Historical Fiction

Synopsis The Winner of The Orange Prize 2012. Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of Ki...

Synopsis A Mercy is Toni Morrison's ninth novel. It was published in 2008. Set in colonial America in the late 17th century, it is the story of a E...

Synopsis Number 1 Bestseller. Shardlake #6 England, 1546: King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are e...

Synopsis The astonishing and epic novel that won the 2013 Man Booker Prize. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the Ne...

 Synopsis A Guardian Best Book of The 21st Century. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Award. Pat Barker continues...

Synopsis The Great War took much more than lives. It robbed a generation of friends, lovers and futures. In Freddie Watson's case, it took his belo...

Synopsis A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice 2019 & The Sunday Times Bestseller. The Doll Factory by Elizabeth MacNeal is the intoxicating story o...

Synopsis A TLS Book of The Year. Who was the real George Eliot? In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling st...

Synopsis Winner Costa Book Awards 2017. Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2018. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's ...

Synopsis The Last Crossing is a sweeping tale of breathtaking quests, adventurous detours, and hard-won redemption. Englishmen Charles and Adding...

Synopsis Winner of the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2021. Winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year 2020. Winner of the Women's Pr...

Synopsis Winner Costa Book Awards 2019. "They say I must be put to death for what happened to Madame, and they want me to confess. But how can I ...

Synopsis From the Whitbread Award winning author of: A Good Man in Africa and the Costa Award winning Restless, a sweeping, electrifying new novel ...

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 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 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 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 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 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 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...