The King's Messenger
The King's Messenger by Susanna Kearsley is a love story and a road-trip novel, set against turbulent historical times. For fans of Diana Gabaldon and Philippa Gregory, this tale is filled with courtly rivalry and intrigue. It is a story of treachery, betrayal, and love... ‘Thoroughly researched and told with brilliantly compelling authenticity. I loved it’ – BARBARA ERSKINE He...Paperback$2899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Ghost of Ivy Barn
'Beautiful and engaging and clever' Manda Scott, bestselling author of A Treachery of Spies 'A young witch to rival Tiffany Aching. Magic!' FMA Dixon August 1940. In a quiet village in rural Kent, the enemy is at the gates . . . The Battle of Britain rages, and Faye Bright encounters the ghost of a pilot who won't give up...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Forthright Woman
Widow Marcella Ross won't let anything - or anyone - stop her from discovering the truth behind a deadly family mystery ... Mystery and romance collide in this compulsive historical adventure from a bestselling Australian author. 1898, South Australia At the gateway to the Flinders Ranges lies Kanyaka Station, once a thriving sheep and cattle property, now abandoned and in...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Continental Affair
With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is a fast-paced, Agatha Christie-esque caper packed full of romance and suspense. 'Reads as if Jean Rhys and Patricia Highsmith collaborated on a script for Alfred Hitchcock; it is an elegant, delirious fever dream of a book.' The Irish Times Meet Henri and Louise. Two strangers,...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Burning Island
A historic seafaring adventure with a father-daughter twist, from beloved Australian storyteller Jock Serong, in an appealing new format. A father's obsession. A daughter's quest. Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern—too old, now—for marriage, she looks out for her reclusive father, Joshua,...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
My Sister's Shadow
My Sister's Shadow by January Gilchrist delves into the complex emotions of envy and desire that infiltrate the lives of twin sisters. Set in a dark, Gothic backdrop that spans England and New York City, this suspenseful tale is perfect for fans of Laura Joh Rowland and Hester Fox. A mirror will never show you the truth. England, 1904. Mirror...Hardback$7100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread
Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread is a cosy historical mystery set in the 1920s. When one of dressmaker Rose's clients is swindled by a deceitful suitor, Rose can't resist being drawn into the investigation... Rose had the sense of a thread being pulled. One tug and everything could unravel. South-east London, 1925. Talented, ambitious designer-dressmaker Rose Burnham knows well...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Last Dance in Salzburg
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'One of my favourite detectives…it reminded me of some of the old Sherlock Holmes cases' November 1930 After accepting an invitation to attend the ballet in snowy Salzburg, Miss Atalanta Ashford is shocked when a convicted jewel thief is found dead in the concert hall where the theft occurred a decade ago. Did he return to the scene of...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
JUSTICE in God's Hands
In the fight for justice, no secret stays buried forever. Diane Spencer is embracing her new life as founder of the Social Injustice Centre, a groundbreaking project aimed at freeing the innocent and exposing corruption. But as Diane champions justice for others, the ghosts of her own past resurface with a vengeance. When the daughter of Judge Lucy Prior—known for...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Death Holds the Key
Set in a small Australian town in the 1920s, lose yourself in Alexander Thorpe's latest cosy crime mystery. In the true tradition of parlour-room reveals, it's a thrilling ride right to the shocking and satisfying conclusion. When loathed landholder Fred O'Donnell is found dead in a locked room with a bullet in his chest, rookie Detective Hartley must seek help...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Bodies from the Library 5
Classic crime fiction's 'Indiana Jones' Tony Medawar unearths more unpublished and uncollected stories from the Golden Age of suspense, including John Bude, John Dickson Carr, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Julian Symons. ‘Five books in, and the selection here might well be the strongest yet. This series continues to delight with the high standard of forgotten gems that Medawar uncovers, and...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Bodies from the Library 4
This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna Brand. Mystery stories have been around for centuries—there are whodunits, whydunits and howdunits, including locked-room puzzles, detective stories without detectives, and crimes with a limited choice of...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Bad to Worse
Bad to Worse is the second book in the Richard Worse series. The world's most intelligent intelligence analyst must discover the connection between a mysterious plane crash and some indecipherable hieroglyphs on a cave wall – or die trying. In Dante, Arizona, in 1877, two outlaws from the Mortiss family demand a loaf of bread from Tom Worse, the town...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Geirmund’s Saga
An epic new novel set in the world of Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Discover the epic adventure of legendary Viking Geirmund Hel-hide in this new novel set in the world of Assassin's Creed Valhalla.Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
An Uncommon Woman
Set in rural Queensland in 1929, An Uncommon Woman is the captivating story of a very modern woman who refuses to be held down by the conventions of the past... Inspired by a real newspaper story from 1930, An Uncommon Woman is an epic tale of duty, ambition, prejudice and love, from the pen of bestselling author Nicole Alexander. It's...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
