Alternative History

With the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy and intricate activity called politics. And this is politics as it ought to be: gossip, corruption,...

1630: after long years of peace the reign of Charles I brings brutal civil war to England.The clash between King and Parliament is echoed at Morland Place when Richard brings home a Puritan bride while his brother, Kit, joins Prince Rupert and the...

A week after her mother found her sleeping on the ceiling, Amy Thomsett is delivered to her new school, Drearcliff Grange in Somerset. Although it looks like a regular boarding school, Amy learns that Drearcliff girls are special, the daughters of...

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments by T. L. Huchu is the second spellbinding book in the Edinburgh Nights series. 'Stupendously engaging' - Ben Aaronovitch, bestselling author of Rivers of LondonSome secrets are meant to stay buried When Ropa Moyo...

The new blockbuster thriller from Graham Hurley set against the final stages of the Second World War. Confidant of Goebbels. Instrument of Stalin. What's the worst that could happen? January 1945. Wherever you look on the map, the Thousand Year...

In the summer of 1849, cholera threatens the city and the people of London. The authorities send millions of gallons of sewage cascading into the Thames - for many Londoners the only source of drinking water. Joshua Jeavons, a young and idealistic...

Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot, and a dazzling and brilliant leader.About the AuthorGore Vidal was...

When a diplomat dies in the 1930s, he leaves behind a book of 'dream visions' he has been experiencing, detailing events that will occur on Earth for the next two hundred years. This fictional 'account of the future' (similar to LAST AND FIRST MEN by...

'Absolutely stunning.' Hernan Diaz'Brilliant.' Mariana Enriquez'A masterpiece.' Kaveh AkbarThe Icelandic Psychological Association has prepared a test. They call it a sensitivity assessment: a way of measuring a person's empathy and identifying the...

The Great War meets the horrors of forgotten folklore in this occult skirmish wargame. 1916: A World Transformed. As the Great War raged, the Moon fell from its orbit. Seas shifted, uncovering new lands and revealing what tide and time had concealed...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917173032Author Simon AveryFormat PaperbackImprint Black Shuck BooksPublisher Black Shuck Books

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781484183885Author Brendan DuBoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments by T. L. Huchu is the second spellbinding book in the Edinburgh Nights series.'Stupendously engaging' - Ben Aaronovitch, bestselling author of Rivers of LondonSome secrets are meant to stay buriedWhen Ropa Moyo discovered...

Continuing what has been dubbed his 'revenge on two hundred years of American history', Gore Vidal locates this novel in Washington. But this is 1917, and Hollywood is now competing with America's capital as the nation's power-base, just as it fights for...

David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas meets Octavia Butler's Earthseed series, as acclaimed author Monica Byrne (The Girl in the Road) crafts an unforgettable piece of speculative fiction about where humanity came from, where we are now, and where we're going-and...

Ododo's hometown of Timbuktu has been conquered by the the warrior king of Yorubaland. Already shunned as social pariahs, living conditions for Ododo and the other women in her blacksmith guild grow even worse under Yoruba rule. Then Ododo is abducted...

'He spoke of a new kind of terremauvaise, of strange regions, connected, indeed, with definite geographical limits upon the earth, yet somehow apart from them and beyond them.' A youth comes to a literal fork in his road where all three paths contrive...

Gunpowder, treason and a plot to destroy the British Empire... 1770. Delphine lives in the shadows of London: a secret, vibrant world of smugglers, courtesans and small rebellions. Four years ago, she escaped enslavement at great...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468014884Author C J BrookesFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

A stunningly imagined, action-packed fantasy adventure for fans of Nevermoor, Neverwhere and Mortal Engines, from bestselling and award-winning author Patrice Lawrence. "A beautifully written book, bristling with...

THE SEPARATION is the story of twin brothers, rowers in the 1936 Olympics (where they met Hess, Hitler's deputy); one joins the RAF, and captains a Wellington; he is shot down after a bombing raid on Hamburg and becomes Churchill's aide-de-camp; his twin...

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An old enemy, a new threat, and a secret that could tear the world apart.Hostage negotiator Ethan Munroe is called urgently to a developing crime scene. A serial killer is holding a young girl hostage, and, inexplicably, demands his attendance.Events...

The stunning new feminist retelling of the real-life female pirates of the Caribbean *One of The Times' Best Historical Fiction Novels of August* 'This swashbuckling debut is great fun'THE TIMES'Wonderfully drawn characters and a terrific pace'JESS KIDD,...

Earthworld is a thing of the past. Welcome to the future.After the collapse of life on Earth as it once was known, 600 people are selected for passage on Shipworld, a spacecraft charting a 360-year voyage to a new planet. Their mission will see...

1670: King Charles II's reign has brought peace and prosperity to the Morland family, but James II's ascent to the throne will shatter their restored fortunes.In Yorkshire, Morland Place has flourished during the Restoration, and in London the beautiful...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641290210Author Steve ToutonghiFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press

In this alternate history of the American frontier and the Jacksonian era, a small change takes place in the Battle of the Horseshoe Bend during the War of 1812. What results is a cascade of new developments that becomes an avalanche. In our world,...

The relocation of the southern Indian tribes to Oklahoma engineered by Sam Houston following the War of 1812 also swept up many black inhabitants of North America. Many of the states in the USA-free as well as slaveholding-have passed laws ordering the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637136Author Simone ZelitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637112Author Nisi ShawlFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

A time of ambition, treachery and dangerous secrets . . . Rita Douglas is plucked from her dead-end job and trained as a reluctant US spy. All because she has the latent genetic talent to hop between alternate timelines - and infiltrate them. Her United...

'THIS FOLLOW-UP IS AS ENTHRALLING AS ITS PREDECESSOR' Sunday Times'BRILLIANTLY IMAGINED AND THOROUGHLY CHILLING' Observer'BEGINS WITH A BANG AND DOESN'T LET UP' Clare ChambersThrilling dystopian fiction from the acclaimed author of Widowland. Perfect...

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,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996072212Author Hana AndronikovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Plamen PressPublisher Plamen Press

A special edition of Deighton's classic thriller, the first and certainly greatest 'what-if?' novel about the Second World War, to tie in with the new major BBC series starring Sam Riley and adapted by the writers of Skyfall and Spectre. In...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993324703Author Max HertzbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Wolf PressPublisher Wolf PressSeries East Berlin SeriesWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)...

'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphThe Second World War is over. Germany have won the battle. But the fight goes on...It is November 1941, nine months after the Nazis successfully...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765395238Author Sarah GaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Tor BooksPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 188gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 128mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalist 2019 (United States) and British Science Fiction cover Award finalist - Sarah Anne Langton alist 2018 (UK) and Locus...