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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  • The Girls Of Slender Means

    The Girls Of Slender Means

    Muriel Spark

    £9.99
  • Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    £16.99
  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North : Discover the Booker prize-winning masterpiece

  • Light in August

    Light in August

    William Faulkner

    £9.99
  • Betty : The International Bestseller

  • The Battle of the Villa Fiorita : A Virago Modern Classic

  • Precipice

    Precipice

    Robert Harris

    £9.99
  • Palace Walk : From the Nobel Prizewinning author

  • Salt to the Sea

    Salt to the Sea

    Ruta Sepetys

    £9.99
  • Captain Corelli's Mandolin : AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS

  • The Mirror and the Light

    The Mirror and the Light

    Hilary Mantel

    £10.99
  • The Colour

    The Colour

    Rose Tremain

    £10.99
  • The Alexandria Quartet : Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

  • I, Claudius

    I, Claudius

    Robert Graves

    £12.99
  • Conversation in the Cathedral : Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

  • The Pilgrimage

    The Pilgrimage

    Paulo Coelho

    £9.99
  • Split Tooth

    Split Tooth

    Tanya Tagaq

    £14.99
  • The Artist : Winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year 2025

  • The Two Roberts

    The Two Roberts

    Damian Barr

    £18.99
  • Now I Surrender

    Now I Surrender

    Alvaro Enrigue

    £20.00
  • Yevgeny Onegin

    Yevgeny Onegin

    Alexander Pushkin

    £12.99
  • The Loney : 'Full of unnerving terror . . . amazing' Stephen King

  • The Tarot Reader of Versailles : The spellbinding new novel from the international bestselling author of THE WITCHES OF VARDO

  • Held : Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024