Paul Scott In this first book of the Raj Quartet, we are introduced to an India where everything is in flux. WWII has shown that the British are not invincible...

Paul Scott As WWII sweeps convulsively into its last bitter stage, the English wives, daughters, mothers and widows of officers embroiled in the ongoing conflict gather in the Indian hill...

Paul Scott Instead of returning “home” when he retired, Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, and his wife Lily chose to remain in the small hill town of...

Paul Scott As the British presence moves inexorably into its last days, the fall of the Empire signals the end of an era, and a new beginning. For the Hindus...

David Liss Benjamin Weaver is awaiting death in Newgate gaol. Mysteriously convicted for a murder he didn’t commit by a judge determined to see him hang, he is suddenly—and equally...

Jack Whyte Born of the chaos of the Dark Ages, the Dream of Eagles produced a king, a country and an everlasting legend—Camelot Publius Varrus is a veteran Roman officer...

Cecelia Holland From deep in the mists of time, Cecelia Holland has drawn forth this tale of life on the Salisbury Plain, among the Stone Age Britons who built Stonehenge....

Courtway Jones  Pelleas, son of Uther Pendragon, begins his apprenticeship with Myrddin, a sorcerer, and explores a land torn by strife, struggling toward glory in the days before the birth...

Jules Watson AD 81. Agricola, the ruthless governor of Roman Britain is intent on capturing the last unconquered territory in Britain - Alba, Scotland. Rhiann is an Alban priestess and...

Dorothy Dunnett Eager to expand his commercial empire, ambitious merchant banker Nicholas van der Poele travels to Africa, followed by Gelis van Borselen, a determined young woman who blames Nicholas...

Bernard Cornwell The master of historical fiction presents the iconic story of King Alfred and the making of a nation. As the ninth century wanes, England appears about to be...

Ann Weisgarber Short-listed for the Orange Award for New Writers Long-listed for the Orange Prize Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Debut Novel Prize It is 1917 in the...