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  • To Redeem A Rakish Duke/A Family For The Jilted Lady
    To Redeem A Rakish Duke - Christine Merrill A duel between friends... The Dukes of Septon and Westbridge are firm friends: both are devilishly handsome, know their way around a gaming hell, and have a weakness for other men’s wives! Yet when Westbridge insults the wrong debutante, a young woman whom Septon has sworn to protect, Septon is honour-bound to...
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  • This Wild, Wild Country
    'Thrilling, haunting and darkly beautiful' Chris Whitaker, bestselling author of We Begin at the End Three women. An isolated town. A decades-old mystery. 1933. Cornelia Stover is not the kind of woman the men of Boldville, New Mexico, expect her to be. But, one day, she stumbles upon a secret hidden out in the hills... 1970. Decades later, Joanna Riley,...
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  • The Woman Who Went Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel
    “A reminder that age is no barrier to the unconventional and daring…An extraordinary story about an extraordinary woman.” New York Times bestseller Hazel Gaynor “Told with warmth and grace, this novel is a rallying cry for all who dare regardless of age and gender.” Toronto Star Teacher. Widow. Legend. It’s 1901 and the mists of change are swirling. Queen Victoria’s...
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  • The Wolf Den
    ELODIE HARPER'S FIRST STANDALONE NOVEL, BOUDICCA'S DAUGHTER, OUT NOW Shortlisted for Pageturner of the Year at the British Book Awards A Waterstones Book of the Month Winner of the 2022 Glass Bell Award 'Vivid, wise and unflinching, this is a triumph' The Times 'I loved it' Jennifer Saint 'I couldn't put it down' Claire Douglas 'Utterly spellbinding' Woman & Home...
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  • The Wayward Duke
    Perfectly balancing romance and intrigue, this is a true page-turner Publishers Weekly HE IS THE ICE-COLD DUKE Julian, the Duke of Hastings, is known for being aloof and utterly in control. For nine years, he’s kept his distance from the only woman who ever cracked his icy exterior, burying himself in work as a top-secret government code-breaker. But when his...
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  • The Traitor of Sherwood Forest
    An immersive, sultry, heart-pounding historical reimagining of the Robin Hood ballads, told through the piercing eyes of one of his spies. The Traitor of Sherwood Forest unveils the story of Jane Crowe, an ordinary peasant girl who never dreamed she would work for the infamous Lord of the Greenwood. But when she's forced out of her home, she has no...
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  • The Time Machine Next Door: Artists and a Disappearing Dog
    A page-turning, laugh-out-loud historical adventure by comedian and broadcaster Iszi Lawrence (as seen on Netflix and Sky History), perfect for fans of Horrible Histories. Sunil and his inventor friend Alex have a problem. Alex's time machine went time-travelling all alone but lost its toy dog along the way! Now the machine is so upset and if it doesn't get its...
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  • The Throne
    In October 1502, the powerful Cesare Borgia was preparing to invade the Florentine Republic. Niccolò Machiavelli, an official of the Republic, is sent to Borgia's court to spy on him. At 33 years old, he has a nice pen, but he's not famous. He cheats on his wife avidly, and he's deep in debt. Though seen as trusted and useful,...
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  • The Surfacing
    Hand over hand, Petersen drew the rope out of the water. The gap between the two ice pans was barely a foot wide. Morgan watched the man coiling the rope nicely onto the ice. Inside him, a stupid hope had already bred, that the boy might still be attached to the end of it. He would come up laughing and...
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  • The Sooterkin
    On a squally afternoon in the winter of 1821, Sarah Dyer gives birth to the strangest child ever seen in Van Diemen's Land, a thing more seal than human. The Reverend Mr Kidney at first suspects a virgin birth. Mr Sculley, an anatomist and man of science, hails it as the antipodean answer to the elusive Dutch sooterkin. The pup...
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  • The Sisters Mao
    Against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution and Europe's sexual revolution, the fates of two families in London and Beijing become unexpectedly intertwined, in this dazzling new novel from the author of Mrs Engels. Revolution is a Family Affair. In London, sisters Iris and Eva, members of a radical performance collective, plan an attack on the West End theatre where...
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  • The Paris Peacemakers
    Paris, 1919. As the fragile negotiations of the International Peace Conference get underway, typist Stella Rutherford throws herself into her work and the mixture of glamour and devastation the City of Light reveals. She will do anything to escape the grief coming in waves for her beloved brother Jack, buried near Arras. Her sister Corran is about to put her...
