Historical Fiction

Susan Lanigan - White Feathers - PB - BRAND NEW - WW1 Novel - SIGNED

In 1913, young Irish emigrant Eva Downey is trapped in London with a remote father and hostile stepmother. When she is awarded a legacy from an old suffragette to attend a finishing school in Kent, she jumps at the chance. At the school, she finds...

Simon Scarrow - The Legion ( Eagles of the Empire - Book 10 ) - PB - BRAND NEW

The Legion When the actions of a rebel gladiator in Egypt threaten the stability of the Roman Empire, Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro know he must be stopped. The locals are holding the Romans responsible for the attacks and Ajax's crew have been...

Simon Scarrow - The Gladiator ( Eagles of the Empire - Book 9 - BRAND NEW

The Gladiator While centurions Macro and Cato are returning to Rome from a harrowing campaign against the Parthians, their transport ship is almost capsized by a tidal wave. They barely make it to the port of Matala in Crete where they are stunned...

Giles Waterfield / Markham Thorpe (Hardback)

    Servants know everything. Never trust them. Never fall in love. Ellen, a young maid in the 1840s, enters service at the declining Markham Thorpe: a house where the relationship between masters and servants is not quite it should be...

Antony Trew / Sea Fever (Hardback)

   Forty-seven yachts crossed the starting line for the GBP 100,000 Tristar, the first single-handed ocean race to be held in the northern winter - 8,000 miles of sailing from Plymouth to the Azores, the West Indies, Newfoundland and back to...

Rosie Goodwin / A Maiden's Voyage : The heart-warming Sunday Times bestseller (Hardback)

   'A vibrant page-turner with entrancing characters' Margaret Dickinson'Rosie writes such heartwarming sagas' Lyn AndrewsThursday's child has far to go . . .1912, London.Eighteen-year-old Flora Butler is going up in the world. She has the...

Nadine Dorries / The Four Streets (Hardback)

   The first book in a heartbreaking trilogy set in post-war Liverpool by bestselling author Nadine Dorries. 1950s Liverpool. In the tight-knit Irish Catholic community of the Four Streets, two girls are growing up.One is motherless - and...

Boris Akunin / The Death of Achilles : Erast Fandorin 4

Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow, and he just can't seem to keep out of trouble... The fourth novel in the bestselling crime series from the author of THE WINTER QUEEN. Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow after an absence of six years, only to find himself...

Suzanne Hayes & Loretta Nyhan / I'll Be Seeing You

 `I hope this letter gets to you quickly. We are always waiting, aren't we? Perhaps the greatest gift this war has given us is the anticipation... ' It's January 1943 when Rita Vincenzo receives her first letter from Glory Whitehall. Glory is an...

Robin Paige / Death at Whitechapel

 Kathryn Ardleigh and her husband, Charles, are called on for help when scandal threatens Jennie Jerome Churchill. Her son Winston's political future is jeopardized by someone who claims to have proof that his father was none other than the...

Imogen Hermes Gowar / The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock (Large Paperback)

   This voyage is special. It will change everything...One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock hears urgent knocking on his front door. One of his captains is waiting eagerly on the step. He has sold Jonah's ship for what...

John Stack / Armada (Large Paperback)

   The author of the Masters of the Sea series, is back with a standalone battle book that will blow all others out of the water.1587. Two nations are locked in bitter conflict. One strives for dominance, the other for survival.After decades...

Christine Dwyer Hickey / The Narrow Land (Large Paperback)

   "A brilliant portrait... With a beguiling grace and a deceptive simplicity, Christine Dwyer Hickey reminds us that the past is never far away - rather, it constantly surrounds us, suspends us, haunts us." Colum McCann1950: late summer...

Colleen McCullough / The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet (Large Paperback)

   Lizzy Bennet married Mr Darcy, Jane Bennet married Mr Bingley - but what became of the middle daughter, Mary? Discover what came next in the lives and loves of Jane Austen's much loved Bennet family in this Pride and Prejudice spin-off from...

Conn Iggulden / Emperor: The Blood of Gods (Large Paperback) ( Emperor Series - Book 5 )

   The epic new novel in Conn Iggulden's bestselling EMPEROR series.Julius Caesar has been assassinated. A nation is in mourning. Revenge will be bloody.Rome's great hero Julius Caesar has been brutally murdered by his most trusted allies...

