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  • Wuthering Heights
    "May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then." - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights Rediscover Emily Brontë's powerful tale of love, violence, and obsession. "May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then." Wuthering Heights is the tale of two...
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  • White Chrysanthemum
    ‘Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.’ This is the story of Hana and her little sister Emi, who are part of an island community of haenyo, women who make their living from free diving off the southernmost tip of Korea. One day Hana sees a Japanese soldier heading for where...
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  • The Three Musketeers
    VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES - stunning flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century. All for one, and one for all! The young D'Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis are 'the inseparables' - ready to sacrifice everything in a duel or game of dice in order to defend their honour or...
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  • The Scarlet Letter
    Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics. VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES The Scarlet Letter introduces us to Hester Prynne, a beautiful young woman who is also an outcast. In the eyes of her neighbours, she has committed an unforgivable sin. Everyone knows that her little daughter, Pearl,...
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  • The Lost Lights of St Kilda
    'Desperately romantic, lyrically written and with a fascinating plot' - Katie Fforde Chrissie Gillies comes from the last ever community to live on the beautiful, isolated Scottish island of St Kilda. Evacuated in 1930, she will never forget her life there, nor the man she loved and lost who visited one fateful summer a few years before. Fred Lawson has...
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  • The Antidote
    An exceptional novel set in the 1930s Dust Bowl about magic, memory, and land; above all, a reckoning with America's wilfully forgotten history. 'A pure dust storm of utter genius' DAISY JOHNSON 'As profound as it is wonderfully strange' LAUREN GROFF 'Russell has rendered with soul and urgency the vast inexpressible ache at the heart of American gratitude' KAVEH AKBAR...
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  • The Painter's Daughters
    SELECTED FOR THE BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB | WINNER OF THE MSLEXIA NOVEL COMPETITION 1759, Ipswich. Sisters Peggy and Molly Gainsborough are the best of friends and do everything together. They spy on their father as he paints, they rankle their mother as she manages the books, they tear barefoot through the muddy fields that surround their home. But...
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  • The Greek House
    Can one house hold a lifetime of secrets? Corfu, 1930 The moment Thirza Caruthers sets foot on Corfu, memories flood back: the scent of jasmine, the green shutters of her family’s home — and her brother Billy’s tragic disappearance years before. Returning to the Greek house, high above clear blue waters, Thirza tries to escape by immersing herself in painting...
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  • Lone Survivor
    In June 2005, four US Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al-Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold, surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less than twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs was alive. This is the story...
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  • When the Sky Falls
    When the Sky Falls is the multi-award-winning story about the incredible friendship between a young boy and a silverback gorilla during the Second World War, inspired by a true story. It's 1941. War is raging. Joseph has been sent to live in the city, where bombers rule the skies. There, he lives with Mrs F, a gruff woman with no...
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  • Spy Sinker
    A new narrator provides some long-awaited answers to the Bernard Samson mystery in the final novel of the Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy. Of all the mysteries Bernard Samson has encountered, the greatest is his wife Fiona. Dedicated agent of the Service and a woman of secrets, she will risk everything to play the long game. As the truth about...
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  • Spy Line
    The second book of the Hook, Line and Sinker series finds Bernard Samson on the run through Berlin, Vienna and Prague. Bernard Samson is a spy on the run. But in the murky streets of Berlin, he knows where to hide. Wanted for an act of treachery he has not committed, he must not only escape the grasp of London...
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  • Spy Hook
    Spy Hook introduces us to Bernard Samson, a spy forced on the run from his own government in this nail-biting first instalment of the Hook, Line and Sinker series. Millions of pounds have gone missing, and the Department has sent agent Bernard Samson to Washington to track them down. But this mission is just the start of something far deeper...
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  • Segu
    The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a people. The year is 1797, and the kingdom of Segu is flourishing. The people of Segu, the Bambara, are guided by their griots and priests while their lives are ruled by nature. But change is about to come - from the east comes a...