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  • The Odyssey (Special Edition)
    Discover the story of Homer's The Odyssey with this exquisite edition from Union Square & Co.'s Signature Gilded Editions series! The stunning Odyssey special edition features sprayed edges, colour end pages, a built-in ribbon bookmark, and an embossed foil cover. The beautiful design and attention to detail set this special edition book apart, whether you're reading for the first time...
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  • The Nightingale Dilemma
    PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS MY LADY'S SECRETS 'Perfection... This is the kind of story that sucks you in and you forget what is going on around you.' - NetGalley reviewer, 5* 1812 Following the drum in Spain, rebellious aristocrat Cressida Nightingale has put her tumultuous past far behind her, and with it her short-lived marriage to Lord Greville. Having escaped the...
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  • The New Earl's Convenient Wife/Wed In Haste To The Prince
    The New Earl’s Convenient Wife - Julia Justiss Reigniting an old longing...for the new Earl! When his brother dies unexpectedly, soldier Rafe Tynesley is forced to become the new Earl. His late brother’s betrothed, Juliana Waverton, helps Rafe adjust but originally destined to be a countess, she’s facing spinsterhood. Rafe’s position requires he wed, so he'll return the favour by...
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  • The Mismatch of the Season
    Calling all Bridgerton and Jane Austen fans! You are cordially invited to fall in love with your favourite new Regency romance novel… ‘Worthy of Georgette Heyer…the most wonderfully satisfying five star Regency Romp’ Julie Caplin ‘I don’t pretend to know the details of your private life, Miss Fairfax, but you might do better to embrace the fortunate position into which...
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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 Many Problems of Rochel-Leah
    A 'rousing historical tale' Publisher's Weekly Once upon a time, girls were not allowed to learn to read. This is the story of a girl who decided to change that. Inspired by a true story from award-winning author Jane Yolen's family history, The Many Problems of Rochel-Leah is a stirring tale of what it feels like to be denied equality...
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  • The Hunt for Red October
    The runaway international No.1 bestseller that launched Tom Clancy’s spectacular career, became a blockbuster film, and introduced Jack Ryan. THE HUNT IS ON… Silently, beneath the chill Atlantic waters, Russia’s ultra-secret missile submarine, the Red October, is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. With all-out war only seconds away, the superpowers race across the ocean...
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  • The Great Deception
    Enter a world of deceivers, age-old magic, and a war-torn world from bestselling author Syd Moore. 1940. Britain invades a neutral Iceland. Daphne Devine is dropped into occupied territory to track a clairvoyant suspected of collaborating with the Nazis. As an undercover operative, Daphne must navigate her way through a strange and alien landscape, where not all visitors are welcomed...
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  • The Girl with the Red Hair
    An unputdownable debut charting the thrilling life and heroism of Hannie Schaft, a young-woman-turned-Dutch-Resistance-fighter in Nazi-occupied Netherlands. 1940, Amsterdam. You're nineteen years old. The war has stolen your future and your country is under siege. The people you love are no longer safe. Will you stand aside as the menace of Nazi evil tightens its grip on your homeland? Or...
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  • The Eagle Has Landed
    The Eagle Has Landed, by international bestselling author Jack Higgins, is the ultimate WWII thriller. In the early morning hours of 6 November 1943, SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler receives the coded message he has been waiting for—'The Eagle has landed'. It was to become known as the most daring enemy mission of the entire war—Operation Eagle, Himmler's audacious plan to...
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  • The Dressmakers of London
    The author of the “enthralling” (Woman’s World) The Lost English Girl returns with a heartfelt new novel about estranged sisters who inherit their late mother’s dress shop in World War II London. Isabelle Shelton has always found comfort in the predictable world of her mother’s dressmaking shop, Mrs. Shelton’s Fashions, while her sister Sylvia turned her back on the family...
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  • The Clockmaker’s Wife
    The world is at war. And time is running out… London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter – leaving behind her husband, Arthur, the clockmaker who keeps Big Ben chiming. When Arthur disappears, Nell is desperate to find him. But her search will lead her...
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  • The Cauldron
    The most realistic and compelling novel of the Second World War, republished for the first time in 40 years. With an introduction by Al Murray This is a novel, although the battle and many of the incidents described in the book are true. - ZENO Unless you have experienced war, it is impossible to imagine its grim reality. But The...
