Alternative history fiction
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Mordrake's Whisper: Nightland: Collected Short Stories 2016
£14.91
£24.46
Breakwater Books,Canada Baggage
£14.96
Soft Skull Press Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother
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£14.39
Thomas Nelson Publishers Angel Song
£12.34
Thomas Nelson Publishers Infidel
£8.99
Thomas Nelson Publishers Sweet Caroline
Book SynopsisCaroline serves others with little time to enjoy the sweeter parts of life. Until her old boyfriend returns to town--and she's given a second chance at first love.Life hasn't always been so sweet for Caroline Sweeny.She's sacrifice her desires for others--unlike her mother who abandoned their family years ago. But when a friend challenges her to accept an exciting job adventure in Spain, Caroline says "yes" to a new destiny.But before she can pack her bags, Caroline suddenly finds herself the new owner of the run-down Frogmore Café--and forced to choose between her friends and her future.Then her first love, Mitch O'Neal, returns home and encourages her to seek God's desires for her future. With his help, she may just discover the true sweet life.
£11.99
Phoenix Pick An Elephant for Aristotle
£17.58
Phoenix Pick Over the Wine-Dark Sea
£16.59
Phoenix Pick The Gryphon's Skull
£16.59
Phoenix Pick The Sacred Land
£16.59
Phoenix Pick Owls to Athens
£17.58
Phoenix Pick The Hemingway Hoax-Hugo and Nebula Winning Novella
£16.59
Start Publishing LLC The Buntline Special
£16.14
Strategic Book Publishing The Mountain of Long Eyes: An Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy
£12.56
She Writes Press Elmina's Fire: A Novel
Book SynopsisWhat happens when a troubled young woman dares to follow the stirrings of her soul in turbulent times? Elmina begins life with a troubled childhood in a medieval French town—a childhood that turns her into a spiritually seeking young woman who dares to follow the stirrings of her soul. Her idealism and love lead her to leave a Cathar school and follow the man who will become Saint Dominic. As the world around her erupts into the Albigensian Crusade, Elmina finds herself complicit in its horror, and her spiritual and emotional life begins to unravel. With the aid of the counsel of her wise prior, Brother Noel, Elmina learns to paint her experiences within a sacred circle—a practice that helps her discover the origins of her lifelong fears and wrestle with questions that are as divisive today as they were eight centuries ago: the nature of God, the purpose of creation, the nature of evil, and the possibility of reincarnation.Trade Review“Elmina’s Fire grabbed me from the start and held on. This is the story of a young woman’s search for spiritual truth. When she leaves her Cathar family to follow the man who would become St. Dominic, she must confront not only her internal demons but ultimately the external horrors of the Abigensian Crusade. More than once while reading I felt myself holding my breath. Linda Carleton has written Elmina’s story so close to the bone, it has the feel of memoir—more remembered than imagined.” —Joan Lee Hunter, Writing Coach, Fifth House Lodge, Bridgton, ME “With Elmina's Fire, Linda Carleton has succeeded in recreating the challenges of an important if little-known period of the High Middle Ages. In telling her compelling story of desire and the human condition, she captures the world of the medieval Catharism as well as the portentous events that were destined to shape the modern world. If you have ever wanted to understand the world of the Cathars, and what happened to it, you cannot do better than read Elmina's Fire.” —James McDonald, Cathar Historian, St-Ferriol, France "In Elmina, Linda Carleton has given us a most unusual heroine: a humble young woman of the Crusades, whose epic struggles with her past actions, her faith, her convictions, and the mysterious demons that plague her follow her into a cloistered life. Elmina’s narrative is addressed directly to God. We are merely eavesdroppers on the most intimate of confessions, in which the stakes are life or death. In serene prose undergirded by deep historical knowledge and the passion of one who knows her subject intimately, Carleton weaves her tale like the weavers in her “Good Christian” ostal, a tapestry both terrifying and beautiful." —Katherine Czepiel, author of A Violet Season “In Elmina’s Fire, Linda Carleton provides a captivating and detailed chronicle of a young woman’s story as she struggles with envy and guilt and chooses a religion to embrace—a story based centuries ago in a medieval French town. Linda invokes the reader's deep compassion from the start as if it were Linda's memoir. She eloquently walks us through Elmina’s inner rivalry between good and evil from the opening, and carries the reader side by side through the journey to Elmina’s final move.” —Rebecca Whitehead Munn, author of The Gift of Goodbye: A Story of Agape Love "A sparkling, spiritual gem of a tale that splendidly illuminates the searing soul-searching of Cathars and Catholics in medieval Languedoc. Carleton's achievement makes historical fiction a retelling of history and a discovery of self.” —Stephen O'Shea, author of The Perfect Heresy and The Friar of Carcassonne “Both historical and contemporary, esoteric and intensely human, Elmina’s Fire invokes an awareness of our immortal connection to the past, and the need to question the inconsistencies birthed through years of repressed questioning. This book is a true work of art that captures the yearning of every spiritual aspirant who confronts the relationship between devotion and desire, wisdom and love, past and future.” —Rev. Richard Burdick, Unity North Atlanta "An inherently fascinating, unfailingly entertaining, consistently engaging novel from cover to cover, Elmina's Fire reveals author Linda Carleton's genuine flair as a novelist for original and deftly crafted storytelling." —MBR Bookwatch
