Historic Fiction Books

By: Chi ZijianBinding: A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them'At the end of the twentieth century an old woman sits among the birch trees and...

Lust for Life is the classic fictional re-telling of the incredible life of Vincent Van Gogh. "Vincent is not dead. He will never die. His love, his genius, the great beauty he has created will go on forever, enriching the world. He was a...

By Elif Shafak (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 368 pagesPublisher: Penguin Books LtdImprint: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241988725Published: 7 Apr 2022Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Weight: 264gDimensions: 129 x 197 x 27 (mm) Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at...

by Hans Fallada (Author)Series: Penguin Modern ClassicsFormat: Paperback / softback 608 pagesPublisher: Penguin Books LtdImprint: Penguin ClassicsISBN: 9780141189383Published: 28 Jan 2010Classifications: Classic fiction (pre c 1945)Weight: 420gDimensions: 197 x 130 x 28 (mm) 'One of the most extraordinary and compelling novels written about World...

By: Graham SwiftBinding: Paperback / softbackThe Booker Shortlisted Modern Classic from the author of Last Orders, Mothering Sunday and Here We Are One summer morning in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds the drowned body of a sixteen-year-old boy. Nearly forty years later, his son...

Enter the delightfully absurd world of Cold Comfort Farm, where the mundane meets the outrageous. Stella Gibbons' comic masterpiece takes a hilarious swipe at rural melodramas, following the indomitable Flora Poste as she descends upon her eccentric relatives at the aptly named Cold Comfort...

by Benjamin Myers (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 464 pagesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCImprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781526631466Published: 1 Feb 2024Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Weight: 320gDimensions: 130 x 198 x 32 (mm) Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of...

By Elena Ferrante (Author)Series: Neapolitan QuartetFormat: Paperback / softback 331 pagesPublisher: Europa Editions (UK) LtdImprint: Europa Editions (UK) LtdISBN: 9781787702226Published: 5 Mar 2020Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Readership: General (US: Trade)Weight: 228gDimensions: 129 x 197 x 23 (mm) From one of Italy's...

By: William Kent KruegerBinding: Paperback / softbackFor fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, "a gripping, poignant tale swathed in both mythical and mystical overtones" (Bob Drury, New York Times bestselling author) that follows four orphans on a life-changing odyssey...

By: Annie ProulxBinding: Paperback / softbackLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about...

A startling heroine' SARAH MOSS, author of Summerwater 'A vividly female perspective on the Wars of the Roses' IMOGEN HERMES GOWER, author of The Mermaid and Mr Hancock'Wolf Hall for the 2020s' MANDA SCOTT, author of Boudica 'Absorbing' TIMES __________________________________ 1431 is a dangerous...

By Markus Zusak (Author)Format Paperback / softback 560 pagesPublisher: Transworld Publishers LtdImprint: Black SwanISBN: 9781784162122Published: 15 Sep 2016Weight: 380gDimensions: 193 x 122 x 37 (mm)

All the Seas of the World plunges you into a richly imagined world reminiscent of the near-Renaissance era. Guy Gavriel Kay's latest masterpiece follows the intertwined fates of Rafel ben Natan and Nadia bint Dhiyan, two merchants-turned-privateers on a perilous mission to assassinate the...

By Min Jin Lee (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 560 pagesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCImprint: ApolloISBN: 9781838930509Published: 9 Jan 2020Classifications :Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Weight: 376gDimensions: 201 x 121 x 36 (mm) Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of...

Inspired by a grisly discovery in the nineteenth century, The King's General was the first of du Maurier's novels to be written at Menabilly, the model for Manderley in Rebecca. Set in the seventeenth century, it tells the story of a country and a...

Format: Paperback/softback 304 pagesPublisher: Vintage PublishingImprint: Vintage ClassicsISBN: 9781784873196Published: 17 Sep 2020Classifications: Classic fiction (pre c 1945)Weight: 218g A brilliant new translation of Koestler's long-lost original manuscript. A chilling and unforgettable 20th century classic.From a prison cell in an unnamed country run by a...

By Maggie O'Farrell (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 384 pagesPublisher: Headline Publishing GroupImprint: Tinder PressISBN: 9781472223821Published: 1 Apr 2021Weight: 334gDimensions: 129 x 197 x 37 (mm)

By: Michael OndaatjeBinding: Paperback / softbackWINNER OF THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018'Magnificent' Sunday Times'The best piece of fiction I've read in years' Independent on SundayThe final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village. Hana, a nurse,...

By: Mr John Steinbeck, Robert DeMottBinding: Paperback / softback'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.' Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad...

As performed by Maxine Peake ('visionary'): the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish Britain, THEY are coming closer. 'A creepily prescient tale ... Insidiously horrifying!' Margaret Atwood' A masterpiece of creeping dread.' Emily St. John Mandel This is Britain: but...

Delve into the labyrinthine mysteries of a medieval Italian monastery in Umberto Eco's seminal work, The Name of the Rose. This historical murder mystery transports readers to the year 1327, where a series of bizarre deaths cast a sinister pall over the hallowed halls....

In an alternate 19th-century England where magic has long been forgotten, two very different men - Mr. Norrell, a reclusive scholar obsessed with reviving the arcane practice, and Jonathan Strange, a charming young aristocrat - are inextricably drawn together to reignite the wonders of...

In the throes of World War I, a forbidden love blossoms amidst the carnage and devastation of the battlefield. 'In Memoriam' by Alice Winn is a haunting and virtuosic debut novel that weaves a poignant tale of forbidden romance between two young soldiers. As...

In the scorching deserts of ancient Macedon, a young prince dreams of conquering the world. Mary Renault's "Fire from Heaven" sweeps you into the tumultuous childhood of Alexander the Great, where ambition and destiny collide. This gripping historical novel paints a vivid portrait of...

OVER 4 MILLION COPIES SOLD A Showtime/Paramount+ series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander RostovFrom the number one New York Times-bestselling author, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel'A wonderful...

By: Delia OwensBinding: Paperback / softback#1 New York Times BestsellerA Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick"I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!" Reese Witherspoon"Painfully beautiful." The New York Times Book ReviewFor years,...

Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from Norfolk to New Zealand in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in the creek he is seized by a rapturous...

In the fateful year of 1666, the village of Eyam in England found itself besieged by an invisible yet deadly foe - the bubonic plague. As the scourge crept from household to household, the villagers faced an agonizing choice: flee and risk carrying the...

By Rumer Godden (Author)Series: Virago Modern ClassicsFormat: Hardback 272 pagesPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupImprint: Virago Press LtdISBN: 9780349014043Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Weight: 392gDimensions: 133 x 205 x 28 (mm)

By Jean-Michel Guenassia (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 640 pagesPublisher: Atlantic BooksImprint: Atlantic BooksEdition: MainISBN: 9781848875425Published: 7 May 2015Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Weight: 444gDimensions: 132 x 198 x 43 (mm)