Upon a Frosted Star
An enchanting new twist on a classic tale — Elodie Harper When the snow falls, she will be free… The invitations always arrive the same way – without warning, appearing around the city on the first snowfall of the year, simply inscribed with ‘Tonight.’ When struggling artist, Forster, finds an invitation, he’s bewitched by the magic of the evening, swept...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief
Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into the life of Sasha, a soldier at only six years old ... Katrina Nannestad follows up her remarkable novel We Are Wolves with a powerful new historical standalone, exploring an intriguing aspect of the Second World War. Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief invites readers into the...Hardback$2599Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Sisters of the Storm
From a USA Today bestselling author, this is a heart-stopping story of lost love, family drama, resilience and courage in World War II – perfect for fans of Heather Morris, Mandy Robotham and Kate Quinn. Pre-order now! 'Kortchik has penned a raw, unflinching account of wartime survival.' SUSAN MEISSNER 'Sisters everywhere will love it.' DEBORAH SWIFT Albania, 1943. When US...Paperback$2799Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips early September
The Huntress
‘If you enjoyed The Tattooist of Auschwitz, read The Huntress by Kate Quinn’ The Washington Post ‘Fascinating, brilliantly written, enthralling – just phenomenal’ Jill Mansell From the bestselling author of The Alice Network On the icy edge of Soviet Russia, bold and reckless Nina Markova joins the infamous Night Witches – an all-female bomber regiment. But when she is downed behind...Paperback$2500Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips early September
A Long Way Gone
The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. “My new friends have begun to suspect that I haven't told them the full story of my life. ‘Why did you leave Sierra Leone?’ ‘Because there is a war.’ ‘You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?’...Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Young Bloods (Wellington and Napoleon 1)
Young Bloods is the first gripping novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Wellington and Napoleon quartet. Perfect for fans of Robert Harris. Arthur Wesley (the future Duke of Wellington) was born and bred to be a leader. With a firm belief that the nation must be led by a king, the red-coated British officer heads for battle against the French Republic,...Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$2699Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips late August
Pre-orderIn My Tudor Era
Love can make you lose your head… Lily thought she was just sightseeing at Hampton Court, until a bump on the head lands her in the body of Catherine Howard. Yep, the Tudor queen who gets beheaded. Lily's PhD is in psychology, not history, but even she knows that being married to Henry VIII does not bode well for her...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableOut 22 Oct 2026Pre-order
The Missing Wife
‘I just loved everything about this book… Ticked all the boxes for the perfect read.’ – NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1933. Hannah Snow is fleeing her unhappy marriage when she finds herself in a small hotel on the banks of Loch Ness. But when a monster is spotted in the depths of the waters, the press descends – and Hannah finds...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Gilgamesh
A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace. “Sophus Helle’s new translation . . . [is] a thrilling, enchanting, desperate thing to read.”—Nina MacLaughlin, Boston Globe “Looks to be the last word on this Babylonian masterpiece.”—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Gilgamesh is a Babylonian story about love between...Paperback$2499Elsewhere:$2899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
None Left To Tell
'Riveting and heart-wrenching' — Deborah J. Ledford, award-winning author of Redemption Three women, connected by one of the most brutal mass slayings in US history. Lucy is sick of turning the other cheek. Ten years ago, an anti-Mormon mob drove her family and friends from their homes in Illinois. But now the tables have turned. Rumour has it some of...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Fall of Gondolin
In the tale of The Fall of Gondolin, two of the greatest powers in the world are in opposition. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwë, chief of the Valar. Central to...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Daughters of Warsaw
An emotional and inspiring World War Two time-slip novel of danger and courage. This is a story inspired by true events and stories of Irena Sendler and the women of the Polish Zegota. It's the worst time in humanity and yet there is still light in the darkness… 1942, Warsaw Young Zofia finds herself leading a double life when she...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Snow Angel
Don’t miss the new heartwarming festive novel from No.1 Sunday Times best-selling author Dilly Court! As snow falls outside Abbotsford vicarage on Christmas Eve, Rose Northwood finds a child lying destitute in the manger of the town's nativity display. Reminded of her younger brother, who died at Christmastime, she is determined to nurse the young boy back to health. But...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Kal
MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR In a story as sweeping as the land itself, bestselling author Judy Nunn brings Kal magically to life. DESERT GOLD RUSH Kalgoorlie. It grew out of the red dust of the desert over the world's richest vein of gold. People were drawn there from all over the world, to start afresh or to seek their fortunes....Paperback$2400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Daughter's Tale
Based on the true story of the Nazi massacre of a French village in 1944, an unforgettable tale of love and redemption from the bestselling author of The German Girl. Berlin, 1939: Bookstore owner and recent widow Amanda Sternberg is fleeing Nazi Germany with her two young daughters, heading towards unoccupied France. She arrives in Haute-Vienne with only one of...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Stormbird
Best-selling author Conn Iggulden launches a brilliant new historical series, The Wars of the Roses. 1437 - The pious and gentle Henry VI comes of age and accedes to the English throne. His poor health and fragility of mind render him a weakling king, dependent on his closest men to run his kingdom. Yet there are those who believe England...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Nights of Plague
A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic—a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. 1901. Night draws in. With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal ship Aziziye approaches the famous vistas of Mingheria. 'An emerald build of...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Black Sun
Based on a true story, this acclaimed, chillingly authentic, page-turner of a thriller brings Soviet Russia and the Cold War world to brilliant life and should rank alongside Martin Cruz-Smith's Gorky Park and Robert Harris' Archangel. 'Outstanding' - SUNDAY TIMES 'A stunning debut thriller . . . utterly terrifying . . . absolutely riveting' - DAILY MAIL 'Fascinating . ....Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Tea Planter's Wife
The story of a young woman's journey through love, motherhood, and loss in 1920s Ceylon. Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper is newly married to a rich and charming widower, eager to join him on his tea plantation, determined to be the perfect wife and mother. But life in Ceylon is not what Gwen expected. The plantation workers are resentful, the neighbours treacherous....Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Into the Wilderness
The first in Sara Donati's bestselling Wilderness series, this epic novel of love and adventure interweaves the fate of the Mohawk Nation with the destiny of two outsiders from different worlds. When Elizabeth Middleton leaves England to join her father and brother in a remote mountain village on the edge of the New York wilderness, she does so with a...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips late August
Blackwater VI: Rain
Discover the utterly addictive southern gothic horror saga that is sweeping Europe, with over two million copies sold so far. 'Riveting, terrifying, and just absolutely great' — Stephen King. In the electrifying finale of the gothic horror saga, Blackwater VI: Rain, the story continues to capture audiences across Europe, with over 2 million copies sold. 'Riveting, terrifying...just absolutely great' —...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Chocolat
Chocolat, the classic international bestseller. A feel-good book of the first order. One to curl up with... Read it - OBSERVER In the small French village of Lansquenet, nothing much has changed in a hundred years. Then an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, blows in on the changing wind with her small daughter and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Bloodline
The third beautifully written novel in the War of the Roses series by bestselling author Conn Iggulden. Winter 1461 Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of York city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian queen rides south with an army of northerners, accompanied by warriors from the...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Corner That Held Them
A masterpiece of historical fiction, The Corner That Held Them depicts the lives of medieval nuns amid the turmoil of rebellion and the Black Death. Sylvia Townsend Warner's portrayal of a fourteenth-century nunnery is widely considered to be one of the greatest historical novels of all time. An often hilarious ode to community living, it is also a poignant, delicate...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Spring Snow
Spring Snow is the first novel in Mishima's masterful Sea of Fertility tetralogy. Set in Tokyo, 1912, the closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders—rich provincial families, a new and powerful elite. Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family—members of the waning aristocracy—but he is not one of them. Coming...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid August-
French Braid
The glorious Sunday Times bestseller from one of our greatest storytellers, French Braid, follows one family's joys and heartbreaks, mistakes and secrets, from the 1950s right up to today. When Mercy Garrett moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice. All she wants is space and silence. No clutter. Not even their cat, Desmond. But it...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Shrines of Gaiety
From the inimitable bestselling author, Kate Atkinson, comes a mesmerising novel set in the glittering world of Soho in the 1920s—a place of gangsters and showgirls, Bright Young Things and one remarkable woman. From the incomparable author of Life After Life and Death at the Sign of the Rook, comes a story of nightclub owners and socialites, gangsters and dancing...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips late August
