Historic Fiction Books
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The Last Quarter of the Moon : A novel from the Vintage Earth collection
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...- £9.99
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Alone in Berlin
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...- £9.99
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Cuddy
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...- £9.99
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Waterland
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...- £8.99
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The Island of Missing Trees
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...- £9.99
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My Brilliant Friend
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...- £9.99
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This Tender Land : A Novel
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...- £8.99
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Barkskins : Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017
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...- £14.99
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Black Narcissus
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)- £14.99
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Darkness At Noon
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...- £9.99
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Hamnet
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)- £9.99
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The Grapes of Wrath
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...- £9.99
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The Incorrigible Optimists Club
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)- £12.99
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Pachinko : The New York Times Bestseller
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...- £8.99
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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,...- £9.99
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An Abundance of Wild Roses
By Feryal Ali-Gauhar (Author)Format: Hardback 320 pagesPublisher: Canongate BooksImprint: Canongate BooksEdition: MainISBN: 9781838858162Published: 7 Mar 2024Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Weight: 422gDimensions: 221 x 144 x 30 (mm) In the Black Mountains of Pakistan, the discovery of an unconscious, unknown man is...- £16.99
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The Shadow King
By Maaza Mengiste (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 448 pages, NoPublisher: Canongate BooksImprint: Canongate BooksEdition: MainISBN: 9781838851170Published: 13 Aug 2020Classifications: Ethiopia, Historical fictionWeight: 322gDimensions: 129 x 197 x 36 (mm)- £9.99
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All the Light We Cannot See
By Anthony Doerr (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 560 pagesPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersImprint: Fourth Estate LtdEdition: Film tie-in editionISBN: 9780008548353Published: 12 Oct 2023Classifications: Europe, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fictionWeight: 372gDimensions: 129 x 199 x 37...- £9.99
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Conversation in the Cathedral
By Mario Vargas Llosa (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 608 pagesPublisher: Faber & FaberImprint: Faber & FaberEdition: MainISBN: 9780571168828Published: 26 Jul 1993Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Weight: 406gDimensions: 197 x 128 x 33 (mm) Conversation in the Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru...- £10.99
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Labyrinth
Format: Paperback / softback 752 pagesPublisher: Orion Publishing CoImprint: Orion Books LtdISBN: 9781474625906Published: 17 Feb 2022Weight: 522gDimensions: 130 x 196 x 57 (mm) The number one bestselling phenomenonJULY 1209, Carcassonne. Seventeen-year-old Alais Pelletier is given a mysterious book by her father, which he claims...- £10.99
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