Historical Fiction

Fonzie Keogh - The Half Crown Man - PB

Jimmy, the half-crown man, is selling his usual wares but rumours start spreading about the extras he is offering. Elizabeth, the newly widowed pub landlady, is besotted with Dominic, the glamorous...

John A. McKinsey / The Lincoln Secret (Large Paperback)

Founded upon several historical theories about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, the novel takes the reader through Abraham Lincoln's life and death while the characters work to unravel several...

Matt Love / The Great Birthright: An Oregon Novel (Large Paperback)

In his fiction debut, Matt Love bends and twists the detective novel genre with hilarious, unexpected and political results. The premise: a Los Angeles developer is trying to privatize Oregon’s...

C.S. Quinn / The Bastille Spy (Large Paperback)

Revolution Spy #1 'He was alive when he went in the mortuary.' 1789. The Bastille is marked for destruction. Skirmishes in the city are rife and revolution is in the air. When a gruesomely murdered r

Georgie Blalock / The Last Debutantes (Large Paperback)

Georgie

Catherine Cookson / Novel Collection (7 Book Collection)

The Catherine Cookson Collection (7 Book Collection) Contains: the fifteen streets the mallen streak riley tilly trotter a house divided the cinder path kate hannigan     This collection is second...

Jack Wolf / The Tale of Raw Head & Bloody Bones (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

This book has been signed by the author to view the signature click on the pictureTo view the book just click on the pictures. These are pictures of the actual book for sale. Removing stickers from a...

George Chesney - The Battle of Dorking : Reminiscences of a Volunteer - PB

Originally published in 1871, this was one of a host of 'what if' books published in the UK between the 1860's and the first world war , dealing with fears of an invasion - usually by Germany.  Told...

Diney Costeloe / The Ashgrove (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...

Pat Barker / The Regeneration Trilogy ( Regeneration | The Eye in the Door | The Ghost Road) (Hardback)

A trilogy of novels set during World War

Lucy Jago / A Net for Small Fishes (Large Paperback)

When Frances Howard, unhappy wife of the Earl of Essex, meets the talented Anne Turner, the two strike up an unlikely, yet powerful, friendship. Frances makes Anne her confidante, sweeping her into a...

Claire Messud / This Strange Eventful History (Large Paperback)

As Paris falls to the Germans, Gaston Cassar - honorable servant of France, devoted husband and father, currently posted as naval attache in Salonica - bids farewell to his beloved wife, aunt and...

Martina Devlin / Charlotte (Large Paperback)

Charlotte Bronte, who dazzled the world with some of literature's most vital and richly drawn characters, spent her brief but extraordinary life in search of love. She eventually found it with Arthur...

Ruth Downie / Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls (Large Paperback)

  Emperor Trajan is dead, long live Emperor Hadrian! Gaius Petreius Ruso is a divorced and down-on-his-luck army doctor who has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in one of the inclement...

George Moore - A Drama in Muslin - HB 1992 ( Originally 1886 )

Always an ambitious novelist, George Moore realised early in the composition of his third novel, 'A Drama In Muslin', how his chosen subject - the sentimental education of five girls born into the...

Jason Goodwin / The Snake Stone (Large Paperback)

Yashim the Eunuch #2 The S

Daniel Ford - Michael's War - HB - 2003

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...

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...

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...

Lee Karr / Dark Cries of Gray Oaks (Large Paperback)

Orphaned

Ger Fitzgibbon / Songs For A Burning City (Large Paperback)

On the evening of December 11, 1920, a production of The Gondoliers is in full swing at the Cork Opera House when word comes through that the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries are rampaging through the...

Clare Whitfield / People of Abandoned Character (Large Paperback)

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Leo Hollis / The Phoenix (Large Paperback)

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Anya Seton / My Theodosia

Anya Seton’s best-selling first novel, originally published in 1941, captures all the drama of the short life of Theodosia Burr (1783–1813). Her father, Aaron—Thomas Jefferson’s vice president, most...

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,...

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...

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...

Beatrice Hitchman / All of You Every Single One (Hardback)

Capturing both the bohemian permissivenes

Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie / My Dear Hamilton (Large Paperback)

A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton Goodreads Choice Award

Katie Hickman / The Pindar Diamond (Large Paperback)

The Aviary Gate #2

Bruce Scates / On Dangerous Ground - A Gallipoli Story (Large Paperback)

A Gallipoli Story

Sallie Muirden / A Woman Of Seville (Large Paperback)

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Emily Gunnis / The Midwife's Secret (Large Paperback)

A little girl goes missing from Yew Tree Manor - the same house from which a girl vanished decades before. Does the key to the present lie buried even deeper in the past, in the forgotten history of...

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...

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...

Alan Monaghan / The Soldier's Return (Large Paperback)

The Soldier's Song Trilogy #2

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...

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...

Carole Carlini / Where the Dickens is Charlie! (Large Paperback)

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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...

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

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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?...

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...

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...

Richard Beard / Lazarus Is Dead (Hardback)

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