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Genre: Historical Fiction

The Undertaking

Audrey Magee

RRP: £9.99

The debut novel by the author of The Colony, longlisted for the 2022 Booker PrizeA soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, the …

Colossus

Alexander Cole

RRP: £14.99

Alexander the Great rests in Babylon as he decides which should be his next world to conquer. A war elephant, Colossus, disturbs the peace of the camp when he is provoked to a killing rampage. Only on …

The Railwayman's Wife

Ashley Hay

RRP: £12.99

In a small town on the land’s edge, in the strange space at a war’s end, a widow, a poet and a doctor each try to find their own peace, and their own new story.On the south coast of New South Wales, i …

The Erl-King

Michel Tournier

RRP: £9.99

An international bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt, The Erl-King is a magisterial tale of innocence, perversion and obsession. It follows the passage of strange, gentle Abel Tiffauges from su …

The Templar Prophecy

Mario Reading

RRP: £7.99

From the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling authorJune 1190. A Knight Templar, Johannes von Hartelius, rescues the Holy Lance from his drowning King during the Third Crusade. April 1945. In one of his las …

The Blood of Heaven

Kent Wascom

RRP: £8.99

It is 1861, and Angel Woolsack is a Confederate about to breathe his last, as the Union forces make their inexorable approach. Rejected by his wife, his wealth no longer useful to him, he sets about r …

The Great Gatsby

Nicki Greenberg

RRP: £10.99

Nicki Greenberg’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby brings to life the grand and crumpled dreams of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unforgettable characters. In the exquisitely realised setting of 1920s New York, …

Wolves in Winter

Lisa Hilton

RRP: £7.99

ITALY, 1492. Five-year-old Mura is a strange and bewitching child. Daughter of a Nordic mother and Spanish father, she has been tutored in both Arabic learning and the ancient mythology of the north. …

Then We Take Berlin

John Lawton

RRP: £9.99

A gripping, meticulously researched and richly detailed historical thriller moving from London during the Blitz, to divided post-war Berlin.John Holderness, known to most as ‘Wilderness’, comes of age …

Rome's Fallen Eagle

Robert Fabbri

RRP: £9.99

The fourth instalment of Robert Fabbri’s bestselling Vespasian series. Caligula is dead, Rome is in the hands of a drooling fool – and Vespasian must fight to save his brother’s life and find the Eagl …

The Heresy of Dr Dee

Phil Rickman

RRP: £10.99

The acclaimed second instalment of The John Dee Papers. Tudor intrigue, murder and the dark arts – brooding superstition leaves John Dee isolated in the land of his father…

Babayaga

Toby Barlow

RRP: £12.99

From the author of Sharp Teeth, comes a novel of postwar Paris, of star-crossed love and Cold War espionage, of bloodthirsty witches and a police inspector turned into a flea…and that’s just the beg …

Secrets of the Sea House

Elisabeth Gifford

RRP: £9.99

***Shortlisted For Historical Writers’ Association’s Debut Crown For Best First Historical Novel***Scotland, 1860. Reverend Alexander Ferguson, naïve and newly-ordained, takes up his new parish, a poo …

Spirit House

Mark Dapin

RRP: £8.99

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 ONDAATJE PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDDavid is thirteen and confused. His mum has left with her lover and dumped …

Satantango

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

RRP: £8.99

Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeIn the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water dri …

The Racing Factions

Robert Fabbri

A bestselling Vespasian series novella: Marcus Salvius Magnus must use the full resources of his criminal underground fraternity to exact vengeance…

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