My Father's House
My Father's House is a gripping thriller based on the true story of an Irish priest in the Vatican who smuggled victims of the Nazis out of Italy, all while eluding his SS officer nemesis. From the bestselling and prize-winning author of Shadowplay. When the Nazis take Rome, thousands go into hiding. One priest will risk everything to save them....Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Cahokia Jazz
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the best-selling author of Golden Hill. 'Utterly immersive.' Spectator 'Thrilling.' Financial Times 'Unlike anything else you will read this year.' Daily Express 'A classic of alternative history.' Observer 'A delight.' Sunday Telegraph It's 1922 and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Librarian of Auschwitz
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe is a powerful and haunting novel inspired by the true story of Dita Kraus, a fourteen-year-old girl who is imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Removed from the Terezín ghetto in Prague along with her parents, Dita finds herself in one of the most notorious concentration camps during the Holocaust, where she must...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
A Gentleman in Moscow
From the number one New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility, Amor Towles, comes a beautifully crafted and transporting novel, A Gentleman in Moscow. Set in the backdrop of tumultuous 20th-century Russia, it follows the life of Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, who finds himself deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal and sentenced to house arrest in...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid September
The Wycherleys
Fall head over broomstick in love with this swoon-worthy, witchy romantic fantasy, perfect for fans of Twin Crowns, Divine Rivals and Stephanie Garber. For the Kingdom. For the magic. And for love . . . Seventeen-year-old Aurelia Wycherley is entering her debutante season as a witch. Aurelia should be excited about finding the perfect match to tether her magic to....Paperback$2399Elsewhere:$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Butcher's Daughter
Historical fiction at its finest - @MargaretAtwood (Twitter) It is 1535 and Agnes Peppin, daughter of a West-country butcher, has been banished, leaving her family home in disgrace to live out the rest of her life cloistered behind the walls of Shaftesbury Abbey. While Agnes grapples with the complex rules and hierarchies of the sisterhood, King Henry VIII has proclaimed...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
In the Distance
A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels east in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing west. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Mapmaker's Daughter
‘Oh my word… fantastic… [The] stories intertwine so beautifully, it’s truly amazing. Such a lot of research must have been done but so worth it. I can’t recommend this book enough.’ - NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Could a rediscovered map show her the way? Present day: When thirty-six-year-old Robyn Willoughby discovers an exquisite yet blood-stained Tudor map in her father’s antique...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Virgin’s Lover
Sumptuous historical novel from bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Queen's Fool. Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life. She is surrounded by advisers, all convinced that a young woman cannot form political judgements. Elizabeth feels that she can rely on just one man:...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
In this highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, Felicity Montague must use all her womanly wits and wiles to achieve her dreams of becoming a doctor—even if she has to scheme her way across Europe to do it. A must-have for fans of Mackenzi Lee’s extraordinary and Stonewall Honor-winning novel....Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Boleyn Inheritance
Pre-order Boleyn Traitor now – Philippa Gregory’s landmark return to the Tudor court, coming Autumn 2025 … From the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory, comes a wonderfully atmospheric evocation of the court of Henry VIII and his final queens. The king will decide who will live and who will die; he has the power of God...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047
THE BRILLIANT NEW NOVEL FROM THE ORANGE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN. ‘Distinctly chilling’ Independent ‘Unsettling as it is entertaining’ Financial Times ‘It's scaring the hell out of me’ Tracy Chevalier In this eerily prophetic novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin, a once-wealthy family faces the prospect of ruin....Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Stonehenge
Bernard Cornwell’s brilliant novel, reissued for fans to discover the story behind the stones. This is the tale of three brothers and of their rivalry that created this great temple. One summer’s day, a dying stranger carrying great wealth in gold comes to the settlement of Ratharryn. The three sons of Ratharryn’s chief each perceive the great gift in a...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Post Captain
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets to coincide with a new film based on the adventures and to introduce these modern classics to a new generation. Patrick O'Brian is regarded by many as the greatest...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
HMS Surprise
