Autumn 1945, and off the east coast of England a Japanese sub surfaces, unloads its mysterious cargo, then blows itself to pieces. Former spy Professor Tom Wilde is enjoying peacetime in Cambridge, settling back into teaching and family life. Until a call from senior MI5 boss Lord Templeman brings him out of retirement. A nearby […]
Historia giveaway! Ben Kane’s Lionheart trilogy
To celebrate Ben Kane‘s King coming out in paperback on 19 January, Historia is running a special giveaway! Two winners will each receive all three books in Ben’s Lionheart series: Lionheart, Crusader and King. The giveaway is open until 11.59pm on 28 January, 2023. Follow the instructions below to enter. You’ve got up to four chances to […]
Needless Alley by Natalie Marlow
It’s Birmingham in 1933. Private enquiry agent William Garrett, a man damaged by a dark childhood spent on Birmingham’s canals, specialises in facilitating divorces for the city’s male elite. With the help of his best friend – charming, out-of-work actor Ronnie Edgerton — William sets up honey traps. But photographing unsuspecting women in flagrante plagues […]
King by Ben Kane
Autumn 1192. With Jerusalem still in the Saracens’ hands, and a peace treaty agreed with their leader Saladin, Richard the Lionheart is free at last to travel back to his strife-ridden kingdom. By his side at every turn is the loyal knight Ferdia, also known as Rufus. Together they will face not just Richard’s archenemy […]
The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola
In the midst of the icy winter of 1750, as birds fall frozen from the sky above Paris, chambermaid Madeleine Chastel arrives at the home of the city’s celebrated clockmaker and his clever, unworldly daughter. Madeleine is hiding a dark past, and a dangerous purpose: to discover the truth of the clockmaker’s experiments and record […]
The Alchemist’s Plot by Eleanor Swift-Hook
England, March 1643. While the civil war between King Charles and his Parliament continues to tear the nation apart, erstwhile lawyer Gideon Lennox returns to England as part of a royal escort in the employ of Sir Philip Lord, a mercenary commander with a mysterious past. Accompanied by Gideon and Daniel Bristow — Lord’s second […]
The Failed Apprentice by WJ Small
London 1531. When blacksmith apprentice Will Patten witnesses his master’s brutal murder and the burning of his master’s house and forge, he returns to his family’s impoverished home in London. With his apprenticeship over and his family unable to feed another mouth, Will is left with few options. As a young man with an education […]
The delicate matter of mustard and candles: a Paston family scandal
Anne O’Brien tells the story of Margery Paston, a member of the famous Norfolk letter-writing family, and the scandal she caused when she fell in love with their bailiff, a man from a family who sold mustard and candles. It’s the background to her new novel, A Marriage of Fortune. Clement Paston, who died in […]