Historical Fiction

The spellbinding and eerie finale to the #1 internationally bestselling “cerebral, immersive” (The Washington Post) historical trilogy follows two unlikely allies as they struggle to end the reign of a powerful cabal of depraved hedonists in...

THE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019.The third book in Colette's enchanting Claudine series.Following the excitement of a shared life in Paris, Claudine's marriage to Renaud has settled into a stale pattern of bickering...

THE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019.The second book in Colette's enchanting Claudine series.Seventeen-year-old Claudine is in despair having left her beloved village Montigny for a new life in Paris. Comforted by her...

Sometimes the secrets of the past are more dangerous than the present...Rome, 1938.As the world teeters on the brink of war, talented pianist Eva Valenti enters the house of widower Dante Cavallera to become his new wife.On the outside, the forces of...

Auschwitz, 1942. `When this is all over, you will be able to tell the world what they did to us.' The Nazis have already ended so many stories way too soon, but can a person truly die if their story lives on? I have to survive. The world needs to know...

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2023**'Tense. Moving. Morally complex. Zina Pavlou is wholly unforgettable.' -- Rachel Rhys'Hugely powerful... Easily one of the best books you'll read this year.' -- Emma ChristieTHEY HAVE...

In 1720, the young William Neilson leaves Edinburgh to make his fortune in Europe, first sailing to Rotterdam and then on foot to Paris, where he meets and is immediately employed by the banker John Law.A day later he is in the Bastille, but not before...

Dublin. The 1920s. As war tears Ireland apart, two young people are caught up in events that will bring love, tragedy - and the hardest of choices.In a country fighting for freedom, it's hard to live a normal life. Winnie O'Leary supports the cause, but...

MARRAKECH 1966 Vicky Baudin steps onto a train winding through Morocco, looking for the grandmother she has never met. It’s an epic journey that’ll take her to the edge of Atlas Mountains – and closer to the answers she’s been...

“A beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel.” –J.M. Miro, Author of the National Bestseller Ordinary Monsters “A fantastically moody, unsettling novel."–Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The...

Equal parts enthralling and frightening, Bluebird is a fictionalized story based on true events following World War II. German teenager Eva Gerst arrives in New York City in 1946 under the pretense that she is there to start a new life...

A New York Times bestselling novel of international suspense and terror from the author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, A Column of Fire, and The Evening and the MorningAs Egypt comes closer and closer to...

#1 New York Times BestsellerOprah's Book Club SelectionThe “extraordinary . . . monumental masterpiece” (Booklist) that changed the course of Ken Follett’s already phenomenal career—and begins where its prequel, The...

A high-speed, high-stakes thriller from Ken Follett, the grand master of international action and suspense.A fabulous "lost masterpiece" becomes the ultimate prize—for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young...

An epic, stunning novel about one family’s search for the true meaning of home in the wake of disaster, from the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo.In present-day Greece, deep in an ancient forest, lives a Irini, a musician, who...

Fortune favors the bold—but is a confirmed spinster daring enough to loosen the reins and accept a favor from the wicked gentleman who haunts her dreams?Lady Anne Deveril doesn’t spook easily. A woman of lofty social standing known for her...

**A BEAUTIFUL HARDBACK SPECIAL EDITION, FEATURING RECIPES AND AN EXCLUSIVE Q&A WITH THE AUTHOR****THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONA BBC 2 'BETWEEN THE COVERS' BOOK CLUB PICK1957, south-east suburbs of London...

The exciting new historical novel in Mark Knowles' Blades of Bronze series. You've read the myths of Ancient Greece... now see how life really was in the Age of Heroes.Decades after the voyage of the fabled Argo, the last remaining Argonauts...

Spend a year in the company of the ancient Greeks during a historic and triumphant Olympic year, and experience the drama and excitement that swept through the city-states as they put aside their political differences to prepare for victory in Olympia...

Evoking two of the most famous battles of the Ancient World—the Battle of Marathon and the Last Stand at Thermopylae—The Gates of Athens is a bravura piece of storytelling by a well acclaimed master of the historical adventure novel.In...