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  • The Compass
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    The Compass
    June, 1976. Western Europe is caught in the grip of a relentless and sweltering heatwave. In London, the summer marks a milestone of a different kind for Edie - a decade married to the love of her life, and their first child on the way. But on the night that she plans to tell Joe their news, he doesn't come...
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  • Kawai
    It's 1818 on the East Coast of Te Ika-a-Maui, Aotearoa. Hine-aute, granddaughter of the legendary warrior Kaitanga, is fleeing through the bush; a precious yet gruesome memento contained in her fishing net. What follows is the gripping tale of a people on the cusp of profound change that is destined to reverberate through many generations to come. The Europeans have...
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  • The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
    Bridgerton meets Peaky Blinders in the first book of The Dangerous Damsels series - an enemies-to-lovers romance with a fantastical twist. Cecilia Bassingwaite belongs to the prestigious Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels. Yet this is no ordinary society, as it's full of pirates, thieves, and ne'er-do-wells. These women spend their days pickpocketing and blackmailing, all before tea time. But when...
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    Greeking Out: Heroes and Olympians (Disney: National Geographic Kids)
    Want to know the greatest feats and the funniest secrets of the gods and heroes of Greek mythology? You're in the right place. Told in the hilarious, kid-friendly voice that's sent the Greeking Out podcast to the top of the charts, these stories of heroic victories, perilous adventures, and plain old mischief are sure to delight kids and adults alike....
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  • The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club
    Two sisters living on Martha's Vineyard during World War II find hope in the power of storytelling when they start a wartime book club— a spectacular novel inspired by true events from the bestselling author of Lilac Girls. 2016 Fresh from her mother's funeral, Mari arrives on Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts to study under the enigmatic painter...
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    Fallen Stars
    Fallen Stars is the second book in the Sunday Times bestselling celestial Heavenly Bodies series from TikTok romantasy phenomenon Imani Erriu. Never make a bargain with a god. Elara is vengeful. Enzo is trapped between the realms of life and death, and her enemy has vanished, taking her love's only connection to the waking world with him. But there is...
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  • Every Lifetime After
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    Every Lifetime After
    'A beautiful, hypnotic, emotional novel. I couldn’t stop turning the pages' CECELIA AHERN * Can they find each other in every lifetime after…? Claudia is searching for her past. Suffocating in the glamour of Hollywood, A-list star Claudia Baxter is desperate for an escape. But when she arrives at the Yorkshire estate of Doverley for her next project – an...
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    Flame in the Dark
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  • Daughters of the Tide
    Weaving historical fiction with folklore and Tasmanian gothic, this is a gorgeously atmospheric debut that explores memory and self, the resilience of women and a dangerous longing for the sea. The Findlay family history has long been steeped in secrets, tragedy and dark rumours of madness. Generations of its women have been haunted by a dangerous luring melody and an...
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  • City of Girls
    A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER A BOOK CLUB PICK FROM THE QUEEN CONSORT'S READING ROOM ‘Stunning’ - Lisa Taddeo, author of THREE WOMEN ‘Warm and wise’ - Stephanie Merritt, Observer ‘Glamorous, sexy, compelling’ - Dolly Alderton, Sunday Times ‘I fell in love with Vivian from page one’ - Daisy Buchanan ‘An education in love, and an iridescent delight’ -...
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    The Devil's Bible
    From celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry, don't miss the next action-packed Cotton Malone novel! Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is called to Sweden when the younger sister of King Wilhelm is kidnapped. The ransom demand? Hand over an 800-year-old book, the Codex Gigas, the largest illuminated medieval manuscript in the world. Claimed as war loot from...
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  • Mission Girl
    When her tribe is defeated in battle, Atapo is captured and becomes a slave of her enemies. Freedom seems impossible; the penalty for runaway slaves is death. But when sickness strikes the village, Atapo is blamed—and now it is even more dangerous to stay. To save her life, she escapes to the Pakeha mission station at Paihia. There, Atapo is...
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  • Number the Stars
    In Nazi-occupied Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is called upon for a selfless act of bravery to help save her best friend from a terrible fate. Winner of the Newbery Medal. “They plan to arrest all the Danish Jews. They plan to take them away. And we have been told that they may come tonight.” It is 1943 and life in...
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    White Bird
    From the bestselling author of Wonder comes White Bird - an unforgettable Second World War story about bravery, friendship, and the power of kindness. Soon to be a major film starring Helen Mirren and Gillian Anderson. From the bestselling author of Wonder comes White Bird - an unforgettable Second World War story about bravery, friendship, and the power of kindness....
