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  • The Girl Behind the Wall
    โ€œA poignant, tender story of families and sisters divided by the cruelty of political chanceโ€“my heart ached for them on every page." Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network A city divided. When the Berlin Wall goes up, Karin is on the wrong side of the city. Overnight, sheโ€™s trapped under Soviet rule in unforgiving East...
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  • The Secret Society of Librarians
    For librarian Joyce Haddington, the pages of her favourite novels have always felt more compelling than her own life. But when war breaks out on her doorstep and a call for help rings out across the libraries of London, she knows she must act. Taking matters into her own hands, Joyce invites a young Jewish girl to stay with her,...
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  • Six Weeks by the Sea
    Summer 1801. Sidmouth, England. The Austen Family descends upon a fashionable Georgian seaside resort in Devonshire for a six-week holiday. Jane's brother, Frank, is on leave from the Royal Navy, and dearly wishes to unite his sister with his friend Captain Peter Parker. But another holidaymaker, a handsome stranger, catches sight of Jane and is determined to make her acquaintance....
    By Paula Byrne
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  • The Last Death of the Year
    The new Hercule Poirot mystery by Sophie Hannah, follow-up to the bestselling Hercule Poirotโ€™s Silent Night. New Year's Eve, 1932. Hercule Poirot and his good friend Inspector Edward Catchpool arrive on the Greek island of Lamperos for a little holidayโ€ฆor is it? Catchpool suspects Poirot has a different reason for being there โ€” one he won't reveal. As the clock...
    By Sophie Hannah
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  • Fallen Stars
    Fallen Stars is the second book in the Sunday Times bestselling celestial Heavenly Bodies series from TikTok romantasy phenomenon Imani Erriu. Never make a bargain with a god. Elara is vengeful. Enzo is trapped between the realms of life and death, and her enemy has vanished, taking her love's only connection to the waking world with him. But there is...
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  • House of Two Pharaohs
    FROM THE SHADOWS. A NEW EVIL WILL RISE. FACELESS. NAMELESS. Since his appointment as Nomarch of Memphis by the God-Pharaoh Rameses, Piay has thrown himself into pulling the city back from the brink. The famous white city walls have been rebuilt, the once starving inhabitants fed, and every day caravans have arrived from the desert wastes, filled with the many...
    By Wilbur Smith
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  • The Garden of Evening Mists
    The Garden of Evening Mists is the international bestseller shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and the winner of both the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Walter Scott Prize. Teoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about Aritomo and the garden. But a war would come to Malaya, and a decade would pass before she...
    By Tan Twan Eng
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  • The Ghost Tree
    Before you follow the path into your familyโ€™s history, beware of the secrets you may findโ€ฆ The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile, left rootless by the end of her marriage, career, and now the death of her father. She is now faced with the daunting task of...
    By Barbara Erskine
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  • Lord Hornblower
    Fantastic new B format package for the entire Hornblower series. 1813, and Horatio Hornblower is propelled toward the heart of the French Empire and his old enemy, Napoleon. Sir Horatio Hornblower has received strict and highly confidential orders from the highest rankโ€”he must embark upon a grave and perilous mission to recapture the Flame in the Bay of Seine, where...
    By C.S. Forester
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  • Shadow and Bone Boxed Set
    Enter the Grishaverse with the Shadow and Bone bestselling trilogy and international Netflix sensation by no. 1 New York Times bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo. Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Laini Taylor. "This is what fantasy is for." - The New York Times Book Review All three books in Leigh Bardugo's New York Times-bestselling Shadow and Bone Trilogy...
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  • Gai-Jin
    A herculean achievement . . . strong plot and strong characterisation The Times It is 1862 and Japan is a land in chaos as the power of the Shogun wanes and the rival factions plan to restore the Emperor. In Yokohama, the gai-jin, the hated foreigners, seek to profit from the chaos. At the head of the Noble House -...
    By James Clavell
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  • The Violinist of Auschwitz
    "Absolutely adored this! Incredibly moving. I had tears welling up and my heart was racing. Did not want to put it down... I felt like I was actually there, I could practically hear the orchestra in the room with me." Goodreads Reviewer Inspired by the unforgettable true story of Alma Rose, The Violinist of Auschwitz brings to life one of...
    By Ellie Midwood
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  • Life After Life
    WINNER OF THE 2013 COSTA NOVEL AWARD โ€“ the acclaimed number one bestselling novel about a woman who lives her life over and over again through the most turbulent events of the 20th century, including the London Blitz. The PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, now a major BBC1 DRAMA SERIES starring Thomasin McKenzie, Sian Clifford, and James McArdle, directed by BAFTA award-winning John...
    By Kate Atkinson
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  • Black Silk and Buried Secrets
    The second captivating novel featuring intrepid heroine Tatty Crowe and the fascinating world of Sydney's Victorian funeral business, from bestselling historical fiction author Deborah Challinor. Sydney, 1871. Twenty-five-year-old widow Tatty Crowe is the owner of a busy undertaking firm, Crowe Funerals. Life and business are good until Tatty notices how many women are dying after unlawful abortions. After a terrible...
    By Deborah Challinor
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  • All the Beautiful Things
    A new heart-wrenching, impeccably researched historical novel for middle-grade readers The Nazis want everyone to be the same. If you're different, you don't belong. Not belonging is dangerous ... Anna's little sister, Eva, is frail and needs time to learn new things. She has a huge heart and a gift for loving, but Hitler doesn't value such riches. And so...
    By Katrina Nannestad
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  • Cloud Atlas
    In Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, a complex tapestry of interwoven narratives unfolds across different time periods and locations, each story impacting the others in profound and unexpected ways. The tale begins in 1850 with a reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific Ocean and follows a disinherited composer striving to make his mark in pre-World War II Belgium. Later, readers are...
    By David Mitchell
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  • The Voyage Home
    The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls. After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle. Alongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeksโ€”among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra and...
    By Pat Barker
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  • Lapvona
    Brace yourself for Lapvona โ€“ a rollercoaster ride of deprivation and perversion in the singular new novel from Ottessa Moshfegh, author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation. Welcome to Lapvona. In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself at the centre of a power struggle that puts all manner of...
    By Ottessa Moshfegh
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  • A Place of Greater Safety
    From the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror & the Light, comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination. A Place of Greater Safety stands as Hilary Mantelโ€™s epic retelling of the French Revolution, capturing the tumultuous period with searing insight and intricate detail. Set against the dramatic backdrop of late 18th-century...
    By Hilary Mantel
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    Circle of Days
    'Monumentally epic . . . a superb novel' LEE CHILD From the master of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world's greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge. A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat to witness the rituals that signal the start...
    By Ken Follett
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  • The Devil's Bible
    From celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry, don't miss the next action-packed Cotton Malone novel! Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is called to Sweden when the younger sister of King Wilhelm is kidnapped. The ransom demand? Hand over an 800-year-old book, the Codex Gigas, the largest illuminated medieval manuscript in the world. Claimed as war loot from...
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  • The Helsingรธr Sewing Club
    Inspired by the incredible true story of how the people of Denmark saved their Jewish neighbours during WW2 Helsingรธr, Denmark, 1943 In the midst of the German occupation during World War Two, Inger Bredahl joins the underground resistance and risks her life to save members of Denmarkโ€™s Jewish community and help them escape to Sweden. Copenhagen, 2018 Ingerโ€™s granddaughter, Cecilie...
    By Ella Gyland
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  • The Pillars of the Earth
    1135, and civil war, famine, and religious strife abound. With his family on the verge of starvation, mason Tom Builder dreams of the day when he can use his talents to create and build a cathedral like no other. Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge, is resourceful, but with money scarce, he knows that for his town to survive, it must...
    By Ken Follett
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  • A Breath Of Snow And Ashes
    The sixth novel in the bestselling Outlander series. The long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. It's 1772, in the Royal Colony of North Carolina, and the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and preserve the colony for King and Crown. One minor problem: Jamie Fraser's wife, Claire, is a time-traveller, as are his daughter and...
