Historical Fiction
Seven Stones to Stand or Fall
JOD 9.60
JOD 15.99
Previously published as A Trail of Fire. Includes two never-published-before short stories from the bestselling author of the Outlander series. Featuring all the characters you’ve come to love from the Outlander series, this brilliant collection of short stories throws you into the magical world of..
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
JOD 12.50
Tariq Ali tells us the story of the aftermath of the fall of Granada by narrating a family sage of those who tried to survive after the collapse of their world. Ali is particularly deft at evoking what life must have been like for those doomed inhabitants, besieged on all sides by intolerant Christe..
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
JOD 16.50
"Tariq Ali captures the humanity and splendor of Muslim Spain . . . real history as well as fiction . . . a book to be relished and devoured" (The Independent). The savagery of the Reconquest tore apart the world of the Banu Hudayl family. For the doomed Muslims of late-fifteenth-century Spain, th..
Sherlock Holmes And The Explorers Club (The Early ...
JOD 16.50
Holmes is faced with an unidentified body, a coded message, and multiple murders … London, 1876, When the preserved foot of a dead man with extra toes arrives at St Bartholomew’s Medical College, the students are fascinated. However, despite this unusual feature being reported in the press, the man’..
Sherlock Holmes And The Rosetta Stone Mystery (The...
JOD 16.50
Before Dr Watson, there was Mr Stamford… London, 1876, Mr Stamford meets Sherlock Holmes while studying at St Bartholomew’s Medical College in London. With his intense stare and unorthodox methods of doing things, Holmes has already gained a reputation as an eccentric but brilliant man. When suspect..
Small Things Like These
JOD 11.00
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church...
Snow Country
JOD 10.00
Read this masterful, generation-spanning love story, set in Austria as it recovers from one war and awaits the coming of another. 'Wistful, yearning and wise' Elizabeth Day 1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of deep secrets. Anton is entranced by the..
So Much Life Left Over
JOD 5.00
JOD 10.00
A heartbreaking story of love, loss and survival from the multi-million copy bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. Returning from life as a fighter pilot in the First World War, Daniel is struggling to put the trauma of the Western Front behind him. As the 1920s dawn, he and his wife R..
Sovereign
JOD 5.30
JOD 10.50
Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant submission of his rebellious subjects in York. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak. As well as assisting with legal work processing petitions to the Ki..
Still Life
JOD 19.00
By the bestselling, prize-winning author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a beautiful, big-hearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood… and the ghost of E.M. Forster. We just need to know what the heart’s capable of, Evelyn. And do you kno..
Stone Woman
JOD 11.00
Each year, when the weather in Istanbul becomes unbearable, the family of Iskender Pasha, a retired Ottoman notable, retires to its summer palace overlooking the Sea of Marmara. It is 1899 and the last great Islamic empire is in serious trouble. A former tutor poses a question which the family has b..
Strangers in Time
JOD 25.00
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Calamity of Souls comes David Baldacci’s newest novel, set in London in 1944, about a bereaved bookshop owner and two teenagers scarred by the Second World War, and the healing and hope they find in one another. Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters i..