Historical Fiction

Dorothy Dunnett / The Spring of the Ram (Hardback)

 Set in sixteenth-century Europe, young Niccolo travels from Florence to Trebizond on the Black Sea, where the West and the Orient meet and where he finds both opportunity and danger     All of our books are second hand, and while you...

Hermione Eyre / Viper Wine (Hardback)

 At Whitehall Palace in 1632, the ladies at the court of Charles I are beginning to look suspiciously alike. Plump cheeks, dilated pupils, and a heightened sense of pleasure are the first signs that they have been drinking a potent new beauty tonic,...

Julian Stockwin / Command (Hardback)

 In this seventh book of the series, Thomas Kydd is master of his own brig-sloop Teazer and he must race the clock to make her battle-ready to defend Malta against Barbary pirates and the French, who are frantically trying to rescue the remnants of...

Matthew Jordan Storm / The Exarch’s Son: Heraclius of Carthage Battles the False Emperor (Large Paperback)

 Seventy years after the fall of the West, the Emperor Justinian and General Belisarius had nearly stitched the Empire back together when the Black Plague hit, killing half Rome's citizens, bringing the Empire to her knees and evil to Caesar's...

Dudley Pope / Governor Ramage RN (Large Paperback)

Lieutenant Lord Ramage, expert seafarer and adventurer, undertakes to escort a convoy across the Caribbean. This seemingly routine task leads him into a series of dramatic and terrifying encounters. Lord Ramage is quick to learn that the enemy attacks...

Marco Malvaldi / The Measure of a Man: A Novel about Leonardo da Vinci (Large Paperback)

    October 1493,the height of the Renaissance. In arapidly changing world, Milan flourishes under the leadership of Ludovico ilMoro. Those wandering the courtyards ofthe city’s castle often encounter a man in his forties...

Sally Magnusson / The Ninth Child (Large Paperback)

  A spellbinding novel of a young doctor's wife, Isabel Aird, struggling to make her childless life meaningful, unaware that the sinister Robert Kirke is watching her every move, by the Sunday Times bestselling author Sally Magnusson...

Elizabeth Blackwell / On a Cold Dark Sea (Large Paperback)

 On April 15, 1912, three women climbed into Lifeboat 21 and watched in horror as the Titanic sank into the icy depths. They were strangers then… Con artist Charlotte Digby lied her way through London and onto the Titanic . The disaster could...

David King / American Bombshell (Large Paperback)

  Inspired by a true story, American Bombshell is a tale of love, risk and coming of age during the final convulsions of World War Two. Incarcerated in an abusive orphanage by an unstable and vengeful mother, seventeen-year-old Rosie Haskell is...

Cathal Liam / Consumed in Freedom's Flame: A Novel of Ireland's Struggle for Freedom 1916-1921 (Large Paperback)

 CONSUMED IN FREEDOM'S FLAME is the exciting story of a fictional hero, Aran Roe O'Neill, and his resolute commitment to Ireland and its quest for independence. Together with a small group of other republicans, Aran fights for his nation's freedom...

Frank Schätzing / Death and the Devil (Large Paperback)

 In the year 1260, a great cathedral, the most ambitious ecclesiastical building in all of Christendom, is rising high above the bustling city of Cologne under the supervision of the architect Gerhard Morart. Far below the soaring spires and flying...

Stephen Hunter / Hot Springs (Hardback)

 In the summer of 1946, the most wide-open town in America is Hot Springs, Arkansas, a city of ancient, legendary corruption. While the pilgrims take the cure in the mineral-rich 142-degree water that bubbles from the earth, the brothels and casinos...

Steven Barnes / Zulu Heart (Hardback)

 This book is the sequel to Lion's BloodZulu Heart returns to the 19th Century of Steven Barnes's justly acclaimed novel Lion's Blood, a brilliant alternate history in which black Africans have colonized the New World with white...

Kathleen McGowan / The Expected One ( Magdalene Line - Book 1) (Hardback)

 In the rocky wilds of the French Pyrenees, rests a series of scrolls, written in the first century by Mary Magdalene. These startling documents hold the power to redefine the events and characters of the New Testament, and can only be uncovered by...

Norman Lebrecht / The Game of Opposites : A Novel (Hardback)

 From the author of The Song of Names (winner of the 2002 Whitbread First Novel Award), a powerful new novel that explores the reverberations of love and hate in the story of one man’s unlikely survival.In an unnamed country at the end of a...

