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
Tommies Guides FOR WHOM THE TEMPLE WAITS
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£12.34
David MG Eagar John Constables The Skying Years Novel The Play
£21.60
David MG Eagar SKYING YEARS
£14.25
Experience Publishing Fit for Heroes
Book SynopsisHistorical fiction
£9.45
Country Books Emilys Great Adventure
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£12.99
Indy Pub Willie
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£21.60
Independently Published The Atlantis Papyrus
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£16.15
Penguin Putnam Inc Enchantress of Numbers
Book SynopsisA fascinating novel about the life of Ada Byron King - Lord Byron's daughter - the world's first computer programmer, and a woman whose exceptional contributions to science and technology have been too long unsung.
£12.59
Flatiron Books Everything Lost Returns
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£22.42
St. Martin's Press Oregon Trail
Book SynopsisThey Risked Their Lives To Bring Cattle to Missouri. Now They Faced A Journey Twics As Dangerous...The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five millionmaverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive themnorth to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-making trail drives.The Oregon TrailLou Spencer, Dill Summer, and their fourteen Texas cowboys briught a herd up to Independence, Missouri, and sold half to a wagon train heading West. Then the Texans hired on, leading the battling greenhorn pioneers across the Missouri River, across Nebraska Territory, and into the wilds past Forts Laramie and Bridger. With winter closing in, Spencer''s men were running out of time to reach the wide-open land of Oregon. And with a fortune in gold hidden in one of the pilgrims'' wooden wagons-and outlaws circling like wolves-there were miles of shooting and dying still ahead.
£15.29
Henry Holt & Company How to Dodge a Cannonball
Book SynopsisA cutting, revealing caricature of the American Civil War, told through the eyes of a white teenager who joins an all-Black regiment of soldiers, for fans of Colson Whitehead and James McBrideRazor-sharp and hilarious, How to Dodge a Cannonball tells the story of Anders, a white teenager who volunteers to be a Union Army flag-twirler to escape his abusive mother. In desperate acts of self-preservation, he defects?twice?before joining a Black regiment at Gettysburg, claiming to be an octoroon. In his new and entirely incredulous unit, Anders becomes entangled with questionable military men and an arms dealer working for both sides. But more importantly he bonds with the other soldiers, finding friendship and a family he desperately needs. After deploying to New York City to suppress the draft riots and to Nevada to suppress Native Americans, Anders begins to see the war through the eyes of his newfound brothers.Dayle?s satire spares no one, whether he?s writing about Anders?s naivete and unexpected love interest, the quirks of Confederate and Union soldiers, those out to make a quick buck off the tragedy of war, or the theater of war itself (literal theater , as the novel includes a one-act play the troop obsesses over while they wait for action).Uproariously funny and revelatory, How to Dodge a Cannonball is an inimitable take on which America is worth fighting for.
£21.74
Henry Holt & Company A Pair of Wings
£999.99
St. Martin's Publishing Group The Righteous
£24.00
Flatiron Books Once We Were Home
Book SynopsisNational Jewish Book Award Finalist Association of Jewish Libraries Fiction Honor BookThis forgotten history of displaced WWII children and the return to their roots [is] captivating, thought-provoking, enlightening, and bittersweet. ?Alka Joshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Henna ArtistRosner is one of my favorite authors. ?Lisa Scottoline, #1 bestselling author of EternalFrom the award-winning author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II.When your past is stolen, where do you belong?Ana will never forget her mother's face when she and her baby brother, Oskar, were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into the arms of a Christian friend. For Oskar, though, their new family is the only one he remembers. When a woman from a Jewish reclamation organization seizes them, believing she has their best interest at he
£20.39
Flatiron Books Once We Were Home
Book SynopsisNational Jewish Book Award Finalist Association of Jewish Libraries Fiction Honor BookThis forgotten history of displaced WWII children and the return to their roots [is] captivating, thought-provoking, enlightening, and bittersweet. ?Alka Joshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Henna ArtistRosner is one of my favorite authors. ?Lisa Scottoline, #1 bestselling author of EternalFrom the award-winning author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II.When your past is stolen, where do you belong?Ana will never forget her mother's face when she and her baby brother, Oskar, were sent out of their Polish ghetto and into the arms of a Christian friend. For Oskar, though, their new family is the only one he remembers. When a woman from a Jewish reclamation organization seizes them, believing she has their best interest at he