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  • The Winter Garden
    ‘An enchanting timeslip novel that kept me spellbound’ CHRISTINA COURTENAY ‘Fascinating and captivating’ SARAH MORGAN ‘Glorious… I adored it’ KATHLEEN MCGURL ‘This atmospheric novel is such an absorbing read’ MY WEEKLY Remember, remember, the fifth of November… 1605: Anne Catesby fears for her family. Her son, the darkly charismatic Robert, is secretly plotting to kill the King, placing his wife...
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  • Queen of Swords
    The epic tale of love and adventure that has captured the hearts of millions continues against the volatile backdrop of a city on the brink of war. Shifting from the steamy shores of the Caribbean to New Orleans, Queen of Swords picks up the story of Hannah Bonner, the beautiful half-Mohawk daughter of frontiersman Nathaniel Bonner, as she and her...
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  • The Gods of War
    The ultimate Rome story Fresh from triumph in Britain and Gaul, Caesar is marching on Rome with his legions of hardened veterans. To unseat Pompey, now dictator of the empire, he must make the terrible decision to wage war on his own people. The glory that Julius, Brutus, Mark Antony, and Octavian enjoy is short-lived. There are lands to conquer...
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  • A Breath Of Snow And Ashes
    The sixth novel in the bestselling Outlander series. The long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. It's 1772, in the Royal Colony of North Carolina, and the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and preserve the colony for King and Crown. One minor problem: Jamie Fraser's wife, Claire, is a time-traveller, as are his daughter and...
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  • The Mushroom in the Sky
    In the 80th anniversary year, Jackie French explores the dropping of the bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, which ended World War 2. 1942 Japan has bombed Sydney Harbour. Sixteen-year-old Ossie lies about his age to protect his country, even though it means abandoning his only family, a one-eyed dog named Lucky. Kind-hearted Mrs Plum is already looking...
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    A Murder in Paris
    You think you know what happened that night. But the truth is far more dangerous. From the No.1 international bestselling author of ANNA O comes a story of secret pasts and buried memories. A Murder in Paris is a thriller you’ll never forget … Imagine the past returning to you in fragments. A hotel room, a pillow, a lifeless body....
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  • The Marriage Portrait
    The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of Hamnet, The Marriage Portrait is a dazzling evocation of the Italian Renaissance in all its beauty and brutality. Winter, 1561. Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara, is taken on an unexpected visit to a country villa by her husband, Alfonso. As they sit down to dinner, it occurs to Lucrezia that Alfonso...
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  • The Helsingør Sewing Club
    Inspired by the incredible true story of how the people of Denmark saved their Jewish neighbours during WW2 Helsingør, Denmark, 1943 In the midst of the German occupation during World War Two, Inger Bredahl joins the underground resistance and risks her life to save members of Denmark’s Jewish community and help them escape to Sweden. Copenhagen, 2018 Inger’s granddaughter, Cecilie...
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    Death in the Spotlight
    The seventh thrilling (and rather theatrical) murder mystery from bestselling author Robin Stevens. Someone will take their final bow . . . Fresh from their adventure in Hong Kong, Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells are off to the Rue Theatre in London to face an entirely new challenge - acting. But danger has a nasty habit of catching up with...
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  • The Fallen Woman
    The heart-stopping new historical adventure from the bestselling author of The Sugar Palace. Botanical artist Jane Saville is devastated when her manipulative mother banishes her to the countryside to protect someone else's honour. Isolated far from home, she is forced to live an impoverished, secretive life to save the family from public shame. Guy Attwood is heir to a fortune,...
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  • To Sir Phillip, With Love And When He Was Wicked
    A beautiful collectible edition containing the fifth and sixth novels of the beloved Bridgerton series by New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn. To Sir Phillip, With Love Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he’d proposed, figuring that she’d be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. Except......
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  • The Naturalist's Daughter
    A woman's bungled act of kindness sparks a chain of events that reverberates through the generations, uncovering secrets, lies, and the biggest scientific controversy of the nineteenth century: the classification of the platypus. Two women, a century apart, are drawn into a mystery surrounding the biggest scientific controversy of the nineteenth century, the classification of the platypus. 1808 Agnes Banks,...
