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  • The Flight of the Dragonfly
    A heartbreaking loss, a chance at redemption, and the courage to love again. In Edinburgh's rain-swept streets, Grace thought she had found her forever in Jamie—until a devastating betrayal shatters their marriage and forces her to question everything she believed about love. Fleeing to the sun-bleached shores of Lesvos in Greece, Grace seeks solitude among the island's ancient olive groves....
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  • The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay
    1927. Transatlantic flight fever grips the globe. The Honourable Miss Elsie Mackay, glamorous ex-film star turned bold aviator, sets her sights on becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. Her friend Stella Campbell once felt at the heart of world events, but post-war hopes are frayed and marriage and motherhood have worn away her sense of self. Meanwhile,...
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  • The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
    For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated through South America in linen suits, keeping two steps ahead of Mossad agents, international police and the world’s journalists. In this rigorously researched factual novel—drawn almost entirely from historical documents—Olivier...
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  • The Dictator's Wife
    Everyone is talking about this darkly gripping story of hidden secrets, as seen on BBC2 Between the Covers Book Club. 'A gripping, intelligent, utterly-of-the-moment thriller' — EMMA STONEX 'A captivating story of women's power, love and secrets' — LARA PRESCOTT 'Compelling, atmospheric. It's BRILLIANT' — MARIAN KEYES 'Fascinating, atmospheric, utterly gripping' — LIZ HYDER 'Demands to be devoured in one...
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  • The Cursed Tomb
    A thrilling adventure of curses, myths and legends set in ancient Egypt, perfect for fans of Emma Carroll and Horrible Histories. It’s 1249 BCE in ancient Egypt and eleven-year-old Henut is sceptical of just about everything, even the gods. But a mysterious break-in, an unsettling dream and a strangely familiar shadowy figure lead her into a dangerous quest she could...
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  • The Bright Side Of My Condition
    "When the Captain find us stowaways and give us the choice between join the island or join the crew, all of us to a man cry island! island! So he put us ashore with a few provisions and a trypot and sail away." After escaping from the Norfolk Island jail on a whaling ship, Bloodworth and three fellow convicts are...
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  • The Boy Who Hugs Trees
    A story of impossible choices, buried secrets, and the courage to rebuild. When Georgia removes her autistic son, Dylan, from a prestigious Edinburgh school, she seeks refuge in her family's ancestral home on the sunlit shores of the Greek island of Corfu. Among the olive trees and cicadas, she discovers her late mother's diary—an intimate glimpse into a marriage shaped...
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  • The Bishop's Villa
    Tuscany, November 1943. The village of Le Case is miles from any big city and remains rooted in an earlier century. Seen from Le Case, even the war looks different—mostly a matter of waiting, praying, and mourning. As a fierce winter threatens, an ominous order is issued by the local Fascist authorities: all Jews must be rounded up and detained...
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  • Terra Incognita
    SIMON TURNEY'S THRILLING NEW ROMAN EMPIRE NOVEL AGRICOLA: COMMANDER AVAILABLE NOW! An empire on the edge. A scheme for glory. A plan to control the greatest river in the world. 61 AD. Emperor Nero schemes avidly to increase his wealth and slaughter his many enemies, but also seeks glory. He looks south from Rome to Africa. The great River Nile...
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  • Teacher Narit
    A disillusioned revolutionist grappling with who he was and who he has become in disguise, set in one of the most turbulent times in modern Thailand history. A story told in three parts, Teacher Narit is a historical novel centering on the main protagonist, Narit, a mysterious civil war veteran who escaped the capital in the 70s to start a...
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  • Tales of the Prague Ghetto
    A collection of nineteenth-century folklore-infused tales of Jewish life in Prague. Trained in philosophy and medicine, the writer, translator, scholar, and political and cultural activist Siegfried Kapper (1821–1879) devoted significant effort to the advancement of Jewish culture in Bohemia, Jewish emancipation, and to the commitment of Jews to contemporary Czech society. The three stories in this collection, which first appeared...
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  • Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts
    The original Welsh stories of these beloved characters and their world for the first time in English The stories in Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts deal with well-known figures from medieval Britain who will be familiar to many readers—though not from the versions presented here. These freshly translated tales emerge from the remarkable and enormous sixteenth-century Chronicle...
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  • Silence of the Sea / Le Silence de la Mer
    This first bilingual edition of France's most enduring wartime novel introduces Vercors's famous tale to a generation without personal experience of World War II who may not be able to read it in its original language. Now available in paperback, readers are assisted with a historical and literary introduction, explanatory notes, a glossary of French terms, and a select bibliography....
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  • Showers of Luck
    A story of two young Peranakans growing up and falling in love in pre-war colonial Singapore. Inspired by a true story, Showers of Luck follows the life of two characters, Lily and Khalid. Lily is a hard-working young nyonya who stays with a distant aunt's family, following the advice of a fortune-teller that she should be given away after birth....
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  • Regime Change
    They framed his sergeant. Sherman's not buying it. When Sergeant Raylan Gournsey is arrested for murder in Equatorial Guinea, it looks open and shut: Naked. Drugged. A body beside him. The local police waste no time calling it solved. But Captain Frank Sherman doesn't believe in coincidences. The deeper Sherman digs, the clearer the setup becomes—and the more dangerous the...
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  • Reckoning
    They stole the drone tech and burned the refugee camp. He plans to return the favour. West Africa is already a tinderbox when Captain Frank Sherman touches down. A refugee camp lies in ruins. Experimental U.S. drone tech is missing. And someone's doing everything they can to make sure Sherman's team never comes home. But Sherman doesn't rattle. From jihadist...
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  • Quills Christmas Flirtation/The Duke's Family For Christmas/His Mistletoe Marchioness
    The Duke’s Family For Christmas - Sarah Mallory He has until Christmas Eve... to make them a family! Determined to claim the son his late wife kept secret from him, Leo, Duke of Tain, is working in disguise as his tutor. Until Miss Lily Wrayford, the child’s fiercely protective guardian, discovers Leo’s true identity... and gives him until Christmas to...
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  • Puppet Flower
    In 1867, an American merchant ship, the Rover, sank off the coast of southern Taiwan. Fourteen sailors reached the shore, where almost all were killed by indigenous people. In retaliation, the United States launched two disastrous military operations against local tribes. Eventually, the U.S. consul to Amoy, Charles Le Gendre, negotiated a treaty with Tauketok, the chief of the eighteen...
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  • Precious Freedom
    FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS COMES PRECIOUS FREEDOM, A NOVEL OF THE WAR IN VIETNAM. The Vietnam War was a tragedy for America—and for Vietnam. But for the Vietnamese, it was also a victory: they defeated the world's wealthiest country and most powerful military. James Bradley, the author of Flags of Our...
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  • Pollak's Arm
    Enthralling ... A great read. - Philippe de Montebello, former director, Metropolitan Museum of Art October 16, 1943, inside the Vatican as darkness descends upon Rome. Having been alerted to the Nazi plan to round up the city's Jewish population the next day, Monsignor F. dispatches an envoy to a nearby palazzo to bring Ludwig Pollak and his family to...
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  • Perpetua
    A cryptic message. A missing woman. And one man ready to make it personal. Frank Sherman doesn't want to be found. But when a message arrives from Ruby—a woman tied to his last blood-soaked mission—he knows he can't ignore it. She's vanished into a remote Idaho town—and whatever she was running from just caught up. The locals won't talk. One...
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  • Ovid’s Metamorphoses
    This fresh translation revives the politics and power at play in classical mythology’s foremost source Centuries of conservative translators have robbed the Metamorphoses of its subversive force. In this boldly lyrical translation, C. Luke Soucy revives the magnum opus of Rome’s most clever and creative poet, faithfully matching the epic’s wit and style while confronting the sexuality, violence, and politics...
