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  • The Lie Tree
    Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 'I can't think of anyone who would not love this story' – Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric novel by award-winning author Frances Hardinge. This edition has a beautiful new cover to celebrate the 10th anniversary and an introduction by Kiran Milwood...
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  • The Hidden City
    It's 1879, and Lenox is convalescing from the violent events of his last investigation. But a desperate letter from an old servant forces him to pick up the trail of a cold case: the murder of an apothecary seven years before, whose only clue is an odd emblem carved into the doorway of the building where the man was killed....
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  • The Great Gatsby
    In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance, the carelessness, and the cruelty of the wealthy during America's Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby lives mysteriously in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of people. And yet no one seems to know him or how he became so rich. He is rumoured to be everything...
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  • Revenge, Served Royal
    September, 1815. Autumn is in the air as Lady Petra Forsyth and some of the most illustrious members of the ton descend upon Windsor Castle for a week of royal celebrations, with the highlight being Queen Charlotte's inaugural patisserie contest for the best bakers employed by England's finest houses. Not only is Lady Petra's own cook one of the contestants,...
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  • Red Sky in the Morning
    Red Sky in the Morning is a heartwarming historical tale of love, hardship, and family secrets from bestselling author and Queen of the Saga, Margaret Dickinson. December 1946. It is two weeks before Christmas, and a young girl stands alone in the cobbled marketplace of a small Lincolnshire town, bedraggled and very afraid. People rush by, not one of them...
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  • A Place to Hide
    From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award, a novel of heroism and resistance during World War II. Theodore "Teddy" Hartigan is the scion of a wealthy Washington, D.C. family who place him into a comfortable job at the State Department and a placid diplomat's career. In 1938, as Hitler's inexorable rise continues, Teddy is re-assigned to the US...
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  • Whispers at Painswick Court
    Whispers at Painswick Court follows Anne Loveday, a surgeon's daughter, who is determined to live a single, useful life. To escape her matchmaking stepmother, she accepts an invitation from an old friend to return to Painswick, the place she and her sister spent many happy summers until that last, fateful year. Soon after arriving, Anne is asked to serve as...
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  • A Murderous Business
    There can be a blurry line between what is ethical and what is legal. Margot Baxter Harriman took the reins of B&H Foods after her father passed. It's not easy being a businesswoman in 1912, but she is determined to continue what her grandparents started decades ago, no matter what it takes. So when Margot finds Mrs. Gilroy, her father's...
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  • The Silence In Between
    Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your new-born baby and there is now no way of getting to him... For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and Alone in Berlin, a stunning historical debut. The perfect page-turning read for fans of All the Light We...
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  • The Nanny's Handbook to Magic and Managing Difficult Dukes
    Mary Poppins meets Bridgerton in a blend of cosy fantasy, historical romance and humour. This charming tale follows a recently graduated nanny who finds her supernatural abilities are little help when it comes to falling for the shy, mysterious inventor who happens to be her employer. Perfect for readers of Heather Fawcett, India Holton, and Freya Marske. London, 1851: Emmeline...
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  • The Hollow Girl
    Alternating between 1961 and 1973, The Hollow Girl is the stunning new literary suspense novel from the award-winning author of The Silent Listener. HARROWFORD HALL A safe haven for lost girls? Or a breeding ground for revenge? It's 1973 and Detective Sergeant Eleanor Smith is finally assigned her first homicide case. A woman's body has been discovered at Harrowford Hall,...
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  • The Heart in Winter
    The Sunday Times Historical Novel of the YearThe Instant Irish Times BestsellerPicked as a Book of the Year by the Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, Irish Times, Independent, Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, TLS, Scotsman, The Times and EconomistAn i-Paper and Sunday Times book to read this summer 'An absolute belter of a book' — Anne Enright He was ready to die...
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  • The Empress Murders
    ‘Prepare to be both dazzled and discombobulated. You have been warned.’ The Sydney Morning Herald ‘Readers expecting to snuggle up with a bit of Miss Marple-style cosy crime will be in for a shock ... a book that will leave you thinking’ The Australian Everyone is in peril. Everyone is a suspect. It's 1925 and the Empress of Australia is...
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  • Rembrandt's Promise
    Stunning historical immersion into the world of Rembrandt with a gripping plot of a promise turned sour. For fans of Stacey Halls, Maggie O'Farrell and Tracy Chevalier. 'With glorious language, she gives us a believable, elegant and atmospheric novel - just beautiful' - Nuala O'Connor - author of Seaborne and NORA Hanging beside the door is a painting of a...