Salman Rushdie / Quichotte (Hardback)

 A dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age--an epic tour de force that is as much an homage to an immortal work of literature as it is to the quest for love and family, by Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman...

David Gibbins / The Mask Of Troy (Hardback)

Jack Howard becomes part of a terrifying legacy and a race against time, in the action-packed new adventure from bestselling author David Gibbins.Greece. 1876. Heinrich Schliemann, the great archaeologist, raises the Mask of Agamemnon and makes a...

Philip Casey / The Water Star (Hardback)

 ‘Set in a post-war London still recovering from the Blitz, the novel follows the overlapping lives of five characters who inhabit the ruins of North London . . . Casey escorts his reader through the labyrinths of his character’s minds,...

Wayne Johnston / Baltimore's Mansion (Hardback)

 This intimate story of family and place - the perfect book to follow the success of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams - will join The Danger Tree and Angela's Ashes on the shelf reserved for most valued memoirs.Baltimore's Mansion - a story of the...

Karen Campbell / The Sound of the Hours (Hardback)

 A sweeping and romantic novel about love, loss, and conflict in an occupied Italian town during World War II.Trapped in Tuscany as war rages along the Gothic Line, Vittoria Guidi doesn't understand where her allegiances should lie. With her...

Cathal Liam / Consumed In Freedom's Flame : A Novel of Ireland's Struggle for Freedom 1916-1921 (Hardback)

 CONSUMED IN FREEDOM'S FLAME is the exciting story of a fictional hero, Aran Roe O'Neill, and his resolute commitment to Ireland and its quest for independence. Together with a small group of other republicans, Aran fights for his nation's freedom...

Conn Iggulden / Lords Of The Bow (Hardback)

 Genghis unites Mongol tribes to cross the Gobi Desert and fight the Chin - gleaming cities, soaring walls, and canals. Laying siege to one fortress after another, Genghis cunningly crushes each enemy differently, overcoming moats, barriers,...

Aphra Behn / Oroonoko and other Stories ( Edited by Maureen Duffy)

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Fran O'Brien / Rose Cottage Years

 This book is based on a true family story. Three generations of women, Fanny, Anna and Bina, each leaving the home they loved. Their lives drift through the turmoil of the First World War, the 1916 Rising, and the establishment of the Irish Free...

Sheila Riley / The Mersey Mistress ( Dockside Saga Series )

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Suzanne Rindell / The Other Typist

 A haunting debut novel set against the background of New York City in the 1920s…Confessions are Rose Baker’s job. A typist for the New York City Police Department, she sits in judgment like a high priestess. Criminals come before her...

Howard Hughes / England Expects ( A Mirabelle Bevan Mystery )

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Stewart O'Nan / City of Secrets: A Novel

 Stewart O'Nan's City of Secrets will keep you up all night reading - what a beautifully crafted novel." - Alan Furst, New York Times bestselling author of Mission to ParisFrom master storyteller Stewart O'Nan, a timely...

Claire Gradidge / The Unexpected Return of Josephine Fox

 Everyone has secrets - some are just more deadly than others...April 1941, Romsey, England. Josephine 'Jo' Fox hasn't set foot in Romsey in over twenty years. As an illegitimate child, her family - headed by her controlling grandfather - found her...

Andrew Gross / Fifth Column

  #1 New York Times bestselling author of The One Man Andrew Gross once again delivers a tense, stirring thriller of a family torn apart set against the backdrop of a nation plunged into war. February, 1939. Europe teeters on...

Jacqueline Winspear / Elegy for Eddie ( A Maisie Dobbs Novel )

 Early April, 1933. Maisie’s newest clients are the costermongers of Covent Garden, men who sell fruit and vegetables from horse-drawn carts on the streets of London. To the costers, Eddie Pettit was simply a gentle soul with a near-magical...

Sam Halpert / A Real Good War

 Historic fiction, this novel follows a B-17 crew through WWII. It depicts their humor, despair, fear and courage while flying mission after mission, their friendships brutally "scrubbed" by mounting casualties. You'll taste the terror of flying...

Sam Barone / Empire Rising (Eskkar Saga, 3)

 In 3157 B.C., at the eastern edge of the great southern desert in Mesopotamia, men are at war. Roaming bandits desperate for food, water, women, and slaves ravage vulnerable town. Yet one thing eludes gold. A rogue named Ariamus has joined forces...

Andrew Wilson / Death In A Desert Land

 The author of the “thrilling” (The Guardian) A Talent for Murder and A Different Kind of Evil returns with another stylish mystery starring the Queen of Crime Agatha Christie as she travels to the excavation of...

