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  • World Without End
    On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They...
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  • No Country for Old Men
    Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award-winning film, No Country for Old Men is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road. Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice -...
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  • The Bronze Horseman
    Set against the dramatic and tumultuous backdrop of Leningrad in 1941, during the peak of Hitler's invasion of Russia, The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons is an evocative tale of love, sacrifice, and resilience. The story follows Tatiana Metanova, a young and spirited Russian girl, whose life is irrevocably changed when she meets Alexander Belov, a daring and mysterious Red...
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  • Say Nothing
    The International Bestseller A New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century Soon to be an FX TV series streaming on DISNEY+ 'Unquestionably one of the greatest literary achievements of the 21st century' โ€” Nick Hornby From the author of Empire of Pain โ€“ a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions....
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  • Beloved
    Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature. 'An American masterpiece' - AS Byatt It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by...
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  • Wuthering Heights
    Emily Bronte's classic novel with cover artwork from Emerald Fennell's major new film starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi 'Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my...
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  • A Terrible Kindness
    It is October 1966 and William Lavery is having the night of his life at his first black-tie do. But, as the evening unfolds, news hits of a landslide at a coal mine. It has buried a school: Aberfan. William decides he must act, so he stands and volunteers to attend. It will be his first job as an embalmer,...
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  • The Occupation
    The Occupation, winner of the 2024 Penguin Literary Prize 'Assured, deft, sophisticated. Chloe Adams is the real deal.' - EMILY BITTO Breathtaking. - SALLY HEPWORTH In the autumn of 1949, two women convene in the parlour of a Melbourne hotel. Tess is married and childless. Mary, unwed and pregnant. Surrendering to the unimaginable, Mary agrees to a life-altering pact โ€“...
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  • Evil in High Places
    The Sunday Times bestselling author returns with a gripping new WW2 thriller, set during the 1936 Munich Olympics. THE CLOSER YOU GET, THE FURTHER YOU HAVE TO FALL. Munich, 1936. All eyes are on the Bavarian capital for the upcoming Olympic games. As athletes fight for gold and the Nazis fight for power, Detective Sebastian Wolff faces a battle of...
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  • Cain's Jawbone
    Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations... but only one is correct. Can you solve Torquemada's murder mystery? 'If James Joyce and Agatha Christie had a literary love child, this would be it.' The Daily Telegraph In 1934, the Observer's cryptic crossword compiler, Edward Powys Mathers (aka Torquemada), released a novel that was simultaneously a murder mystery and...
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  • The Mad and the Brave
    With real-life echoes of SAS Rogue Heroes โ€“ this is an astonishing account of Europeโ€™s biggest major conflict, told through the eyes of a ragbag collection of foreign fighters. Three days after Russian tanks roll into Ukraine, President Volodymr Zelensky issues a desperate appeal for foreign military volunteers to help defend his country. Thousands answer the call from all over...
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  • The Benevolent Society Of Ill-Mannered Ladies
    A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an 'old maid' to protect other women in a new and fiercely feminist historical mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman. Winner of the 2024 Davitt Readers' Choice Award Longlisted for the 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize Longlisted for the...
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  • The Geographer's Map to Romance
    Geography professors in a failed marriage of convenience inconveniently reconnect for an emergency mission in this swoony yet cosy historical-fantasy rom-com. Professor Elodie Tarrant is an expert in magic disasters. Nothing fazes herโ€”except her own personal disaster, that isโ€”Professor Gabriel Tarrant, the grumpy, unfriendly man she married for convenience a year ago, whom she secretly loves. They've been estranged since...
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  • A House Without Windows
    A vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhoodโ€”an emotionally powerful and haunting tale of friendship that illuminates the plight of women in a traditional cultureโ€”from the author of the bestselling The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and When the Moon Is Low. For two decades, Zeba was a loving wife, a patient mother, and a peaceful villager. But her quiet...
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  • Still Life
    WINNER OF DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021 A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK โ€˜Sheer joy' - Graham Norton โ€˜Utterly beautiful โ€ฆ filled with hopeโ€™ - Joanna Cannon, author of Three Things About Elsie โ€˜A gorgeous, generous story of kind...
