Historical Fiction

Eibhear Walshe / The Diary of Mary Travers (Large Paperback)

It is April 1895 and Oscar Wilde is on trial in London at the Old Bailey, following his libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry, and faces ruin, public disgrace and imprisonment. In County Cork, a woman called Mary Travers is following the...

Julia Malye / Pelican Girls (Large Paperback)

Charlotte, Pétronille, and Geneviève — along with nearly 100 more Parisian hospital patients — find themselves shipped off to North America to marry New Orleans settlers in this “epic and nuanced”...

Sandra Gulland / The Last Great Dance on Earth ( Josephine Bonaparte - Book 3 )(Large Paperback)

The Last Great Dance on Earth is the triumphant final volume of Sandra Gulland's beloved trilogy based on the life of Josephine Bonaparte. When the novel opens, Josephine and Napoleon have been married for four tumultuous years. Napoleon is...

Jane Healey / The Beantown Girls (Large Paperback)

A novel of love, courage, and danger unfolds as World War II’s brightest heroines—the best of friends—take on the front lines.1944: Fiona Denning has her entire future planned out. She’ll work in city hall, marry her fiancé...

Michael C. White / Soul Catcher (Large Paperback)

Augustus Cain is a damaged man haunted by a terrible skill: the ability to track people who don't want to be found. Rosetta is a runaway slave who bears the scars, inside and out, of a life of servitude to a cruel and unforgiving master. Her flight is...

Francine Mathews / Too Bad to Die

A tense and enthralling historical thriller in which British Naval Intelligence officer Ian Fleming attempts to foil a Nazi plot to assassinate FDR, Churchill, and Stalin.  November, 1943. Weary of his deskbound status in the Royal Navy,...

Alix Nathan / The Flight of Sarah Battle

Born in her father's coffee house in Change Alley, London, Sarah Battle is raised in a smoke-thick atmosphere of coffee and alcohol. Witnessing and suffering from the destruction of the Gordon Riots in 1780, she longs to escape her surroundings into...

Herbert Rosendorfer / The Night of the Amazons

In this novel, we follow the career of Christian Weber, the fat, one-eyed, sausage-guzzling slob who, from 1921 until his miserable death in 1945, ran Munich for the Nazis.         All of our books are second hand, and...

Alys Clare / The Chatter of the Maidens ( Hawkenlye Mysteries - Book 4 )

The serenity of Hawkenlye Abbey has been disturbed by the arrival of a new nun and her two young sisters. Recently orphaned, Alba has left her convent in Ely to take her grieving sisters from the scene of their sorrow. Abbess Helewise is not...

Jane Harris / Sugar Money - PB

Martinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master, Father Cleophas, with a mission. They must return to Grenada, the island they once called home, and smuggle back the 42 slaves claimed by English invaders at the...

Penny Perrick / Malina

When Charles Trewin, the owner of Malina, brings a boisterous young Irish girl, Rose Erris McCalla, to the house in 1883, it seems to be another way of upsetting the wife he no longer loves. Charles is a master manipulator with a talent for destruction...

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles / The Emperor ( Morland Dynasty Book 11)

1795 - NapoleonThe shadow of Napoleon is falling across Europe, and a restlessness seems to be changing mores and loosening society's restraints. At Morland Place James's marriage to Mary Ann is falling apart; Lucy's to Chetwyn is in the balance as she...

E.V. Thompson / Singing Spears ( Retallick Saga- Book 4 )

Daniel Retallick has grown to manhood during the years of flood tide in the chronicles of Africa. The son of Josh and Miriam Retallick, he settles with his wife and children on a homestead in a valley of Matabeleland. But the years are the 1880s, and...

Marie-Louise Jensen / Smuggler's Kiss

The year is 1720. Isabelle, beautiful, wealthy and spoiled, should be at the threshold of a delightful adulthood. Instead her life has taken a turn so dark and dreadful, that she can’t see a way out.But though Isabelle has fled, she is still...

Meaghan Delahunt / In the Blue House

'The blue rectangle which enclosed me for a time and made me feel safe. The blue embrace...For six weeks, at the age of fifty-nine, one last dance with youth. It stays with me, the memory of her, and the view from that room in her house.' Hounded...

Katherine Howe / The House of Velvet and Glass

Katherine Howe, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane" returns with her dazzling new historical novel, "The House of Velvet and Glass", set against the backdrop of the sinking of the Titanic. 1915, and the...

Terry Deary, Hemesh Alles / The Queen of the Dying Light ( Tudor Chronicles - Book 6)

As Queen Elizabeth I lies dying, England is in turmoil. A young lad Will and his friend Meg set off to London to clear his familyname but are confronted by great obstacles, none worse than the magician, Doctor Dee, a man much admired by Queen Bess...