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  • The Brightest Star
    A thirst for learning and a passion for astronomy draw an extraordinary young woman deep into the intellectual maelstrom, political complexities, and religious extremism of Renaissance Florence. This beautifully crafted novel will appeal to readers of Karen Brooks' The Good Wife of Bath and Pip Williams' Dictionary of Lost Words. The Brightest Star is set in 1496, the height of...
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  • The Beast Takes a Bride
    In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long’s latest instalment in the Palace of Rogues series, an estranged couple decide to fake their way through the London season to repair their good name... but neither are prepared for the genuine sparks that begin flying between them. A blue-blooded beauty bartered to a Beast... He would pay any price to possess...
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  • Such Sweet Thunder
    Such Sweet Thunder by Vincent O. Carter tells the story of Amerigo Jones, a young man growing up poor but surrounded by love in Jazz Age Kansas City. A precocious young dreamer, Amerigo longs for the college education that his parents could not afford. As he begins to venture further away from his doting mother and father, Amerigo encounters a...
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  • Strikers
    Evan just wants to win a game. Bobby would rather fight than win. Hockey—and life—keep handing them both losses. Their team, the Strikers, has a roster of rejects in hand-me-down coats but lacks good equipment, a deep bench, and a coach who shows up on time. Their town of Flint, Michigan, has been down on its luck their whole lives....
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  • Steel Girls in the Blitz
    With their city under fire, can they find hope in each other? 'Rich, evocative and spellbinding' - KATE THOMPSON 'A heartwarming tale of courage, friendship and hope' - MILLY JOHNSON In December 1940, the Blitz has reached Sheffield, but Steel Girl Hattie is more concerned about the war brewing at home between her parents. Desperate to help her mother in...
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  • Snowbound Regency Christmas/The Maid's Masquerade
    Snowbound Regency Christmas - Carla Kelly, Joanna Johnson and Samantha Hastings Three snow-kissed Regency romances in one festive volume! In A Christmas Houseguest by Carla Kelly, when a snowstorm stops their mail coach, Rosie offers a fellow passenger sanctuary at her farm. War-weary from the navy, Andy will find his Christmas angel hard to leave... In Their Yuletide Reunion by...
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  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
    This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex, and honour. It features a beautifully decorated text and includes as a bonus the complete version of Tolkien’s acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two...
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  • Set in Stone
    In medieval Moldova, two women from opposing backgrounds fall in love. But this is a world where a woman's role is defined by religion and class. To make a life together means defying their families, the law, and the Church. The closer they become, and the more they refuse the roles assigned to them, the more sacrifices they have to...
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  • Sergeant Salinger
    J.D. Salinger, the mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope. Jerome Charyn's Sergeant Salinger presents him as a young American WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, Salinger witnessed the war's horrors — from the landing on...
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  • Scandalous Women
    'This novel felt like a must read' - Freida McFadden, bestselling author of The Housemaid 1966: In London, Jackie Collins's racy The World is Full of Married Men hits bookshops and launches her career. In New York, Jacqueline Susann's debut novel Valley of the Dolls is published, and she's desperate for it to be a bestseller. But both are about...
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  • Run to the Western Shore
    'A beautiful love story with an incredible sense of place' - The Times A powerful novel about destiny, home and surviving in a world in flux. Britain, AD 72. Quintus, long exiled from his people, has travelled great odysseys in the retinue of a powerful Roman. Though a citizen of nowhere, he is a man of reason, fluent in many...
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  • Red Smoking Mirror
    With Red Smoking Mirror, Nick Hunt has created the love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin - Joanna Pocock, author of Surrender The year is 1521 in the Mexica city of Tenochtitlan. Twenty-nine years earlier, Islamic Spain never fell to the Christians, and Andalus launched a voyage of discovery to the New Maghreb. For two decades, the...
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  • Pete The Cat And The Wright Brothers
    Pete the Cat helps the Wright brothers build their first flying machine in this historical fiction Level 1 I Can Read from New York Times bestselling creators Kimberly and James Dean. When Pete the Cat learns that the Wright brothers' flying machine can’t fly without the wind, he has an idea. What if it didn’t need wind to fly? Together,...
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  • Pact with the Devil
    Max had enjoyed the camaraderie in the Hitler Youth organisation. His week at the Berlin Olympics was a lifetime highlight. He saw the Führer and fell in love with Inge. He loved the Third Reich. Russia was where it started going wrong. He knew primal fear as the ruthless Red Army attacked in countless numbers. He was repulsed at the...