    By Diana Gabaldon
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  • The Lost Daughter of Sparta
    From actor and writer Felicia Day, a sapphic graphic novel about the forgotten sister of Helen of Troy, for fans of Lore Olympus and Girl Goddess Queen. Helen. Clytemnestra. Timandra. Three famous sisters and one shared curse โ€“ that each will betray their husband. As the youngest sister, Philonoe is desperate not to follow in their footsteps. After pleading with...
    By Felicia Day
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  • Augustus
    Augustus tells the story of Octavian, a shy and scholarly youth of nineteen who, on the death of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar, suddenly finds himself heir to the vast power of the Roman Empire. He is destined to rule that world astonishingly well, given the odds and intrigues against him. He would later be known as Augustus Caesar (63 B.C....
    By John Williams
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  • The Hobart Hotel: The new must-read 2026 Tasmanian historical novel about a jewel-thief-turned-spy.
    Glamour, intrigue and two women who will gamble their lives to survive ... the compelling new Tasmanian historical fiction from a bestselling Australian author. December 1939: The grand opening of Australia's most glamorous and talked about hotel, the Wrest Point Riviera.The equally glamorous Sabine Winters, recently arrived in Hobart from the Continent, anticipates a safe port from the storm that...
    By Mary-Lou Stephens
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  • The Spy's Wife
    Embark on a captivating journey of love, espionage, and treacherous alliances, as a widow's relentless pursuit for truth takes her from the untamed landscapes of northern England to the heart of Nazi Germany, where trust is scarce and loyalties are tested in the face of ultimate sacrifices. MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR "You'd be mad not to try her." The Age...
    By Fiona McIntosh
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  • The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
    Discover a world of enchantment, whimsy, and timeless wisdom with The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. This exquisite collection features 211 classic stories that have become an integral part of cultural heritage, including beloved favourites such as Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, Snow White, and Rumpelstiltskin. Each tale transports you to a realm...
    By Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
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  • The City of Brass
    The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty invites readers into a world teeming with enchantment, peril, and the unimaginable allure of the unknown. Set in the vibrant and chaotic streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, the story follows Nahri, a con artist of great skill and ambition. Nahri is anything but ordinary; she possesses an inexplicable talent for healing and a knack...
    By Shannon Chakraborty
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  • Death in the Spotlight
    The seventh thrilling (and rather theatrical) murder mystery from bestselling author Robin Stevens. Someone will take their final bow . . . Fresh from their adventure in Hong Kong, Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells are off to the Rue Theatre in London to face an entirely new challenge - acting. But danger has a nasty habit of catching up with...
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  • A Dowry of Blood
    THE GOTHIC TIKTOK SENSATION AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A thrilling and seductive Gothic rife with spine-tingling tension and dark romance. A Dowry of Blood left me breathless' Alexis Henderson, author of The Year of the Witching This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession. . . S.T. Gibson's sensational novel is the darkly...
    By S.T. Gibson
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  • The Temple of Fortuna
    The final instalment in Elodie Harper's Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den Trilogy 'Beautiful, moving, captivating.' Jennifer Saint 'Vivid, unsentimental and compelling.' The Times The Temple of Fortuna follows Amara's journey which has taken her far; from a slave in Pompeii's wolf den to a high-powered courtesan in Rome... though her story is not over yet. While Amara plays for power...
    By Elodie Harper
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  • The Last Tudor
    The final novel in the spellbinding Tudor novels series from Sunday Times bestselling author, Philippa Gregory The Last Tudor explores the dramatic story of Jane Grey, who was Queen of England for nine days. As her father and his conspirators utilised her position as cousin to the deceased king, they placed her on the throne ahead of the kingโ€™s half-sister...
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  • Wild Reverence
    Blockbuster bestseller Rebecca Ross returns to the world of international sensation Divine Rivals with her most epic story yet. Before Iris sat at her typewriter and before Enva sang her song, a young goddess wandered dreamsโ€ฆ Born to the firelit domain of the underworld, Matilda is the youngest goddess of her clan, blessed with humble messenger magic. But in a...
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  • The Hounding
    A strange, haunting historical debut about the Mansfield sistersโ€”five wild girls who are rumoured to turn into a pack of dogs. Extraordinary . . . clever, strange and beautifully written โ€“ THE TIMES Prompts thoughts of both THE CRUCIBLE and THE VIRGIN SUICIDES . . . Purvis is an exquisitely accomplished wordsmith. โ€“ DAILY TELEGRAPH A taut, tense tale, impeccably...
