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Historical Fiction

  • Angels in the Gloom is an intense saga of love, hate, obsession, and murder that features an honorable English family - brothers Joseph and Matthew Reavley, and their sisters, Judith and Hannah. In...
  • When Ransom Hill discovers a Civil War-era "prenda," an iron pot used by Cuban slaves for conjuring, he unearths something very strange indeed. Back to Wando Passo is the passionate and elegantly w...
  • Right at the moment Nate Starbuck begins to doubt his own courage, the Faulconer Legion is spitefully stripped from him...
  • This is the twentieth book in Patrick O'Brian's highly acclaimed, bestselling series chronicling the adventures of lucky Jack Aubrey...
  • Falsely accused of being a rebel, Peter Blood is sent to Barbados and sold into slavery.
  • Blood secures a small boat and plans to escape from Barbados
  • The pirates loot the town of Bridgetown, as Blood and the convicts discover their escape boat has been sunk.
  • Captain Levasseur captures the son and daughter of the Governor of Tortuga, and takes them to the island of the Virgin Magra.
  • Heavily outnumbered, Captain Blood devises a plan to escape from Maracaybo.
  • Even holding a Kings Commission, Colonel Bishop plans to capture and hang Captain Blood at Port Royal.
  • Captain Blood sails into Port Royal for the final showdown with the French fleet.
  • The Greatest Pirate Adventure Of Them All!
  • Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Crofts classic wartime comedy.
  • Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Crofts classic wartime comedy.
  • Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Crofts classic wartime comedy.
  • Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from the classic wartime comedy.
  • Four BBC Radio 4 episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's classic wartime comedy.
  • Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Crofts classic wartime comedy.
  • Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Crofts classic wartime comedy.
  • Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Crofts classic wartime comedy.
  • Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Crofts classic wartime comedy.
  • Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Crofts classic wartime comedy.
  • In 1866 tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School when a mysterious accident takes the life of a student. Among the student's circle of friends are Hugh Pilaster; Hugh's older cousin...
  • Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon, Stephen Maturin...
  • The Eye in the Door was the richly deserving winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize, the second volume in Pat Barker's brilliant...
  • Transport back to fifteenth-century Rome to find the secrets of the Vatican.
  • In the year 1203, nine companions set out on a great pilgrimage. The journey — on foot, on horseback and by sea — is fraught with danger. Not all of them will come home...
  • In 1861 the Civil War reached the mountainous South - where the enemy was your neighbor, the victims were your friends, and the wrong army was whichever one you joined. When Malinda Blalock's...
  • 1918, and Billy Prior is in France once again, a real test case for the 'shell-shock' therapies practised at Craiglockhart War Hospital...
  • In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce. But for Thomas of Hookton...
  • Having survived the battle of Crécy, Thomas is sent back to England, charged with finding the Holy Grail...
  • A story rich in suspense, surprises, and unforgettable characters.
  • Somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize that could make Aubrey rich beyond his wildest dreams: the ships sent by Napoleon to attack the China Fleet. But Aubrey must be on the defensive, pittin...
  • With the Napoleonic wars looking all but over, Jack Aubrey was already on his way across the Atlantic to try his fortunes...
  • Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates...
  • Returning from the Crusades, Ivanhoe fights to win the hand of the fair Rowena.
  • One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory.
  • "An action-packed adventure of modern conspiracy and medieval passion ... a Grail gripper [and] elegantly written timeslip novel set in France"
  • The Last Kingdom is set in the England of the ninth and tenth centuries. These were the years when the Danish Vikings had invaded and occupied three of England's four kingdoms...
  • The Last of the Mohicans is a story of romance and adventure on the American frontier. It is a story of love and loyalty, and of America's coming of age. While the French and Indians...
  • Hired to tutor four orphaned girls at remote, ramshackle Aldwick Castle, Miss Concordia Glade is pleased to find her pupils both eager and bright. Indeed, they are bright enough to have noticed...
  • Lizzie, J. Robert Whittle's first bestselling character, is a forthright and spunky 9-year-old in 1804 London, England, who is about to discover a new life with exciting and dangerous challenges.