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  • The Wicked Lies of Habren Faire
    An irresistible dark fae romantasy, inspired by Welsh mythology and perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Faebound, Leigh Bardugo, and Holly Black's The Cruel Prince. Ceridwen Parry has run away with the fairies. But this is not her story. For Sabrina Parry, the world is tough, cruel, and practical. With her father in prison, her aims in life are:...
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  • The Safekeep
    The Safekeep is shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024. This exhilarating tale explores 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...
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  • The Girl and the Ghost: Family Secrets (Book 2)
    A trip to Paris and Versailles, an escaped convict, an ancient underground cave network, family mysteries and . . . ghosts. Josephine Eloise Thomas is in Paris receiving a huge reward for solving one of the worldโ€™s greatest art heists. But sheโ€™s not alone. Gabriel Barbier, the gorgeous French boy who helped her solve the crime is there too, along...
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  • Circe
    Circe, the critically acclaimed novel by Madeline Miller, reimagines the legendary life of Circe, the powerful enchantress from Greek mythology. In the house of Helios, god of the sun, a daughter is born. Circe is a peculiar child, neither mighty like her father nor beautiful and cunning like her mother. Scorned and rejected, she grows up in the shadows, belonging...
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    The Boleyn Secret
    From the bestselling author of Six Tudor Queens, a captivating new novel about two Boleyn cousins, close as sisters - and the truth that will change everything. 'Nobody brings historical characters to life like Alison Weir' TRACY BORMAN A BOLEYN WOMAN IS NO STRANGER TO SECRETS... At twelve years old, Kate Carey attends her aunt, Queen Anne Boleyn, to the...
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  • The House of Wolf
    Sir Tony Robinson - actor, presenter, historical expert and star of Blackadder and Time Team - makes his adult fiction debut with this earthy, entertaining and gloriously witty recreation of the Anglo-Saxons, Alfred the Great, and the making of England. Rome Father Asser is waiting to die. His idealism has landed him in a papal prison on false charges of...
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  • Perfume
    Perfume by Patrick Sรผskind follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, abandoned at birth in the slums of eighteenth-century Paris, but blessed with an outstanding sense of smell. This gift enables Jean-Baptiste to master the art of perfume making, but one scent evades himโ€”the scent of a virgin, whom he must possess to ensure her innocence and beauty are preserved. Laced...
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  • Jane Eyre
    A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Charlotte Brontรซ's masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper, and finished with a silk ribbon. As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. A position as governess...
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  • The Whisky Widow
    From the bestselling award-winning author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this rollicking historical adventure that celebrates the art of whisky distilling, the defiant spirit of the Scottish Highlanders, and a woman's fearless quest. 1780 Scottish HighlandsIn every glass of whisky lies a small act of rebellion... When Greer MacAlister's despised husband dies, she and her young daughter Fen...
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  • Foul Heart Huntsman
    A lover in peril. A nation under threat. The clock is ticking . . . Winter is drawing thick in 1932 Shanghai, as is the threat of a Japanese invasion. Rosalind Lang's identity as a national spy has been exposed. Orion has been taken, his memories wiped. Their marriage might have been a sham, but Rosalind won't rest until she...
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  • The Clan of the Cave Bear
    Step into a mesmerising world as you leave behind 21st century London and journey back to Ice Age Europe in Jean M. Auel's masterfully crafted novel, The Clan of the Cave Bear. Witness the captivating tale of Ayla, a young Cro-Magnon girl whose life takes a dramatic turn after a catastrophic earthquake claims the lives of her family. Alone and...
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  • Glint
    The second novel in the fantasy TikTok phenomenon, The Plated Prisoner Series, where Auren discovers the truth about Midas' enemy - Commander Rip. I've left the grips of one king to fall into the hands of another. Rip's name is whispered in taverns and street corners throughout the kingdoms. But as I get to know him, I realise he is...
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  • The Chateau on Sunset
    Epic Love. Tragic Loss. Beautiful Friendship. The entrancing story of an orphan who grows up surrounded by the beautiful and the broken in the world's most infamous hotel. After her parents' deaths, Aria Jones is sent to live with her reclusive starlet aunt at the Chateau Marmont, the hotel on Hollywood Boulevard with a notorious reputation. Left alone to wander...
