Historical

Marion Husband Free Sampler

by Marion Husband

The Guardian described The Boy I Love as 'impressive...'. With this free sampler you have the opportunity to discover a wonderful new writing talent - Marion Husband. 

Emperor: The Gods of War

by Conn Iggulden

From the author of the bestselling The Dangerous Book for Boys

The year is 53 B.C. Fresh from victory in Gaul, Julius Caesar leads battle-hardened legions across the Rubicon river–threatening Rome herself....

Up from the Ashes: A Western Quest Series Novel

by Stephen L. Turner

Aaron Turner returned from the devastating War Between the States to find Texas prostrate under the heel of Yankee soldiers, carpetbaggers and scalawags during Reconstruction. Texans' rights were swept away...

On the Road to Glory: A Western Quest Series Novel

by Stephen L. Turner

ON THE ROAD TO GLORY, the fifth volume in the Western Quest Series, follows Aaron Lloyd Turner, his brothers David and Noah, and their brother-in-law, Pinckney Hawkins, through the greatest tragedy in American...

The Conjurer's Bird: A Novel

by Martin Davies

The Conjurer’s Bird is a beautiful story in the spirit of Possession that is as exciting as The Club Dumas, inspired by one of the great puzzles of natural history: that of the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta. Seen...

The Lady of the Sea: The Third of the Tristan and Isolde Novels

by Rosalind Miles

The final thrilling chapter in the Tristan and Isolde trilogy . . .

Isolde, heir to the throne of the queens, is now a sovereign in her own right. With the glories of the throne comes the responsibility of a...

Under the Poppy: a novel

by Kathe Koja

Love: it’s a triangle. War: is coming. Betrayal: is inevitable. Sex: watch out for the naughty puppets.

On Agate Hill: A Novel

by Lee Smith

A dusty box discovered in the wreckage of a once prosperous plantation on Agate Hill in North Carolina contains the remnants of an extraordinary life: diaries, letters, poems, songs, newspaper clippings, court...

Love and Death in Bali

by Vicki Baum & Nigel Barley

Set against the backdrop of the Dutch invasion of Bali just over a century ago, and the resulting "mass suicides" of the Balinese royalty, Love and Death in Bali uses the tales of ordinary people to tell the...

A Name in Blood

by Matt Rees

Italy, 1605: For the ruling Borghese family, Rome is a place of grand palazzos and frescoed cathedrals. For the lowly artist Caravaggio, it is a place of rough bars, knife fights, and grubby whores. Until he...

Harp of Burma

by Michio Takeyama & Howard Hibbett

Winner of the prestigious Mainichi Shuppan Bunkasho prize, and the subject of an acclaimed film by Ichikawa Kon, Harp of Burma is the story of a company of Japanese soldiers who are losing a desperate campaign...

Vita Sexualis: A Novel

by Ogai Mori, Sanford Goldstein & Kazuji Ninomiya

Though banned three weeks after its publication in 1909, Vita Sexualis is far more than a prurient erotic novel. The narrator, a professor of philosophy, wrestles with issues of sexual desire, sex education,...

We Shall Not Sleep

Anne Perry's World War One #5

by Anne Perry

Anne Perry’s magnificent Victorian mysteries established her as one of the world’s best known and loved historical novelists. Now, in her vividly imagined World War I novels, Perry’s talents “have taken...

The Promise

by Freda Lightfoot

San Francisco, 1904. Georgia Briscoe, a young woman from a good family, is unwillingly betrothed to businessman Drew Kemp when she falls for handsome British sailor Ellis Cowper. Drew has the charm to dazzle...

It Had To Be You

by June Francis

1952. Orphaned as a young child, Emma Booth was raised by her grandparents in a Lancashire village. But when she stumbles across a letter written in 1940, the revealing contents make Emma realise everything...

Underground

by Gayle O'Brien

Runaway Annie finds a 150-year-old letter from a southern white girl travelling the slave underground

Red Gold: A Novel

Night Soldiers #5

by Alan Furst

"In the world of the espionage thriller, Alan Furst is in a class of his own."--William Boyd

Paris. Autumn, 1941. In a shabby hotel off the place Clichy, the course of the French resistance is about to change....

Birds Without Wings

by Louis De Bernieres

In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history....

Shoulder the Sky: A Novel

Anne Perry's World War One #2

by Anne Perry

In the firmament of great historical novelists, Anne Perry is a star of the greatest magnitude. First there were her acclaimed Victorian mysteries, sparkling with passion and suspense. Now readers have embraced...

Renny's Daughter

by Mazo de la Roche

It is 1948, and Adeline Whiteoak is voyaging overseas with her Uncle Finch and cousin Maurice. Onboard she meets a charming Irishman and falls in love, which leads to scandal. Back in Canada, death and destruction...