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  • Testament
    An epic new novel of Ancient Egypt, from the Master of Historical Adventure, Wilbur Smith. IN THE RUINS OF BATTLEA HERO MUST RISEFOR THE GLORY OF EGYPT Years of Hyksos rule have seen the plunder of once-mighty Egypt. Though the two kingdoms have now been reunited by the armies of the true Pharaoh, his position is perilous, his rule under...
    By Mark Chadbourn and Wilbur Smith
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  • Legacy of War
    A nail-biting story of courage, bravery, rebellion and war from the master of adventure fiction. The war is over, Hitler is dead – and yet his evil legacy lives on. Saffron Courtney and her beloved husband Gerhard only just survived the brutal conflict, but Gerhard's Nazi-supporting brother, Konrad, is still free and determined to regain power. As a dangerous game...
    By David Churchill and Wilbur Smith
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  • The Princess and the Foal
    A novel of heart and courage inspired by the incredible story of a real-life princess and the foal she loves. Princess Haya, daughter of the King of Jordan, loves her family more than anything. So when tragedy strikes at its heart, she is devastated. The Princess becomes ever more withdrawn until, on her birthday, the King gives her a life-changing...
    By Stacy Gregg
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  • The Land Girls
    A moving story of love, loss and survival against the odds by bestselling author Victoria Purman. It was never just a man's war... Melbourne, 1942 War has engulfed Europe and now the Pacific, and Australia is fighting for its future. For spinster Flora Thomas, however, nothing much has changed. Tending to her dull office job, and caring for her beloved...
    By Victoria Purman
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  • Dolly’s Dream
    Don’t miss the latest utterly heartwarming instalment of the Rockwood series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court! Dolly’s dreams could lead her astray . . . Dolly Blanchard dreams of a bigger life. She wants to make a mark on the world, not simply wait for a husband to come along. So when an impoverished actress offers...
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  • Castle on the Rise
    Spanning more than two centuries in Ireland, Castle on the Rise unites the legacy of three women who must risk mending their broken places for life, love, and the belief that even through the depths of our pain, a masterpiece of a story can emerge. When Laine Forrester travels overseas to attend her best friend’s vineyard wedding, she expects to...
    By Kristy Cambron
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  • Black Sheep
    Judy Nunn's new blockbuster is a sweeping historical novel about a prosperous sheep-farming family and the enigmatic young man they let into their lives... Sensational story-telling. Australian Women's Weekly One of Australia's great storytellers, excelling in merging fact with fiction... a combination of page-turning drama, relatable characters and real historical events. Weekend Australian Sweeping historical fiction at its best. Better...
    By Judy Nunn
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  • Addison Cooke and the Treasure of the Incas
    The Goonies meets James Patterson's Treasure Hunters in this funny, kid-friendly adventure series for middle-grade readers! This funny, action-filled series is perfect for adventure-loving fans of Indiana Jones and James Patterson's Treasure Hunters! Twelve-year-old Addison Cooke just wishes something exciting would happen to him. His aunt and uncle, both world-famous researchers, travel to the ends of the earth searching for...
    By Jonathan W. Stokes
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  • Withering-by-Sea (Stella Montgomery, #1)
    WINNER ABIA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR YOUNGER READERS 'Fans of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events will eat up Withering-by-Sea' -- Shelf Awareness High on a cliff above the gloomy coastal town of Withering-by-Sea stands the Hotel Majestic. Inside the walls of the damp, dull hotel, eleven-year-old orphan Stella Montgomery leads a miserable life with her three dreadful...
    By Judith Rossell
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  • The Tiffany Girls
    New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble wows with a gripping historical novel about the real-life “Tiffany Girls,” a fascinating and largely unknown group of women artists behind Tiffany’s most legendary glassworks. It’s 1899, and Manhattan is abuzz. Louis Comfort Tiffany, famous for his stained-glass windows, is planning a unique installation at the Paris World’s Fair, the largest in history....