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  • Out of the Past
    Out of the Past "Come inside, my bonny witch-finder. Here is shelter for thee..." A tale of callous murder and deranged revenge rings out from fifteenth-century Italy. A witch-finder's great triumph is also the herald of his own doom in Civil War Britain. A prisoner's fate at the hands of the Inquisition in sixteenth-century Mexico leads to an encounter with...
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  • Oriana
    When a Hollywood producer comes to Oriana at the end of her life to propose a movie, the story unfolds of her gutsy career rise as a journalist, her tragic love, and her greatest regret. When a Hollywood producer visits Oriana Fallaci at the end of her life to propose a movie, the story unfolds of her trailblazing career as...
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  • One More Time
    Fate, hope and desire collide for one special couple in a way they never would have expected. An epic love story, in the tradition of Nicholas Sparks, from bestselling Australian author Mandy Magro. One split-second choice. A spark of magic. What if your life could be completely different? Grace Burrows knows her seventieth birthday celebration is going to be an...
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  • Nothing Left to Fear from Hell
    A battle lost. A daring escape. A long walk into obscurity. The ultimate failure.... In the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of Culloden, a lonely figure takes flight with a small band of companions through the islands and mountains of the Hebrides. His name is Charles Edward Stuart: better known today as Bonnie Prince Charlie. He had come to the...
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  • Mrs England
    West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House, it becomes clear there's something not quite right...
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  • Josephine's Garden
    A luminous, enthralling tale of love, treachery, treason and friendship ... full of unexpected twists and turns. - Kate Forsyth, author of Bitter Greens France, 1794. In the aftermath of the bloody end to the French Revolution, Rose de Beauharnais stumbles from prison on the day she is to be guillotined. Within a decade, she'll transform into the scandalous socialite...
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  • How We Disappeared
    The heart-rending story of survival and endurance in Japanese-occupied Singapore. Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only three survivors, one of them a tiny child. In a neighbouring village, seventeen-year-old Wang Di is bundled into the back of a troop carrier and shipped off to a Japanese military brothel. After...
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  • Horrie the War Dog
    Horrie the War Dog by Roland Perry tells the remarkable story of Horrie, the Egyptian Terrier, found as a starving pup in the harsh Libyan Desert. He became the much-loved mascot of the First Australian Machine Gun Battalion in World War II. Yet he was no ordinary symbol, and the Gunners' love for him was not mere affection for a...
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  • Circus Maximus
    The charioteer in his purest form. The supreme master of destiny and the elements. A man who made a circus out of life, and life out of a circus. 'A.D. O'Neill peels back the veil of time and shines a light on the intrigue and excitement of chariot racing in ancient Rome. With exquisite attention to detail and an authentic...
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  • Buckley's Hope
    Buckley's Hope combines the conflicting elements of Australia's black and white cultures in a uniquely authentic way. "An appealing and sensitive novel... he has succeeded masterfully." - Paul Ormonde (Herald Sun) This is a historical novel, based on the true story of a young English convict named William Buckley who, on Boxing Day 1803, escaped from Victoria's abortive first settlement...
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  • A Star Is Scorned
    A Star Is Scorned brings together the glamour of Gilded-Age Hollywood with the charm of a Christina Lauren storyline in the latest of Maureen Lee Lenker's 1930s rom-coms. When movie star and notorious womaniser Flynn Banks finds his reputation in serious trouble, his studio insists he publicly date his new co-star, Liv De Lesseps, to salvage it—except Liv might swashbuckle...
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  • A Mistletoe Match For The Earl/The Duke's Christmas Fake Fiancée
    A Mistletoe Match For The Earl - Eva Shepherd Snowed in with the new Earl... After a disastrous Season, Alice has given up on marriage for herself, but not for her friends. This Christmas, she’ll matchmake her friend with a neighbouring Earl. Only when Alice calls upon him, she finds James a changed man — scarred, brooding, grumpy! And now...
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  • A Marquess To Remember/The Earl And The Marriage Deal
    A Marquess To Remember - Jenni Fletcher A wedding she can’t remember. A marriage to last a lifetime? Florence awakens to find that not only has she lost her memory, but that she’s married to the scowling and severe Marquess of Rainton — her best friend’s intended! Horrified, Florence can’t accept that she’d steal a suitor, though the evidence —...