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  • Medea
    A dark and epic feminist retelling that boldly reclaims the myth of the most formidable and feared witch in Ancient Greece. Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned by her mother, and persecuted and tormented by her brother and father. All because of a unique and dangerous giftโ€”witchcraft. But when a...
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  • Athena's Child
    The story of Medusa, history's most infamous monsterโ€”and the men who made her into one. For readers of Madeleine Miller and Claire Heywood comes the story of the most infamous monster of Greek mythologyโ€”Medusa. First, they loved her. Then, they abused her. Finally, they made her a villain. Gifted and burdened with stunning beauty, young Medusa seeks sanctuary with the...
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  • To Sir Phillip, With Love [Deluxe Collector's Edition]
    A stunning hardcover Deluxe Collectorโ€™s Edition of To Sir Phillip, With Love, the fifth novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinnโ€™s beloved Bridgerton series, featuring beautiful endpapers, a ribbon marker, and a gorgeous, decorated spine. Collect all eight in the series to unveil the beautiful imagery when shelved together! Watch BRIDGERTON, created by Shondaland for Netflix. ELOISEโ€™S...
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  • The Elements
    From bestselling author John Boyne comes a gripping and profound exploration of responsibility, guilt, blame, trauma, and our capacity for redemption. Human life is governed by the elementsโ€”water, earth, fire, and air. They are fundamental to our existence. They sustain us, but they also challenge us. In The Elements, John Boyne has created a vivid kaleidoscope to reflect that contradictionโ€”a...
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  • Fast & Fastidious
    The Fast and the Furious meets Bridgerton in this delightfully fun Regency romp from debut New Zealand author R.M. Caldwell. Lucy Elliott, the young neurodivergent daughter of wealthy socialites, sneaks out every full moon to watch the illicit Night Races, where class doesn't matterโ€”only the fastest carriage does. When she finds out that the newest suitor in town, Captain James...
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  • The Space Between
    The Space Between is a gripping historical novel set amid the New Zealand Wars in 1860. As English settlers wage war upon local iwi in colonial Taranaki, two women confront their pasts to survive the present. Frances is an unmarried Londoner newly landed in New Zealand in 1860, at the dawn of the First Taranaki War. Once well-regarded, her family's...
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  • Beloved
    A haunting yet beautiful story that moves the reader from start to finish. INCLUDES A READING GUIDE Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's...
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  • Billie King: An endearing, rollicking, funny and original debut novel, perfect for fans of Boy Swallows Universe and The Dressmaker
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    A blisteringly fast, fresh, funny and hugely entertaining novel of mothers, daughters and one gutsy wild colonial girl who gets caught up in Australia's last female bushranger's quest for revenge. Think Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife meets Trent Dalton. 1918: Australia's last bushranger, Dulcie James, holds up Anna King's falling-down farmhouse. There's a scrawny unloved infant on the floor, Anna...
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  • The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
    Bridgerton meets Peaky Blinders in the first book of The Dangerous Damsels series - an enemies-to-lovers romance with a fantastical twist. Cecilia Bassingwaite belongs to the prestigious Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels. Yet this is no ordinary society, as it's full of pirates, thieves, and ne'er-do-wells. These women spend their days pickpocketing and blackmailing, all before tea time. But when...
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  • The Bovadium Fragments
    World first publication of a previously unknown short satirical fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien, and accompanied by illustrations from the author together with an essay, The Origin of Bovadium, by Richard Ovenden OBE. As Christopher Tolkien notes in his Introduction, The Bovadium Fragments was a โ€˜satirical fantasyโ€™ written by his father, which grew out of...
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  • The Night Sparrow
    For fans of Kate Quinn and The Nightingale, a gripping story of a young Jewish girl who joins an elite Russian sniper unit and embarks on a mission targeting the highest prize of World War II: Adolph Hitler. With the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Elena Bruskinaโ€™s world collapses. The ambitious university student and her Jewish family are quickly...
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  • Code Name Kingfisher
    From million-copy bestselling author Liz Kessler comes the powerful new landmark World War II novel for fans of Michael Morpurgo and Phil Earle. When Liv finds a secret box from her grandmotherโ€™s childhood, she uncovers an extraordinary wartime story of bravery, betrayal, and daring defianceโ€”a story that will change Liv and her family foreverโ€ฆ Holland, 1942. The world is at...