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  • I Was Anastasia
    From the bestselling author of The Frozen River comes an enthralling historical mystery that unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson’s fifty-year battle to be recognised as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian grand duchess or the thief of another woman’s legacy? Countless others have rendered their verdict. Now it is your turn. Russia, 1918: Under direct orders...
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  • Imaginary Lives of James Poneke, The
    From an early age, James Poneke has had to play a role to survive. But what of the real James? While exhibited as a curiosity, a Māori boy turns his gaze on Victorian London. The hour is late. The candle is low. Tomorrow I will see whether it is my friends or a ship homewards I meet. But first I...
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  • Gabriele
    The passionate love affair that triggered a revolution, and the story of a remarkable woman living in extraordinary times An atmospheric, exuberant novel about love and sex, art and revolution, experimentation and creativity from the best-selling author of The Postcard, Anne Berest, and her sister, the acclaimed novelist Claire Berest, based on the life of their great grandmother. The year...
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  • Dark Fairy Tales of Fearless Women
    Enter a world in which magic exists, hope wins, and every woman's heart is alive with courage! This global feast of ancient tales features valiant women overcoming every kind of obstacle and danger to fulfil their destinies. Travel through Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and the Pacific. Shudder, cheer, and laugh out loud as the heroines deal...
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  • Bring Up the Bodies
    Now a major TV series. Winner of the Man Booker Prize. Winner of the Costa Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. ‘Simply exceptional…I envy anyone who hasn’t yet read it’ Daily Mail ‘A gripping story of tumbling fury and terror’ Independent on Sunday Bring Up the Bodies unlocks the darkly glittering court of Henry VIII,...
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  • The Battle of Long Tan
    On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, in a rubber plantation in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, Australian troops fought one of their bloodiest, most significant battles of the Vietnam War. The Australians had arrived at Nui Dat four months earlier to open up the province. While out on patrol, Delta Company of 6RAR, originally numbering just 105 Australians and...
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  • Buy to Win
    Orlando
    Orlando by Virginia Woolf is a pioneering novel about a time-traveling sixteenth-century nobleman who wakes up in the body of a woman. This edition includes a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl. "A brilliant book that teaches you so much about identity and love—all these fundamental questions that we ask ourselves."...
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  • Devil Dogs
    A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second World War, and also the last. The ‘Devil Dogs’ of K Company, 3/5 Marines, were part of the legendary first Marine Division. They landed on the beaches...
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  • Best in Show
    A celebration of the extraordinary and ordinary power of dogs of all kinds, in sly and cheerful verse from celebrated poet David Elliott. Features artwork from an all-star cast of eighteen bestselling and award-winning illustrators. In so many hearts you’re number one! Agile! High-spirited! Obedient! Fun! You hunt. You fish. You search and find. You cheer the old. You guide...
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  • Blood on the Line
    1857. On the LNWR train to London, a criminal is being escorted to his appointment with the hangman. But the wily Jeremy Oxley, conman, thief, and murderer, has one last ace up his sleeve—a beautiful and ruthless accomplice willing to do anything to save her lover, including cold-blooded murder. When the Railway Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck learns that Oxley, his...
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  • A Short Walk Through a Wide World
    A Short Walk Through a Wide World is a spellbinding fantasy adventure that follows a young woman struck down by a mysterious curse, and her extraordinary journey in search of survival. PARIS, 1885. On an otherwise ordinary night, Aubry Tourvel—spoiled, stubborn and nine years old—is suddenly struck down by a mysterious illness at the family dinner table. When a visit...
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  • An Empty Throne
    FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE VESPASIAN SERIES The cause of Alexander the Great's sudden death is no longer in doubt – it was murder. But by whom? As his former followers struggle for power, the bonds of family, friendship, and political loyalties are tested to the limit. As is the strength of the formidable empire that Alexander had wrought....
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  • Glimpses of the Moon
    A charming story of romantic misadventures where a young couple's love is threatened by the power of money, by one of the greatest authors of her age. Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young and attractive, but penniless. Gracefully moving through New York high society, they have the right connections but none of the wealth. When they inconveniently fall in...
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  • Ghost Wedding
    For fans of Sebastian Faulks, Donal Ryan, and Anne Tyler comes this beautiful novel, Ghost Wedding, following two troubled men, separated by nearly a century, bound by the ghosts that haunt a beautiful Irish manor. George Allenby is still wrestling with his experiences as an officer during the First World War when he is sent by his employers to construct...
