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The Empire has a deadly secret... The Number One Historical Thrillers Bestseller1899, South Africa: As the Boer War rages, Captain Ingo Finch of the Royal Army Medical Corps pieces together casualties at the front. Then, recovering in Cape Town, he is...

'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger'The French Terror is raging, and few are safe from the threat of the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney, a foppish Englishman, decides to rescue imprisoned aristocrats before they...

'Wonderfully imaginative' Bernard Cornwell, author of The Last Kingdom. The thrilling second instalment in the series. Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow and Bernard Cornwell.The Iberian Peninsula, 1809. French troops led by one of Napoleon's best...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062940513Author Viola ArdoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperviaPublisher Harpervia

'A sultry, immersive exploration of 30s New York with a taut plot and a vivid soundtrack. The perfect escape - evocative, smooth prose' Harriet Tyce, Sunday Times bestselling author '[A] tightly plotted adventure that brims with atmosphere'...

Bestselling author Douglas Jackson expertly brings the Roman Empire to life in this riveting historical adventure of fire, blood and battle. Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow, Ben Kane and Conn Iggulden. Readers are loving Gaius Valerius Verrens!...

No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg's chilling psychological thriller featuring Detective Patrick Hedstrom and Erica Falck - irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. Crime writer Erica Falck...

No 1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens pulls back the curtain on a world that has been hidden from us . . . until now. Montague has devoted his life to managing the wealth of London's elite, but at a huge cost: a family of his own. Then...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915310002Author Rose GanFormat PaperbackImprint Monsoon BooksPublisher Monsoon BooksWeight(grams) 129g

From the great French novelist comes this long-unavailable collection of tales in the tradition of Boccaccio's Decameron.Balzac's Contes Drolatiques, or Droll Stories, were originally published in three volumes in the 1830s. Set in medieval Europe, these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641198523Author B N RundellFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Wolfpack Publishing LLCPublisher Wolfpack Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)...

From the bestselling author of The Librarian of Auschwitz, Antonio Iturbe, comes a captivating historical novel based on a true story - the extraordinary life and mysterious death of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince. FLYING. LOVE...

One of the most well-known and loved stories of Jesus's ministry is the encounter with the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well. Now the creative mind of Diana Wallis Taylor imagines how the Samaritan woman got there in the first place. Marah is just a girl...

An epic story of changing times, courage and a love story only made possible by war. 'A rich and skilful novel dramatizing how the war changed so many lives' Elizabeth Buchan For Jack, orphaned and...

An epic story of changing times, courage and a love story only made possible by war. 'A rich and skilful novel dramatizing how the war changed so many lives' Elizabeth Buchan For Jack, orphaned and...

New York in the 1920s-a time when fortunes are made and a woman's dreams are challenged against all odds in a sweeping historical novel by the international bestselling author of The Light After the War. 1926, Hyde Park, New York. Born to modest means...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914958748Author Jean GraingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Jean GraingerPublisher Jean GraingerWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Martha was the youngest of sixteen, handpicked reporters who filed accurate, confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of the Depression directly to Roosevelt's White House. From these pages, we understand the real cost of sudden...

A stunning historical novel - the first in an epic trilogy about the rise and fall of one of history's greatest villains.The dawn of the fifth century AD, and the Roman Empire totters on the edge of the abyss. Already divided into two, the Imperium is...

'Perfect for fans of The Crown and Downton Abbey ' - Hazel Gaynor, bestselling author of The Last LifeboatKathleen 'Kick' Kennedy, recently arrived from Boston, is already a huge hit in 1930s London society. As the daughter of the US ambassador, she is...

From the author of The School for German Brides, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century and post-World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of...

Resistance opens in 1944, as the women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley. In his hugely anticipated debut novel, Owen Sheers has produced a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786051151Author William W. JohnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Pinnacle Books,U.S.Publisher Kensington Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062504975Author Clysta KinstlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

In the heart of the rainforest, Katharine will fight for her life and for love1890: When Katharine and her husband, Anselmo, set sail to Brazil to reap the spoils of the rubber boom, it seems as if they cannot fail. But when Anselmo dies suddenly on the...

In 1917 the Great War rages on, and for the Hunters, their friends and their servants the war is where they live now.David has returned from the Front a shadow of his former self; his sister Diana, newly married, copes with pregnancy alone, her husband...

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'Sure to delight her ever-growing legion of fans' Dilly Court A charming and evocative tale of family and fortune from the queen of West Country saga, Linda Finlay. Isabella Carrington has been brought up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Man Booker Prize (Novel) 2009 and National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction) 2009. Commended for Indies Choice Book Awards (Fiction) 2010. Short-listed for...

The third volume in the Nobel Prize-winning writer's epic story of medieval Norway, finely capturing Undset's fluid, natural style in the first English translation in nearly a century In the early fourteenth century, Norway is a kingdom in political...

LEGENDS AREN'T BORN. THEY'RE FORGED. Dug Sealskinner is a down-on-his-luck mercenary travelling south to join up with King Zadar's army. But he keeps rescuing the wrong people. First, Spring, a child he finds scavenging on the battlefield, and then Lowa,...

Dark Rosaleen is a story of love, murder and betrayal, of a failed rebellion and a national scandal. Sir William McCauley was appointed Director of the Famine Relief Programme at a time when hunger raged across Ireland and antipathy towards the plight of...

Tim Cleverley inherits a failing pub in Wales, which he plans to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist to concoct an entirely fabricated "mystery" about Gerald Manley Hopkins, who composed "The Wreck of the Deutschland" nearby. Blending the real...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493068975Author David DonachieFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint McBooks PressPublisher Globe Pequot PressWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735291867Author Mesu AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc)Publisher Waterbrook Press (A Division...

A powerful novel about the expectations of family-and the risks and liberation of defying them-by the Washington Post bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow. 1975. In the town of Rexburg, Idaho, aspiring artist Aran Rigby, his...

The year is 63BC, and Gordianus the Finder unexpectedly achieves the dream of every Roman - a farm in the Etruscan countryside. Vowinig to leave behind the corruption and intrigue of Rome, he abandons the city, taking his family with him.Gordianus'...

From award-winning author Sophfronia Scott comes the story of one young woman's bold journey to reclaim her birthright and carve out her own place in a world that tells her she doesn't belong. Born the daughter of an enslaved woman and a Louisiana...

In this fourth instalment, Captain Alatriste becomes involved in a mission to save the King of Spain's gold... Swashbuckling adventure and high octane action.The year is 1626, and a battle-weary Captain Alatriste and his companions sail home from the...

Named One of the Best Books of the Week by the New York Post!In a historical debut evoking the style of The Crown, the daughter of an impoverished noble is swept into the fame and notoriety of the royal family and Princess Margaret's fast-living friends...