Lilian Harry / Secrets in Burracombe ( Burracombe Village Novels - Book 6 )

Come home to Burracombe - the village where life is full of surprises...A seemingly sleepy Devonshire village, Burracombe is in fact full of intrigue and drama. Family secrets, budding romance, cruel twists of fate and amazing friendships all play out...

Gwen Kirkwood / Fairlyden

'Romance with a capital R' - Manchester Evening News It is nineteenth century Scotland and change is on the way. Sandy Logan is a man of his word and when Mattie Camerson’s father dies, he intends to honour his promise to marry her. But dark forces...

Candace Robb / The King's Bishop ( Owen Archer - Book 4)

A snowy March, 1367, and King Edward is impatient. He wants William of Wykeham confirmed as Bishop of Winchester, but Pope Urban V is stalling, deterred by the man's wealth and political ambition. Thus Owen Archer finds himself heading a deputation...

Clare Clark / The Great Stink

William May returns to London after the horrors of the Crimean War. Scarred and fragile though he is, he lands a job at the heart of Bazalgette's transformation of the London sewers. There, in the darkness of the stinking tunnels beneath the rising...

Carolyn Meyer / Patience, Princess Catherine ( Young Royals - Book 4)

England anxiously awaits Prince Arthur's betrothed—the Spanish princess who will be its future queen. But when Arthur dies not long after the wedding, Catherine of Aragon's fate becomes uncertain. Will the king and Catherine's parents arrange a...

Diana Norman / The Vizard Mask

John Neffinger and Matthew Kohut trace the path to influence through a balance of strength (the root of respect) and warmth (the root of affection). Each seems simple, but only a few of us figure out the tricky task of projecting both at once.Drawing on...

Antonia Hodgson / The Silver Collar ( Thomas Hawkins - Book 4 )

Autumn, 1728.Life is good for Thomas Hawkins and Kitty Sparks in their home above the Cocked Pistol, Kitty's wickedly disreputable bookshop. But when Tom is attacked by a street gang, he discovers there's a price on his head.Who wants him dead - and...

Philip Caveney / Seventeen Coffins ( Crow Boy - Book 2)

After his nightmarish adventures in Mary King's Close in Crow Boy, Tom Afflick is drawn back to Edinburgh. At the National Museum of Scotland, he sees the eight tiny coffins that were discovered on Arthur's Seat in 1836 - one of the city's most...

Carla Acheson / The Last Gift

BASED ON ACTUAL EVENTS.Maggie Tanner's first recollection of life within the Victorian slums of London is at the age of six years, witnessing the death of her grandmother shortly followed by the tragic birth of her mother's stillborn twins.Born to an...

Posie Graeme-Evans / The Beloved ( War of the Roses - Book 3 )

The thrilling climax to the trilogy that began with The Innocent and The Exiled brings Posie Graeme-Evans's bittersweet story of two lovers divided by the throne of England to its dramatic conclusion. As England tears itself apart in the War of the...

E.V. Thompson / Seek A New Dawn | Winds Of Fortune ( Omnibus Edition)

Emily Boyce, daughter of a pretentious Cornish parson, incurs her father's wrath by falling in love with young Sam Hooper, a copper miner on Bodmin Moor. So when the moorland mines fail, her father ensures that Sam goes to seek a new life in South...

Miranda Malins / The Rebel Daughter ( The Puritan Princess - Book 1)

A country torn apart by war. A woman fighting for her future...Ely, 1643. England is convulsed by Civil War, setting King against Parliament and neighbour against neighbour. As the turmoil reaches her family home in Ely, 19-year-old Bridget Cromwell...

Jina Bacarr / The Orphans of Berlin

'A moving novel of strength and resistance in the face of evil but also an inspiring journey of resilience after loss' Erin Litteken A heartbreaking World War 2 novel that tells the story of two women’s fight for love, family and hope, as the world...

Alexander Cordell / The Love that God Forgot

Wales has reached the apex of her industrial clamour. But young Tom Mortymer,son of rich industrialist Iestyn Mortymer, has turned his back on his inheritance,exchanging the bell-clang and fire of his Upper Forest Tinplate Works in Morristonfor the...

Susan Power / Grass Dancer

From the 1860s, when two lovers are separated by death, the cosmic drama of the two spirits desperately seeking to be reunited molds the lives and fates of their descendants, in a lyrical debut novel shaped by the lore of the Sioux...

S.W. Williams / Small Deaths

A historical thriller set behind the lines on the Western Front during the First World War where a serial killer is running loose. Set in the run-up to the battle of Cambrai in 1917.         All of our books are second...

