Historical Fiction

E. L. Doctorow / Loon Lake

It is the Great Depression of the 1930s, and a passionate young man from Paterson, New Jersey, leaves home to find his fortune. What he finds, on a cold and lonely night in the Adirondack Mountains, is a vision of life so different from his own that it...

Helen Hollick / A Hollow Crown

Aged only thirteen, Emma, daughter of the Duke of Normandy, is married in a strategic alliance to King Aethelred of England. Inept and arrogant, Aethelred the Unready is loathed by his young wife, whom he punishes for his many failings as a ruler. Their...

Natasha Solomons / Fair Rosaline

One of the most anticipated novels of the year - the captivating and powerful untelling of Romeo & Juliet . . . The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capulet he falls instantly in love. Rosaline, headstrong and independent, is unsure of...

Douglas Reeman / Send a Gunboat

HMS Wagtail is a river gunboat, a ship seemingly at the end of her useful life, lying in a Hong Kong dockyard awaiting her last summons to the breakers' yard. Commander Justin Rolfe is also seemingly at the end of his useful naval life, an...

Rory Clements / A Prince and a Spy

The thrilling follow up to the Sunday Times bestseller Hitler's Secret, as Tom Wilde returns to unravel a dangerous mystery that goes all the way to the heart of the Third Reich - and the British Monarchy.     This book is second hand, and...

Jeanine Cummins / The Outside Boy

'A full-throated song of praise. I loved it' Sherman Alexie Ireland, 1959. Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their...

Gabriel Chevallier / Fear

It is 1915. Jean Dartemont is just a young man. He is not a rebel, but neither is he awed by authority and when he's called up and given only the most rudimentary training, he refuses to follow his platoon. Instead, he is sent to Artois, where he...

Jo Piazza / The Sicilian Inheritance

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Harry Turtledove / The United States of Atlantis

As England tightens its control over the Atlantean colonies, Victor Radcliff and his band of revolutionaries resolve to make the English pay for each and every piece of land they dare to occupy. They will stop at nothing to preserve the liberty of their...

Francesca Capaldi / All Change at the Beach Hotel

Can she choose between her duty and her heart? While World War One changes the country beyond measure, with food becoming scarce and Britain's young men being called up to foreign battlefields, it is harder than ever to keep the grand Beach Hotel in...

Lorna Cook / The Distant Daughter

‘Transporting and profoundly moving…this is a gripping, sweeping romance to break your heart.’ ?Amanda Geard, author of The Midnight House ‘A total treat…I was transported by this beautiful tale of sisterhood, family drama, war, and love. The Distant...

Robert Harris / V2

___________________________________ 'Immersive' Guardian 'Stunning' Daily Express 'Riveting' Telegraph ____________________________________ Victory is close. Vengeance is closer. Rudi Graf used to dream of sending a rocket...

Simon Scarrow / THE EAGLE AND THE WOLVES

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Simon Scarrow / THE EAGLE'S CONQUEST

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Edward Rutherfurd / Paris (Hardback)

From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling, epic portrait of the City of Light Internationally bestselling author Edward Rutherfurd has enchanted millions of readers with his sweeping, multigenerational dramas that illuminate the...

Sarah May / Becky (Hardback)

'Spiky, clever, funny' – Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters 'Brilliant, propulsive . . . A riot'– Maddie Mortimer, author of Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies 'A delicious gallop through 90s tabloid London' – Sam...

Alexander Kent / The Darkening Sea (Hardback)

Returning safely to England after the dramatic capture of Martinique Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds an all too brief respite from war and politics in the arms of his mistress, Lady Catherine Somervill. But the shadow of a new conflict already...

Dinah Jefferies / The Silk Merchant's Daughter (Hardback)

FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TEA PLANTER'S WIFE Dinah Jefferies' stunning new novel is a gripping, unforgettable tale of a woman torn between two worlds... 1952, French Indochina. Since her mother's death,...

Sarah Quigley / The Conductor (Hardback)

June 1941: Nazi troops surround the city of Leningrad, planning to shell and starve the people into submission. Most of the cultural elite is evacuated, but the famous composer Shostakovich stays behind to defend his city. That winter, the bleakest in...

Christopher Hope / The Love Songs Of Nathan J. Swirsky (Hardback)

In the early 1950s in Badmington, a suburb suspended in time somewhere outside Johannesburg, comes Swirsky, opening a pharmacy. With his talk of exotic places and his gleaming bottles and jars, the children think of him as a magician. Then, his wife,...

Fidelis Morgan / Fortune’s Slave (Hardback)

Fourth in Fidelis Morgan’s hugely entertaining series featuring the irrepressible Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her stupendously bosomed former maid, Alpiew Unlikely as it may seem, the Countess Ashby de la Zouche finds herself with cash to spare when...

Sarah Bird / Last Dance on the Starlight Pier (Hardback)

Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one woman—and a nation—struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn...

Jane Rogers / Promised Lands (Hardback)

A novel which has two narratives. First there is William Dawes travelling to Australia with the first fleet, charting the first years of the Botany Bay settlement. In parallel and mirroring this story we find the story of Stephen and his Polish wife and...

Sabina Murray / Valiant Gentlemen (Hardback)

Humanitarian and Irish patriot Roger Casement and his closest friend Herbert Ward spent a misadventurous youth in the Congo, witnessing acts of cannibalism, among other things. Ward married Argentinian-American heiress Sarita Sanford, and they...

Noel O'Reilly / Wrecker (Hardback)

?Compelling? Sunday Times A powerful debut exploring the dark side of Cornwall ? the wrecking and the drowned sailors ? where poverty drove villagers to dark deeds? Shipwrecks are part of life in the remote village of Porthmorvoren, Cornwall. And as the...

Lucy Beckett / The Leaves Are Falling (Hardback)

An octogenarian bookseller living alone in London has found a description of his father, as a young doctor in 1920s Breslau, in a story about Weimar Germany. Perhaps his own story might be worth telling? In 1945, as a sixteen-year-old boy rescued from...

Simon Delaney / Watching Over You (Hardback)

An art crime thriller for the ages.  Alternating between London and Paris in the 1940s, the 1960s, and the present, Watching Over You explores the provenance of a collection of paintings hidden from the plundering Nazis during World War II and the...

Robert S. Elegant / Bianca (Hardback)

Set in the Italian Renaissance, this novel of love revisits one of the world's most romantic cities, Venice, where a young noblewoman falls for Francesco de' Medici, one of the richest men in Europe.     This book is second hand, and...

Anita Shreve / All He Ever Wanted (Hardback)

A man escaping from a hotel fire sees a woman standing beneath a tree. He approaches her and sets in motion a series of events that will change his life forever. Years later, travelling from New England to Florida by train, he reflects back on his...