Historical Romance

N.M. Kelby / White Truffles in Winter

    White Truffles in Winter imagines the world of the remarkable French chef Auguste Escoffier, who changed the way we eat through his legendary restaurants at the Savoy and the Ritz. A man of contradictions - kind yet imperious,...

Julia Stoneham / Muddy Boots and Silk Stockings

   England, 1943. The country is at war With so many men away fighting, it is the women left behind who must keep the country going, and when Alice Todd is abandoned by her husband, she must find a means to provide for herself and her...

Beverley Eikli / Reluctant Bride

    Can honour and action banish the shadows of old sins? Emily Micklen has no option after the death of her loving fiance, Jack, but to marry the scarred, taciturn, soldier who represents her only escape from destitution. Major Angus...

Simon Scarrow / The Fields of Death (Revolution Series - book 4 ) (Hardback)

 From the bestselling author of THE GLADIATOR and FIRE AND SWORD comes the final volume in his epic quartet of novels about Wellington and Napoleon It's 1810, and both Viscount Wellington and Emperor Napoleon have made great names for themselves as...

Nancy Carson / The Railway Girl

   Only tragedy can save her...Lucy Piddock meets Arthur Goodrich, solid, kind and dependable; a stonemason by trade working in his father's Black Country business. Arthur seems to be the ideal match, but he lights no flame in Lucy's heart...

Paullina Simons / The Bronze Horseman

   A magnificent epic of love, war and Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISE Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose palaces and avenues speak of a...

Georgette Heyer / Arabella

 A BELOVED CLASSIC FROM THE QUEEN OF THE REGENCY ROMANCE_____________________________A fiery debutante. An ill-tempered bachelor. A romance for the ages.Arabella, the daughter of an impoverished country parson, dreams of a new life in London. But...

Norah Lofts / The Concubine

 All eyes and hair' a courtier had said disparagingly of her - and certainly the younger daughter of Tom Boleyn lacked the bounteous charms of most ladies of Court. Black-haired, black-eyed, she had a wild-sprite quality that was to prove more...

Naomi Wood / Mrs. Hemingway

 Mrs. Hemingway is so beautifully written, and evocative, that I could not put it down until the last page.' - Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You.A Richard and Judy Book Club selection.In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife...

Winston Graham / Ross Poldark

 Ross Poldark is the first novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner. Tired from a grim war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. But the...

Eva Ibbotson / A Song for Summer

   When Ellen Carr abandons grey, dreary London to become housekeeper at an experimental school in Austria, she finds her destiny. Swept into an idyllic world of mountains, music, eccentric teachers and wayward children, Ellen brings...

Dinah Jefferies / Before the Rains

   A romantic, heart-wrenching tale of love against the odds from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author 1930, Rajputana, India. Since her husband's death, 28-year-old photojournalist Eliza's only companion has been her camera...

Winston Graham / The Twisted Sword

   The Twisted Sword is the eleventh novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner. Cornwall 1815. Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses...

Danielle Steel / The Duchess

 Orphaned. Betrayed. Determined.Angelique Latham grew up at the magnificent Belgrave Castle with her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally deny her very existence and send her...

Kevin Brophy / Almost Heaven : A Love That Could Not be

 Thirty years ago, Michael O'Hara fled Ireland for ever and buried his identity along with his accent. Now an obituary in an English paper is the catalyst that forces him to revisit his past, the scene of the joys and tragedies of his youth...

Susan Wooldridge / The Hidden Dance

 1933. The luxury liner SS Etoile sets sail from Southampton en route for New York. On board is Lily Sutton who is escaping the brutality of her failed marriage, and looking to begin life anew in America. During the voyage, Lily is caught between...

Meg Cabot / Ransom My Heart

 When beautiful, spirited Finnula Crais kidnaps the dashing knight Hugh Fitzstephen, she has no idea that she's ensnared the new Earl of Stephensgate on his way home from the Crusades. Nor does she realise that Hugh is quite happy to be kidnapped by...

E.V. Thompson / Polrudden

 This family saga is set in Cornwall in the 1800s. Nathan has married Amy and together they rescue a drowning French boy. Events conspire to involve them in a Royalist plot and a trial of intrigue leads them to Paris. The book is in the second in...

Colleen McCullough / First Man In Rome

 In Rome, 110BC, upstart military genius Gaius Marius marries the daughter of aristocrat Gaius Julius. Three years later her wayward sister marries the attractive, ambitious but unsuitable Lucius Cornelius Sulla. This book unfolds a tale of intrigue...

Rachel Rhys / Dangerous Crossing

 *NOW A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 2017* 'The pages turn themselves!'Shortlisted for the HWA Gold Crown 2017A stunning, atmospheric novel in the great tradition of Death on the Nile and Patricia Highsmith, which tells of a young girl's...

Jane Stubbs / Thornfield Hall

 The Rochesters are very good at keeping secrets... Thornfield Hall, 1821. Alice Fairfax takes up her role as housekeeper of the estate. But when Mr Rochester presents her with a woman who is to be hidden on the third floor, she finds herself...

Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent

 THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLEROverall Book of the Year and Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2017 (Nibbies)Longlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for FictionThe Waterstones Book of the Year 2016Shortlisted for the...

Penelope Fitzgerald / The Blue Flower

 From the Booker Prize-winning author of `Offshore' comes this unusual romance between the poet Novalis and his fiancee Sophie, newly introduced by Candia McWilliam.The year is 1794 and Fritz, passionate, idealistic and brilliant, is seeking his...

Dilly Court / The Orphan's Dream

 The heartwarming and nostalgic new novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of The Beggar Maid.Motherless since she was five, Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly, Mirabel finds herself cast...

Maurice Walsh - Blackcock's Feather - HB

This book tells the story of David Gordon, born of an Irish mother and a Scottish father. It starts with him setting sail from Bristol for Ireland in the early days of the Nine Years' War, soon after the Battle of Clontibret in 1595. The story takes...

M.C. Beaton / Diana the Huntress ( Six Sisters Series)

Diana's passion is a rather strange one for a lady - she loves to hunt while dressed as a man!With her lustrous black hair and enormous dark eyes, Diana is shy of men yet dreams of the freedom they must enjoy. Only when she is invited to Town by the...

Nancy Huston / The Mark Of The Angel

The year is 1957 and the place is Paris, where the psychic wounds of World War II have barely begun to heal. Saffie, a young German woman, becomes maid, then wife, to Raphael, a privileged French musician who finds her remoteness provocative and...

Catrin Collier / Swansea Girls

It is Saturday night and the Pier Ballroom in Swansea is the place to be: For Lily, an evacuee unclaimed by her family at the end of the war; for Judy, taught independence by her war widow mother; for Katie, the product of a marriage between a drunken,...

June Francis / A Dream to Share

The Edwardian era is coming to an end and in Chester a young maid, Emma, strives to keep her family from poverty. Driven by a desire to avenge the death of her sister, who had committed suicide after falling pregnant and being abandoned by the father,...

Evelyn Hood / (Omnibus) The Silken Thread and The Dancing Stone

THE SILKEN THREAD - Despairing of the poverty in 18th century Paisley, Margaret sets herself up as a charity worker and teacher at the local hospital. However, whilst her philanthropic ideals are tolerated, even accepted by her parents, her affection for...

E.V. Thompson / The Restless Sea

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Margaret Kaine / Roses for Rebecca

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Rebecca West / the Return of the Soldier

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Una Horne / Bright is the Dawn

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Anne O'Brien / Devil's Consort

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Audrey Howard / A World of Difference

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Pam Jenoff / Kommandant's Girl

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Audrey Howard / Distant Images

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