    By Shelley Noble
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  • The Secret Society of Salzburg
    By Renee Ryan
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  • The Porcelain Maker
    Pre-order The Seeker of Lost Paintings, a sophisticated and thrilling historical page-turner about love and art, coming Summer 2025. ‘A page-turning journey to uncover a past of heroism, betrayal, love, and loss’ - Heather Morris, bestselling author of Three Sisters 'So compelling' - Sunday Times Two lovers caught at the crossroads of history A daughter’s search for the truth Germany,...
    By Sarah Freethy
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  • The Paris Affair
    Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks meets Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale in this moving and powerful novel about love, loss, and the resilience of the human spirit. Scarred by his experiences in World War One, German doctor Sebastian Braun lives a quiet life tending to his patients and his beloved garden. Until Sophie Hathaway bursts into his life and challenges his dearly-held...
    By Melanie Hudson
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  • The Missing Sister
    A stolen sister. A daughter determined to uncover the truth. Belle Hatton has embarked upon an exciting new life far from home—a glamorous job as a nightclub singer in 1930s Burma, with a host of sophisticated new friends and admirers. But Belle is haunted by a mystery from the past—a 25-year-old newspaper clipping found in her parents' belongings after their...
    By Dinah Jefferies
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  • The Italian Ballerina
    At the height of the Nazi occupation of Rome, an unlikely band of heroes comes together to save innocent lives in this breathtaking World War II novel based on real historical events. Perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Ariel Lawhon. Rome, 1943. With the fall of Italy's Fascist government and the Nazi regime occupying the streets of Rome, British...
    By Kristy Cambron
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  • The Dream Weavers
    The brand-new, gripping historical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay! ‘Warmth, depth, mystery, magic and the supernatural … such a beautiful book!’ bestselling author Santa Montefiore ‘A dazzling roller-coaster of a book that will thrill, enchant and intrigue those who love history and the supernatural,’ bestselling author Alison Weir A love story that will echo...
    By Barbara Erskine
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  • The Door of No Return
    The #1 New York Times bestseller Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Writing "At once vivid and simple, lyrical and surgical, expressive and exacting" — Lupita Nyong'o Dreams are today’s answers for tomorrow’s questions. Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin has dreams of water, of its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets. He has heard the call on the banks of...
    By Kwame Alexander
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  • The Daughters of Olympus
    A daughter pulled between two worlds and a mother willing to destroy both to protect her... Gods and men wage their petty wars, but it is the women of spring who will have the last word. Demeter - a goddess of life, living half of one. Demeter did not always live in fear. Once, she loved the world and the...
    By Hannah Lynn
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  • Stalingrad
    A new rejacketed, red spine edition of Vasily Grossman's epic prequel to Life and Fate 'One of the great novels of the 20th century' Observer In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history. Hundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov receives his call-up papers and...
    By Vasily Grossman
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  • Hornblower in the West Indies
    Fantastic new B format package for the entire Hornblower series. 1815, the Napoleonic Wars are over. Yet peace continues to elude Horatio Hornblower overseas... As an admiral struggling to impose order in the chaotic aftermath of the French wars, Horatio Hornblower, Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, must still face savage pirates, reckless revolutionaries, and...
    By C.S. Forester
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  • Flying Colours
    Fantastic new B format package for the entire Hornblower series A humiliated and shipless captive of the French, Horatio Hornblower faces execution unless he can escape and make a triumphant return to England. Forced to surrender his ship, HMS Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornblower is held prisoner in a French fortress. Prospects turn bleaker when...
    By C.S. Forester
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  • Dawnlands
    From Philippa Gregory, the #1 bestselling author of Tidelands and Dark Tides. The spellbinding Fairmile series continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval, and life-changing secrets in seventeenth-century England. It is 1685 and England is on the brink of a renewed civil war. King Charles II has died without an...
    By Philippa Gregory
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  • Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray
    ‘There are books you encounter as an adult that you wish you could press into the hands of your younger self. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray is one of those books – a novel that turns Australia’s long-mythologised settler history into a raw and resilient heartsong.’ – Guardian WINNER 2022 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD INDIGENOUS WRITER'S PRIZE 2022 ABIA SHORTLIST 2021 ARA HISTORICAL...
