Historical Romance

Tracy Anne Warren / The Accidental Mistress

   He will expose her masquerade, but she will expose his heart.To escape an arranged marriage, spirited Lily Bainbridge has staged her own death, and, disguised as a boy, she fled to London and a life of freedom. Yet her plans to live...

Gaelen Foley / Lady of Desire ( One Night of Sin)

 Lady Jacinda Knight is the daughter of a notorious woman. Her mother had scandalised society with her affairs and exploits, and many are waiting for Jacinda to reveal her true colours and follow in her disgraced mother's footsteps. Can she prove...

Kirsty Ferry / A Secret Rose ( Cornish Secrets - Book 1 )

“Wherever you go, I will follow …” Merryn Burton is excited to travel down to Cornwall to start her first big job for the London art dealers she works for. But as soon as she arrives at Pencradoc, a beautiful old mansion, she...

Maggie Ford / Affairs of the Heart

 Mary Lett has been struggling since the death of her baby daughter. Her husband Geoffrey cannot understand why she finds it so difficult to let go of the memory of their child and seeks solace elsewhere. In an effort to forget his own feelings for...

Sophie Jordan / The Duke Buys a Bride

 A bride wasn’t in his plans . . .The last thing Marcus, the Duke of Autenberry, expects to see after sleeping off a night’s drunken shenanigans is a woman being auctioned in the village square. Before he can think about the...

Eva Leigh / Would I Lie to the Duke

 When an ambitious entrepreneur pretends to be a lady of means, she catches the eye—and heart—of a duke...Jessica McGale's family business desperately needs investors, and she's determined to succeed at any cost. But she knows London's...

Laura Lee Guhrke / The Wicked Ways of a Duke

   She thought she was the luckiest woman in London...Surviving on a seamstress' income and a steady stream of fantasies, Prudence Bosworth has always longed for love and romance. Then she inherits a fortune from the father she's never seen,...

Mary Balogh / First Comes Marriage

   The arrival of Elliott Wallace, the irresistibly eligible Viscount Lyngate, has thrown the sleepy village of Throckbridge into a tizzy. It soon becomes clear that Elliot seeks a convenient marriage to a suitable bride, and desperate to...

Freda Lightfoot / Storm Clouds Over Broombank ( Luckpenny Land Series - Book2 )

   As she struggles to find her feet with her work, new problems emerge. Meg Turner is finally doing the job she loves, but life as a sheep farmer proves tougher than she anticipated. She is a woman trying to prove herself in a man's world...

Bee Ridgway / The River of No Return

 Devon, 1815. The charming Lord Nicholas Davenant and the beguiling Julia Percy should make a perfect match. But before their love has a chance to grow, Nicholas is presumed dead in the Napoleonic war. Nick, however, is lost in time. Somehow he...

Rowena Summers / September Morning ( A Cornish Clay Sagas Novel)

 As the world teeters on the brink of war, the Cornish families struggle to keep pace with change. The only source of stability is the family unit, and even that is shattered by outside forces which none of them can prevent.     All of...

Hilary Jones / Frontline

  LOVE GAVE THEM STRENGTH. LOVING EACH OTHER GAVE THEM COURAGE. Britain and her allies are engaged in a long war with Germany. Grace is the daughter of landed gentry, volunteering as a nurse on the Western Front. Will is the son of a dockworker,...

Daisy Styles / The Code Girls

 A heart-warming and inspiring tale of three incredible women on the home-front during World War II from the author of The Bomb Girls It's 1945 and the country has been turned upside down. For the aristocratic Somervilles this means being pushed...

Daisy Styles / The Bomb Girls' Secrets

 **PREORDER THE NEW BOOK FROM DAISY STYLES NOW** When Kitty hears about women being requested for war work in munitions factories her heart skips a beat. She doesn't want to leave Ireland, but the money is good. And money is what she really needs...

Fenella J. Miller / The Officer Girl in Blue

 Book Three in the gorgeous Girls in Blue series by bestselling author Fenella J. Miller London, 1942: Charlotte Fenimore is back home on a week's leave from the Women's Auxiliary Airforce. She had planned for a week of rest and recuperation. She...

Charlotte Betts / The Fading of the Light ( Spindrift Trilogy)

   From the award-winning author of The Apothecary's Daughter comes The Fading of the Light, the next book in the Spindrift Trilogy - a beautifully evocative, family drama, perfect for fans of Santa...