£12.34
Bloomsbury Publishing The Kingdoms
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£16.20
Chump Change Three Lives
£9.46
Suzeteo Enterprises It Can't Happen Here
Book SynopsisIt Can''t Happen Here. Are we so sure? Many would suggest that it certainly could happen ''here,'' which is precisely the point that Sinclair Lewis was making when he wrote this book in 1935. This, incidentally, was still a few years before the worst fears would unfold in Germany, giving the book a somewhat prophetic flair. Based on the American Democrat, Huey Long, it has been, despite that, often been associated with ''right wing'' movements. This is ironic, as only a few years later it would be the Democrat FDR that would put American-Japanese citizens into concentration camps using ''emergency powers,'' much as the book''s protagonist, Berzelius Windrip, was portrayed as doing, after beating FDR in 1936. In case you miss the irony: the real-life FDR actually did what the fictional Windrip was portrayed as doing!The long history of abandoning civil rights using emergency powers was reprised more recently during the COVID pandemic, when Western nations and individual US states, ostensibly ''democracies,'' nonetheless invoked emergency powers to enact all sorts of authoritarian measures.Thus, when pondering whether or not ''it can happen here'' (which all assume it can) we are perhaps left with a more intriguing question: Why hasn''t it happened here? And then, once this has been answered, work to ensure that the factors that have prevented a full-blown authoritarian regime from materializing in the United States are retained and strengthened.
£23.00
Cosimo Classics The Last President or 1900
£16.59
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Last American President
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Stuck Dave Freedom Skies
£9.99
Rebellion Publishing Ltd. Cold Water
Book SynopsisTo uncover the truth, you must risk everythingWhen Carey Tews retired from Les Coureurs - the clandestine organisation of high-risk smugglers - she swore she'd never go back. Her cover in Hungary was blown, and even if she could have returned, she wouldn't. That is, until an old friend and lover is found dead in mysterious circumstances.Back for one last job in a Europe fractured into a hundred tiny principalities, with civil unrest and political instability the norm, she must navigate local authorities, rogue operatives and Russian spies. What she doesn't know is that the investigation will take her to places she couldn't even imagine. Trade Review‘A spellbinding novel of intrigue and paranoia.’ -- The Guardian * The Guardian *Europe in Autumn is the work of a consummate storyteller and combines great characters, a cracking central idea, and a plot that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Excellent.--Eric Brown, author of Helix‘High-octane thrills, mind-twisting concepts, smart and engaging storytelling.’ -- Locus * Locus *"Dave Hutchinson's Europe in Autumn, presents a near-future Europe fractured into hundreds of nations or "polities", each with its own strictly controlled border. The Les Coureurs des Bois is a shady organisation which delivers packages, and sometimes people, across these borders. Estonian chef Rudi, working in Krakow when the novel opens, is drawn into the organisation and finds himself embroiled in ever more complex situations. Hutchinson draws a convincing picture of a fragmented continent - he's especially good at describing the industrial wasteland of the former Poland - as Rudi finds his life under threat. Unable to trust anyone, especially Les Coureurs, Rudi attempts to work out who wants him dead, and why. The author's authoritative prose, intimate knowledge of eastern Europe, and his fusion of Kafka with Len Deighton, combine to create a spellbinding novel of intrigue and paranoia." -- The Guardian‘An awesome concoction of sci-fi and spies.’ -- Tor.com * Tor.com *A clever, complicated tale of dirty tricks, spies and politics * The Guardian *
£999.99
Independently Published QUANTUM American Revolution
£14.11
Aziloth Books The White Company
£13.26
Valancourt Books Hubert's Arthur
£25.49
Kudu Publishing America Under Attack: An Alternative History of World War Two
£20.09
Crowe Press Darkness Descends
£10.26
Cosimo Classics The Last President or 1900
£9.67
Independently Published Confederate Union: The War of Northern Secession
£17.15
Independently Published Confederate Union: The Confederate Union War
£16.78
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Bede's Way
£12.39
Simon & Schuster The Shamshine Blind
