Historical Fiction

Elizabeth Chadwick / The Winter Crown ( Eleanor of Aquitaine Series - Book 2 )

   'An author who makes history come gloriously alive' The Times'Meticulous research and strong storytelling' Woman & Home'A sumptuous ride' Toby Clements, Daily...

Charles Belfoure / The Paris Architect

    1942, Paris. Architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him huge wealth - and maybe a death sentence. He has to design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a...

Rebecca Dean / Palace Circle

   `Palace Circle is a gem, filled with dashing lords, gutsy ladies, family secrets and royal intrigue.' Barbara DelinskyAmerican Heiress Delia Chandler leaves Virginia to marry Viscount Ivor...

Edward Rutherfurd / New York

   Edward Rutherfurd tells the story of this great city as no other author could - from the epic, empty grandeur of the New World to the skyscrapers of the City that Never Sleeps, from the intimate...

Maria Duenas / A Vineyard in Andalusia

    A sweeping historical epic by an author whose novels have sold over 6 million copies worldwide. A ruined merchant sets sail to seek his fortune in the 19th century Spanish Empire. Haunted by...

Anna Quindlen / Miller's Valley

 `Miller's Valley reads like a companion to Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge' Elisabeth Egan, author of A Window OpensMimi Miller's family have lived in Miller's Valley for generations and at...

Edward Marston / The Fair Maid of Bohemia

 Murder turns the journey of a lifetime into a deadly nightmareThe plague has struck London once again but so has opportunity for theatre company Lord Westfield's Men. Invited to perform at the...

Thomas Keneally / By the Line

 Schoolboy narrator Daniel Jordan, growing up in working-class Sydney during the Second World War, is confused by a world in which the religious dogma of his school conflicts with the communism of...

Joseph Boyden / Three Day Road

   The stories of an American Indian sniper caught up in the Great War and of his aunt, one of the last Cree Indians to live off the land, are intertwined in a mesmerising journey as they travel...

Robert J Harris / Will Shakespeare and the Pirate's Fire

 Get ready for thrills, intrigues, mystery and piracy all set in Tudor England and featuring a young man named Will Shakespeare..."I'd give anything for a good horse right now..." says young Will...

Andrew Motion / The Invention of Dr Cake

 What is the truth about the mysterious Dr Cake? Why, at his funeral, is there no name on the brass plate so ostentatiously screwed into his coffin-lid? Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate, has written a...

Kate Mosse / The Burning Chambers ( Joubert Family Chronicles - Book 1 )

 The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller *From the multi-million, number one bestselling author of Labyrinth and The Taxidermist's Daughter, comes The Burning Chambers: a gripping story of love and...

Kerry Jamison / The Golden Door

 1930, New York. In the unbearable heat of summer, Irish immigrant Will Carthy works as a riveter on the tallest skyscraper in the world, spending his days above the clouds and his nights fighting...

Gilda O'Neill / Just Around The Corner

    All big-hearted Katie Mehan ever wanted was health and happiness for her family and the love of her husband, Pat. But as work at the docks gets scarcer and the political unrest of the 1930s...

Winston Graham / Warleggan

   Warleggan is the fourth novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner.Cornwall 1792. Ross plunges into a highly...

Lionel Shiver / The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047

   `Shriver's intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMESThe brilliant new novel from...

Louisa Young / Devotion

   From the bestselling author of My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You and The Heroes' Welcome, Louisa Young's Devotion is a novel of family, love, race and politics set during the electric change of the...

Jane Smiley / Early Warning

   The second novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years trilogy, Early Warning follows the Langdon family from the 50s, through to the 1980s, in this stunning family saga from the winner of the...

Maria McCann / Ace, King, Knave

   Behind doors is another story. Behind doors you can do what you like.Sophia - rational, demure, and hiding a 'little weakness' - has recently married the charismatic Mr Zedland. But Zedland has...

Janet Dailey / Legacies

   For Lije Stuart, the killing of his grandfather is an image burnt deeply into his mind - a twenty-year-old brutality that continues to divide his family in anger. Between his father, the Cherokee...

Michael Dobbs / Never Surrender

   Winston Churchill embarks on a battle of wills with Adolf Hitler in the run-up to Dunkirk. The compelling new historical novel from the acclaimed author of Winston's War.Winston Churchill at his...

Alyxandra Harvey / A Breath of Frost

   Emma Day and her two cousins, Gretchen and Penelope, are uninterested in their debutante lives. All the boring balls, tiresome curtsying and polite conversation leave much to be desired. Then a...

Nadine Dorries / The Four Streets

   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...

C.W. Gorten / The Confessions of Catherine de Medici

    I was ten years old when I discovered I might be a witch...The sixteenth century: the era of queens. Catherine de Medici is an impressionable, mystical girl. She is orphaned and taken hostage...

N.M. Kelby / White Truffles in Winter

    White Truffles in Winter imagines the world of the remarkable French chef Auguste Escoffier, who changed the way we eat through his legendary restaurants at the Savoy and the Ritz. A man of...

