Historical Fiction

Gyles Brandreth / Oscar Wilde and the Return of Jack the Ripper (Hardback)

Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle are recruited to track down Jack the Ripper in a novel that is at once a gripping detective story and a witty portrait of two of the most brilliant Victorian minds...

Douglas Westerbeke / A Short Walk Through a Wide World (Hardback)

"Imagine The Life of Pi, The Alchemist, and The Midnight Library rolled into one fantastical fable." - The New York Times Book Review * "An epic adventure...rich with all the possibilities the world...

Bernard Cornwell / Sharpe's Prey (Hardback)

The eighteenth novel in this bestselling series takes Sharpe to battle in Copenhagen. It is 1807 and Sharpe, back from India and Trafalgar, has joined the newly formed Greenjackets - but his career...

Ward S. Just / The Weather in Berlin (Hardback)

Tired of the studio intrigues and glittering lifestyle of Hollywood, film director Dixon Greenwood, creator of a single great work that has become a cult film, heads for postwar Germany to rediscover...

Tessa Hadley / Everything Will Be All Right (Hardback)

Spanning five decades of extraordinary change in women's lives, this novel explores the complicated relationships of one family. The young ones of each generation are sure that they can correct the...

Dominic Smith / The Electric Hotel (Hardback)

From the award-winning author of the acclaimed bestseller The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a radiant new novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent film director and his muse. The Electric...

Hope Larson / Mercury (Hardback)

August 31, 5:15 PM, French Hill, Nova Scotia: A girl named Tara is running. She runs through her nice neighborhood and up a road to the burned ruins of what was once a beautiful house--her family's...

Michelle Paver / Wolf Brother (Hardback)

Thousands of years ago the land is one dark forest. Its people are hunter-gatherers. They know every tree and herb and they know how to survive in a time of enchantment and powerful magic. Until an...

Andrei Makine / The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme (Hardback)

In present-day France a Russian writer recalls his harsh childhood at a Stalingrad orphanage in the 1960s and the old Frenchwoman, a family friend, whose tales fed his dreams of a better world. One...

Wilbur Smith / The Courtneys of Africa (Hardback)

This trilogy traces the fortunes of the Courtney family from World War I to the 1950s as their own turbulent lives are inextricably caught up with the violent history of the African continent in...

Robert Cowley / What If? America (Large Paperback)

In this new collection of never-before-published essays, some of the world's brightest historians speculate about some of America's most intriguing crossroads. Spanning the years from independence to...

Jacqueline Woodson / Red at the Bone (Large Paperback)

THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS' NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020 'Sublime' Candice Carty-Williams 'An epic in miniature' Tayari Jones 'A banger' Ta-Nehisi...

Constance Elizabeth Maud / No Surrender (Large Paperback)

No Surrender is a classic novel, important in the Women's Suffrage movement in the early 20th century     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Scott Peters / Mystery of the Egyptian Scroll (Large Paperback)

What if the first clue isn't a secret message or a hidden map, but something much stranger: a pair of mismatched sandals? Zet is about to find out. Zet is good at spotting odd things, which is...

Mel Starr / The Tainted Coin (Large Paperback)

It Is The Autumn Of 1367. Master Hugh Is Enjoying The Peaceful Life Of Bampton, When A Badly Beaten Man Is Found Under The Porch Of St. Andrew's Chapel. The Dying Man Is A Chapman - A Traveling...

Robert Ludlum / The Rhinemann Exchange (Vintage Paperback)

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Joseph Conrad / Lord Jim (Vintage Paperback) (2)

A young man named Jim decides to go to work at sea. He quickly rises through the ranks. Jim has a cherished dream. He wants to become a real hero. Finally he gets his a long-awaited chance. One day,...

Jennifer Johnston / Captains and the Kings (Coronet Books) (Vintage Paperback)

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Len Deighton / Ss-Gb (Vintage Paperback) (1)

In February 1941 British Command surrendered to the Nazis. Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall… For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed,...

Leo Tolstoy / War and Peace Vol.2: V. 2 (Classics) (Vintage Paperback)

Presents the classical epic of the Napoleonic Wars and their effects on four Russian families, together with critical and textual notes     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown...

Lionel Davidson / The Rose of Tibet: Penguin Books (Vintage Paperback)

Reissued in paperback, a thriller about a man who goes to Tibet to search for his missing brother. He arrives at a monastery and finds himself caught up in the struggle between the abbess, a...

Nevil Shute / No Highway (Vintage Paperback) (1)

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Victoria Holt / The Spring of the Tiger (Vintage Paperback)

The legendary Ashington Pearls, the most extraordinary set of matched pearls in the world, carry Sarah Ashington into a nightmare of danger and intrigue that moves from glittering London society to...

Pearl S. Buck / Three Daughters of Madame Liang (Vintage Paperback)

An excellent book about 3 daughters deciding to move back to China during the time of Chairman Mao. The mother is an incredible portrait of Old China adapting to new ways. A must read for Buck fans!...

Iris Murdoch / The Red and the Green (Vintage Paperback)

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Mary Hooper / The Betrayal

In this final volume, Lucy is asked to continue her work on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I. And her romance with Tomas, the queen's fool, seems to be flourishing - or it is until Mistress...

