Historical fiction

The Mirror and the Light [9780007480999]

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Ma…

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Hamnet [9781472223791]

** WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 ** A stunning new departure for Maggie O'Farrell's fiction - the heart-stopping story behind Shakespe…

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The Shadow King [9781838851170] SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 ETHIOPIA. 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt t…

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Hamnet [9781472223821]

** WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 ** A stunning new departure for Maggie O'Farrell's fiction - the heart-stopping story behind Shakespe…

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Pilgrims [9781786492371]

From the author of English Passengers and Rome: A History in Seven Sackings.  'An enthralling and wonderfully vivid novel fr…

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Circe [9781408890080]

From the Orange Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author of The Song of Achilles comes the powerful story of the mythological witch Circe, in…

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Light Perpetual [9780571336487]

November 1944. A German rocket incinerates a South London household-goods store, and five young lives are atomised in an instant. Jo and Valerie and …

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The Silence of the Girls [9780241983201]

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 Queen Briseis has been stolen from her conquered homeland and given as a concubine to a foreign wa…

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Circe: The Sunday Times Bestseller [9781408890042]

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 The captivating Sunday Times and New York Times number one bestseller by the Orange Prize-winning …

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Wolf Hall [9780008381691]

Winner of the Man Booker Prize The first book in Hilary Mantel's award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to …

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The Governess [9781787394667]

The Governess tells the story of Marion 'Crawfie' Crawford, the progressive young working-class woman who, as royal governess for seventeen years, liv…

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Tombland [9781447284482]

Tombland is the seventh novel in C. J. Sansom's number one bestselling Shardlake series Spring, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, Engla…

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The Librarian of Auschwitz: The heart-breaking international bestseller based on an incredible true story [9781529104776]

For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice: this is the story of the smallest library in the world - and the most dangerous. 'It wasn't…

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The Last Tudor [9781471133053]

'Bitterly, I think that Elizabeth does not want cousins, she does not want heirs, she wants all her relations to be as dead as her mother. But she doe…

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The Last Tudor [9781471133077]

`How long do I have?' I force a laugh.`Not long,' he says very quietly. `They have confirmed your sentence of death. You are to be beheaded tomorrow. …

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The Mercies [9781529005103]

On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardo is thrown into a reckless storm. As Maren Magnusdatter watches, forty fish…

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Wolf Hall [9780008366759]

Winner of the Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the the Orange Prize Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award …

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The Essex Serpent [9781781255452]

WINNER - OVERALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2017 THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 - #1 BESTSELLING FICTION HARDBACK CHRISTMAS 2…

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The City of Tears [9781509806874]

Following on from the Sunday Times number one bestseller, The Burning Chambers, Kate Mosse's The City of Tears is the second thrilling historical epic…

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To Calais, In Ordinary Time [9781786896773]

Three journeys. One road. England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a proctor sets out for a monastery in Avignon and a young p…

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