Essie Fox / The Somnambulist

   Every heart holds a secret... The stunning Victorian Gothic debut from an incredibly talented new author'Some secrets are better left buried...'When seventeen-year-old Phoebe Turner visits...

Marek Halter / Sarah

    People may know that Abraham, the great Patriarch of the Old Testament, was the first man to spread God's word. But how many know of his wife, Sarah? How she was born into a wealthy and...

Adele Geras / Troy

    Who can resist a goddess? The most famous war in history is brought to life through the eyes of two sisters. Marpessa is gifted with God-sight, Xanthe has the healing touch. But then...

Alex Connor / The Bosch Deception

    A TRUTH CONCEALED. Brabant, 1473. A clandestine brotherhood hides a secret that could bring down the Catholic Church. Their chosen hiding place - the art of Hieronymus Bosch. A TERRIBLE...

Colum McCann / This Side Of Brightness

    On a bitter winter's day in 1916, deep below the streets of New York, a group of men is working in one of the huge pressurized tunnels that will make up the subway system. Suddenly, a tiny...

Chris Petit / The Butchers of Berlin

   'One of Britain's most visionary writers' DAVID PEACE`An appalling, beautifully-lit abyss' ALAN MOOREA dark, chilling and mesmerising thriller set in wartime Berlin, for fans of Joseph Kanon and...

Beth Underdown / The Witchfinder's Sister

   'The number of women my brother Matthew killed, so far as I can reckon it, is one hundred and six...'THE PAGE-TURNING RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB BESTSELLER'A compelling debut from a gifted...

William Nicholson / Motherland

    In the summer of 1942, Kitty is an ambulance driver stationed in Sussex. She meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando, and Larry, a liaison officer under the command of Mountbatten. Kitty falls...

Francis Spufford / Golden Hill

   Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2016Winner of the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2017Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize 2017Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction...

Philippa Gregory / Stormbringers

    Luca Vero is a member of the secret Order of Darkness, tasked with searching out and reporting signs of the end of the world. Breaking his journey in Piccolo, he finds a place filled with...

Allan Mallinson / Rumours Of War

   Portugal 1826 Newly returned from India, Matthew Hervey joins a party of officers sent to lend support to the Portugese regent. But the Peninsula is a place redolent with memories. For it was...

Robert Fabbri / Rome's Executioner ( Vespasian Series - Book 2 )

   Thracia, AD 30: Even after four years military service at the edge of the Roman world, Vespasian can't escape the tumultuous politics of an Empire on the brink of disintegration. His patrons in...

Pat Baker / Life Class

   From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls The first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and...

A.L. Kennedy / Day

   Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all -...

Henry James - What Maisie Knew - Penguin Modern Classics Edition - 1982 ( Originally 1897)

After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. And when both take...

Bryce Courtenay / Jessica

    'A superb storyteller ... it is impossible not to be impressed by Courtenay's talents' - The Times JESSICA is based on the real life of a remarkable young Australian woman who defied the...

Mick Finlay / Arrowood

   `Crackles with energy and wit' - The TimesLondon Society takes their problems to Sherlock Holmes. Everyone else goes to Arrowood.1895: London's scared. A killer haunts the city's streets. The...

Hans Hellmut Kirst / The Night of the Generals

    A Polish prostitute is murdered in Warsaw in 1942. The possible suspects are narrowed down to three German generals, but the investigation eventually comes to nothing. A similar crime happens...

Michael Morpurgo / Arthur High King of Britain

   An enchanting take on the legend of King Arthur from War Horse author and former Children's Laureate, Michael Morpurgo.Marooned on a sandbank, a boy faces certain death. With the sea closing in...

Patrick O'Brian / Collected Short Stories

    This collection of short stories are about country life and the open air and were first published in the 1950s. Patrick O'Brian is the author of Clarissa Oakes, The Wine-Dark Sea and...

Rita Bradshaw / A Winter Love Song

   A Winter Love Song is a heartwarming and moving story of survival and love from bestselling author Rita Bradshaw. Bonnie Lindsay is born into a travelling fair community in the north-east in...

Jennifer Egan / Manhattan Beach

   * Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction* New York Times Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017* Longlisted for the...

L. S. Hilton / Domina

   'Fantastically good fun - sharp, sexy and intelligent . . . Something of a masterpiece' Sunday Mirror'Like a ritzy 50 Shades meets The Da Vinci Code. It's got sex, shopping, a few Old Masters and...

Dilly Court / The River Maid

   The first in a stunning new series from Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly CourtLondon, 1854: twenty-year-old Essie Chapman lives with her father in poverty stricken Limehouse, working on the river...

Kate Mosse / The Burning Chambers (Large Paperback) ( Joubert Family Chronicles - Book 1 )

 

C. J. Sansom / Dark Fire ( Shardlake Series - Book 2 )

   Winner of the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, Dark Fire is the second thrilling historical crime novel from C. J. Sansom.It is 1540 and the hottest summer of the sixteenth century. Matthew...

Georgette Heyer / Venetia

   In all her twenty-five years, Venetia Lanyon has never been further than Harrogate. Nor has she enjoyed the attentions of any man aside from her two wearisomely persistent suitors. Then, in one...