Historical Fiction

Stacie Murphy / A Deadly Fortune (Hardback)

A historical mystery in the vein of The Alienist, in which a young woman in Gilded Age New York must use a special talent to unravel a deadly conspiracy. Amelia Matthew has done the...

Lucy Beckett / The Leaves Are Falling (Hardback)

An octogenarian bookseller living alone in London has found a description of his father, as a young doctor in 1920s Breslau, in a story about Weimar Germany. Perhaps his own story might be worth...

Simon Delaney / Watching Over You (Hardback)

An art crime thriller for the ages.  Alternating between London and Paris in the 1940s, the 1960s, and the present, Watching Over You explores the provenance of a collection of paintings hidden from...

Robert S. Elegant / Bianca (Hardback)

Set in the Italian Renaissance, this novel of love revisits one of the world's most romantic cities, Venice, where a young noblewoman falls for Francesco de' Medici, one of the richest men in Europe...

A.B. Daniel / The Light of Machu Picchu

This magnificent epic of the forbidden love between an Incan princess with supernatural powers and a Spanish nobleman reaches its stunning climax in THE LIGHT OF MACHU PICCHU. After three years of...

Glyn Iliffe / The armour of Achilles

The siege of Troy is in its ninth year. The Greeks, with Achilles at their head, have inflicted numerous defeats on the Trojans, but Troy itself still stands. When Agamemnon is threatened with mutiny...

Peter Ackroyd / Three brothers

Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel and Sam Hanway, born on a post-war council estate in Camden Town. Marked out from the start by curious coincidence, each boy is forced to make his...

Teresa Medeiros / Fairest of Them All

When it is announced that her hand in marriage will be the prize at a forthcoming knight's tournament, Holly de Chastel concocts her most outrageous plan to stay single until she meets contender Sir...

Jane Feather / The Diamond Slipper

Dear Reader, What comes to mind when you think of a diamond slipper? Cinderella, perhaps? That's what Cordelia Brandenburg imagines when her godparents arrange a marriage for her with a man she's...

Joan Johnston / Captive

She was a gorgeous rebel. Defying all the rules, daring to speak her mind, Charlotte Edgerton declared her independence before she even entered the Earl of Denbigh's home. Her new guardian...

Patrick O'Brian - The Fortune of War (HB Folio Society) 2009

A hardcover slipcased Folio Society edition of Patrick O'Brian's The Fortune of War . 2010.  Britain and America are newly at war, and Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are caught in the very thick of...

Patrick O'Brian - Mauritius Command (HB Folio Society) 2010

A hardcover slipcased Folio Society edition of Patrick O'Brian's Mauritius Command, . 2010.  Can Captain Jack Aubrey and his crew defy the odds, and outmanoeuvre the French, to take two small but...

Douglas Reeman / In gallant company

As the American Revolution rages on the mainland, the British Navy prepares for action at sea. Against a growing fleet of American and French privateers, the Navy must maintain its blockade of...

Manda Scott / Rome

It's AD 65. Sebastos Pantera, spy to the Emperor Nero, has undertaken the most dangerous of missions. Hunting often alone, with few he can trust, he must find the most dangerous man in Rome's empire,...

Larry McMurtry / Zeke and Ned

Set in the Cherokee Districts in the Oklahoma Territory not long after the Civil War, this is the story of Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors. With a cast of vividly drawn...

Georgette Heyer / The Masqueraders

Robin and Prudence Merriot have been dissemblers since they were children, and in this age of slippery politics, they need to be. So it is as nothing for them to rescue a rich heiress from her...

Georgette Heyer / Simon the Coldheart

If you love Bridgerton , you'll love Georgette Heyer! 'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser 'Heyer was the master' India Knight 'If you haven't read Heyer yet, what a treat you have in...

Georgette Heyer / The Spanish Bride

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser 'Once you step into her world, you won't look back.' Katie Fforde 'If you haven't ready Heyer...

