Historical

Lucinda Sly: A Woman Hanged

by Maidhc Dainin O Se & Gabriel Fitzmaurice

Lucinda Sly is a historical novel from one of the great contemporary Irish language prose writers, Maidhc Dainín Ó Sé. Now celebrated poet Gabriel Fitzmaurice brings this gripping account alive in English....

Two Sisters Singing

by Carmen Cullen

Surrounded by the beauty of her native Mayo, eighteen-year-old Lily dreams of being a famous singer on the London stage – but her parents have planned a more normal life for her, taking a degree in UCD. But...

A Case of Doubtful Death: A Frances Doughty Mystery

by Linda Stratmann

A dedicated doctor has set up a waiting mortuary on the borders of Kensal Green cemetery, where corpses are left to decompose before burial to reassure clients that no-one can be buried alive. He collapses and...

The Serpent of the Valois

by Peter Mowbray

It is the year 1589, and on a cold and wet January evening, Catherine de Medici, Queen Mother of France, lies close to death. For the people of this war torn country her demise will be welcome news. This is...

Flowers for Miss Pengelly

by Rosemary Aitken

Cornwall, 1911: Young lady's maid Effie Pengelly is confused and alarmed when charming Constable Alexander Dawes questions her about an unidentified, now deceased man who came to the town asking for her whereabouts....

For King or Commonwealth

by Richard Woodman

An exhilarating high seas adventure set during the English Civil War|1649. England has been torn asunder by a civil war that has pitted Parliamentarians against Royalists. Captain Kit Faulkner, bound to the...

Memories Are Made of This

by June Francis

From one of the genre’s best-loved names, an enthralling historical saga set in 1950s’ Liverpool|Liverpool, 1954. Young Jeanette Walker often wonders what became of her mother who disappeared without trace...

Gage Street Courtesan

by Christopher New

Franziska Goldmann, an opera singer fallen on hard times, has become the star courtesan in 19th century Hong Kong. A chance encounter with Queen Victoria’s musical second son seems to offer Franziska an opportunity...

Crown in Candlelight

by Rosemary Hawley Jarman

Katherine of Valois, rasied amidst the madness and lechery of the French court, wed to a conquering English king, Henry V, and now alone and afraid in a world of treachery and violence. Owen Tudor, incredibly...

Ghost Moth

by Michele Forbes

In this lyrical, evocative debut novel, a family is consumed by dark secrets as tensions rise in Northern Ireland.

ELEPHANT MOON

by John Sweeney

As the Second World War rages, the Japanese Imperial Army enters Burma and the British rulers prepare to flee. But the human legacy of the British Empire will be left behind in the shape of sixty-two Anglo-Burmese...

Roses Have Thorns: A Novel of Elizabeth I

Ladies in Waiting #3

by Sandra Byrd

In 1565, seventeen-year-old Elin von Snakenborg leaves Sweden on a treacherous journey to England. Her fiancé has fallen in love with her sister and her dowry money has been gambled away, but ahead of her lies...

Flash for Freedom!

Flashman Papers #3

by GeorgeMacDonald Fraser

A game of cards leads Flashman from the jungle death-house of Dahomey to the slave state of Mississippi as he dabbles in the slave trade in Volume III of the "Flashman Papers". When Flashman was inveigled into...

The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones: A Novel

by Jack Wolf

The explosive and controversial debut novel by a major new voice in fiction

Meet Tristan Hart, a brilliant young man of means. The year is 1751, and at the age of twenty he leaves home to study medicine...

The House of Special Purpose

by John Boyne

From the author of The Absolutist, a propulsive novel of the Russian Revolution and the fate of the Romanovs.

Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, The House of Special Purpose illuminates an...

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

by Therese Anne Fowler

I wish I could tell everyone who thinks we’re ruined, Look closer…and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

When beautiful, reckless...

The House of Trembling Leaves

by Julian Lees

In 1936 Malaysia, Lu See is ordered to marry a fat, one-eyed banker

Royal Flash

Flashman Papers #2

by GeorgeMacDonald Fraser

In Volume II of the Flashman Papers, Flashman tangles with femme fatale Lola Montez and the dastardly Otto Von Bismarck in a battle of wits which will decide the destiny of a continent. In this volume of The...

Empire of the Sun

by J. G. Ballard

The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China.

Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he...

The Rusticated Duchess

by Elle Q. Sabine

Lady Gloria Swenson has lived through eighteen months she can never forget or escape. Can Lord Clare help her to live, when all she wants to do is hide? When Jeremy Blessing, better known as the Marquess of...