Historical Fiction

Anne Rice / Christ the Lord The Road to Cana (Large Paperback)

Anne Rice's second book in her life of Christ begins in the last winter of the hidden years, culminates with 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness, and concludes with a miracle the turning of water...

Jane Stevenson / Astraea (Hardback)

Set in the Netherlands in the 1640s Astraea tells of the relationship between Elizabeth of Bohemia, daughter of James I, and another exile, Pelagius, heir apparent to the Yoruba kingdom of Oyo, a...

Thomas Mullen / Midnight Atlanta (Hardback)

Midnight Atlanta is the stunning new novel in the award-nominated, critically acclaimed Darktown series, and sees a newspaper editor murdered against the backdrop of Rosa Parks' protest and Martin...

Thomas Mullen / Lightning Men (Hardback)

'A brilliant blending of crime, mystery, and American history. Terrific entertainment' Stephen King on Darktown Lightning Men follows the multi-award-nominated, highly acclaimed crime debut Darktown...

James McBride / The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardback)

Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighbourhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side...

Jozef Wittlin / The Salt of the Earth (Hardback)

'Only the villages are asleep, the eternal reservoir of all kinds of soldiery, the inexhaustible source of physical strength' At the beginning of the twentieth century the villagers of the Carpathian...

Peter Matthiessen / In Paradise (Hardback)

CURIOUS ANIMAL BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2014 PICK In Paradise tells the story of a group of men and women who come together for a weeklong meditation retreat at the site of a World War II concentration...

Robin Sloan / Ajax Penumbra 1969 (Hardback)

The utterly charming prequel to the New York Times -bestseller Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore. San Francisco, 1969. The summer of drugs, music and a new age dawning. A young, earnest Ajax Penumbra...

Anna Jacobs / A Daughter's Journey (Hardback)

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia, still grieving her father's recent death. She's not intending to stay long, but after tracking down her distant family, Jo becomes more involved in...

Dinah Lampitt / Banishment (Hardback)

Regressive hypnosis takes actress Nicola Hall back to the 17th century. With her own body in a coma, she inhabits that of a young mother who must choose between the attractive father of the child and...

Mary Wesley / Not That Sort Of Girl (Hardback)

A novel by the author of "Jumping the Queue", "The Vacillations of Poppy Crew" and "The Camomile Lawn"     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Eduardo Mendoza / City of Marvels (Hardback)

A whimsical portrayal of the city of Barcelona at the time of its two World Fairs. The hero of the story is Onofre, a racketeer of humble origins who becomes a man of wealth and influence, but is...

Isabel Allende / The Infinite Plan (Hardback)

Charles Reeves is a preacher, mystic and formulator of the Infinite Plan - his philosophy of life. The Reeves settle in a Mexican barrio outside Los Angeles, awaiting Charles death. His son, Greg, is...

Mary Pope Osborne / Season of the Sandstorms (Hardback)

Jack and Annie travel back in time to a desert in the Middle East at the behest of Merlin who has given them a rhyme to help on their mission. There they meet a Bedouin tribe and learn about the way...

Damian Barr / The Two Roberts (Hardback)

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Clare Chambers / The Editor's Wife (Hardback)

When aspiring novelist Christopher Flinders drops out of university to write his masterpiece (in between shifts as a fish delivery man and builder's mate), his family is sceptical. But when he is...

Per Olov Enquist / The Visit Of The Royal Physician (Hardback)

Everyone has heard stories of King George, but few know about his brother-in-law, Christian VII, the King of Denmark at the end of the eighteenth century. When Christian VII, young, mad and highly...

Julie Owen Moylan / Circus of Mirrors (Hardback)

Discover the dazzling new historical novel from the author of That Green Eyed Girl and 73 Dove Street Perfect for fans of City of Girls, Cabaret and Sunday Times bestseller, The Whalebone Theatre. '...

Moriel Rothman-Zecher / Before All The World (Hardback)

'ikh gleyb nit az di gantze velt iz kheyshekh' 'I do not believe that all the world is darkness' In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a former...

Gordon Ferris / Truth Dare Kill (Hardback)

1946: The war's over. But there are no medals for Danny McRae. Just amnesia and blackouts; twin handicaps for a private investigator with a filthy rich client on the hook for murder. Danny's...

David Downing / Zoo Station (Hardback)

"The clever denouement will have readers clamoring for a sequel."- BookPage " Zoo Station is a beautifully crafted and compelling thriller with a heart-stopping ending as John Russell learns the...

Stephen Lawhead / The Endless Knot (Hardback)

The third in a trilogy patterned on the classic "myth", and set in present day Oxford, Scotland and the Celtic otherworld. The title "Endless Knot" comes from Celtic art - the interwoven strands...

Cass Morris / From Unseen Fire (Hardback)

From Unseen Fire is the first novel in the Aven Cycle, a historical fantasy set in an alternate Rome, by debut author Cass Morris The Dictator is dead; long live the Republic. But whose Republic will...

Edmund White / Fanny: A Fiction (Hardback)

A spirited novel about the lives, loves and battles of two extraordinary 19th-century women, Fanny White and Fanny Trollope. Written in the voice of the aging Fanny Trollope, it is a spoof biography...

Donia Bijan / The Last Days of Cafe Leila (Hardback)

'A glorious treat awaits you at the literary table of Donia Bijan.' 'Adriana Trigiani Set against the backdrop of Iran's rich, turbulent history, this exquisite debut novel is a powerful story of...

Jeffrey Eugenides / Middlesex (Hardback)

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that...