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  • My Ántonia
    The final novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a celebration of the American Midwest with Cather's strongest heroine at its heart. Jim and Ántonia meet as children in the wide open plains of Nebraska at the end of the nineteenth century. Jim leaves for college and a career in the east, while Ántonia stays at home, dedicating herself...
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  • Goodbye Mickey Mouse
    A meticulously detailed and moving novel explores the lives of American fighter pilots in World War Two. Goodbye Mickey Mouse is a vivid evocation of wartime England, the story of a group of American fighter pilots flying escort missions over Germany in the winter of 1943-4. At the centre of the novel are two young men — the deeply reserved...
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  • Charity
    The final novel featuring Bernard Samson, one of Deighton's most enduring characters, who must return to Berlin for one last case. Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the final novel in the classic spy trilogy, Faith, Hope and Charity. Bernard continues to chip away at the mystery of his sister-in-law Tessa Kosinski's death in Berlin on the crucial night when...
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  • Code Name Bananas
    Go back in time with No. 1 bestselling author David Walliams for a whizz-bang epic adventure of action, laughter and secret plots – and the extraordinary friendship between a little boy and a huge gorilla that just might save the day… 1940. Britain is at war with Nazi Germany. Eleven-year-old Eric spends his days at the place that makes him...
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  • A Modern Detective
    46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946 He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.
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  • Tyrant
    The latest gripping instalment in the bestselling Nero trilogy follows Empress Agrippina's ceaseless pursuit of absolute power for her son to rule over the Roman Empire. Ancient Rome, AD 50 The boy Nero lives. His mother, Agrippina, has married her way to power, tangling the Emperor Claudius in her skirts. The emperor may have a son and heir of his...
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  • First Man In Rome
    Part of the acclaimed Masters of Rome series The first book in the epic Masters of Rome series. Rome, 110 BC. A city which is home to Gaius Marius, prosperous but lowborn, a proud and disciplined soldier emboldened by his shrewdness and self-made wealth. It is also home to Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a handsome young aristocrat corrupted by poverty, a...
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  • Farringdon’s Fate
    A house. A dynasty. A gypsy’s curse. Another gorgeous escapist read from the Queen of West Country Saga, Linda Finlay. One noble family. Five eligible daughters. A sealed fate. Nettlecombe Manor, nestled in the rolling hills of Devon, is home to the Lord Farringdon and his second wife, Lady Charlotte. As if running the vast estate wasn’t enough, Lord Farringdon...
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  • Godmersham Park
    From the number one bestselling author of Miss Austen, a powerful and moving novel featuring Jane Austen's closest friend and confidante. Early evening, 1804—Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent. Alone and desperately in need of an independent income, she is to become a governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. But her new role in this large household, where she...
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  • Lessons
    The instant Sunday Times bestseller, a mesmerising story of love, regret and a restless search for answers. While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well...
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  • The Fraud
    The chronicler of contemporary London, acclaimed and bestselling author Zadie Smith, returns with her first historical novel. The Fraud explores the themes of truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, and who gets to tell their story. In her first historical novel, Zadie Smith transports the reader to a Victorian England transfixed by the real-life trial of the Tichborne Claimant. In...
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  • The Mademoiselle Alliance
    How did a young Parisienne mother, celebrated for her beauty and glamour, come to lead the largest spy network in France? A powerful, heartbreaking historical novel by the New York Times bestselling author. Morocco, 1928. Eighteen-year-old Frenchwoman Marie-Madeleine is not the kind of woman who goes through life sitting down, something her new husband can attest. Her unconventionalities—rally car driving,...
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  • Sharpe’s Waterloo
    SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available now. Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe, sidelined on the Royal staff, magnificently seizes command at the final moment of the great victory. It is 1815. Sharpe is serving on the personal staff of the Prince of Orange, who refuses to listen to Sharpe’s reports of an enormous army, led by...