Book SynopsisA beguiling blend of noir detective story and science fiction perfect for fans of Michael Chabon and Emily St. John Mandel, ?this fiercely intelligent and utterly original debut? (Anna North, New York Times bestselling author) imagines a world where emotions have been weaponized, and a small-town law enforcement agent uncovers a conspiracy to take down what?s left of American democracy.In an alternate 2009, the United States has been a second-rate power for a quarter of a century, ever since Argentina?s victory in the Falkland?s War thanks to their development of ?psychopigments.? Created as weapons, these colorful chemicals can produce almost any human emotion upon contact, and they have been embraced in the US as both pharmaceutical cure-alls and popular recreational drugs. Black market traders illegally sell everything from Blackberry Purple (which causes terror) to Sunshine Yellow (which delivers happiness). Psychopigment Enforcement Agent Kay Curtida works a beat in Daly City, just outside the ruins of San Francisco, chasing down smalltime crooks. But when an old friend shows up with a tantalizing lead on a career-making case, Curtida?s humdrum existence suddenly gets a boost. Little does she know that this case will send her down a tangled path of conspiracy and lead to an overdue reckoning with her family and with the truth of her own emotions. Told in the voice of a funny, brooding, Latinx Sam Spade, The Shamshine Blind is ?a rip-roaring beautifully crafted mash-up of cop noir, sci-fi, and alt-history that left me dazzled by its prescience and literary zing? (Leah Hampton, author of F*ckface).
£16.19
Independently Published The Wolf & The Stranger: The Elementyls
£10.15
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Sub Rosa America, Book I: Gone to Croatan
£12.97
Beck Books The King Stone
£12.83
Christian Adelwohrer Noola and the Whale Changeling: Edition Anastasiia Chekmazova
£13.92
Ediciones Grainart Cartas perdidas de una historia olvidada
£13.16
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Mirage
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Little, Brown & Company Afterwar
Book SynopsisThey say the war''s over when the surrender is signed. It''s a lie.America''s bloody Second Civil War lasted for years. When the surrender is signed, it''s supposed to be over; refugees flood the highways, trying to get back home. For Swann''s Riders-especially their newest addition Lara Nelson, snatched from certain death in the Firster kamp system-there''s no such thing as a home to return to.Swann and his crew of partisans work for the Federal Army now, hunting through the wreckage for war criminals and kamp officials. Their next quarry is carrying something explosive, something that can level the nascent Federal government and turn the entire continent into a hellscape- well, more than it already is.Across America, working against time and chaos, Swann''s Riders are back in the fight. And Lara, whose secrets may well end up consuming her too, has a vengeance of her own to deliver...
£12.34
Faber & Faber Cahokia Jazz
Book SynopsisA thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the bestselling author of Golden Hill.
£14.24
Double Tap Press Invasion Downfall
£24.87
Random House USA Inc Beatlebone
Book SynopsisA New York Times Notable Book • It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he bought eleven years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching forties, his inability to create, and his memories of his parents, he sets off to calm his unquiet soul in the comfortable silence of isolation. But when he puts himself in the hands of a shape-shifting driver full of Irish charm and dark whimsy, what ensues can only be termed a magical mystery tour. Beatlebone is a tour de force of language and literary imagination, a surreal novel that blends fantasy and reality—a Hibernian high wire act of courage, nerve, and great beauty.
£18.80
Pan Macmillan Invisible Sun
Book SynopsisTwo parallel versions of America are trapped in a cold war and it's heating up fast. This is the extraordinary finale to Charles Stross's alternative-history trilogy.Trade ReviewStross’s ferociously imaginative world-building is on full display here . . . few other writers can match him for humour, creativity and sheer density of ideas -- SFX on Empire GamesSheer brilliance: when Stross is in this mood, nobody else comes close -- Kirkus starred review on Dark StateHigh-octane thriller action, mixed in with personal drama and some fantastically sympathetic characters -- Starburst on Dark StateMind-boggling, complex and truly brilliant -- Daily Mail on Empire GamesWhen intrigue, politics and suspense are so well executed, it doesn’t matter which realm, dimension or timeline the participants hail from. Add to that a sense of mischief, wit and humour and Charles Stross gives you the full package -- Chris Brookmyre on Empire GamesPlenty of fun -- Locus on Dark State
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Konflikt 47 Resurgence
Book SynopsisThe first supplement for the Konflikt ''47 Weird World War II wargames rules, this volume presents a range of new material for the game, including:- New army list: The Japanese make their presence known on the battlefields of Konflikt ''47.- New units: Options for troops and technology that can be added to the armies presented in the rulebook.- Special characters: Field the best of the best, elite men and women who may singlehandedly be the crucial element between victory and defeat.- New background: The history of the world of Konflikt ''47 is detailed in more depth.- New rules: All-new means of waging war, including material previously published online.
