Historical fiction

A stirring 15th-century tale of seafaring hero Andrew Wood, loyal supporter of King James III. This is a swashbuckling yarn set against the rugged climes of Scottish history.

"It is the winter of 1946, and after years of war, ex-Special Operations Executive agent Duncan Forrester is back at his Oxford college as a junior Ancient History Fellow. But his peace is shattered when a much-disliked Fellow is found dead in the quad, stabbed and pushed from an upper window. A ...

Born in 1844 in bucolic upstate New York, Liberty Fish is the son of fervent abolitionists as well as the grandson of Carolina slaveholders even more dedicated to their cause. Thus follows a childhood filled with fugitive slaves moving through hidden passageways in the house.

This series gives young readers the chance to discover Shakespeare for themselves. Each book includes useful notes on the themes within the stories and a background to the Globe theatre.

Passion, politics, love and death combine in a novel of the legendary love triangle between the three leaders of Rome: Cleopatra, Mark Antony and Octavian.

As the civil war careers towards its inevitable end, members of the Brannon family are spread across the South and involved in every theatre of the war. Among the war's last victims is the Brannon farm itself. As carpetbaggers move into the South, this prime real estate is too good to leave in th...

The gathering has the appearance of a smart house party - but the guests are Protestants & Catholics, engaged in a reluctant parley over home rule for Ireland. And when the moderator, Ainsley Greville, is found murdered, negotiations seem doomed.

A dramatic depiction of the legendary battle of Agincourt from Bernard Cornwell. Agincourt, fought on October 25th 1415, is one of the best known battles, in part through the depiction of it in Shakespeare's Henry V, in part because it was a brilliant English victory and in part because it was th...

Agincourt, fought on October 25th, 1415, is one of the best known battles, in part through the depiction of it in Henry V, in part because it was an English victory & in part because it was the first battle won by the use of the longbow.