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  • The London House
    Uncovering a dark family secret sends one woman through the history of Britain's World War II spy network and glamorous 1930s Paris to save her family's reputation. Perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Ariel Lawhon. Caroline Payne thinks it's just another day of work until she receives a call from Mat Hammond, an old college friend and historian, who...
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  • Dublin
    The new epic novel from the bestselling author of Sarum, Russka, London, and The Forest Edward Rutherfurd's great Irish epic reveals the story of the people of Ireland through the focal point of the island's capital city. The epic begins in pre-Christian Ireland during the reign of the fierce and powerful High Kings at Tara, with the tale of two...
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  • Catch-22
    One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century - a potent satire on the madness of war. Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it. It's the closing months of World War II and Yossarian has never been closer to death. Stationed in an American bomber squadron...
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  • A Mind of Her Own
    Intelligent, beautiful Alexandra Bouvier was raised believing she could achieve anything. But when the First World War breaks out in 1914, and both her parents are killed while volunteering on the front lines, Alex's world collapses. Supported by her loving grandmother, Alex is determined to carry on with school in Paris and get a university education. In 1918, the Spanish...
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  • London
    A wonderful, epic story that tells the history of the greatest city in the world, from Roman times to the present day. London has perhaps the most remarkable history of any city in the world. Now its story has a unique voice. In this epic novel, Edward Rutherfurd takes the reader on a magnificent journey across sixteen centuries from the...
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  • The Apothecary Diaries 01 (Light Novel)
    Now in English for the first time - Discover the popular Japanese light novel that inspired the fan-favourite Apothecary Diaries manga and anime! A palace servant trained in herbal medicine finds herself at the heart of imperial intrigue in this lushly illustrated historical mystery. Maomao leads an unassuming life with her apothecary father, but kidnappers whisk her away to a...
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  • The American Boys
    1942 in Wellington, and the war has never felt closer. Lorna's older brothers are overseas fighting for their lives, and as the war in the Pacific rages on, 20,000 American troops are sent to keep New Zealand safe. Few are happy about itโ€”the locals want their own boys back, and the Americans find their post at the end of the...
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  • Sarum
    The towering story of five families through 100 centuries of turmoil, tyranny, passion, and prosperity. The Bestselling Historical Novel Now with a new introduction from Edward Rutherfurd The towering story of five families through 100 centuries of turmoil, tyranny, passion, and prosperity. A masterpiece of breathtaking scope, from the Ice Age to the present day, Sarum traces the entire turbulent...
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  • The Luminaries
    "There was this large world of rolling time and shifting spaces, and that small, stilled world of horror and unease - they fit inside each other, a sphere within a sphere." Set against the backdrop of New Zealandโ€™s 1866 gold rush, The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton begins as young prospector Walter Moody arrives on the West Coast to seek his...
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  • The Queenโ€™s Rising
    An epic and exhilarating story of deception, love and revenge, from the extraordinary Sunday Times and New York Times number-one-bestselling author of Divine Rivals. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Sarah J Maas, and Shelby Mahurin. Brienna is an arden, a student of the five passions โ€“ art, music, wit, dramatics, and knowledge. On the summer solstice in her seventeenth...
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  • Origin
    The global bestseller - Origin is the latest Robert Langdon novel from the author of The Da Vinci Code. The global bestseller featuring symbologist Robert Langdon, from the author of The Da Vinci Code and 'master of the intellectual cliffhanger' (Wall Street Journal) Dan Brown. Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao...
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  • To Sir Phillip, With Love
    She wrote him a letter... and he stole her heart. Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he'd proposed, figuring that she'd be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. Except... she wasn't. The beautiful woman on his doorstep was anything but quiet, and when she stopped talking long...
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  • The Artist
    All Joseph wants is to be let into Tartuffe's world. All Ettie wants is to escape it.The year is 1920. The place is a remote farmhouse in Provence, home to the reclusive painter Edouard Tartuffe and his niece, Ettie. Into this strange, silent house walks Joseph: a young journalist hoping to write an article about Tartuffe. But the more he...