Anne Perry / Shoulder the Sky

In the firmament of great historical novelists, Anne Perry is a star of the greatest magnitude. First there were her acclaimed Victorian mysteries, sparkling with passion and suspense. Readers have embraced this bestselling new series of World War I...

A O'Connor - The Legacy of Armstrong House - PB - BRAND NEW

Present day – Kate and Nico Collins are filming a docudrama about life in their home Armstrong House in Ireland during its golden age at the turn of the century. When they discover a cover-up of a terrible crime involving Nico’s...

Mary Jane Staples / Love for a Soldier

SHOULD SHE STAY LOYAL TO HER COUNTRY, OR THE MAN SHE LOVES? France, 1918: When Sophia, the rebellious daughter of a distinguished German general, witnesses a dramatic battle in the skies that leaves an English pilot without a plane and under the...

Michel Faber / The Apple : Crimson Petal Stories

Enjoy more Sugar. Join Clara at the rat pit. Relax with Mr Bodley as he is lulled to sleep by Mrs Tremain and her girls. Find out what became of Sophie. Michel Faber revisits the world of his bestselling novel The Crimson Petal and the White,...

Deryn Lake / Death in the Valley of Shadows ( John Rawlings - Book 9)

Preparing to become a father for the very first time, Apothecary John Rawlings leaves the heavily pregnant Emilia occupied with maternal matters and turns his attention to his business, rather neglected of late. Working in the shop one early...

Elizabeth Winthrop / Counting on Grace

1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in the mill. Grace’s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately...

Susan Elia MacNeal / Princess Elizabeth's Spy ( Maggie Hope - Book 2 )

Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed début, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary. Now Maggie returns to protect Britain’s beloved royals against an international plot—one that could change the...

Jonathan Lee / The Great Mistake

The ‘Father of Greater New York’ is dead. Shot outside his Park Avenue mansion in the year of our Lord, 1903. In the hour of his death, will the truth of his life finally break free? Born to a struggling farming family in 1820, Andrew...

Jacqueline Winspear / A Dangerous Place ( Maisie Dobbs - Book 11)

Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place...In Jacqueline Winspear's powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a...

Madison Smartt Bell / Save Me, Joe Louis : A Novel

From the bestselling author of Soldier's Joy and Waiting for the End of the World comes a novel about the perils of living an unexamined life that "scratches the underbelly of America's dispossessed" (The Detroit News), as two men living on the...

Rhona Martin / Gallows Wedding

A strange, haunting story of two ill-starred lovers, set against the backdrop of the religious upheaval of Henry VIII's time. Hazel, a peasant girl marked by the witches' brand and a dangerous beauty, loves Black John, an outlaw and aristocrat, whom...

Thomas Eidson / All Gods Children

The time is the 1890s. The place is small-town Kansas, where Pearl Eddy, a young widow, is struggling to raise her four sons on a failing farm. Pearl may be the soul of goodness, but the odds against her are bad indeed. Her beloved late husband has...

Maureen Jennings / Except the Dying

In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the unclad body of a servant girl is found frozen in a deserted laneway. Detective William Murdoch quickly finds out that more than one person connected with the girl’s simple life has something to hide...

Carol McGrath / The Stolen Crown

When Princess Matilda is eighteen years old, tragedy strikes the royal family, and she becomes the only child of the king of England - the de facto heir to the throne. As her dying father persuades the barons to pledge allegiance to her, Matilda returns...

Polly Heron / New Beginnings for the Surplus Girls

Manchester, 1923: Jess Mason is determined to make her own way in the world.When a misunderstanding on a job application means she's appointed manager for Holly Lodge, a home for old soldiers, she must convince the owner that she can run things just as...

Edward Marston / The Ravens of Blackwater ( Domesday - Book 2 )

In this novel, Edward Marston continues his colorful, historically fascinating series of mysteries set in England, just after the Norman Conquest, during the reign of William the Conqueror. Each novel draws upon an actual entry in the Domesday Book,...

K.M. Peyton / Greater Gains

In this sequel to "Small Gains," the love-hate relationship between Clara Garland and Nat Grover continues. Clara has been left a widow, pregnant with another man's child, and it seems as if things could not get worse. But soon her pretty and...

Janet Ellis / The Butcher's Hook (Hardback)

Georgian London, in the summer of 1763.At nineteen, Anne Jaccob is awakened to the possibility of joy when she meets Fub, the butcher's apprentice, and begins to imagine a life of passion with him.The only daughter of well-to-do parents, Anne lives a...

Margot Abbott / The Last Innocent Hour (Hardback)

It is 1946 and Berlin is a ruined city, the Nazis vanquished, but memories of the city in 1934 haunt Sally as she returns to investigate war crimes as an army intelligence officer. Her father was the American ambassador to the new Third Reich and...