Alternative History

London, 1984. England has given up on democracy and selects its rulers by lottery. This time it is the turn of clerk Auberon Quin, a prankster who decrees that each borough of London become an independent mediaeval state, complete with costumes and coats...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913628185Author Eva St. JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Mudlark's PressPublisher Mudlark's Press

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036951Author Philip KerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 129mm * 25mm

With the acclaimed Temeraire novels, New York Times bestselling author Naomi Novik has created a fantasy series like no other. Now, with LEAGUE OF DRAGONS, Novik brings the imaginative tour-de-force that has captivated millions to an unforgettable finish...

'Searingly brilliant . . . [Isberg] like George Orwell and Anthony Burgess before her, lets the dystopian ironies speak for themselves.'TLS'Absolutely stunning.' HERNAN DIAZ'A masterpiece.' KAVEH AKBAR A debut novel of urgent big ideas imbued with pacy...

*A Short History of the Apocalypse: your comprehensive guide to the challenges of Armageddon*Join Frankie Boyle (Saturday Night Swindle; Celebrity Vengeance) and Charlie Skelton (head writer: Ad Naseum; David Suchet's News Sachet) as they debrief time...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119821Author Drew MagaryFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 131mm * 17mm

Luke, Connor, Thea and Violet spend their first holiday together alone in their father's house in the south of France. The boys don't really know him, and they don't really know their half-sisters, either. Luke, the most easy going of the four, is keen...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765332431Author Kathleen Ann GoonanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLSeries Dance FamilyWeight(grams)...

Naomi Novik's beloved Temeraire series, a brilliant combination of fantasy and history that reimagines the Napoleonic wars as fought with the aid of intelligent dragons, is a twenty-first-century classic. Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan...

'No book ever ends when it's full of your friends.'This beautiful edition of The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is perfect for Dahl fans old and...

The world has been ravaged by a lethal virus and, with few exceptions, only the young have survived. Cities have been destroyed, and the natural world has reclaimed the landscape in surprising ways, with herds of wild camels roaming the American West and...

From the author of the prize-winning As the Women Lay Dreaming comes a remarkable 'unreliable biography' of Karl Kjerulf Einarsson: an artist and an adventurer, a charlatan and a swindler, forever in search of Atlantis. As a child in the windswept,...

*Winner of the 2025 CARICON FICTION PRIZE / Shortlisted for the 2025 ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE*'The past is uprooted, the present holds on by thread, and in the midst of it all is Miss Pauline, strong, conflicted, driven and remarkable.' Marlon James,...

Taking the events and characters of the Iliad as his jumping- off point, Dan Simmons has created an epic of time travel and savage warfare. Travellers from 40,000 years in the future return to Homer's Greece and rewrite history forever, their technology...

1772: Althought George III reigns over a peaceful England, his colonies in the Americas are claiming independence and a tide of revolutionary fervour is gripping France.Allen Morland and his beloved wife Jemimas work unstintingly to bring Morland Palace...

In 1904, when she was six, Polly Flint went to live with her two holy aunts at the yellow house by the marsh - so close to the sea that it seemed to toss like a ship, so isolated that she might have been marooned on an island. And there she stayed for...

'A relentlessly gripping, glorious epic fantasy - the exhilarating must-read fantasy debut of 2025' Tasha Suri, author of The Jasmine ThroneA SONG OF REBELLION. A SONG OF WAR. A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST.In the Nine Lands, only those of noble blood can summon...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860870Author Terry BissonFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 166g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345402400Author Harry TurtledoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Del Rey BooksPublisher Random House USA IncSeries WorldwarWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Mystery/Thriller) 2011 and Thriller Awards (Novel) 2012. Short-listed for Locus Awards (Science Fiction) 2012.Book InformationISBN...

'Original and compelling to the extreme - I raced through it' Debbie HowellsYOU CAN HEAR HIS EVERY THOUGHT... BUT HE CAN HEAR YOURS TOO.Never again wonder where they areNever again doubt their feelings for youKnow your partner intimatelyOneMind: for the...

1788: the bloody revolution in France causes upheaval in the Morland family.Henri-Marie Fitzjames Stuart, bastard offshoot of the Morland family, strives to protect his daughter, Heloise, his mistress, Marie-France, and their son Morland. To this end, he...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593200773Author Taylor AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

History takes flight in the second book of Naomi Novik's deliciously addictive series which captures the Napoleonic period perfectly and skillfully layers the timeline with imagination by adding a Dragon Air Force to the battle for England. ...

1944 Atomic testing at Los Alamos opens a rift in the fabric of space, while the detonation of the Fat Boy atomic bomb over Dresden creates a second. German and American scientists determine that signals are being transmitted through the rifts, many...

Opening up a world of magic and adventure, The Library of the Dead by T. L. Huchu is the first book in the Edinburgh Nights series.'A fast-moving and entertaining tale, beautifully written' - Ben Aaronovitch, bestselling author of Rivers of London'I...

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award 1992Winner of the Locus Award 1992Shortlisted for the Phillip K. Dick AwardNicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand - weeping not blood, but a plasma of tears...It began with Nakota...

*SHARPE'S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Spain, January 1812 Lieutenant Richard Sharpe faces threats from all sides when an old adversary joins...

It is 1918 and Dracula is commander-in-chief of the armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary. The war of the great powers in Europe is also a war between the living and the dead. As ever the Diogenes Club is at the heart of British Intelligence and Charles...

All systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end.Nebula Award, Ray Bradbury Prize and Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist and Hugo and Locus Award winner Ray Nayler returns with a gripping technological thriller.'A fast-paced dystopian thriller' - SFX...

Michael Young is a brilliant young history student whose life is changed when he meets Leo Zuckerman, an ageing physicist with a theory that can change worlds. Together they realise that they have the power to alter history and eradicate a great evil...

1588: Queen Elizabeth is felled by an assassin's bullet. Within the week, the Spanish Armada had set sail, and its victory changed the course of history. 1968: England is still dominated by the Church of Rome. There are no telephones, no television, no...

Naomi Novik's stunning series of novels follow the global adventures of Captain William Laurence and his fighting dragon Temeraire as they are thrown together to fight for Britain during the turbulent time of the Napoleonic Wars. Former Aerial...

One spy. One dangerous book. One deadly mission. The first in a gripping, fantasy mystery series, The Invisible Library is the astounding debut from Genevieve Cogman.Irene must be at the top of her game or she'll be off the case - permanently . . .Irene...

The fifth book in the epic Masters of Rome series.Gaul. 54 BC. Julius Caesar sweeps across Gaul, brutally subduing the united tribes who defy the Republic. But, at home, his enemies are orchestrating his downfall and disgrace. Vindictive schemers like...

'Deighton's best book ... an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation' The New York Times Book ReviewIt is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the King...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Dundee International Book Prize 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781907676949Author George GunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Grace Note PublicationsPublisher...

A BRAND-NEW spellbinding dual-timeline novel of forbidden love, buried secrets and the long shadow of war. Perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley, Victoria Hislop and Kate Morton. 🖼 1938: For Camilla Kerrigan, life at her family's Oxford manor is a...

Perfect for fans of C.J. Sansom. A short story featuring Giordano Bruno: heretic, philosopher and spy, from Parris's Sunday Times bestselling series. Even the dead have a story to tell... Naples,...