Historical Fiction

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...

Bernard Cornwell / Death of Kings (Large Paperback) (Last Kingdom Series - Book 6 )

   The master of historical fiction presents the iconic story of King Alfred and the making of a nation.As the ninth century wanes, England appears about to be plunged into chaos once more. For the Viking-raised but Saxon-born warrior, Uhtred,...

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...

Kate Morton / The Clockmaker's Daughter (Large Paperback)

   From the bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper, Kate Morton brings us her trademark mix of secrets, lies, and intricately layered mysteries in her sixth novel, The Clockmaker's Daughter.My real name, no one...

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...

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...

Maggie Hope / A Daughter's Gift

   A family torn apart. A daughter's courage...When Elizabeth and her four sibling are orphaned, she and her brother are sent to a children's home; their younger sisters into foster care.Life in the home is hard, but she is determined to look...

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...

Kate Morton / The Clockmaker's Daughter

   From the bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper, Kate Morton brings us her trademark mix of secrets, lies, and intricately layered mysteries in her sixth novel, The Clockmaker's Daughter.My real name, no one...

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...

Lesley Pearse / The House Across the Street

   THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe mysterious and captivating new novel from the Number One bestseller would make a perfect gift this Christmas . . .__________Is there a murderer across the street?It's 1964 and twenty-three-year-old Katy Speed...

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

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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...

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...

Gemma Jackson / Ha'penny Schemes

   In 1920's inner-city Dublin tenements, Ivy Rose Murphy struggles to survive and thrive in the harsh poverty-stricken environment she was born into. She is trying to adapt to her new role as a married woman. There are those jealous of the...

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...

A. O'Connor / The Footman

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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...

Ann Pilling / Black Harvest

    Colin and Prill were looking forward to a holiday of fun and adventure in Ireland. It would have been perfect if only they hadn't had to drag along their cousin Oliver. But Oliver, it turns out, isn't their biggest problem. Almost from...

David Gillham / City of Women

   A stunning and cinematic tale of life in Berlin at the height of the Second World War.In the very darkest hour, who do you trust, who do you love, and who can be saved?It is 1943 - the height of the Second World War. With the men taken by...

Allan Mallinson / An Act of Courage

 The seventh novel in the acclaimed and bestselling Matthew Hervey series finds Hervey alone and a prisoner in the fortress of Badajos on the Spanish border.While Hervey – taken captive in the final pages of The Sabre’s Edge –...

Francine Rivers / Redeeming Love

   Angel, sold into prostitution as a child, survives by keeping her hatred for men alive. Then she meets Michael Hosea who loves her unconditionally. Day by day, he defies Angel's every bitter expectation until, despite her resistance, her...

Julian Syockwin / Kydd

 Thomas Paine Kydd, a young wig-maker from Guildford, is seized by the press gang, to be a part of the crew of the 98-gun line-of-battle ship Royal William. The ship sails immediately and Kydd has to learn the harsh realities of shipboard life fast...

Gretta Curran Browne / Fire on the Hill

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