Historical Fiction

Paddy Hirsch / The Devil's Half Mile

Fans of Caleb Carr, Erik Larsen, and Gangs of New York will love this riveting historical thriller debut, set in a 1799 New York City.Seven years after a financial crisis nearly toppled America,...

Rupert Thomson / Air & Fire

At the end of the nineteenth century, TheOphile Valance and his wife Suzanne sail into Santa Sofia, a remote Mexican copper-mining town. By the author of The Five Gates of Hell.     All of our books...

Shaun Curry / The Swords of Silence ( Swords of Fire Trilogy - Book 1 )

Where once new ideas and beliefs were accepted, now the country’s military dictator, the Shogun, is shutting his country down to any outside influences.Father Joaquim Martinez, who left Portugal to...

Mark Mayes / The Gift Maker

Gifts ought to be free, but they never are. They tie you to the wishes of others. To your own sad expectations. To the penitentiary of your dreams.'Late one night, Thomas Ruder receives a strange...

Iain Gale / Man of Honour

Meet Lieutenant Jack Steel – gentleman, soldier, hero.Upper Bavaria, 1704. The British army, triumphant, fresh from victory, stands proudly to attention, ready to fight for honour and glory. Their...

Dermot Bolger - Hide Away - PB - BRAND NEW

Taylor Caldwell / Answer as a Man (Vintage Paperback)

All his life, Jason Garrity has had to battle intolerance and injustice in his quest for power, money, and love. His new hotel will give him financial security, the means to support a loving family...

Frank Yerby / The Devil's Laughter (Vintage Paperback)

An historical novel s( originally 1953) set in the French Revolution     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive.

Jonathan Powell / Sam (Vintage Paperback)

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Taylor Caldwell / The Arm and the Darkness (Vintage Paperback).

As hostilities flare between Catholic and Huguenot, Cardinal Richelieu relentlessly pursues the favors of Queen Anne Historical fiction, originally 1943.      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode...

Taylor Caldwell / The Arm and the Darkness (Vintage Paperback)

As hostilities flare between Catholic and Huguenot, Cardinal Richelieu relentlessly pursues the favors of Queen Anne Historical fiction, originally 1943.        All of our Vintage books are Pre...

Taylor Caldwell / The Beautiful is Vanished (Vintage Paperback)

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Martina Devlin - Edith : A Novel - PB - BRAND NEW

Edith by Martina Devlin  Martina Devlin, an award-winning columnist for the Irish Independent and podcaster for Dublin City of Literature #CityofBooks, has delivered a new novel based on the life of...

Martina Devlin - Charlotte : A Novel - PB - BRAND NEW

Charlotte Brontë, 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...

J.P. O'Connell / Lovers and Liars

Romance, intrigue, and dangerous ambitions combine to create the perfect escape: welcome to the beautiful Hotel Portofino on the magical Italian Riviera.It is the summer of 1927 and Hotel Portofino...

Jennifer Rosner / The Yellow Bird Sings

Poland, 1941. After the Jews in their town are rounded up, Roza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, spend day and night hidden in a farmer's barn. Forbidden from making a sound, only the yellow...

Diney Costeloe / The Stolen Baby

EVERY MOTHER'S WORST NIGHTMARE IS ABOUT TO COME TRUE... A new Second World War novel from bestselling author Diney Costeloe, based on a gripping and moving true story.Plymouth, 1941. As sirens blare...

Homer Hickam / The Ambassador's Son (Hardback)

It's 1943 and the Americans and Japanese are fighting a deadly war in the hot, jungle-covered volcanic islands of the South Pacific. The outcome is in doubt and a terrible blow has fallen on American...

Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Water Dancer (Hardback)

Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a...

William Shea / Conversations with Galileo (Hardback)

A fictional dialogue based on biographical factsThe "father of modern physics", Galileo Galilei was a scientific revolutionary. He was a renowned polymath whose knowledge spanned the realms of space,...

Paddy Hirsch / Hudson's Kill (Large Paperback)

'A wild horse-and-carriage ride through early 19th century New York... Meticulously researched, the novel brings the city to life in lurid sensory detail.' Noel O'Reilly, author of Wrecker New York,...

Cecil Allen / The Actor (Large Paperback)

A story of love and passion set in a time of war and violence. A story of one man’s struggle to find his place in the world. A story of theatre. A story of life. In 1914 a young Jim Brevin runs away...

Joseph O'Connor / Star of the Sea (Large Paperback)

In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea sets sail for NewYork. On board are hundreds of refugees, some optimistic, many more desperate. Among...

Joanne Clague / The Girl at Change Alley

Sheffield, 1867. It’s the height of a long-running and violent campaign known as the Outrages, where murderous acts are carried out on behalf of a rogue union leader. Louisa Leigh, a former...

Deborah Carr / The Poppy Sisters

Phoebe is a volunteer nurse at a Base Hospital in Étaples, France, treating men who’ve served on the Western Front. Their courage and resilience inspires her, and though she’s meant to keep her...

Simon Scarrow / Dead of Night

BERLIN. JANUARY 1940.After Germany's invasion of Poland, the world is holding its breath and hoping for peace. At home, the Nazi Party's hold on power is absolute.One freezing night, an SS doctor and...

Laurie R. King / O Jerusalem (Hardback)

At the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England, Sherlock Holmes and his nineteen-year-old apprentice Mary Russell enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes's enigmatic...

