Historical Fiction

Synopsis Winner of The Costa Novel Award 2011. An enthralling tale of an extraordinary year in pre-revolutionary Paris from the critically acclai...

Synopsis The Sunday Times Paperback of The Year 2023. In this novel, the bestselling author of Munich and V2 tells the story of the greatest manhun...

Synopsis Multi-Award Winner. The Red Umbrella is a moving tale of a 14-year-old girl's journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pa...

Synopsis Ireland: A Novel by Frank Delaney. Bestselling author Frank Delaney sweeps us off to Ireland with a stunning new novel that captures the...

Synopsis Vespasian #7. AD 58: Rome is in turmoil once more. Emperor Nero has set his heart on a new wife but to clear a path for her, he must firs...

Synopsis Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month for July 2018. Chosen for the Zoe Ball Book Club. Shortlisted for The HWA Debut Crown. In 1627, B...

Synopsis 1468 . . . dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax, rides across a silent land. It's a crime to be out after dark, and Fa...

Synopsis Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2019. Winner - Highland Book Prize. Somerset, 1809. A ravaged soldier drags himself across the thr...

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

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