Historical Fiction Books
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The Last Quarter of the Moon : A novel from the Vintage Earth collection
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 reflects on the...- £9.99
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Lust For Life
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...- £11.99
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The Island of Missing Trees
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK*****You don't fall in love in Cyprus in the summer of 1974. Not here, not now. In 1974, two teenagers, from opposite sides of a...- £9.99
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Alone in Berlin
THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'One of the most extraordinary and compelling novels written about World War II. Ever' Alan Furst Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is a gripping wartime thriller following one ordinary man's determination to defy the tyranny of...- £9.99
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Cuddy : Winner of the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize
**Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2023****Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize****Shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize****Chosen as a book of the year 2023 by The Times, Guardian, Telegraph and New Statesman**`An epic the north has long deserved' FINANCIAL TIMES `A sensational piece of...- £9.99
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Waterland
The 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 Tom, a history teacher, is...- £9.99
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Underland : A Deep Time Journey
A beautiful gift for the intrepid explorer in your life by one of the most acclaimed and beloved nature writers working today, the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old WaysA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019WINNER...- £12.99
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Cecily : An epic feminist retelling of the War of the Roses
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...- £9.99
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Cold Comfort Farm
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...- £9.99
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Hamnet : WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE 2020 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER 2021'Richly sensuous... something special' The Sunday Times'A thing of shimmering wonder' David MitchellTWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART. On a...- £9.99
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My Brilliant Friend
OVER 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD IN ENGLISH WORLDWIDEOVER 14 MILLION COPIES OF THE NEAPOLITAN QUARTET SOLD WORLDWIDETHE NEW YORK TIMES' #1 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURYTHE NEW YORK TIMES' #8 READERS' LIST BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURYTHE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF...- £9.99
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Barkskins : Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017
LONGLISTED 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 the taking down of the...- £14.99
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This Tender Land : A Novel
For 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 during the Great Depression, from the...- £8.99
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The Book Thief : TikTok made me buy it! The life-affirming reader favourite
Life affirming, triumphant and tragic . . . masterfully told. . . but also a wonderful page-turner' Guardian'Brilliant and hugely ambitious' New York Times'Extraordinary' Telegraph___HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death...- £9.99
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The King's General
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...- £9.99
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All the Seas of the World : International bestseller
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...- £9.99
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A Gentleman in Moscow
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...- £9.99
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English Pastoral : An Inheritance - The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life
THE SUNDAY TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEARThe new bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life'A beautifully written story of a family, a home and a changing landscape' Nigel Slater As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the...- £10.99
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Run to the Western Shore : `Surprising, poignant, elemental' novel from award-winning author
A beautiful love story with an incredible sense of place' - The TimesA powerful novel about destiny, home and surviving in a world in fluxBritain, AD 72. Quintus, long exiled from his people, has travelled great odysseys in the retinue of a powerful Roman....- £12.99
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Fire from Heaven : A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic
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...- £9.99
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Black Narcissus
NOW A HAUNTING BBC DRAMA, STARRING GEMMA ARTERTON AND DIANA RIGG'A remarkable and beautiful book' DAILY TELEGRAPH'I envy anyone reading it for the first time' AMANDA COE'[Godden has] a genius for storytelling' EVENING STANDARDHigh in the Himalayas, the mountaintop palace shines like a jewel....- £14.99
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Pachinko : The New York Times Bestseller
* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * An instant New York Times Bestseller and one of their 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * 'This is a captivating book... Min...- £8.99
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Death in Spring
Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece.' Colm T�ib�n, from the introduction'Dark and beautiful and brilliant' Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall Death in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy's coming of age in a remote village in the...- £9.99
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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
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...- £12.99
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In Memoriam
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...- £9.99
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Darkness at Noon
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 totalitarian government Rubashov reflects. Once a powerful player in the regime, mercilessly dispensing with anyone who got...- £9.99
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The English Patient : Winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize
WINNER 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, tends to her sole remaining...- £9.99
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The Grapes of Wrath
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 family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl...- £9.99
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Where the Crawdads Sing