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  • Echoes of the Runes
    The pacy, evocative and romantic new dual-time novel from Christina Courtenay is perfect for fans of Barbara Erskine, Diana Gabaldon and VIKINGS. Their love was forbidden. But echoed in eternity. When Mia inherits her beloved grandmother's summer cottage, Birch Thorpe, in Sweden, she faces a dilemma. Her fiancé Charles urges her to sell and buy a swanky London home, but...
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  • Cherrywood
    From multi-award-winning author Jock Serong comes Cherrywood, an imaginative, darkly playful and deeply meaningful delight, a novel about legacy, community, wonder, love, and reinvention. Shortlisted Indie Book Awards for Fiction 2025 Shortlisted ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2025 'One rainy Friday evening in the winter of 1993, a taxi swept through the streets of East Melbourne, on its...
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  • Canary Girls
    Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in The New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini’s lively and illuminating novel about the “munitionettes” who built bombs in Britain’s arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war effort and discovering camaraderie and courage on the football pitch. Early in the Great War, men left Britain’s factories...
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  • An Astronomer in Love
    In 1760, Guillaume le Gentil, astronomer to King Louis XV, sets sail for India. He hopes to record the transit of Venus, but rough seas—and war with the British—make his quest more complicated than he could have imagined. Two hundred and fifty years later, anxious, lonely Xavier Lemercier chances upon Guillaume's telescope. As he looks out across the rooftops of...
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  • Under a Lightning Sky
    London is under attack. But within the rubble, a greater danger lurks… The Luftwaffe has been bombing London continuously since September 1940. During a bombing raid, Madeline Fairfax is caught in her kitchen whilst cooking for her husband and children. She becomes trapped in the rear of her home but regains consciousness just in time to see a familiar face,...
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  • Those Opulent Days
    One will lose his mind. One will pay. One will agonise. And one will die. Duy, Phong, Minh, and Edmond have been best friends since childhood. Now, as young men running their families’ formidable businesses, they make up Saigon’s most powerful group of friends in 1928 Vietnam’s elite society. Until one of them is murdered. In a lavish mansion on...
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  • The Tapestry of Time
    Aurora Award Finalist Love, heroism and the supernatural collide in the midst of war. 'Paranormal elements are expertly woven with real history to create a convincing and exciting tale' Guardian 'A darker take on Raiders of the Lost Ark … a fine piece of work' SFX There's a tradition in the Sharp family that some possess the Second Sight. But...
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  • The Sirens
    From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Weyward: FOUR SISTERS, SEPARATED BY HISTORY, BOUND BY THE SEA 'Beautiful and magnificent' Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne 'A profoundly moving and rich historical story wrapped up in a contemporary murder mystery’ Rosie Andrews, author of The Leviathan When Lucy arrives at her sister’s house in a wild panic, she doesn’t find the...
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  • These Wicked Devices
    The Holy City is No Place for Mercy 'Matthew Plampin should rank with the best' Sunday Times 'Plampin is heartbreakingly good' The Times 'Gripping, immersive, at times very funny and beautifully written, this is historical fiction of the highest quality' Elizabeth Fremantle Rome, 1650. The streets are teeming as thousands of pilgrims flood in for the Holy Jubilee, but behind...
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  • The Scary Book of Valentine's Day Lore
    Roses are red, violets are blue, in this book of fear, Valentine's haunts anew. Dare to discover the true lore of Valentine's Day, where love and terror intertwine in the most unexpected ways. With classic myths about tragic love, dark romances that end in murder, and true crimes committed in passion, this spine-chilling book of tales will excite and fright....
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    The Scary Book of Fairy Tales
    Not every fairytale has a happy ending… do you dare to dive into the dark depths of your favourite childhood stories? This spine-chilling anthology weaves together real fairy tales from cultures across the globe, unmasking the eerie and unsettling narratives that have been whispered through generations. From the chilling depths of the classic Brothers Grimm's tales from Germany to the...
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  • The Lamplighter’s Bookshop
    Every book tells a story. Every heart hides a secret. 'What's not to love?! Nineteenth century York, bookshops and brilliant characters!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Spellbinding and romantic' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A beautifully told historical novel' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ In the shadowy aisles of the Lamplighter's Bookshop, secrets lie as thick as the dust… When Evelyn Seaton answers an advertisement for an assistant at a forgotten bookshop...
