Historical Fiction
Get your historical fiction fix with our roster of world-class authors, including C. J. Sansom, Kate Morton and Kate Mosse.
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Learned By Heart
Emma Donoghue
Outer Dark
Cormac McCarthy
Mrs Porter Calling
AJ Pearce
The Smile of the Stranger
Joan Aiken
The Weeping Ash
Joan Aiken
The Stolen Hours
Karen Swan
Dissolution
C. J. Sansom
Heartstone
C. J. Sansom
Lamentation
C. J. Sansom
Dark Fire
C. J. Sansom
Sovereign
C. J. Sansom
Tombland
C. J. Sansom
Revelation
C. J. Sansom
The Wonder
Emma Donoghue
The Seven Sisters
Lucinda Riley
Sparrow
James Hynes
Homecoming for the Chocolate Girls
Annie Murray
The Last Summer (Quick Reads)
Karen Swan
Deception
Joan Aiken
The Five-Minute Marriage
Joan Aiken
The Girl from Paris
Joan Aiken
Suttree
Cormac McCarthy
The Master
Colm Tóibín
Quarantine
Jim Crace
Silence
Shusaku Endo
The Square of Sevens
Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Cast a Cold Eye
Robbie Morrison
An Honourable Exit
Eric Vuillard
The Teashop Girls at War
Elaine Everest
Other Women
Emma Flint
Burial Rites
Hannah Kent
The Maiden
Kate Foster
Bright Young Women
Jessica Knoll
Homecoming
Kate Morton
Ritual of Fire
D. V. Bishop
The World and All That It Holds
Aleksandar Hemon
Child of God
Cormac McCarthy
Cometh the Hour
Jeffrey Archer
This Was a Man
Jeffrey Archer
The Midnight Rose
Lucinda Riley