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  • Greater Sins
    For fans of Burial Rites and Elmet, when the preserved body of a woman is discovered in a bog near an isolated village community, rumours begin to fly. To some, the body is an omen, heralding misfortune to come. To others, hers is a story waiting to be told. A striking debut, filled with folkloric mystery and yearning. Read it,...
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  • Beirut Station
    Vidich has firmly established himself in the very top flight of espionage writers, with a series of slow-burn character studies putting him in the line of le Carre. - CrimeReads A stunning new espionage novel by a master of the genre, Beirut Station follows a young female CIA officer whose mission to assassinate a high-level Hezbollah terrorist reveals a dark...
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  • Homeseeking
    'A layered, beautifully written, and deeply moving novel. Karissa Chen masterfully blends love, music, history, and heartbreak to create a sweeping tale that spans decades and continents' - Abi Dare'[Homeseeking] weaves expertly between present and past, telling the story of childhood sweethearts who meet again late in life and are torn between looking back and moving on' - Celeste Ng'A...
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  • The Violinist’s Secret
    The brand-new World War 2 historical novel from the bestselling author of The German Messenger Charlotte Weber is against the Nazi regime and what it stands for, but as she attends Hamburg University, she struggles to make sense of the war she finds herself a part of. Practising her violin for the university orchestra with her friend, Greta, gets her...
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  • The Parisian Spy
    Paris, 1939 The most sought-after woman in the French Resistance. War is coming, but Océane Bell is focused on her studies. She enrols at Sorbonne Medical School in Paris and begins working at a local hospital, keeping out of politics. That is until she meets Jean-Jacques Riveau. He is a passionate and talented artist. But when the Nazis take Paris,...
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  • Chenneville
    Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post–Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of News of the World. Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the better part of a year as he...
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  • Under the Same Stars
    It was said that if you write to the Bridegroom's Oak, the love of your life will answer back. Now, the tree is giving up its secrets at last. In 1940s Germany, Sophie is excited to discover a message waiting for her in the Bridegroom's Oak from a mysterious suitor. Meanwhile, her best friend, Hanna, is sending messages too—but not...
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  • Monstrous Nights
    Dive into the breakneck conclusion to the Slavic folklore-inspired Witch's Compendium of Monsters duology, which began with Foul Days. Foul Days was featured in Book Riot, Apple Books, Screen Rant, Paste Magazine, Parade, Polygon, io9, Nerd Daily, Yahoo Entertainment, Reactor, and Winter is Coming. With her magic reclaimed and her role in the community of Chernograd restored, Kosara's life should...
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  • Grace of the Empire State
    The breathtaking debut novel of a daring young woman in 1930s New York, who takes her brother's place to risk her life above the city that never sleeps... As the Great Depression bites, show dancer Grace's Irish immigrant family can't afford the rising rents, nor the medicine that her little sister urgently needs. When her twin brother is injured and...
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  • The Ghosts Of Rome
    The Contessa Giovanna Landini takes on Gestapo chief Paul Hauptmann in a daring mission in Occupied Rome. February 1944. Six months since Nazi forces occupied Rome. Inside the beleaguered city, the Contessa Giovanna Landini is a member of the band of Escape Line activists known as 'The Choir'. Their mission is to smuggle refugees to safety and help Allied soldiers,...
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  • Withering-by-Sea 10th Anniversary Edition (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 Aunts....
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  • Water Borne
    It is water Dwynwen lifted in her cup of silver. Water, too, the Lady Luned uses in her scrying bowl. And it is over water one must travel to resolve an old conflict. Set high upon its seaside cliff, the hall of Kilton is racked by inner turmoil. Ceric, on the margin of sanity, finds strength and even bliss returning...
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  • Tindr
    The Lady of the Forest, Freyja, the Goddess of all woodland beasts, appears here on Midgard as a white hind. So great is her love for her deer that she herself comes in their guise. None has ever seen her; but if she permitted man but a glance, that is what they would see. Tindr is handsome, kind, and the...
