...

Glenn Taylor / A Hanging at Cinder Bottom (Hardback)

Stylish historical fiction in the tradition of True Grit and Carter Beats the Devil, A Hanging at Cinder Bottom is an epic novel of exile and retribution, a heist tale and a love story both.The year...

Philip McCutchan / Tom Chatto - Apprentice (Hardback)

A tough and adventurous life awaits Tom Chatto as he embarks at Liverpool in the 1890s on his first voyage as an apprentice at sail. He has to learn how to handle the big square-rigged windjammer, go...

Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop / The Mercy Seat (Hardback)

As the sun begins to set over Louisiana one October day in 1943, a young black man faces the final hours of his life: at midnight, eighteen-year-old Willie Jones will be executed by electric chair...

J.D.F. Jones / The Buchan Papers (Large Paperback)

The Buchan Papers take us on a series of gruelling adventures in the mountainous area north of Johannesburg, involving long pursuits, falls over cliffs, a bush fire, and attacks by "natives". Just...

Philippa Gregory / The Other Boleyn Girl (Large Paperback)

Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: The love of a kingWhen Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled, Mary falls in love with...

Claire Rayner / Piccadilly (Large Paperback)

In the eleventh book in The Performers family saga the wedding between Letty Lackland's nephew Harry and Leah Landis, eight yearshis senior, provokes some uncharitable gossip. The Landis...

M.J. Twomey / When Rivers Collide : Adventures of a Victorian Soldier - Book 2 (Large Paperback)

They won’t leave this young soldier to his grief. Now they will suffer his wrath . . .Ireland, 1856. Samuel Kingston can’t shake his guilt over his father’s death. Blindsided when his aristocratic...

J'nell Ciesielski / The Socialite (Large Paperback)

When her younger sister runs away to Paris to live with a German officer high up in Hitler's favor, English socialite Kat embarks on a dangerous journey to save her sister from the Nazis. Glamour,...

Thomas Mullen / The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers (Large Paperback)

Jason and Whit Fireson, the notorious, bank-robbing duo known as the Firefly Brothers, wake to find themselves lying on cooling boards in a police morgue. Riddled with bullet wounds, the reality is...

Leon Garfield / Black Jack (Large Paperback)

Leon Garfield is unmatched for sheer, exciting storytelling." -- Lloyd AlexanderA swarthy villain, nearly seven foot tall and presumed hanged, seems to wake from the dead in the presence of young...

Mary Doria Russell / Dreamers Of The Day (Large Paperback)

The stunning new historical novel from the bestselling author of A Thread of Grace and The Sparrow.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

Tommy Orange / Wandering Stars (Large Paperback)

A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty." The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to...

James R. Vance / Something Old, Something New (Large Paperback)

Historical fiction novel, set in France depicting the conflict that still exists amongst families since the Nazi occupation of WWII. Two young sisters discover war memorabilia hidden in their...

Christian Jacq / The Battle of Kadesh (Large Paperback)

The powerful Hittites have declared war on Egypt, and Ramses must do the seize their impregnable fortress at Kadesh with his ragged army, even as his powerful bodyguard and right-hand man has been...

Ye Zhaoyan / Nanjing 1937 : A Love Story (Large Paperback)

Set on the eve of the Rape of Nanjing - when Japanese troops invaded this historic capital city, massacred hundreds of thousands, and committed thousands of rapes - Nanjing 1937 is a tender story of...

Paul Grossman / The Sleepwalkers (Large Paperback)

In the final weeks of the Weimar Republic, as Hitler and his National Socialist party angle to assume control of Germany, beautiful girls are seen sleepwalking through the streets.  Then, a young...

Niklas Natt och Dag / The Wolf and the Watchman (Large Paperback)

It is 1793. Four years after the storming of the Bastille in France and more than a year after the death of King Gustav III of Sweden, paranoia and whispered conspiracies are Stockholm’s daily bread...

Joseph Kanon / Shanghai (Large Paperback)

      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 we...

Petulia Blake / In the Midst of Shame (Large Paperback)

Hope opens up about her life as a Creole who dares to aspire for greatness on the restless island of St. James, a British colony. As she moves about in the shadow of Master Livingston, and under the...

Kathleen Herbert / Moon in Leo (Large Paperback)

A vivid and scholarly portrait of England in the reign of Charles II. The joy of the Restoration is a fading memory, and conflicts of land ownership and religious toleration are raging. The story is...

