First World War Fiction

With the Great War raging, can they keep Britain going?1915. On Beth Healey''s eighteenth birthday, she hopes that she will be able to forget the g...

Bristol 1927Ten year old Magda Brodies world is torn apart when her mother dies in the workhouse two weeks before Christmas. Her wastrel father arr...

Bristol 1927Ten year old Magda Brodies world is torn apart when her mother dies in the workhouse two weeks before Christmas. Her wastrel father arr...

If you love Katie Flynn and Pam Howes, you'll love Chrissie Walsh's WWI story of love, loss and triumph!Kitty and Tom Conlon arrive in Liverpool in...

Can Polly finally escape her haunting past?Spring 1919: WW1 might be over, but the inhabitants of Dorcalon in the Welsh Valleys still feel the pain...

From the highly acclaimed author of The Photographer of the Lost, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, comes a tale of a young war widow and one life-chan...

It is 1916 and the Hunters, their friends and their servants are settling down to the business of war. As conscription reaches into every household...

The unputdownable historical novel by the acclaimed and bestselling author of WAKE and EXPECTATION: a devastating story of love and madness at the ...

'Trust me. I know where I'm going.' Angus MacGrath, artist, sailor and navigator, is lost caught between a remote wife, a disapproving father and ...

When William Came (1913) is a novel by Saki. Considered a masterpiece of invasion literature, When William Came indulges in the paranoid atmosphere...

ENGLAND WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. Loosely based on the sad tale of the cricketers of Clifton College, whose cricket first eleven all volunteered for...

  A beautifully illustrated story celebrating the poppy's history. Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman have teamed up w...

It's 1917, and Captain Stanley Woolley joins an R.F.C. squadron whose pilots are starting to fear the worst: their war over the Western Front may g...

As Fenella Wilson points out in her Introduction to this collection of Neil Munro's writings on war, the theme is represented in each aspect of his...

I never saw the man again, alive or dead. One will say that I saw him only for a moment, that it was misty at the time, and that even I did not rec...

Set deep in the mountains of southern France, this charming short novel tells the story of a man from the Cèvennes Mountains called Roux, who refus...

Shellshock. It's not allowed to exist anymore.That's bollocks, Captain scowled. You can't just forbid an illness to exist.I know that, Rigby shrugg...

'A gripping murder mystery and a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation.' ANDREW TAYLOR'Terrific' SUNDAY TIMES, Best Books of the Month'...

The final book in Cynthia's War at Home series - Pack Up Your Troubles - is available to pre-order now.'Always a stay-up-all-night read with Cynthi...

A page-turning literary gem THE TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF 2020 From the highly acclaimed author of The Photographer of the Lost, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club...

Top voices in historical fiction deliver an unforgettable collection of short stories set in the aftermath of World War I-featuring bestselling aut...

A heartwarming and dramatic World War I saga of secrets, love and the British royal family for readers of Daisy Styles and Maisie Thomas. 'A heartw...

Martin Falconer had one big anxiety: would they let him fly again?Grounded in England at the beginning of 1918, it was a struggle, for escaped pris...

'The first in an effervescent new mystery series. . . a treat for historical mystery lovers looking for a new series to savour (or devour)' NEW YO...

'One of the greatest novels ever written' Philippe Sands Roth's masterpiece: an epic, moving account of the final days of the Austro-Hungarian em...

Its the dawn of the 20th century, but Anna and Dorrie Furlong, young daughters of a Liverpudlian ship captain with archaic ideals, are expected to ...

'Ciarán McMenamin confirms his exceptional talent with this admirably powerful and authentic novel about the First World War and the struggle for I...

In official partnership with Kew GardensIt's 1916 and England is at war. Desperate to help in whatever way they can, Ivy and Louisa enlist as garde...

'Heart-wrenching, highly emotional and hard to put down...saga writing at its mesmerizing best.' Reader ReviewWill Elizabeth choose love over duty?...

**Don't miss Caroline Scott's brand-new novel When I Come Home Again, a beautiful and compelling story based on true events out now!!**A BBC RADIO...

Churchill called it the finest feat of arms of the Great WarAfter a punishing winter patrolling the Strait of Dover aboard HMS Mackerel, Nicholas E...

The brand new series, perfect for fans of DOWNTON ABBEY, from the author of the hugely successful MORLAND DYNASTY novels . . . 1919: The war is ov...