Whether your passion is The Ancient Greeks, The Wars of The Roses or The Russian Revolution, you'll find stories of life during these eras and every other, often using factual accounts to build a fictional narrative.
Historical Fiction Books
Sapere Books The Queens Children
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Sapere Books Brotherhood of Death
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£14.11
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp His True Wife
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Sapere Books The Kings Stolen Jewels
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Flight To Freedom
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£12.99
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Silver Star
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Sapere Books A Fragile Mask
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Bedford Square Publishers When We Fall
Book SynopsisEngland, 1943. Lost in fog, pilot Vee Katchatourian is forced to make an emergency landing where she meets enigmatic RAF airman Stefan Bergel, and then can't get him out of her mind. In occupied Poland, Ewa Hartman hosts German officers in her father's guest house, while secretly gathering intelligence for the Polish...Trade ReviewThis book has left me speechless... It's not often I am stunned at the end of a book - but When We Fall did just that * SheReads *Memorably descriptive prose... Carolyn Kirby is a past-mistress of the little twist, the soupcon of uncertainty that creates an atmosphere of tension -- Gaynor Arnold, author of Girl in a Blue DressI was drawn into the story of Vee, Eva/Ewa and Stefan from the outset and it never let me go for one second -- G. J. Minett * Goodreads *Such a skillfully constructed novel about one of the less well trodden events of the war peopled by complex, sympathetic characters. Compelling and moving - it's a wonderful read which often sends the pulse rate into overdrive. I loved it. -- Annie Murray A gripping wartime thriller, driven by two memorable heroines -- Antonia Senior * The Times *
£12.34
Bedford Square Publishers The Mercenary
Book SynopsisFrom acclaimed spy novelist Paul Vidich comes a taut new thriller following the attempted exfiltration of a KGB officer from the ever-changing - and always dangerous - USSR in the mid-1980s.Moscow, 1985. The Soviet Union and its communist regime are in the last stages of decline, but remain opaque to the rest of the...Trade ReviewAn author in control of both his story and its arena. Vidich's style is sparse but atmospheric. Carefully deployed tradecraft and technical knowledge only add to the air of verisimilitude * Financial Times *In short, this is one of the year's premier spy novels, a close study of individual lives set against global turmoil, a heady blend of spy games and their very human consequences * Crime Reads (Best Books of the Year So Far) *Vidich's visualisation of time and place is masterly * Times *Paul Vidich delivers a spy yarn that revels in the old certainties * Irish Times *Vidich carries the wintry mood of Soviet menace and danger powerfully, and his plot twists are tight and all too believable... A fast-moving and emotionally powerful ride into the darkness of both spying and the battered soul * New York Journal of Books *
£12.34
Bedford Square Publishers Sergeant Salinger
Book SynopsisGrounded in biographical fact and reimagined as only Charyn could, Sergeant Salinger is an astonishing portrait of a devastated young man on his way to becoming the mythical figure behind The Catcher in the Rye, a novel that has marked generations....Trade ReviewCharyn, who at 83 has had a remarkably prolific career, has an affinity for literary sphinxes... Sergeant Salinger is true to history... but in this novel, as with much of Salinger's life, we have to accept a certain amount of mystery * Washington Post *Charyn's book stands on its own merits as a masterly portrait of a young man's terrible war -- Antonia Senior * Times *Brings into sharp relief Salinger's own fiction * Daily Express *This is a deeply perceptive novel; a troubling and intelligent portrait of a tormented man. It's a monumental feat of melding fact and invention and makes a real man of a shadow figure. If you haven't read Charyn start here but don't end here. I think you may arrive at a better understanding of the creation of Holden Caulfield and the writer JD Salinger * NB Magazine *Supremely engaging... A smoothly told, unexpectedly affecting foray into a lesser-known chapter of the literary giant's life * Kirkus (starred review) *
£9.49
Bedford Square Publishers Late City
