Historical Fiction

Dinah Jefferies / The Tuscan Contessa

 ONE WAR. TWO WOMEN. WILL THEY BE ABLE TO SAVE THE ONES THEY LOVE?A sweeping new novel from the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of The Tea Planter's WifeIn 1943, Contessa Sofia de' Corsi's peaceful Tuscan villa among the olive groves is...

Frances Liardet / We Must Be Brave

 We can't choose who we love.We can choose who we fight for.'A powerful story that proves how love itself requires courage' Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing'Storytelling at its best' Sarah Winman'The perfect book club read' AJ...

Freda Lightfoot / Dancing on Deansgate

 Where there's community, there's courage...Jess Delaney has always longed for independence. But when the Blitz reaches Manchester, she is locked in the cellar by her feckless mother, Lizzie. As bombs rain down from a sky turned blood red with...

Caroline Harvey / A Second Legacy

 Behind Alexia Langley stood the legacy of three remarkable and indomitable women. There was Charlotte who had survived the Afghan war in Victorian times - Alexandra who had bravely carved a life for herself on a Cornish farm - and Cara, who was...

Dan James / Unsinkable

 A DOOMED VOYAGEApril 14th 1912. The maiden voyage of the world's most luxurious passenger liner, Titanic.A DARK PASTEach passenger has their own reason to make the crossing, but for former Special Branch police officer Arthur Beck it is the only...

Freda Lightfoot / The Castlefield Collector

 Where there's muck, there's mettle...Dolly Tomkins has always known what it is to live hand to mouth. In the mean streets of a Salford struggling under the mantle of the Great Depression, the only one making a decent living is the talleyman.Though...

Louis Begley / Wartime Lies

  Set in Poland in 1939, this novel looks at the impact of the Holocaust on the individual. The author was awarded the 1991 Irish Times-Aer Lingus Prize for fiction for this novel.       All of our books are second hand, and...

Esi Edugyan / Washington Black

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2020FINALIST FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL AND THE ROGERS WRITERS TRUST FICTION PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2019New...

Anna Dean / A Gentleman of Fortune

 Richmond, 1806. Miss Dido Kent has developed rather a taste for mysteries. Having solved the riddle of her niece's missing fiance and the body in the bushes at Belsfield Hall, she is finding her quiet holiday at her cousin Flora's home rather...

Marita Conlon-McKenna / The Hungry Road (Large Paperback)

 In its brilliant recreation of the Great Irish Famine, the children's historical novel Under the Hawthorn Tree is beloved by millions and is considered a classic.Now, the Number One Irish bestseller and award-winning author is turning her hand to...

Paula McLain / Love and Ruin (Large Paperback)

 In 1937, courageous and independent Martha Gellhorn travels to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, and finds herself drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in devastating conflict. She also finds herself...

Victoria Hislop / Those Who Are Loved (Large Paperback)

 'Victoria Hislop's view of history in her novels is, like the writer herself, a compassionate and generous one' ScotsmanThe gripping new novel by Sunday Times Number One bestseller Victoria Hislop is set against the backdrop of the German...

Donald McCaig / Rhett Butler's People (Hardback)

  This astonishing novel that parallels the great American classic novel, Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, has been twelve years in the making. Now, the most beloved and most widely-read saga of the American Civil War is retold from the...

Simon Scarrow / Praetorian (Eagles of the Empire 11) (Hardback)

 The brand new thrilling Roman adventure from the bestselling author of THE LEGION and THE GLADIATOR.The city of Rome in AD 50 is a dangerous place. Treachery lurks on every corner, and a shadowy Republican movement, 'the Liberators', has spread its...

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev / Fathers and Sons

 With an Introduction by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.Translated by C.J. Hogarth.Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in...

Edmund White / Our Young Man

 'Has everyone always been in love with you? Of course they have, who am I kidding? What did they say about Helen of Troy? That her face launched a thousand ships? That's you, you're that beautiful. A thousand ships'New York City in the eighties,...

Bernard Cornwell / Sword Song (Large Paperback) (Last Kingdom Series - Book 4 )

 The fourth in the bestselling Alfred series from number one historical novelist, Bernard Cornwell.The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and Alfred's kingdom of Wessex in the south. But trouble...

Snow, C.P - The New Men - Vintage PB - 1971 ( originally 1954)

It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal...

