Historical Fiction

Michael Jecks / No Law in the Land (Large Paperback)

A Knights Templar Mystery When King Edward II is told that his wife has defied him & remained in France with their son, the king flies into a rage. It is Sir Baldwin de Furnshill & his friend Simon...

Niklas Natt och Dag / The Wolf and the Watchman (Large Paperback)

It is 1793. Four years after the storming of the Bastille in France and more than a year after the death of King Gustav III of Sweden, paranoia and whispered conspiracies are Stockholm’s daily bread...

Joseph Kanon / Shanghai (Large Paperback)

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Petulia Blake / In the Midst of Shame (Large Paperback)

Hope opens up about her life as a Creole who dares to aspire for greatness on the restless island of St. James, a British colony. As she moves about in the shadow of Master Livingston, and under the...

Kathleen Herbert / Moon in Leo (Large Paperback)

A vivid and scholarly portrait of England in the reign of Charles II. The joy of the Restoration is a fading memory, and conflicts of land ownership and religious toleration are raging. The story is...

Standish O'Grady - The Flight of the Eagle ( Mercier Irish Classics PB - 1980)

ISBN-085342618X Published by Mercier Cork, 1980, this edition is ( slightly) abridged by Úna Morrissy.  No imaginative writer could devise a more romantic and thrilling tale than the true story of...

David Roberts / No More Dying

Lord Edward Corinth embarks on his most important investigation. It is 1939 and it is clear that Britain will soon be at war and MI5 has learnt that an enemy agent has been dispatched to England to...

Suzanne Kelman / A View Across the Rooftops

1941, Nazi-occupied Amsterdam . An unforgettable story of love, hope and betrayal, and a testament to the courage of humanity in history’s darkest days. University professor Josef Held has never...

J M Beesley / The Unexpected Guardian

When Alistair Rowland Hamilton, Marquis of Anworth received news that his friend Lord Anthony St.Ives had unexpectedly died in a hunting accident at the age of forty-four and that he, Anworth, was...

Julie Cohen / Spirited

'I stayed up late, gripped. An unusual, moving read. I LOVED it!' Marian Keyes'Haunting, tender and true - this story cast a spell on me' Kirsty Logan'This haunting story about the power of love will...

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...

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...

Charles Frazier / Cold Mountain (Hardback)

  Cold Mountain is a novel about a soldier’s perilous journey back to his beloved near the Civil War's end. At once a love story & a harrowing account of one man’s long walk home, Cold Mountain...

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