Book SynopsisA 115-year-old man lays on his deathbed as the 2016 US election results arrive, and revisits his life in this moving story of love, fatherhood, and the American century from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler...Trade ReviewA stirring portrait of a man and his times... If Butler examines with unashamed seriousness the old chestnut of what it means to be a man, his central conceit adds vital levity, and there's formal invention, too, as he segues seamlessly between the threads of Sam's life without ever losing the reader. A fine novel * Daily Mail *This marvellous novel has just what you want from a fictional centenarian memoir: the art that conceals art, giving meaning to the story while maintaining the illusion of a long life lived in all its messiness * Telegraph *Engaging... A poignant meditation on the circle of life, the wonder we all feel as it slips away * Minneapolis Star Tribune *With two dozen remarkably imaginative and empathic fiction titles to his credit, Butler brings preternatural attunement to the spiraling of the mind and ardently honed artistry to this exceptionally nuanced, tender, funny, tragic, and utterly transfixing portrait of a man reflecting on more than a century's worth of horror and wonder * Booklist (starred review) *Breathtaking... An honest, poignant reckoning of what it means to gaze unblinkingly at our own failings and to find transcendence * Historical Novel Society *
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Bedford Square Publishers Big Red A Novel Starring Rita Hayworth and Orson
Book SynopsisNarrated by a starry-eyed reporter, Big Red reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles. An insightful, tender portrait of a seemingly halcyon age before blockbusters and film franchises, Big Red promises to consume both Hollywood cinephiles and neophytes alike....Trade ReviewBig Red, Charyn's latest, tells the story of the 1940s screen goddess Rita Hayworth and her relationship with the wunderkind director Orson Welles. Charyn has created a memorable narrator in Rusty Redburn, a fiery gossip columnist hired to spy on Hayworth, who changes sides to become her confidant and friend. Through Rusty's eyes we witness the film star's rollercoaster life and the ambivalent allure of celebrity * Sunday Times (Best Historical Fiction Book of 2022) *Charyn, a veteran novelist, biographer and essayist, subtly evokes F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in telling his saga of star-crossed charismatics through the eyes of an all-seeing peripheral figure... Inspired * Wall Street Journal *Alluring * Irish Times (Crime Book of the Year) *Be warned: reading Big Red will take over your life * Times *Short review quote in here * CrimeReads *
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Bedford Square Publishers Eternal
Book SynopsisWhat war destroys, only love can heal....Trade ReviewIn this book of her heart, Lisa Scottoline delivers what her readers expect and so much more, fast-paced intrigue, but also an authentic, tender coming of age tale of three best friends navigating the complexities of fascism, war, political and family strife and romantic competition -- Lisa Wingate, author of Before We Were Yours and The Book Of Lost FriendsWith characters who change and grow and enough twists and turns to keep you guessing, Eternal is a blockbuster with cinematic intensity -- Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train and The ExilesMake a plate of fettuccine, pour a glass of red wine, and settle in with this captivating tale. You will cry tears of sadness and joy. Scottoline's Italian heritage combined with all her diligent research will keep this story in readers' hearts * Library Journal (starred review) *Powerful and absorbing...at the heart of the novel is an enduring message, that what's perhaps most heroic in any life is to love fiercely and completely, in spite of loss and betrayal, and even beyond death -- Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go DarkAn accomplished historical novel that is both steeped in period detail and full of relatable characters.... Scottoline is a master at ramping up the suspense. * Washington Post *
£9.49
Little, Brown Book Group Mary Oliver A Life Virago Modern Classics
Book SynopsisBorn in 1865, Mary Olivier is the youngest of four children. Mamma dominates this Victorian household, idolising the boys, rejecting the independent love of her only daughter: the archetype of all women who control by weakness and suffering. Mary adores her mother- and she hates her. Ferociously intelligent, she vacillates between a passionate quest for her own artistic and sexual identity.This is one of the first novels ever written about a mother and daughter relationship, and the eternal conflict engendered by the deepest of ties. But it is a celebration too: for though Mary sacrifices her life- and her lover- to the demands of duty, she emerges victorious, finding in the discovery of her intellectual and feminine self an inner freedom, a perfect happiness.Trade ReviewA multi-levelled, absorbing, fiercely passionate story from a wonderfully gifted writer. * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *
£22.52
Little, Brown Book Group Over The Frontier Virago Modern Classics
Book SynopsisIt is 1936. Pompey Casmilus lives in London with her beloved Aunt, bothered by the menace of German militarism, bothered too by the humbug wich confronts it, bothered most of all by her hopeless love affair with Freddy, Its ending plunges Pompey into melancholy, six months rest and recuperation are prescribed and ''savage, sick and cross'' Pompey goes to Schloss Tilssen on the northern German border, only to fall in with a strange band of conspirators: the plum coloured Mrs Pouncer, the absent minded Colonel Peck and the dashing Major Tom Satterthwaite, whom Pompey comes to love.
