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Genre: Historical Fiction

On the Blue Train

Kristel Thornell

RRP: £12.99

What did happen to Agatha Christie during her mysterious eleven-day disappearance just as she was on the cusp of fame?Yes, she said, finally. Breaks are important. There are times when it’s wiser to g …

The Templar Legacy

Mario Reading

From the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling authorThe Templar ProphecyJune 1190. A Knight Templar, Johannes von Hartelius, rescues the Holy Lance from his drowning King during the Third Crusade. April 194 …

The Safest Place in London

Maggie Joel

RRP: £12.99

On a frozen January evening in 1944, Nancy Levin, and her three-year-old daughter, Emily, flee their impoverished East London home as an air raid siren sounds. Not far away, 39- year-old Diana Meadows …

Arminius

Robert Fabbri

RRP: £9.99

One man’s greatest victory.Rome’s greatest defeat.A.D. 9: In the depths of the Teutoburg Wald, in a landscape riven by ravines, darkened by ancient oak and bisected by fast-flowing streams, Arminius o …

The Captain's Girl

Nicola Pryce

RRP: £25.00

Perfect for fans of POLDARK!A stunning eighteenth-century Cornish romance, following the desperate struggles of heroine Celia Cavendish as she bravely attempts to craft her own future.Cornwall 1793 – …

Valiant Gentlemen

Sabina Murray

RRP: £16.99

In prose that is darkly humorous and alive with detail, Valiant Gentlemen reimagines the lives and intimate friendships of humanitarian and Irish patriot Roger Casement; his closest friend, Herbert Wa …

Amnesia

Michael Ridpath

RRP: £7.99

What if you woke up to discover that you’d killed the only woman you had ever loved?Alastair Cunningham wakes up in hospital with almost total amnesia. But he knows that something terrible happened in …

Gold Mountain Blues

Ling Zhang

RRP: £8.99

One Family.Five generations.An epic story of love and loss. China, 1879With the Opium wars at their height, Fong Tak-Fat boards a ship to Canada, determined to make a life for himself and support his …

The Imperial Triumph

Robert Fabbri

Rome 44 AD, Marcus Salvius Magnus has returned from three years fighting for the emperor Claudius in Britannia. As the leader of the South Quirinal Crossroads Brotherhood he must quickly re-establish …

The Tyrant's Shadow

Antonia Senior

RRP: £8.99

[Senior’s] vivid characters [capture] this chaotic era with a lively sense of how it must have felt to those living through it – The TimesA court without a kingdom, a kingdom without a king…England, …

Wonderful Feels Like This

Sara Lövestam

RRP: £10.99

A feel-good story of an unconventional friendship between an old retired jazz musician and a young girl who is trying to find her place in the world.What can a bullied teenager learn from an old man s …

Wonderful Feels Like This

Sara Lövestam

RRP: £10.99

What can a bullied teenager learn from an old man spending his days in a retirement home? For a start, she’ll learn that it ain’t got a thing, if it ain’t got that swing…Passing by a retirement home …

To Capture What We Cannot Keep

Beatrice Colin

RRP: £7.99

Based on one of the two engineers working for Gustave Eiffel to design the tower for the World Fair of 1889.In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Émile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating h …

City of Secrets

Stewart O'Nan

RRP: £8.99

From master storyteller Stewart O’Nan, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War.In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees set out …

Conditions of Faith

Alex Miller

RRP: £7.99

Winner of the 2001 Christina Stead Prize for FictionFrom the Author of Miles Franklin Literary Award and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Winner With university behind her, Emily Stanton finds herself on t …

Half the World in Winter

Maggie Joel

RRP: £8.99

It is London, 1880, and Lucas Jarmyn struggles to make sense of the death of his beloved youngest daughter; his wife, Aurora, seeks solace in rigid social routines; and his eighteen-year-old daughter …

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