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  • The Greek House
    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Highly recommend for your summer reading' Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Can one house hold a lifetime of secrets? Corfu, 1930 The moment Thirza Caruthers sets foot on Corfu, memories flood back: the scent of jasmine, the green shutters of her family’s home — and her brother Billy’s tragic disappearance years before. Returning to the Greek house, high above clear blue...
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  • The Face Behind the Mask
    The final book in the Annie Graham series will leave you racing to the finish! Annie Ashworth is on maternity leave from her police job, enjoying spending time with baby Alfie. Perhaps her days at home are a little boring, but after all of the horrific crimes she’s witnessed, that’s fine with her. But when she starts having strange dreams...
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  • The Elixir
    With a witchfinder skulking about town, gifted healer Ann and a young Isaac Newton must be careful not to draw too much attention in this high-stakes story from Lindsay Galvin. Will the discovery of The Elixir of Life lead to a death sentence for a talented young healer? Ann Storer has inherited her grandmother’s mysterious gift of healing, which she...
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  • The Diamond of Drury Lane
    Julia Golding’s award-winning adventure series is perfect for fans of Katherine Woodfine, Robin Stevens, and J.T. Williams. This HarperCollins Children’s Classics edition features special bonus material. Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award. 'I am Cat Royal – Orphan, Adventurer, Actress… Reader, you are set to embark on an adventure about one...
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  • The Banned Books of Berlin
    Another unforgettable story, tying together past and present, from the bestselling author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris and The Royal Librarian. Berlin, 1933. The night skies are burning bright with huge bonfires of banned books. The Nazi party is swelling in number and Berlin is no longer a safe place for young Freya. She can only watch on, horrified,...
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  • The Angel Deception
    The gripping new action thriller novel from the million-copy bestselling author of the Matt Drake series. Ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is on a mission to stop a ruthless satanic group from obtaining a treasure of unimaginable power: the legendary Hellfire. If the cult succeeds, they will become more powerful than any government – unleashing chaos and destruction worldwide. Mason and...
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  • One Day: A True Story of Courage and Survival in the Holocaust
    A poignant and ultimately uplifting picture book based on a true story of an escape from a convoy to Auschwitz. “Get through one day and then on to the next. One day at a time. One day after another.” Eugène Handschuh was a Jewish member of the Resistance in occupied Paris. After he was captured by the Nazis, he was...
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    Last Train to Freedom
    'A thrilling, immersive and beautifully written historical novel that will resonate long after the last page is turned. Highly recommended' MARIUS GABRIEL 'Taut, compelling and beautifully written – I loved it!’ DAISY WOOD A moving, page-turning story about a little-known chapter of World War II. Perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Anna Stuart. 1940. As Soviet forces storm Lithuania,...
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  • Coram Boy
    The Whitbread 2000 Book of the Year is a haunting and captivating work of historical fiction for children. The Coram man takes babies and money from desperate mothers, promising to deliver them safely to a Foundling Hospital in London. Instead, he murders them and buries them by the roadside, to the helpless horror of his mentally ill son, Mish. Mish...
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  • Cat Nap
    With lush paintings and intricately constructed 3-D artwork, bestselling and Caldecott Honor–winning author-illustrator Brian Lies introduces a sleepy kitten whose afternoon nap transforms into an epic journey through art, time, and history. Perfect for fans of They All Saw a Cat, Museum Trip, and Jumanji. Includes back matter. In the warm, late afternoon sunlight, a girl sits on the couch...
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  • A Song of War
    From seven masters of historical fiction—including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn—comes a richly imagined anthology of stories which bring the epic tale of the Trojan War to life. Troy: city of gold, gatekeeper of the East, haven of the god-born and the lucky, a city destined to last a thousand years. But the Fates have other plans—the Fates, and...
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  • A Dangerous Game
    International bestselling author Mandy Robotham returns with a brand new tale set in 1950s London. ‘A gripping story of revenge, guilt and redemption, sweetened by love.’ Daisy Wood, author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris ‘A truly brilliant read—I couldn’t put it down!’ Suzanne Kelman, author of The Bookseller of Paris London, 1952. Seven years after the chaotic aftermath of...
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  • Clara & Olivia
    “Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection?” Sadler's Wells, 1933. I would kill to dance like her. Disciplined and dedicated, Olivia is the perfect ballerina. But no matter how hard she works, she can never match identical twin Clara's charm. I would kill to be with her. As rehearsals intensify for the ballet Coppélia,...
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  • Clara & Olivia
    “Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection?” Sadler's Wells, 1933. I would kill to dance like her. Disciplined and dedicated, Olivia is the perfect ballerina. But no matter how hard she works, she can never match identical twin Clara's charm. I would kill to be with her. As rehearsals intensify for the ballet Coppélia,...
