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  • Ravage & Son
    A master storyteller's novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early 20th-century Manhattan Ravage & Son reflects the lost world of Manhattan's Lower East Side—the cradle of Jewish immigration during the first years of the twentieth century—in a dark mirror. Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, serves as the conscience of the Jewish ghetto teeming with rogue cops...
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  • Peace on the Western Front
    Peace on the Western Front by Mattia Signorini explores the heart-wrenching journey of a young boy in 1914 who enrols in the army, seeking peace within the great adventure of war. Yet, upon being handed a rifle, he confronts the grim reality of grey days marked by the ever-present spectre of death. Amidst the horror, he discovers close friendships, love,...
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  • Pale Shadows
    Longlisted for the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Featured on Lithub CBC Books: 2024 Spring Fiction Preview Pale Shadows is a novel of the trio of women who brought Emily Dickinson's poems out of the shadows. When she died, Emily Dickinson left behind hundreds of texts scribbled on scraps of paper. She also left behind three formidable women: her...
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  • Olav Audunssøn
    The initial volume in the Nobel Prize-winning author's tumultuous, epic story of medieval Norway—the first new English translation in nearly a century. As a child, Olav Audunssøn is given by his dying father to an old friend, Steinfinn Toressøn, who rashly promises to raise the boy as his foster son and eventually marry him to his own daughter, Ingunn. The...
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  • No One Prayed Over Their Graves
    'A soulful and perfectly unsentimental writer...' - MOHSIN HAMID December, 1907: one morning after a night of drunken carousing in the city, Hanna and his friend Zakariya return home to their village near Aleppo—only to discover a scene of tragedy. A devastating flood has levelled their homes, shops, and places of worship, and their neighbours, families, and children are nearly...
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  • Mr Pim
    Gentle chaos sets in when the absent-minded Mr Pim calls in to see George Marden, bearing some innocent news... George is a fine upstanding citizen and a stickler for doing the right thing. He has a devoted wife, Olivia, and is guardian to his somewhat flighty niece, Dinah. But his careful peace is broken when Mr Pim casually announces that...
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  • Mr Mac and Me
    A compelling tale beautifully told, Mr Mac & Me is as close to a perfect novel as anything I’ve read in a long time. I loved every page of it. — Ann Patchett Set on the Suffolk coastline in 1914, a compelling story of an unlikely friendship from the Granta Best of Young British author of Hideous Kinky and The...
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  • Moonbath
    Winner of the 2014 Prix Femina & 2015 French Voices Award After she is found washed up on shore, Cetoute Olmene Therese, bloody and bruised, recalls the circumstances that led her there. Her voice weaves hauntingly in and out of the narrative, as her story intertwines with those of three generations of women in her family, beginning with Olmene, her...
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  • Mercia'S Take
    1870s, the Black Country. Michael is a miner. But it's no life for a man. Michael exhausts himself working two jobs, to send his son Luke to school, so he won't have to be a miner too. Down the pit one day, he finds a seam of gold. If he gets it out, he can save his own life, and...
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  • Meet Me at Rainbow Corner
    London, 1944. The air raid sirens are blaring, the bombers are hovering. England has been at war with Germany for four years, and there’s no sign of peace coming. Dot Gallagher, newly arrived from Liverpool to offer her services as a nurse, hurries from her Red Cross hostel to the tube station to join the crowds of people taking shelter....
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  • Lucky Red
    In the summer of 1877, Bridget is orphaned when her unreliable father succumbs to a snakebite as they are crossing the Kansas prairie. Arriving in Dodge City as a penniless orphan, she's quickly recruited for work at the Buffalo Queen brothel and befriends her bookish mentor Constance, securing her home and employment as the favourite of Sheriff's Deputy Jim Bonnie....
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  • Like the Appearance of Horses
    A novel of one family, a century of war, and the promise of homecoming from Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner and National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivak Rooted in the small, mountain town of Dardan, Pennsylvania, where patriarch Jozef Vinich settled after surviving World War I, Like the Appearance of Horses immerses us in the intimate lives of a family...
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  • Junction of Earth and Sky
    A sweeping and emotional debut from a dazzling new voice - for fans of The Paper Palace, The Dutch House, and Betty. Coming of age in 1940s England, Alice's life is thrown into chaos under the shadow of the war. Forced to let go of her hopes and dreams, she finds herself uprooted to America and a life she never...
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  • Junction of Earth and Sky
    A sweeping and emotional debut from a dazzling new voice - for fans of The Paper Palace, The Dutch House, and Betty. Coming of age in 1940s England, Alice's life is thrown into chaos under the shadow of the war. Forced to let go of her hopes and dreams, she finds herself uprooted to America and a life she never...
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  • I Was Never the First Lady
    I Was Never the First Lady stitches together threads of island and identity until they become one and the same... Guerra’s own unpredictable book is haunting, complicated, and linguistically beautiful.” --The New York Times A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra's mother, Albis...
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  • Isaac's Beacon
    In the tradition of epic novels like Exodus and Cast a Giant Shadow, Isaac’s Beacon is a sweeping historical tale based on the real events of Israel’s founding—bringing alive the power and complexities of the birth of the Jewish state out of the ashes of the Holocaust. Bestselling author David L. Robbins, called “the Homer of World War II,” turns...
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  • I Couldn't Love You More
    An unforgettable novel of mothers and daughters, wives and muses, secrets and outright lies ‘Freud is a modern literary rarity: a born storyteller’ THE TIMES ‘Such a powerful book’ RICHARD CURTIS ‘Delivers an emotional punch that left me in tears’ RACHEL JOYCE ‘Utterly compelling’ HANNAH ROTHSCHILD ‘I couldn't love it more’ POLLY SAMSON ‘I loved this book’ AMANDA CRAIG ‘Completely,...
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  • Faraway the Southern Sky
    The young man arrived in Paris, a refugee from political repression, just as World War I was raging to a close. He came with just a few coins in his pocket, a painfully shy twentysomething who stammered when he spoke in public, though he had sailed the world as a lowly deckhand. He moved into a dingy hotel on a...
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  • Fall of the Florios
    The epic saga behind the Disney-produced Hulu series The Lions of Sicily The magnificent third installment of the Florio story – a sweeping, decadent, and romantic finale that tells the story of Italy’s most powerful and notorious family as it faces its dramatic end. After triumph and brilliance, the Sicilian Lions enter their fall . . . Glory is fleeting,...
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  • Europeana
    Tracing the Great War through the Millennium Bug, 1999 through 1900, Dadaism through Scientology through Sierra Leonean bicycle riding and back, award-winning Czech author Patrik Ourednik explores the horror and absurdity of the twentieth century in an explosive deconstruction of historical memory. Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century opens on the beaches of Normandy in 1944, comparing the...
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  • Embroidery
    How do you turn old gold into priceless treasure? At the turn of the twentieth century, Sigurlina finds herself in a hopeless situation. She is the motherless daughter of an eccentric father, who expects her to spend her life helping him catalogue Icelandic archaeological artefacts. But Sigurlina has her own ambitions of education and excitement, and after a harrowing experience,...
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  • Dust Child
    Dazzling. Sharply drawn and hauntingly beautiful. Elif Shafak, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Island of Missing Trees. In 1969, two sisters from rural Viet Nam leave their parents' home and travel to the bustling city of Sài Gòn. Soon, their lives are swept up in the unstoppable flames of a war that is blazing through their country. They begin working...
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  • Death of the Red Rider
    On the eve of the Great Purge, a horseman and horse mysteriously collapse in the middle of a race in Leningrad. Weary Detective Zaitsev, still raw from his last brush with the Party, is dispatched to the Soviet state cavalry school in Novocherkassk, southern Russia, to investigate. As he witnesses the horror of the Holodomor, and the impact of Soviet...
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  • Csardas
    Csardas – taken from the name of the Hungarian national dance – follows the fortunes of the enchanting Ferenc sisters from their glittering beginnings in aristocratic Hungary, through the traumas of two World Wars. From the dazzling elegance of coming-out balls, feudal estates and a culture steeped in romance, to terror and starvation in the concentration camps – no story...
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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...
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  • Cities of Women
    "With a scholar's commitment to accurate detail, and the heart of a lover of beauty, Kathleen B. Jones's engaging and well-crafted parallel story is as colourful and lucid as the illuminated manuscripts at the centre of her novel." - Laurel Corona, author of The Mapmaker's Daughter A deeply affecting dual narrative separated by several centuries, Cities of Women examines the...
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  • Burning Grass
    In this groundbreaking novella, Cyprian Ekwensi narrates the spectacular adventures of a nomadic family whose lives are turned upside down when their great leader is cursed by his rival to the throne. When Chief Mai Sunsaye smells the smoke of burning grass, he knows it is time to go. Such is the nomadic life of the Fulani. Yet when Mai...