Elisabeth McNeill / Perseverance Place

  A wealthy brewer and his wife lose everything but find a wealth of friendship when forced to start anew in this nineteenth-century Scottish family saga. When Brabazon Nairn’s family make their home in one of the tiny flats of...

J. Courtney Sullivan / The Engagements (Large Paperback)

A diamond is forever. But forever isn't for everyone. . .1947: Mary Frances Gerety, a young copywriter in an eminent advertising agency, has to convince the world of two things - that marriage means a diamond ring on every woman's finger, and that she is...

Isabel Allende / Portrait in Sepia (Hardback)

As a young girl, Aurora del Valle suffered a brutal trauma that has shaped her character and erased from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she...

Sacha Carnegie / The Banners of War ( Destiny of Eagles : Volume 2 ) (Vintage Paperback)

One bitter Siberian night in the winter of 1758, Henryk Barinski escaped from the imprisonment to which the Russian Secret Chancellery had sentenced him. Helped by fur trappers, he made his way to England, but before he could reach London, he was press...

Robert Kimmel Smith / Jane's House (Vintage Paperback)

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Kirsty Ferry / Summer's Secret Marigold

   Can a summer secret from the past allow a new future to bloom? For two people who run competing arts centres in Cornwall, Sybill Helyer and Coren Penhaligon get on rather well. So well in fact that Sybill often wishes the owner of...

Elisabeth McNeill / The Storm

 An enthralling Scottish saga based on a true historical event In October 1881 a violent storm devastated the prosperous fishing village of Eyemouth, in the Scottish Borders, leaving few families unscathed. Newly wed Rosabelle Maltman lost her...

Terri Nixon / A Cornish Homecoming

 The perfect treat for fans of Downton Abbey, Poldark and Dilly Court - discover the third novel in a heart-warming new series set in the 1920s in a glamorous hotel on the Cornish Riviera . . .1930, Liverpool. Reformed con-artist Leah...

Beryl Matthews / Together Under the Stars

 October 1943. While working at an RAF base in Lincolnshire, Nancy Dalton has been holding a vigil for the Lancaster bomber pilots, whose missions seem endless and whose chances of survival are slim. But her watchfulness has not prevented her own...

Georgette Heyer / April Lady

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P. O. Dixon / To Refuse Such a Man : A Pride and Prejudice Variation (Large Paperback)

 "The last thing Mr. Darcy expected was to meet the woman whose nearness caused him to entertain ideas of what it would be like to know her as his wife." Author's Note The first chapters of this titillating Pride and Prejudice 'what-if' story...

Riana Everly / Through a Different Lens : A Pride and Prejudice Variation (Large Paperback)

 A tale of second glances and second chances Elizabeth Bennet has disliked the aloof and arrogant Mr. Darcy since he insulted her at a village dance several months before. But an unexpected conversation with a startling turn of phrase suddenly...

Maurice Walsh - The Small Dark Man - Vintage HB Reprint 1979

Kerry born author Maurice Walsh (1879-1964) - here in a 1979 reprint in dustjacket by his original publisher, Chambers.  Many of his novels were set in either Ireland or Scotland, where he had lived for long periods . Hugh Forbes, the small dark...

Sydney Salier / Don't flatter yourself (Large Paperback)

 In the original P&P Mr Darcy had an issue with the behaviour of Mrs Bennet and Elizabeth's younger sisters. What if Mr Bennet married a second time and his new wife is a lady with impeccable manners, who is down-playing the fact that she...

Bodie Thoene / Daughter of Zion (Large Paperback)

 The Zion Chronicles series covers the events surrounding Israel's statehood in 1948. Each book vividly portrays the intense struggle of the Jewish people in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the forces, within and without, which engulf the Middle...

Bodie Thoene / Dunkirk Crescendo (Large Paperback)

 This description covers #7 London Refrain, #8 Paris Encore, and #9 Dunkirk Crescendo. These three additions to the Zion Covenant series are "director's cuts." They include portions of the Thoene classic The Twilight of Courage and thrilling,...

Ellen Bryson / The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno (Large Paperback)

 Bartholomew Fortuno, the World's Thinnest Man, believes that his unusual body is a gift. Hired by none other than P.T. Barnum to work at his spectacular American Museum - a modern marvel of macabre displays and live performances by Barnum's cast of...