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  • The Space Between
    The Space Between is a gripping historical novel set amid the New Zealand Wars in 1860. As English settlers wage war upon local iwi in colonial Taranaki, two women confront their pasts to survive the present. Frances is an unmarried Londoner newly landed in New Zealand in 1860, at the dawn of the First Taranaki War. Once well-regarded, her family's...
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  • All the Beautiful Things
    A new heart-wrenching, impeccably researched historical novel for middle-grade readers The Nazis want everyone to be the same. If you're different, you don't belong. Not belonging is dangerous ... Anna's little sister, Eva, is frail and needs time to learn new things. She has a huge heart and a gift for loving, but Hitler doesn't value such riches. And so...
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  • The Voyage Home
    The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls. After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle. Alongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks—among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra and...
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  • Juice
    An epic novel of determination, survival, and the limits of the human spirit. This is Tim Winton as you've never read him before. A masterful story for the ages . . . a book to hold close in the whip of hot wind, to commiserate with, to sing with. To read and weep. — TARA JUNE WINCH, THE GUARDIAN Juice,...
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  • Daisy Jones and The Six
    Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid is a captivating novel that plunges readers into the intoxicating world of 1970s rock 'n' roll. The story revolves around the meteoric rise and sudden fall of a fictional rock band where each member contributes to the magic and tension that defines their brief yet unforgettable career. At the heart of...
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  • The Chinese Lady
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    The Chinese Lady
    As rich in detail and emotion as Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Lisa See's Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, but with an exciting structure that reinvents the genre, Bo Wang’s gorgeous and immersive debut historical novel immortalises the life of the first Chinese woman to be brought to the United States in the 1800s. Little Sparrow, Julia, Afong...
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  • Crossfire
    Wilbur Smith returns to his legendary Courtney Series with a brand new race against time World War II thriller. 1943. The tide of the Second World War is turning. The Russian victory at Stalingrad—the bloodiest battle in history—has opened the door for the Allies. Now, they must strike decisively at the heart of Hitler's Reich. But military success cannot be...
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    When the Lion Feeds
    A special reissue of the first book in Wilbur Smith's long-running Courtney Series to mark the 60th anniversary. With an introduction by bestselling author, Conn Iggulden. Brothers by birth. Enemies by blood. Natal, 1860; the Courtney twins are born. Heirs to their father's fortune, destiny divides the boys from the start - Garrick is eager to stay indoors with a...
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  • Sarum
    The towering story of five families through 100 centuries of turmoil, tyranny, passion, and prosperity. The Bestselling Historical Novel Now with a new introduction from Edward Rutherfurd The towering story of five families through 100 centuries of turmoil, tyranny, passion, and prosperity. A masterpiece of breathtaking scope, from the Ice Age to the present day, Sarum traces the entire turbulent...
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  • Venetia
    In all her twenty-five years, lovely Venetia Lanyon has never been further than Harrogate, nor enjoyed the attentions of any but her two wearisomely persistent suitors. Then, in one extraordinary encounter, she meets a neighbour she only knows by reputation – the infamous Lord Damerel – and before she knows better, is egging on a libertine whose way of life...
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    Gai-Jin
    A herculean achievement . . . strong plot and strong characterisation The Times It is 1862 and Japan is a land in chaos as the power of the Shogun wanes and the rival factions plan to restore the Emperor. In Yokohama, the gai-jin, the hated foreigners, seek to profit from the chaos. At the head of the Noble House -...
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  • The Lost Daughter of Sparta
    From actor and writer Felicia Day, a sapphic graphic novel about the forgotten sister of Helen of Troy, for fans of Lore Olympus and Girl Goddess Queen. Helen. Clytemnestra. Timandra. Three famous sisters and one shared curse – that each will betray their husband. As the youngest sister, Philonoe is desperate not to follow in their footsteps. After pleading with...
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  • The Land in Winter
    Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025 December 1962, the West Country. Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also...
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  • Augustus
    Augustus tells the story of Octavian, a shy and scholarly youth of nineteen who, on the death of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar, suddenly finds himself heir to the vast power of the Roman Empire. He is destined to rule that world astonishingly well, given the odds and intrigues against him. He would later be known as Augustus Caesar (63 B.C....
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  • A Gentleman in Moscow
    From the number one New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility, Amor Towles, comes a beautifully crafted and transporting novel, A Gentleman in Moscow. Set in the backdrop of tumultuous 20th-century Russia, it follows the life of Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, who finds himself deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal and sentenced to house arrest in...