American Sherlocks
Sherlock Holmes is the most famous of all fictional detectives but, across the Atlantic, he had plenty of rivals. Between 1890 and 1920, American writers created dozens and dozens of crime-solvers. In this thrilling, unusual anthology, editor Nick Rennison gathers together 15 often neglected tales to highlight American crime fiction's early years. The detectives that feature include Professor Augustus SFX...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
A Lethal Engagement
An airship bound for London is thrown off course by a murder on the first night of its transatlantic voyage in this locked-room historical mystery debut, perfect for fans of Deanna Raybourn and Katharine Schellman. A Lethal Engagement opens in 1890. American heiress, Cora Beaumont, is celebrating her engagement to Terrance Tristan, the second son of a duke. Their union...Hardback$5900Elsewhere:$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
A Fatal Encounter in Tuscany
Agatha Christie meets Julie Caplin in this exciting new cosy crime series that captures the glamour of the 1930s with the gorgeous escapist destinations! An escape to Tuscany An unexpected invitation A murder at midnight… When novice detective Atalanta Ashford is whisked away to Italy by her friend, race car driver Raoul Lemont, she anticipates a happy holiday under the...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
When We Fall
Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE Day and based on the WWII atrocity, the Katyn Massacre, When We Fall is a moving story of three lives forever altered by one fatal choice. England, 1943: Lost in fog, pilot Vee Katchatourian is forced to make an emergency landing, where she meets the enigmatic RAF airman Stefan Bergel, and...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
When the Sky Fell Apart
She turned to look at the sea. Flat stretch of water, blank and blue as the sky above. Pretty as a picture, except with black and grey craters where the bombs had fallen: as though some thuggish child had scrawled all over the picture out of spite alone... Jersey, June 1940. It starts with the burning man on the beach...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Triumph of the Lions
The basis for the Disney-produced series on Hulu The Lions of Sicily “A blazing epic of countless twists and turns.”—Le Figaro A compelling combination of historical sweep and family drama – Kirkus Reviews From the author of the acclaimed The Florios of Sicily, a magnificent novel that explores the origins of one of Italy’s most powerful and notorious families, men...Paperback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Silk Merchant's Son
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, silk and sermons. In 1846, linguistics professor Fabrice Cleriquot is despatched from Lyon to the Swan River Colony, sent away with a box full of silkworms to stop him from bringing more disgrace upon the family. Accompanying him on board the Elizabeth are twenty-eight mismatched and misguided Catholic missionaries including Dom...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Scrapbook
The Scrapbook is a story of a consuming first love haunted by European history and family memory, inspired by real events. A debut novel about a life-changing romance in the long shadow of European history, inspired by the author's real discovery. 'A singular portrait of intoxicating young love' AUBE REY LESCURE 'You wouldn't be able to put it down' SAMANTHA...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Scent of Oranges
A retelling of one of literature's great novels, Oliver Twist, from the point of view of Nancy, one of the most sympathetic, most maligned, and most tragic of Dickens's characters. For readers of The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks. Nancy has spent her whole life on the vibrant and gritty streets of Victorian London, first as one of...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Road to the Country
The new novel by Booker-shortlisted author Chigozie Obioma The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma THE TWICE BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR "Obioma is truly the heir to Chinua Achebe" - New York Times "Incredibly moving and hopeful" - Nadifa Mohamed "Remarkable" - Alice Walker "A major voice" - Salman Rushdie "A wondrous novel" - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah At first the vision...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Radio Hour
From the bestselling author of The Nurses' War comes this charming, funny, pointed look at the golden years of radio broadcasting in post-war Australia, celebrating the extraordinary unseen women who wrote the radio plays that held a nation captive. For readers of Lessons in Chemistry. Martha Berry is fifty years old, a spinster, and one of an army of polite...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Oxenbridge King
Tender, endearing, lyrical, surprising, and magical - think Hilary Mantel meets Sarah Winman with a dash of Philip Pullman - The Oxenbridge King is a delight, a true original. Imagine, if you will: the lost soul of King Richard III; a talking raven; a lonely angel; and a young woman called Molly Stern, who is heartbroken, grieving, and a bit...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Oath of Bjorn
The Vinland Viking Saga: Book 3 Anja has just settled into a new life on the silver shores of Vinland with her beloved, Bjorn. But then a local warrior bursts onto the scene seeking revenge, swearing to spill Viking blood. And so Bjorn must risk everything to save the woman he loves before she steps into the darkness and sets...Paperback$5700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Night Travelers
Four generations of women experience love, loss, war and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and, finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the internationally bestselling author of The German Girl. Sydney Morning Herald Best Reads of the Year for 2023 Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone...Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Kennedy Girl
