Historical Fiction

Lindsey Davis / Saturnalia (Large Paperback)

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

The Teahouse of the August Moon

Paterson Joseph / The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho (Large Paperback)

I had little right to live, born on a slave ship where my parents both died. But I survived, and indeed, you might say I did more...It's 1746 and Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black...

Louise Hare / This Lovely City (Large Paperback)

The drinks are flowing. The music is playing .But the party can’t last. With the Blitz over and London reeling from war, jazz musician Lawrie Matthews has answered England’s call for help. Fresh off...

Evelyn Hood / Return to Prior's Ford (Large Paperback)

Prior's Ford #6 “Fans of M C Beaton and Rhys Bowen will adore Hood’s Prior’s Ford series” Booklist on Mystery in

Sarah Ferguson & Marguerite Kaye / Her Heart for a Compass (Hardback)

London 1865In an effort to rebel against a society where women are expected to conform, free-spirited Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott flees her confines, and an arranged marriage. But Lady...

Bernard MacLaverty- Lamb - King Penguin PB

On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the Home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. To Michael Lamb, one of the youngest brothers, the...

Anne Michaels / Held (Large Paperback)

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Adam Williams / The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure (Large Paperback)

This novel is set during 1899 in China and is told through the viewpoint of multiple protagonists. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

Jane Borodale / The Book of Fires (Large Paperback)

It is 1752 and seventeen-year-old Agnes Trussel arrives in London pregnant with an unwanted child. Lost and frightened, she finds herself at the home of Mr. J. Blacklock, a brooding fireworks maker...

MaryLu Tyndall / The Raven Saint (Large Paperback)

Charles Towne Belles #3

Stella Duffy / London Lies Beneath (Large Paperback)

In August 1912, three friends set out on an adventure. Two of them come home. Tom, Jimmy and Itzhak have grown up together in the crowded slums of Walworth. They are used to narrow streets, the...

Jason Goodwin / The Janissary Tree (Large Paperback)

Yashim the Eunuch - Book 1 "Jason Goodwin has unleashed his talent on a series of mysteries set in nineteenth-century Istanbul and starring the unlikeliest and most engaging of detectives: Yashim the...

Philippa Gregory / The Virgin's Lover (Large Paperback)

The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels #14 From the author of The Other Boleyn G

Katherine Bentley / Vow (Large Paperback)

It is the Golden Age of Rome. The security of the empire depends on the sworn purity of the Vestal Virgin priestesses, an oath they must honour on pain of death. In return, they are adored,...

Jacqueline Winspear / Maisie Dobbs (Large Paperback)

Edward Rutherfurd - The Rebels of Ireland ( The Dublin Saga - Book 2) - HB - 2006

The sequel to The Princes of Ireland follows the lives and destinies of several Dublin families, both Catholic and Protestant, from all strata of society, from the sixteenth-century colonization of...

Thomas Kilroy - The Big Chapel - HB - 1st Edition 1971 - Faber

A novel about a man, a family and a town. Basing his work upon a notorious clerical scandal of Victorian Ireland, it deals with events in Ireland in teh 1870's. Thomas Kilroy has written an anatomy...

Fiona Kidman / The Book of Secrets (Hardback)

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Robert Hellenga / The Italian Lover (Large Paperback)

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Jon Walter / My Name's Not Friday

'This boy has bought me. This white boy who don't even look as old as I am. He owns me body and soul and my worth has been set at six hundred dollars.'Samuel's an educated boy. Been taught by a...

Leo Kessler - 5 PB - SS Panzer Battalion, The Sand Panthers, Hammer of the Gods, Slaughter Ground, Counter-Attack - Vintage Futura PB Wotan Novels

A collection of 5 of the books in Leo Kessler's Wotan series -, all vintage Futura paperback editions, all with tanning to pages, previous owner's name on inside front endpages. Part of a longer...

Derek B. Miller / The Curse of Pietro Houdini (Large Paperback)

From the Dagger Award–winning author of Norwegian by Night comes a vivid, thrilling, and moving World War II art-heist-adventure tale where enemies become heroes, allies become villains, and a child...

Lenore Hart / The Raven's Bride (Large Paperback)

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Percival Everett / James

The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he flees to nearby Jackson’s...

Lindsey Davis / Rebels and Traitors

A groundbreaking historical novel set in the English Civil War.Rebels and Traitors is a groundbreaking departure for this most admired of British authors, returning to Lindsey Davis’ first love in...

Roshani Chokshi / The Gilded Wolves (Large Paperback)

No one believes in them. But soon no one will forget them.Paris . It's 1889. The city is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and...

Witi Ihimaera / The Parihaka Woman (Large Paperback)

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Tom Sigafoos / The Cursing Stone(Large Paperback)

County Donegal, Ireland. 1884. Your island home is threatened with evictions. What would you be willing to do to stop them? This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Alex Beer / The Second Rider (Large Paperback)

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Hilary Jones / Frontline (Large Paperback)

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Gill Paul / The Collector's Daughter (Large Paperback)

Jean Plaidy - The Passionate Enemies - HB - 1976

Hardcover, published by Robert Hale London, 1976, presumed first edition.  In very good condition, light tanning to pages, not ex library ( as many Robert Hale editions were destined for)  The...

Rosalind Miles / The Maiden Of White Hands (Large Paperback)

The second of the 'Isolde' novels.The second book in the magnificent Arthurian trilogy, set in one of the most provocative periods in history and legend, continues the story of Isolde, the only...

Sandra Gulland / Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe (Large Paperback)

Josephine Bonaparte #2 Set in Paris at the end of the eighteenth century, Josephine begins to awaken to the reality of her recent marriage to 'the Corsican' Napoleon Bonaparte. Through Josephine's...

C.J. Sansom / Dissolution ( Shardlake Series - Book 1 ) (Large Paperback)

Matthew Shardlake #1

Sarah Harrison / The Grass Memorial (Large Paperback)

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Robert Harris / Precipice

Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe.In London, twenty-six-year-old Venetia Stanley—aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless—is part of a fast group of upper-crust bohemians and socialites...

Philippa Gregory, Kate Kerrigan, Alice Peterson / 3 in One Omnibus - Of Love and Life : The Constant Princess | Recipes for a Perfect Marriage | Look the World in the Eye (Large Paperback)

Of Love and Life: 3 novels in 1 omnibus   

Ken Follett / Winter of the World (Century Trilogy - Book 2) (Large Paperback)

  Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her...

Boris Akunin / The State Counsellor (Erast Fandorin Novels - Book 6) (Large Paperback)

The reactionary Adjutant General Khrapov, newly appointed governor-general of Siberia and soon-to-be minister of the interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St...

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

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...

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...

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...