Georgette Heyer / An Infamous Army (Vintage Paperback)

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Jean Plaidy - The Queen From Provence - HB - 1979 (Plantagenet Saga)

Hardcover, published by Hale UK, 1979, the 6th volume in the author's Hugely successful Plantaganet Saga.  Light sunfade to spine, edgewear to dustjacket edges. 

Jean Plaidy - Epitaph for Three Women - HB - 1981 (Plantagenet Saga)

Hardcover, published by Hale UK, 1981, the 12th volume in the author's Hugely successful Plantaganet Saga.  Light sunfade to spine, edgewear to dustjacket edges. 

James Plunkett - Strumpet City - Vintage Granada PB Reprint 1977

Originally published in 1969 , and the subject of a classic RTE TV series in 1979-80.   First published in 1969, it has repeatedly been described as one of the greatest Irish novels of all time...

Gary Corby / The Singer from Memphis

The Athenian Mysteries #6 A historical murder mystery adventure that stretches from Classical Athens to Egy

Georgette Heyer / Lady of Quality (Vintage Paperback)

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Georgette Heyer / Black Sheep (Vintage Paperback)

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Georgette Heyer / A Blunt Instrument (Vintage Paperback)

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Georgette Heyer / Pistols for Two (Vintage Paperback)

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Georgette Heyer / The Grand Sophy (Vintage Paperback)

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Carina McNally - Mithim - PB - BRAND NEW

This is a haunting and lyrical historical novel set in 17th-century Ireland, where healer and herbalist Mithim is forced into the wild after Cromwellian forces destroy her home. Armed with ancient...

John Maddox Roberts / The Princess and the Pirates (Large Paperback)

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John Maddox Roberts / The River God's Vengeance (Large Paperback)

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John Maddox Roberts / The Tribune's Curse (Large Paperback)

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John Maddox Roberts / The Sacrilege (Large Paperback)

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John Maddox Roberts / Nobody Loves a Centurion (Large Paperback)

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John Maddox Roberts / Saturnalia (Large Paperback)

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Natalie Jenner / Bloomsbury Girls (Hardback)

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Frank Delaney / Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show (Large Paperback)

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Katharine McMahon / A Way Through The Woods (Large Paperback)

Beside the River Needle is a willow, meeting place for generations of Needlewick girls. Suzanna is the elder daughter of the village doctor who, with her friends, plans various outings, memorably to...

Morgan Robertson / The Wreck of the Titan (Large Paperback)

It was the largest craft afloat and the greatest of the works of men. In her construction and maintenance were involved every science, profession, and trade known to civilization. On her bridge were...

Jean Plaidy / Daughters of Spain (Vintage Paperback)

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Rachel Urquhart / The Visionist (Large Paperback)

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Ursula Werner / The Good at Heart (Large Paperback)

Based on the author’s discoveries about her great-grandfather, this stunning debut novel takes place over three days when World War II comes to the doorstep of an ordinary German family living in an...

David Roberts / Hollow Crown

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John Banville / Venetian Vespers (Large Paperback)

Wilma Dykeman / The Tall Woman (Large Paperback)

Lydia Moore grew up in the Appalachian region before the Civil War and married Mark McQueen shortly after it began. Her husband went off to fight for the Union while her father and brother fought for...

Maria McDonald / Tangled Webs (Large Paperback)

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Anna Godbersen / The Luxe (Large Paperback)

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Eleanor Updale / Montmorency (Large Paperback)

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Lisa Scottoline / Loyalty

Franco Fiorvante is a handsome lemon-grower who has toiled for years on the estate of boss Baron Zito. Franco dreams of owning his own lemon grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his...

Winston Graham - Warleggan - HB (Poldark Novels - Book 4)

A 1978 6th impression ( originally 1953) of the fourth book in the Poldark novels - Warleggan.  This is a former institutional library copy ( from a nursing home, but with only minimal marks - stamps...

Lindsey Davis / Saturnalia (Large Paperback)

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Vern Sneider / The Teahouse of the August Moon (Large Paperback)

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