Way of All Flesh

Beast

Jeremy Underwood is a long-serving subeditor on The Daily Beast, Britain's mightiest tabloid. Returning from holiday, he notices two burqa-clad figures lurking outside th...

Liverpool Angels

Born at the turn of the twentieth century, Mae Strickland is only a few days old when her mother suddenly dies. Her aunt Maggie brings

Unwanted Dead

Paris, Friday 14th June 1940. The day the Nazis march into Paris. It made headlines around the globe. Paris police detective Eddie Giral - a

A Darker Sea

The second installment of the gripping naval saga by award-winning historian James L. Haley, featuring Commander Bliven Putnam, chronicling the build up to the biggest

Plague and cholera

Paris, May 1940. Nazi troops storm the city and at Le Bourget airport, on the last flight out, sits Dr Alexandre Yersin, his gaze politely

The Assassin of Verona

All is not well in Venice. Threatened daily by Papal assassins, William Shakespeare and his close friends Oldcastle and Hemminges are increasingly isolated--the lies that...

Mary Toft; or, the Rabbit Queen

A stunning, powerfully evocative new novel based on a true story - in 1726 in the small town of Godalming, England, a young woman confounds

A Hanging at Cinder Bottom

Keystone, West Virginia, 1910. In the hot August rain the townspeople gather to witness the first public hanging in over a decade. At the gallows

Henderson's Boys Vol 5: The Prisoner

The fifth adventure in the Henderson's Boys series: find out how CHERUB began! One of Henderson's best agents is being held captive in Frankfurt. A

Sisters of War

A secret love. An impossible choice. For fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Pam Jenoff, and Kate Furnivall comes this unforgettable tale of love, loss,

Goldberg

At the turn of the eighteenth century, a writer—a Jew—enters an English country manor, where he has been invited to read through the night to

Forbidden

„La începutul secolului al XIX-lea Anglia, Josie, în vârstă de 16 ani, se află într-un loc sinistru, cu oameni misterioși, ostili, inclusiv rudele ei. Persistența

Pack Up Your Troubles

The sixth and final book in the War at Home series by the author of The Morland Dynasty novels. Set against the evocative backdrop of

Murder at Morrington Hall

Stella Kendrick is an all-American heiress who can't be tamed. But when the lively aspiring equine trainer tangles with British aristocracy, she meets her match--and

All True Adventures of the Daredevil

The 1880s are drawing to a close, and 14(-maybe-15)-year-old Daniel Bones fears that the prospects for him and his younger brother Will may be dimming

Alamein

There are some battles that, had the other side won, would have totally altered the course of history. This is one of those battles ..

A Most English Princess

Perfect pentru fanii serialelor Victoria de la BBC, The Accidental Empress de Alison Pataki și Victoria de Daisy Goodwin, acest roman de debut spune povestea

War Lord: Book 13 (The Last Kingdom Series)

After years fighting to reclaim his rightful home, Uhtred of Bebbanburg has returned to Northumbria. With his loyal band of warriors and a new woman

The Lion and the Lamb

Condemned to a hovel, beaten by a merciless commander, crushed by the weather and forced to survive on starvation rations: no one looking at Paul

A Time for Renewal

In the wake of World War Two, the whole country is desperate for houses, with very little money available to rebuild. In the town of

The Unwanted Dead

Paris, Friday 14th June 1940. The day the Nazis march into Paris, making headlines around the globe. Paris police detective Eddie Giral - a survivor

The Swords of Fire: Book 1

Where once new ideas and beliefs were accepted, now the country's military dictator, the Shogun is shutting his country down to any outside influences. Father

Dark Days For The Tabacco Girls

The Tobacco Girls cling together as they realise that the clouds of war are turning dark, the world is becoming more dangerous and their lives

Young Bloods

Arthur Wesley (the future Duke of Wellington) was born and bred to be a leader. With a firm belief that the nation must be led

On Starlit Seas

For a woman travelling alone it's a journey fraught with danger, and as civil war rages around her, the only ship prepared to take Maria

The Twisted Threads of Polly Freeman

It s 1838. Polly is sent from a London workhouse to Quarry Bank Cotton Mill. The family who own Quarry Bank care for their apprentice

This I know

Set in a small Midwest town in the late 1960s and helmed by an unforgettable young protagonist--compassionate, uncannily wise Grace--This I Know is a luminous

Rooms of One's Own: 50 Places That Made Literary History

Writers’ relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme R...

