Historical fiction

The third book in the Smythe-Smith Quartet, a dazzlingly witty series by the bestselling author of Bridgerton. Hugh Prentice has never had patienc...

THE FINAL FREY & McGRAY MYSTERY All will be revealed... * * * * * The Devil Has Come to Edinburgh... An ill-fated grave-robbery unearths a c...

The thrilling third instalment in the epic LIONHEART series from Sunday Times Bestselling author, Ben Kane. Warleader Autumn 1192. With Jerusalem ...

The captivating new Tudor novel from Alison Weir, Sunday Times bestselling author of Six Tudor Queens. 'Alison Weir gives us her most compelling ...

1689: the Resoration enabled the Morland family to restore their own fortune, but now the Jacobite rebellion brings another threat to their securit...

Review What Mary Renault did with Alexander the Great, Geraldine Brooks has done with King David: breathed life into an ancient hero. Haunting, ex...

Review Fresh and original... a narrative rich in historical detail, brightened by flashes of humor, and filled with colorful characters and fascin...

Review This fine novel by one of Northern Ireland's most accomplished contemporary writers ... brilliantly evokes wartime love and heartbreak. -- ...

At the turn of the nineteenth century, Napol�on and his beloved Jos�phine inhabit the Tuileries Palace. During the years they have been married it ...

Tall, dark, and exquisitely sensual, Joseph Fawcitt is the epitome of male perfection. Not that Claudia Martin is looking for a lover. Or a husband...

Michael Dobbs, author of the No. 1 bestseller that inspired the hit Netflix series House of Cards, returns to the subject that made him a household...

Summer 1553: A time of danger and deceit. Brendan Prescott, an orphan, is reared in the household of the powerful Dudley family. Brought to court, ...

Review A brilliant writer, with a real sense of history -- Susanna Gregory If you like dark, atmospheric, historical fantasy, then this is defini...

After saving the Empire's richest province from a foreign army, Marcus and the men who protect him have been in hiding. Their lives will be forfeit...

A beautiful tale of endurance, identity, and memory in WWII Singapore, for fans of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Nguyen Phan Que Mai's The Mountains S...

In this emotional novel based on Greece's real history we follow three generations of one family, broken apart by secrets and war, as Olivia travel...

Review "Poetic . . . Distinctive and compelling . . . Thorp's poignant and surprising narrative allows a character absent from the original play t...

AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2021 'Seductive . . . Gorgeous' The Times 'Gives voice to one of fiction's most conspicuously absent women' i ...

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK 1628. Embarking on a journey in search of her ...

'Historical fiction at its finest' - Belfast Telegraph Dorset, 1642. When bloody civil war breaks out between the King and Parliament, families a...

Sailing from the North African port of Tangier to a small, distant town called Paris are a Jewish merchant, Ben Attar, his two beloved wives and ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work w...

About the Author Kenya born, Irish by blood and UK resident, Ben Kane's passion for history has seen him change career from veterinary medicine to...

Review 'A tender, evocative retelling of the life of the poet Charles Causley . . . Patrick Gale's descriptions of the power of ordinary things in...

Product Description In this new series, based on real-life animal tales, discover that not all heroes wear capes – some have four legs, a wet nose...

Review Emotionally rewarding and elegantly written, with textured characters and a captivating plot, this is James at her best ― Kirkus Reviews (s...

Review Louise Erdrich is the rarest kind of writer, as compassionate as she is sharp-sighted -- Anne Tyler A novel that reckons with ghosts - of ...

The year is 1777. The place, North Carolina. And as the American rebellion grows in intensity, Highlander Jamie Fraser and his wife Claire need to...

About the Author PHILIP GOODEN is a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford. He writes books about language as well as historical crime novels. The f...

Review Praise for Jerry Toner and Marcus Sidonius Falx: A fascinating creation ... Here we have a chatty, persuasive, and even likeable voice gui...

When Marie moves from her family's waxwork museum into the palace of Versailles, her whole life is set to change...When Marie Tussaud learns the ex...

Alexander the Fatherless: nephew of the villainous King March of Cornwall, who murdered his father. Burning with vengeance, Alexander sets out on a...

A young writer is brutally attacked in her home and left for dead. For her sister Nina Bergmann, it's the beginning of a nightmare that will threat...

'Vibrant and shocking. A fine new play [with] countless stirring scenes. that boils over with the chaos of war. Nunnery wears her research lightly ...

Main ideas: The novel follows Joanna of Swanscombe, a chamber lady to the queen who unexpectedly becomes a wealthy heiress and marries King Henry ...

Product Description In 1360, the Great Bridge over the River Cam is close to collapse. To repair it will cost the town and the University dear...

About the Author Attia Hosain (1913-1998) was born in Lucknow and educated at La Martiniere and Isabella Thoburn College, blending an English ...

Product Description Palmares hails the return of a major voice in literature - 'the best American novelist whose name you may not know' (Atla...

Product Description A compelling story of hidden secrets and forbidden love, from the bestselling author of The Secrets of the Tides'If she could...

The brutal battle for power continues in the fourth book in the epic Empire of the Moghul series. Agra, India, 1606. Jahangir, the triumphant Mogh...

1793: The French have killed their king and are about to embark on the violent period of bloodletting known as the Terror. Brig-sloop Commander Nat...

Review Written in and about the decade 1939-1949, the stories in this high caliber anthology are the work of women, chiefly English (five Amer...

Product Description 'One of Singapore's finest living authors'South China Morning Post'Simply glorious. Every nook and cranny of 1930s Singapo...

Review An exhilarating novel, so evocative of the lives of broke, hedonistic art graduates in the 70s and all the joy and recklessness of yout...

Product Description The third book in the Bevelstoke series: witty, irresistibly romantic and by the bestselling author of the global phenomen...

Product Description York railway station, December, 1925. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer is enjoying a pint in the Parlour Bar before accompany...

Review If ever a couple ... became an era, it was F Scott Fitzgerald and his glamorous "flapper" wife, Zelda. They were the Jazz Age. ― Indepe...

'A young woman's battle for acceptance in a male-dominated world; her misadventures in love; and her torturous journey to track down her real paren...