Time Travel and Alternative History

Adult Fiction - Time Travel and Alternative History

Updated May 19, 2023
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Life after life : a novel
Atkinson, Kate.
Paper Book
The PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, now a major BBC1 DRAMA SERIES starring Thomasin McKenzie, Sian Clifford and James McArdle, directed by BAFTA award-winning John Crowley. 'Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound... one of the best novels I've read...
The shining girls
Beukes, Lauren.
Paper Book
The jaw-dropping, page-turning, critically-acclaimed book of the year: a serial-killer thriller unlike any other from the award-winning Lauren Beukes. 'GONE GIRL has not exactly gone. But THE SHINING GIRLS have arrived' (The Times). THE SHINING GIRLS is now streaming on Apple TV+, starring...
Perfect : a novel
Joyce, Rachel.
Paper Book
In 1972, two seconds were added to time. It was in order to balance clock time with the movement of the Earth. Byron Hemming knew this because James Lowe had told him and James was the cleverest boy at school. But how could time change? The steady movement of hands around a clock was as certain as...
Hitler's peace : a novel of the Second World War
Kerr, Philip.
Paper Book
A gripping alternative history thriller set in the Second World War, from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther novels. Autumn 1943. Hitler knows he cannot win the war: now he must find a way to make peace. FDR and Stalin are willing to...
11/22/63 : a novel
King, Stephen
Paper Book
King's highly acclaimed novel, now with a stunning new cover look. WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless . . . ...
Hazards of time travel
Oates, Joyce Carol
Paper Book
An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society 'Unrelentingly disturbing' Observer 'Taps deep into contemporary anxieties over the rise of surveillance, totalitarian governments and invasive technology' Daily Mail ...
Island of glass
Roberts, Nora
Paper Book
Doyle Mac Cleirich - soldier and reluctant immortal - has always vowed never to return home. But when his search for the final star leads him to Ireland, it becomes clear that fate has other plans. Solitary by inclination, Doyle is also fighting his growing attraction to archaeologist Riley. His...
Landline
Rowell, Rainbow.
Paper Book
What advice would you give the younger you...and would you listen? As far as time machines go, a magic telephone is pretty useless. TV writer Georgie McCool can't actually visit the past; all she can do is call it, and hope it picks up. Is she going crazy or is this a chance...
The rise and fall of D.O.D.O.
Stephenson, Neal
Paper Book
You think you know how the world works? Think again. 21st Century America Magic has faded from the minds of mankind, until an encounter between Melisande Stokes, linguistics expert at Harvard, and Tristan Lyons, shadowy agent of government, leads to the...
The gone world
Sweterlitsch, Tom
Paper Book
Underground airlines
Winters, Ben H.
Paper Book
'The most timely of alternate history novels. Ben Winters has created a spellbinding world that forces the reader to look around--and to look within. This is a thriller not to be missed and one that will not be easily forgotten.' Hugh Howey It is the present-day, and the...

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