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
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Sharpes Fury
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HarperCollins hadrianswall
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Sharpes Havoc
Book SynopsisBritish soldier Richard Sharpe stands up to Napoleon's crack troops in the Iberian Peninsula while searching for the missing daughter of an English wine shipper.
£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Hell at the Breech
Book SynopsisIn 1897, in the Mitcham's Beat region of Alabama, a politician is murdered and his friends form a secret society to find those responsible for his killing, leaving in their wake a trail of blood and mayhem known as the Mitcham Beat War, in a novel based on actual historical events.
£17.09
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Fires in the Dark
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£14.24
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Hallowed Hunt
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£8.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Little House in the Big Woods Full Color Edition
Book SynopsisImmerse yourself in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House series, now featuring Garth Williams’ classic art in vibrant full-color!Little House in the Big Woods, the first book in the Little House series, takes place in 1871 and introduces us to four-year-old Laura, who lives in a log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. She shares the cabin with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their lovable dog, Jack.Pioneer life isn’t easy for the Ingalls family, since they must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. But they make the best of every tough situation. They celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do their spring planting, bring in the harvest in the fall, and make their first trip into town. And every night, safe and warm in their little house, the sound of Pa’s fiddle lulls Laura and her sisters into sleep.The nine books in the timeless Little Ho
£9.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The First Four Years
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£9.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Quicksilver
Book SynopsisQuicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of Half-Cocked Jack Shaftoe -- London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox.And it is the tale of Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent Europe through the newborn power of finance.A gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life, Quicksilver is an extraordinary achievement from one of the most o
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Brendan
Book SynopsisAn acclaimed author interweaves history and legend to re-create the life of a complex man of faith fifteen hundred years ago. Winner of the 1987 Christianity and Literature Book Award for Belles-Lettres.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Confusion
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Heretic
Book SynopsisFrom New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the sequel to The Archer’s Tale and Vagabond—the spellbinding tale of a young man, a fearless archer, who sets out wanting to avenge his family’s honor and winds up on a quest for the Holy Grail.Already a seasoned veteran of King Edward''s army, young Thomas of Hookton possesses the fearlessness of a born leader and an uncanny prowess with the longbow. Now, at the head of a small but able band of soldiers, he has been dispatched to capture the castle of Astarac. But more than duty to his liege has brought him to Gascony, home of his forebears and the hated black knight who brutally slew Thomas''s father. It is also the last place where the Holy Grail was reported seen. Here, also, a beautiful and innocent, if not pious, woman is to be burned as a heretic. Saving the lady, Genevieve, from her dread fate will brand Thomas an infidel, forcing th
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The System of the World
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£20.89
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Charms for the Easy Life
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Widows War
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£16.14
HarperCollins On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
£14.44
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Abundance a Novel of Marie Antoinette
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£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Quicksilver
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£8.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc King of the Vagabonds
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Odalisque
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Master Butchers Singing Club
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HarperCollins The Thorn Birds
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Unburnable
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Ahabs Wife
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£18.99
HarperCollins Revenge of the Rose
Book SynopsisIn the summer of 1199, Willem, a young nobleman, is summoned to the court of Konrad, the Holy Roman Emperor, whose realm spans much of Europe. Willem's guide to courtly life is minstrel Jouglet, a longtime admirer of his sister. Willem wins great honors for his knightly prowess, but soon he himself is the unwitting pawn in an elaborate scheme.Trade Review"A clever novel of courtly love...entertains with a flourish." -- Publishers Weekly "A tasty fictional stew, mixing elements of twelfth-century culture together skillfully to produce a veritable reading feast." -- Booklist
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Dreamland
Book SynopsisA literary tour de force, a magnificent chronicle of a remarkable era and a place of dreamsIn a stunning work of imagination and memory, author Kevin Baker brings to mesmerizing life a vibrant, colorful, thrilling, and dangerous New York City in the earliest years of the twentieth century. A novel breathtaking in its scope and ambition, it is the epic saga of newcomers drawn to the promise of America—gangsters and laborers, hucksters and politicians, radicals, reformers, murderers, and sideshow oddities—whose stories of love, revenge, and tragedy interweave and shine in the artificial electric dazzle of a wondrous place called Dreamland.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Keeping Faith
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Last Kingdom
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Burning Land
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Vivaldis Virgins A Novel