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  • Sidroc the Dane
    The origin story of Sidroc the Dane, a new standalone entry point into The Circle of Ceridwen Saga. Read first, read last, read between any of the Saga novels. But read it and learn how Sidroc became Sidroc. A discarded child fated to become a powerful Jarl - here is the story of Sidroc. Fate guides the path of his...
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  • The Hall of Tyr
    It is said that every man is haunted by one mistake... The year is 881. Ten years have passed since the fifteen-year-old Ceridwen set out from her Priory home to make her own life. She has known love and loss, triumph and heartbreak. Yet the Circle which has moved about her is largely intact, although the counterpoint has changed, bringing...
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  • The Claiming
    How long can you fight Fate? How far must you go to claim what is yours? Sidroc the Dane has been in Angle-land for twelve years. The first nine were all hard fighting. He has won treasure beyond counting, and now peace for his men. But there is one thing he still desires: Ceridwen as his wife. Now Fate conspires...
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  • Ceridwen of Kilton
    An uncontrolled passion. A heart-breaking decision. A battle that seals the Fate of all. Ninth-century Saxon England crumbles under the onslaught of a relentless foe - the Danish Vikings. Ceridwen, a young woman with divided loyalties, watches as the peace and plenty she enjoys at the Saxon stronghold of Kilton gives way to wary watchfulness. Her dearest friend, Ælfwyn, sold...
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  • City of Vengeance
    City of Vengeance was shortlisted for the 2021 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. "An impressive and immersive debut set in a beautifully realized sixteenth-century Florence" - Antonia Hodgson "A first-class historical thriller . . . Bishop's spirited and richly detailed story is a tour-de-force" - David Baldacci "Richly atmospheric . . . transports you to another time and place" -...
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  • The Other Princess
    By the time she was seven years old, Aina had been born into life as an Egbado princess, witnessed the brutal killing of her entire family, and had been enslaved to a rival chieftain. With a death sentence hanging over her head, she would also face being bartered as an exotic trophy, renamed and presented to the distant Queen Victoria...
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  • The Misadventures of Margaret Finch
    'Original, intelligent and beautifully written... alive with period detail.'DAILY MAIL 'A gem of a book.'ELODIE HARPER, THE WOLF DEN TRILOGY 'Such a joy.'JO BROWNING WROE, A TERRIBLE KINDNESS 'Utterly transporting, piercingly honest and intimate.'INGRID PERSAUD, LOVE AFTER LOVE Blackpool, 1938. Miss Margaret Finch - a rather demure young woman - has just begun work in a position that relies on...
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  • Aria and the Kūmara God
    A full-colour illustrated chapter book for readers 6 years plus that returns to the exciting magical world of the Astromancer! Will headstrong Aria manage the impossible climb up to the stars and free Te Kokorangi from Ruatapu's clutches before time runs out? Enter the exciting and dangerous world of the Astromancer... This epic magical adventure inspired by Māori mythology is...
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  • The Warlow Experiment
    The year is 1793, and Herbert Powyss is set on making his name as a scientist. Determined to study the effects of prolonged solitude on another human being, he advertises for someone willing to live in his cellar for seven years in return for a generous financial reward. The only man to apply is John Warlow, a semi-literate farm labourer...
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  • The Blood Crows
    For nearly ten years, the Roman Empire has fought ceaselessly to strengthen its hold over Britannia. But opposition from native tribes led by the ruthless warrior Caratacus threatens to destroy everything. Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro are summoned by Governor Ostorius to Londinium. Tasked with leading a newly formed cavalry cohort into the heartland of Wales, they must destroy the...
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  • Stasi Wolf
    East Germany, 1975. Karin Müller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance to be sent south to Halle-Neustadt, where a pair of infant twins have gone missing. But Müller soon finds her problems have followed her. Halle-Neustadt is a new town - the pride of the communist state - and she and her team are forbidden...
