Historical Fiction
Austerlitz
JOD 11.00
'Mesmeric, haunting, and heartbreakingly tragic. A profound, alluring masterwork of singular genius Eileen Battersby, Irish Times In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erases from the boy all k..
Bellatrix (Legion XXII)
JOD 22.00
Warrior and combat medic of the Twenty-Second Legion, Titus Cervianus, must fight the armies of the fabled Warrior Queen in this thrilling new Roman adventure from Simon Turney. Titus Cervianus is no ordinary soldier. And the Twenty-Second is no ordinary legion... Egypt. 25 BC. Titus Cervianus march..
Black Cake
JOD 10.00
As featured on Obama's Summer 2022 Reading list and the instant No. 2 New York Times bestseller; which spans sixty years in the life of one Caribbean/American family Eleanor Bennett won't let her own death get in the way of the truth. When her estranged children - Byron and Benny... - reunite for he..
Bleeding Heart Square
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1934, London. When Lydia Langstone flees her abusive husband, a member of the British Union of Fascists, she seeks refuge in the gloomy lodging house of her elderly father. But No. 7 Bleeding Heart Square is home to a dark mystery. Where is Miss Penhow, the middle-aged spinster who owns the house, b..
Book of Saladin
JOD 22.00
The Book of Saladin is the fictional memoir of Saladin, the Kurdish liberator of Jerusalem, as dictated to a Jewish scribe, Ibn Yakub. Saladin grants Ibn Yakub permission to talk to his wife and retainers so that he might present a full portrait in Sultan's memoirs. A series of interconnected storie..
BOOTH
JOD 21.00
From the Booker-shortlisted, million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the infamous, ill-fated Booth family. Charmers, liars, drinkers, and dreamers, they will change history forever Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor w..
Bridgerton: An Offer From A Gentleman (Bridgertons...
JOD 11.00
Will she accept the offer before the clock strikes midnight? Sophie Beckett never dreamed she'd be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball. Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. But now, waltzing in the stro..
Cecily
JOD 24.00
"Rebellion?" The word is a spark. They can start a fire with it, or smother it in their fingertips. She chooses to start a fire. You are born high, but marry a traitor's son. You bear him twelve children, carry his cause and bury his past. You play the game, against enemies who wish you ashes. Slo..
Child of the Ruins
JOD 22.00
People are disappearing. I spoke to my neighbour yesterday, we laughed at some nonsense, and today he is gone. We only discovered he was missing because the dog wouldn't stop howling and we all knew he would never leave his beloved pet. So I am careful, extremely careful. Two families divided by wa..
Cloud Cuckoo Land
JOD 11.00
When everything is lost, it’s our stories that survive. How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future to offer a vision of survival against all odds. Constantinople, 1453: An orphaned seamstress ..
Cursed Bread
JOD 19.00
If you eat the bread, you'll die, he said. The statement made no sense, but it filled me with an electric dread. Elodie is the baker's wife. A plain, unremarkable woman, ignored by her husband and underestimated by her neighbours, she burns with the secret desire to be extraordinary. One day a char..
Dark Age
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Bridging the gap between 'Game of Thrones' and Bernard Cornwell comes the second chapter in James Wilde's epic adventure of betrayal, battle and bloodshed set during the darkest of times - a time when civilisation itself was foundering, when Britain was facing a Dark Age and in desperate need of a h..