The Queen's Governess

'Fans of The Crown will enjoy this poignant look behind the royal curtain' Georgie Blalock, a crown princess. Her childhood nanny. A shocking betrayal... Marion

The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam

Nyree and Cia live on a remote farm in the east of what was Rhodesia in the late 1970s. Beneath the dripping vines of the

The War Girls of Goodwill House

With Lord Harcourt away fighting, Lady Joanna Harcourt and her daughter Sarah discover their life of luxury at Goodwill House is over. Lady Joanna is

The Testimony of Alys Twist

1553: deeply-divided England rejoices as the rightful heir, Mary Tudor, sweeps to power on a tide of populist goodwill. But the people should have been

The Great War: Stories Inspired by Objects from the First World War

The Great War is a powerful collection of stories by bestselling authors, each inspired by a different object from the First World War. From a

Pack Up Your Troubles

1919: The war is over, but peace is yet to come. As men are demobbed, women must give up positions that gave them freedom. Edward

The Healing

A new edition of a National Book Award finalist follows a black faith healer whose shrewd observations about human nature are told with the rich

The Bully of Order

Set in a logging town on the lawless Pacific coast of Washington State at the turn of the twentieth century, a spellbinding novel of fate

War Baby

Some battles will be fought on the Homefront... The war has had a devastating effect on the Sweet Family with young Charlie Sweet, lost at

The Munitions Girls

1943, Gosport, Hampshire: Pixie Saunders is 19 and employed in the local armaments factory. Not for the first time, her mother has run off with

The Falling Sword

THE FALLING SWORD is the gripping follow-up to CLASH OF EMPIRES from Ben Kane, the master of historical fiction - for fans of Simon Scarrow,

A Grasp Of Kaspar

Munich 1956. The war is over but not forgotten. The West German economic miracle is underway, and American investors are looking for opportunities, but some

A Ration Book Victory : The brand new heartwarming historical fiction romance

Queenie Brogan wasn't always an East End matriarch. Many years ago, before she married Fergus, she was Philomena Dooley, a daughter of Irish Travellers, planning

Titian's Boatman

Este 1576 și Veneția este în haos, devastată de ciumă și copleșită de crimă. În mijlocul anarhiei găsim acele suflete curajoase care au ales să

Last Hope Island

A Mail on Sundaybook of the year. In 1940, Europe was on the brink of collapse. Country after country had fallen to the Nazis, and

Blame the Dead

Ed Ruggero's Blame the Dead is the thrilling start of an action-packed and timely World War II series by a former Army Officer for fans

The Light at the End of the Day

When Jozef is commissioned to paint a portrait of the younger daughter of Krakow's grand Oderfeldt family, it is only his desperate need for money

The Oatmeal Ark

The Reverend Hector Gillean is a ghost. At the start of the last century he built a ship and sailed west from the Hebrides to

Kettle of Fish

In 1857, the Tweed Fisheries Act made it illegal to fish for salmon in 50 square miles of open sea off the mouth of the

Triangle Trade

In 1804, Liverpool was the largest slave trading port in Great Britain, yet her influential traders felt threatened by the success, in Parliament, of the

Alexander

This historical fantasy, written by the son of the well-known German novelist Thomas Mann, takes Alexander the Great for its subject, charting his life and

The Heresy of Dr Dee: Book 2 (The John Dee Papers Series)

Tudor intrigue, murder, and the dark arts—the second in a stunning and acclaimed historical series starring Dr. John Dee, perfect for fans of C. J.

Baking Cakes in Kigali

Angel Tungazara runs a small business, baking cakes for the parties and celebrations of her neighbours. As her customers tell her their stories, Angel comes

The Road to Grantchester

It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at the Caledonian Club. No

And Some Fell on Stony Ground

Visceral, affecting fictionalised report of a bombing mission, from a former tailgunner shot down over Germany. Introduced by Richard Overy.

The One Man

Auschwitz, 1944. Alfred Mendl's days are numbered. But he has little left to live for - his family were torn away from him, his life's

Wunderland

An intimate portrait of a friendship severed by history, and a sweeping saga of wartime, motherhood, and legacy by an award-winning novelist It's 1989 in

Time's Convert

From human to vampire... Marcus Whitmore was made a vampire in the eighteenth century. Over two hundred years later, he finds himself in love with

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 19th November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced

Emperor's Axe

The fate of Rome, and thousands of lives, rests on the shoulders of one man. After murdering his brother, and taking the position of Emperor

Twelve Babies On A Bike

It's 1956, and in a shattered post-war world, Dot, a pupil midwife, negotiates the streets on her trusty old bicycle - come rain or shine

Highland chieftain

Sir Callum MacMillan can scarcely believe such a slight lass as Bethoc could save him from the grasp of death. But he knows the telltale