£20.54
Little, Brown Book Group A Model Childhood Virago Modern Classics
Book SynopsisThis novel is a testament of what seemed at the time a fairly ordinary childhood, in the bosom of a normal Nazi family in Landsberg. Other work by the author includes The Quest for Christa and No Place on Earth .Trade ReviewA MODEL CHILDHOOD delves painfully into the German past... The honesty, the apalling hindsight-driven ironies, the cool searching narrative: this art of a major writer offers just a glimmer, just the faintest apalled glimmer, of comprehension as to how it could all have grown, how it could have happened... the horror which so deformed Europe's recent past. * SCOTSMAN *A piercing account of the inner lives of artists at a time of great social change. * THE TIMES *A vivid testimony. * THE MAIL ON SUNDAY *
£23.52
Sunstone Press Thunder Rolling on the High Plains
£27.90
My Honor Is My Loyalty
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£15.19
North Star Press of Saint Cloud Inc Shelterbelts
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£13.25
Mercer University Press Bells for Eli
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Time Warner Trade Publishing Remember Me When
Book SynopsisTrapped in an abusive marriage, Faith Nolan finds the courage to defy her husband to help others. When her actions result in a false charge of murder, she finds the support she needs in Nathan Bartlett.
£17.09
University Press of the Pacific The Young Guard
£28.50
Breakwater Books Ltd. Kerrivan
£14.09
Book Now Publishing Shakespeares Don Quixote A Novel in Dialogue
£13.49
Stagedoor Publishing Bram Stokers Irving
£12.30
Matteh Publications Scenes from a Life
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£16.71
Alcina Press Mozarts Sister
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Peter Daniels Publisher Services Journeys in the Light Quaker Stories
£10.63
Dyrock Publishing The Curiosity Cabinet
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£12.39
Focus Books On Romford Road
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Glass Door
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Vesper Hawk Publishing MR DICKENS MASTER BETTY
£12.60
MacLeod Trotter Books Never Stand Alone
Book SynopsisAn emotionally charged family drama set against the momentous backdrop of the 1984 Miners' Strike that divided a nation. Rebellious Carol defies her family to marry miner Mick Todd, but the strike brings tragedy, shocking secrets and tests their love to the limits.Trade Review'A gritty, heartrending and impassioned drama' Newcastle Journal 'A tough, compelling and ultimately satisfying novel ... another classy, irresistible read' Sunderland Echo 'She pulls no punches, tells it like it is and taps directly into your emotions. Excellent' Northern Echo 'A vivid picture of courage in the face of injustice...Never Stand Alone ought to increase the author's growing band of fans' Northern Review 'The gritty, unforgettable story of families torn apart by the conflict that divided a nation...a powerful story' World Books
£12.89
Adderstone Publishing The Chronicles of Tiny Tim 3000 Christmas candles Volume 1
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£12.83
Foxwell Press (an Imprint of Flo-Joe) Comforts For The Troops A Novel Inspired by Women Workers at Cadbury in World War One
£12.39
Transforming Cities Palace of Pugin The Westminster Conspiracy
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£12.39
Greenham Hall Breathless
£13.26
Barker & Jansen A Salt Splashed Cradle
£14.11
Northern Displayers, Skadi Press The Saga of Didrik of Bern with The Dwarf King Laurin
£21.53
Creek Bluff Digital Media Services The Anointed One
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£22.46
Creek Bluff Digital Media Services The Anointed One
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Wakestone Books The Tall Woman
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