Sebastian Faulks / Paris Echo (Large Paperback)

   `Faulks is beyond doubt a master' Financial TimesHere is Paris as you have never seen it before - a city in which every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria.American postdoctoral...

Heather Morris / Cilka's Journey (Large Paperback)

   Her beauty saved her life - and condemned her.In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces...

Gary Dennis / The Christening (Large Paperback)

   'The Christening' is a landscape of the heart. It is a rollicking great read about a girl, a guy, a baby and a Spitfire. It has love and hate, war and peace, betrayal and redemption, the hand of God ... and drinking Guinness. Based in...

Faber, Michel - The Fire Gospel - Hb Canongate 2008 - Canongate Myths Series

Theo Griepenkerl is a modest academic with an Olympian ego. When he visits a looted museum in Iraq, looking for treasures he can ship back to Canada, he finds nine papyrus scrolls that have lain hidden for two thousand years. Once translated from...

Daisy Styles / The Code Girls

   **A heart-warming and inspiring story of incredible women on the home-front during World War II from the author of The Bomb Girls**Can four girls protect a whole country?It's 1941 and the country has been turned upside down. For the...

Anton Du Beke / One Enchanted Evening (Large Paperback)

   The Sunday Times bestseller!'Downton with dance, perfect!' Santa MontefiorePrepare to be swept off your feet by the romantic and irresistible debut novel from Anton Du BekeLondon, 1936.Inside the spectacular Grand Ballroom of the exclusive...

Sophia Hillan / The Way We Danced (Large Paperback)

    Ruth Deacon s academic career is in the doldrums, her marriage is in shreds, an elderly relative with dementia has become an impossible burden. Ruth needs a miracle. It comes in the form of The Memory Book . Edith Barratt, an elderly...

Rhidian Brook / Aftermath (Large Paperback)

    A stunning, powerful blockbuster of passion, betrayal and conscience. Story set in the aftermath of WWII in occupied Hamburg. Film script already sold.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the...

Hazel Gaynor / The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter (Large Paperback)

   'Exquisite... a clear head and shoulders above the rest' Sunday Independent'Compelling... I can't recommend this one highly enough.' Gill Paul'This exquisite, thoroughly researched book places (Gaynor) a clear head and shoulders above the...

Christine Dwyer Hickey / Last Train from Liguria (Large Paperback)

   Bella lives a cosseted life with her father in London. So when he announces that he has arranged for work for her as a governess in Italy, she is shocked, angry, and terribly scared of what lies in store... But as she boards a train for the...

Ian McEwan / Machines Like Me (Large Paperback)

   Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding...

Benjamin Black / Prague Nights

   'The emperor's mistress had been murdered, and the world had been taken hold of and turned upon its head'Prague, 1599. Christian Stern, a young doctor, has just arrived in the city. On his first evening, he finds a young woman's body...

Philip Roth / Nemesis

   In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. This is the startling and surprising theme of Roth's...

Tim Severin / Corsair (Hector Lynch (Large Paperback)

   1677, on a late summer's evening two ships lurk off the coast of southwest Ireland. They are Barbary corsairs from North Africa, slave catchers. As soon as it is dark, their landing parties row ashore to raid a small fishing village - on...

Hazel Gaynor / The Cottingley Secret (Large Paperback)

   The New York Times bestselling author turns the clock back to a time when two young girls convinced the world that fairies really did exist...Cottingley, Yorkshire, 1917: When two young cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright, announce...

Thomas Kwneally / The Daughters of Mars

 In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father's dairy farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Used to tending the sick as they are, nothing could have prepared them for what they...

Robert Edric / Peacetime

   It is late summer in 1946 in the Wash on the Fenland coast. Into a suspicious and isolated community comes James Mercer, until recently a serving captain in the Engineers, who is now employed in the demolition of redundant gun platforms. A...

Robert Harris / The Second Sleep (Large Paperback)

   All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is.1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient...

