Historical Fiction

Lenore Hart / The Raven's Bride (Large Paperback)

When eight-year-old Virginia "Sissy" Clemm meets her handsome cousin, Eddy, she sees the perfect husband she's conjured up in childhood games. Thirteen years her elder, he's soft-spoken, brooding, and handsome. Eddy fails his way through West Point...

Lindsey Davis / Rebels and Traitors

A groundbreaking historical novel set in the English Civil War.Rebels and Traitors is a groundbreaking departure for this most admired of British authors, returning to Lindsey Davis’ first love in historical fiction, the English Civil War. Sweeping...

Witi Ihimaera / The Parihaka Woman (Large Paperback)

Richly imaginative and original, weaving together fact and fiction, The Parihaka Woman sets the remarkable story of Erenora against the historical background of the turbulent and compelling events that occurred in Parihaka during the 1870s...

Tom Sigafoos / The Cursing Stone(Large Paperback)

County Donegal, Ireland. 1884. Your island home is threatened with evictions. What would you be willing to do to stop them? This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be...

Alex Beer / The Second Rider (Large Paperback)

August Emmerich - Book 1 The Second Rider Alex Beer, Tim Mohr (Translator)     Vienna, 1919. In the desperate years after World War I, the Habsburg Empire is a fading memory and most of Vienna’s remaining...

Hilary Jones / Frontline (Large Paperback)

A SWEEPING DRAMA SET ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF EUROPE AS A GLOBAL INFLUENZA PANDEMIC LOOMS...Frontline is the first book in a series charting the rise of a prominent British medical family in the twentieth century. From wars to a pandemic, the discovery...

Barbara Leahy / Rembrandt's Promise (Large Paperback)

Stunning historical immersion into the world of Rembrandt with a gripping plot of a promise turned sour. For fans of Stacey Halls, Maggie O'Farrell and Tracy Chevalier.'With glorious language, she gives us a believable, elegant and atmospheric novel...

Jean Plaidy - The Passionate Enemies - HB - 1976

Hardcover, published by Robert Hale London, 1976, presumed first edition.  In very good condition, light tanning to pages, not ex library ( as many Robert Hale editions were destined for)  The Passionate Enemies is the final book in her Norman...

Rosalind Miles / The Maiden Of White Hands (Large Paperback)

The second of the 'Isolde' novels.The second book in the magnificent Arthurian trilogy, set in one of the most provocative periods in history and legend, continues the story of Isolde, the only daughter of Ireland's ruling Queen, and her struggle between...

Bernard Cornwell / Sharpe’s Assassin (Hardback)

Bernard Cornwell with his iconic hero, Richard Sharpe.Outsider.Hero.Rogue.And the one man you want on your side.   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...

Sandra Gulland / Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe (Large Paperback)

Josephine Bonaparte #2 Set in Paris at the end of the eighteenth century, Josephine begins to awaken to the reality of her recent marriage to 'the Corsican' Napoleon Bonaparte. Through Josephine's diary entries and Napoleon's impassioned - almost...

Enda McLaughlin - Memoir for the WASP - PB

A fictionalised novel retelling of the true events off the coast of Donegal in 1884, when the Britosh gunboat The Wasp ean around and was shipwrecked on the coast of Tory Island.  Paperback, Glendale Press, 1989. 

C.J. Sansom / Dissolution ( Shardlake Series - Book 1 ) (Large Paperback)

Matthew Shardlake #1 Exciting and elegantly written, Dissolution is an utterly compelling first novel and a riveting portrayal of Tudor England. The year is 1537, and the country is divided between those faithful to the Catholic Church and those...

Sarah Harrison / The Grass Memorial (Large Paperback)

In The Grass Memorial three individuals - a young officer in the Light Brigade, an American fighter pilot flying out of East Anglia in World War Two, and a thoroughly modern woman, a singer-songwriter - have one numinous place in common: the Bronze...

Robert Harris / Precipice

Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe.In London, twenty-six-year-old Venetia Stanley—aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless—is part of a fast group of upper-crust bohemians and socialites known as “The Coterie.”...

Philippa Gregory, Kate Kerrigan, Alice Peterson / 3 in One Omnibus - Of Love and Life : The Constant Princess | Recipes for a Perfect Marriage | Look the World in the Eye (Large Paperback)

Of Love and Life: 3 novels in 1 omnibus      The Constant Princess: Splendid and sumptuous historical novel from this internationally bestselling author, telling of the early life of Katherine of Aragon. We think of her as the...

Defne Suman / The Silence of Scheherazade (Large Paperback)

Set in the ancient city of Smyrna, this powerful novel follows the intertwining fates of four families as their peaceful city is ripped apart by the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. On an orange-tinted evening in September 1905, Scheherazade is born to...

George MacDonald Fraser / Flashman on the March (Large Paperback)

Flashman Papers #12 Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Who better to...

Boris Akunin / The State Counsellor (Erast Fandorin Novels - Book 6) (Large Paperback)

The reactionary Adjutant General Khrapov, newly appointed governor-general of Siberia and soon-to-be minister of the interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St. Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin, boards...

Ruth Ann Nordin / The Earl's Secret Bargain (Large Paperback)

Marriage by Deceit #1 Lord Davenport and Lord Pennella have just made a bet for the hand of Miss Regina Giles. The gentleman she chooses wins the loser’s estate.It’s the most daring wager at White’s, and quite possibly the most...

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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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...

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...

Claire Messud / This Strange Eventful History (Large Paperback)

As Paris falls to the Germans, Gaston Cassar - honorable servant of France, devoted husband and father, currently posted as naval attache in Salonica - bids farewell to his beloved wife, aunt and children, placing his faith in God that they will be...

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...

Amy Tan / The Valley of Amazement (Large Paperback)

 In fin de siecle Shanghai, Violet Minturn grows up at Hidden Jade Path, the city's most exclusive courtesan house. But when revolution comes, she is separated from her mother and forced to become a "virgin courtesan." Both Chinese and American,...

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...

William Martin / The Rising of the Moon

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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...

Michael Arnold / Traitor's Blood (Large Paperback)

Civil War Chronicles #1 Traitor's Blood , the first in The Civil War Chronicles, Michael Arnold's acclaimed series of historical thrillers, sees battle-scarred hero Captain Stryker, 'the Sharpe of the Civil War', confront his nemesis.'Stands in...

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...

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...

Emma Donoghue / The Paris Express (Large Paperback)

Emma Donoghue, the “soul-stirring” (Oprah Daily) nationally bestselling author of Room, returns with a sweeping historical novel about an infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station.Based on an 1895 disaster that went...

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...

Anya Seton / My Theodosia

Anya Seton’s best-selling first novel, originally published in 1941, captures all the drama of the short life of Theodosia Burr (1783–1813). Her father, Aaron—Thomas Jefferson’s vice president, most famous for his great duel with...

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...