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  • Bone Lands
    'Isn't it your job to stop people being murdered?' 1911, on a winter's night in arid New South Wales wool country, mounted trooper Augustus Hawkins discovers the bodies of three young people. They are scions of the richest family in the district, savagely murdered on a road that Hawkins should have been patrolling, had he not been busy bedding the...
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  • Bone Lands
    Isn't it your job to stop people being murdered? 1911, on a winter's night in arid New South Wales wool country, mounted trooper Augustus Hawkins discovers the bodies of three young people. They are scions of the richest family in the district, savagely murdered on a road that Hawkins should have been patrolling, had he not been busy bedding the...
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  • Blood Rights
    A gripping new thriller from the master of crime… ‘It’s a winner, involving bent MPs, snatched heiresses, sex, drugs, and double dealing’ Time Out In the 1980s, London is a melting pot of cultures, but race and class create sharp divisions. Black British journalist Sam Dean looks for stories, not missing persons. But when an old friend asks for help...
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  • Carnival of the Spider
    There were three men and two women . . . One had half a face. One had iron legs. The others all had one or both arms missing. There were pincers and claws and guns instead. And you could hear them ticking. Ticking all the time. When Sheba the wolfgirl learns that her old friend Sister Moon is being held...
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  • Carnival of the Lost
    Each cast member of this Victorian mystery is unusual - there's a wolf girl, a giant, a witch's imp, and a ninja... all cared for by Mama Rat, a curious mother figure with knowledge of the world beneath the cobbled paving stones and magic at her fingertips. Formerly published as The Peculiars, Kieran has entirely reworked the novel to add...
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  • Balkan Glory
    Balkan Glory is an epic chapter in the splendid Kydd canon, weaving knotty political gambits with stirring naval actions, expressively re-creating the often harsh reality Jack Tars witnessed within their wooden walls during the Napoleonic Wars - Quarterdeck 1811. The Adriatic, the 'French Lake', is now the most valuable territory Napoleon Bonaparte possesses. Captain Sir Thomas Kydd finds his glorious...
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  • Babylon
    'This may be the greatest tale of the ancient world. Hugely enjoyable' - CONN IGGULDEN 'Excellent . . . scintillating' - THE TIMES Who will conquer the greatest city in the ancient world? Alexander the Great's sudden death has left his vast empire in chaos. War rages, cities fall, and the lives of thousands are torn apart as his former...
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  • A Winter War
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD CROWN AWARD 2022. A disgraced warrior must navigate a course between honour and shame, his people and the Roman Empire, in the first of a trilogy set in the second century AD from the author of Smile of the Wolf. AD173. The Danube has frozen. On its far banks gather the clans of...
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  • World War II Close Up: They Saved the Stallions
    In the closing months of World War II, American bombs rained down on Nazi Germany and its territories, including Austria. As glass shattered around them in Vienna, an ordinary-looking horse named Nero and his stable mates, the dancing white Lipizzaner stallions of the famed Spanish Riding School, quiver and shake in fear. But they do not panic. Somehow, they sense...
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  • Wolves at the Door
    Wolves at the Door by Steve Watkins is a gripping tale of survival set during the turbulent times of World War II. Asta and her younger sister, Pieta, have watched in terror as Hitler's invasion spreads across Europe. Eventually, the war arrives in their city, bringing with it destruction and death. As the Nazis clash with Stalin's Red Army and...
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  • Under Attack (Kidnapped From Ukraine #1)
    Twelve-year-old twin sisters Rada and Dariia Popkova couldn't be more different. Dariia is outgoing and chatty while Rada is quieter and artsy. But what they have in common is their love for each other and their home. The family lives in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which is attacked by the Russians on February 24th, 2022. The attack separates the...
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  • Tomboy the Headstrong Horse
    Tomboy the Headstrong Horse recounts the real-life 1866 journey of Caroline and Nicolas Chevalier, who crossed New Zealand’s rugged Southern Alps on horseback, accompanied by the spirited and wilful horse, Tomboy. While Nicolas documented their travels in his art, Caroline kept a journal. The story follows Caroline as she navigates treacherous rivers, dense forests, and muddy trails, forming an unbreakable...
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  • The Great Phoenix of London
    1666. When fire breaks out, eleven-year-old Gil is separated from his family in the chaos. One of his few remaining possessions is a mysterious ball of rock that fell from the sky. As he races to beat the inferno spreading across the city, neither he, nor his new friend Jennet, has any idea that the stone in his satchel is...