M Forster / Where Angels Fear to Tread (Hardback)

Lilia Herriton's marriage to the fiery, pitiable Gino throws together the charismatic but disreputable Italian and the well-bred Herriton family. Her death in childbirth forces the Herritons and...

Ida Simons / A Foolish Virgin (Hardback)

It is the middle of the roaring twenties, and Gittel is living The Hague with her parents, whose blazing rows are the traditional preserve of Sundays and public holidays. What luck, then, that Gittel...

Catriona McPherson / A Step So Grave (Hardback)

'McPherson's wit has been compared to that of PG Wodehouse or Nancy Mitford, and her finely researched and choreographed narratives to the work of Agatha Christie... an absolute delight... these are...

Terrance Rattigan / The Winslow Boy

This celebrated play not only dramatises a fascinating court case, but also gives a searing insight into prevailing social attitudes of the time     This book is second hand, and while you may not...

Fenella J. Miller / Army Girls Reporting For Duty

    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...

Rose Warner / The Teacher Evacuees

'A war-time treasure' Donna Jones Alward, bestselling author of When the World Fell Silent 'A wonderful blend of friendship, romance and drama... Impossible to put down. This is such a satisfying...

Debra May Macleod / To Be Wolves

Peace is like a flame easily extinguished. 21 BC. After the turbulence of civil war, Augustus Caesar now rules Rome. Yet his authority is fragile, holding only so long as the people believe Rome's...

Rosemary Sutcliff / The Silver Branch Film Tie-in Edition

Violence and unrest are sweeping through Roman Britain. Justin and Flavius find themselves caught up in the middle of it all when they discover a plot to overthrow the Emperor. In fear for their...

Monika Helfer / Last House Before the Mountain

' Beautiful and heartbreaking... I absolutely loved it ' MONICA ALI 'A poignant, captivating, beautifully woven family saga. As honest as Elena Ferrante, with the folkloric intensity of Téa Obreht'...

Alexandra Joel / The Artist's Secret

The sweeping new saga of strong heroines and family secrets from the bestselling author of The Paris Model. While searching for her lost sister, art historian Wren Summers takes on the glittering...

Richard Zimler / Guardian of the Dawn

In late 16th-century Goa, despite the Catholic Inquision, the Zarco family holds firm to its Portuguese-Jewish roots. Ti and his sister enjoy their childhood with secret dips into the heady chaos of...

Steven A. McKay / The Wolf and the Raven

In the aftermath of a violent rebellion Robin Hood and his men must fight for survival with an enemy deadlier than any they've faced before... 1322. England is in disarray and Sir Guy of Gisbourne,...

Steven A. McKay / Rise of the Wolf

"This is the best Robin Hood you are ever going to encounter." - Professor Andrew Latham, author of The Holy Lance Sir Guy of Gisbourne is back! Bent on vengeance against Robin Hood and with a...

Allan Massie / Death In Bordeaux (Large Paperback)

In the spring of 1940, the mutilated body of a homosexual is discovered in a street near the Bordeaux railway station. It looks like a straight-forward sex crime, but when Superintendent Lannes is...

Juliette Shapiro / Excessively Diverted (Large Paperback)

Newlyweds Mr and Mrs Fitzwilliam Darcy begin their married life at Pemberley quite blissfully but it is not long before the tranquillity they relish is cut short by a series of traumas. The...

Maureen Freely / Enlightenment (Large Paperback)

Jeannie Wakefield needs help. Her family is being held by the US authorities. M is a journalist and at Jeannie''s request she returns to Istanbul to investigate. She tries to be objective, but...

Jordy Rosenberg / Confessions of the Fox (Large Paperback)

Jack Sheppard - a transgender carpenter's apprentice - has fled his master's house to become a notorious prison break artist, and Bess Munshi has escaped the draining of the fenlands to become a...

William Nicholson / The Lovers of Amherst (Large Paperback)

August 1881: An attractive young married woman, Mabel Todd, arrives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her husband David, recently appointed assistant professor at Amherst College. The treasurer of the...

Carolina De Robertis / The Gods of Tango (Large Paperback)

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2015 An NBC Latino Selection for Ten Great Latino Books Published in 2015 Arriving in Buenos Aires in 1913, with only a suitcase and her father's cherished...

Josh Russell / Yellow Jack (Large Paperback)

In this "luminously haunting" ("Entertainment Weekly") portrait of decadence, Claude Marchand becomes hopeless entangled with both a voodoo-adept mistress and the erotically precocious daughter of a...

Vogel Sawyer / Guide Me Home (Large Paperback)

Working as a guide in Mammoth Cave might allow Rebekah the chance to bring joy back to her family. But will the cave claim more than it gives? After tragedy leaves its mark on Rebekah Hardin's...

Elizabeth Speller / The Strange Fate Of Kitty Easton (Large Paperback)

When former infantry officer Laurence Bartram is called to the small village of Easton Deadall, he is struck by the beauty of the place: a crumbling stately home; a centuries-old church; and a...

T.C. Boyle / The Women (Large Paperback)

    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...

Glen David Gold / Sunnyside (Large Paperback)

From the author of the acclaimed CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL comes a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its centre: a novel at once cinematic and intimate,...

Connie Willis / Blackout (Large Paperback)

In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds--great and small--of...

A. R. Capetta / Stranger Things: Rebel Robin (Large Paperback)

Discover the backstory of new Stranger Things fan favorite Robin--the perfect read for anyone looking forward to devouring the fourth season on Netflix--now available as a paperback! High school is a...