Historical

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...

The Judge's Daughter

by Ruth Hamilton

Set in the beautiful Lancashire moorside town of Skirlaugh, THE JUDGE’S DAUGHTER is the stirring story of two very different families whose lives have become inextricably tangled Agnes Makepeace has always...

Wolves of the North

Warrior of Rome #5

by Harry Sidebottom

In the fifth novel in Harry Sidebottom's acclaimed and bestselling Warrior of Rome historical fiction series, Ballista returns to undertake yet another epic mission -- while the Roman Empire reels in chaos around...

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 Strangler's Waltz

by Richard Lord

Vienna 1913: The capital of a sprawling empire, Vienna is also one of the world’s most cultured and vibrant cities. It’s a city devoted to the swank//grand pursuit of life’s pleasures. But suddenly, the...

The House of Trembling Leaves

by Julian Lees

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

Greek Fire

by James Boschert

In the fourth book of Talon, James Boschert delivers fast-paced adventures, packed with violent confrontations and intrepid heroes up against hard odds. Imprisoned for brawling in Acre, a coastal city in the...

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...

The Escape Artist

by Judith Katz

Tour de force Jewish historical fiction written with lush language and the dizzying rhythms of a klezmer tune

Shelter from the Storm

by Elizabeth Gill

1877, Durham.

After a traumatic incident, a woman gives birth to a child and is persuaded by her husband to give him up to a local couple.

On the same dark and stormy night, a local pit owner turns his wife...