Historical Fiction

The day nine-year-old San San and her twelve-year-old brother, Ah Liam, discover their grandmother taking a hammer to a framed portrait of Chairman...

They had only one thing in common... William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immi...

'The Benedictine whisked a brush of multicoloured feathers over the top of the book, puffed out his plump cheeks like the god of winds in an old na...

The first paperback reprint since 1986 of the author's favorite among her several acclaimed and controversial Gothic novels. In Mysteries of Winter...

translated by Lucia Graves The Shadow of the Wind is a stunning literary thriller in which the discovery of a forgotten book leads to a hunt for an...

'Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.' Hana and her little sister Emi are part of an island community ...

Mad Boy is a rollicking, picaresque novel about family and perseverance set during America’s "forgotten war" of 1812. Young Henry Phipps is on a qu...

translated by John Lambert The sensational international bestseller from one of France's most fêted writers--an epic novel telling the story of Chr...

When it begins, it begins as an opera should begin: in a palace, at a ball, in an encounter with a stranger, who you discover has your fate in his ...

When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black--an eleven year-old field slave--finds himself selected as...

Håkan Söderström is a man who has become a legend. Giant in size, rumoured to be bloodthirsty and fearless, he is known simply as ‘the Hawk’. But b...

What happens when an adoring young bride is met on the doorstep of her new home by her husband s former mistress Frank, Rose and Nony are about to ...

translated by Margaret Jull Costa This deeply personal work, follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family - poor, landless peasants not un...

1963. Kenya is on the verge of independence from British colonial rule. In the Great Rift Valley, Kenyans of all backgrounds come together in the p...

translated by Brendan Freely and Yelda Türedi Altan’s “Ottoman Quartet” spans the fifty years between the final decades of the 19th century and the...

translated by Antony Shugaar Athens, 411 BC. In the countryside, just outside the city gates, two veterans, Trasillo and Polemone, live in adjacent...

translated by Stephen Sartarelli Raffadali, province of Agrigento, 1920s. The Sacco brothers are free men with strong ideas about socialism and the...

translated by Camilo A. Ramirez On April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King was murdered by a man named James Earl Ray. Before Ray's capture and sentenc...