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  • Pocket Bear
    Meet Pocket, created as a good luck charm for soldiers going into battle, whose bravery and loyalty lives on long after the war. Thimble-born from tip to toe, Pocket Bear remembers every moment of his becoming: the glimmering needle, the silken thread, the tender hands as each careful stitch brought him closer to himself. Born during the throes of WWI,...
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  • The Missing Sister
    From the Sunday Times number one bestselling author Lucinda Riley, The Missing Sister is the seventh instalment in the multimillion selling epic series. They'll search the world to find her. The six D'Apliรจse sisters have each been on their own incredible journey to discover their heritage, but they still have one question left unanswered: who and where is the seventh...
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  • Orchids and Camellias
    Nelson, New Zealand, 1869. Ginny Yang is on the run from her murderous, Chinese-hating father. Newly widowed and with child, Ginny has to fight to have any sort of future for herself and her unborn child. Orchids and Camellias tells the gripping tale of survival and resilience as Ginny navigates through overwhelming odds in a society hostile to her heritage....
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  • Atmosphere
    The new novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Tipped to be this summer's biggest read' โ€” SUNDAY TIMES 'A richly drawn page-turner' โ€” OBSERVER 'Quite possibly our favourite TJR novel yet' โ€” COSMOPOLITAN 'I absolutely adored this' โ€” BRYONY GORDON...
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  • War Games
    Itโ€™s 1936 in Berlin and Evie Harris can't believe her luck: She's competing in the Olympics, along with fellow American athletes like Jesse Owens. True, there's something creepy about Germany's leader, Adolf Hitler, who watches over the games with his Nazi henchmen. But Evie's just here to win a gold medal in gymnastics for her country. Until she discovers a...
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  • Weyward
    Pre-order Emilia Hart's stunning new book The Sirens now. The international bestseller with over 700,000 copies sold worldwide. As seen on BBCโ€™s Between the Covers โ€˜Humming with a sly, exhilarating magicโ€™ โ€“ Bridget Collins โ€˜A much-heralded epicโ€™ โ€“ Observer โ€˜Empoweringโ€™ โ€“ Glamour Three women, five centuries, one spellbinding story In the present day, Kate flees a traumatic relationship to the...
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  • Venetia
    In all her twenty-five years, lovely Venetia Lanyon has never been further than Harrogate, nor enjoyed the attentions of any but her two wearisomely persistent suitors. Then, in one extraordinary encounter, she meets a neighbour she only knows by reputation โ€“ the infamous Lord Damerel โ€“ and before she knows better, is egging on a libertine whose way of life...
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  • The Marriage Trap
    From the bestselling author of The Radio Hour comes this charming yet pointed look at the tumultuous, extraordinary decade of the 1960s. It explores the effects of the pill, rebellion, and new ideas on ordinary Australian women who, alongside shorter skirts and the Beatles, embrace freedom. 1960s Adelaide: The Langley familyโ€”Olive, Len, and their two daughters, twenty-year-old Cathy and ten-year-old...
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  • The Endless Forest
    A rich, passionate, multi-layered portrayal of family strength and endurance in the New York frontier of the 19th century. The spring of 1824 is a challenging one for the inhabitants of Paradise when a flood devastates the village. But for Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner, it's also a time of reunion as their children return from far-off placesโ€”Lily from Italy and...
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  • Fire Along the Sky
    The epic frontier tale of love and adventure that began with the bestselling Into the Wilderness continues with an indomitable woman's journey across a young nation threatened by the flames of war. The year is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has come home to the mountain cabin in Paradise where she grew up with her father, Nathaniel, and her stepmother, Elizabeth....
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  • Daikon
    War has taken everything from physicist Keizo Kan. His young daughter was killed in the Great Tokyo Air Raid, and now his Japanese-American wife, Noriko, has been imprisoned by the brutal Thought Police. An American bomber, downed over Japan on the first day of August 1945, offers the scientist a surprising chance at salvation. The Imperial Army dispatches him to...
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  • Wolves of Winter
    For the Dogs, the war has only just begun. Caught up in the siege of Calais, in the midst of a brutal eleven-month blockade of a small port on the French coast, they are no longer blindly walking into the unknown. But the men still have more questions than answers about what faces them and why. What are they really...
