Historical

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993444265Author Paul C. R. MonkFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Bloomtree PressPublisher Bloomtree Press

The No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling series set during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy and Netflix's The Crown 'Gripping' Sunday Times 'Fast-paced and entertaining' Mail on Sunday...

PRE-ORDER PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS, NOW - PUBLISHING AUGUST 2024'Top-class' The TimesMarch 1943, the war hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park Tom Jericho, a brilliant young codebreaker, is facing a double nightmare...

A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most subversive novels ever written - reading Catch-22 is a rite of passage.Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because...

'I felt as if this book was my addiction . . . A truly remarkable author' - 5-star reader reviewAt eighteen, Cathie longs for more than life as a settler in the Australian bush. So when her uncle offers her the chance to send her to England, she grabs...

1971: Mao's cultural Revolution is at its peak. Two sons of doctors, sent to 're-education' camps, forced to carry buckets of excrement up and down mountain paths, have only their sense of humour to keep them going. Although the attractive daughter of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915421012Author Helen SteadmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Bell Jar BooksPublisher Bell Jar BooksWeight(grams) 199gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593499481Author Michelle MoranFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Shortlisted for Historical Romantic Novel in the Romantic Novelists Association Books Awards.Birmingham, almost a decade after the end of the Great War, and the women of Lilac Street have had more than their fair share of troubles . . .Rose Southgate is...

A Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Charts bestseller. From the bestselling author of The Tuscan Child comes a beautiful and heart-rending novel of a woman's love and sacrifice during the First World War. As the Great War continues to take...

From "one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy" (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war. This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from 1939 to 1944, from the anxious months before the...

OLD GOD'S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW'As they used to say in Ireland, the devil only comes into good things.'Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson,...

The heartwarming final chapter in the Bluebird Girls series. As war finally draws to a close and the lights come back on across Europe, what will victory and peacetime bring for the south coast's favourite singing trio?In their rise to fame over the...

'Exquisitely written, this vivid story may just bewitch you' Woman'Utterly spellbinding' Natasha Lester'Exquisitely written, this vivid story may just bewitch you' Woman's WeeklyAn enchanting mystery kept hidden for hundreds of years... 1700s Rowan...

Find out what the Harpers Girls have been up to in the next instalment in the bestselling Harpers Emporium series from Rosie Clarke.Can the Harpers Girls look forward to some happy times as a new dawn rises over London?Oxford Street, London 1918Sally...

A USA Today Bestseller! 'Wow! What an enthralling and emotional read! I was literally in tears... Captivating.' Goodreads reviewer, A world at war. One woman...

Written in taut, poetic language, THE LONGEST MEMORY is set on a Virginian plantation in the 19th century, and tells the tragic story of a rebellious, fiercely intelligent young slave who breaks all the rules: in learning to read and write, in falling in...

'Propulsive, rich and properly gripping - I genuinely could not put this down' Stacey HallsFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable historical thriller about murder, manipulation, and a young woman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905806188Author Norah LoftsFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Tree of Life PublishingPublisher Tree of Life PublishingWeight(grams) 319gDimensions(mm)...

The beautiful new historical fiction novel from bestseller Catherine LawOne night, everything changed...Air raid sirens wail across London and nineteen-year-old Clare takes her chances in the streets rather than heading to the office basement - and risk...

1918. Boston. A city in turmoil as soldiers return home from World War One, bringing with them an epidemic of Spanish influenza.Danny Coughlin is the son of one of Boston's most powerful police captains. An undercover cop, he is hunting for...

'Touching and heartwarming . . . get those tissues ready' JILL MANSELL 'A warm and tender tale about the power of books' RUTH HOGAN As the bombs began to fall, the book club kept their hopes alive... London, 1938. Bookseller Gertie Bingham is facing...

The epic and action-packed fourth novel in the Oathsworn series, charting the adventures of Orm and his band of Viking brothers. The Oathsworn have become feared and respected throughout the Viking world. Their name goes before them and men...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998063638Author Beth BrowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Rhysdon PressPublisher Rhysdon PressWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 13mm

'Fans will not be disappointed' The Times'Read this is you like high stakes drama' Evening Standard'A familiar swirl of big ideas and non-stop action' New York Times___________________The global bestseller and latest Robert Langdon novel from the author...

From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls The first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human...

1947. Elinor White, known locally as 'the White lady', is living a solitary, quiet life in a grace-and-favour cottage in the Kent countryside. Unbeknownst to her neighbours, she is the veteran of two world wars, a trained killer and former intelligence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250066145Author Jay KristoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

'A masterly debut... If Bernard Cornwell and George R.R. Martin had a lovechild, it would look like A Mighty Dawn. I devoured it late into the night, and eagerly await the sequel' THE TIMES'Gripping. Gut-wrenching' ERIC SCHUMACHER An epic, spellbinding...

A poacher's daughter meets the heir to a country estate - as their destinies intertwine, their lives will never be the same. The Poacher's Daughter is a story of love and fate from bestselling historical saga author Margaret Dickinson.It is 1910 in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787119005904Author Luo GuanzhongFormat PaperbackPage Count 2339Imprint Foreign Languages PressPublisher Foreign Languages PressWeight(grams) 500g

This beautiful HarperCollins Children's Classics edition is perfect for every bookshelf. Sara Crewe's life is almost a fairy tale, and she is the fairy princess in it, happy and rich with a father who loves her dearly...

'Addictive, charming and gleaming with Jazz Age glitz' The Lady The fabulous new novel from the author of The Girl Who Came Home Dolly Lane is a dreamer; a downtrodden maid who longs to...

Longlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown 2022 Longlisted for the Polari Prize 2022 'The exquisite story of two women trying to make a life together in wartime Austria, and all the love, friendship and danger that implies.'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838282400Author Sarah AnsbacherFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Casa Mocha BooksPublisher Casa Mocha BooksDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 14mm

A propulsive and dazzling debut novel set against the backdrop of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and one Chinese girl fighting to claim her place'An engulfing, bighearted and heartbreaking novel' ANN PATCHETT, author of Women's Prize longlisted The Dutch...

Lost in history . . . losing her self. Uncover Tudor heroine Arbella Stuart's incredible story, reimagined by Elizabeth Fremantle in this tense, historical thriller.Hardwick Hall, sixteenth-century England. Formerly a beacon of wealth and power. Now a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913719630Author Lorna HuntingFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Goldcrest Books International LtdPublisher Goldcrest Books International...

'Heart-poundingly suspenseful' WASHINGTON POST 'Joseph Kanon owns this corner of the literary landscape' LEE CHILD Daniel Lohr, sensing that the Nazis are closing in on the Jews, leaves his dying father in Berlin and boards a ship to Shanghai. His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915054609Author Don SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Legend Press LtdPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g