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets to coincide with a new film based on the adventures, introducing these modern classics to a new generation. HMS Surprise follows the variable fortunes of Captain Jack Aubrey's career...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Last Kingdom
The first book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions. A hero will be forged from this broken land. The Last Kingdom, as seen on Netflix and BBC around the world. In a land torn apart by conflict, an orphan boy has come of age. Raised by the Vikings, deadly enemies of his own Saxon people, Uhtred...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Name of the Rose
The ground-breaking first novel from Umberto Eco - a murder mystery, an enthralling chronicle of the Middle Ages, a piece of biblical analysis, and a stunning popular and critical success all at once. Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to...Paperback$2300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love
A new enemies-to-lovers historical fantasy novel from the international bestselling author of the Dangerous Damsels series... Two rival ornithologists. Seeking one dangerous, beautiful bird. Is the hunt of their lives also how they find the love of their lives? Professor Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare Deathwhistler bird when Professor Devon Lockley swoops in, stealing...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips late August 
To Sir Phillip, With Love
A New York Times Bestseller From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Eloise Bridgerton, in the fifth of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. To Sir Phillip, With Love continues the enchanting saga of the Bridgerton family, focusing on the headstrong and...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
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The Wax Child
One of the most acclaimed novels of 2025: the International Booker Prize longlisted tale of witches in seventeenth-century Denmark from one of the most exciting writers on the planet. The Wax Child proves Olga Ravn's ahead of the game. She's the strangest - and best - young novelist in Europe' Telegraph, The Greatest Books of 2025 It was a black...Paperback$2299Elsewhere:$2800Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order 
The Witch's Heart
When a banished witch falls in love with legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods in this moving, subversive debut novel that reimagines Norse mythology. Angrboda's story begins where most witch tales end: with a burning. A punishment from Odin for refusing to provide him with knowledge of the future, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless,...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Chocolate Factory: A delicious, page-turning historical novel from the author of THE JAM MAKER and perfect for readers of Fiona McIntosh and Victoria Purman.
Love, friendship and dangerous secrets in the early years of Cadbury's Tasmanian factory. It's 1921, and after years of working for Cadbury's at Bournville, Dorothy Adwell is on her way to a new adventure in the colonies, helping to establish the Firm's new Australian factory. A promotion and a fresh start are just what she needs after the horrors of...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Within These Lines
Within These Lines is a moving story of love, hope, and family set against the dark history of Japanese internment in America. This book had me captivated!” —Maureen McQuerry, YALSA award-winning author of The Peculiars Evalina Cassano’s life in an Italian-American family in 1941 is quiet and ordinary … until she falls in love with Taichi Hamasaki, the son of...Paperback$2200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
I Was Anastasia
From the bestselling author of The Frozen River comes an enthralling historical mystery that unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson’s fifty-year battle to be recognised as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian grand duchess or the thief of another woman’s legacy? Countless others have rendered their verdict. Now it is your turn. Russia, 1918: Under direct orders...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Picnic at Hanging Rock
If her terrified cries had been heard by anyone but a wallaby squatting in a clump of bracken a few feet away, the picnic at Hanging Rock might yet have been just another picnic on a summer’s day. On a cloudless summer day in 1900, a group from Appleyard College for Young Ladies goes for a picnic. In the heat...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Light in Hidden Places
A novel based on the incredible true story of Stefania Podgórska, a Polish teenager who hid 13 Jews in her attic during WWII. DEATH PENALTY FOR ALL WHO GIVE AID TO A JEW. DEATH TO ALL WHO HARBOUR A JEW. DEATH TO ALL WHO FEED A JEW. DEATH TO ALL WHO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION TO A JEW. One knock at the...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Lovely War
New York Times Bestseller. A sweeping, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates—and the hearts—of four mortals in their hands. "Pick an adjective—sweeping, sprawling, epic, Olympian—and yet none quite conveys the emotional width and depth of Julie Berry's brilliant novel."—The Washington Post Perfect for fans of Divine Rivals, this...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Women of Troy
The Women of Troy by Pat Barker, the riveting sequel to the critically acclaimed bestseller The Silence of the Girls, delves deep into the aftermath of the Trojan War. As the dust settles on the ruins of Troy, the Greek victors, weighed down with spoils and desperate to return home, find themselves stranded. A favourable wind is all they need...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
