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  • Call of the Titanic
    Sid is proud to be working on the Titanic, while Clara’s a stowaway on a much smaller boat, Carpathia, with a dog called Rigel. When disaster strikes, it will take all their courage – and the help of a remarkable sea creature – to answer the call of a sinking ship. Discover the thrilling adventure in Call of the Titanic...
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  • Bluebird
    #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Light in Hidden Places, Sharon Cameron, presents an immersively dramatic, breathtaking novel of loyalty and betrayal, set in post-World War II New York City. In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder...
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  • Bluebird
    In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird — a horrific experiment of the...
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  • Black Beauty
    This powerful narrative, told from the perspective of a horse, is now available in an unabridged edition. Despite Black Beauty being her only published work, Anna Sewell is widely regarded as one of the most successful children's novelists from England. Black Beauty chronicles the life of a horse in Victorian England. At the hands of different owners, he experiences discipline,...
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  • Back to the Farture! (Fartboy #9)
    Back to the Farture! (Fartboy #9) takes our favourite flatulent superhero on an unprecedented journey ... to the past! But it’s not all smelly fun and games. Fartboy is soon running for his life from bean-hating, boy-eating dinosaurs! And, as if that weren't enough, he finds himself battling butt-flaming dragons alongside the Knights of the Round Toilet! Fartboy must navigate...
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  • A Snowfall of Silver
    It is 1931 and impetuous Freya leaves her family to follow her dream of becoming an actress. She joins a theatrical company and falls in love with the excitement of theatre life—and the handsome leading man. Neither being an actress nor having a love affair lives up to Freya’s grand expectations—which is when she realises her true calling, and real...
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  • A Sky Painted Gold
    Growing up in her sleepy Cornish village, dreaming of being a writer, sixteen-year-old Lou has always wondered about the grand Cardew house which has stood empty for years. And when the owners arrive for the summer—a handsome, dashing brother and sister—Lou is quite swept off her feet and into a world of moonlit cocktail parties and glamour beyond her wildest...
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  • A Showgirl's Rules for Falling in Love
    Moulin Rouge meets The Greatest Showman in this romance between a vaudeville star and a showbiz tycoon, who find love at the turn of the twentieth century framed by the mischievous commentary of a contemporary young historian. It’s 1897, and a new fashion for thin threatens to end the career of the proudly fat vaudeville performer Evelyn Cross. Enter Thomas...
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  • A Secret of Birds & Bone (paperback)
    In an Italian city ravaged by plague, Sofia’s mother carves beautiful mementoes from bones. But one day, she doesn’t return home. Did her work lead her into danger? Sofia and her little brother Ermin are sent to the convent orphanage but soon escape, led by an enigmatic new friend and their pet crow, Corvith. Together they cross the city underground,...
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  • A Season for Scandal
    An all-female detective agency righting wrongs at the end of the nineteenth century; infiltrating a scandalous upper-class world straight out of Bridgerton and using their wit and bravery to unmask a villain. When Marigold Bloom finds her family business in trouble, a chance encounter with the devastatingly handsome and extremely bad-tempered Oliver Lockhart leads her to the Aviary—a secret agency...
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  • Artifice
    Isa de Smit was raised in the vibrant, glittering world of her parents' small art gallery in Amsterdam, a hub of beauty, creativity, and expression until the Nazi occupation wiped the colour from her city's palette. The "degenerate" art of the Gallery de Smit is confiscated, and the artists are in hiding or deported. Her best friend, Truus, fled to...
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  • All The Better To See You
    What if the hood was just a disguise? In and around the ancient forest of Aramor, an urban legend thrives—the legend of the wolf who preys on travellers under the full moon and has even been known to attack humans in their own homes. As a townsperson who lives on the edge of the forest, Red is well versed in...
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  • Vita and the Birds
    A haunting mystery for fans of Eve Chase, Kate Morton, and Kate Mosse. ‘A poignant page-turning story, beautifully written’ - Leonora Nattrass, author of Blue Water ‘Hugely evocative and beautifully written’ - Anna Mazzola, author of The Clockwork Girl ‘Polly Crosby’s writing is exquisite and this latest book is every bit as evocative as her previous novels’ - My Weekly,...
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  • The Wreck
    In 1820, Sarah McCaffrey, fleeing arrest for her part in a failed rebellion, thinks she has escaped when she finds herself aboard the Serpent, bound from London to the colony of New South Wales. However, when the mercurial captain's actions drive the ship into a cliff, Sarah is the sole survivor. Adopting a false identity, she becomes the right-hand woman...
