Historical adventure fiction

  • James

    £9.99

    An immensely powerful and bitingly satirical retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck’s friend, the enslaved Jim.

  • Shanghai

    £9.99

    From internationally bestselling author Joseph Kanon, hailed by the Sunday Times as ‘the most accomplished spy novelist working today’, comes a thriller set in WW2 Shanghai, a seductive and corrupt setting defined by wealth, crime and a dazzling nightlife.

  • Lost horizon

    £10.99

    Lost Horizon is one of the most popular adventure novels ever written.

  • Wind and truth

    £30.00

    Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future of Roshar on the line. The Knights Radiant have only ten days to prepare – and the sudden ascension of the crafty and ruthless Taravangian to take Odium’s place has thrown everything into disarray. Desperate fighting continues simultaneously worldwide – Adolin in Azimir, Sigzil and Venli at the Shattered Plains, and Jasnah at Thaylen City. The former assassin, Szeth, must cleanse his homeland of Shinovar from the dark influence of the Unmade. He is accompanied by Kaladin, who faces a new battle helping Szeth fight his own demons – and who must do the same for the insane Herald of the Almighty, Ishar.

  • Maude Horton’s glorious revenge

    £9.99

    An exciting and pacey story of a quest for justice in the macabre world of Victorian London, with an intrepid heroine ready to risk it all for her missing sister.

  • The map of bones

    £22.00

    Epic and heart-breaking, telling of courageous women battling to survive in a hostile land, The Map of Bones is the final novel in Kate Mosse’s number one bestselling series, The Joubert Family Chronicles.

  • McGlue

    £14.99

    Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of his name or situation or orientation – he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Now, McGlue wants one thing and one thing only: a drink. Because for McGlue, insufferable, terrifying memories accompany sobriety.

  • Holmes and Moriarty

    £18.99

    Another clever and intriguing crime mystery from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Turnglass. The first Sherlock Holmes novel to be authorised by the Conan Doyle Estate since Anthony Horowitz’s The House of Silk.

  • The vaster wilds

    £9.99

    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 protagonist of Lauren Groff’s extraordinary novel must endure but also find meaning in the journey.

  • The armour of light

    £9.99

    Taking the reader straight into the heart of late 18th century Europe and the Industrial and French Revolutions, the fifth novel in the ground-breaking Kingsbridge series, The Armour of Light, is No. 1 international bestseller Ken Follett’s most ambitious novel to date. Epic, addictive and page-turning fiction at its very best.

  • Classic stories of the sea

    £10.99

    A collection of classic tales of adventure, capturing the thrill, the danger and the allure of the sea.

  • The ghost ship

    £9.99

    From Kate Mosse, the number one Sunday Times bestselling Joubert Family Chronicles series continues with The Ghost Ship, a thrilling tale of piracy and a sweeping historical epic about love in a time of war.

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