Historical Fiction

'I have spent too long on plants and animals. Now it is time for human beings.' This haunting novel is based on the life of Anders Sparrman, the e...

The second novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years trilogy, Early Warning follows the Langdon family from the 50s, through to the 1980s, in this s...

A symphonic masterpieceWringing a glorious & painful chorus of human voices from the mute facts of history this is what fiction is for. - Alan...

Told in the gentle tone of a fable, Jean-Claude Grumberg''s The Most Precious of Cargoes tells the moving story of a woman who wanted a child, and ...

To escape a lifetime of poverty, mercenary Sir Benedict Palmer agrees to one final, lucrative job: help King Henry IIs knights seize the traitor Ar...

It is 1795 and Esther Coad is plunged into destitution when her mother, father and younger brother are taken by the Great Sickness. She is relieve...

***Pre-order Andrew Miller's new novel THE LAND IN WINTER now - coming October 2024***'ANDREW MILLER'S WRITING IS A SOURCE OF WONDER AND DELIGHT' H...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeAfter a lifetime's struggle with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, in 1840 the nature poet John Clare i...

***Shortlisted For Historical Writers' Association's Debut Crown For Best First Historical Novel***Scotland, 1860. Reverend Alexander Ferguson, nai...

Love, betrayal and a family divided amid the turmoil of the English Civil War.London, 1640. Fifteen-year-old Henrietta Challoner dreams of adventur...