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  • The Witness
    'That bastard's still alive? I'm going to kill him with my bare hands.' POW Bill Moxham At the Australian war crimes trials that followed World War II, one prosecution witness stood out: Warrant Officer Bill Sticpewich. During his three years in the infamous Sandakan POW camp, Sticpewich had seen hundreds of fellow prisoners die of starvation, sickness, and overwork. Others...
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  • The Wintering Place
    Dakota Territory, 1867. The O'Driscoll brothers have survived a Sioux massacre, but Michael is gravely wounded. The deserters are fleeing north with Tom's lover, Sara, when they come upon a sheltering rock by a river down off the Bozeman trail. If there is game here, they may survive the winter. But their attempts to find food and endure the savage...
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  • The Winter Goddess
    The Winter Goddess is a gripping, bittersweet tale that explores love, loss, and the price of power and immortality. . . a perfect read for cold winter nights. I couldn't put it down." - Genevieve Gornichek, bestselling author of The Weaver and the Witch Queen "Utterly bewitching. . . Barnard's novel pairs the beauty and fragility of the human experience...
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  • The Wildes
    In this singularly powerful novel, bestselling author Louis Bayard brings Oscar Wilde's wife Constance and two sons out from the shadows of history and creates a vivid and poignant story of secrets, loss, and love."Wonderfully researched, beautifully crafted, movingly told, The Wildes is a treasure to read."-Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less and Less Is Lost"The Wildes is...
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  • The Village Trattoria
    ‘A wonderful, joyous book, which really spoke to me about the indomitability of the human spirit.’ Elizabeth Enfield Italy 1943 The village trattoria, Casa Maria, is famed for its food and for Elena, the formidable matriarch who runs it. But now war has come to Umbria. Sophia di Luca cooks brilliantly and expects to take over the trattoria from Elena...
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  • The Templar's Garden
    A young woman forced to fight for her beliefs. A chaplain with a secret that could determine the fate of a kingdom. England, 1452. Under the reign of King Henry VI, the country is on the brink of civil war after the Hundred Years' War. Young mystic Lady Isabelle d'Albret Courteault's family is forced to flee the Duchy of English...
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  • The Settlement
    A career-defining masterpiece by internationally award-winning Australian storyteller Jock Serong. On the windswept point of an island at the edge of Van Diemen's Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women. He has gathered together, under varying degrees of coercion and duress, the last of the Tasmanians, or so he believes. His purpose is to...
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  • The Secret of the Three Fates
    October, 1922. Ruby Vaughn's octogenarian employer and housemate Mr Owen said the trip to Manhurst Castle in the Scottish Borders was to appraise some illuminated manuscripts for their bookshop. However, the truth soon unravels along with the decades-old secrets he has been carefully hiding.For Mr Owen, whose son Ben was killed in the Great War, is desperate to speak to...
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  • The Secret Keepers
    The past can't be locked away forever…_________________________________________________________________ *Perfect for fans of Kate Morton, Eve Chase & Lucinda Riley*Sweeping from the French Riviera to the wind-blown Cornish cliffs, lose yourself in this spellbinding novel about one golden family – and a devastating secret that binds them, forever…Year after idyllic year, the Challant family retreat to their summer house on the glittering...
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  • The Scary Book of Christmas Lore
    You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen…but do you recall the most petrifying Christmas figures of all Not all children fear just a lump of coal in their stockings. Discover the terrifying Yuletide fables, folktales, and folklore that have horrified kids (and adults) for generations during the holiday season.He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re...
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  • The Return of Moriarty
    An outstanding historical murder mystery — Guy MorpussEvery now and then you read the first book in a new series, and you just know that you are going to end up devouring every subsequent book as soon as they land — StylistCome for the title, stay for the domestic hijinks that’ll give the archcriminal a run for his money —...
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  • The Penguin Book of Norse Myths
    Dramatic, compelling and comprehensive - the great cycle of Norse myths retold for the modern reader. The extraordinary Scandinavian myth cycle is one of the most enduring, exciting, dramatic, and compelling of the world's great stories. A series of intertwined tales which together form a strange and fantastical world teeming with gods and goddesses, heroes and monsters, battles and couplings,...
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  • The Paper Man
    An unforgettable and sweeping interwar love story, from the Costa-shortlisted and bestselling Irish author of Life Sentences A BOOK OF 2023 IN IRISH TIMES, RTÉ GUIDE AND SUNDAY INDEPENDENT An unforgettable and sweeping interwar love story, from the Costa-shortlisted and bestselling Irish author of Life Sentences 'Gorgeous' SARA BAUME 'His most ambitious work to date' JOHN BANVILLE 'A beautiful, layered...
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  • The Pagan Lord
    The seventh novel in Bernard Cornwell’s number one bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg.As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world. Uhtred – sword of the Saxons, bane of the Vikings – has been declared outcast.Peace in Britain has given Uhtred time to cause trouble – for himself....
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  • The Other Lives of Miss Emily White
    1864. Banished from her parents’ farm to a boarding school for young ladies, Ivy feels utterly alone. In a crumbling and isolated seminary that has seen better days, she is shunned by the other pupils for her working-class origins, and mourns for her sister, who died not long after she was sent away. Hope comes in the form of a...
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  • The Moonlit Piazza
    Hidden loves and dangerous secrets may be uncovered as suspicion and lies swirl around trattoria Casa Maria and the Nazis tighten their grip on power in Italy in the powerful follow-up to Annabelle Thorpe's The Village Trattoria. Family-run Casa Maria is the beating heart of beautiful Amatino in Umbria. But now it is under Nazi control, to the fury of...
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  • The Life of Crime
    Now revised and expanded for its first paperback publication, The Life of Crime was the winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awards; and was shortlisted for both the Agatha and Gold Dagger Awards In this groundbreaking history of crime fiction, acclaimed expert Martin Edwards traces...
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  • The Lantern's Dance
    September, 1925. After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes look forward to spending time with Holmes' son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family. But when they arrive at Damian's house in the French countryside, they discover that the Adlers have fled from a mysterious threat. In the ominously empty house, Russell discovers four crates packed with memorabilia related to the...
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  • The Knight of Little Import
    Hear ye! Hear ye! Aspiring knight Charlie is ready to do battle! The only problem? The beasts and brutes are all in bustling Biggerborough, and she’s stuck in the wee hamlet of Little Import. Until one day . . . Charlie overhears the local baker lamenting that something has been eating all the pastries. Could it be a Triple-Tier Hungerbeak?!...
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  • The Foot on the Crown
    Set during the Dark Ages (a time about which we know next to nothing), this is a story of London - a story that's filled with myths reimagined, legends retold, seductions, executions, deceits, betrayals and perhaps - just perhaps - a little hope; a posthumous work of maverick genius from the unmistakable, mischievous imagination of the creator of Bryant &...
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  • The Duke's Meddlesome Matchmaker/Forbidden To The Banished Laird
    The Duke’s Meddlesome Matchmaker - Emily E K Murdoch All’s fair in love... and matchmaking! Proposal planner Aphrodite ‘Ditty’ Oliver believes romance should be planned and executed to perfection. That’s what keeps her in business. In attempting another successful engagement, she instantly comes to blows with her client’s brother, dashing duke, Henry Paisley! Henry believes meddling in matters of the...
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  • THE CURRENCY LASS
    She can run but she can't hide... As her father's only heir, Catherine Cottingham expects to inherit their sprawling property in the Hunter Valley. What she doesn't understand is why her father is trying to push her into a marriage to the pompous and repulsive Sydney businessman Henry W. Bartholomew. When the will is read, it becomes clear money, or...
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  • The Collaborator’s Daughter
    ‘Moved me to tears’ Angela Petch bestselling author of The Tuscan Secret In 1944 in war-torn Dubrovnik Branko Milisic holds his newborn daughter Safranka and wishes her a better future. But while the Nazis are finally retreating, the arrival of the partisans brings new dangers for Branko, his wife Dragica and their new baby…As older sister to two half-siblings, Fran...
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  • The Cambridge Siren
    Autumn, 1941. The third year of war and still the siren sounds, driving the people of Cambridge from their beds to trudge to one of the city's crowded bomb shelters. At dawn, the body of a young man is found in a shadowy corner. Everything points to suicide, but Detective Inspector Eden Brooke has his doubts given the unidentified man...
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  • The Beauties
    An incomparable beauty. A promise to a king. A portrait that can never be completed. The Beauties has been longlisted for the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize. When Emilia Lennox loses everything after her husband’s lands and title are confiscated, her beauty is her best bargaining chip with the only man who can restore their fortunes: King Charles II himself....
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  • The Arabian Nights
    Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed—new deluxe trade paperback editions of the beloved stories. Husain Haddawy's rapturously received translation of The Arabian Nights is based on a landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version. Readers of this classic will also want to own Sindbad, a collection of four later stories associated with the Arabian Nights tradition,...
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  • The Accidental Stowaway
    When Patch runs up the gangway of steamship, The Pride and Glory, she isn't planning to hang around. But if she leaves her hiding place the constable who is chasing her will ruin her reputation: sitting tight is worth the risk. Too late, she realises the ship is setting sail! Patch has become an accidental stowaway.Luckily, Patch's unconventional past has...
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  • Symphony of Monsters: A Novel
    Set against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, international bestselling author Marc Levy’s new novel is a page-turning thriller full of courage, resilience, and love.A mother’s love knows no borders, and her fight knows no limits.Veronika, a nurse, returns home to find that her nine-year-old son, Valentyn, has disappeared. Overcome with a mother’s terror but fueled by relentless love,...
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  • Stanley and Elsie
    The First World War is over, and in a quiet Hampshire village, artist Stanley Spencer is working on the commission of a lifetime, painting an entire chapel in memory of a life lost in the war to end all wars. Combining his own traumatic experiences with moments of everyday redemption, the chapel will become his masterpiece. When Elsie Munday arrives...
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  • Skylarking
    Inspired by a true story, Skylarking is a stunning debut novel about friendship, love, and loss, one that questions what it is to remember and how tempting it can be to forget. By the author of The Hummingbird Effect and The Mother Fault Kate and Harriet are best friends, growing up together on an isolated Australian cape in the 1880s....
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  • Regency Sinful Sinclairs/The Earl's Irresistible Challenge/The Rake's Enticing Proposal
    The Earl’s Irresistible Challenge Could this infamous rake... finally have found his Countess? When Lucas, Lord Sinclair, receives a mysterious summons from a Miss Olivia Silverdale, he’s sceptical he can help her. But Olivia, although eccentric, is in earnest about her quest to restore her late godfather’s reputation. Lucas’s curiosity is piqued, and not just by Olivia’s intelligent eyes and...
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  • Quills Secrets And Desires/The Master's New Governess/The Governess's Secret Longing
    The Master’s New Governess - Eliza Redgold Her new position as mistress of Pendragon Hall? Unfairly dismissed from her previous position, her reputation ruined, governess Maud Wilmot is forced to take on a new identity. When she feels an ever-growing attraction to her new employer, Cornish railway entrepreneur Dominic Jago, Maud longs to reveal the truth. But doing so could...
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  • One For All
    Tania de Batz is most herself with a sword in her hand. Everyone thinks her near-constant dizziness makes her weak, nothing but “a sick girl.” But Tania wants to be strong, independent, a fencer like her father—a former Musketeer and her greatest champion. Then Papa is brutally, mysteriously murdered. His dying wish? For Tania to attend finishing school. But L’Académie...
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  • Neighbours at War
    When everything is at stake, how far would you go to save your neighbour? When German forces invade the Channel Islands and the citizens of Jersey are cut off from the rest of the UK, the islands’ residents bond together to resist the enemy.East London native Helen Bowman was never meant to be here, but when she found herself alone...
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  • Miss Harris in the New World
    The second book in the historical fiction series Company of Fools. Sure to delight fans of P. G. Wodehouse. Peter Maughan is an ex-actor and Fringe theatre director living in the Welsh Marches. Miss Harris in the New World continues to charm readers with its wit and captivating story set amidst a richly detailed historical backdrop.
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  • Loki: Untangling a Tale
    What if you were born different? Deformed and shunned by your race? What if you could change that and become all that you ever hoped to be? All it would cost you was an oath to a god. Loki, the notorious Trickster of Norse mythology and bonded-brother to the god Odin. How did these sworn brothers turn to enemies? How...
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  • Kafka’s Son
    A posthumously published Hungarian masterpiece that reflects on fragmented lives. Born in 1963, Szilárd Borbély emerged as one of the most important poets of post-communist Europe, exploring the themes of grief, memory, and trauma in his critically acclaimed work. Following the murder of his mother during a burglary in 2000, and the subsequent breakdown and death of his father, Borbély...
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  • I Am Rome
    Now in paperback, the runaway #1 international bestseller that has captured readers the world over—and reminds us all why we remember the name of Julius Caesar. Discover the runaway #1 international bestseller that has captured readers the world over—and reminds us all why we remember the name Julius Caesar. "Posteguillo shows just how thrilling a historical novel can be."―El Pais...
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  • How to Solve Murders Like a Lady
    Hannah Dolby does it again... Violet is such a character and her adventures are just delightful. - Jennifer Page * Violet Hamilton is no ordinary lady… She is a Lady Detective, who spends her time solving mysteries and unveiling scandals in the bustling seaside town of Hastings and St Leonards, a popular spot for the Victorian middle classes. But when...
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  • Golgotha
    Two men, decades apart, are ensnared in the deadly search for a fabled treasure in the conclusion to Lavie Tidhar's epic and audacious Maror Trilogy. 1882, JerusalemThe foreigner. A man with no name, twin guns at his hips, a wide-brimmed hat on his head. A European exile in the backwaters of Ottoman Palestine, the foreigner is a bounty hunter in...
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  • Dead Ground
    A young British nurse experiences the devastating Spanish Civil War and the dark side of the espionage game in this gripping World War Two thriller from Graham Hurley. 1936. Anglo-Breton translator Annie Wrenne is working in Madrid when the Spanish Civil War breaks out. Annie becomes a nurse on the front line, but after falling in love with a patient,...
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  • Dead Ground
    A young British nurse experiences the devastating Spanish Civil War and the dark side of the espionage game in this gripping World War Two thriller from Graham Hurley. 1936. Anglo-Breton translator Annie Wrenne is working in Madrid when the Spanish Civil War breaks out. Annie becomes a nurse on the front line, but after falling in love with a patient,...
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  • Das Boot
    It is autumn 1941 and a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. Over the coming weeks, they must brave the stormy waters of the Atlantic in their mission to seek out and destroy British supply ships. But the tide is beginning to turn against the Germans in...
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  • Blinding: The Left Wing
    The first volume of the enthralling, hallucinatory masterwork by one of Central Europe's most celebrated novelists. 'We exist between the past and future like the vermiform body of a butterfly, in between its two wings' Beneath the streets of communist Bucharest linger hidden passageways, lost to memory. Here, sprawling hospitals give way to travelling circuses and underground jazz clubs, and...
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  • Arcadian Nights
    Ancient as they are, the Greek myths still resonate at the core of our literature and culture, and may well reveal more about human nature and the world we have created than we like to believe. From the garden of his house in the Peloponnese overlooking the gulf of Argos, award-winning playwright and novelist John Spurling draws on a lifetime's...
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  • ANZAC to Amiens: War Popular Penguins
    The First World War was the blooding of the young Australian nation. Five years after Australia's overwhelming response to Britain's declaration of war, nearly a fifth of the 330,000 Australians who served overseas lay dead. Charles Bean witnessed it all. Appointed official war correspondent with the Australian Imperial Force in 1914, he spent the entire war in Europe at the...
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  • The Grapes of Wrath
    A Penguin ClassicFirst published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of...
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  • The Others
    It is 1989, and in a small Baltic city in East Germany, the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, three young people from vastly different backgrounds become friends. Armando is a factory worker from Mozambique, Lolita is a medical student from India, and Theo is an East Berliner who dreams of being a writer. When Armando and Lolita make a grisly discovery, they...
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  • The Valkyries
    The Valkyries, glorified waitresses and taxi service for the slain, or fearsome enigmatic goddesses of battle? This is an awesome new title exploring classic tales and imagining fresh paths and new characters. The Valkyries are fierce daughters of battle, riders of storm and shadow. They choose the slain and carry souls to glory, moving between mortal and divine. These fierce...
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  • The Optimistic Cuban
    In a city torn by revolution, his heart is caught between love, loyalty, and the price of freedom. In 1959 Havana, middle-class student activist Fernando fights against the corrupt, U.S.-backed Batista regime. Initially elated by the success of Castro's Communist Revolution, Fernando's excitement soon fades as he grapples with the harsh realities of the new government's oppression. Meanwhile, his beloved...
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  • Slavic Myths & Tales
    With a new introduction, this collection of Slavic tales is based on the oral storytelling traditions of the peoples of Eastern Europe, from the Polish and the Slovaks to the Macedonians, Croats, Czechs and Serbians. These stories have roots in ancient folklore and are influenced by the Viking traders who settled in Kiev in the early middle ages. Stories abound...
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  • Odysseus
    Odysseus is the cunning wanderer from the fall of Troy, breaker of oaths and teller of tales. His story is immortalised in Homer's Odyssey and will endure as long as humanity, forever capturing the imagination, not least because of the entities he meets along the way: the savage Cyclops Polyphemus, the enticing Sirens, and the fearsome Scylla and Charybdis. He...
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  • My Father's Orchards
    My Father's Orchards tells a previously untold story of a Romanian family caught in the crossfire between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia during World War II, further subjected to the post-war Communist dictatorships. This historical novel and family saga intertwines the shimmering reality of otherworldly beings and events, creating a unique and unforgettable narrative. The story is framed by a...
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  • Diamonds, Fur & Murder
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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.