Historical Fiction

This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his...

Here is twentieth-century woman in close-up, coping with the tragedies and upheavals of women's lives from the First World War to Greenham Common and beyond. This is the ‘edited’ diary of an individual woman, born in 1901, and a story of the...

The most famous anti-war novel ever written. In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is...

The gripping adventure that invented the mystery of Shangri-La. Flying out of India, a light aircraft is hi-jacked and flown into the high Tibetan Himalayas. The few passengers on board anxiously await their fate, among them Conway, a talented British...

Moving between the 1980s and an apocalyptic Australian future, de Kretser’s incandescent novel explores the immigrant experience with an electrifying honesty, pain and compassion. Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize for Fiction 2023. 'When my...

Spring and summer are my mother’s time, autumn and winter are my husband’s. What is left for me? Persephone spends six months of the year under the ground with her husband, king of the dead, and six months on earth with her mother, goddess of...

Part historical fantasy and part mystery, this book about books takes us back and forth in time to a magical world — one that's just out of reach.The Lost Bookshop. In a quiet village in Ireland, a mysterious local myth is about to change...

From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient history, painting the brutal and captivating empire of gods and men, and the one queen destined to rule them all. A common woman. The governor she married...

"A very real, passionate retelling of Morgan le Fay's story, with detail about political and magical lives, and the women who are such a vital part of the tale." —Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author.From the author of Morgan Is My...

'An atmospheric and gripping standalone thriller' - THE TIMES.The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times and one million copy bestselling author of The English Führer. In this brilliant standalone crime novel set in 1930s Munich, Detective...

You've Got Mail for a new generation, set in the days of AOL and instant messenger banter, about a freshly engaged editorial assistant who winds up spending her "summer Fridays" with the person she least expects.Summer 1999: Twentysomething Sawyer...

Murderous goings-on in a tiny church draw the Vatican into the dark heart of Seville. A hacker gets into the Pope's personal computer to leave a warning about mysterious deaths in a small church in Seville that is threatened with demolition. Father...

Otohiko Kaga’s Marshland is an epic novel on a Tolstoyan scale, running from the pre-World War II period to the turbulence of 1960s Japan. At forty-nine, Atsuo Yukimori is a humble auto mechanic living an almost penitentially quiet life in Tokyo,...

The latest installment of the gripping Raven and Fisher mystery series. PRAISE FOR THE RAVEN AND FISHER MYSTERY SERIES.'Brilliantly conceived, fiendishly plotted' -- Mick Herron.'The immersive world of Ambrose Parry just gets better and better' -- Jess...

Historical fiction that will transport you, The Glutton is satisfyingly atmospheric and builds around a core question of the necessity of love and companionship. Brilliantly written with prose that will make you forget you’re even reading, this is...

The second in the Essex Dogs series, this is another easily accessible historical narrative that puts you in a time and a place you’ve never been. Meticulously researched, the rich details only add to the dynamic cast of characters that guide you...

A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England and the secrets lurking on the estate where we she works, for fans of Fingersmith andThe Confessions of Frannie LangtonThe library is under lock and key...

A vivid, thrilling, and moving World War II art-heist-adventure tale where enemies become heroes, allies become villains, and a child learns what it means to become an adult—that “has the ring of truth and the echo of myth...[deserving of]...

A tender feat of humanity, loyalty and hope, Familiaris is a quietly stunning, atmospheric prequel story that explores the history of mankind’s ambition (and the millennia-long interspecies bond that got us here).The follow-up to the beloved #1 New...

This nuanced and compassionate period novel from the author of The Sealwoman's Giftexplores late-blooming love and rekindled ambition in the shadow of the nineteenth-century Highland Clearances. Jamesina Ross is long finished with men. But one night a...