Ally Bunbury / The Inheritance (Large Paperback)

    When Anna Rose arrived in London to start a career in PR with the fabulous Gilda Winterbottom, she hadn't banked on falling for the city's most eligible bachelor, art dealer and heir to a fortune, George Wyndham.But as love strikes,...

Alan Judd / The Kaiser's Last Kiss

     A fictionalised account of the Kaiser Wilhelm's last years in Nazi-occupied Holland.It is 1940 and the exiled Kaiser is living in Holland, at his palace Huis Doorn.The old German king spends his days chopping logs and musing on what...

Frances Parkinson Keyes - The Ambassadress - Vintage Penguin PB 1961

Originally published in 1938, this is the Penguin UK first paperback edition, 1961, numbered 1537, light creases to back cover, usual light edgewear, no inscriptions or marks internally, binding solid  When Michael Trent, bound for a career in the...

Ann Widdecombe / An Act of Treachery

   Catherine Dessin, a young French girl living in Paris during the occupation, falls for an older, married German officer. The novel examines the tensions this causes within her family of patriots and resistance workers.Meanwhile Klaus, the...

Helen Humphreys / The Reinvention of Love

    When Charles Sainte-Beuve, a French journalist, met Victor Hugo, an ambitious young writer, he was swept into a world of grand emotions, a world where words can become swords. But Charles' attraction moves on from Victor, to his wife...

Andrew Taylor / Call The Dying

   'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily TelegraphFrom the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the seventh instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth seriesLove and need make unexpected bedfellows, and...

Mary Renault / The Bull from the Sea

      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 refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Faye L. Booth / Trades of the Flesh

   Preston, 1888: as the century draws to a close, the prostitute murders in London have made young Lydia Ketch's `trade' a political issue. Lydia, the tough but optimistic daughter of a former workhouse inmate, has spent a year working in the...

Rosemary Aitken / The Girl from Penvarris

    When Katie Waren's mother dies in childbirth Katie is forced to abandon her dreams of working as a pupil-teacher.Instead,she goes into service at the big house with her sister,Fanny.Soon,and against her will,she finds herself growing...

Kathleen McGurl / The Girl from Ballymor

   What would you sacrifice for your children?Ballymor, Ireland, 1847As famine grips the country Kitty McCarthy is left widowed and alone. Fighting to keep her two remaining children alive against all odds, Kitty must decide how far she will...

Rebecca Hunt / Mr Chartwell

   Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards New Writer of the Year.July, 1964. At home in Kent Winston Churchill wakes to a visitor: someone he hasn't...

Sanjida O'Connell / The Naked Name of Love

   In 1865, as Darwin's new theory of evolution begins to sweep aside old certainties, a young Jesuit priest and plant-hunter sets out into an unknown world. He is driven by twin passions: for science and for his faith. Travelling across the...

James Wilson / The Dark Clue

   'This is a book begun, but not finished. I could not finish it. Many times I have come close to destroying it, thinking I should have no rest while it remained to reproach me. I could not bring myself to do it. I have therefore given...

David Young / Stasi Wolf

   How do you solve a murder when you can't ask any questions?The gripping new thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of Stasi Child.East Germany, 1975. Karin Muller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance...

Alicia Foster / Warpaint

   Four women create propaganda in WWII's darkest hour in this gripping fact-based debut novel.Buckinghamshire, 1942: in a gothic villa deep in woods near Bletchley Park, artist Vivienne Thayer paints 'Black' propaganda to demoralise the enemy...

Robert Seethaler / The Tobacconist

   'Set at a time of lengthening shadows, this is a novel about the sparks that illuminate the dark: of wisdom, compassion, defiance and courage. It is wry, piercing and also, fittingly, radiant.' Daily MailFrom Robert Seethaler, the author of...

K. M. Grant / Hartslove

   Young Daisy and her six brothers and sisters love Hartslove, the crumbling castle that has been in their family for hundreds of years. But their kind but feckless father, scarred by his experiences in the Crimean War, and by his wife's...

Kamila Shamsie / Home Fire

   SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A NEW...

Robert Allison / The Letter Bearer

   The Rider has no memory of who he is, or how he came to be lying - dying - in the brutal heat of the North African desert. Rescued by a band of deserters, the Rider begins to piece together his identity, based on shards of recollection and...