Historical fiction

The Quick and the Dead

Emma Hinds

It is 1597 and Kit Skevy and Mariner Elgin have just robbed the wrong grave. Two unusual criminals get caught up in the dark and magical underworld of alchemy in the 16th century.

The Knowing

Emma Hinds

Beautiful, intoxicating and full of suspense, The Knowing is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution and how women survive and weaponize trauma.

Ravage & Son

Jerome Charyn

‘A master storyteller’s novel of corruption and antisemitism. Ravage & Son reflects the lost world of Manhattan’s Lower East Side in a dark mirror.’

Under the Tamarind Tree

Nigar Alam

A story of love tested to its limits by moral dilemmas, and the beauty and fragility of childhood friendships.

Loyalty : 2023 bestseller, an action-packed epic of love and justice during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily.

Lisa Scottoline

When Baron Zito asks lemon-grower, Franco Fiorvante, to arrange the kidnapping of a little boy, Franco sets in motion the making of the world’s first Mafia family.

Eternal

Lisa Scottoline

What war destroys, only love can heal.

Unfolding over decades, Eternal is a tale of loyalty and loss, family and food, love and war – all set in one of the world’s most beautiful cities at its darkest moment.

Sergeant Salinger

Jerome Charyn

Grounded in biographical fact and reimagined as only Charyn could, Sergeant Salinger is an astonishing portrait of a devastated young man on his way to becoming the mythical figure behind The Catcher in the Rye, a novel that has marked generations….

When We Fall

Carolyn Kirby

England, 1943. Lost in fog, pilot Vee Katchatourian is forced to make an emergency landing where she meets enigmatic RAF airman Stefan Bergel, and then can’t get him out of her mind. In occupied Poland, Ewa Hartman hosts German officers in her father’s guest house, while secretly gathering intelligence for the Polish…

Hunting the Hangman

Howard Linskey

Based on true events, this gripping historical thriller is the culmination of Howard Linskey’s fifteen-year fascination with the attempted assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the Holocaust. With a plot that echoes The Day of the Jackal and The Eagle Has Landed, Hunting the Hangman is…

The Empire of Night

Robert Olen Butler

It is 1915, and “Kit” Cobb is working undercover in a castle on the Kent coast owned by a suspected British government mole, Sir Albert Stockman. Kit is working with his mother, the beautiful and mercurial spy, Isabel Cobb, who also happens to be a world-famous stage actress. Isabel’s offstage role is to keep tabs on Stockman, while Kit…

Blind Arrows

Anthony J. Quinn

Dublin 1919. A city at war with itself, a cauldron of soldiers, spies, rebels and political intrigue. The mysterious and seductive Lily Merrin, secretary at Dublin Castle, is on a mission but whose side is she on and what is compelling her to consider the ultimate sacrifice?Charismatic Irish revolutionary leader, Michael Collins burns…

The Star of Istanbul

Robert Olen Butler

It is 1915 and Germany has allied itself with the Ottoman empire, persuading the caliphs of Turkey to declare a jihad on the British empire, as President Woodrow Wilson hesitates to enter the fray. War correspondent Christopher Marlowe Cobb has been tasked to follow Brauer, a German intellectual and possible secret service agent…