Historical Fiction

The persimmon tree is a symbol of life, a heartwood that will outlast everything man can make . . . It is 1942 in the Dutch East Indies, and Nick...

Thirteen-year-old Barnaby Fletch is a bag-and-bones orphan in London in the late 1700s.Barnaby lives on his wits and ill-gotten gains, on streets seething with the press of the throng and...

The Paris of the West is a story of love and loss, betrayal and forgiveness, and having the courage to start over. San Francisco, 1948. Having survived the Second World...

On Chesil BeachIt is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward,...

Derek Hansen's latest addition to his bestselling Lunch series. Once again Ramon, Lucio, Milos and Neil gather at Gancio's restaurant to share lunch and their mutual passion for storytelling. It...

Fourteen-year-old Marie Anne Lawson, youngest daughter of a prosperous Northumbrian family, had always run when she might have walked, and it was as she was running away from a sight...

Struggling to maintain a facade of family harmony for the sake of their religious beliefs and three grown children, Winifred and Daniel Coulson begin a legacy in which their youngest...

Spanning the years from the 1880s to World War II, the epic tale of Emily Ratcliffe chronicles the dark destiny that follows the painful choices she made as a girl,...

Beatrice Steel, eldest daughter of the formidable Simon Steel, has always been possessive abut her family home, Pine Hurst. She becomes intolerably domineering after her mother's death, ruling over her...

Marrying Moira in the hopes that her expected inheritance will save the family farm, widower Hector sees his family fall apart when the inheritance falls through, a situation that is...

Collision - the violent impact of opposing forces; the clash of two different world views and cultures.A fast-paced, exciting YA/Adult historical novel about the disastrous collision of cultures that occurred...

Fatal Majesty is the story of Mary, Queen of Scots--but this is no conventional retelling of a fascinating yet familiar tale.Returning from the sophisticated court of France to take up...

'He strolled down Valley Road, only briefly, past the hairdresser and a small cafe. A warm wind stirred, carrying with it the faint smell of pies and horses, and the...

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR.Tenth-century Iceland. In the midwinter darkness, on the lifeless black soils of a newly settled land, two friends kill a man. Kjaran, an...