Historical fiction Books

Rose Macaulay's 1920 satire on British journalism and the newspaper industry will be back in print in the UK for the first time in seventy years. It will be published alongside a new collection of her pacifist writing from 1916 to 1945, Non-Combatants...

The forbidden love story of a slave woman and an Irish immigrant, inspired by the author's great-great-grandparents.Henry O'Toole sails to America in 1848 to escape poverty and famine in Ireland, only to find anti-Irish prejudice awaiting him. Determined...

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Into the Darkest Corner comes a delicious Victorian crime novel based on a real murder. The Murder of Harriet Monckton is based on an unsolved true crime. On 7thNovember 1843, 23 year-old...

Berlin, July 1944, a few weeks before the attempted assassination of Hitler by Claus von Stauffenberg. Bora is ordered to investigate the murder of Walter Niemeyer, a dazzling clairvoyant, a star since the days of the Weimar Republic. For years...

Historical novel about the untold lives of Abyssinian slaves in Iran A tale of political intrigue, following a precarious time of growing public dissent and foreign interference, in 1890's Iran. Lush descriptions of palace life

In May 1941, Wehrmacht officer Bora is sent to Crete, recently occupied by the German army, and mustinvestigate the brutal murder of a Red Cross representative befriended by SS-Chief Himmler. All the clueslead to a platoon of trigger-happy German...

Further exciting instalments of the popular aerial combat story from the classic war comic, Battle!Johnny Redburn has just led Falcon Squadron on a successful mission over Stalingrad. But Major Rastovitch has a new mission for Johnny: to fly an...

'For three minutes you will turn your eyes inward into the darkness of the mind which I have taught you to make. Then I will give the sign you will look at the paper. There you will see words written, but only for one second. Bend all your powers to...

IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591.On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floors below Edinburgh's High Street, convicted witch Geillis Duncan receives a mysterious visitor Iris, who says she comes from a future where women are still...

Summer, 1522. In a wave of pomp, Henry VIII's court welcomes the Imperial emperor, Charles V. Anthony Blanke, the son of the king's late 'black trumpet', John Blanke, is called to Hampton Court by his former employer, Cardinal Wolsey. The cardinal is...

London, 1943.Across the city prominent figures in science and the military are bursting into flame and being incinerated. Convinced that the Germans have deployed a new terror weapon, a desperate government turns to the one man who can track down the...

LONDON, 1942.A killer going by the name of 'Crimson Jack' is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from the grave? Is...

When you look at a painting, what do you really see?When eighteenth-century poet Alison Cockburn accepts a light-hearted challenge from her friend Katherine Hume to live as a man, in order to infiltrate Edinburgh's all-male skating club, little do they...

It is 1938 and the final days of the British Empire. In a bungalow high up in the green hills above the plains of Ceylon, under a vast blue sky, live the Ferguson family: Bella, a precocious eight-year-old; her father Henry owner of Pitlochry, a tea...

From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger and The Deep comes a new psychological and supernatural twist on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in World War II.1944: As World War II rages on, the threat has come to the...

Spring, 1840. In the Dorset market town of Wimborne Minster, a young choirboy drowns himself. Soon after, the choirmaster-a belligerent man with a vicious reputation-is found murdered, in a discovery tainted as much by relief as it is by suspicion. The...

'All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. It's the best book we've had.' Ernest HemingwayTo escape from his abusive father, 13-year-old Huckleberry Finn fakes his own death and floats away on a raft down...

If you tell a story oft enoughSo it become trueAs the nineteenth century draws towards a close, Mary Ann Sate, an elderly maidservant, sets out to write her truth.She writes of the Valleys that she loves, of the poisonous rivalry between her employer's...

"Full of memorable images and singing lines of prose."on Donald S. Murray's previous workFrom the author of the multi award-winning Scottish bestsellerAs the Women Lay Dreaming comes the remarkable "unreliable biography" of serial swindler Karl Einarsson...

Based on actual events, this story is set in a newspaper office in Eastern Montana in 1926. A time when the American public was obsessed with newspaper horror stories of what most today would consider ordinary murders or other man-made catastrophes...

"Enthralling ... A great read."-Philippe de Montebello, former director, Metropolitan Museum of ArtOctober 16, 1943, inside the Vatican as darkness descends upon Rome. Having been alerted to the Nazi plan to round up the city's Jewish population the next...

*Captivating historical fiction set on Cape Cod and North Carolina's Outer Banks, spanning the 1860s to the 1940s, perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping *Debut novelist with strong ties to the indie...

The story can now be told.The shocking details of Caesar's visit and its effect on subsequent events have been protected by draconian nondisclosure agreements....until now.

In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalised as hysterics reveal what history ignored'Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?' wrote Jacques Lacan. Long history's ghosts,...

