Historical Fiction Books

You can often tell  when someone is a great reader, when they’ve  absorbed the wisdom  of those who’ve come before and contemplated with themselves  and the world via the  medium of the all-conquering pen. To know the stories of  great authors is to augment our humanity. Historical fiction is  therefore a category we couldn’t miss out on at  Sherlock & Pages. Through these books  we might  not only know  the great  events of  our  past but to  feel them too. What a privilege that is  and one which we invite you to share with us through works such as Hilary Mantel’s ‘Wolf Hall’ trilogy  or Min Jin Lee’s Korean epic ‘Pachinko.’

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  • A Little Trickerie

    A Little Trickerie

    Rosanna Pike

    £9.99
  • The Last Quarter of the Moon : A novel from the Vintage Earth collection

  • Cecily : An epic feminist retelling of the War of the Roses

  • Lust For Life

    Lust For Life

    Irving Stone

    £11.99
  • The Land in Winter : Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025

  • Moon Tiger

    Moon Tiger

    Penelope Lively

    £10.99
  • This Is Happiness : By the author of Four Letters of Love, now a major film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan

  • The Island of Missing Trees

    The Island of Missing Trees

    Elif Shafak

    £10.99
  • Cold Comfort Farm

    Cold Comfort Farm

    Stella Gibbons

    £10.99
  • Alone in Berlin

    Alone in Berlin

    Hans Fallada

    £12.99
  • The Corner That Held Them

    The Corner That Held Them

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

    £10.99
  • The Bastard of Istanbul

    The Bastard of Istanbul

    Elif Shafak

    £10.99
  • Cuddy : Winner of the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize

  • The King’s Mother : Four mothers fight for their sons as the Wars of the Roses rage

  • Night Train To Lisbon

    Night Train To Lisbon

    Pascal Mercier

    £9.99
  • Waterland

    Waterland

    Graham Swift

    £10.99
  • Hamnet : 2025 Film Tie-In Edition

    Hamnet : 2025 Film Tie-In Edition

    Maggie O'Farrell

    £10.99
  • The Book of Days : ‘Richly imagined and skillfully crafted’ The Spectator

  • The Painter's Daughters : The award-winning debut novel selected for BBC Radio 2 Book Club

  • Black Narcissus

    Black Narcissus

    Rumer Godden

    £16.99
  • Wolf Solent

    Wolf Solent

    John Cowper Powys

    £14.99
  • The Stationery Shop of Tehran

    The Stationery Shop of Tehran

    Marjan Kamali

    £9.99
  • The Bell in the Lake : The Sister Bells Trilogy Vol. 1: The Times Historical Fiction Book of the Month

  • Winter in Madrid

    Winter in Madrid

    C.J. Sansom

    £10.99