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  • Swimming with Spies
    It’s February of 2014 in the seaport city of Sevastopol in Crimea. Sofiya Oleksandrivna only wants two things: to figure out a way to get Ilya Ilyich to stop bullying her, and to convince her mother to come back home. But as battleships come to populate the waters around their city and Russian forces, including Ilya’s father, start to make...
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  • The Murder at World’s End
    From award-winning children's author Ross Montgomery comes the first in a gripping new crime series, where Downton Abbey meets Knives Out with a sprinkle of wickedness. Secrets, murder and mayhem collide as this unlikely sleuthing duo—an under-butler and a foul-mouthed octogenarian—hunt a killer in a manor sealed against the end of the world. Cornwall, 1910. On a remote tidal island,...
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  • The Burning Grounds
    When a man is found murdered in the Burning Ghats of Calcutta, Captain Sam Wyndham finds himself pulled into the dark and glamorous world of Indian Cinema. The Burning Grounds is the next instalment of the Wyndham and Banerjee series, which has sold a quarter of a million copies. In the Burning Ghats of Calcutta, where the dead are laid...
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  • The Austen Christmas Murders
    A festive cosy crime caper starring Jane Austen as amateur sleuth, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the literary legend's birth! The festive season is fast approaching. Jane Austen fears that without her siblings at home, there won't be much Christmas cheer in the Austen household this year. But when she uncovers a skeleton in the cellar of Deane Rectory, Jane...
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  • Castaway (My New Zealand Story)
    A true tale of shipwreck and survival in harrowing sub-antarctic conditions off New Zealand’s southern coast. Samuel, the keeper of this diary, is 13 when he signs on as a cabin boy aboard a vessel bound for Sydney. The barque Dundonald founders and sinks off Disappointment Island (part of the Auckland Islands group) in the ocean south of New Zealand...
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  • Auntie Medusa and Me
    Hiya! I’m Silvia, an ordinary kid just like you. At least, I was ordinary until I wound up in Ancient Rome as a demi-goddess. Yeah, that took me by surprise too. But seriously, travelling back in time is nothing compared to what’s happening now: Medusa the gorgon wants her head back – and she’s chosen me to find it! Check...
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  • 1914: Riding into War (Kiwis at War)
    It’ll be over by Christmas... Young Billy Bowman and his mate Jack get caught up in the excitement when war is declared in August 1914 and leave their jobs on the farm to rush off and enlist in the Mounted Rifles—because the war would probably be over by Christmas. We follow their journey from the Awapuni training camp to more...
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  • Christmas Joy
    1889 Rye, Sussex, England Joy by name, joy by nature, Miss Joy Parker loves nothing more than performing acts of kindness and making other people's lives brighter. Even the loss of her family's fortune and being forced to accept a job as a lady's companion to the formidable Lady Hyacinth Montague doesn't get her down. Hyacinth treats her as the...
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  • A True Account
    In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury – bound into service at a waterfront inn since childhood – is ready to take her life into her own hands. When William Fly is hanged for piracy in the town square, the teenage Hannah is watching. Forced to flee for her life, Hannah disguises...
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  • A True Account
    In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury – bound into service at a waterfront inn since childhood – is ready to take her life into her own hands. When William Fly is hanged for piracy in the town square, the teenage Hannah is watching. Forced to flee for her life, Hannah disguises...
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  • A Shot in the Dark
    Guardian Crime Book of the Month _______________ 'A giddy spell of sheer delight' Daily Mail 'Ingenious' Sunday Times Crime Club Brighton, 1957. Inspector Steine rather enjoys his life as a policeman by the sea. No criminals, no crime, no stress. So it’s really rather annoying when an ambitious new constable shows up to work and starts investigating a series of...
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  • A Shipwreck in Fiji
    Sergeant Akal Singh, an unwilling transplant to Fiji, is just starting to settle into his life in the capital city of Suva when he is sent to the neighbouring island of Ovalau on a series of fool's errands. First: investigate strange reports of lurking Germans, thousands of miles from the front lines of World War I. Second: chaperone two strong-willed...
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  • Argo
    You've read the myth of the Golden Fleece. Now find out how it really was for Jason and the Argonauts in this gripping reimagining of the famous Ancient Greek tale, and the first book in the breathtaking Blades of Bronze series. Perfect for fans of Madeline Miller, Neil Gaiman, and Natalie Haynes. He has come to take what is yours......
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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.