    By Xenobe Purvis
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    Behind Five Willows
    From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Crane Among Wolves comes a warm and romantic homage to Jane Austen set in historical Korea, about a reader and a writer who secretly fight against government book banning and find themselves irresistibly drawn together. As the dutiful second daughter of a poor family, Haewon is expected to marry well. Instead, amid...
    By June Hur
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  • The Storytellerโ€™s Secret
    The stunning new novel from the writer of The Lamplighter's Bookshop, perfect for fans of The Lost Bookshop and The Keeper of Stories Two locked hearts. One secret that could set them free โ€ฆ Readers love Sophie Austin! โ€˜What's not to love?! Nineteenth century York, bookshops and brilliant characters!' โญโญโญโญโญ 'Spellbinding and romanticโ€™ โญโญโญโญโญ 'A beautifully told historical novelโ€™ โญโญโญโญโญ...
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    Wolf Mountain
    Embark on an epic journey, in the jaw-dropping sequel to the bestselling and highly acclaimed Wolf Road, based on real archaeological discoveries, from award-winning historian and television presenter, Alice Roberts. Perfect for fans of Hannah Gold and Michelle Paver.ย The seasons are changing and Tuuli, along with her faithful wolf cub, Lupa, is on the move. Leaving her tribe behind, she...
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  • Godstorm
    Mothers who have come before. Daughters who have died in blood. Sons lost to the dark. Hear me This startling alternative history takes us to a newly-imagined world... The result is a vivid, ferocious adventure. Kim Stanley-Robinson A highly original, vividly-imagined fantasy Roman Empire where oil is power. Ruth Downie A Female Gladiator's Vow. A Stolen Child. A Storm to...
    By Solitaire Townsend
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  • I Survived the Black Death, 1348 (I Survived #24)
    The deadliest disease in the history of the world... Elsie dreams of becoming a brave warrior like her father, who is an archer fighting in Englandโ€™s war against France. But life isnโ€™t fair in 1348 Europe. Peasant girls like Elsie canโ€™t be archers or knights or anything exciting. Then one day in the forest, Elsie and her best friend discover...
    By Lauren Tarshis
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  • The Wartime Librarianโ€™s Secret
    Bestselling historical fiction author Molly Green is back with her most engrossing, heartfelt World War Two saga yet, The Wartime Librarianโ€™s Secret! Amid the chaos of war, will a new chapter begin? September 1942. Esme Donaldson is still grieving the devastating loss of her husband, Anthony, when sheโ€™s forced out of her dream job by wartime budget cuts. Left with...
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  • Clive Cusslerโ€™s Quantum Tempest
    Clive Cusslerโ€™s Quantum Tempest by Mike Maden features Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon in an explosive new instalment of the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Join Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew in the latest explosive thrill-ride from the grand master of adventure, Clive Cussler. Praise for Clive Cussler: The Adventure King - Sunday Express Cussler...
    By Mike Maden
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  • Shadow Ticket
    A private eye is catapulted onto a riotous and continent-hopping journey that proves difficult to escapeโ€”the new novel from the visionary storyteller. Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labour-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a one-time...
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  • The Winter Garden
    โ€˜An enchanting timeslip novel that kept me spellboundโ€™ CHRISTINA COURTENAY โ€˜Fascinating and captivatingโ€™ SARAH MORGAN โ€˜Gloriousโ€ฆ I adored itโ€™ KATHLEEN MCGURL โ€˜This atmospheric novel is such an absorbing readโ€™ MY WEEKLY Remember, remember, the fifth of Novemberโ€ฆ 1605: Anne Catesby fears for her family. Her son, the darkly charismatic Robert, is secretly plotting to kill the King, placing his wife...
    By Nicola Cornick
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  • When We Had Wings
    International Trade Paper Edition From three bestselling authors comes an interwoven tale about a trio of World War II nurses stationed in the South Pacific who wage their own battle for freedom and survival. The Philippines, 1941. When U.S. Navy nurse Eleanor Lindstrom, U.S. Army nurse Penny Franklin, and Filipina nurse Lita Capel forge a friendship at the Army Navy...