Standish O'Grady - The Flight of the Eagle ( Mercier Irish Classics PB - 1980)

ISBN-085342618X Published by Mercier Cork, 1980, this edition is ( slightly) abridged by Úna Morrissy.  No imaginative writer could devise a more romantic and thrilling tale than the true story of...

Emilia Hart / Weyward

I am a Weyward, and wild inside.2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown...

David Roberts / No More Dying

Lord Edward Corinth embarks on his most important investigation. It is 1939 and it is clear that Britain will soon be at war and MI5 has learnt that an enemy agent has been dispatched to England to...

Suzanne Kelman / A View Across the Rooftops

1941, Nazi-occupied Amsterdam . An unforgettable story of love, hope and betrayal, and a testament to the courage of humanity in history’s darkest days. University professor Josef Held has never...

J M Beesley / The Unexpected Guardian

When Alistair Rowland Hamilton, Marquis of Anworth received news that his friend Lord Anthony St.Ives had unexpectedly died in a hunting accident at the age of forty-four and that he, Anworth, was...

Julie Cohen / Spirited

'I stayed up late, gripped. An unusual, moving read. I LOVED it!' Marian Keyes'Haunting, tender and true - this story cast a spell on me' Kirsty Logan'This haunting story about the power of love will...

Paddy Hirsch / The Devil's Half Mile

Fans of Caleb Carr, Erik Larsen, and Gangs of New York will love this riveting historical thriller debut, set in a 1799 New York City.Seven years after a financial crisis nearly toppled America,...

Rupert Thomson / Air & Fire

At the end of the nineteenth century, TheOphile Valance and his wife Suzanne sail into Santa Sofia, a remote Mexican copper-mining town. By the author of The Five Gates of Hell.     All of our books...

Shaun Curry / The Swords of Silence ( Swords of Fire Trilogy - Book 1 )

Where once new ideas and beliefs were accepted, now the country’s military dictator, the Shogun, is shutting his country down to any outside influences.Father Joaquim Martinez, who left Portugal to...

Mark Mayes / The Gift Maker

Gifts ought to be free, but they never are. They tie you to the wishes of others. To your own sad expectations. To the penitentiary of your dreams.'Late one night, Thomas Ruder receives a strange...

Iain Gale / Man of Honour

Meet Lieutenant Jack Steel – gentleman, soldier, hero.Upper Bavaria, 1704. The British army, triumphant, fresh from victory, stands proudly to attention, ready to fight for honour and glory. Their...

Dermot Bolger - Hide Away - PB - BRAND NEW

Taylor Caldwell / Answer as a Man (Vintage Paperback)

All his life, Jason Garrity has had to battle intolerance and injustice in his quest for power, money, and love. His new hotel will give him financial security, the means to support a loving family...

Frank Yerby / The Devil's Laughter (Vintage Paperback)

An historical novel s( originally 1953) set in the French Revolution     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive.

Jonathan Powell / Sam (Vintage Paperback)

      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive.

Taylor Caldwell / The Arm and the Darkness (Vintage Paperback).

As hostilities flare between Catholic and Huguenot, Cardinal Richelieu relentlessly pursues the favors of Queen Anne Historical fiction, originally 1943.      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode...

Taylor Caldwell / The Arm and the Darkness (Vintage Paperback)

As hostilities flare between Catholic and Huguenot, Cardinal Richelieu relentlessly pursues the favors of Queen Anne Historical fiction, originally 1943.        All of our Vintage books are Pre...

Taylor Caldwell / The Beautiful is Vanished (Vintage Paperback)

      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive.

Martina Devlin - Edith : A Novel - PB - BRAND NEW

Edith by Martina Devlin  Martina Devlin, an award-winning columnist for the Irish Independent and podcaster for Dublin City of Literature #CityofBooks, has delivered a new novel based on the life of...

Martina Devlin - Charlotte : A Novel - PB - BRAND NEW

Charlotte Brontë, who dazzled the world with some of literature’s most vital and richly-drawn characters, spent her brief but extraordinary life in search of love. She eventually found it with Arthur...

Diney Costeloe / The Stolen Baby

EVERY MOTHER'S WORST NIGHTMARE IS ABOUT TO COME TRUE... A new Second World War novel from bestselling author Diney Costeloe, based on a gripping and moving true story.Plymouth, 1941. As sirens blare...

Homer Hickam / The Ambassador's Son (Hardback)

It's 1943 and the Americans and Japanese are fighting a deadly war in the hot, jungle-covered volcanic islands of the South Pacific. The outcome is in doubt and a terrible blow has fallen on American...