Historical Fiction category: 74504 books

The wickedest woman who ever loved. Sensual... corrupt... that was the court of Renaissance Italy. And that, too, was Lucrezia Borgia - a woman of infinite guile and indiscriminate passion, whose affairs led her from page boy to prince... and to a reputation called shocking even in a land not...

COULD A MAIDEN’S KISS TURN A CYNICAL ROGUE INTO AN HONORABLE KNIGHT? Mercenary knight Sir Garren owed much to William, Earl of Readington: his sword, his horse, even his very knighthood. And in return Garren had saved the earl’s life in the Holy Land. Yet when his liege lord fell gravely...

Overpaid, oversexed and over here… It might be a friendly invasion, but when hundreds of US Marines arrive at a quiet Cornish town in the summer of 1943 with only two things on their mind, making love and making war, there are bound to be problems. Bette Tredinnick, footloose and fancy free, embarks...

‘paints a vivid picture of life on the fells during the war. Enhanced by fine historical detail and strong characterisation it is an endearing story...’Westmorland Gazette on Luckpenny Land Luckpenny Land Meg Turner lives on a lonely farm in the beautiful English Lake District with a bully...

When Burthred comes courting on Christmas Eve, Meg rejects his advances. She has her heart set on becoming a nun and insists that he call her Christina, the spiritual name she has chosen for herself. She tries to make him swear on her box of holy relics that he will not pursue her, but he carefully...

In his latest historical novel Ike and Kay, acclaimed author James MacManus brings to life an unbelievably true and controversial romance and the poignant characters and personalities that shaped the course of world history.In 1942, Kay Summersby’s life is changed forever when she is conscripted...

A historical novel set in Tuscany in the 18th century, during the enlightened government of Pietro Leopoldo of Hapsburg Lorraine. Autobiographical memories of the Grand Duchess Maria Luisa, his wife and confidante. “Vienna 1792. Maria Ludovica of Bourbon, the Spanish Infanta, for many years...

Before Adam is a historical novel by Jack London, serialized in 1906 and 1907 in Everybody's Magazine. It is the story of a man who dreams he lives the life of an early hominid Australopithecine. The story offers an early view of human evolution. The majority of the story is told through the...

Birkenfeld im Jahre 1370. Scharfrichter Abraham Nagel kommt während der Hinrichtung eines Wegelagerers unter rätselhaften Umständen ums Leben. Sein zehnjähriger Sohn Rudolf wird noch in der gleichen Nacht nach Kastellaun zum dortigen Scharfrichter gebracht. Zwölf Jahre später. Rudolf ist sehr...

Winner of the Premio Selezione Campiello prize and the Premio Alessandro Manzoni award for best historical novel, The Watercolourist is the irresistible Italian bestseller from Beatrice Masini. Nineteenth-century Italy. A young woman arrives at a beautiful villa in the countryside outside Milan....

This is a steamy historical romance short story (word count 4,336).When Mr Simon Lloyd retreats to the semi remote countryside to gain inspiration for his work he had no idea that his fate would lead him to the beautiful and fierce Bethany Benson.Bethany on the other hand is weary of Simon...

Historical romance taking place during World War I in Europe.

Secrets! A spy for the British Government, Lord Joshua Sherbourne Faringdon must foster his notoriety as a rake as a front for his secret activities. Until an undercover exercise almost costs him his life. Passion! Miss Sarah Russell, newly appointed housekeeper, knows only of...

Based on the true story from America’s Gilded Age. “American Gilt – Scandal” (Vol. 3) What really happened in 1883? Sifting through the rumors, gossip and propaganda perpetuated over the years, “American Gilt” reveals the life of Sara Swan Whiting while exploring the mystery,...