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  • The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz
    Millions of people walked into Auschwitz, but she was the first woman who escaped. This powerful novel is inspired by the true story of Mala Zimetbaum, whose fate altered the course of history... Nobody leaves Auschwitz alive. Mala, inmate 19880, understood that the moment she stepped off the cattle train into the depths of hell. As an interpreter for the...
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  • The Plains of Passage
    The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel continues the epic journey of Ayla and Jondalar as they venture beyond the secure lands of the Mammoth Hunters. The narrative unfolds with the couple embarking on an arduous expedition across the vast and untamed terrain of prehistoric Europe, aiming to reach the Cro-Magnon settlement located in modern-day southern France where Jondalar...
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  • The Sweet Blue Distance
    In the 1850s, a young midwife braves the perilous journey west to Santa Fe in this captivating epic from the international bestselling author of Into the Wilderness and The Endless Forest. Over half a million copies of the WILDERNESS series have now been sold in Australia and New Zealand! 1857 - In a bid to outrun her past, Carrie Ballentyne...
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  • Bridgerton
    Bridgerton by Julia Quinn is a spellbinding tale set in the opulence and decorum of Regency London. It's a world where societal rules dictate every move and where the game of love is played with high stakes and even higher expectations. Daphne Bridgerton, the charming and witty fourth child in a close-knit family of eight, navigates this treacherous social landscape...
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  • White Bird
    From the bestselling author of Wonder comes White Bird - an unforgettable Second World War story about bravery, friendship, and the power of kindness. Soon to be a major film starring Helen Mirren and Gillian Anderson. From the bestselling author of Wonder comes White Bird - an unforgettable Second World War story about bravery, friendship, and the power of kindness....
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  • Troy
    The city of Troy has long been a beacon of legend and myth, and in Stephen Fry's Troy, the timeless story of love and war is brought to life with a vivid blend of wit, insight, and meticulous detail. At its heart is the kidnapping of Helen, a queen whose beauty is so enchanting that her abduction by Paris of...
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  • Heroes
    Heroes by Stephen Fry is an enthralling journey into the heart of ancient Greek mythology, brought to life with Fry's signature wit and intelligence. This dazzling companion volume to the bestselling Mythos recounts the breath-taking exploits of some of the most legendary figures in Greek lore, showcasing the timeless tales of bravery, cunning, and adventure. In Fry's masterful retelling, readers...
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  • The Land in Winter
    Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025 December 1962, the West Country. Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also...
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  • Refugee
    Three different kids. One mission in common: ESCAPE. Josef is a Jewish boy in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the worldโ€ฆ Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on...
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  • In Memoriam
    WINNER OF WATERSTONES NOVEL OF THE YEAR - A gripping, heart-shattering love story between two soldiers in the First World War. It's 1914, and talk of war feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in an idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. At seventeen, they're too young to enlist, and...
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  • Sisters of Sword and Song
    A thrilling new fantasy about the lengths two sisters will go for each other from Rebecca Ross, the extraordinary Sunday Times and New York Times number-one-bestselling author of Divine Rivals. Perfect for fans of Ember in the Ashes, Sky In the Deep, and Court of Fives. Two sistersโ€ฆ one unbreakable bond Evadne is finally going to be reunited with her...
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  • Julia Eichardt
    From famine-ravaged Ireland to the glittering goldfields of Australia and New Zealand comes the captivating true story of Julia Eichardt, a woman who defied every hardship life placed before her. Born into poverty and shaped by loss, Julia's fierce determination and unbreakable spirit propel her on an extraordinary journey. In the rugged chaos of the gold rush era, Julia courageously...
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    WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES DEBUT PRIZE 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 A RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME A TELEGRAPH AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A furiously romantic, sun-drenched mystery . . . The Artist will leave you yearning in every sense of the word' โ€” Yael van der Wouden, author of The Safekeep 'The...
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    New Statesman Fiction Book of the Year 2025A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2025A New York Times Notable Book of 2025A Telegraph Book of the Year 2025A Guardian Translated Book of the Year 2025An Observer Book of the Year 2025'Supple, horrifying and mordantly droll' New York Times'Nothing short of brilliant' Wall Street Journal'A subtle, often darkly funny novel...
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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 youโ€™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.