Historical Fiction

Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote the love tale and occult aspiration book Zanoni in 1842. It narrates the tale of Zanoni, the main character, who possesses occult abilities and is aware of the key to perpetual life.The eternal Rosicrucian brother Zanoni cannot...

A fascinating but shadowy figure of Romanticism, John Polidori was the sensitive but fierce writer behind one of literature's most notorious characters—the vampyre. This short story reveals the seductive figure of evil, who continues to exert a...

When Aubrey, a young Englishman, meets a mysterious man from London high society, Lord Ruthven, they become unlikely friends. Shortly after, Aubrey decides to accompany the noble on a trip to Rome. However, when a moral disagreement arises between the...

As part of the Smith & Taylor Classics collection, this edition preserves Fanny Hill in its full provocative force, complete with new critical commentary.  Banned from publication in the United States until 1966 for its...

'There are times, though, that no matter how much food I eat, I find the food does nothing for me, like I am hungry for my country and nothing is going to fix that'This is the story of Darling, uprooted from her family home by paramilitary police, and...

A novel about how cotton workers transformed the Mexico-US borderlands, by a Pulitzer Prize–winning author. In 1934, a young José Revueltas traveled to Tamaulipas to support the cotton workers’ strike in Estación Camarón,...

A woman restoring a historic cottage on the English coast uncovers a startling connection to the past in a haunting and bittersweet novel about art, loss, and love by the author of Closest Kept. Elise, an artist grieving the loss of her son and a...

Secrets, lies and love as the DDR collapses.   It is 1989, and in a small Baltic city in East Germany, the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, three young people from vastly different backgrounds become friends. Armando is a factory worker from...

Award-winning Colombian author Laura Restrepo weaves contemporary themes and ancient myth in this story of star-crossed lovers in a world on the brink of collapse. Retelling the mythical love story between the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon in the...

The King of Tyre is dead, his final words anointing his clever and strong-willed daughter, Elissa, as the new queen until his young son, Pygmalion, comes of age. But betrayal and danger soon haunt Elissa, and she is forced to flee the kingdom. After an...

‘Brilliant… I loved it.’ Santa MontefioreA FORGOTTEN EGYPTIAN GODDESS. A FAMILY IN DANGER.Victorian Egyptologist Clemmie’s dark talents have torn her family apart. Now she has one chance to atone for the past.Clemmie’s gift...

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's GRAIL QUEST series, in a bright and bold repackage.   It is 1347. The Hundred Years War has been suspended. The truce...

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling Harlequin, this is the second instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series. In Harlequin, Thomas of Hookton travelled to France as an archer and there discovered a shadowy destiny, which...

Harlequins are lost souls, so loved by the devil that he would not take them to hell, but left them to roam the earth. In French, the word is hellequin -- the name given to the English archers who crossed the Channel to lay waste the towns and...

If you've never read a Patrick Gale, stop now and pick up this book. From the author of the bestselling NOTES FROM AN EXHIBITION comes an irresistible, searching and poignant historical novel of love, relationships, secrets and escape In the golden...

An oath of loyalty.Two warring kings.A destiny he didn’t choose…England is in turmoil as Vikings and Saxons battle for territory. Rumours build about the fatal sickness of the King, and the country awaits an heir.A violent clash at sea...

The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and the epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series. A divided kingdom An impossible choice The ultimate battle . . . After a lifetime of fighting, the great warrior Lord Uhtred is ready to...

*A brand new companion to the Last Kingdom series, Uhtred’s Feast, is available to pre-order now*The 11th book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions.A hero will be forged from this broken land.As seen on Netflix and BBC...

Britain is at an uneasy peace. After their bloody defeat of Danish-held East Anglia, the West Saxons stand victorious while the Mercians have taken back their land on the border of Northumbria, the last kingdom of Britain still ruled by the pagan...

The eighth novel in Bernard Cornwell’s number one bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. In the battle for power, there can be only one ruler. The ruler of Mercia is dying, leaving no...