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  • Dublin
    The new epic novel from the bestselling author of Sarum, Russka, London, and The Forest Edward Rutherfurd's great Irish epic reveals the story of the people of Ireland through the focal point of the island's capital city. The epic begins in pre-Christian Ireland during the reign of the fierce and powerful High Kings at Tara, with the tale of two...
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  • The Odyssey (Super Deluxe Edition)
    A stunning gift edition of the age-old tale of Odysseus and his journey. This epic poem by Homer, believed to have been written between the eighth and ninth centuries BC, continues to be essential reading for young and old alike. The Odyssey follows the Greek hero Odysseus on a ten-year journey back to his home in Ithaca after fighting in...
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  • The Plains of Passage
    The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel continues the epic journey of Ayla and Jondalar as they venture beyond the secure lands of the Mammoth Hunters. The narrative unfolds with the couple embarking on an arduous expedition across the vast and untamed terrain of prehistoric Europe, aiming to reach the Cro-Magnon settlement located in modern-day southern France where Jondalar...
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  • The Alchemist Deluxe Edition
    AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • OVER 80 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE “Translated into 80 languages, the allegory teaches us about dreams, destiny, and the reason we are all here.”—Oprah Daily, “Best Self-Help Books of a Generation” “It’s a brilliant, magical, life-changing book that continues to blow my mind with its lessons. [...] A remarkable tome.”—Neil Patrick Harris, actor A special deluxe...
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  • Burial Rites
    THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING DEBUT SENSATION OF THE DECADE In northern Iceland, 1829, authorities condemn Agnes Magnusdottir to death for her part in the brutal murder of two men. Agnes is sent to the farm of District Officer Jon Jonsson and his family to await execution. She is shunned by all, except the young reverend appointed as her spiritual guardian. As the...
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  • Atonement
    On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a series of events at her family's country estate that she doesn't fully understand. From her vantage point, she sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden, watched by their childhood friend Robbie Turner, who has recently returned...
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  • Territory
    MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A breathtaking story of disaster, courage, passion, and that Top End spirit that never says die. JOURNEY TO AUSTRALIA When Henrietta Southern trades war-torn England for Australia's Northern Territory, with its crocodile-infested rivers and red wilderness, she embarks on a new life on her husband, Spitfire pilot Terence Galloway's cattle station, six months after the bombing...
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    The Apothecary Diaries 07 (Light Novel)
    A palace servant trained in herbal medicine finds herself in the heart of imperial intrigue in this enthralling period mystery! Maomao's latest attempt at the court service exam earns her the role of an assistant at a medical office. Changes keep rolling in after a new consort enters the rear palace, bringing her own enigmas. And what does a former...
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  • Behind Five Willows
    From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Crane Among Wolves comes a warm and romantic homage to Jane Austen set in historical Korea, about a reader and a writer who secretly fight against government book banning and find themselves irresistibly drawn together. As the dutiful second daughter of a poor family, Haewon is expected to marry well. Instead, amid...
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  • Rapture
    Rapture is astonishing - a scorching vision of a book. Drawing on history, legend, speculation, and gossip, Maguire's medieval girl-Pope story is made of many things: flesh and earth and blood; ambition and abnegation; rage and transcendence, all pouring into this pagan, biblical, strange, and mighty work from an imagination in soaring flight. - Charlotte Wood, author of Stone Yard...
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  • The Art Lovers
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    The heart-stopping new historical adventure by the bestselling author of The Soldier's Daughter. While war rages across the city of Valletta, a local barkeeper's daughter, Valentina Camilleri, is on the cusp of womanhood when Flight Lieutenant Peter Fox falls out of the sky from his Spitfire and into her world. In that fateful moment, he captures not just her imagination...
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  • Norse Mythology
    THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF NETFLIX HIT THE SANDMAN Neil Gaiman, one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, brings to life the great Norse myths in Norse Mythology, a captivating and masterfully crafted collection of tales that have inspired countless works of modern fiction and fantasy. The book delves deep into...
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  • The French Resistance Hotel
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    The French Resistance Hotel
    France, 1940. A hotel on the border. One woman will risk everything in the name of freedom. After escaping an abusive relationship in Nice, Eloise thought she'd never find a home again. Until she arrives at the Hotel Cordier in the eastern town of Sainte-Beline, straddling the frontier between Switzerland and France. But when the Nazis invade, everything changes. Trapped...
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  • Fire on the Horizon
    Fire on the Horizon by Wilbur Smith and Imogen Robertson is an epic historical adventure set against the tumultuous backdrop of South Africa in 1899. The simmering tension between the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State and the British colonies of the Cape and Natal threatens to ignite into full-scale war. As the conflict looms, the lives of...
