Historical Fiction

Fonzie Keogh - The Half Crown Man - PB

Jimmy, the half-crown man, is selling his usual wares but rumours start spreading about the extras he is offering. Elizabeth, the newly widowed pub landlady, is besotted with Dominic, the glamorous new curate in the parish. Her friend Marion warns her...

John A. McKinsey / The Lincoln Secret (Large Paperback)

Founded upon several historical theories about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, the novel takes the reader through Abraham Lincoln's life and death while the characters work to unravel several mysteries. The story follows two main A reporter who is...

Angela Elwell Hunt / Magdalene (Large Paperback)

Mary Magdalene.  The controversial woman with a past only one Man could forgive. A true love story that changed the face of history. "I was Miryam of Magdala, seller of fine fabrics and wife of Yaakov the fisherman. With my husband and son, I...

Matt Love / The Great Birthright: An Oregon Novel (Large Paperback)

In his fiction debut, Matt Love bends and twists the detective novel genre with hilarious, unexpected and political results. The premise: a Los Angeles developer is trying to privatize Oregon’s publicly-owned beaches, its vaunted “great...

C.S. Quinn / The Bastille Spy (Large Paperback)

Revolution Spy #1 'He was alive when he went in the mortuary.' 1789. The Bastille is marked for destruction. Skirmishes in the city are rife and revolution is in the air. When a gruesomely murdered rebel is found in the prison morgue, a plot is...

Georgie Blalock / The Last Debutantes (Large Paperback)

Georgie Blalock’s novel of a world on the cusp of change...set on the eve of World War II in the glittering world of English society and one of the last debutante seasons.  They danced the night away, knowing their world was about to...

Catherine Cookson / Novel Collection (7 Book Collection)

The Catherine Cookson Collection (7 Book Collection) Contains: the fifteen streets the mallen streak riley tilly trotter a house divided the cinder path kate hannigan     This collection is second hand unless otherwise stated in the description...

Graham Hurley / Raid 42 (Hardback)

1941. Dieter Merz is the Reich’s most celebrated fighter ace and his aerial prowess has brought him into close contact with the top echelons of Hitler's regime. But everything in the Nazi state still comes at a price. If Dieter wants help for an...

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...

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

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Elisabeth Gifford / Secrets of the Sea House (Large Paperback)

Based on a real letter to the Times by a Victorian schoolmaster reporting a mermaid sighting, Secrets of the Sea House is an epic, sweeping tale of loss and love; hope and redemption; and how we heal ourselves with the stories we tell.Scotland, 1860...

Lucy Jago / A Net for Small Fishes (Large Paperback)

When Frances Howard, unhappy wife of the Earl of Essex, meets the talented Anne Turner, the two strike up an unlikely, yet powerful, friendship. Frances makes Anne her confidante, sweeping her into a glamorous and extravagant world, riven with bitter...

Ruth Downie / Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls (Large Paperback)

  Emperor Trajan is dead, long live Emperor Hadrian! Gaius Petreius Ruso is a divorced and down-on-his-luck army doctor who has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in one of the inclement outposts of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. His...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Bryce Courtenay / Tommo & Hawk (Hardback)

  Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of 15 in Hobart Town. Together they escape their troubled pasts and set off on a journey into manhood. From whale hunting in the Pacific to the Maori Wars of New...

Beatrice Hitchman / All of You Every Single One (Hardback)

Capturing both the bohemian permissiveness of turn-of-the-century Vienna and the fear experienced by many of the city's residents following Hitler's 1938 annexation, Beatrice Hitchman traces the relationship of Julia, who has fled an unhappy...

Katie Hickman / The Pindar Diamond (Large Paperback)

The Aviary Gate #2 In a small town on the Italian coast, a mysterious woman washes ashore. She is crippled, mute, and clutches a bundle to her chest—a baby the townspeople insist is a real-life mermaid. It can only bring bad luck; they pay...