    By Anita Heiss
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  • After
    In the fourth part of Felix's story, continuing his adventures in World War Two, he faces perhaps his greatest challenge - to find hope when he's lost almost everything, including his parents. As Europe goes through the final agonizing stages of the war, Felix struggles to reconcile hatred and healing. He's helped by a new friend, but if he should...
    By Morris Gleitzman
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  • Tidelands
    England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different... From Philippa Gregory, the #1 bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl. On Midsummer’s Eve, Alinor waits in the church graveyard, hoping to encounter the ghost of her missing husband and thus confirm his death. Until she can, she is neither maiden nor wife nor widow, living in a...
    By Philippa Gregory
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  • The Prose Edda
    The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves, and elves struggle for survival. It also preserves...
    By Snorri Sturluson
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  • The Other Miss Bridgerton
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn presents the third novel of the delightful Bridgerton Prequel series in a stunning new package. There were Bridgertons before the eight alphabetically named siblings, and in this novel, we go back to where it all began... She was in the wrong place... Fiercely independent and adventurous, Poppy Bridgerton will only wed a...
    By Julia Quinn
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  • The German House
    As seen in the New York Times Book Review. A December 2019 Indie Next Pick! Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess's international bestseller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator—caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power—as she fights to expose the dark...
    By Annette Hess
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  • The Boy at the Top of the Mountain
    The powerful, unforgettable new novel from the bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and...
    By John Boyne
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  • Pride and Premeditation
    One of BuzzFeed's best YA books of 2021! Perfect for fans of the Lady Janies and Stalking Jack the Ripper, the first book in the Jane Austen Murder Mysteries trilogy is a clever retelling of Pride and Prejudice that reimagines the iconic settings, characters, and romances in a thrilling and high-stakes whodunit. When a scandalous murder shocks London high society,...
    By Tirzah Price
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  • Other Words for Home
    New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book! A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed. Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in...
    By Jasmine Warga
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  • New York
    The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day. A sweeping, epic novel of the greatest city in the world. From the empty grandeur of the New World to the skyscrapers of the City that Never Sleeps, from the intimate detail of lives long forgotten to those lived...
    By Edward Rutherfurd
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  • King Solomon's Mines
    New to Black Classics with a New Introduction by Giles Foden Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend—and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an unknown land cut off from the world, where terrible dangers threaten anyone who ventures near the spectacular diamond mines of King Solomon's Mines...
    By H. Rider Haggard
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  • Flashman
    The first instalment of the Flashman Papers sees the fag-roasting rotter from Tom Brown's Schooldays commence his military career as a reluctant secret agent in Afghanistan. Expelled from Rugby for drunkenness, and none too welcome at home after seducing his father's mistress, the young Flashman embarks on a military career with Lord Cardigan's Hussars. En route to Afghanistan, our hero...
    By George MacDonald Fraser
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  • The Firebird
    An epic story of love, sacrifice, courage and redemption. Historical fiction with romance, betrayal, and magic you'll never forget. A journey that spans centuries and lifetimes to connect the past with the future. When a woman brings a small wooden carving into the art dealership, claiming it once belonged to a Russian Empress, Nicola Marter’s boss believes it is worthless....
    By Susanna Kearsley
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  • Peter Pan (MinaLima Edition) (lllustrated with Interactive Elements)
    J. M. Barrie’s classic children's story is reimagined in this delightful full-colour deluxe edition filled with all-new illustrations and ten removable features specially designed by MinaLima, the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter films. For more than a century, the adventures of Peter Pan—the boy who can fly and never grows up—and Wendy Darling have captured...
    By J. M Barrie
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  • Next in Line
    The gripping new instalment in the William Warwick series, An Eye for an Eye, is available to pre-order now! THE UNPUTDOWNABLE THRILLER FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER ‘Only someone like Jeffrey Archer... could have written a compelling story like this. Every page bristles with suspense and the ending comes at you with the force of a tank round’ DAVID BALDACCI London,...
