Historical Fiction
The Unwanted Dead
JOD 10.00
Paris, Friday 14th June 1940. The day the Nazis march into Paris. It made headlines around the globe. Paris police detective Eddie Giral - a survivor of the last World War - watches helplessly on as his world changes forever. But there is something he still has control over. Finding whoever is res..
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
JOD 12.50
Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society. Something will have to be done. Years later, a young woman named Iris Lockhart receives a letter informing her that she has a..
The Vaster Wilds
JOD 11.00
A profound and explosive novel about a spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive A servant girl escapes from a settlement. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds is beyond the limits of her imaginat..
The Wall: The Pulse-Pounding Epic About The End Ti...
JOD 11.00
AD 400. Rome and its Empire are failing . . . Veteran cavalry commander Marcus Flavius Victor sets out with his regiment to make what may be his final tour of the forts along Hadrian's Wall. Through a combination of military prowess, brutality and bribery, Marcus has spent twenty years keeping the s..
The Warm Hands of Ghosts
JOD 21.00
World War One, and as shells fall in Flanders, a Canadian nurse searches for her brother believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise in this gripping and powerful historical novel from the bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale. January 1918. Laura Iven has ..
The Whalebone Theatre
JOD 16.50
A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatre in the gargantuan cavity of a beached whale into undercover operations during World War II—a story of love, family, bravery, lost innocence, and self-transformation. One blustery night in 1928, a wha..
The Whispering Muse
JOD 16.50
Be careful what you wish for... it may just come true. At The Mercury Theatre in London's West End, rumours are circulating of a curse. It is said that the lead actress Lilith has made a pact with Melpomene, the tragic muse of Greek mythology, to become the greatest actress to ever grace the stage..
The Wolf Den
JOD 10.00
First novel in a new historical trilogy set in Ancient Pompeii. Amara is a slave at the Wolf Den – the city's infamous brothel. But just because she's a slave now, doesn't mean she inends to remain a slave forever....
The Woman in the Wood
JOD 9.00
JOD 12.74
Fifteen-year-old twins Maisy and Duncan Mitcham have always had each other. Until that fateful day in the wood... One night in 1960, the twins awake to find their father pulling their screaming mother from the house. She is to be committed to an asylum. It is, so their father insists, for her own g..
The Women
JOD 11.00
An instant Number One Sunday Times bestseller and soon to be a major motion picture 'Utterly absorbing . . . A triumph' - Taylor Jenkins Reid, bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six 'Stuns with sacrifice. Uplifts with heroism' – Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry 'Powe..
The Women
JOD 11.00
Their friendship changed lives. Their bravery changed history. 'Women can be heroes, too'. When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances "Frankie" McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California's idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she..
The Women: A Novel
JOD 23.50
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, ..