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  • Omertà
    A rich, layered narrative that explores the indomitable human spirit against the backdrop of Romania's complex history in the 1950s and '60s. A rural area not far from the city of Cluj-Napoca, a former Hungarian province that has been part of Romania since 1920. World War II has ended and the region is under the firm clasp of Stalinist collectivisation....
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  • Nomad
    They stole weapons and buried the trail. Now Sherman's digging up the truth. Frank Sherman returns to the California desert to visit his dying mother. But when her nurse asks for help finding her missing brother, Sherman gets pulled into something far darker than expected. The guy was last seen dealing in stolen military-grade weapons. The FBI's circling. Locals are...
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  • Magical History Tour Vol. 4
    Modern day kids Annie and Nico go on a magical history tour back to the Middle Ages to find out what started the Crusades—and why there were so many of them. They travel to Jerusalem (where it all started) and they meet kings and popes and emperors and sultans... including Richard the Lionheart and his famous adversary Saladin. Along the...
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  • Kitty's War
    Kilkenny, 1939. Ireland might be neutral, but Kitty Flynn is caught in her own war. Forced to give up her child at seventeen, she escaped to London in search of a fresh start. However, in 1941, upon hearing that her brother, Anthony, who had been injured during the Spanish Civil War, is now gravely ill, Kitty must return home to...
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  • Jack Slade
    A USA Today bestseller! A tale of frontier justice in the early days of the Pony Express—based on a story you'd never believe was true. Jack Slade is one of the few stationmasters on the Overland Stagecoach Company who has a code of honour and some skills with a wagon and a Colt. That's why he's chosen by company boss...
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  • In a Dark Wood Wandering
    During the late Middle Ages, conflict raged between France and England as they battled in pursuit of power, the throne and beyond. It became known as the Hundred Years’ War. Hella S. Haasse’s epic masterpiece brings this period to vivid life, as the novel’s infamous characters move across a panoramic tapestry woven together by criss-crossed bloodlines and intense rivalries. There...
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  • Heloise
    An absorbing adult novel from this much-loved writer of YA fiction. What happens when the 12th century's most famous French lovers are caught in the crossfire of factions, religious reform and blind ambition? Heloise is a determined young woman with an exceptional mind, longing to pursue learning rather than marriage or life as a cloistered nun. Her path inevitably crosses...
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  • Gwen
    In 1903, the artist Gwendolen Mary John travels from London to France with her companion Dorelia. Surviving on their wits and Gwen's raw talent, the young women walk from Calais to Paris. In the new century, the world is full of promise—it is time for Gwen to step out from the shadow of her overbearing brother Augustus and seek out...
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  • Dying is Easier than Loving
    The third book in the Ottoman Quartet, set in the years leading up to WWI, is steeped in the tumultuous events and the political struggle that shaped 20th-century Turkey, from the war against the Bulgarian army and the coup that resulted in the nation's one-party rule. Against this background, a tormented, obsessive love affair unfolds between Nizam, the son of...
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  • Disappearance of a Scribe
    An absorbing historical whodunit from the New York Times bestselling author of the Kate Shugak Mysteries. Queen Cleopatra is troubled by a series of mysterious murders. Alexandria, 47BC. Egypt's dynastic war is over, Julius Caesar has returned to Rome, but Cleopatra's people have suffered. The Queen must restore both her capital and her kingdom to their former greatness. But a...
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  • Bethnal Green
    Penang, 1971. When Suyin Lim is offered the opportunity of a lifetime—a place as a trainee nurse in London's Bethnal Green Hospital—she jumps at the chance to leave her job as a seamstress and unite with her sister, who left for the same path a year before. However, without warning, her sister returns to Penang, a shadow of her former...
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  • Beneath A Burning Sky
    One moment of courage can echo through generations. Corfu, 1943. In the shadow of World War II, a badly wounded British soldier is found near the home of Helena, a young Greek wife and mother. Risking her family's safety, she makes a choice that will change everything—saving a stranger who will become far more than just a man she rescued....