£14.39
WW Norton & Co The Wintering Place
Book SynopsisDeserting to escape the horrors of the Indian wars two soldiers, Irish brothers, seek peace with the woman they love.Trade Review"[D]arkly suspenseful." -- Alida Becker - New York Times Book Review"[A]s bloody and visceral as a Sam Peckinpah film....[A] solid revisionist western." -- Publishers Weekly"A powerful account of survival at all costs in a world where might is right." -- Declan Burke - Irish Times
£20.89
WW Norton & Co Wild and Distant Seas
Book SynopsisA gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to chart their own futuresTrade Review"With language richer than the matriarch’s famed chowder and nautical descriptions so vivid you can taste the salt spray, Roberts offers a new and refreshingly feminine perspective on one of American literature’s most masculine classics." -- Oprah Daily
£20.06
WW Norton & Co The Golden Ass
Book SynopsisPeter Singer has breathed new life into Apuleius's The Golden Assa hilarious, bawdy tale and one of the earliest novelsaccentuating its remarkable empathy for animals.
£11.39
Austin Macauley Publishers The Sinking of the Lusitania
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£11.69
Austin Macauley Publishers Luthuli Detachment The Hwange Thunderbolt
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£15.29
Austin Macauley Publishers Liverpool Kids of WWII Part 2
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£999.99
Austin Macauley Publishers The Highest Priestess Mother of Alexander the Great Olympia
£13.49
Austin Macauley Publishers The Highest Priestess Mother of Alexander the
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£18.69
Austin Macauley Publishers Are You John
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£10.44
Austin Macauley Publishers Tyke
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£7.59
Austin Macauley Publishers Tyke
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£10.79
Austin Macauley Publishers Return to Cawston Manor
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£7.59
Austin Macauley Publishers Holes in the Ground War and Ore
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£10.79
Austin Macauley Publishers A.H. Avenue Number Three
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£10.44
Austin Macauley Publishers Atticus Fighter of Rome Series A Hero is Born
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£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers Keeper of the Red Shawl The Secret Shadows
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£9.99
Austin Macauley Publishers Alex Heraclius
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£10.79
Austin Macauley Publishers A Mere Shepherd Boy Book 1
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£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers Song of the Nightingale
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£10.44
Austin Macauley Publishers Web of Lies
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£11.69
Austin Macauley Publishers Web of Lies
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£16.99
Austin Macauley Publishers I A Dumb Boy
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£17.09
Austin Macauley Publishers Revolutionary Voices from the Slave Houses
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£7.59
Simon & Schuster Ltd The Decameron Project
Book SynopsisA stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio’s The Decameron.When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it. In 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote “The Decameron”: one hundred nested tales told by a group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside Florence while waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague that killed more than 25 million people. Some of the stories are silly, some are bawdy, some are like fables. In March of 2020, the editors of The New York Times Magazine created The Decameron Project, an anthology with a simple, time-spanning goal: to gather a collection of stories written as
£10.44
Simon & Schuster Ltd The Language of Food
Book SynopsisEliza Acton, despite having never before boiled an egg, became one of the world’s most successful cookery writers. Her story is fascinating, uplifting and inspiring. With recipes that leap to life from the page, The Language of Food explores the enduring struggle for female freedom, the creativity and quiet joy of cooking and the poetry of food.Trade Review‘Best Feel Good Books of 2021' Washington Post ‘Best New Historical Novels’ New York Times“A compelling tale of friendship, freedom and food” BBC History Magazine “Based on real-life events, The Language of Food shines a light on the woman who invented the recipe as we know it today, and whose fascinating story has long been overlooked” History Revealed Magazine “Based on the life of cookbook writer Eliza Acton, this is a really charming historical novel that’s full of gorgeous recipes and descriptions of food. At its core is the heart-warming story of the class-defying friendship between Eliza and Ann Kirby, her kitchen help” GOOD HOUSEKEEPING “This charming story of a friendship that was formed in a kitchen is based on the real life