Historical Fiction
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The Eighth Life (for Brilka)
Nino Haratischvili
Read more ▸ Order ▸The bestselling sensation that UK booksellers are calling this generation’s War and Peace.
Six romances, one revolution,...
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The Invisible Land
Hubert Mingarelli (Y)
Read more ▸ Order ▸Dinslaken, Germany. July 1945. The war is over, and the allied forces are beginning to...
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The Snow Ball
Brigid Brophy
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Superb … Sheer artistic insolence.’ Iris Murdoch ‘Brilliantly seductive … A witty, sexy, sophisticated treat.’...
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The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Read more ▸ Order ▸The unmissable debut novel by the critically acclaimed author of Between the World and Me and We Were...
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The Autumn of the Ace
Louis de Bernieres
Read more ▸ Order ▸Louis de Bernieres is the master of historical fiction that makes you both laugh and...
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Nobber
Oisin Fagan
Read more ▸ Order ▸An ambitious noble and his three serving men travel through the Irish countryside in the...
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Hidden in Plain Sight
Jeffrey Archer
Read more ▸ Order ▸Hidden in Plain Sight is the second brilliant and captivating novel featuring William Warwick by the...
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Valhalla: A story of love and duty
Alan Robert Clark
Read more ▸ Order ▸May of Teck, only daughter of a noble family fallen from grace, has been selected...
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The Sword And The Spear
Mia Couto
Read more ▸ Order ▸Mozambique, 1895. The last days of the so-called Gaza Empire. After an attack on his...
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Shadowplay
Joseph O'Connor
Read more ▸ Order ▸London, 1878. Fresh from life in Dublin, Bram Stoker – now manager of the Lyceum...
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The Daylight Gate
Jeanette Winterson
Read more ▸ Order ▸The Forest of Pendle used to be a hunting ground, but some say that the...
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The Man who Collected Women
Nigel Barley
Read more ▸ Order ▸A novel about eccentric 19th-century Englishman Alexander Hare: a trader and slave-owner in the East...