1915: Wounds of War (Kiwis at War)
Mel and her cousin Harriet couldn't bear the thought of brave Kiwi boys being cared for by some bumbling, poorly trained person while the Great War raged on, half a world away. When these nurses joined the NZ Army Nursing Service and boarded ships headed for Egypt, Anzac Cove and beyond, they had little idea of the horrors they would...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Code Name Hélène
From the bestselling author of The Frozen River, a thrilling story of danger, intrigue, and enduring love, based on the extraordinary true story of Nancy Wake, the Australian nurse and journalist who became a heroine of the French Resistance in World War II. Paris, 1936: Intrepid young Australian journalist Nancy Wake has bluffed her way into a reporting job for...Paperback$2199Elsewhere:$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Lace Weaver
The bestselling, breathtaking debut about love and war, and the battle to save a precious legacy. Each lace shawl begins and ends the same way – with a circle. Everything is connected with a thread as fine as gossamer, each life affected by what has come before it and what will come after. 1941, Estonia. As Stalin’s brutal Red Army...Paperback$2100Elsewhere:$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
A Wartime Secret
England, 1940. Can Maggie keep her family – and her secret – safe? An emotional and heartbreaking wartime novel for fans of Diney Costeloe, Dilly Court, and Mandy Robotham. When Maggie’s new job takes her from bombed-out London to grand Snowden Hall in the Cotswolds, she’s apprehensive but determined to do her bit for the war effort. She’s also keeping...Paperback$2100Elsewhere:$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The German Midwife
An enthralling tale from the #1 Globe and Mail and USA Today Best Selling Author. “A powerful, haunting debut”—Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network An enthralling new tale of courage, betrayal and survival in the hardest of circumstances that readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Secret Orphan and The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz...Paperback$2100Elsewhere:$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
All The Broken Places
From the author of the multi-million-copy classic, and The Heart's Invisible Furies. A devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront the sins of her past and a present in which it is never too late for bravery. Gretel Fernsby is a quiet woman leading a quiet life. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany seventy years ago...Paperback$2100Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 (The Graphic Novel)
A day no one will ever forget ... Danny Crane and his mum moved from New York City to Pearl City, Hawaii, two months ago. Every day since, Danny has been making a plan to get back to NYC. He's not afraid of the crime or dark alleys there. And he's not afraid to stow away on the next ship...Paperback$2099Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid August-
The Storm Prince
This thrilling and enchanting adventure takes best friends Thomasina and Anne deeper into magic. Perfect for fans of Tamzin Merchant, Abi Elphinstone and Anna James. When best friends Thomasina and Anne hear the same mysterious voice calling to them in the dead of night, they know that Guaire magic must be the source.Obsessed by the legend passed down through generations...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Cosima Unfortunate Foils a Fraud
Cosima has finally found her happy ending but unfortunately, trouble isn't far behind... Cosima Unfortunate Foils a Fraud returns for a new adventure! It's a warm, funny, exciting, and empowering tale of friendship, family, and mystery, with joyous and authentic disabled representation, from the author of Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star. Cosima lives at the Star Diamond Home for Children...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
A Horse Named Sky
An instant New York Times bestseller! A stand-alone companion to the national bestsellers A Wolf Called Wander and A Whale of the Wild. Exiled from his band, a young, wild horse must find his way across treacherous terrain to reunite with his family after being captured for the Pony Express. Horn Book calls A Horse Named Sky “engrossing and fast-paced.”...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Great Expectations
Carnegie Medal-winning author Tanya Landman returns with a brilliantly realised and truly accessible retelling of the book described as Dickens’ “most perfect” novel. My story is a long one with many strange events and dark turns. But time is short. I will be brief. In this slim volume I concentrate on five people. A dangerous criminal. An honest blacksmith. An...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Three Musketeers
Puffin Classics - the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child. Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition of The Three Musketeers. When young D'Artagnan comes to Paris to seek his fortune, he is challenged to a duel with not one, but three of the king's Musketeers....Paperback$1900Elsewhere:$2100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Other Edie Trimmer
A brilliant new middle-grade novel from the bestselling Jacqueline Wilson! 'I seemed to be seeing double. I saw two Edies instead of one - but they weren't the same.' Edie is fascinated by Victorian times, and she's just desperate to be cast in the lead role of her drama club production of Oliver. When she's given a real Victorian notebook,...Paperback$1900Elsewhere:$2100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Lost Book of Magic