Kirsty Ferry / Lily's Secret

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William Owen Roberts / Paris

 Paris (2013) is William Roberts' most ambitious work to date and can best be described as a contemporary historical novel. It concerns an extended family of Russian emigres struggling to survive in Paris and Berlin during the inter-war years of the...

Philippa Gregory / Dark Tides

 **PRE-ORDER DAWNLANDS, THE STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM PHILIPPA GREGORY, OUT NOVEMBER 2022** Number One bestselling author Philippa Gregory's new historical novel tracks the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice and New England.Midsummer Eve,...

Naomi Wood / The Hiding Game

 The Hiding Game is an intoxicating story of love and betrayal, set in the Bauhaus art school. Heady, gripping and unforgettable, Naomi Wood's third novel explores the perils of secrecy in a changing and increasingly dangerous world.In Roaring...

Katie Flynn / Liverpool Daughter

 THE FIRST NOVEL IN A HEART-WARMING NEW SERIES BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, KATIE FLYNN______________________________'Home is where the heart is, and my heart belongs to Liverpool. We wouldn't dream of leavin' our beloved city...'August 1940: As the...

Freda Lightfoot / Putting on the Style

 Bargains galore and life in the raw...Folk are just emerging from the shadow of WWII and money is still tight. So the vibrant market of Champion Street is a source of many a tempting bargain - as well as all the local gossip. Dena loves her...

Jean Plaidy / Beyond the Blue Mountains

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Sebastien Japrisot / A Very Long Engagement (Large Paperback)

 In 1919, a young wheelchair-bound woman in France begins a quest to find out if her fiance, supposedly killed in the line of duty two years earlier, might still be alive     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get...

Sadie Jones / Fallout (Hardback)

 Luke is a young playwright: intense, magnetic and hungry for experience. Fleeing a disastrous upbringing in the North East he arrives in London and shares a flat with Paul, an aspiring producer, and beautiful, fiery Leigh.The three of them set up a...

Gloria Cook / From a Distance (Hardback)

 Continuing the enthralling story of the Harvey familyIt is 1931, and eight years have passed since the events described in Moments of Time. Emilia and Alec Harvey have a five-year-old daughter, Lottie, who is a source of joy to her mother, and a...

Kate Morton / The Clockmaker's Daughter (Hardback)

 From the bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper, Kate Morton brings us her trademark mix of secrets, lies, and intricately layered mysteries in her sixth novel, The Clockmaker's Daughter. My real name, no one remembers...

June Francis / Walking Back to Happiness

 Should she listen to her friends, or dare to hope for happiness?Lucia Brookes had once dreamed of meeting a man who would love, cherish and provide for her. Now, left to care for her five younger siblings alone, she has lost hope - because what man...

Nicola Pryce / The Cornish Captive

 The sixth novel in a stunning series set in eighteenth-century Cornwall, perfect for fans of Bridgerton Cornwall, 1800.Imprisoned on false pretences, Madeleine Pelligrew, former mistress of Pendenning Hall, has spent the last 14 years shuttled...

Glenda Young / Pearl of Pit Lane

 'Real sagas with female characters right at the heart' Woman's Hour If you love Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin, you'll LOVE Glenda Young's 'amazing novels!' (ITV's This Morning presenter Sharon Marshall)'In the world of historical saga writers,...

William Boyd / Trio

 An elating read' Sunday TimesA producer. A novelist. An actress.It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are riots in Paris and the Vietnam War is out of control. While the world is...

Irene Northan / Daughter of the River

 A poignant family saga perfect for fans of Janet Tanner, Grace Thompson and Nadine DorriesMaddy Shillabeer's prospects are limited. As the only woman in a household of men, in a town with precious few romantic possibilities, she's resigned herself...

Elisabeth McNeill / Wild Heritage

 Caught between the past and the future, can friendship survive in changing times?Thirteen years have passed since the railway came to the Borders, bringing changes that would radically alter the lives of the people who lived there. Yet the steam...

Glenda Young / The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon

 'Real sagas with female characters right at the heart' Woman's Hour 'A gripping saga' People's FriendIf you love Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin, you'll LOVE Glenda Young's 'amazing novels!' (ITV's This Morning presenter Sharon Marshall)From the...

A. J. Pearce / Yours Cheerfully (Large Paperback)

 The Times bestseller Yours Cheerfully is the charming and hilarious tonic we've all been waiting for. 'The best possible antidote for the blahs, the doldrums, all slumps, all dumps... Loved. Every. Word.'Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in...