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  • Empire of the Sun
    Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come. Like everything else since the war, the sky was in a state of change. Based on J. G. Ballard’s own childhood, this is the extraordinary account...
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  • Birds Without Wings
    Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, the Gallipoli campaign and the subsequent bitter struggle between Greeks and Turks, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia—a town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully for centuries. When war is declared and the outside world intrudes, the twin scourges...
    By Louis de Bernières
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  • Munich
    From the number one bestselling author of An Officer and a Spy and The Second Sleep 'A brilliantly constructed spy novel' Observer 'Grips from start to finish ... Superb' Mail on Sunday Munich, September 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be...
    By Robert Harris
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  • Until the Red Leaves Fall
    Author of the bestselling and much-loved At the Foot of the Cherry Tree, Alli Parker, returns with another engrossing and moving novel of courage and conviction, Until the Red Leaves Fall. Emmy Darling has a secret. She has a few. Her lemon meringue pie is a recipe from a women's magazine, she's always wanted to be a playwright, and the...
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  • Sword of Kings
    A brand new companion to the Last Kingdom series, Uhtred’s Feast, is available to pre-order now An oath of loyalty. Two warring kings. A destiny he didn’t choose… England is in turmoil as Vikings and Saxons battle for territory. Rumours build about the fatal sickness of the King, and the country awaits an heir. A violent clash at sea forces...
    By Bernard Cornwell
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  • Sharpe’s Sword
    SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now. Spain, June 1812 In the beautiful city of Salamanca, Captain Richard Sharpe must hunt down and safeguard Britain’s most valuable spy, ‘El Mirador’, before he’s silenced by France’s deadliest assassin – even at the risk of his own life. In the shadowy world of...
    By Bernard Cornwell
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  • Sharpe’s Regiment
    SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now. Richard Sharpe returns to England to save the regiment. Major Sharpe’s men are in mortal danger – not from the French, but from the bureaucrats of Whitehall. Unless reinforcements can be brought from England, the regiment will be disbanded. Determined not to see his...
    By Bernard Cornwell
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  • Dunstan
    A spellbinding story of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the brutal world of 10th century England. 'I have broken my vows. I have murdered innocents. I have trod down the soil over their dead face with my bare heels, and only the moon as witness. I have loved a woman and she ruined me. I have loved a...
    By Conn Iggulden
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  • The Tea Gardens
    A heartbreaking story about the pursuit of passion by the bestselling author of The Chocolate Tin. Spirited doctor Isla Fenwick is determined to work at the coalface of medicine in India before committing to life as a dutiful wife. With hopes of making a difference in the world, she sails to Calcutta to set up a midwifery clinic. There she...
    By Fiona McIntosh
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  • Persuasion (Jane Austen Collection)
    Jane Austen’s Persuasion is now available in an exclusive collector’s edition featuring a delicate laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping and ribbon marker, ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. The Persuasion Jane Austen Collection Edition: Presents Jane Austen’s final fully completed novel, viewed by many literary scholars as her most maturely written work; its 1817...
    By Jane Austen
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  • Murder in Mesopotamia
    What secrets lie in the past? Fifteen years ago, during the Great War, Louise Leidner’s first husband was tried as a spy, sentenced to death, and then escaped, only to die in a train crash. So how is he sending her death threats from beyond the grave? Death threats upon which someone has followed through. Only the world’s greatest detective...
    By Agatha Christie
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  • Awesomely Austen - Illustrated and Retold: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
    A fresh, funny and accessible retelling of Jane Austen's classic story, with witty black and white illustrations throughout. Fanny Price is one of nine children, and her family are very poor. So when a distant relative offers to take her in—giving her the opportunity to grow up wealthy and comfortable—her parents jump at the chance. But money doesn't always bring...
    By Ayisha Malik and Jane Austen
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  • The Good, The Bad and The History
    BOOK 14 IN THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIES, FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER JODI TAYLOR. 'Brilliant, hilarious, keeps you on your toes' Reader review 'The characters make me come back time and time again' Reader review 'I have not found another author who can tell a story involving time travel as well' Reader review St Mary's is under investigation. Their...
