Historical Fiction

Synopsis Shardlake #5 England, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is prepari...

Synopsis Sunday Times Bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick. Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Debut Book of the Year 2020. To s...

Synopsis Cato & Marco Book (Eagles of The Empire) Book #14 Now a Sunday Times bestseller! Simon Scarrow's veteran Roman soldier heroes face a c...

Synopsis With an introduction by Martin Scorsese. Shusaku Endo is Japan's foremost novelist, and Silence is generally regarded to be his masterpiec...

Synopsis From the creator of Downton Abbey. Now a major ITV drama. This is the story of a secret, A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors...

Synopsis Manchester, 1819. Prices are high and wages are low, but as the poor become poorer, the rich are alarmed by their calls for reform. Mill-w...

Synopsis 'Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them . . .' So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian ...

Synopsis All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of s...

Synopsis Counting the Stars is a captivating tale of forbidden love and bestselling author Helen Dunmore's tenth novel. In the heat of Rome's long ...

Synopsis  A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick. Theo Miller is young, bright and ambitious when he and his earnest younger sister Maud step off the tr...

Synopsis Cornwall, 1920, early spring. A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless and without family. ...

Synopsis A dramatic new departure for international bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, Fools & Mortals takes us into the heart of the Elizab...

Synopsis The Sunday Times Bestseller. On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the Thames, the regulars are entertaining themselves by tell...

Synopsis Cromwell Trilogy #2 Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012. Winner of the Costa Book of The Year 2012. Bringing Up the Bodies is a historical...

Synopsis Winner of the 1970 the Lost Man Booker prize. Troubles is a modern classic by a superb writer. Insights into 20th Century life in Ireland,...

Synopsis "It was so twentieth century and concrete and hard and opened up to the sky with no alleys or big wooden doorways. ‘Unforgiving’ might be ...

Synopsis Vespasian #1. 26 AD: Sixteen-year-old Vespasian leaves his family farm for Rome, his sights set on finding a patron and following his bro...

Synopsis Longlisted for the Booker Prize. After the upheavals of the Second World War, the Richardson family - Sam, Ellen and their young son Joe -...

Synopsis Tudor Saga #8. Jean Plaidy's Tudor series continues with the scandalous and heartbreaking story of Margaret Tudor, a princess who leaves E...

Synopsis Recently discovered, and with an introduction by Johnny Depp, this is legendary American folk singer Woody Guthrie’s only finished novel: ...

Synopsis Cousins War #3 The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty...