Historical fiction

As snow falls outside Abbotsford vicarage on Christmas Eve, Rose Northwood finds a child lying destitute in the manger of the town's nativity display. Reminded of her younger brother, who died at Christmastime, she is determined to nurse the young boy back to health. But the child has lost his me...

This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives - all connected by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies hidden in the sand fragments of a long-forgotten poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh. In Victorian London, an e...

Against his natural instincts, Harry must campaign to be voted permanently as coroner by the local people. But the death of a pioneering schoolteacher is soon revealed to be not the accident it first seemed. Harry's determination to uncover the truth threatens to undermine his campaign and his fu...

Yorkshire, 1819. Laura is the only daughter of self-made man Obadiah Pennington. Proud of his success, Obadiah is keen to see his daughter secured in marriage to an eligible suitor. And he has his sights set on local mill owner Daniel Tranton. Wilful and headstrong, Laura is reluctant to have her...

Bordeaux, 1367. Having angered the bloodthirsty Don Pedro, King of Castile, Sir Thomas Blackstone is thoroughly sick of his mission for the Prince of Wales, but must remain true to his oath. But this is the Hundred Years' War, and tensions are rising once more. With the Prince of Wales deeply unp...

Sir Phillip knew from his correspondence with his dead wife's distant cousin that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster. Assuming her to be a homely figure, he could not quite believe that she was the beautiful woman on his doorstep - but are they really right for each other?

Inspired by the incredible stories of the heroines of the Italian Resistance, this is a heart-wrenching dual-timeframe story which is a portrait of war and a powerful exploration of how far we will go to protect our families, set between World War II Naples and the glamorous Golden Age of Hollywood.

Part of a loose trilogy based on the end of empire, 'The Vaster Wilds' is the story of a young girl who is servant to a minister and his young mistress, and in charge of their young daughter Bess. On an epic voyage across the Atlantic, ship-wrecked, far from home and fighting for survival, the pr...

Bude, Cornwall 1944. Even in Cornwall, the war shows no signs of slowing. When tragic circumstances force Alice to give up her spy training, she is distraught. That is, until she's asked to join a specialist group of codebreakers who might just find the key to winning the war. Young Imogen feels ...

1938: Lady Vita Goldsborough lives in the shadow of her controlling older brother. Trapped and isolated on the East Anglian coast, Vita takes solace in watching the birds that fly over the marshes. But then she meets local artist Dodie Blakeney. The two women form a close bond, and Vita finally g...