Historical fiction

  • Bryant & May & The Invisible Code

    £7.99

    Two small children are playing a game called ‘Witch-Hunter’. They place a curse on a young woman taking lunch in a church courtyard and wait for her to die. An hour later she is found dead inside the church. Bryant and May must investigate.

  • HHhH

    £9.99

    Prague, in 1942. Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a mission to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich – chief of the Nazi secret services, ‘the hangman of Prague’, ‘the blond beast’, and ‘the most dangerous man in the Third Reich’.

  • Count Of Monte Cristo

    £18.99

    ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ is one of the great popular novels of all time and a landmark in the development of modern popular fiction. Robin Buss’s lively English translation remains faithful to the style of Dumas’s original.

  • Gods Of Gotham

    £6.99

    1845, New York: Timothy Wilde hadn’t wanted to be a police star. On his way home from the Tombs defeated and disgusted, he is planning his resignation, when a girl who has escaped from a brothel, crashes into him, covered in blood. Searching out the truth in the child’s stories, he finds himself on the trail of a killer.

  • Berlin Noir

    £16.99

    Ex-policeman Bernie Gunther thought he’d seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlin. But then he went freelance, and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi subculture. This omnibus contains the novels ‘March Violets’, ‘The Pale Criminal’ and ‘A German Requiem’.

  • The Baker’s Blood

    £7.99

    1775. Returning from a diplomatic mission in Vienna, Le Floch investigates a baker’s death amid outcry at soaring bread prices.

  • Rules Of Civility

    £10.99

    In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn’t afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew. By the end of the year she’d learned – how to launch a paper airplane high over Park Avenue, how to live like a redhead, and how to insist upon the very best.

  • Austerlitz

    £12.99

    W.G. Sebald traces the moving story of Jacques Austerlitz, sent to Wales on the last Kindertransport from Europe on the eve of World War II. He is adopted by Welsh Calvinists who decide to remove any trace of his true origins.

  • Trinity Six

    £8.99

    **Don’t miss the gripping new espionage thriller by Charles Cumming, KENNEDY 35! Pre-order the paperback now**

    Perfect for fans of John le Carré, a gripping and suspenseful spy thriller from ‘the master of the modern spy thriller’ (Mail on Sunday)

  • Heartstone

    £8.99

    Shardlake goes to war . . .

  • Doctor Zhivago

    £9.99

    The story of Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, is both a panoramic, epic portrait of a country in the throes of the most radical revolution in history, and an intense love story.

  • Hidden Child

    £7.99

    No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg’s chilling psychological thriller featuring Detective Patrick Hedstrom and Erica Falck – irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo.