Historical

INTRODUCING JACK LARK: SOLDIER, LEADER, IMPOSTER.The first book in the compelling military adventure series for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden and Matthew Harffy.'Brilliant' Bernard Cornwell'Quite simply do yourself a favour and read these...

Readers will be captivated by this story of love, sacrifice, and destiny, where the past and present collide to rewrite the future. "The Lost Memories gathered me up and swept me away. A beautiful, uplifting tale of life's many...

The Allotment Girls is an inspiring and heartwarming novel of wartime hardship, friendship and fortitude from Kate Thompson, author of the Secrets of the Sewing Bee.During the Second World War, life in the iconic Bryant & May match factory is grimy and...

FIREBRAND IS NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ALICIA VIKANDER AND JUDE LAWThe perfect gift for every history lover this Christmas---My name is Katherine Parr.I'm thirty-one years old - already twice widowed.I love a man I can't have.I'm to wed a man...

With Meg Cabot's signature "dazzling," (Romantic Times Book Review) prose, this Victorian romance follows a young woman looking for lessons in love.Lady Caroline Linford is horrified to discover her fiance, the Marquis of Winchilsea, in the arms of...

The bestselling murder mystery from Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.Winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWinner of the International IMPAC Dublin Award'Wonderful' The Spectator'Magnificent' Observer'Unforgettable' GuardianMy Name...

The fight for vengeance has no victors... AD 936 The great warrior, Einar Unnsson, wants revenge. His mother's assassin has stolen her severed head and Einar is hungry for his blood. Only one thing holds him back. He is a newly sworn in Wolf Coat,...

'An enthralling adventure story, honest and powerful. The Wars of the Roses are imagined here with energy, with ferocity, with hunger to engage the reader.' Hilary Mantel1469: Although the Yorkist King Edward sits on his throne in Westminster, within his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501191480Author Signe PikeFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 848gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm *...

A match destined to end Yet impossible to resist... Perfect for fans of: 🤭 Fake relationship 🎩 High society - ...

It is a warm Saturday afternoon in a tiny Norfolk farming community during the summer of 1938. War threatens, and a young couple is marrying in the historic village church, but the woman soon finds herself led by unforeseen and sometimes shocking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800199583Author Carly SchabowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316561549Author Daniel O'MalleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & Company

Catch-22 meets The Brothers Karamazov in the last great satire of the Soviet EraThe Great Patriotic War is stumbling to a close, but a new darkness has fallen over Soviet Russia. And for a disparate, disconnected clutch of wanderers - many thousands of...

If you like nail-biting tension, all-guns-blazing action and high-octane drama, then this historical adventure novel from multi-million copy bestselling author Douglas Reeman is perfect for you. Fans of Clive Cussler, Bernard Cornwell and Wilbur Smith...

'Yankee Mission is a jewel in Julian Stockwin's crown as a master in naval fiction, with a ship-to-ship fight so vivid that the battle's sounds and scents fly off the pages like lethal wooden splinters' - Quarterdeck1812. Off the coast of Brazil, HMS...

Praise for Judy Summers: 'I thoroughly enjoyed this book... The characters are well drawn and believable' Lyn Andrews 'Fascinating insights into Victorian Liverpool and a heart-warming story make for an inspiring read' Mollie Walton Can she save her...

INSPIRED BY AN EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY... 'A novel I long to live in' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice NetworkPARIS, 1920. On the bohemian Left Bank, Sylvia runs a little bookshop called Shakespeare and Company. Here she welcomes the greatest writers of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780297507Author Paul DohertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

"An important and vital story." - Donna Everhart, USA Today bestselling author of The Saints of Swallow Hill"Engaging, shocking, heart-wrenching." - Library JournalA searing book club read for fans of Ellen Marie Wiseman and The Girls with No Names set...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.'...

A SECRETARY LIKE NO OTHER...IN AN EPIC SPANNING 40 YEARSAll Hanna Fischer ever wanted to do was to study physics under the great Albert Einstein.But when, as a teenager in 1919, her life is suddenly turned upside-down, she is catapulted into a new and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682301098Author Candace RobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Diversion BooksPublisher Diversion BooksWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593436752Author Maya RodaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Her rival in business... Her suitor in Society! A Rebellious Young Ladies story. When debutante Lady Amelia Lambourne is presented to self-made entrepreneur Leo Devenish at a...

'IRRESISTIBLE' JENNIFER SAINT'SPELLBINDING' ELODIE HARPER'BEGUILING' WILLIAM BOYD'GRIPPING' ISABELLE SCHULERTHE UNMISSABLE UNTELLING OF ROMEO AND JULIET, NARRATED BY ROSALINE, THE WOMAN ROMEO 'LOVED' FIRST.Fierce, feminist and intensely gripping - FAIR...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars... First published in 1855, and edited, revised and expanded over...

'An enjoyable page-turning saga with characters that leap off the page!' AnneMarie BrearCan Edie find the courage to choose her own future?June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland, living in comfort at the grand Downland House in...

The bestselling love story behind the massive Hollywood filmTwo couples. Two love stories. One epic tale.Ninety-one-year-old Ira Levinson is in trouble. Struggling to stay conscious after a car crash, an image of his adored - and long-dead - wife Ruth...

The war taught her to fight. The children taught her to hope...*The Lost Song of Paris, the new novel from Sarah Steele, is available to pre-order now!*Inspired by real acts of bravery and resistance, The Schoolteacher of Saint Michel is a heartrending...

An iconic novel of the American West - a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of the pastLyman Ward is a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home of Grass Valley,...

Cilka's Journey is the million copy bestselling sequel to the phenomenon The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Don't miss the conclusion to The Tattooist of Auschwitz Trilogy, Three Sisters. Available now.'She was the bravest person I ever met'Lale Sokolov, The...

The brand new historical novel from Erin Litteken, bestselling author of The Memory Keeper of Kyiv, based on her family's heart-wrenching escape from war-torn Europe.A story of the strength of the human spirit, the personal cost of conflict and how love...

At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a...

Sometimes making history means breaking some rules… This is a gripping historical fiction novel about bravery, hard work, the quest for success and two women's stand against prejudice in all its forms, perfect for fans of Kate Quinn, Sadeqa Johnson and...

Can she follow her heart while doing her duty?A heartwarming saga following nurses during the First World War. Perfect for fans of Donna Douglas's A Nightingale Christmas Promise, Lizzie Page's The War Nurses and Margaret Dickinson's The Poppy Girls...

From the pen of bestselling author and historian James Holland comes this action-packed page-turner of a wartime thriller. Jam-packed with sharp dialogue, dynamic and authentic scenes and unforgettable characterisation, this is perfect for fans of Robert...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 'This short novel will live on in your imagination long after you read the last page' Claire Messud When Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed father of ten-year-old Bess, reads in the newspaper that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847514424Author Sally SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 270gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm *...

The first novel in The Kingdom Series as Robert Low moves from the Vikings to the making of Scotland. It is 1296 and Scotland is in turmoil. The old king, Alexander III, has died after falling off his horse one dark and stormy night...