AF: Historical Fiction and War

The penultimate novel in the incredible Vespasian series Rome, AD 63. Vespasian has been made Governor of Africa. Nero, Rome's increasingly unpredictable Emperor, orders him to journey with his most trusted men to a far-flung empire in Africa to free 200 Roman citizens who...

From nineteenth-century Sweden to Renaissance Italy, Hansen weaves together exquisite stories in a searching and impressive enquiry into why things happen the way they do... Bolt has died and lies in his coffin reflecting on the past. An eccentric scientist, he devoted his life...

Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us. In 1989, fresh from the publication of...

It is the turn of the century in the Clydeside town of Sandyford and the beginning of the golden age of the paddle-steamer.Sandyford is ‘home’ to Rose Gibb. Her return here is destined even during a short-lived career as a volunteer nurse during the...

Argentina,1978. President Jorge Rafael Videla's military dictatorship reigns with an iron fist, regularly kidnapping, torturing and murdering political activists and opponents and their families at secret concentration camps. The country is locked in a spiral of fear and chaos - and are soon to...

AD 58: Rome is in turmoil once more. Emperor Nero has surrounded himself with sycophants and together they rampage by night through the city, visiting death and destruction as they go. Meanwhile, Nero's extravagance has reached new heights. The Emperor's spending is becoming profligate...

All eleven-year-old Esme Munroe wants for Christmas is for her mother to be on one of her good days and, secretly, for a velvet riding hat. So when she finds an assortment of wet towels and dirty plates in her stocking, she s just...