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  • Tai-Pan
    'Intensely readable and exciting' Sunday Telegraph Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men. This is the...
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  • Ghost-Eye
    Calcutta, September 1969 Varsha Gupta wants fish for her lunch. Her family can't understand it; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her life. The Guptas are strict vegetarians and don't allow it inside their Calcutta mansion. But Varsha claims she can remember another life, a mud house by a river where she caught and cooked fish with a different...
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    Never Say War
    A totally unprecedented, behind the scenes portrait of Putin's Russia at war. Astonishing. A major work — Antony Beevor Putin's Russia silences its citizens, targets foreign journalists and invaded a neighbouring country — while declaring it illegal to say the country is at war. This is what we know from the outside: but what does it feel like on the...
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    Lasher
    From the beloved and legendary gothic horror author, Anne Rice, comes this spellbinding New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of Interview With The Vampire and A Discovery of Witches. NOW A MAJOR TV SHOW, FROM THE NETWORK BEHIND THE WALKING DEAD 'Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches series is a surfeit of macabre delights, summoning up lush decadence, gothic secrets,...
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  • Beyond the Edge of Light
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    Beyond the Edge of Light
    A sweeping debut novel of love, war, and courage from an exciting new voice. A beautifully written Second World War novel of forbidden love, Bletchley Park secrets, and impossible choices. Munich, 1938. Europe is on the brink of war when Julia 'Missie' Ormesby, a young Englishwoman, meets Conrad von Echlau, a German aristocrat whose conscience is increasingly at odds with...
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  • The Witch's Heart
    When a banished witch falls in love with legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods in this moving, subversive debut novel that reimagines Norse mythology. Angrboda's story begins where most witch tales end: with a burning. A punishment from Odin for refusing to provide him with knowledge of the future, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless,...
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  • The Changeling
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    The Changeling
    Set against Scotland's first witch-hunt, a young woman with faery blood must defy two queens to survive love, magic and treachery. On her fourteenth birthday, Caiti NicNeven discovers her true mother is the queen of the Sidhe, the faery folk who dwell beneath Scotland's hollow hills. Bound by ancient grievance, the faery queen demands Caiti become the instrument of her...
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  • The Iliad
    A timeless tale of war, pride, and the cost of glory Homer's The Iliad stands as one of the greatest achievements in Western literature. Set during the final weeks of the Trojan War, the epic centres on Achilles, the Greeks' greatest warrior, whose pride and wrath threaten the fate of his comrades. As the armies of Troy and Greece clash,...
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  • The Other Bennet Sister
    Coming soon to BBC One, starring Richard E. Grant, Ruth Jones and Ella Bruccoleri 'Will delight Pride and Prejudice fans' - Independent One by one, the Bennet sisters have found their place. But what happens to the one left behind? The Other Bennet Sister is the brilliant, witty, and heartbreakingly relatable story of Mary Bennet. In Jane Austen's Pride and...
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  • Nothing to My Name
    1948, Zhoushan, China. Twelve-year-old Ah Xue watches her mother earn a living combing the hair of the wealthy women in their small fishing village, as reports of civil war and the rising Communist revolution grow closer to home. Years later, Mimosa grows up in the shadow of her parents’ struggles, while the looming tension of the Cultural Revolution threatens to...
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  • The Wayfinder
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Orphan Master’s Son, comes a mythic masterpiece and historical epic about a girl from a remote Tongan island who becomes her people's queen. Talking corpses, poetic parrots, and a fan that wafts the breath of life – this is the world young Kōrero finds herself thrust into when a mysterious visitor lands on her...
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  • Honey in the Wound
    A lyrical and suspenseful debut novel about a mysteriously gifted Korean family confronting the brutality of the Japanese empire. A sister disappears and returns as a tiger. A mother's voice compels the truth from any tongue. A granddaughter divines secrets in others' dreams. Spanning ninety years as one family is displaced across Asia, this novel follows Young-Ja, who finds herself...
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  • Murder in Paris
    The inimitable Charlotte 'Charlie' James returns in her second exciting mystery. At a glitzy gala in the ballroom of the Hotel Ritz, young American tourist Maisy Bell meets an intriguing man and accepts his charming offer to take her on a day trip. But when Maisy doesn't return to the Ritz the following day, alarm bells ring and Maisy's aunt...