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  • Sharpe’s Honour
    SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now. Major Sharpe finds himself a fugitive, hunted by enemy and ally alike. Major Richard Sharpe awaits the opening shots of the army’s campaign with grim expectancy. For victory depends on the increasingly fragile alliance between Britain and Spain – an alliance that must be...
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  • Sharpe’s Eagle
    SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now. Spain, July 1809 Lieutenant Richard Sharpe faces not only great danger on the battlefield but also, even more dangerously, treachery within his own ranks. But as the enemy approaches, he must pick up his rifle and prepare to lead his men against the French...
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  • Blackout
    THE STUNNING SECOND WORLD WAR THRILLER FROM THE CELEBRATED SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR SIMON SCARROW 'Taut and chilling - I was completely gripped' Anthony Horowitz 'A wonderfully compelling thriller, reeking of authenticity, and a terrific depiction of the human world within the chilling world of the Third Reich' Peter James Berlin, December 1939 As Germany goes to war, the Nazis...
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  • Betty Church and the Suffolk Vampire
    A man is murdered in broad daylight by a stealthy killer in this pitch-perfect WWII crime mystery. September 1939. Inspector Betty Church – one of the few female officers on the force – has arrived from London to fill a vacancy at Sackwater police station. But Betty isn't new here. This is the place she grew up. The place she...
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  • James
    Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024! Selected as one of the top 12 reads of 2024 by The Times and Sunday Times. Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book - Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust. Who should read this book? Every single person in the country - Ann Patchett, bestselling...
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  • The Whalebone Theatre
    The Sunday Times bestseller. They raised themselves on stories. Now it's time for them to write their own... This is the story of an old English manor house by the sea, with crumbling chimneys, draping ivy and a library full of dusty hardbacks. It's the story of the three children who grow up there, and the adventures they create for...
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  • The Paris Agent: Inspired by true events, a gripping tale of family secrets
    'A masterpiece' – SARAH JONES 'Another soon-to-be classic' – Woman's Day 'Riveting and moving' – The Australian Women's Weekly Twenty-five years after the end of the war, ageing British SOE operative Noah Ainsworth can't stop thinking about the secret agent who saved his life in occupied France. He never knew her real name, nor whether she survived the war. His...
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  • A Fragile Enchantment
    An unforgettable YA regency-inspired romantic fantasy about a seamstress who is sent to dress the prince for his royal wedding - and the scandal she weaves in her wake. All Niamh has longed for is to be remembered: to create something that will last far longer than she will. For her, that means becoming a renowned dressmaker, using the magic...
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  • A Song to Drown Rivers
    A love story that transcends time and place. Xishi's beauty is seen as a blessing to the villagers of Yue, where the best fate for a girl is to marry well and support her family. When Xishi draws the attention of Fanli, the famous young military advisor, he presents her with a rare opportunity: to use her beauty as a...
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  • The Art Of Preserving Love
    An historical saga of undying love and family, the tragedy of war and the power of hope. From a small Australian country town to the tragic backdrop of World War 1, this is a story of a love that surmounts all odds… Ballarat, 1905 The gossips call 19-year-old Edie Cottingham the 'Too Girl' – too stubborn, too outspoken, and too...
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  • When We Flew Away
    There is a day you never forget, the day the whole world changes. When you close your eyes, light becomes dark, night never ends, beasts walk freely down the street, stars fall from the sky. You were young one second, and then you were far too old. You lived years in minutes and decades in weeks. You wanted to travel,...
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  • Memoirs of a Geisha
    Seductive, evocative, exquisite - intimate memoirs spanning half a century of Japanese history, revealing a closed world. "An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world" - The Times A young peasant girl is sold as a servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later, she tells her story from a hotel in New York,...
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  • The Safekeep
    An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge. It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother's country home, with not a fork or a word out of place. But all is upended when her brother...