£22.50
Pan Macmillan He Who Drowned the World
Book SynopsisThe Song of Achilles meets Mulan in He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan - a dazzling queer historical fantasy of war and destiny set in an epic alternate China, and sequel to Sunday Times bestselling She Who Became the Sun.'Transcendent, heart-wrenching' - Joanne Harris, author of ChocolatWhat would you give to win the world?Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after her victory – one that tore southern China from its Mongol masters. Now she burns with a new desire: to seize the throne and crown herself emperor.However, Zhu isn’t the only one with imperial aspirations. Courtesan Madam Zhang plots to steal the throne for her husband. But scorned scholar Wang Baoxiang is even closer to the throne. He’s maneuverered his way to the capital, where his courtly games threaten to bring the empire to its knees. For Baoxiang also desires revenge: to become the most degenerate Great Khan in history. In the process, he’d make a mockery of the warrior values his Mongol family loved more than him.To stay in the game, Zhu must gamble everything on one bold move. A risky alliance with an old enemy: Ouyang, the brilliant but unstable eunuch general. All contenders will do whatever it takes to win. But when desire has no end, and ambition no limits, could the price be too high for even the most ruthless heart to bear?Praise for Shelley Parker-Chan:‘As brilliant as Circe . . . a deft and dazzling triumph’ – Tasha Suri, author of The Jasmine Throne'Magnificent in every way. War, desire, vengeance, politics – Shelley Parker-Chan has perfectly measured each ingredient' – Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree'Shelley Parker-Chan is a genius' – Jen Williams, author of TalonsisterTrade ReviewTranscendent, heart-wrenching -- Joanne Harris, author of ChocolatHe Who Drowned the World blew me out of the water. Deep, dark and peopled with deliciously complex characters, this book will draw you irresistibly into a world of tragedy and triumph. Shelley Parker-Chan is a genius -- Jen Williams, author of TalonsisterA powerful historical fantasy filled with complex people and high stakes. . . . Paying equal attention to fierce battle scenes and deep conversations and filled with desperate decisions and brutal actions, this book is immersive and intimate -- Library Journal, Starred ReviewA heart-racing, emotional story that is also heartrending and shocking . . . The conclusion of the Radiant Emperor duology makes use of every last word and stamps this series onto the map as a new must-read of the fantasy canon -- Booklist, Starred ReviewEven better than the first . . . These novels beautifully capture the feedback loop wherein queer-coded characters are reviled, which drives them to unbearable viciousness, which in turn fills them with self-loathing. Parker-Chan’s characters struggle to break this cycle, and the nuance with which they’re portrayed makes us root for them. In the end, Parker-Chan seems to suggest, power belongs not to the most ruthless but to those who are most successful at self-forgiveness -- The Washington PostFans are not going to be disappointed . . . He Who Drowned The World was well worth the wait -- GlamourMesmerizing -- SciFiNowParker-Chan unrolls the painted scroll of her epic tale with the control of a master storyteller, revealing a dazzling new world of fate, war, love and betrayal. Fantasy will never be the same -- Zen Cho, author of Sorcerer to the Crown, on She Who Became the SunEpic, tragic and gorgeous. It will wreck you, and you will be grateful -- Alix E. Harrow, author of Starling House on She Who Became the Sun
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Little, Brown & Company Beat the Devils
Book SynopsisUSA, 1958. President Joseph McCarthy sits in the White House, elected on a wave of populist xenophobia and barely-concealed anti-Semitism. The country is in the firm grip of McCarthy's Hueys, a secret police force evolved from the House Un-American Activities Committee. Hollywood's sparkling vision of the American dream has been suppressed; its remaining talents forced to turn out endless anti-communist propaganda.LAPD detective Morris Baker-a Holocaust survivor who drowns his fractured memories of the unspeakable in schnapps and work-is called to the scene of a horrific double-homicide. The victims are John Huston, a once-promising but now forgotten film director, and an up-and-coming young journalist named Walter Cronkite. Clutched in the hand of one of the dead men is a cryptic note containing the phrase "beat the devils" followed by a single name: Baker. Did the two men die in an attack fueled by better-dead-than-red sentiment, as the Hueys are quick to conclude, or were they murdered in a cover-up designed to protect-or even set in motion-a secret plot connected to Baker's past?In a country where terror grows stronger by the day, and paranoia rises unchecked, Baker is determined to find justice for two men who raised their voices in a time when free speech comes at the ultimate cost. In the course of his investigation, Baker stumbles into a conspiracy that reaches deep into the halls of power and uncovers a secret that could destroy the City of Angels-and the American ideal itself.
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