    By Jodi Taylor
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  • The Duchess
    Orphaned. Betrayed. Determined. Angélique Latham grew up at the magnificent Belgrave Castle with her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally deny her very existence and send her out into the world alone. At eighteen, Angélique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty, and an envelope of money her late...
    By Danielle Steel
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  • In His Father's Footsteps
    In His Father's Footsteps is a powerful, compassionate story of fathers and sons, set in the dramatically transforming years following the Second World War, by the masterful Danielle Steel. April, 1945. As the Americans storm the Buchenwald concentration camp, among the survivors are Jakob and Emmanuelle, barely more than teenagers. Each of them has lost everything and everyone in the...
    By Danielle Steel
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  • Deep Dark
    Zohra Nabi has clearly done her research. Deep Dark dives into history to enthralling effect. The street life of the time, particularly London’s lost economy of patterers and ballad-sellers, shouting out the latest songs and stories, is brought into raucous, vivid colour … Outstanding. – The Times Children's Book of the Week The dark was deep; it opened like a...
    By Zohra Nabi
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  • Suspects
    The gripping new Sunday Times bestselling novel. Welcome to Willow Close where everyone is a suspect . . . On the day Nina and Conrad Best move into their new home in picture-perfect Willow Close, a body is discovered. The residents gather around a police cordon - one of their neighbours has been brutally killed in the woods. As police...
    By Lesley Pearse
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  • Revolting Rhymes
    Roald Dahl's canon of family stories and poetry with collectible new covers featuring Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations and archive material provided by the Roald Dahl Museum. Ah-ha, you see, the plot grows thicker, and Cindy's luck starts looking sicker. This beautiful edition of Revolting Rhymes, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl...
    By Roald Dahl
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  • The Lost Baker of Vienna
    Papa whispered to Chana, 'If we get separated, if something happens to me, look after Mama and Aron. And one last thing—' He smoothed an affectionate hand over her hair. 'Remember everything I've taught you, and all your gifts. Promise me this.' 1946. Having survived a concentration camp, Chana Rosenzweig arrives in Vienna seeking not only protection for her and...
    By Sharon Kurtzman
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  • Munich
    A film tie-in edition of the Sunday Times bestselling thriller, to coincide with the release of the Netflix film starring Jeremy Irons. Now a major NETFLIX movie starring Jeremy Irons, George Mackay, and Alex Jennings. Munich, September 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. They will meet in a city which forever...
    By Robert Harris
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  • Nation
    Terry Pratchett's masterpiece - a desert island story of epic and hilarious proportions. Now available in this brand-new, stunning edition. Widely thought of as the best book Terry Pratchett ever wrote, this is a story of a Nation, a story of a friendship, a story of growing up and the truths we must learn. It is epic in every sense......
    By Terry Pratchett
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  • Baby Love
    A brand new novel from the bestselling Jacqueline Wilson, perfect for older readers! The bestselling, beloved Jacqueline Wilson returns with a brilliant novel for older readers. Baby Love explores themes that resonate with readers, capturing their hearts with its engaging narrative and relatable characters.
    By Jacqueline Wilson
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  • A Song of Flight: A Warrior Bards Novel 3
    Two warriors. One wields the power of music, one the strength of her sword. Both face a grave threat in this enthralling historical fantasy. After a violent encounter with masked men and the sinister Crow Folk, Prince Aolu of Dalriada disappears without a trace, and his companion Galen is seriously injured. Liobhan and the Swan Island warriors seek answers to...
    By Juliet Marillier
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  • A Dance With Fate: A Warrior Bards Novel 2
    An accident. A forfeit of freedom. A descent into danger. Liobhan, the young warrior and bard, has lost her brother to the Otherworld. Even more determined to gain a place as an elite fighter, she returns to Swan Island to continue her training. But Liobhan is devastated when her comrade Dau is injured and loses his sight in their final...
