Historical Fiction
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Lighter Than Air
Love travels…..Lighter than air In May 1937, when the German airship, Hindenburg, crashed to the ground in flames the exact cause was never defined. But imagine you had been there. In Susan Pope’s atmospheric story, a mix of fact and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2009
The Green Bronze Mirror
Karen is playing on the beach when she finds an ancient mirror buried in the sand. She looks into it, and is transported back in time to the Roman empire. Finding herself a slave, she faces many hair-raising adventures in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/10/2009
The Crimson Bed
Frederic Ashton Thorpe and his best friend, Henry Winstone, are artists immersed in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, with its yearning for romantic escape from the materialism of Victorian society. Seeing a half-finished portrait of the beautiful Eleanor Farnham at Henry's studio,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/03/2010
That Terrible Shadowing
This highly original art historical faction novel probes the mystery of Caravaggio's death in the context of a rivetingly told time travel adventure. We meet face to face with the great 16th-17th century Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi, known as...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2009
War on the Margins
France has fallen to the Nazis. Britain is under siege. As BBC bulletins grow bleak, residents of Jersey abandon their homes in their thousands. When the Germans take over, Marlene Zimmer, a shy clerk at the Aliens Office, must register...
Format: Hardback - Released: 23/07/2009
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The Choice
As could be anticipated by his many readers, Bryan Forbes’ latest novel is not a conventional love story. Set in occupied Germany during the immediate post-war period, The Choice is a disturbing story of lost illusions and the conflict faced...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2007
A Passage Through Time
A Passage Through Time tells the story of Chris, who comes to England in her early 30s to try to leave her past behind. Whilst in London, she is unexpectedly transported two hundred years back in time where she encounters...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/06/2008
The Way Home
William and Nora Anderson had four sons; Bertie, Ronnie, Charlie and Teddie. In 1914 they went to war. None came back. This is the story of a family’s...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/12/2007
The Rose Secateurs
In a Hampshire cottage on the eve of the twentieth century an unwanted child is born. Brought up in an institutional home, young Sarah Smith comes to the attention of one of the governors, Lady Isabel Kingsford, and becomes her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2007
Miriam's legacy
This is a historical novel about Palestine. The characters are fictitious, but the dates, locations and historical events are real. The story begins in the Shatila Refugee Camp in Lebanon in 1982, the year of the massacre. The main character...
Format: - Released: 13/07/2007
King Cotton
Captain James Dunwoody Bulloch of the American Confederate navy was sent to England by President Jefferson Davis to build fast, heavily-armed ships, ships that went on to sink a significant tonnage of the North's fleet. But these actions put a heavy...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/05/2008
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School Story
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1941Seven apprehensive thirteen-year-olds enter a famous Public School as members of Ansell’s, the most prestigious House. The reader is inducted with them into claustrophobic, arcane, degenerated traditions which educate them intellectually, morally and sexually into ruined senior boys...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/11/2005
Ashgrove
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Eight ash trees were planted in 1921 as a memorial to the men from the village of CharltonAmbrose who were killed in World War One. Now the Ashgrove is under threat from developers,and the village is torn between...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/08/2004
Chaucer's Triumph
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Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest of English poets, as well as the father of our language. Yet there has always lurked a dark secret in his life, a scandal or crime which, from evidence of two...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/02/2007
Anthony Blair, Captain Of School
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Anthony Blair’s dear old mater always said he was ‘good at making things up’. As a new boy at St Stephen’s College, he learns the ropes from his dour Scottish study companion Brown. Popular and polite, he charms everyone including...
Format: Hardback - Released: 19/09/2005
About this genre
Historical fiction is booming from James MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman novels, to Patrick O’Brian’s naval series, or the Brother Caedfel mysteries set in the Middle Ages.
Historical novels add to the pleasure of reading a good story, the additional pleasures of getting to know a period from history with all its local colour and smells and food and clothes.
Lovewriting lets you discover new authors of historical fiction, and allows you to download free opening extracts from their books to sample.