Cathy Sharp / A Daughter's Dream

 Heartache and hardship in London's East End, from the bestselling author of The Orphans of Halfpenny StreetAmy Robinson and her fiance Matthew are struggling to resist the temptations faced by a soon-to-be-wed couple. To avoid these, Matthew throws...

Philip Roth / I Married a Communist

 The second novel of Roth's eloquent American trilogy, set in the tempestuous McCarthy era - a brilliant successor to American PastoralI Married a Communist charts the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, an American roughneck who begins life as a...

Tim Severin / Sworn Brother

 Sworn Brother by Tim Severin is the thrilling second volume in the Viking trilogy - an epic adventure in a world full of Norse mythology and bloodthirsty battles.London, 1019: a few months have passed since Thorgils has escaped the clutches of the...

Anthony Riches / Wounds of Honour: Empire I

 'A master of the genre' The TimesMarcus Valerius Aquila has scarcely landed in Britannia when he has to run for his life - condemned to dishonorable death by power-crazed emperor Commodus. The plan is to take a new name, serve in an obscure...

Anne Rice / Christ the Lord The Road to Cana

 Herod Antipas rules Galilee, Pontius Pilate is the new Roman governor of Judea, and the Roman Empire rules the world. These are turbulent times for Israel, a troubled land of turmoil and insurrection.Now in his thirtieth year, Jesus and his...

C. J. Sansom / Tombland ( Shardlake Series - Book 7 )

 Tudor England is brought vividly to life in Tombland, the seventh novel in C. J. Sansom's number one bestselling Shardlake series, for fans of Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory.'When it comes to intriguing Tudor-based narratives, Hilary Mantel has...

Sarah Bryant / Serendipity

  Her first love was the wind. She followed it to the shore. Its thrusting curve held her as a mother's arms might have. And one day, when she left that beach far behind, she would realise that during those half-forgotten days of her earliest...

Lisa Burkitt / The Memory of Scent

 Set against the backdrop of Paris in 1883, The Memory of Scent is the story of two French women, Fleur and Babette, and of how their lives diverge when the artist they both model for is found dead.For Fleur, hers is a life lived on the fringes of...

Kaye Gibbons / On The Occasion Of My Last Afternoon

  Like America in the mid-nineteenth century, Emma Garnet Tate Lowell is at war with herself. Born to privilege on a grand plantation she grows up more and more aware that her family's prosperity is inextricably linked to the institution of...

Fergus O'Connell / Call the Swallow

 David Steinbaum, a Polish Jew, witnessed the horrifying effects of Hitler's campaign against the Jews in Eastern Europe - and yet, 60 years later, he has still not discovered the fate of his sister Ariela, a young jazz singer in pre-war Warsaw...

Jane Rogers / Mr. Wroe's Virgins

  When God told prophet John Wroe to comfort himself with seven virgins, his Lancashire congregation gave him their daughters. This is the story of the nine months of their life together, until accusations of indecency, and the trial that...

Derek Robinson / Piece of Cake

  From the Phoney War of 1939 to the Battle of Britain in 1940, the pilots of Hornet Squadron learn their lessons the hard way. Hi-jinks are all very well on the ground, but once in a Hurricane's cockpit, the best killers keep their wits close...

Lewis Wallace / Ben Hur

 An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is the only novel that ranks with Uncle Tom's Cabin as a genuine American folk...

Katharine Grant / Sedition

 Motherless Alathea Sawneyford, her charms grown disturbing as she rebels against her father, has made the city's streets her own, while Annie Cantabile is constrained, by her own disfigurement and her father, to his pianoforte workshop under the...

Jeremy Chambers / The Vintage and the Gleaning

  Smithy is a retired shearer turned vineyard worker in his autumn years. It is hard graft, but Smithy has always worked with his hands. Physically all but destroyed after a lifetime of hard liquor, but now sober, he begins to see the world with...

Mark O'Sullivan / Enright

  It is 1921, and the Irish War of Independence is drawing to a close. In a small Tipperary town, RIC Sergeant, Tom Enright fights the rebels - and his own demons. Traumatised at an early age, Enright is destined to constantly re-enact the roles...

Fay Weldon / Habits of the House

 A love story, a happy end, a lively attack, haute-couture dresses and haute-cuisine meals: some quotable characters, some agreeable sex, some very witty lines - what else can you want from a novel? - unless perhaps a soupcon of Weldon perception...

