Category: Historical Fiction
Is he a hero or a traitor? Based on astonishing true events set in the darkest days of World War II in Budapest, this is an enthralling story of heroism, vengeance, passion, and betrayal. It is also the story of three women linked by a secret that threatens to destroy their lives. For readers of The Tat ...Show more
Category: Historical Fiction
A tale of two very different sisters whose 1890s voyage from London into remote outback Australia becomes a journey of self-discovery, set against a landscape of wild beauty and savage dispossession.London in 1891: Harriet Cameron is a talented young artist whose mother died when she was barely five. Sh ...Show more
Category: Historical Fiction
An epic love story on the fogbound streets of London reeling from the Blitz. Acclaimed author James MacManus conjures a compelling historical novel based on the true story of the secret love affair at the heart of the Second World War. It is 1942, and war-battered London plays host to the imposing figur ...Show more
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Fairmile
THE BRAND NEW SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR The eagerly awaited first book in Philippa Gregory's sweeping new series begins with the story of Alinor, a young midwife who finds herself tempted by a forbidden love affair. But in a society that has alread ...Show more
Category: Historical Fiction
‘Masterful, magnificent. A passionate story of survival. This story will stay with me for a long time.’ Heather Morris, bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz The war is over, but the past is never past … Paris, 1944. Charlotte Foret is working in a tiny bookstore in Nazi-o ...Show more
Category: Historical Fiction
From the international bestselling author of Room. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two o ...Show more
Category: Historical Fiction
A compelling novel reimagining the sordid family life of famed painter Stanley Spencer. The First World War is over, and in a quiet Hampshire village, artist Stanley Spencer is working on the commission of a lifetime, painting an entire chapel in memory of a life lost in the war to end all wars. Combini ...Show more
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Wolf Hall Trilogy
An astounding literary accomplishment, Bring Up the Bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists. ‘Our most brilliant English writer’ Guardian Bring Up the Bodies unlocks the darkly glittering court of Henry VIII, where Thomas Cromwel ...Show more
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Republic Ser.
Rome has lost its greatest warrior - for Aulus, the doom-laden prophecy of forty years earlier has come to pass. It is now left to Lucius to defy the oracle's curse alone, and the corrupt and powerful senator leaves nothing to chance in his bid to survive. But one boy, alone in the world, holds the key ...Show more
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser.
The brand new novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. BBC2's major TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series. From the day it was stolen from me I had dreamed of recapturing Bebb ...Show more
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser. | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The twelfth installment of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling Saxon Tales series chronicling the epic story of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)--the basis for the hit Netflix series The Last Kingdom.His blood is Saxon His heart is Viking His battleground is Engl ...Show more
Category: Historical Fiction
In 1683 life is gruelling for the young women in Amsterdam's civic orphanage. The sole light in Johanna Timmerman's existence is her forbidden love for Frans, an orphan in the boys' section who has a smile like sunshine. Then he is gone, whisked across the globe to the Dutch East India Company's nascent ...Show more
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