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  • A Savage Moon
    A masterly debut... If Bernard Cornwell and George R.R. Martin had a lovechild, it would look like A Mighty Dawn. I devoured it late into the night, and eagerly await the sequel - The Times Gripping. Gut-wrenching - ERIC SCHUMACHER An epic, spellbinding Viking fantasy of blood and battle, weaving together history, fantasy and ancient myth. Perfect for fans of...
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  • Aram's Notebook
    A mother and son's fictional journey to escape the Armenian Genocide and start anew. Like any other fifteen-year-old boy, Aram might never have written the events of his still young life, except that he found himself suddenly plunged into exile, fleeing certain death. In 1915, the Ottoman authorities undertook the wholesale extermination of the Armenian people; hundreds of thousands of...
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  • A Moth to the Flame
    A shared past. A life-changing secret. Can love find its way back? 1992 For Brodie, happiness feels real for the first time during a summer in Edinburgh with Elora, the woman who changes everything. But, after a devastating betrayal, Elora returns to Greece, leaving behind only a note with two haunting words: Forgive me. Brodie is forced to move on,...
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  • A More Perfect Union
    A More Perfect Union is the forbidden love story of a slave woman and an Irish immigrant, inspired by the author's great-great-grandparents. Henry O'Toole sails to America in 1848 to escape poverty and famine in Ireland, only to find anti-Irish prejudice awaiting him. Determined never to starve again, he changes his surname to Taylor and heads south to the state...
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  • All the Summers In Between
    “Make room in your beach bag for this mesmerizing book” (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author) about two estranged friends whose unexpected reconnection in the Hamptons forces them to finally confront the terrible event that drove them apart. When wealthy, impulsive Margot meets hardworking and steady Thea in the summer of 1967, the unlikely pair become fast friends,...
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  • A Bride's Story, Vol. 9
    Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori's tale of life on the nineteenth-century Silk Road continues in A Bride's Story, Vol. 9. Pariya's budding romance with Umar is off to a rough start due to her brash personality and lack of confidence. But if she can't figure out how to say what she wants with words, then perhaps the old adage is true—the...
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  • Abduction of a Slave
    The gripping new historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow. In Cleopatra’s Egypt, the clouds of war are on the horizon… Cleopatra, seventh of her name, all-powerful ruler of Egypt, has found her most able and trusted agent in Tetisheri, her Eye of Isis. So when Tetisheri asks permission to visit the Kingdom of Cyrenaica, she is...
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  • Magnitude
    Magnitude by Jennifer Nielsen San Francisco, 1906. When Cora leaves her house in the early morning hours of April 18th, she expects trouble to find her, like it somehow always does. But as she makes her way to the San Francisco docks to look for her father, the earth begins to shake and suddenly, Cora realises that she’s not just...
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  • You've Got Plaid
    Perfect for fans of Diana Gabaldon, this thrilling Highlander romance is based on the women who risked their lives to deliver messages to the Jacobites. A fierce and loyal Highlander A proud and determined rebel A mission that could cost them not only the Crown But their hearts as well... Brogan Grant, Jacobite soldier and bastard son of the Chief,...
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  • Wild and Distant Seas
    Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed—but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea....
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  • War of Hearts
    War of Hearts is a heart-stopping novel of love in a time of war, ideal for fans of Fiona McIntosh and Natasha Lester. In 1917, America's declaration of war against Germany gives Grace Winter, a keen-eyed New York Times investigative reporter, a much sought after opportunity to make her mark on the Western Front. But by 1918, the gruesome reality...
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  • Trophy Hunt
    PREORDER C.J. BOX'S THRILLING NEW NOVEL THE CROSSROADS NOW! Is nature striking back... or is a serial killer on the loose? It's an idyllic late-summer day in Saddlestring, Wyoming, and Game Warden Joe Pickett is fly-fishing with his two daughters when he stumbles upon the mutilated body of a moose. Whatever attacked the animal was ruthless: half the animal's face...