  • ‘The Lords of the North’ is a powerful story of betrayal, romance and struggle, set in an England of turmoil, upheaval and glory.
  • Enter the privileged world of English aristocrats and experience the passion, intrigue, and romantic pleasures of the incomparable Malorys - a family of dashing rogues, rakehell adventurers, and...
  • Revisit with the Sherbrooke family in this exciting, romantic adventure in 1811 London.
  • The princess of Latin American literature returns with the legendary love affair between Hernan Cortes and his interpreter, Malinalli....
  • Lady Margaret Landor first met Sebastian Townshend as a child, when he caught her peeking into her older sister's engagement ball. Tall, dashing, and charming, Sebastian was one of the most...
  • Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O’Brian’s now famous Aubrey/Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series...
  • On half-pay and without a command, Captain Jack Aubrey is stranded at home in an over-crowded cottage with his large...
  • In a bold debut novel of the Great Depression, a young doctor's wife uncovers the sordid secrets of a withering Colorado mining town, even as she struggles with the ravaging truths about her...
  • 'The Nutmeg of Consolation' opens with Jack Aubrey and his friend the intelligence agent Stephen Maturin stranded...
  • Eighteen years old and four times a widow? This is the Penwyth Curse. Become acquainted with two sets of heroes and heroines as their stories overlap. History, romantic suspense, magic,...
  • The Pillars of the Earth sweeps through four decades of 12th Century England drawing the listener into the raw, flamboyant middle ages. It is a shining saga of good and evil, treachery and...
  • This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty...
  • Amy Hassinger delivers this historically lush, lyrical and thoroughly enthralling novel about the forbidden...
  • Craiglockhart, a hospital for officers ravaged by their experiences in trench warfare, is the setting for Pat Barker's 'Regeneration'...
  • 'The Reverse of the Medal' is in all respects an unconventional naval tale. Jack Aubrey returns from his duties protecting whalers...
  • Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London crimina...
  • The classic American story of Hester Prynne, accused of adultery, ostracized by her Puritan community, and abandoned by both her lover and her husband. The story opens in Puritan Boston, a...
  • Perhaps the most famous alias of all time, "The Scarlet Pimpernel" hides the identity of a British nobleman who, masked by various disguises, leads a band of young men to undermine the Reign of...
  • The New York Times–bestselling author of Lie by Moonlight and The Paid Companion takes you on a thrilling adventure filled with the simmering passions of the Victorian age - and the lure of ancient...
  • No caveats for readers of Davis's second playful, well-plotted mystery featuring imperial agent Falco...
  • 'Sharpe's Battle' takes Richard Sharpe and his Riflemen back to the spring of 1811 and one of the bitterest battles of the Peninsular...
  • It is 1803, and closing on the retreating Mahrattas in western India is Sir Arthur Wellesley’s army and with it Ensign Richard Sharpe...
  • It is 1809 and Lieutenant Sharpe, who belongs to a small British army that has a precarious foothold in Portugal...
  • Colonel Leroux answered to no man save the Emperor. With exquisite delicacy he could skin a man alive in search of the secrets...
  • It is 1805 and Ensign Richard Sharpe, having secured a reputation as a fighting soldier in India, is on his way home to join...
  • India, 1803. It is four years since Richard Sharpe earned his sergeant's stripes at the siege of Seringapatam...
  • A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Lindsey Davis's bestselling novel.
  • Bernard Cornwell’s new novel, following the outstanding success of his Arthurian trilogy, is the story of three brothers...
  • Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by despatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government...
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman...
  • As 'The Thirteen-Gun Salute' opens Jack Aubrey has been reinstated to his command, and he and his old friend Dr Maturin are sailing..
  • Two brothers compete for the love of one father. Two sisters vie for the love of one man.
  • John "Kit" McKittredge is a young Union officer from Maine who is terribly wounded in one of the first battles of the Civil War. Still unfit for active duty after nine months in the hospital, he is...
  • WordTheatre presents The Wild West Performed Live at The Met Theatre in Hollywood...
  • Captain Jack Aubrey's ship Bellona has been assigned to the fleet blockading the port of Brest, but what had promised to be a dull...