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  • Black Shield Maiden
    From Willow Smith and Jess Hendel comes a powerful and groundbreaking historical epic about an African warrior in the world of the Vikings. Lore, legend, and history tell us of the Vikings—warrior-kings on epic journeys of conquest and plunder. But the stories we know are not the only stories to tell. There is another story, one that has been lost...
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  • Beyond Ivy Walls
    Reminiscent of Beauty and the Beast, a recluse and a young woman discover that the scars of life are no match against an act of love. Iowa, 1903. All of Monticello believes Otis Taylor has been away fostering his musical genius. But the truth is that his father exiled him long ago, rejecting Otis's appearance and the scars that came...
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  • Beyond Black
    Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience—classics which will endure for generations to come. Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel follows Alison Hart, a medium by trade, as she tours the dormitory towns of London’s orbital ring road with her flint-hearted sidekick, Colette,...
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  • Beasts of a Little Land
    In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an instant, their fates are connected, a chance encounter that will shape both of their lives for over half a century. Meanwhile, in the north of Korea, a young girl named...
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  • Beasts of a Little Land
    In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an instant, their fates are connected, a chance encounter that will shape both of their lives for over half a century. Meanwhile, in the north of Korea, a young girl named...
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  • A Room With A View
    LARGE PRINT EDITION. Young Lucy Honeychurch leaves Edwardian England for a tour of Italy, where she becomes immersed in an exotic new environment full of unexpected possibilities. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster is an influential classic that follows Lucy as she encounters characters and events far outside her previous experience and must see through the clash of...
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  • An Ordinary Youth
    Growing up in Rostock, in the north of Germany, Walter has a comfortable upbringing: quiet and content, he spends his days scheming with school friends and resisting the torment of his older siblings. But, as the country rolls toward war, the attitudes of his teachers, peers and family begin to slide, and it isn't long before the roar of falling...
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  • An Ordinary Youth
    Growing up in Rostock, in the north of Germany, Walter has a comfortable upbringing: quiet and content, he spends his days scheming with school friends and resisting the torment of his older siblings. But, as the country rolls toward war, the attitudes of his teachers, peers, and family begin to slide, and it isn't long before the roar of falling...
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  • A Girls' Guide to Winning the War
    'A heart-warming tale about resilience, friendships, and family, and the inestimable power of the written word' – RUTH HOGAN 'A heart-warming depiction of strong female friendships tested by suffering - Annie Lyons really is the queen of the wartime saga' – CLARE CHAMBERS Can two young women and one book change the course of war? 1940. Whip-smart librarian Peggy Sparks...
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  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    Revel in Huck Finn's adventure on the Mississippi River with this handsome gift edition of the American masterpiece by Mark Twain. A favourite among young readers and adults alike, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first published in 1884, is considered to be the author's masterpiece, as well as one of the best American novels ever written. In order to...
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  • A Backstage Betrayal
    THE THEATRE MAY SEEM GLAMOROUS, BUT SECRETS WAIT BEHIND THE CURTAIN 1926. Running a theatre may appear to be all about the showbiz, but times are hard at The Empire. Following a turbulent period, Jack Treadwell, erstwhile proprietor, his mother Lillian, and his playwright wife Grace know they need to get things back on track—how better than with the annual...
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  • The Improvisers
    For fans of Nghi Vo, P. Djèlí Clark, and Alix E. Harrow: a new stand-alone set in the world of the critically acclaimed Murder and Magic series during Prohibition. The Improvisers is the tale of Velma, a barnstorming pilot and former magic bootlegger, who pursues dangerous enchanted items and a mystery that crosses the US and cuts through time—right to...
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  • The Hastening Storm
    The third gripping instalment in a dystopian thriller series where modern-day recruits compete in a fight to the death with ancient weapons in the streets of Edinburgh. Live by the rules. Die by the rules. Or break them and take your chances in the chaos that follows... The Pantheon Games are the biggest underground event in the world, with millions...
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  • The Great Witch of Brittany
    Return to the world of A Secret History of Witches with the bewitching tale of Ursule Orchiere and her discovery of magical abilities that will not only change the course of her life but every generation that comes after her. Brittany, 1741: There hasn't been a witch born in the Orchiere clan for generations. According to the elders, that line...
