Historical Fiction

Three women, five centuries, one spellbinding story. In the present day, Kate flees a traumatic relationship to the Cumbrian cottage she inherited from her great-aunt; but the cottage hides secrets of its own. In 1942, Violet rebe…

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Discover the powerful prizewinning story of a family in crisis. On a farm outside Pretoria, the Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and A…

From the New York Times bestselling author of Room comes a moving set of historical stories spanning centuries and continents.The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghues stories have all gone astray: th…

To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community in Puritan New England. One disciple, Dr Arthur Lyman, discovers in the minister's words a love so captivating …

Melike should be happy: school is shut and her parents have stopped hosting parties for their rowdy political friends. But she’s scared.She can tell from her parents’ urgent whispers about prison, invasion and military coups that …

Tense, dark, and richly layered' Katy Hays'Dark and compelling. Fans of Lessons In Chemistry will adore it' RedLois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husb…

She can see the future, but can she change it?It is the early days of the French Revolution and, on the streets of Paris, terror reigns. Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand is a young woman with an extraordinary power - through her taro…

They Never Met. But Their Lives Are Bound by a Secret, a Sacrifice, and a Story That Demands to Be Told… New York playwright Melina Green has never seen her work on stage. In a man’s world, only through a lie can she get the recog…

In thirteenth-century Ireland, a woman with power is a woman to be feared. When a young Alice Kyteler sees her mother wither under the constraints of family responsibilities, she vows that she won't suffer the same fate. Soon Alic…

It’s 1536 and the Queen has been beheaded. Lady Grace Fairfax, witch, knows that something foul is at play – that someone had betrayed Anne Boleyn and her coven.Wild with the loss of their leader – and her lover, a secret that if …

A STORY OF UNBREAKABLE FRIENDSHIP AND THE PRICE OF FREEDOM Beijing in the 1970s. Lai lives with her parents, grandmother and youngerbrother in a small flat in a working-class area. Her grandmother is a formidable figure, while her…

It all started the weekend the Hidden Man came to Westbury Park...Croydon, 1964. Art therapist Helen Hansford is working in a psychiatric hospital, where she has been having passionate but precarious affair with her married collea…

The Mummy meets Death on the Nile in this lush, immersive historical romantasy set in 19th century Egypt, filled with adventure, laugh-out-loud banter, a slow-burn rivals-to-lovers romance, and a dangerous race.  A divine explorat…

Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus Reviews, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Oprah Daily, Real Simple, and VogueA riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned…

From Beatrice Hitchman, an acclaimed and powerful talent in historical fiction, a literary novel set in a bohemian enclave of Vienna about love, freedom, and what constitutes a family.Set in Vienna from 1910 to 1946, All of You Ev…

From the beloved, critically acclaimed, bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving novel featuring Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Toibin's most popular work in twenty years.Eilis Lacey is Irish, m…

From the author Sally Rooney called "bold, irreverent, and agonizingly funny," a wildly original coming-of-age novel about a teenage girl working at Andy Warhol's Factory in 1960s New York.New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old M…

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that paints a vivid portrait of life in the Great Depression Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter…

In this brilliant novel, Hilary Mantel brings the opulent, brutal world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life. It is the backdrop to the rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell: lowborn boy, charmer, bully, master of deadly intrigue a…

The new historical novel from literary legend Isabel AllendeEmilia del Valle was always destined for great things.Abandoned at birth by her Chilean aristocrat father, Emilia comes of age in nineteenth-century San Francisco as an i…

Venice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here – like the glass the island’s maestros spend their lives perfecting.In secret, Orsola Rosso learns to craft glass. As a woman, she must flout convention to s…

The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls'Brilliant, masterful . . .Barker strips away the glittering armour of myth' Guardian After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lie…

At the close of the eighteenth century, Angel Kelly, an Irishman, sets sail from Liverpool aboard the Atlas with the intention of creating a Utopian commune in Brazil. But when a mutiny takes place on the ship, he finds himself s…

'One of the greatest storytellers of our time' - Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing'A story of love, family, unbreakable bonds, bravery and hope' - Christy Lefteri, author of The Beekeeper of AleppoThe Four Winds, an i…

'One of the greatest storytellers of our time' - Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads SingIn this unforgettable portrait of human frailty and resilience, Kristin Hannah reveals the indomitable character of the modern American…

Hanging beside the door is a painting of a wedding feast. The light is centred on the bride; the guests are banished to the shade.That is how it is when he looks at her: all others fade away. Geertje, an impoverished widow from Ed…

Those eyes are fixed on someone. But who? What is she thinking as she stares out from one of the world’s best-loved paintings? Johannes Vermeer can spot exceptional beauty. When servant girl Griet catches his eye, she soon becomes…

Here was one who would squeeze the sun in her fist if she ever got the chance; yes, and tilt her head back to swallow its liquid light.  August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Twenty-one year old Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, wea…

Northern Germany, 1945. Dead of night and dead of winter, a boy hears soldiers and sees strangers - forced labourers - fleeing across the heathland by his small town: shawls and skirts in the snowfall.The end days are close, war b…

February 6, 1958, British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on take-off at Munich Airport. On board were the young Manchester United team, 'the Busby Babes', and the journalists who followed them.Twenty-one of the passengers die…