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  • The Witch and the Priest
    PENGUIN HORROR- A celebration of the very best literary horror, a series of terrifying novels and tales that for generations have thrilled, captivated and kept readers wide awake at night. Joan Flower is long dead when she first appears to Samuel Fleming, a priest plagued by doubts about her and her daughters' execution for witchcraft. Did he do all he...
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  • The Whispering Muse
    LAURA PURCELL'S HAUNTING HOUSE OF SPLINTERS IS AVAILABLE TO OUT NOW ---------------------------------------- 'Spooky, atmospheric, brilliant' Bridget Collins 'Glitteringly dark and mesmerising' Jennifer Saint Be careful what you wish for... it may just come true. At The Mercury Theatre in London's West End, rumours are circulating of a curse. It is said that the lead actress Lilith has made a pact...
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  • The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf
    Two Shakespearean actors in an unconventional marriage get caught up in a renowned director's scheme that will bring them closer than ever or rip them apart for good. Up-and-coming stage actress Margaret Shoard has just taken a bow as Lady Macbeth, the role she has always believed was destined for her. At home, she plays wife to her best friend...
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  • The Sea Gives Up the Dead
    Debut author Molly Olgun brings us The Sea Gives Up the Dead, a collection of stories sprinkled into the soil of fairy tales, left to take root and grow wild there. 'Witty, witchy, darkly brilliant' — Andrea Barrett 'A wunderkammer of beauty and sorrow.' — Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House A lovesick nanny slays a dragon....
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  • The Rose Villa
    From the French Riviera between the wars to a terrifying endgame in World War 2 Occupied France, a gripping story of doomed but triumphant love from the author of A Wedding in the Olive Garden. High above the Mediterranean, on the French Riviera, stands a beautiful pink stucco villa. Once a playground for the rich and glamorous, now—in the aftermath...
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  • The Portrait Artist
    All that is hidden will soon be revealed . . . 'Steeped in atmosphere, sprinkled with suspense and vivid characters ... An engaging, entertaining read' Daily Mail 'A triumph ... deliciously intriguing' Harriet Constable, author of The Instrumentalist 'Impeccably researched, masterfully plotted, beautifully written' Santa Montefiore 'Imaginative. The streets, parlours and galleries of London and Oxford come alive in this...
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  • The Oceans and the Stars
    Part lyrical love story, part naval adventure, and part modern morality tale, this epic new novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter’s Tale and Paris in the Present Tense showcases Mark Helprin’s powers as a master storyteller. Stephen Rensselaer, a Navy captain near the end of his career, is a man who speaks truth to power...
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  • The Mischief Makers
    AS COMPELLING AS ANY OF DU MAURIER'S OWN WORKS SUNDAY TIMES She wrote her stories in his shadow. Now Daphne's past is catching up with her... In a beautiful house in the wilds of Cornwall, Daphne du Maurier is on the brink of a nervous breakdown. Tangled in a self-destructive love affair that threatens to unravel her marriage, she is...
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  • The Koro Riots
    A provocative political satire questioning the most important datum regarding the manhood. The Koro Riots is a satire regarding the political struggle in an imaginary country called Hujung Manani, a former French colony in South East Asia. Its leader, Priapus, is a dictator. His wife, Datin Lotis, uses black magic, namely the power of a weretiger. The narrative revolves around...
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  • The House of Barbary
    If you crossed The Miniaturist with Promising Young Woman, you'd get The House of Barbary... a blazing feminist roar of a novel' Naomi Kelsey. Beatrice has been lied to her whole life. Beatrice Barbary has been raised to believe that while education will set her mind free, there are some questions better left unanswered. Her life is in disarray. But...
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  • The Fire and the Rose: the powerful new historical novel from the author of the critically acclaimed The Anchoress, for readers of Anna Funder and Kate Mosse
    From Robyn Cadwallader, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Anchoress and Book of Colours, comes a vibrant, richly imagined and deeply moving novel set in the turbulent world of thirteenth-century England. Longlisted for the 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize. England, 1276: Forced to leave her home village, Eleanor moves to Lincoln to work as a housemaid. She's prickly,...
