Books - Historical Fiction

Sell Us the Rope

Stephen May

May 1907. Young Stalin – poet, bank-robber, spy – is in London for the 5th...

Blasted Things

Lesley Glaister

WW1 is over. As a nurse at the front, Clementine has found and lost love...

The Starlings of Bucharest

Moscow Wolves #2

Sarah Armstrong

Ted moves to London to become a journalist but quickly slides into debt. Things look...

The Crown Agent

Stephen O'Rourke

Shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Debut of the YearA ship adrift, all hands...

The March Fallen

A Gereon Rath Mystery

Volker Kutscher

Longlisted for the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger 20211933: A homeless veteran is found...

Freedom is a Land I Cannot See

Peter Cunningham

1924. In the dangerous first years of the Irish Free State, beautiful Rose Raven, having...

Blasted Things

Lesley Glaister

1920: Britain is trying to forget the Great War. Clementine, who nursed at the front...

What We Did in the Dark

Ajay Close

I made what may be called a rash and foolish marriage to a man I...

The Crown Agent

Stephen O'Rourke

Shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Debut of the YearA ship adrift, all hands...

The Wolves of Leninsky Prospekt

Moscow Wolves #1

Sarah Armstrong

Shortlisted for the Bookmark Book Festival’s Book of the Year Award 2020You'd know if you...

Finer Things

David Wharton

London: 1963. The lives of a professional shoplifter and a young art student collide. Delia...

The Fatherland Files

Volker Kutscher

1932: A drowned man is found in a freight elevator in the giant pleasure palace...

The Wolves of Leninsky Prospekt

Moscow Wolves #1

Sarah Armstrong

Shortlisted for the Bookmark Book Festival’s Book of the Year Award 2020Escaping failure as an...

Painted Ladies

Lynn Bushell

Paris 1917. For twenty-five years, the legendary Marthe has been Pierre Bonnard’s companion and muse...

Acts of Allegiance

Peter Cunningham

Longlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award PARIS: MAY, 1969. Irish diplomat Marty Ransom has...

Wait for Me, Jack

Addison Jones

It was a fact that who you married altered you. It mattered very much how...

Where the River Parts

Radhika Swarup

LONGLISTED FOR THE AUTHOR'S CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD August 1947: the night before India’s...

A Petrol Scented Spring

Ajay Close

LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION I still don’t know whether he...