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  • The Book of Gothel
    Everyone knows the story of Rapunzel in the tower, but do you know the tale of the witch who put her there? Enter a world of dark magic, mysterious woods and evil princes. This is the truth they never wanted you to know, as only a witch might tell it. With her strange black eyes and even stranger fainting spells,...
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  • The Bitter Twins (The Winnowing Flame Trilogy 2)
    From Jen Williams, highly-acclaimed author of the Copper Cat trilogy and three-time British Fantasy Award finalist, comes the second novel in the electrifying Winnowing Flame trilogy - the sequel to The Ninth Rain. Epic fantasy for fans of Robin Hobb and Adrian Tchaikovsky. 'An absolute joy to read... jam-packed with breath-taking inventiveness' James Oswald 'Williams excels at eldritch world-building' Guardian...
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  • Pilbara
    Coming November 2025 - the stunning new novel from the No.1 bestseller The stark, beautiful landscape of the Pilbara is the backdrop for the latest novel by Anonymous and Judy Nunn. With its vast red earth and boundless horizons, the Pilbara region of Western Australia is both a place of rich opportunity and deep challenges. Pilbara weaves an intricate tapestry...
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  • Shield Maiden
    Shield Maiden is a lush fantasy that is both epic and intimate. Refocusing the narrative on a fierce young woman reclaiming her power, it will upend everything you think you know about Beowulf. Fryda has grown up hearing tales of her uncle, King Beowulf, and his spectacular defeat of the monstrous Grendel. Her one desire is to become a shield...
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  • Play of Shadows
    Welcome to the Ooperato Belleza . . . it might save his life, or it just might be the end of him! Damelas Chademantaigne picked a poor night to flee a judicial duel. He has precious little hope of escaping the wrath of the Vixen, the most feared duellist in the entire city, until he stumbles through the stage doors...
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  • Hope for the Best
    The tenth book in the bestselling CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S series follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. You can't change History. History doesn't like it. There are always consequences. Max is no stranger to taking matters...
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  • Hard Time
    Perfect for anyone who loves fast-paced action with strong, memorable characters who drive the story forward with a combination of ingenuity and incompetence. Highly recommended by the British Fantasy Society. Book 2 in the internationally bestselling Time Police series, from the author of the Chronicles of St Mary's A very British novel, for fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club,...
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  • Rebellion of the Lost (The World Between Blinks, #2)
    Rebellion of the Lost (The World Between Blinks, #2) returns readers to the magical world where lost things are found. After Jake and Marisol's last adventure in the World Between Blinks, the cousins are safely back where they belong. Until, suddenly, they're not. When they return unexpectedly to the World once more, Jake and Marisol find that nothing is as...
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  • The Leopard Princess Book 2: The Tales of Jahani
    Told over two books—the first book, Daughter of Nomads, released July 2016. First Moon of Autumn, 1662—After reuniting with the nomads, fourteen-year-old Jahani is finally home. With her red hair dyed black, she can travel through the Qurraqoram Mountains without fear of being captured. But the tyrants and war lords who pursue Jahani will not rest in their battle for...
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  • The Legend of Ghastly Jack Crowheart
    For Lil, life at the Squawking Mackerel Inn couldn’t be more miserable. She's tasked with the sloppiest, grottiest jobs and picked on at every turn. Her only friend is Augustus Scratchy, a cantankerous crow with a habit of stealing. When the dread villain Rotten Bob Hatchet and his gang of cut-throat highwaymen begin attacking travellers on the road, things get...
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  • The Knight's Kiss
    An arranged marriage interferes with star-crossed love in this sweeping medieval romance from Sally Nicholls – perfectly pitched for struggling teen readers. The Knight's Kiss follows Lady Elinor of Hardford as she falls in love for the first time with Dan, her cousin and knight-in-training. However, her father has other plans for her future. He insists that she must marry...
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  • The Great Gallipoli Escape
    Renowned for her historical fiction titles, Jackie French now tells the story of the brilliant and famous evacuation of Gallipoli. Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915 they know that there is more to winning a war than courage. The Gallipoli campaign has been lost. Nipper has...
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  • The Girl with her Head in the Clouds
    Pioneering aviatrix Dolly Shepherd comes alive in this thrilling reimagining of her death-defying exploits from bestselling author Karen McCombie. When sixteen-year-old Dolly Shepherd is offered the chance to take to the sky in a hot-air balloon, there’s no way she’s going to turn it down. Even though the pilot actually plans for her to jump out of the balloon and...
