Historical Fiction
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Paperback | Pub: 17 Jul 2025£9.99
They got away with murder once . . . In the shadowy closes of Edinburgh’s Old Town, sixteen people are murdered to feed surgeon Dr Robert Knox’s insatiable need for his anatomy classes. Burke and Hare and their wives, Lucky and Nelly, are all...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Mar 2024£7.99
Shortlisted for The Winston Graham Historical Fiction Prize and The Highland Book Prize A battle lost. A daring escape. A long walk into obscurity. The ultimate failure… In the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of Culloden, a lonely figure takes...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 May 2022£8.99
Discover murder and mayhem in the court of Henry VIII Summer, 1522. In a wave of pomp, Henry VIII’s court welcomes the Imperial emperor Charles V. Anthony Blanke – the son of the king’s late ‘black trumpet’, John...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Mar 2023£9.99
Spring, 1523. Henry VIII readies England for war with France. The King’s chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey, prepares to open Parliament at Blackfriars. The eyes of the country turn towards London. But all is not well in Wolsey’s household. A...
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Hardback | Pub: 02 Oct 2025£17.99Featured on BBC Radio 4’s Take Four Books Six friends. One city. The time of their lives. It’s 1988, and on the verge of a reunion with friends she hasn’t seen since graduation, Julie recalls her halcyon student days of 1984 and the...
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Book | Pub: 02 May 2024£12.00
Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags the truth out of the shadows, exposing the patriarchal prejudices of history. Expect the unexpected . . . A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Apr 2025£8.99Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags the truth out of the shadows . . . A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish landscape, a woman is on the run with her three companions – a...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Jun 2025£9.99
Tommo has just moved to a prestigious boarding school. A product of the middle class, and with new-found independence thrust upon him, he finds himself invited into fading crumbling country houses. It’s the early nineties and the elite he is now...
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E-Book | Pub: 06 Jun 2024£4.99
Richard Hannay Returns. JULY, 1942. Once again veteran adventurer Richard Hannay is called into action on a mission that will test him as never before. At stake is the fate of the beleaguered island of Malta where Hannay’s son is stationed as a...
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E-Book | Pub: 05 May 2022£4.99
A remarkable story of adventure, romance and buried treasure. A small inheritance and a letter from his grandfather mark the beginnings of a journey that leads Peter Angus Gillies from his mundane job in Canada to Ardnish, the land of his forebears,...
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Paperback | Pub: 08 Jan 2026£9.99
Sins never stay buried. You may call it a sin; I say it was an act of desperation. Like all pathologists, Cuthbert finds dealing with dead children the hardest part of his job. However, when the body of a young boy is found in the grounds of a...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Feb 2022£8.99
London, 1942. A killer going by the name of ‘Crimson Jack’ is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from the grave? Is...
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Hardback | Pub: 06 Aug 2026£12.00
A visceral historical novel retelling the story of Scotland’s only colony, from high hopes that united the country to a failure that bankrupted a nation. The Darien Venture was the singular event at the end of the seventeenth century that...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Jun 2025£9.99
The dead all have stories to tell. Glasgow, 1931. Visiting from London, Dr Jack Cuthbert unexpectedly finds himself at the centre of a horrifying crime. As an experienced pathologist, the local police call upon him to lead the forensic investigation...
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Paperback | Pub: 27 Jun 2019£8.99Vinland follows the turbulent life of Ranald Sigmundson, a young boy born into the Dark Ages when Orkney was torn between its Viking past and its Christian future. Struggling to understand the conflicts of his home, Ranald seeks adventure and...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Jul 2018£8.99
After joining the the Lovat Scouts at the outbreak of the Second World War Donald Angus Gillies is sent on a mission to the Alps, where he meets Francoise, a young French Canadian SOE agent. The pair immediately form a close bond, but when Francoise...
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E-Book | Pub: 06 Feb 2014£4.99
William Shakespeare is dying, with his lawyer at his bedside. It is time to dictate his will. But how can a man put his affairs in order before he’s come to terms with his past? Acclaimed poet, novelist, and Shakespeare professor Christopher...
