Fiction / Historical

Hidden behind the walls of Grangegorman Mental Hospital in 1941, different lives collide, all afflicted by the human cost of wars, betrayals and trauma.

An award-winning, burnt out writer is visited by the characters he is researching while writing a book about the assassination of President James Garfield.

In the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of Culloden, a lonely figure takes flight with a small band of companions through the mountainous landscapes of the north-west Highlands of Scotland. Award-winning author Alan Warner traces the last journey through Scotland of Bonnie Prince Charlie, a man who history will come to define for his failure.

Set in Gilfach Goch, a coal mining valley in south Wales, during the Second World War, this is a novel about first friendships among boys from the perspective of the youngest and smallest, Jac. Describing...

Burnt Offerings is the story of Besse Craw, a young mother who is accused of witchcraft by the man who attempts to rape her. Destined to lose her daughter, her freedom and her life, this is the story of one woman’s fight for vindication through a patriarchal landscape of torture and persecution while her life hangs in the balance.

Rhiannon lives in Wales 58–60 AD when the Romans, led by Suetonius Paulinus, arrive on the isle of Anglesey from the North of England. The people of her village fight bravely but are defeated, and...

Novel based around a headstrong working-class girl in late 18th-century Wales. Peggin is a maid for the infamous Ladies of Llangollen, a real gay couple who moved in the literary circles of Byron and Wordsworth, and her brother Joe is involved the building of Thomas Telford’s Pontcysyllte Acqueduct.

Spring, 1523. The King’s chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey, prepares to open Parliament at Blackfriars, but all is not well in Wolsey’s household. A visiting critic of the Cardinal is found brutally slain whilst awaiting an audience at Richmond Palace. Anthony Blanke, trumpeter and groom, is once again called upon to unmask a murderer.

From the multi-award-winning, former Granta Best Young British Novelist, Jenni Fagan tells the story of Geillis Duncan, a teenage girl caught up in the sixteenth century witch trials in the Scottish coastal town of North Berwick.

The Edinburgh Skating Club is the tale of one woman's mission to infiltrate a male-dominated society. Imaginative, romantic and ultimately moving, this time-shift adventure celebrates the women overlooked by history – and, above all, love, in all its unexpected forms.