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    Palaces of the Crow
    June 1941, Eastern Europe As the German blitzkrieg tears across a divided continent, four young lives are thrown into chaos: Neriya, a young Jewish girl who dreams of becoming a scientist; Czeslaw, an underage Polish deserter fleeing the Red Army; Kezia, a Roma horse trader whose family is on the run from Soviet collectivisation; and a nameless, abandoned boy who...
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  • The Storyteller’s Secret
    The stunning new novel from the writer of The Lamplighter's Bookshop, perfect for fans of The Lost Bookshop and The Keeper of Stories Two locked hearts. One secret that could set them free … Readers love Sophie Austin! ‘What's not to love?! Nineteenth century York, bookshops and brilliant characters!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Spellbinding and romantic’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A beautifully told historical novel’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐...
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    Wolf Mountain
    Embark on an epic journey, in the jaw-dropping sequel to the bestselling and highly acclaimed Wolf Road, based on real archaeological discoveries, from award-winning historian and television presenter, Alice Roberts. Perfect for fans of Hannah Gold and Michelle Paver. The seasons are changing and Tuuli, along with her faithful wolf cub, Lupa, is on the move. Leaving her tribe behind, she...
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  • The Daffodil Days
    In the early 1960s, in a small town near Dartmoor, the church bells ring. The people of North Tawton go about their days, catching glimpses of one another’s lives. There’s the local GP, who knows more about his patients than he would sometimes prefer. There’s the young shop assistant at Kestrels, who understands that the ladies who come there for...
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  • The Soldier's Daughter
    The heart-stopping new blockbuster by the bestselling author of The Fallen Woman. Violet Nash has grown up in the shadows of her father Charlie's shattered dreams. It's been years since he walked away from the battlefields of France, a WWI hero but his heart in tatters, only to see it broken all over again in the worst way possible. In...
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  • The Hobart Hotel: The new must-read 2026 Tasmanian historical novel about a jewel-thief-turned-spy.
    Glamour, intrigue and two women who will gamble their lives to survive ... the compelling new Tasmanian historical fiction from a bestselling Australian author. December 1939: The grand opening of Australia's most glamorous and talked about hotel, the Wrest Point Riviera.The equally glamorous Sabine Winters, recently arrived in Hobart from the Continent, anticipates a safe port from the storm that...
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  • Meet the Newmans
    From #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Jennifer Niven, a novel about America's favourite TV family, whose perfect façade starts to crack, for fans of Lessons in Chemistry and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. For two decades, Del and Dinah Newman and their sons, Guy and Shep, have ruled television as America's Favourite Family. Millions of viewers tune in every...
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    Godstorm
    Mothers who have come before. Daughters who have died in blood. Sons lost to the dark. Hear me This startling alternative history takes us to a newly-imagined world... The result is a vivid, ferocious adventure. Kim Stanley-Robinson A highly original, vividly-imagined fantasy Roman Empire where oil is power. Ruth Downie A Female Gladiator's Vow. A Stolen Child. A Storm to...
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  • I Survived the Black Death, 1348 (I Survived #24)
    The deadliest disease in the history of the world... Elsie dreams of becoming a brave warrior like her father, who is an archer fighting in England’s war against France. But life isn’t fair in 1348 Europe. Peasant girls like Elsie can’t be archers or knights or anything exciting. Then one day in the forest, Elsie and her best friend discover...
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  • The Wartime Librarian’s Secret
    Bestselling historical fiction author Molly Green is back with her most engrossing, heartfelt World War Two saga yet, The Wartime Librarian’s Secret! Amid the chaos of war, will a new chapter begin? September 1942. Esme Donaldson is still grieving the devastating loss of her husband, Anthony, when she’s forced out of her dream job by wartime budget cuts. Left with...
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  • The Queen’s Necklace
    The most famous necklace in the world has finally been found… Bryher Finch’s life isn’t just a disaster, it’s a catastrophe, until a chance invitation to chart her family tree changes everything. As Bryher uncovers the ancestry she never knew about, she stumbles on the find of the century – Anne Boleyn’s ‘B’ necklace, as enigmatic as Henry VIII’s most...
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  • The Riviera Secret
    The captivating new novel from USA Today bestselling author Sarah Steele is a spellbinding book club read set in the glittering French Riviera, sweeping from the Roaring Twenties through to the dangerous days leading up to the outbreak of war. Nestled into the pine-dusted coastline of the Cap d'Antibes is the dazzling white Chateau Violette. When British diplomat Lord Harry...
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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.