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At only thirteen, Mikey Quinn is arrested for stealing a rabbit to feed his family. Despite his age, he’s shown no mercy by the wealthy lawyer who ...

After the loss of war, can there be hope for the future? Manchester, 1922. Belinda Layton is a surplus girl. One of the many women whose dreams o...

The very first Miss Read novel - set in 1950s England, perfect nostalgia for fans of CALL THE MIDWIFE or Gervase Phinn.'An affectionate, humorous a...

Did you like this book? For historical fiction readers, a tantalizing new novel from New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir about the passio...

The Girl Below Stairs is the third powerful saga from Jennie Felton, in her Families of Fairley Terrace series, in the grand tradition of Katie Fly...

A spellbinding novel of a young doctor's wife, Isabel Aird, struggling to make her childless life meaningful, unaware that the sinister Robert Kirk...

London 1926. Deploring social injustice, Lady Deborah Claremont opens a staff agency, concealing the fact that she's a member of the aristocracy. B...

The lives of teenage twins Maisy and Duncan change forever the night their sick mother is taken to an asylum. Sent to live in the New Forest with t...

Lizzie is an orphan living with her Aunt Annie, Uncle Perce and two boy cousins in Cranberry Court, within a stone's throw of the Leeds and Liverpo...

To find yourself, sometimes you must lose everything. Discover it all in A PLACE CALLED WINTER - picked for the BBC Radio 2 Simon Mayo Book Club an...

The story of two murders, four hundred years apart - and the ties that bind them together. From the author of the acclaimed national bestseller Am...

Alternate cover edition here.. It's history with the nasty bits left in! WANT TO KNOW: ☠ If you would make a good bodysnatcher? ☠ What the Georgian...

The theft from Bletchley Park in 2000 of the legendary Enigma machine, the device used by the Allies to decode German messages during World War II,...

Diamond wasn?t always a star. Born to penniless parents who longed for a strong, healthy son, she was a dainty, delicate daughter - and a bitter di...

What goes on under London? 2,000 years' worth of history. Who have the crypts of the city harboured and what can you find in the Chiselhurst Caves?...

Jonathan's father, Doctor Mordecai, is summoned to Rome to help the plague victims. The four young detectives are wanted too, as the Emperor Titus ...

After fifteen fearsome years on the page, Horrible Histories are coming to the small screen - with all the nasty bits intact - of course. Twelve c...

This history book describes the more gruesome side of the Stuart period. It tells why some Stuarts ate toads, snails and fleas, which king picked h...

Takes you back for another look at the mad Tudor monarchs and their suffering subjects, who just could not help losing their heads. Read on for inf...

This title contains fascinating facts about Bill the Conquerer and his bully boys who battled at Hastings, stormed around Europe and joined the Cru...

Dark Knights and Dingy Castles' takes readers back to the days of chivalry, and recounts stories of dreadful dungeons, cruel crusaders and ghastly ...

the vile victorians gives you all the terrible truth about revolting events affecting everyone not so very long ago from the vioe victorian queen h...

Can you imagine life without television, road signs and bananas? Or only having enough clothing coupons to buy a small pair of knickers? Not to men...