From esteemed author Julia Bryan Thomas comes a novel for readers who loved the fashion and glamour of The Second Life of Mirielle West and the clandestine intrigue of The Secrets We Kept. This story showcases a journey to France through the eyes of a wide-eyed American orphan who becomes embroiled in an international espionage scheme. This American Girl in...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Jacaranda House
Bestselling author Deborah Challinor returns with a spellbinding novel about a woman living in Sydney's notorious King's Cross in 1964. Polly Manaia is living in Sydney's notorious Kings Cross, working as an exotic dancer. She's desperate to bring her young daughter to live with her, but beneath her brash confidence lie dark secrets which threaten to drag her under. Gina...Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The House on Rye Lane
Sublime, elegant and exciting… beautifully written and entirely gripping. I’m a big fan of Susan Allott — CHRIS WHITAKER The lovechild of Sarah Waters’ The Paying Guests and Lisa Jewell’s The Family Upstairs… confirms Susan Allott as a huge talent — ERIN KELLY They thought they’d found their dream home. They were wrong. 2008. The house Maxine and Seb have...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Gorgon Flower
These accomplished, gothic-infused stories impress in terms of their range and unexpected twists - this is an exceptional debut collection that includes the title novella, The Gorgon Flower. A young woman is haunted by the disappearance of her grandmother, a brilliant mathematician whose research uncovered the basis for parallel universes. A botanist travels across the seas in search of an...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Good Women of Fudi
The Good Women of Fudi by Liu Hong weaves a narrative where Imperial China meets Edwardian England in an epic story of loves lost and gained, set during the aftermath of the Opium Wars. Best friends Jiali and Wu Fang know that no man is a match for them. In their small harbour town of Fudi, they practise sword fighting,...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Sunbirds
1941, West Java. Love and revolution are in the air. And war is on its way. Shortly before the Japanese invade, the van Hoorn family throws their famous Sinterklaas party at their tea plantation. One of their guests, Mattijs, a Dutch pilot, hopes to forge a future in the Dutch East Indies, possibly with the family's daughter, Anna, but she...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Shepherd
Shepherd offers a compulsive and terrifying journey into adult fiction from the renowned Australian author, Catherine Jinks. Fourteen-year-old convict Tom Clay resides in a shepherd's hut in the bush, tasked with protecting his master's sheep from wild dogs. When a vicious fellow shepherd returns with the intent to ensure there are no witnesses to his crimes, the resourceful Tom and...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Say Yes to the Princess
The first book in this USA Today bestselling author’s delicious new Hidden Royals series, in which a princess in exile searches for her lost brother—and falls for the devastatingly charming scoundrel sent to thwart her. A hidden princess... Princess Regine Elise Adelaide d’Orleans is no longer a princess, but she’s also no commoner. She’s obscure French royalty, exiled to England...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Rules of the Heart
Inspired by real history, Rules of the Heart is the sweeping new novel from the bestselling author of The Other Bennet Sister, Janice Hadlow. Propriety of conduct was never my forte, so that if any lady chooses to make observations, they will always have enough to find fault with. Lady Henrietta Bessborough seemingly has it all: wife to a lord...Paperback$3100Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Plains of Promise
Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Mykaela Saunders, Plains of Promise is a masterful novel from the only writer to have won both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize. In this brilliant novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
No Friend to This House
Haynes is the modern embodiment of the best of Homer - Radio Times No Friend to This House is an extraordinary reimagining of the myth of Medea from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes. This is what no one tells you, in the songs sung about Jason and the Argo. This part of his quest has...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
One Woman Show
A daring feat of storytelling and a wry reflection on womanhood, value and power. Prized, collected, critiqued. One Woman Show revolves around the fictional life of Kitty Whitaker as she is defined by her potential for display and moved from collection to collection through multiple marriages. Christine Coulson, who has written hundreds of exhibition wall labels for the Metropolitan Museum...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
My Season of Scandal
In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long’s latest installment in the Palace of Rogues series, a notorious rake meets his match in a doe-eyed girl from the country, changing the course of both of their futures... A London season is the chance of a lifetime for Catherine Keating. But the ton’s glitter and decadence and casual cruelty threaten to...Paperback$1799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Mrs Hart’s Marriage Bureau
‘This is a gem. Kate Atkinson fans will love it’ Irish Independent In a world of lonely hearts, are there enough happy endings to go around? Marriage matchmaker seeks assistant; discretion essential, rose-tinted glasses optional… Matchmaker Martha Hart never got her happy ending: the Great War destroyed those dreams. Instead, her life's mission is to bring hope to other lonely...Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Mr Carver's Whale