Bruce Scates / On Dangerous Ground - A Gallipoli Story (Large Paperback)

A Gallipoli Story It is 1915, during World War I at Gallipoli, and Lt. Roy Irwin is missing. The young woman who loves him, and the men who fought beside him, begin their search for Lt. Irwin. Later, in 1919, historian C.E.W. Bean returns to Anzac...

Judith Goulding / Alabastron (Large Paperback)

Alabastron: A Story of Mary Magdalene Alabastron is historical fiction set in first century Judea during the three–year ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. The narrative unfolds through two Simon the Zealot, who is listed in the third chapter of...

Sallie Muirden / A Woman Of Seville (Large Paperback)

Paula Sánchez is famous in Seville. Now she is sitting for The Penitent Magdalen, along with Father Rastro and the monk Victor Maria, and watched over by the young painter Diego Velázquez. But Seville in 1616 is a dangerous place, and...

Leeanne O'Donnell / Sparks of Bright Matter (Large Paperback)

When ambitious apprentice chemist and secret alchemist Peter Woulfe is tasked with caring for a mysterious illustrated book, the Mutus Liber, he quickly realises that the grimy underworld of Georgian London is even more dangerous than he first believed...

Douglas Glover / Elle: A Novel (Large Paperback)

Imagine a 16th-century society belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza, and you'll have an inkling of what's in store in Douglas Glover's outrageously Rabelaisian novel — his first in ten years. Elle is a...

Jon Clinch / Marley (Large Paperback)

The acclaimed author of Finn “digs down to the bones of a classic and creates must-read modern literature” (Charles Frazier, New York Times bestselling author) with this “clever riff” (The Washington Post) on...

Lauren Liebenberg / The West Rand Jive Cats Boxing Club (Large Paperback)

Life on the Johannesburg mines is tough. Scorched by searing heat and choked by dust, it's a place of downtrodden women and hard-drinking men whose prejudices already seem out of date, even in 1958, at least to twelve-year-old Chris and Tommy. Kindled by...

Yvonne Roberts / A History of Insects (Large Paperback)

Against the backdrop of monumental change taking place in 1956 throughout the world, the cantonment of the British High Commission in Peshawar, Pakistan, remains a corner of traditional England, with all its nuances of snobbery and racism. The Jacksons'...

Charles Whiting / Kill Patton! (Large Paperback)

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Alan Monaghan / The Soldier's Return (Large Paperback)

The Soldier's Song Trilogy #2 Battered and broken by three years of fighting, Stephen Ryan returns to Ireland—and to the woman he loves—in the hope of a return to his old life. But instead, he finds the seeds of a new conflict are being...

Alaya Dawn Johnson / Trouble the Saints (Large Paperback)

The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Underground Railroad in Alaya Dawn Johnson's timely and unsettling novel, set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City, where an...

Catherine Lim / The Teardrop Story Woman (Large Paperback)

Story is set to the backdrop of 1950's Malaya, at the height of communist guerilla activity. A married Chinese women, Mei Kwei falls in love with a priest who saves the women caught with Mei's husband from public embarrassment.   This book is second...

Sonia Overall / The Realm of Shells (Large Paperback)

    A delicately balanced novel of childhood secrets, hidden treasure and the lengths people will go to in order to protect – or discover – what they deem valuable. ‘The Realm of Shells’ is the tale of a family...

Carole Carlini / Where the Dickens is Charlie! (Large Paperback)

If Dickens were alive he would have written this book. Set in London in the 1860's against the backdrop of the changing face of London, the beginnings of the London we know today. Railways forcing their way to the suburbs, new roads sweeping away the...

Daniel Kaye / I, Vladimir (Large Paperback)

My memory is different from yours. Over time you lose sight of people and places, dates are like the frayed edges of a painting that you will never see again. The faces and events still haunt me as if they happened yesterday. I remember every life I have...