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  • The Edinburgh Skating Club
    When you look at a painting, what do you really see? When eighteenth-century poet Alison Cockburn accepts a light-hearted challenge from her friend Katherine Hume to live as a man, in order to infiltrate Edinburgh's all-male skating club, little do they both realise how her new identity will shape their future. And in the present, art historian Claire Sharp receives...
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  • The Cameraman
    Former cinema camera director Julius Sewell journeys across Europe with his family to his sister's wedding in Rome. But this will be an unusual road trip. For one thing, Julius has been in an institution and has only just been released to travel. And then there is his family. This is Easter 1934 and Julius' stepfather and mother are keen...
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  • The Blood of Rome (Eagles of the Empire 17)
    The gripping new adventure in Simon Scarrow's bestselling EAGLES OF THE EMPIRE series, not to be missed by readers of Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell. It is AD 55. As trouble brews on the eastern fringes of the Roman Empire, Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro must prepare for war... The wily Parthian Empire has invaded Roman-ruled Armenia, ousting King Rhadamistus....
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  • The Blood Flower
    Exceptional Sarah Hilary Don’t be ordinary, Leo. Passion has its price. 1883. Two young people have been killed near Portsmouth’s docks. When journalist and amateur detective Leo Stanhope arrives, the police have already dismissed the victims as a ‘molly-lad’ and a misfit. As Leo begins to investigate, what he uncovers will lead him to the dangers of the Navy shipyard,...
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  • The Blazing Sea
    The thrilling new Whale Road Chronicles Viking adventure. Einar and the Wolf Coats venture south, but danger and bloodshed is never far away. Einar and the Wolf Coats have angered most of the kings of Northern Europe. With England no refuge, their only solution is to set sail across the Whale Road. A chance encounter with a slave trader leads...
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  • The Barbarian
    Treacheries, betrayals and bloody battles during the desperate twilight years of Rome's once all-powerful empire - the latest action-packed, thrillingly authentic new Roman historical novel from a writer acclaimed as one of the genre's best. AD 406. Abandoned by friends and hounded by enemies, Roman cavalry commander Marcus Flavius Victor and a small band of loyal warriors know that the...
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  • The Artist's Secret: The new gripping historical novel with a shocking secret from the bestselling author of The Paris Model and The Royal Correspondent
    The sweeping new saga of strong heroines and family secrets from the bestselling author of The Paris Model. While searching for her lost sister, art historian Wren Summers takes on the glittering world of New York's auction houses. A missing girl, a hidden masterpiece, and the search for the truth 1965: After escaping from anti-war turmoil and the suffocating weight...
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  • The Affairs of Ashmore Castle
    The second novel in the Ashmore Castle series, perfect for fans of Downton Abbey, from the author of the hugely successful Morland Dynasty novels. Behind the doors of the magnificent Ashmore Castle, secrets are waiting to be uncovered... England, 1903. Giles, the new Earl of Stainton, is struggling to bring his family's estate back to order after the death of...
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  • Smoke and Silk
    'Atmospheric, intricate and authentic' ERIN KELLY 'Utterly immersive and completely compelling . . . A dazzling debut' D. V. BISHOP 'An unusual and enjoyable crime story' SUNDAY TIMES Darkness lies in the shadows of Victorian London Opium, treachery, murder . . . Pearl Fitzgerald arrives in Limehouse—London's very first Chinatown—to settle her late father's affairs and claim her inheritance. But...
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  • Smell of Starving Boys
    Texas, 1872. With the Civil War over, exploration has resumed in the territories to the west of the Mississippi, and the geologist Stingley is looking to capitalise. Together with photographer Oscar Forrest, who catalogues the terrain, and their young assistant, Milton, Stingley strikes out into territory that might one day support a new civilisation. But this is no virgin land....
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  • Shahnameh
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Historical Fiction

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

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

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