Grass, Gunter - Cat & Mouse - Vintage Penguin PB -1963 ( Originally 1961)

First published by Secker UK, 1963, and initially published in German in 1961 as Katz Und Maus. translated by Ralph Manheim.  Light tanning to page block, light edgewear to the gold/gilt coloured covers. Creasing to covers The setting is Danzig...

Anthony Glavin / Colours Other Than Blue (Large Paperback)

  Maeve Maguire, single mother of a teenage daughter, works as the Senior Nurse in a Dublin Home for the Elderly. Grieving over her father's recent death, she begins to keep a notebook at the prompting of her sagacious counsellor Sister...

Thomas Keneally / The Great Shame (Hardback)

  A new non-fiction book recounting the 19th century history of Ireland. The book traces the three causes of the halving of the Irish population in that century: the famine, the Irish emigrations to American and Canada, and the transportation of...

Leslie Parry / Church of Marvels (Hardback)

 A ravishing first novel, set in vibrant, tumultuous turn-of-the-century New York City, where the lives of four outsiders become entwined, bringing irrevocable change to them all.New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the...

Oisin McGann / Race the Atlantic Wind : The Flight of Alcock and Brown

 In the spring of 1919, after the end of the First World War, teams of pilots and navigators begin to gather on the North American island of Newfoundland. They are attempting what many believe to be impossible - to fly non-stop across the Atlantic...

Nicola Pierce / Behind the Walls: A City Besieged

 Derry, 1689.An anonymous letter is read out saying that every last Protestant man,woman and child is to be murdered. Panic takes hold. Two teenage boys, Daniel and Robert Sherrard, help close the city gates against the approaching Catholic army.The...

Laura Shepherd-Robinson / Blood & Sugar (Large Paperback)

 `A page-turner of a crime thriller . . . This is a world conveyed with convincing, terrible clarity' - C. J. SansomBlood & Sugar is the thrilling debut historical crime novel from Laura Shepherd-Robinson.June, 1781. An unidentified body hangs...

Laurent Binet / The 7th Function of Language

 'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you'll read this year' - ObserverRoland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand...

Jeffrey Archer / Nothing Ventured ( William Warwick Series - Book 1 )

 The Sunday Times No.1 BestsellerNothing Ventured is the incredible and thrilling novel by the master storyteller and bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer.This is not a detective story, this is a story about...

Fay Weldon / The New Countess

 The year is 1905 and King Edward VII has invited himself and his mistress to a shooting weekend with the Dilbernes. Now Isobel, the Countess, must turn a run-down mansion into a palace fit for a king. Just as well the family fortunes have been...

Sebastian Faulks / Paris Echo

 **Sunday Times Bestseller**A haunting portrait of Paris past and present from the bestselling author of Birdsong.'Superb... Weaves winningly between the present and the Second World War, between Tangier and Paris' ObserverAmerican academic Hannah...

Emily Maguire / An : Isolated Incident

  When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends. Unwillingly thrust into the eye of that storm is Bella's beloved older sister, Chris, a barmaid at the...

Danielle Steel / In His Father's Footsteps (Hardback)

 In His Father's Footsteps is a powerful, compassionate story of fathers and sons, set in the dramatically transforming years following the Second World War, by the masterful Danielle Steel.April, 1945. As the Americans storm the Buchenwald...

Elizabeth Macneal / The Doll Factory (Hardback)

 The Sunday Times Bestseller - As read on BBC Radio 4A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice 2019'A sharp, scary, gorgeously evocative tale of love, art and obsession' - Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the TrainThe Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal is...

Clive Cussler / The Titanic Secret (Large Paperback)

 *PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW*When Isaac Bell attempts to decipher the mysterious deaths of nine men, he encounters a secret so powerful it could dictate the fate of the world in this riveting thriller by the #1 Sunday Times-bestselling author.A century...

Ann Patchett / The Dutch House (Large Paperback)

 'Ann Patchett just gets better and better ... With more than a nod to Henry James , The Dutch House is quietly devastating, often mysterious and rather beautiful in its effortlessly readable melancholy' ObserverLonglisted for the Women's Prize...

Rosella Postorino / The Women at Hitler's Table (Large Paperback)

 'Written with intelligence and nuance' The Times'A disturbing, powerful and beautifully written novel based on shockingly real events' Christy Lefteri, author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo'A thought-provoking read' My Weekly'Unputdownable' The...