Judith Lennox Set amid the wealth and beauty of sixteenth-century Europe, Judith Lennox's novel transports her readers to a world of passion, intrigue and bitter rivalry. The du Chantonnay estate...

James Crumley Author's debut novel, set during the Vietnam War.Crumley's disturbing Vietnam novel. In '62, Sergeant Krummel assumes command of a crew of rebellious, drunken enlistees. Surviving military absurdities only...

Bernard Cornwell This is the exciting—yet little known—the story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son...

Bernard Cornwell The first book in Bernard Cornwell’s epic and bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg.BBC2’s major Autumn 2015...

Bernard Cornwell The first book in Bernard Cornwell's bestselling Grail Quest series.The year is 1342. The English, led by Edward III, are laying waste to the French countryside. The army...

Bernard Cornwell From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the sequel to The Archer’s Tale and Vagabond —the spellbinding tale of a young man, a fearless archer, who sets...

Sebastian Faulks From the author of the international bestseller Birdsong, comes a haunting historical novel of passion, loss, and courage set in France between the two world wars. This Vintage Original...

Elizabeth Buchan Wrapped in the roots of the sycamore was a skeleton; the remains of a woman, between twenty-five and thirty. She had carried a child . . .' At...

Matthew Sweet An untold Cold War story: how the CIA tried to infiltrate a radical group of U.S. military deserters, a tale that leads from a bizarre political cult to...

Sandi Toksvig It's April 1940 and German troops are pouring onto the streets of Denmark. 12-year-old Bamse is ordered by his father to keep his head down and stay out...

Avraham Burg Modern day Israel, and the Jewish community, is strongly influenced by the memory and horrors of Hitler and the Holocaust. Burg argues that the Jewish nation has been...

Sarah Gainham Night Falls on the City Vienna, 1938. Beautiful actress Julia Homburg and her politician husband Franz Wedeker embody all the enlightened brilliance of their native city. But Wedeker...