Wesley Stace / Misfortune (Hardback)

Victorian dandy Lord Geoffroy Loveall is faced with a dilemma. As heir apparent to Love Hall, he must produce an heir of his own; but his obsessive love for his long-dead sister has rendered him a...

Thomas Keneally / Fanatic Heart (Large Paperback)

John Mitchel, Irishman, lawyer, journalist, activist and politician, is a complex character. Charged with treason in Ireland and tried by an English judge he was snuck off mainland Ireland on the day...

Elizabeth Chadwick / The Irish Princess (Large Paperback)

Ireland, 1160 Aoife MacMurchada is just 14 years old when her father Diarmit, King of Leinster, is brutally deposed, and her family is forced to flee Southern Ireland into English exile. Diarmit...

David R. Gillham / City of Women (Large Paperback)

It is 1943 - the height of the Second World War - and Berlin has essentially become a city of women. In this page-turning novel, David Gillham explores what happens to ordinary people thrust into...

Samantha Silva / Mr. Dickens and His Carol

Charles Dickens should be looking forward to Christmas. But when his latest book, Martin Chuzzlewit, is a flop, his publishers give him an ultimatum. Either he writes a Christmas book in a month or...

Glenda Young / The Sixpenny Orphan

Real sagas with female characters right at the heart' Woman's Hour'In the world of historical saga writers, there's a brand new voice' My Weekly'Heart-warming, emotional and simply wonderful . . . If...

Richard Zimler / The Warsaw Anagrams

It's Autumn 1940. The Nazis seal 400,000 Jews inside a small area of the Polish capital, creating an urban island cut off from the outside world. Erik Cohen, an elderly psychiatrist, is forced to...

Derek Robinson / A Good Clean Fight

North Africa, 1942. Dust, heat, thirst, flies. A good clean fight, for those who like that sort of thing, and some do. From an advanced landing field, striking hard and escaping fast, our old friends...

Jackie French / I am Juliet

The story of Juliet Capulet and her love for Romeo.It also the story about the increasing helplessness Juliet feels as she realises that unlike young men her age, her life will effectively be...

Anchee Min / Becoming Madame Mao

From the author of the international bestseller, Red Azalea, comes the stirring, croucally charged story of the woman known as 'the white-boned demon' - the ambitious wife of Chairman Mao whose...

Marie Benedict / The Only Woman in the Room

She was beautiful. She was a genius. Could the world handle both? A novel about  the fascinating life of Hedy Lamarr. Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial...

Evelyn Conlon / Not the Same Sky (Large Paperback)

By 1848 famine has ravaged Ireland, and London remains undecided about what to do. A shortage of female labour in Australia offers a kind of solution and so, over the following two years, more than...

John MacKenna / Joseph (Large Paperback)

‘It’s been forty years, and memory is the most unreliable of companions, so I can only offer these recollections with the proviso that you take them as the only truth I can call to mind. They’re my...

Andrea Camilleri / The Revolution of the Moon (Large Paperback)

From the author of the Inspector Montalbano series comes the remarkable account of an exceptional woman who rises to power in 17th century Sicily and brings about sweeping changes that threaten the...

Dan Jones / Wolves of Winter (Large Paperback)

AN ENDLESS WAR.A BLOOD-SOAKED BATTLEFIELD.A BAND OF BROTHERS.1347. After a bloody battle at Crécy, the Essex Dogs pick through the wreckage of the fighting – and the

Walter Reid / The Quickening of Alec Ross (Large Paperback)

War-time France – intrigue, deception and divided loyalties. Under the Mediterranean sun, a shadowy world where ambivalence and compromise test loyalties to breaking point.Alec Ross is an innocent...

Amanda Prantera / The Young Italians - PB

When young, beautiful, and very English Irene arrived in Florence in 1928 to stay with her aunt, she had no idea that Italy's seduction would be so powerful, nor that she would be married within six...

John Jakes / American Dreams (Hardback)

Spanning 1906-1917, the second generation of the immigrant Crown family sends three dreamers to new leading industries. Starlet Fritzi 26 aims for glamorous Hollywood. Her brother Carl soars in the...

Hannah Kent / Devotion (Large Paperback)

1836, Prussia. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on her. A child of nature, she yearns instead for the rush of the river, the wind dancing around her...

David Leavitt / The Two Hotel Francforts (Large Paperback)

It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon, Portugal, is the only neutral port left in Europe—a city filled with spies, crowned heads, and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while away...

Conor Brady / In the Dark River (Large Paperback)

Swallow and the legendary Chief Superintendent John Mallon must also work tirelessly to counter espionage and subterfuge by the British secret services, who are hell-bent on destroying Charles...

Michelle Lovric / The Floating Book (Large Paperback)

Venice, 1468. Sosia Simeon, a free spirit with a strange predilection for books and Venetians is making her particular mark on the fabled city. On the other side of the Grand Canal, Wendelin von...

Michelle Vernal / The Promise (Large Paperback)

1944 The Isle of Wight - Sixteen-year-old Constance’s life on the island is sheltered until the death of her brother, brings the reality of war crashing down around her. He leaves behind his pregnant...

Erich Maria Remarque - A l'Ouest rien de nouveau - PB - ( French Edition)

À l'Ouest, rien de nouveau (titre original allemand : Im Westen nichts Neues - ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT) est un roman de Erich Maria Remarque paru officiellement en 1929 mais paru pour la 1ère...

Elizabeth Speller / The Return of Captain John Emmett (Hardback)

1920. The Great War has been over for two years, and it has left a very different world from the Edwardian certainties of 1914.Following the death of his wife and baby and his experiences on the...