Yishai Sarid / The Memory Monster (Hardback)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2022A HISTORY TODAY BEST HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022''A brilliant short novel that serves as a brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the...

Cora Harrison / Eye of the Law (Hardback)

A Mystery of Medieval Ireland 1510. A great feast is being held. Into a crowd listening to the story of Balor, the one-eyed god, come two strangers. The younger of the two, Larla, bears a letter that...

Larry McMurtry / Anything for Billy (Hardback)

Set in the West of America, this novel centres around Ben Sippy and Billy the Kid and their travels from the law. McMurtry won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 with "Lonesome Dove", later made into a 14...

Patrick Worrall / The Partisan (Hardback)

'Remarkedly assured debut... the advent of a real talent...One to watch' Sunday Times 'Immersive, intriguing, and intelligent - incredibly impressive, up there with the best in the genre' Lee Child...

Thomas Keneally / A River Town (Hardback)

In turn-of-the-century Australia, Tim Shea, supports his young family by running a general store in a remote riverside town, where he finds the same the same hypocrisy and snobbery which made him...

Edward Marston / Murder on the Lusitania

A maritime mystery from Edward Marston, author of the bestselling Railway Detective series. September 1907. George Dillman sets sail from Liverpool to New York on the Lusitania's maiden voyage...

Nevil Shute / Ruined City

To the professional eye of a wealthy London banker, the forlorn northern shipyard town of Sharples is at the end of the road. But then Henry Warren meets the woman whose faith in the town's industry...

Stendhal / The Charterhouse of Parma

The French literary master's work depicting young Fabrizio's struggles to keep his love for Clelia a secret in the small court of Parma     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the...

Charles T Powers / In the Memory of the Forest

Set in a small Polish village, this novel revolves around the aftermath of a violent death in the hushed woods beyond the town. It tells of one town, one death and one man's tireless search for the...

Claude Simon / The Flanders Road

During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witnesses, involved with him during his lifetime in different capacities - a distant...

Peter Higgins / Wolfhound Century (Large Paperback)

A thousand miles east of Mirgorod, the great capital city of the Vlast, deep in the ancient forest, lies the most recent fallen angel, its vast stone form half-buried and fused into the rock by the...

Mary Gentle / Black Opera (Large Paperback)

Conrad Scalese is a writer of librettos for operas in a world where music has immense power. In the Church, the sung mass can bring about actual miracles like healing the sick. Opera is musicodrama,...

Jack Higgins / Exocet (Vintage Paperback) (1)

Argentina has set in motion an invasion of the Falkland Islands, and the British fleet is poised to meet and repulse the attack. The wild card is the Exocet--the enemy, close to acquiring the deadly...

Beryl Bainbridge / Winter Garden (Vintage Paperback)

Quiet and reliable, Douglas Ashburner has never been much of a womaniser. So when he begins an extra-marital affair with Nina, a bossy, temperamental artist with a penchant for risky sex, he finds...

Clare Boylan / Holy Pictures (Vintage Paperback)

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Wilbur Smith / A Falcon Flies (Vintage Paperback) (1)

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Jean Plaidy / The Captive Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart Series: Volume 2) (Vintage Paperback)

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Rachel Ferguson - Alas, Poor Lady - PB (Persephone Books 2006) ( Originally 1937)

Paperback, in wraps, Number 65 in the reissues of classics under the Persephone imprint.  Light scuffing to page block.  horror and disbelief at what had happened to the daughters of extravagantly...

Faith Hogan / The Sisters of Hope Square (Large Paperback)

From the bestselling author of The Bookshop Ladies, Faith Hogan, comes a wonderfully gripping and poignant story of two sisters and their family hotel on peaceful Pin Hill Island, once a thriving...

Stephen Jarvis / Death and Mr. Pickwick (Large Paperback)

"So dramatically convincing that it is all the more surprising how much of it is historically verifiable... [Jarvis] has written a novel that reflects upon the world-altering effects of novel reading...

Georgette Heyer - Cotillion - PB - Ace USA 1953

Paperback, a 1953 ACE USA PB  Light edgewear to the covers, (at edges of the cover) otherwise in good condition, previous owner name internally, previous owner name to title page. Spine uncreased...

Georgette Heyer - The Nonesuch - PB - Bantam USA 1969

Paperback, a 1969 Bantam USA PB , original publication by Heinemann UK in 1962.  Light edgewear to the covers, (at edges of the cover) otherwise in good condition, previous owner name internally,...

E. L. Doctorow / Loon Lake

It is the Great Depression of the 1930s, and a passionate young man from Paterson, New Jersey, leaves home to find his fortune. What he finds, on a cold and lonely night in the Adirondack Mountains,...

Helen Hollick / A Hollow Crown

Aged only thirteen, Emma, daughter of the Duke of Normandy, is married in a strategic alliance to King Aethelred of England. Inept and arrogant, Aethelred the Unready is loathed by his young wife,...

Jane Feather / Almost a Lady

In this exhilarating new novel of romance and intrigue, New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather tells the tale of an adventurous young woman and the hardened spy who is unexpectedly-and most...

James Lee Burke / Flags on the Bayou

A novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana, as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters-enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers-are...