    By Susan Meissner and Kristina McMorris and Ariel Lawhon
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  • This Tender Land
    1932, Minnesotaโ€”the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendentโ€™s wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little...
    By William Kent Krueger
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  • The Secret Messenger
    The highly awaited new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The German Midwife (also published as A Woman of War). Venice, 1943The world is at war, and Stella Jilani is leading a double life. By day she works in the lionโ€™s den as a typist for the Reich; by night, she risks her life as a messenger for the...
    By Mandy Robotham
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  • Queen of Swords
    The epic tale of love and adventure that has captured the hearts of millions continues against the volatile backdrop of a city on the brink of war. Shifting from the steamy shores of the Caribbean to New Orleans, Queen of Swords picks up the story of Hannah Bonner, the beautiful half-Mohawk daughter of frontiersman Nathaniel Bonner, as she and her...
    By Sara Donati
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  • Moby Dick
    HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. โ€˜Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hellโ€™s heart I stab at thee; for hateโ€™s sake I spit my last breath at theeโ€ฆโ€™ Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melvilleโ€™s Moby Dick. Captain...
    By Herman Melville
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  • The Mushroom in the Sky
    In the 80th anniversary year, Jackie French explores the dropping of the bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, which ended World War 2. 1942 Japan has bombed Sydney Harbour. Sixteen-year-old Ossie lies about his age to protect his country, even though it means abandoning his only family, a one-eyed dog named Lucky. Kind-hearted Mrs Plum is already looking...
    By Jackie French
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  • A Murder in Paris
    You think you know what happened that night. But the truth is far more dangerous. From the No.1 international bestselling author of ANNA O comes a story of secret pasts and buried memories. A Murder in Paris is a thriller youโ€™ll never forget โ€ฆ Imagine the past returning to you in fragments. A hotel room, a pillow, a lifeless body....
    By Matthew Blake
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  • When We Meet Again
    Kristin Harmel is firmly in the top echelon of WW2 storytellers โ€” HEATHER MORRIS A master storyteller โ€” SANTA MONTEFIORE Some secrets echo through time Emily Emerson has recently lost her job and is looking for a new purpose in life. When a mysterious parcel comes her way, she's intrigued. Inside is a painting of a beautiful woman standing at...
    By Kristin Harmel
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  • Tai-Pan
    'Intensely readable and exciting' Sunday Telegraph Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men. This is the...
    By James Clavell
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  • Wolf Hall
    Now a major TV series. Winner of the Man Booker Prize. The first book in Hilary Mantelโ€™s award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light. From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel. โ€˜Every bit...
    By Hilary Mantel
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  • The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club
    Two sisters living on Martha's Vineyard during World War II find hope in the power of storytelling when they start a wartime book clubโ€” a spectacular novel inspired by true events from the bestselling author of Lilac Girls. 2016 Fresh from her mother's funeral, Mari arrives on Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts to study under the enigmatic painter...
    By Martha Hall Kelly
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  • Dead Man's Walk
    Taking you deep into the heart of the American West, Dead Man's Walk is the first book in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove quartet. These are the wild days when Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call โ€“ heroes of Lonesome Dove โ€“ first encounter the untamed frontier that will form their characters. Not yet twenty, Gus and Call enlist as Texas Rangers...
    By Larry McMurtry
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  • The Fallen Woman
    The heart-stopping new historical adventure from the bestselling author of The Sugar Palace. Botanical artist Jane Saville is devastated when her manipulative mother banishes her to the countryside to protect someone else's honour. Isolated far from home, she is forced to live an impoverished, secretive life to save the family from public shame. Guy Attwood is heir to a fortune,...
    By Fiona McIntosh
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  • To Sir Phillip, With Love And When He Was Wicked
    A beautiful collectible edition containing the fifth and sixth novels of the beloved Bridgerton series by New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn. To Sir Phillip, With Love Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so heโ€™d proposed, figuring that sheโ€™d be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. Except......