#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, rumors of the "Marsh Girl"...- £9.99
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Love of Country : A Hebridean Journey
Embark on a captivating odyssey through the rugged landscapes and rich cultural tapestry of the Hebrides islands in Madeleine Bunting's "Love of Country: A Journey through the Hebrides." This mesmerizing travelogue transcends the boundaries of a traditional guidebook, weaving vivid descriptions of the islands'...- £10.99
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The Marriage Portrait : the Instant Sunday Times Bestseller, Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023A Reese's Bookclub December Pick (2022)An Instant Sunday Times, New York Times and Irish Times Bestseller (August 2022)A Guardian and LitHub Book of the Year (December 2022)'Every bit as evocative and spellbinding as Hamnet. O'Farrell, thank God,...- £9.99
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The Name of the Rose
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....- £10.99
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The Incorrigible Optimists Club
Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini - amateur photographer and compulsive reader - is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grown-up...- £12.99
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All the Light We Cannot See
SOON A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES - from director Shawn Levy, starring Louis Hofmann, Lars Eidinger and Marion Bailey, with Hugh Laurie and Mark Ruffalo, and introducing Aria Mia Loberti. WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF...- £9.99
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Lincoln in the Bardo : WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
The acclaimed novel by George Saunders, winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize in 2017, is a poignant tale of love and loss that transcends the boundaries of reality. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, the story revolves around President Abraham...- £9.99
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Les Miserables
Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own...- £25.00
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Independent People
The great Icelandic novel by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Halld�r Laxness'There are good books and there are great books and there may be a book that is something still more: it is the book of your life' New York Review of BooksFirst published in...- £10.99
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How Much of These Hills is Gold : `A tale of two sisters during the gold rush . beautifully written' The i, Best Books of the Year
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 and selected as a Barack Obama Book of the Year 2020, this captivating novel transports readers to the twilight of the American Gold Rush era. Two young siblings, Lucy and Sam, aged twelve and eleven respectively, find themselves...- £8.99
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin : AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this edition of Louis de Bernieres' acclaimed novel features a new introduction by the author himself. Hailed as "a true diamond of a novel, glinting with comedy and tragedy" by the Daily Mail, the story unfolds in 1941 on the...- £9.99
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A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" is a poignant autobiographical account of his experiences during the Great War. The novel captures the raw emotions and profound impact of war through the eyes of a young American volunteer. With an uncompromising and passionate narrative, Hemingway...- £9.99
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China Court : The Hours of a Country House
China Court by Rumer Godden is a sweeping family saga that transports readers to the idyllic Cornish countryside. This richly woven narrative follows five generations of a family bound to the ancestral estate of China Court, unveiling their intimate daily lives and cherished routines...- £18.99
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Wolf Hall
Now a major TV series Winner of the Man Booker Prize The first book in Hilary Mantel's award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light From one of our finest...- £10.99
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Ulverton
Immerse yourself in the stories of Ulverton, as heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime'Sometimes you forget that it is a novel, and believe for a moment that you are really hearing the voice of the dead' Hilary MantelAt the heart of this...- £9.99
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The Mirror and the Light
Soon to be a major TV series The Sunday Times bestseller Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Booker Prize `It is a book not read, but lived' Telegraph `Her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of...- £10.99
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Small Things Like These : Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022
** A SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER **** Chosen as a Spectator, Irish Times and Irish Independent Book of the Year **FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOSTER, SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE IS AN UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF HOPE, QUIET HEROISM, AND TENDERNESS. WINNER OF...- £12.99
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Joan : The stunning new feminist reimagining of Joan of Arc
A stunning feminist reimagining of the life of Joan of Arc - perfect for fans of Cecily, Ariadne and Matrix'It is as if the author has crept inside a statue and breathed a soul into it, re-creating Joan of Arc as a woman for...- £9.99
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Figures in a Landscape
Masterful and beautifully written. Riveting and compellingly authentic. Grips you like a vice from the first page and never lets you go' Damien LewisTwo men are on the run. They have four hundred miles to go across hostile territory. Soldiers on the ground track...- £9.99
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Bring Up the Bodies
Now a major TV series Winner of the Man Booker Prize The second book in Hilary Mantel's award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a stunning new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light An astounding literary accomplishment,...- £9.99
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An Ordinary Youth : A Novel
Growing up in Rostock, in the north of Germany, Walter has a comfortable upbringing: quiet and content, he spends his days scheming with school friends and resisting the torment of his older siblings. But, as the country rolls toward war, the attitudes of his...- £9.99
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A Little Trickerie
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Crisp, transportive, uplifting. The fresh, irreverent voice of Tibb Ingleby is sheer brilliance. I loved it!'BONNIE GARMUS, author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRYListen. My one-time friend Maria did tell me once: "Make your own paradise, Tibb, since this world is no...- £16.99
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