Historical Fiction

'George RR Martin meets Terry Pratchett' OBSERVER     ***NOW A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER IN HARDBACK***     Sir Tony Robinson - actor, presenter, historical expert and star of Blackadder and Time...

‘A book to underline endlessly, to carry around until battered, and then to tell all your friends to buy because you’re too reluctant to give up your own copy. A wonder’ Polly Barton ‘Brings a welcome freshness of vision and...

A unique love story, a tale of loss, a parable of Europe, this haunting novel is an examination of intimacy and betrayal in a community rarely captured so vibrantly in contemporary literature.Zoli Novotna, a young woman raised in the traveling Gypsy...

International Bestseller Shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award “Luminescent. Colum McCann has taken the monumental force of the past and created from it a novel of wrenching emotional dimension, a novel resplendent with...

Sir Thomas Blackstone heads into enemy lands with a price on his head. A thrilling Master of War medieval adventure.THE MASTER OF WAR RIDES AGAIN.1368, Northern Italy. As the Hundred Years' War smoulders, the Duke of Clarence, second son of Edward III,...

Each time the globe turns, murder strikes…   1597, London. When Beatrice’s husband returns from exploring the New World, he comes home with unexpected company: a mysterious woman, and an enormous painted globe. As Hugh refuses to...

One man at the heart of American power must undertake a crucial wartime spy mission that will take him into enemy territory before he even leaves US soil.Washington DC, 1941.Quincy Kane, hero of the Boston Police Department and scourge of organised...

Her mother was taken by the Nazis. Would she ever find her way home? Inspired by the true story of how Jewish people escaped fascist Germany, helped by two extraordinary sisters.'I adored it. A truly heartrending, stirring, important novel, perfect...

‘A fascinating and engrossing read’ LORRAINE KELLY ‘Moving and hugely entertaining’ RICHARD MADELEY ‘Loved it’ FERN BRITTON It is 1937, and Europe is on the brink of change… Kitty has escaped her family home in...

HEVER CASTLE HOLDS ALL THE BOLEYN SECRETS...Hever Castle was the home of the Boleyn family and this brilliant and breathtakingly dramatic novel charts the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn through her wider family, entourage and servants.The Boleyns are one...

Odette and Cecilia are young women, living between their grand homes in Hampstead and the imposing, ancient Herne House in Suffolk. Though Odette's artist mother Lydia keeps a tight grasp on her, she and her beloved Cecilia are mostly left free to roam,...

1953. Refugee Mei has tried to bury her 'gift' of speaking to ghosts, but then former silent film star Holly Zhang invites her to be one of six mediums competing over a series of séances at the infamous Maidenhair House. The startling summons...

The bestselling author of the Giordano Bruno books returns with the first instalment of a page-turning historical series that pitches Tudor secret agent Sophia de Wolfe into a dangerous game with the royal court. England, 1598. Queen Elizabeth’s...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2026FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE DARK ROOM AND A BOY IN WINTER'A complex, intelligent, deeply compassionate novel about the unglamorous aftermath of war ...

⭐ A creeping story of sibling rivalry and dangerous obsession from the multi-award nominated author of Sunburn ⭐ January 1965. The orphaned O'Leary siblings - Tom, Jack, Anna and Peggy - arrive in the village of Ballycrea, tight-lipped...

‘If you haven’t read Kate Morton before, do yourself a favour’ – Graham Norton Kate Morton’s global bestselling novel, The Secret Keeper, is a spellbinding story of secrets, murder and enduring love. 1961: On a...

'Every time I think Kristin Harmel's books can't get any better, they do' Sally Hepworth'A gorgeous, ensemble novel that will have you packing your bags for France!' Evie Woods'Romantic, sweeping, and deeply emotional-this is Kristin Harmel at...

A powerful novel of fate, resistance, and family by an international bestselling author.War has torn them apart . . . Can fate bring them back together?When newlywed Ruby Henderson Benoit arrives in Paris in 1939 with her French husband Marcel, she...

Emily thinks she's lost everything . . . until a mysterious painting leads her to what she wants most in the world. The new novel from the author of international bestsellers The Sweetness of Forgetting and The Life Intended shows why her books are...

'Kristin Harmel is firmly in the top echelon of WW2 storytellers' HEATHER MORRIS'A master storyteller' SANTA MONTEFIORE'The best at sweeping historical drama' KELLY HARMS'A dazzling diamond of a novel' HAZEL GAYNOR***Paris, 1942: In...