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Genre: Historical Fiction

The Racing Line

Kelly Frost

They say she can’t win. She knows she can’t lose.An expansive, inspiring feminist novel about one woman’s rise as a racing driver in mid-century Britain._________________It’s 1945 and Winifred ‘Freddy …

Cairo Gambit

S. W. Perry

RRP: £9.99

‘An enthralling thriller … hypnotically readable’ ANDREW TAYLOR’A compelling tale of a world on the brink of war’ THE TIMES’Ceaselessly entertaining’ OBSERVERIn the heat of the desert, will the trai …

The Wanton Road

J. C. Harvey

RRP: £12.99

When widowed, grieving war hero Jack Fiskardo arrives in the London of 1639, a veteran not just of conflict but also of tragedy, his only wish is to make a different life for himself and his sons. But …

Not Alive, Not Dead

John Donoghue

RRP: £9.99

How do you find someone nobody believes is missing? A new historical thriller perfect for fans of Conclave________________’Likely to find favour with fans of Robert Harris’ STRONG WORDS’A masterful me …

The Players

Minette Walters

RRP: £9.99

Readers love THE PLAYERS’Totally riveting… Perfect.’I was transported every time I picked up this highly imaginative story”Everything I love about historical fiction”This is historical fiction at …

Last Train from Liguria

Christine Dwyer Hickey

RRP: £9.99

In 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress and an elderly Italian aristocrat. Living at the family’s summer home, Bella’s rese …

The Glass House

Rachel Donohue

RRP: £9.99

‘Distinct shades of Daphne du Maurier’ Sunday Independent’Lyrical prose with ominous secrets saturating its deepest core’ ALEX MARWOODTHE WINDOW TO THE PAST CAN NEVER BE CLOSED…1963: At the stark an …

The Lives of Women

Christine Dwyer Hickey

RRP: £9.99

The stunning new novel from Christine Dwyer Hickey, bestselling author of Last Train from Liguria.’One of Ireland’s most lauded modern writers, Christine Dwyer Hickey teases out the strands of her sto …

The Mischief Makers

Elisabeth Gifford

RRP: £9.99

‘AS COMPELLING AS ANY OF DU MAURIER’S OWN WORKS’ SUNDAY TIMESShe wrote her stories in his shadow. Now Daphne’s past is catching up with her…In a beautiful house in the wilds of Cornwall, Daphne du M …

The Narrow Land

Christine Dwyer Hickey

RRP: £9.99

WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTIONWINNER OF THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARD FOR NOVEL OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDSAn Irish Independent and Irish Times Book of the Ye …

Bonjour, Sophie

Elizabeth Buchan

RRP: £9.99

A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING GOOD BOOKS SPRING PICK 2025’Vividly conjures the excitement of Paris’ RUTH HOGAN, bestselling author of THE KEEPER OF LOST THINGS’Beguiling’ The TimesCan she escape the darkness of …

Cold Victory

Karl Marlantes

RRP: £9.99

Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. At an embassy party, Finnish-American Arnie Koski and Russian Mikhail Bobrov drunkenly challenge each …

Berlin Duet

S. W. Perry

RRP: £9.99

‘A POWERFUL, PANORAMIC NOVEL OF WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH’ SUNDAY TIMES’What a love story’ Elizabeth Buchan’Gripping and heartfelt’ Elisabeth Gifford’Entirely convincing and authentic’ Leonora NattrassDIV …

The Blue Maiden

Anna Noyes

RRP: £9.99

‘Haunting’ NEW YORK TIMES’A shimmering spell of a novel’ EMMA TÖRZS’Partly a young girl’s coming of age, partly a treatise of the wildness of women’ STEPHANIE DANLER___________________________________ …

Lightborne

Hesse Phillips

RRP: £9.99

A stunning debut on queer love, betrayal and survival in the Elizabethan Age from a vital new voice in historical fiction

Peace and Love

J. C. Harvey

How is a warrior to live his life, once all the wars are done?Uppsala Province, Sweden, 1720: Magnus von Lindeborg, soldier, commander, champion; grandson of Jack Fiskardo’s youthful high-born ensign, …

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