It's 1895, Melbourne is in crisis, and Pearl and Vally Cole's father has suggested the unthinkable: it might be time to close the grandest bookshop in the world. When a ghostly visitor offers Pearl magic that could save her home, she seizes her chance. But her new friend is not what he seems, and the unstoppable magic in the palm...Hardback$1900Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
When The War Came Home
12-year-old Natalie is furious when her mum, Ffion, loses her factory job for sticking up for workers’ rights. Now they have to leave their home and go to stay at her uncle’s farm. The last thing Natty wants is to buddy up with her know-it-all cousin, Nerys. Natty gets on better with her older cousin Huw, despite the fact that...Paperback$1899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
These Shallow Graves
Josephine Montfort is from one of New York's oldest, most respected, and wealthiest families. Like most well-off girls of the Gilded Age, her future looks set - after a finishing school education, she will be favourably married off to a handsome gentleman, after which she'll want for nothing. But Jo has other dreams and desires that make her long for...Paperback$1899Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid September
Becoming Grace
Award-winning Hilary McKay brings the childhood of Victorian heroine Grace Darling to life in this heartfelt reimagining of her life up to and including the Forfarshire shipwreck. Despite her fear of boats, Grace Darling loves her life as the daughter of a lighthouse keeper and spends fun-filled childhood days with her three sisters, four brothers, numerous goats, chickens, cats and...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Earthquake!
Napier in the 1930s was a time of going without. The story starts on the 25th of June, 1930—a sad day in the Bourke household—the funeral of Katie's father. This Catholic family must now survive with earnings from the older siblings and the washing Katie's mother takes in. When older brother Tom returns home, after a long absence, it is...Paperback$1899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Cosima Unfortunate Steals A Star
Exciting, funny, moving – and featuring joyous and authentic disabled representation – Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star is a spellbinding middle-grade adventure. Cosima has spent all her life at the Home for Unfortunate Girls, along with her best friends: Pearl, Mary, and Diya. Cos longs for a real home and a real family. But when Cos finds out that famed...Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Resist
Multi-award-winning author Tom Palmer shines a light on life under wartime occupation, in a beautifully told story inspired by the childhood of Hollywood legend Audrey Hepburn. As the brutal Second World War stretches on with no end in sight, life for ordinary Dutch people in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands is fraught with peril and hardship. There is very little to eat,...Paperback$1799Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips early September 
The Clockwork Queen
Sophie must play the role of the Clockwork Queen in order to free her chess grandmaster father in this page-turning historical adventure, inspired by a true story. Chess prodigy Sophie Peshka inherited her love of the game from her grandmaster father. But now that he has been imprisoned in the dungeons of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg by powerful...Paperback$1799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Resist: A Story of D-Day
Resist: A Story of D-Day by Alan Gratz is set in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Samira Zidane, the story's protagonist, hides a significant secret: she and her mother are spies for the underground resistance. Together, they crack codes and trade messages crucial for sabotaging the Nazis' plans. When her mother is captured by enemy soldiers, Samira embarks on...Paperback$1600Elsewhere:$1799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Rake Gets Ravished
New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan returns with an all new sizzling historical romance in her Duke Hunt series about a woman determined to reclaim her family home from the dangerously handsome owner of London’s most popular gaming hell. The owner of London’s most popular gaming hell, wealthy and powerful Silas Masters, is feared by men and desired by...Paperback$3400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Pre-orderMestra
From the internationally bestselling author of The Song of Achilles and Circe comes a remarkable new short story. A cursed father, a gifted daughter Mestra, daughter of the King of Thessaly, is gifted a unique ability by Poseidon: metamorphosis into any being she can imagine. Her father, on the other hand, is cursed. As punishment for disrespecting the goddess Demeter,...Hardback$1500Elsewhere:$1699Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order
Sharpe’s Triumph
SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now. Sergeant Richard Sharpe witnesses a murderous act of treachery and, with Sir Arthur Wellesley, faces the Mahratta Horde. The paths of treachery all lead to the small village of Assaye. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wellesley, with a diminished British army, plunges his men into the...Paperback$1499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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