of food writer and poet Eliza Acton, who created one of Britain’s first cookery books. I loved the bond that she and her kitchen help Anna Kirby forge despite the huge difference in their class; they’re both very determined women. A fabulous historical novel” PRIMA “Eliza Acton had never even boiled an egg so how did she become a successful cookery writer? We find out in this beautiful fictionalisation of her life. It is 1835 and poet Eliza is told by her publisher to write a cookery book instead. Disheartened but determined, she hires teenagers Ann Kirby to help her. Over the next 10 years they develop a friendship that sees them change the face of cookery writing forever” WOMAN & HOME "Before Nigella, before Julia Childs, before even Mrs Beeton, there was Eliza Acton who dreams of being a poet but in 1835, the only way for her to get published and to keep her family in funds is to write a cookery book. To this end, Eliza takes on a maid, Ann Kirby, and forge an unlikely partnership even as Eliza embarks on writing what is now considered the first modern cookery book.Told from both Eliza and Ann’s voices, The Language Of Food, is a feast for the senses and also shows that its friendship, rather than food, that nourishes the soul. Julie And Julia but make it Victorian!" RED “Cleverly wearing together the story of how Modern Cookery for Private Families came to be written, the author divides the narrative voice between Acton and Kirby, her housemaid, two women from different backgrounds, but who share the same feelings of frustration and loneliness… The pair are beautifully fleshed out characters, who become adept at the balancing of tastes, textures and unfamiliar spices” COUNTRY LIFE "A feast for the senses, this inspiring book is about friendship, passion and determination. I loved it!" MY WEEKLY "The two women’s exploration of food and friendship is winningly told and we are rooting for Eliza in her quest for independence and publishing success. The novel comes with some of Eliza’s recipes; and I can gluttonously report that the chocolate custards are as delicious as the novel" THE TIMES “Eliza Acton had never even boiled an egg, so how did she become of the top cookery writers of all time? We find out in this beautiful fictionalisation of her life” WOMAN and WOMAN'S WEEKLY
£13.49
Simon & Schuster Ltd In Memory of Us
Book SynopsisA literary family history centering around a pair of twin sisters coming of age in 60s London, told mostly through memory fragments and flashbacks described from one of the twins, later in life, as she reckons with her identity whilst living with the early stages of dementia. Trade ReviewPraise for The Gosling Girl: ‘[The Gosling Girl] interrogates the context of a child's crime and simplistic notions of evil by society and the media. It fosters understanding & empathy and draws us deep inside the protagonist's psychology’ Bernardine Evaristo ‘This intriguing procedural is above all a portrait of two damaged women and a moving demonstration of how race and class have affected their lives' The Times and The Sunday Times Crime Club 'This is a beautifully written, insightful and thought-provoking novel. Michelle's story drew me in immediately, and while it's heartbreaking in places, it's uplifting in others. Jacqueline Roy writes with deep compassion and empathy, and I have a feeling this wonderfully compelling novel will stay with me for a long time' Susan Elliot Wright, author of All You Ever Wanted 'A thoughtful, slow-burn exploration of how damaged children damage, The Gosling Girl asks whether some children are born evil - and shows emphatically that an abusive childhood is to blame. I felt increasing sympathy for Michelle Cameron, in all her manifestations. At times, disturbing, poignant, and thought-provoking' Sarah Vaughan, author of Anatomy of a Scandal and Reputation ‘It was refreshing to read a thriller that wasn’t full of twists, though I kept waiting for them, as I’ve been conditioned to expect them. This well-plotted story follows Michelle, who’s recently been released from prison. Does someone who’s committed an awful crime deserve to start again?’ Prima ‘Written with compassion, and an exceptional sense of identity by Roy — born to a Jamaican father and a British mother — it is both striking and powerful’ Daily Mail ‘(a)…provocative tale of institutional racism, and how the marginalised fight back’ Stylist Magazine ‘A powerful look at institutionalised racism and the after-effects of a childhood crime' S Magazine ‘The Gosling Girl is one of the most moving thrillers I’ve read for some time' Observer
£17.09
Simon & Schuster Ltd The Bakers Girl
Book SynopsisMeg just wants to keep her family together. Her mother is desperately ill and her sister is still in school so it is up to her to support them. All Meg knows to do is bake and desperation leads her to Ted Lund, the miserly owner of a local bakery. In a moment of uncharacteristic kindness, he takes pity on Meg and offers her a job. But Ted’s charity ends there. He’ll save money at any costs, cutting corners by using sawdust in his bread, ignoring vermin in his flour, and paying Meg a pittance. But despite her mistreatment, Meg can see what the bakery might yet be. Using her baking skills, can she turn the shop around?