    By Juliet Marillier
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  • Ariadne
    A mesmerising retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Perfect for fans of Circe, A Song of Achilles, and The Silence of the Girls. Here, Ariadne takes centre stage in a lyrical, insightful re-telling that explores her motivations and emotions and the grievances caused by grumpy, cold-hearted gods and warm-blooded men, who are equally vengeful and...
    By Jennifer Saint
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    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Epic, romantic, and enthralling from start to finish’ - Stephanie Garber The stunning conclusion to the Celestial Kingdom Duology Those forged through fire form the strongest blades. After winning her mother’s freedom from the Emperor, Xingyin lives peacefully at home on the moon. But that fragile peace is threatened by a strange new magic—Xingyin is...
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  • Seven Brides for Beau McBride
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  • Soaring with the Sugarbird Lady
    The story of Robin Miller - the woman who single-handedly flew life-saving vaccines in her own plane to remote communities. Imagine flying solo, crisscrossing the north-west of Australia in your own plane, and single-handedly delivering life-saving vaccines to remote communities. Robin Miller did this, and at a time when most people didn't think women should be pilots at all. Her...
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  • Theory & Practice
    It’s 1986, and ‘beautiful, radical ideas’ are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In bohemian St Kilda, she meets artists, activists, students—and Kit. He claims to be in a ‘deconstructed’ relationship, and they become lovers. Meanwhile, her work on the Woolfmother falls into disarray. Theory & Practice is a mesmerising...
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  • Wait for Me
    Based on a true story, this gorgeous sweeping romance crossing time and continents is completely captivating as Florence epitomises the enduring power of love My Weekly Fascinating, compelling and a searingly romantic roller coaster ride Daily Mirror Rupert promised he was going to come back. All Florence had to do was wait. Cornwall, 1944When Rupert Dash is declared missing, presumed...
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  • Dragons Love Underpants
    Huge scaly DRAGONS roamed the land In long gone days of olde. They LOVED to wear big underpants In colours bright and bold. With flaming holes in their undies, a pack of pant-loving dragons embark on a knicker-nicking adventure through the Kingdom of Pantasia in this hilarious new story from the creators of the bestselling Aliens Love Underpants! Praise for...
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  • The Rebecca Ross Collection
    Five titles included: The Queen's Rising, The Queen's Resistance, Sisters of Sword and Song, Divine Rivals, Ruthless Vows The Queen's Rising Brienna is an arden, a student of the five passions – art, music, wit, dramatics and knowledge. On the summer solstice in her seventeenth year, she hopes to become mistress of the passion – one who has mastered her...
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  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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  • Written on the Dark
    Both epic and intimate, Written on the Dark is an elegant tour de force about power and ambition playing out amid the equally intense human need for art and beauty, and memories to be left behind. Thierry Villar is a well-known - even notorious - tavern poet, intimately familiar with the rogues and shadows of that world, but not at...
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  • Penguin Readers Level 4: The Boy in Striped Pyjamas (ELT Graded Reader)
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  • Look for the Silver Lining
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  • Killigrew Clay
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    Jackson's hero is the natural heir to Bernie Gunther Andrew Taylor, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ashes of London One of the UK’s finest crime writers Ben Kane, Sunday Times bestselling author of Napoleon’s Spy A remarkable crime debut Maxim Jakubowksi, Crime Time As the Nazis roll into Warsaw, a serial killer is unleashed... September 1939. A city ruled...
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  • A Valley Wedding
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  • The Second Sleep
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Historical Fiction

Welcome to our Historical Fiction section, where the past comes alive through captivating stories. If you love novels that transport you to different times and places, filled with rich detail and unforgettable characters, this is the perfect place to start your next reading adventure.

In this collection, you'll find tales set against the backdrop of significant historical events, from ancient civilizations to the 20th century. Explore stories that illuminate different cultures, highlight pivotal moments in history, and delve into the lives of both real and imagined figures who shaped the world.

Whether you’re drawn to epic sagas, intimate personal dramas, or adventures that blend fact with fiction, our Historical Fiction section offers a diverse range of books to satisfy your curiosity and passion for the past. Step back in time and discover stories that resonate across the ages.