Wu Ming / Altai

 1569. When a fire breaks out in the Arsenal of venice, everyone suspects Joseph Nasi, number-one enemy of the republic. But it is Emmanuele De Zante, spy catcher and agent, who finds himself in jail accused of treason, having been betrayed by his...

Rosie Meddon / A Wife's War ( The Woodicombe House Sagas )

 A return to Woodicombe House… Kate Channer thought married life was going to be a grand adventure. But when Luke ships off for war before the echoes of their vows have ended, she’s left behind, desperate to do something...

Katharine McMahon / A Way Through the Woods

  The compelling story of two generations of a family - and the secrets they keep. 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,...

Sarah Shears / The Village ( Fairfields Chronicles - Book 1 )

 The first part of "The Fairfields Chronicles", set in a small Kent village during the first two decades of the 20th century. The lives and loves of the families of Fairfields village become irrevocably entwined in this story depicting the changing...

Julie Ellis / Commitment

 A chronicle of one woman's struggle to realize her childhood ambition to become an architect. Set in America, from the Depression years to the McCarthy witch-hunts, it details the effects of her father's suicide, her aspirations to go to college,...

Jenny Holmes / The Air Raid Girls Wartime Brides

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Freda Lightfoot / Storm Clouds Over Broombank (Luckpenny Land Series - Book2 )

   As she struggles to find her feet with her work, new problems emerge. Meg Turner is finally doing the job she loves, but life as a sheep farmer proves tougher than she anticipated. She is a woman trying to prove herself in a man's world...

William Ryan / The Constant Soldier

 1944. Paul Brandt, a soldier in the German army, returns wounded and ashamed from the bloody chaos of the Eastern front to find his village home much changed and existing in the dark shadow of an SS rest hut - a luxurious retreat for those who...

Francesca Capaldi / Trouble in the Valleys

 Can Polly finally escape her haunting past? Spring 1919: WW1 might be over, but the inhabitants of Dorcalon in the Welsh Valleys still feel the pain of the war that took so many of their men.Polly Smith is trying to survive her own battle at home...

Dilly Court / Sunday’s Child

 Don't miss the fourth book in the heartwarming six-part series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!Left on the steps of an orphanage when she was just days old, Nancy Sunday was brought up in hardship - until the...

Paula Tully / Her Rebel Self

 Dublin 1917. Dervla is twenty four and yearns for a life of adventure, away from the post Easter Rising rubble of her beloved city. When she says goodbye to her republican family and moves to London, she embarks on a liberating journey of...

Alan Furst / Blood of Victory

 November, 1940. I.A. Serebin, a writer from Odessa and former decorated Hero of the Soviet Union, is on his way to Istanbul following a cryptic letter from a former lover. Ostensibly there on official business for the International Russian Union,...

Tony Bradman / Anzac Boys

 The orphanage in London is cold and hard and horrible, so when the priest promises the Barker brothers a better life in Australia, they jump at the chance. But it's not better, it's hard work, separation and no one caring whether or not they live...

Stephanie Frances O'Brien / The Price of Experience

London 1962 -  In the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the onset of Beatlemania, a young woman swaps a solitary home shared with a shell-shocked war veteran father, for university in the north of England. While there she meets mysterious...

Helen Yendall / A Wartime Secret

 ‘Look after Violet!’ her mother called, as she was bundled into the back of the car. Then she was gone. When Maggie’s new job takes her from bombed-out London to grand Snowden Hall in the Cotswolds she’s apprehensive but...

Kay Brellend / Stray Angel

  1915, Chrisp Street Market, East London.While the man she loves is in France fighting for his country, Lily Larkin wakes up at dawn to carry crates of apples to his market stall. Left in charge of Greg's warehouse, she has blossomed from a street...

Rosslyn Elliott / Sweeter Than Birdsong (Large Paperback) ( The Saddlers Legacy )

Music offers Kate sweet refuge from her troubles...But real freedom is sweeter.In Westerville, Ohio, 1855, Kate Winter's dreams are almost within reach. As the first woman to graduate from Otterbein College, she'll be guaranteed her deepest wish: escape...

MR Roger Burnage / The Merriman Chronicles - Book Two: Merriman and the French Invasion (Large Paperback)

Recalled home from the West Indies, Lieutenant James Merriman is promoted to the rank of Post Captain and given command of the frigate 'Lord Stevenage.' It is known that the French are amassing an army and a fleet to invade Ireland and join with Irish...