£15.00
Simon & Schuster Ltd The Bakers Girl
Book SynopsisMeg just wants to keep her family together. Her mother is desperately ill and her sister is still in school so it is up to her to support them. All Meg knows how to do is bake and desperation leads her to Ted Lund, the miserly owner of a local bakery. In a moment of uncharacteristic kindness, he takes pity on Meg and offers her a job. But Ted’s charity ends there. He’ll save money at any costs, cutting corners by using sawdust in his bread, ignoring vermin in his flour, and paying Meg a pittance. But despite her mistreatment, Meg can see what the bakery might yet be. Using her baking skills, can she turn the shop around?
£7.59
Simon & Schuster Ltd A Sixpence for Christmas
Book SynopsisMeg just wants her family to be together at Christmas. But her mother’s illness gets worse every day and her sister is off doing god knows what. So when Meg loses her job in the bakery she doesn’t know how they’ll cope. Luckily, she knows Frank, the owner of a local patisserie, who offers her a job. But Meg isn’t suited for fancy cake and frills. All she wants is to feed her family and make them proud but, as winter takes hold, it feels like everything is stacked against her.Can she make a success of herself before Christmas?
£7.59
Simon & Schuster Ltd The Bakers Sister
Book SynopsisAfter two years, Meg Fairfax has finally started to make a success of herself. Her skills as a baker have made her enough to buy the bakery she loves and she’s planning a wedding to her fiancé. But Frankie hasn’t been entirely honest and both the bakery and Meg’s happiness are threatened when she discovers the truth. Meanwhile, Meg’s younger sister, Sarah, is attempting to build a life for herself in London but soon realises it’s far from what she expected. Finding herself alone on the city streets, she seeks comfort in the arms of a young cockney named Sam Waites.With so much to lose, will the sisters find the security and happiness they seek?
£17.00
Simon & Schuster Ltd Wait for Me
Book SynopsisFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of An Italian Girl in Brooklyn comes a captivating new novel of enduring love and devastating secrets, based on a true story.'Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore' JOJO MOYESRupert promised he was going to come back. All Florence had to do was wait. Cornwall, 1944 When Rupert Dash is declared missing, presumed dead during the Battle of Arnhem, his wife, Florence, is devastated. She can’t accept that he has gone from her life forever, and so when she finds a poem called ‘Wait for Me’ hidden in an old book, she believes it’s a sign from her husband. A promise that he will return to her. London, 1988 Since childhood Max has suffered from a recurring nightmare. Surrounded by the horrific chaos of World War Two, he has an urgent mission he knows he must complete. But time after time, the dream ends with hi
£15.29
Simon & Schuster Ltd The Lost Passenger
Book SynopsisJump aboard the Titanic, with the much-loved author of The Smallest Man and That Bonesetter Woman,for a story with an extraordinary twist...
£8.99
Simon & Schuster Ltd The Strawberry Field Girls at War
Book SynopsisA brand new wartime saga, perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Val WoodSummer, 1916 Despite the misery of war in the air, some things in the small hamlet of Strawbridge remain unchanged. The strawberry harvest is nearly ready and friends Leah, Alice and Dora still have each other. Before the war, the three women had found a tentative happiness but now war has torn their lives apart. Each woman must learn to live with their new life at war, dealing with the absence of their loved ones and finding courage in the hardest of times…
£18.70