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  • The Girl Who Dreamed in Magic
    From the acclaimed writer of Ship of Shadows comes a brand-new snowy fantasy following the magical journey of one girl and her bear. Perfect for fans of Sophie Anderson's The Girl Who Speaks Bear, Abi Elphinstone and Fireborn! In a land of ice and stars, where constant troll invasions threaten to shake the moon from the sky, lives a girl...
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  • The Ghost Garden
    Queen of historical fiction Emma Carroll crafts an evocative and spine-tingling tale of childhood on the brink of war. Summer, 1914. When Fran uncovers a bone in the garden of Longbarrow House on the same afternoon that Leo breaks his leg, it is just the first in a series of strange and unsettling coincidences. Leo is left immobilised for the...
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  • The Fortune Maker
    Which is more dangerous - a future you can't see, or one that you can? London, 1913 Twelve-year-old Maud Mulligan knows there's no future for her in London, in the rat-infested slum where she grew up. But in the tunnel under the river are fortune tellers, Seers, who will tell your fortune for a few pennies. And then there is...
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  • The Fish in the Bathtub
    Eoin Colfer’s heartwarming tale of an unlikely friendship and the bond between a girl and her grandfather. Little Lucja’s Grandpa Feliks has seen off the German army and the Communists, and now he is looking forward to a long and peaceful retirement. He plans to begin with a tasty Christmas Eve dinner of carp. But when the carp arrives alive...
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  • The Extraordinary Misadventures of Lake and Birdy (and their remarkable fortitude)
    A darkly comic debut novel for fans of Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events, Matilda and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. This is a story so strange, it might almost be unbelievable... Sisters Lake and Birdy are the latest arrivals at the Charitable Home for Poor Unfortunates Touched by Tragic Circumstances. And if you think that sounds bad, that’s...
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  • The Enemy's Daughter
    In the spirit of Lauren Wolk and Ruta Sepetys comes the tale of a girl fighting her way back home after surviving the sinking of the Lusitania—and learning to think for herself rather than accept the prejudice of wartime. The year is 1915, and the world is at war. Marta and her father are passengers on the Lusitania, desperately trying...
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  • The Dragon's Treasure
    Join the History Hunter as he delves into an extraordinary story of shipwreck and treasure and investigates one of Australia's mysterious cold cases. On a summer morning in 1931, four children on a remote beach made a remarkable discovery. But this was only one of many astonishing finds in the same area — silver coins, hidden chests, mysterious stones, strange...
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  • The Bushranger's Daughter
    An adventurous, fast-moving middle grade historical fiction about survival, second chances, and searching for your place in the world. As a young girl growing up in an unforgiving land, Connie learns that sometimes good people need to do bad things to survive. When her pioneering family travels to outback Queensland to try and rebuild their lives, as their only surviving...
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  • The Boy Who Stole the Pharaoh's Lunch
    Seth learns some important life lessons when he's transported back to Ancient Egypt in this absorbing time-slip adventure. While awaiting punishment in his headmaster’s office for his latest piece of mischief, prankster Seth picks up an Egyptian amulet from the desk and is whisked back in time to Ancient Egypt. In a village by the Nile, Seth finds a place...
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  • That Boy, Jack
    Best friends Jack and Gilbert made a pact when they were younger—promising to work together in the copper mines, just like their fathers and other Cornish immigrants. But now Jack is turning twelve, and the thought of working underground fills him with panic. When Gilbert is forced to leave school and earn a wage, Jack wants to keep his word...
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  • Taj and the Great Camel Trek
    Beltana, South Australia, 1875: Twelve-year-old Taj and his camel Mustara are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime. They are joining explorer Ernest Giles on his second attempt to cross the Australian desert where wild dogs, scorpions, poisonous snakes, and a constant shortage of water mean they are never far from disaster. As if things weren't tough enough,...
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  • Super Potato's Middle Ages Adventure
    Super Potato has lost his giant muscles! To take his mind off this tragedy, he agrees to a time-travel mission. Soon he's searching the Middle Ages to find a scientist stranded in the past. In the foggy swamp of an older era, our hero meets a brave, handsome knight who turned into a serpent. (Say, that sounds familiar...) Super Potato...
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  • Stella by Starlight
    Sharon M. Draper presents “storytelling at its finest” (School Library Journal, starred review) in this New York Times bestselling Depression-era novel about a young girl who must learn to be brave in the face of violent prejudice when the Ku Klux Klan reappears in her segregated southern town. Stella by Starlight follows the life of Stella, who lives in the...