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  • A Man of Honour
    One fine March day in 1868, gunshots rang out at a society charity event in Sydney's harbourside suburb of Clontarf. In the aftermath, Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh – son of Queen Victoria – lay close to death, while the assembled crowd seized and beat his attacker, Irish-born Henry James O'Farrell. Who was this character who began the day a complete...
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  • A Kiss from the Devil
    Blood may be thicker than water, but is family more important than the truth? London, August 1759. Lizzie Hardwicke, society harlot and occasional investigator for the magistrate, is shaken by an encounter with her estranged brother during a riotous evening hosted by the notorious Devil's Brotherhood. Beyond the opulence of this Mayfair party, a streetwalker is found strangled on the...
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  • A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
    A new, Vintage Classics red spine edition of A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, published to celebrate the enduring impact of writing a career that spans almost half a century. History isn't what happened. History is just what historians tell us. From the Titanic to the Amazon, the raft of the Medusa to an ecclesiastical court in...
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  • The Time Travellers: Adventure Calling
    When Suhana, Mia and Ayaan are transported back to 1911, they're excited to meet some amazing people fighting for women's rights! But will they be able to get back to the present without changing the course of history? "Fun, fast-paced, hugely enjoyable way to learn about erased parts of our shared history and how they can help us understand and...
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  • Clem Fatale Has Been Betrayed
    Clem Fatale Has Been Betrayed is the story of Clem Fatale, the youngest crook in the city, and her unstoppable quest to find her missing dad and a valuable prize. Set in London, 1951, Clem Fatale embarks on a mission to locate her father, Jimmy Fatale, a notorious jewel thief and leader of the Spider Gang, who has disappeared along...
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  • A Rose of Blood and Binding
    A Rose of Blood and Binding is the third instalment in the enchanting, sexy romantasy series from New York Times bestselling author Claire Legrand, perfect for readers of Sarah J. Maas and Jennifer Armentrout. New York Times bestselling author of Furyborn, Claire Legrand, delights in this thrilling conclusion to the steamy, lush, and epic Middlemist trilogy, perfect for fans of...
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  • Booker Prize Winner
    Taiwan Travelogue
    A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power. May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She's been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda....
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  • Circe
    This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like...
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  • Dirtpickers
    Little Maude Rowe sits in the crick, her pockets heavy with gold, the blood on her palms turned to powdered rust ... In a remote valley in Idaho in 1981, a man, a woman and three children stop running to wash the blood from their hands and bodies. They are the few survivors of a terrible tragedy. Their only choice...
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  • The Sun of God
    Julius Caesar is dead. The Republic has fallen. Rivals vie for power. Who will emerge the victor? And who will die trying? When Julius Caesar is stabbed to death in Rome, 19-year-old Gaius Octavius is on the other side of the Adriatic Sea. Despite his youth and illness-riddled past, Octavius dreams of glory, and Caesar's death might just be the...
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  • The Resistance Knitting Club
    Inspired by the true story of a woman who used knitting patterns to encode intelligence during World War Two. Guernsey, 2010. After a stroke, an elderly woman shocks her family by speaking perfect French - a language they never knew she possessed. As her granddaughter unravels seventy years of silence, a hidden wartime story emerges... Paris, 1941. After her brother...
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    When He Was Wicked Deluxe Collector's Edition: Bridgerton
    A stunning hardcover Deluxe Collector’s Edition of When He Was Wicked, the sixth novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Bridgerton series, featuring beautiful endpapers, a ribbon marker, and a gorgeous, decorated spine. Collect all 8 in the series to unveil the beautiful imagery when shelved together! Watch BRIDGERTON, created by Shondaland for Netflix. FRANCESCA’S STORY...
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  • The Traitor
    In postwar Japan, a writer meets a small-town innkeeper who is obsessed with a tale from the nineteenth century. He relates the saga of Enomoto Takeaki, an admiral in the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate who regained authority under the Meiji government. A former member of imperial Japan's military police, the innkeeper dwells on the question of loyalty even...
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  • The House of Seymour
    Will his ambition be her destiny or her downfall? Praise for Joanna Hickson: ‘An intriguing tale, told with confidence’ The Times ‘Rich and warm’ Sunday Express 'Bewitching' Woman & Home In the shadow of Wolf Hall, can one woman claim her own destiny? When Isabel Williams is betrothed to John Seymour, Lord of Wolf Hall Manor, she hopes that love...
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  • Players of Death
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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.