Book SynopsisAnna Maria, abandoned at the Ospedale della Pieta as an infant, is determined to find out who she is and where she came from. In this world, where for fully half the year the entire city is masked and cloaked in the anonymity of Carnival, nothing is as it appears to be.Trade Review"Quick has chosen a fascinating backdrop. Her novel shimmers...This is a good read." -- Booklist "Quick's descriptions of Anna Maria's violin playing soar off the page, evoking Vivaldi's own compositions." -- San Francisco Chronicle "A genuine successor to [Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring]." -- Houston Chronicle
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Passage West
Book Synopsis“Expansive, moving, and deeply powerful, Passage West explores an important and overlooked chapter in our national history and is a refreshingly honest novel about the people who gave everything to this country but were often overlooked and traumatized by the very nation to which they contributed so greatly.-- Marjan Kamali, author of Stationary Shop A Los Angeles Times BEST CALIFORNIA BOOK of 2020 * A New England Independent Booksellers'' 2020 NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FINALISTA sweeping, vibrant first novel following a family of Indian sharecroppers at the onset of World War I, revealing a little-known part of California history 1914: Ram Singh arrives in the Imperial Valley on the Mexican border, reluctantly accepting his friend Karak’s offer of work and partnership in a small cantaloupe farm. Ram is unmoored; fleeing violenc
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Cloudsplitter
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£19.79
HarperCollins Mrs. Chippys Last Expedition
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Vagabond
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Third Child
Book SynopsisFeeling left out in her family of ambitious achievers, Melissa Dickenson hopes to escape her mother's relentless scrutiny when she enters college and falls in love with the son of her father's political adversary, unaware that he is hiding a dangerous secret that could destroy both their families.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Sharpes Triumph
Book SynopsisFrom New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the second installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam.The greatest writer of historical adventures today. —Washington PostRichard Sharpe. Soldier, hero, rogue—the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty, he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles, whose green jacket he proudly wears.
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HarperCollins The Cloud Sketcher
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Stonehenge
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Ginger Tree
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Sharpes Fortress
Book SynopsisThe greatest writer of historical adventures today. —Washington PostCritically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell (Agincourt, The Fort, the Saxon Tales) makes real history come alive in his breathtaking historical fiction. Praised as the direct heir to Patrick O''Brian (Agincourt, The Fort), Cornwell has brilliantly captured the fury, chaos, and excitement of battle as few writers have ever done—perhaps most vividly in his phenomenally popular novels following the illustrious military career of British Army officer Richard Sharpe during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In Sharpe''s Fortress, Ensign Sharpe''s adventures in India reach a grand finale at the Siege of Gawilghur during the Maharatta War in December 1803, as Cornwell''s hero uncovers a foul treason and seeks a righteous revenge. Perhaps the San Francisco Chronicle said it best: If only all history lessons coul
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc How To Seduce A Duke 1 Royle Sisters
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Black GirlWhite Girl
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Pilates Wife
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£13.25
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Virgin Cure
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Pale Horseman
Book SynopsisThe second installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series.As the last unvanquished piece of England, Wessex is eyed hungrily by the fearsome Viking conquerors. Uhtred, a dispossessed young nobleman, is tied to the imperiled land by birth and marriage but was raised by the Danish invaders—and he questions where his allegiance must lie. But blood is his destiny, and when the overwhelming Viking horde attacks out of a wintry darkness, Uhtred must put aside all hatred and distrust and stand beside his embattled country’s staunch defender—the fugitive King Alfred. The Pale Horseman is a gripping, monumental adventure that gives breathtaking life to one of the most important epochs in English history—yet another masterwork from New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc And Only to Deceive
Book SynopsisFrom New York Times bestselling author Tasha Alexander, a stunning novel of historical suspense set in Victorian England, meticulously researched and with a twisty plot that involves stolen antiquities, betrayal, and murderFor Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, the Viscount Ashton, was an easy way to escape her overbearing mother, who was set on a grand society match. So when Emily''s dashing husband died on safari soon after their wedding, she felt little grief. After all, she barely knew him. Now, nearly two years later, she discovers that Philip was a far different man from the one she had married so cavalierly. His journals reveal him to have been a gentleman scholar and antiquities collector who, to her surprise, was deeply in love with his wife. Emily becomes fascinated with this new image of her dead husband and immerses herself in all things ancient and begins to study Greek.Emily''s intellectual pursuits and her desire to l
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Lords of the North
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Bound
Book SynopsisAn indentured servant finds herself bound by law, society, and her own heart in this novel set in colonial Cape Cod from the author of acclaimed The Widow’s War. Indentured servant Alice Cole barely remembers when she was not “bound”, first to the Morton family, then to their daughter Nabby—her companion since childhood—when she wed. But Nabby’s new marriage is not happy, and when Alice finds herself torn between her new master and her old friend, she runs away to Boston. There she meets a sympathetic widow named Lyddie Berry and her lawyer companion, Eben Freeman. Impulsively stowing away on their ship to Satucket on Cape Cod, Alice finds employment making cloth with Lyddie. Yet as Alice soon discovers, freedom—as well as gratitude, friendship, and trust—has a price far higher than she ever imagined.
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