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  • Mademoiselle Eiffel
    From the author of The School for German Brides and A Bakery in Paris, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century Paris tells the story of Claire Eiffel, a woman who played a significant role in maintaining her family’s legacy and their iconic contributions to the city of Paris. Claire Eiffel, the beautiful, brilliant eldest daughter of the illustrious architect...
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  • Bring Up the Bodies
    Now a major TV series Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction ‘Simply exceptional…I envy anyone who hasn’t yet read it’ Daily Mail ‘A gripping story of tumbling fury and terror’ Independent on Sunday With this historic win for Bring Up the Bodies,...
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  • Traitors Gate
    The race against time is about to begin… The Tower of London… Impenetrable. Well protected. Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on earth. But once a year, the Metropolitan Police must execute the most secret operation in their armoury when they transport the Crown Jewels across London. Scotland Yard… For four years, Chief Superintendent William Warwick – together with...
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  • The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
    From beloved Saturday Night Live alum Kate McKinnon comes a madcap new adventure about three sisters, a ravenous worm, and a mysterious mad scientist. Gertrude, Eugenia, and Dee-Dee Porch do not belong. They don’t belong in the snooty town of Antiquarium, where the only dog allowed is the bichon frise. They don’t belong with their adoptive family, where all their...
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  • The Girl from Donegal
    The Girl from Donegal is 'an atmospheric story, sweeping across 80 years' Sunday Independent. Donegal, Ireland, 1939 As the world teeters on the brink of WWII, Eliza Lavery is alone in the world after her fiancé, Davey, was lost following the Irish War of Independence. But a fateful meeting on the wild beauty of Ballymastocker Bay could change everything. Hamilton,...
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  • The Divorcees
    A dark and dazzling debut from a beguiling new voice - for fans of Beautiful Ruins and Lessons in Chemistry. Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, unhappiness is hardly grounds for divorce - except in Reno,...
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  • The Sugar Palace
    The heart-stopping new historical romantic adventure from the bestselling author of The Orphans. The Sugar Palace is a gripping read for fans of Kate Furnivall and Natasha Lester, with skilful storytelling and compelling characters that leap from the page. - Books+Publishing Under the clamour of the Sydney Harbour Bridge being built nearby, Grace Fairweather is working in her father's grocery...
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  • The Captive Wife
    A prize-winning historical novel that has become a New Zealand classic. This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format reaches further back to 1935, when Allen Lane founded Penguin Books with a clear vision: "We believed in the existence of a vast reading public for intelligent books...
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  • Coastwatcher
    No training could have prepared Frank for a dangerous coastwatching mission against the Japanese in this award-winning WWII novel by David Hill. David Hill's tense, exciting war adventure inspired by the coastwatchers of Operation Pacific - winner of the 2022 NZSA Heritage Children's Book Award. It's not going to be a cushy job, young Benson. You're on your own. Japs...
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  • Traitors Gate
    In the electrifying new instalment of the William Warwick series, Traitors Gate by Jeffrey Archer takes readers on a heart-stopping journey as Chief Superintendent William Warwick faces a challenge unlike any he has encountered before. Set in the heart of London, the narrative brims with tension, intrigue, and the pulse of an impending crisis. This time, the stakes couldn't be...
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  • Polostan
    Inventive THE TIMES From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, comes the first instalment in a monumental new trilogy—an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn Rae Bjornberg is raised in post-Revolution Leningrad by...
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  • The Odd Angry Shot
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  • The Scorpion's Tail
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  • The Moonflowers
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  • Secrets of the Land
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  • Dry Road to Nowhere
    JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. TRAVEL AT YOUR OWN RISK. Some call it the most dangerous stagecoach in the West. But the hard-driving owners of the Frontier Overland Company will get you where you want to go—if you don't mind a detour through hell... The Civil War is over, but Wyoming Territory is still a battleground for the native tribes who live there....
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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.