It's Saturday evening, 9 March 1566, and Mary, Queen of Scots, is six months pregnant. She's hosting a supper party, secure in her private chambers. She doesn't know that her Palace is surrounded - that, right now, an army of...

Stories do not have to be long. In the space of a couple of sentences - or even a page or two- we may see the human heart exposed in a way that is more powerful than occurs in many much longer narratives.In Tiny Tales Alexander McCall Smith explores...

'a tour de force work of art' The Wall Street Journal, Best Books of the YearIt's Saturday evening, 9 March 1566, and Mary, Queen of Scots, is six months pregnant. She's hosting a supper party, secure in her private...

A coming-of-age debut novel, by the mother of Zadie Smith, about a young Jamaican girl faced with the trauma of immigration, estrangement from her family, and the emotional upheaval of moving to London in the 1960s.The Day I Fell Off My Island tells the...

June 1945. Hitler has triumphed, Britain is under German occupation and America cowers under the threat of nuclear attack.In the dead of night, a figure flits through the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, searching for a hidden document he knows could change the...

A young piper, Donald Peter (DP) Gillies, brought up in a remote community in the West Highlands, signs up to join the famous Lovat Scouts. He and his childhood friend are destined for the horrors of Gallipoli and the deprivation of the First World War...

Finalist for the 2023 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award"When I'm dead and buried . . . you get the hell out of here . . . Make a life somewhere else . . . a life that I can't even imagine."Jo has a gift. She is a mathematical prodigy-a woman who sees...

A 2023Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist forBest First Novel"Debut novelist Tector captures European life and her characters beautifully as she interweaves the perspectives of four women seeking fulfillment and success in this satisfying adventure...

Southern Fiction: Terry Robert's debut novel with the same main character, A Short Time to Stay Here, won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction and received endorsements from critically-acclaimed authors including Lee Smith, Elizabeth Spencer,...

"Jos [Barreiro] writes the true story in Tano-the Native view of what Columbus brought. Across the Americas, invasion, and resistance, the Tano story repeated many times over." Chief Oren Lyons (Joagquisho), Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation The story of what...

In 1859. the lashing of young Buford Hobbs on the streets of Gonzales, Texas, led to the murder of Doctor John Brantley, and this ignited the historic Brantley-Baltzell feud. The nation's newspapers widely reported the resulting carnage that came out of...

Brimming with automotive action, history, intrigue, love, and skullduggery, "Race to War" casts a spell as it tells the story of power, intrigue, and what it means to be a man of purpose and self-sacrifice. On a cold day in January 1938, two men climb...

A carefree recent high school graduate receives the devastating news that his kidneys are in chronic failure. Unfortunately, in the 1960s, the new life-saving kidney dialysis was not available to all who needed it. Would the Selection Committee choose...

This is the story of Hemingway faking his death and going to Ireland to live in a castle.

Lizzie Fox is a courageous and determined woman living in Seclusion, Texas. Growing up through the foster care system leads Lizzie to asking questions about the suspicious death of a young Black girl. Her investigation uncovers a web of corruption that...

Based on a true story set in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, The Purchased Bride tells the tale of Maria, a Greek girl who was bought at age fifteen by a much older, wealthy Ottoman man.As the Ottoman Empire falls and insurgents torch their Greek...

Twelve-year-old Frankie Walker's whole world is baseball, Daddy, and foxhunting. Daddy's stroke forces Frankie to learn to survive on his own-or become a permanent resident of the Missouri Orphan's School and Residence. With the help of a fellow orphan,...

In this " bittersweet fantastical " must-read debut (Publishers Weekly) a freak car crash in 1960s rural North Carolina puts in motion moments of grace that bring redemption to two generations of women and the lives they touch. " There' s more than one...

...Three Muses captivates the reader from the first page to the last." -Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Tinkersand EnonThree Muses is a love story that enthralls: a tale of Holocaust survival venturing through memory, trauma, and identity,...

Down to the River is a family saga set in the late 1960s in Cambridge, Massachusetts against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. Twin brothers, Nash and Remi Potts, have grown up as entitled, Harvard-educated, golden boys, heirs to an old, but dwindling...

Flanders, 1915.David Verbocht, sentenced to death as a deserter, stands before thefiring squad and looks back on his short life. As a young man, David was sent awayby his parents, after a tragic accident in the family, to become a school teacher in...

A daring and imaginative novel based on the lives of The Last Poets, New York's legendary Hip-Hop pioneers from the ghettos.Even readers unfamiliar with The Last Poets' historic significance as building blocks of the hip-hop and rap movement, will...

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, leftist writers Olivier Besancenot and Michael Lwy offer a deeply informed, and eminently enjoyable, imagined history of what might have been if Karl Marx and his eldest daughter, Jenny, had...

"What's the point of being Irish anyway if you don't think the world will break your heart?" asks Jack Kennedy. He is spellbound by a song about Ireland's neverland of dreams: "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" No one better knew the real JFK's dreams and...