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  • The Naturalist's Daughter
    A woman's bungled act of kindness sparks a chain of events that reverberates through the generations, uncovering secrets, lies, and the biggest scientific controversy of the nineteenth century: the classification of the platypus. Two women, a century apart, are drawn into a mystery surrounding the biggest scientific controversy of the nineteenth century, the classification of the platypus. 1808 Agnes Banks,...
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  • All the Pretty Horses
    John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where...
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  • Long Island
    A novel of enormous wit and profound emotional resonance from one of the world's finest writers. Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighbouring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents. It is the spring of...
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  • The Dictionary of Lost Words
    In 1901, the word 'Bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the 'Scriptorium', a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for...
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  • Lincoln in the Bardo
    WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A STORY OF LOVE AFTER DEATH โ€˜A masterpieceโ€™ Zadie Smith โ€˜Extraordinaryโ€™ Daily Mail โ€˜Breathtakingโ€™ Observer โ€˜A tour de forceโ€™ The Sunday Times George Saunders' extraordinary debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, weaves a heart-rending story set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. As the battle-lines are drawn and a nation is...
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  • Juice
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  • Master and Commander
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  • The Song of Achilles
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  • The Odyssey
    The Odyssey
    An epic journey of adventure, endurance, and the search for home In The Odyssey, Homer crafts one of the oldest and most influential adventure stories in Western literature. The poem follows Odysseus, the cunning king of Ithaca, as he battles gods, monsters, and temptation on his ten-year quest to return home after the Trojan War. Facing shipwrecks, the wrath of...
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  • I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (I Survived #1: Special Edition)
    It was supposed to be unsinkable... George Calder must be the luckiest kid aliveโ€”he and his little sister, Phoebe, are sailing with their aunt on the Titanic, the greatest ship ever built! George canโ€™t resist exploring every inch of the incredible boat, even if it gets him into trouble. But one night while George is off exploring, a terrible boom...
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  • Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt
    Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt by Lucinda Riley and Harry Whittaker, the instant #1 international bestseller, delivers an exquisite conclusion to the acclaimed Seven Sisters series. This final instalment spans lifetimes of love and loss, crossing borders and oceans to weave an unforgettable narrative that reveals long-held secrets and uncovers the true essence of Pa Salt. In 1928, Paris,...
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  • Ghost-Eye
    Calcutta, September 1969 Varsha Gupta wants fish for her lunch. Her family can't understand it; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her life. The Guptas are strict vegetarians and don't allow it inside their Calcutta mansion. But Varsha claims she can remember another life, a mud house by a river where she caught and cooked fish with a different...
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  • The Odyssey (Super Deluxe Edition)
    The Odyssey (Super Deluxe Edition)
    A stunning gift edition of the age-old tale of Odysseus and his journey. This epic poem by Homer, believed to have been written between the eighth and ninth centuries BC, continues to be essential reading for young and old alike. The Odyssey follows the Greek hero Odysseus on a ten-year journey back to his home in Ithaca after fighting in...
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  • The Strength of Old Shale
    When the bones of a mother and her child, wrapped in a Shetland lace shawl, are dug up from a forgotten graveyard, two worlds collide. Ariel is rural tough, raised in the defiant republic that is Whangamomona. When her childhood nemesis is found decapitated in a sports car beneath the bull bars of Ariel's ute, her world implodes. She has...
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  • Lasher
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    The Wayfinder
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofโ€ฏThe Orphan Masterโ€™s Son, comes a mythic masterpiece and historical epic about a girl from a remote Tongan island who becomes her people's queen. Talking corpses, poetic parrots, and a fan that wafts the breath of life โ€“ this is the world young Kลrero finds herself thrust into when a mysterious visitor lands on her...
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  • The House of Boleyn
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  • Meet the Newmans
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  • The Cloud Catcher: The brand-new for 2026 epic love story from a bestselling author for fans of Jojo Moyes and Nicholas Sparks.
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  • Mexican Gothic
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  • Alcott Hall
    A spicy 'Why choose' regency romance set five years after the initial SECOND SONS duology by viral TikTok sensation, Emily Rath. The Lady has an offer. The Vicar has a Confession. Lady Madeline Blair is on a mission. Her eccentric late aunt left her a small fortune with one condition โ€” to claim it, Madeline must marry by New Year's...
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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.