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  • Puggleton Park #1
    Meet Penelope the pug in the first book of this delightful series set in Regency-era London! Penelope is a pleasant little pug who has quite the quandary—All she can remember is that she lost her Lady in the park while chasing the most dreadful squirrel. Now she dreams of one day finding a new Lady and a permanent place to...
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  • Penelope and the Curse of the Canis Diamond #2
    Follow Penelope the pug in the second book of this delightful series set in Regency-era London! Penelope and the Curse of the Canis Diamond finds Penelope the pug completely content in her new forever home with Lady Diggleton. So when her beloved owner receives an invitation to meet the Queen at Windsor Castle—and an instruction to bring the pug along—Penelope...
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  • Outlaw Girls
    Kate and Ruby live in the High Country in Victoria. They're both daring, quick-thinking and prepared to break the rules, and they're both brilliant horse riders—they'd probably be great friends. But they live in different times, more than 140 years apart. While galloping through the mountains, Kate rides headlong into a thrilling experience that transports her from 1878 to the...
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  • Our History: Bold Ben Hall
    A compelling historical fiction adventure, set during the Australian gold rush when daring, dangerous, and bold bushrangers were both feared and legendary. Award-winning author Sophie Masson asks what makes a hero, or a villain? Lily and her parents, who are travelling performers, are delayed in Canowindra, just as famous bushranger Ben Hall and his gang—who have pulled off the biggest...
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  • Our Australian Girl: The Grace Stories
    It's 1808... and Grace's world is about to change—from her tough life as a mudlark on the River Thames in London, to the adventures and challenges she faces as a servant girl in a new country. Journey with Grace across all four exciting stories about a convict girl who's given a second chance. Dreamy, thoughtful, brave and compassionate, Grace is...
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    Meet Grace and join her on a historical adventure about a convict girl who is given a second chance. All four Grace stories in one edition, with a bonus chapter at the end! Read all four Grace stories in one beautiful paperback edition. It's 1808 . . . and Grace's world is about to change—from her tough life as a...
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  • Our Australian Girl: Meet Rose (Book 1)
    It's 1900 and Rose lives with her family in a big house in Melbourne. She wants to play cricket, climb trees, and be an adventurer! But Rose's mother has other ideas, and only wants Rose to be a proper young lady, wear frilly dresses, and learn how to sew. Then Rose's favourite young aunt, Alice, comes to town, and everything...
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  • Our Australian Girl: Meet Poppy (Book 1)
    Meet Poppy is the first story in a set of four about the amazing journey of a young Chinese Aboriginal girl, who lives on a Christian mission in 1864. It is a story of bravery and love, as Poppy sets out to chase her brother after he escapes from the Mission in search of freedom and a better life.
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    It's 1841 and Letty is on the docks in England, farewelling her bossy older sister, who is about to take a long sea voyage to Australia. But then there is a mix-up, and before she knows it, Letty finds herself on the ship too, travelling to New South Wales! How will Letty manage when her sister doesn't even want her...
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  • Our Australian Girl: Meet Grace (Book 1)
    It's 1808 and Grace is living with her uncle in London. They have no money, and Grace is always lonely and often hungry. The best part of her day is going to Fleet Street to talk to the horses that she loves so much. One afternoon, Grace can't resist taking a shiny red apple from a grocer's cart—and then another......
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  • Our Australian Girl: Meet Daisy (Book 1)
    It's 1930 and Daisy lives on a farm, where she loves riding her horse, Jimmy, through the paddocks. Times are tough, and when her father loses his job, Daisy and her little sister, Flora, are sent to Melbourne to live with their aunt and uncle. Daisy must leave behind everyone she loves for a city she's never seen, and even...
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    It's 1918. Alice lives with her big family by the Swan River in Perth, while on the other side of the world, the Great War rages. Alice's deepest wish is to become a ballerina, and when she auditions for a famous dance teacher from London, it seems as if her dreams might come true. But then there's a terrible accident,...
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    Our Australian Girl: Grace and Glory (Book 3) continues the journey of Grace, a brave convict girl who is given a second chance. This third instalment of the series follows Grace as she starts her life as a servant, which gets off to a shaky start. Her master, Tom, is strict, and despite Grace's intentions to be helpful and hardworking,...
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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.