Historical Fiction

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...

Lesley Pearse / The Girl With The Suitcase (Large Paperback)

She took another woman’s place. Now she must live with the consequences... Discover an unforgettable novel from the 10-million-copy bestselling author, Lesley Pearse. -- London, 1941. When shy Mary meets glamorous Elizabeth, their worlds...

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

    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 stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Maria McDonald / Charlie Mac (Large Paperback)

A story of ordinary people who lived in extraordinary times Charlie was born in East Belfast in 1873, at a time when Belfast was one of the leading industrialist cities in the British Empire. He was born at the start of a very long-running Irish Home...

Katharine McMahon / The Woman in the Picture (Large Paperback)

Evelyn Gifford - Book 2 February, 1926. These are the days leading up to The General Strike, and London is restless. Evelyn Gifford, narrator of THE CRIMSON ROOMS, has qualified as a solicitor - and is one of the first women to do so - but her life...

Jim McDermott / The Deaths of Berlin : The second Otto Fischer (Large Paperback)

Berlin, December 1944 - the heart of an empire that stands upon the precipice. France has been lost, the vast eastern territories marked out as lebensraum for future German generations submerged beneath the advancing Red tide. The pulse of the city has...

Diane Ackerman / The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Large Paperback)

When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the...

Sebastian Faulks / Birdsong (French Trilogy #2) (Large Paperback)

Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford...

Sunetra Gupta / A Sin of Colour (Large Paperback)

Debendranath Roy, presumed dead, leaves behind a pale, languishing wife and a mystery that takes 20 years to unfold. His hidden passion for his brother's wife, his own wife's unrequited love and his niece's obsession to uncover the truth create the...

Deeanne Gist / The Measure of a Lady (Large Paperback)

Rachel van Buren arrives in Gold Rush San Francisco with two wishes: to protect her younger siblings and to return east as soon as possible. Both goals prove more difficult than she could imagine as her brother and sister are lured by the city's...

Jason Goodwin / The Bellini Card (Hardback)

ISTANBUL, 1840: the young sultan Abdiilmecid believes that Gentile Bellini's vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. But it's not Yashim, our eunuch detective, who takes a ship across the Mediterranean...

Toby Clements / A Good Deliverance (Hardback)

Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur was the first great work of prose fiction in English and remains one of its most resonant and influential still. Out from its pages stride King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, Lady Guinevere, Sir Gawain, and the...

Ian Morson / Falconer and the Face of God (William Falconer #3) (Hardback)

While scouring the back alleys of Oxford in search of an alchemist, Regent Master William Falconer witnesses a murder within the ranks of a troupe of entertainers and goes on to investigate the crime...       This book is second...

Thomas Keneally / The People's Train (Large Paperback)

Artem Samsurov, a charismatic protégé of Lenin and an ardent socialist, reaches sanctuary in Australia after escaping his Siberian labour camp and making a long, perilous journey via Japan. But Brisbane in 1911 turns out not to be quite the...

Jasper Kent / Thirteen Years Later (Danilov Quintet - Book 2) (Large Paperback)

Aleksandr made a silent promise to the Lord. God would deliver him -- would deliver Russia -- and he would make Russia into the country that the Almighty wanted it to be. He would be delivered from the destruction that wasteth at noonday, and from the...

Michelle Moran / Cleopatra's Daughter (Large Paperback)

At the dawn of the Roman Empire, when tyranny ruled, a daughter of Egypt and a son of Rome found each other...Selene's legendary parents are gone. Her country taken, she has been brought to the city of Rome in chains, with only her twin brother,...

Debra Kornfield / Horse Thief - 1898 ( Callie & Charlie - Book 1 ) (Large Paperback)

Ireland, 1888. Feisty Cally Donnelly craves love. But with her mother disliking her, the young girl thinks it's her fault when the woman dies in childbirth. With her grief-stricken father neglecting both Cally and her little brother, she feels the family...

Debra Kornfield / Treasure Hunt - 1904 (Cally and Charlie Book 2 )(Large Paperback)

Trains have largely replaced wagons on the old Oregon Trail. But an enigmatic invitation reaches Thomas Malcomson from eccentric (and deceased) Uncle William. A treasure hunt or a wild goose chase? To escape the ruckus in Kansas City raised by an old...

S.G. MacLean / A Game of Sorrows (Large Paperback)

It is 1628, and Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher in Aberdeen is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family...

Kate Mosse / Sepulchre (Languedoc Trilogy - Book 2) (Large Paperback)

From the author of the New York Times— bestselling novel Labyrinth comes another haunting tale of secrets, murder, and the occult set in both nineteenth-century and twenty-first-century France.In 1891, young Léonie Vernier and her brother...