Alternative history fiction Books

*SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available now*Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe, sidelined on the Royal staff, magnificently siezes command at the final moment of the great victory. It is 1815. Sharpe is serving on...

*SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Spain, December 1812In a deathly cold winter on the Spanish-Portuguese border, a group of deserters take British hostages and it falls to Major...

Mexican history and Mesoamerican mythology meet in this thrilling historical fantasy with magic, intrigue, treachery, romance, and adventure. The empire of Montezuma II has long fallen, a city raised on the bones of Tenochtitlan. None dare whisper the...

“As intricate and absorbing as a Van Gogh painting…MRS VAN GOGH will stay with me for a long time.” New York Times bestseller Hazel Gaynor“All the characters jump off the page…what we have here is a very fine novel.” Historical Novel Society She’s been...

‘A novel like none other’ AMITAV GHOSH‘A masterpiece’ AVNI DOSHI‘Wise, funny, touching’ ROBERT MACFARLANE Winner, Sushila Devi 2023Winner, Atta Galatta 2023 for Best FictionWinner, AutHer Award 2023 for FictionFinalist, Tata Live Award for Fiction...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction. An astounding literary accomplishment, Bring Up the Bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our...

The never-before-seen history of Westeros and the lands beyond. With hundreds of pages of all-new material from George R.R. Martin. If the past is prologue, then George R.R. Martin’s masterwork—the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our...

*SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Spain, June 1812In the beautiful city of Salamanca, Captain Richard Sharpe must hunt down and safeguard Britain’s most valuable spy, ‘El Mirador’,...

*SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Spain, January 1812Lieutenant Richard Sharpe faces threats from all sides when an old adversary joins the ranks. Yet, despite the risks, he must...

*SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Spain, March 1811   Cadiz is under siege – the last city standing in France’s conquest of Spain. So Captain Richard Sharpe must navigate the...

*SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now*A small British army is stranded when the French invade northern Portugal and Lieutenant Richard Sharpe meets the future Duke of Wellington. Sharpe is...

Kevin Gilbert's powerful expose of past and present race relations in Australia is an alarming story of land theft, attempted racial extermination, oppression, denial of human rights, slavery, ridicule, denigration, inequality and paternalism. First...

*SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Spain, August 1810The English army faces ruin in Spain – and the Duke of Wellington is desperate for money to fund the war. Only a cache of hidden...

*SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Spain, May 1811      As the British struggle to keep their last strongholds in Spain, Captain Richard Sharpe is handed a...

*SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Portugal, 1811Captain Richard Sharpe’s renegade ways leave him discarded by his regiment and waging a war against a private Portuguese enemy – one...

*SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now*Richard Sharpe triumphs in the last battle of the war, only to find himself in worse peril when charged to recover Napoleon’s treasure. It is 1814...

*SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Spain, July 1809Lieutenant Richard Sharpe faces not only great danger on the battlefield but also, even more dangerous, treachery within his own...

*SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Cape Trafalgar, October 1805   Heading home on a merchant ship from India, Ensign Richard Sharpe finds himself on a far more dangerous journey...

*SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now*Sharpe’s Tiger is the brilliant beginning of Sharpe’s adventures India, 1799The citadel of Seringapatam is under siege. Navigating this dangerous...

Winner of Canada Reads 2024 Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction One of Tor.com's Can't Miss Speculative Fiction for Fall 2023 Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 One of Kirkus Reviews' Fall 2023 Big Books By Small Presses...

The Bee and the Fly: The Improbable Correspondence of Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson presents a lifelong exchange of unknown letters between Dickinson, the reclusive poet, and Alcott, the most renowned author of the time.What could Alcott say to...

In the alternate history novel The New Empire, the world undergoes a drastic change in the 14th century when Chinese ships land on the west coast of what we know as the Bay Area of California. Fast forward four hundred years to a much different America...

A page-turner about a woman's struggle in an unapologetic patriarchy, Bride of the Buddha offers the reader a penetrating perspective on the milieu of the Buddha, with a fanciful twist.This is the story of Yasodhara, the abandoned wife of the Buddha...

'On the third of September, not so long ago, something truly wondrous happened on the Beauford Farm and Estate. At the moment of her death, Imogen Zula Nyoni Genie was seen to fly away on a giant pair of silver wings ...' As Imogen Zula Nyoni, aka Genie,...

"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...

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.

Eight million shots fired. Some of that lead actually hit its intended targets. And that lethal storm of projectiles doesn't count artillery fire, or the toll exacted by sword and fixed bayonet. The Battle at Gettysburg was a killing floor. It was also a...

After the car accident that killed his wife, Joe Muncie realized his life had been close to pointless up until that time. Now, with no experience in leading his own life successfully, his only option was to follow what little bit of his heart he had left...

As the editor of London's revolutionary New Worlds magazine in the swinging sixties, Michael Moorcock has been credited with virtually inventing modern Science Fiction: publishing such figures as Norman Spinrad, Samuel R. Delany, Brian Aldiss and J.G...

It's 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent Black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet. And a pregnant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great-great...

At the time of the Millennium three people struggle for survival in a small New Hampshire town as the world spins into chaos, not realizing that each harbors secrets that will eventually pit them against one another. The story evolves from the U.S...

This fascinating third volume in the Britannia's Fist series will have you pondering how easily history could have been swayed differently.Peter G. Tsouras presents the third installment in his Britannia's Fist alternate history series. The...

Young Magdalen and Jesus, brimming with youthful charm and arrogance, find each other and fall in love, forging a bond that is stronger than death. Their pleasure is overshadowed by a brilliant but unbalanced druid who knows a perilous secret about...