1850: A sea-chest full of books arrives for Antonio Mateus Carvalho Cabral, the younger son of a family of whalers on the small volcanic island of Pico ... The Carvalho brothers—handsome Marcelinho and clever Antonio—are destined to spend their lives hunting whales. But the arrival of an unexpected gift changes both their lives forever. As the younger Carvalho discovers the...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Good People
It's late 1938. Thomas Heiselberg has built a career in Berlin as a market researcher for an American advertising company. In Leningrad, twenty-two-year-old Sasha Weissberg has grown up eavesdropping on the intellectual conversations in her parents' literary salon. They each have grand plans for their lives. Neither of them thinks about politics too much, but after catastrophe strikes, they will...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight
From one of our finest writers—winner of the Miles Franklin, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and the Prime Minister's Literary Award—comes a wistful and emotional story that imagines a happier ending for the mercurial and complicated Vivienne Haigh-Wood, the first wife of the great poet, TS Eliot. London, June 1940. Vivienne Haigh-Wood, the mercurial wife of celebrated poet T.S. Eliot, is...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Follow Me to Africa
Historical fiction inspired by the story of Mary Leakey, who carved her own path to become one of the world's most distinguished paleoanthropologists. It's 1983, and seventeen-year-old Grace Clark has just lost her mother when she begrudgingly accompanies her estranged father to an archaeological dig at Olduvai Gorge on the Serengeti plains of Tanzania. Here, seventy-year-old Mary Leakey enlists Grace...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Dear Chrysanthemums
Longlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, this is a startling and vivid debut novel in stories from acclaimed poet and translator Fiona Sze-Lorrain, featuring deeply compelling Asian women who reckon with the past, violence, and exile—set in Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore, Paris, and New York. Composed of several interconnected stories, each taking place in a year ending...Paperback$4800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Birth Canal
A dazzling novella from a rising star of Indonesian literature that explores what it means to be a woman—whoever you are, wherever you are, and whenever it is in history and time. In today's Jakarta, an unnamed man tells the story of his lifelong friend Nastiti, and what happened on the day she vanished. In the Dutch East Indies' Semarang,...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Big Red
Narrated by a starry-eyed reporter, Big Red reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles. Set amidst the noir glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age, Big Red reenvisions the life of one of America's most enduring icons: Gilda herself, Rita Hayworth, whose fiery red hair and hypnotic dancing helped make her the quintessential movie star of...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry is a powerful, triumphant, Pulitzer-winning tribute to the American West. Immerse yourself in the gritty realism of the American frontier in this masterful epic from the screenwriter of Brokeback Mountain. This is the story of a group of audacious cowboys on a perilous cattle drive across the sprawling wilderness, from Texas to Montana, bound by...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips late August
After the War
Master storyteller Tom Palmer returns with a deeply moving and beautifully told novel of friendship and belonging, inspired by the incredible true story of the Windermere Boys. The best children’s fiction book I’ve yet read about the Holocaust – Tim Robertson, CEO Anne Frank Trust Summer 1945. The Second World War is finally over and Yossi, Leo, and Mordecai are...Paperback$1799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Adoette
Adoette lived to be 100 years old. Just imagine all the things she saw! She lived on the same street all her life, but one day, people decided it would be best if she would go... Award-winning and best-selling author-illustrator Lydia Monks, illustrator of the franchise What the Ladybird Heard, beautifully tells the tale of the life of one tree,...Hardback$3000Elsewhere:$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Adoette
Adoette lived to be 100 years old. Just imagine all the things she saw! She lived on the same street all her life, but one day, people decided it would be best if she would go... Award-winning and best-selling author-illustrator Lydia Monks, illustrator of the franchise What the Ladybird Heard, beautifully tells the tale of the life of one tree,...Paperback$1899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
A Creature Was Stirring
In this irresistible spin on a timeless holiday tale, debut author Heather Pierczynski and artist Skylar Hogan reveal why only a mouse is singled out within The Night Before Christmas. A perfect stocking stuffer and cosy read by the fireplace to induce plenty of giggles and laughter. 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature...Hardback$3200Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
A Case of High Stakes
The third title in this breakout new detective series, from the author of the spine-tingling Scarlet and Ivy series. When a large diamond goes missing from Silvershell Manor, who better to get to the bottom of the mystery than detective Violet Veil and her dog Bones. But nothing is quite as it seems when it comes to the missing heirloom,...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
11 Ruby Road: 1950
The third instalment in the 11 Ruby Road series, set in the post-war 1950s - perfect period fiction for middle-grade readers and for fans of the Our Australian Girl series. Since Patsy's baby sister was born, things at home have felt different. So when her mother goes to spend some time in the countryside, Patsy stays with her uncle and...Paperback$2099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
11 Ruby Road: 1925
The second book in the 11 Ruby Road series set in the roaring 1920s - perfect period fiction for middle-grade readers and for fans of the Our Australian Girl series. It is 1925 and Bert Mueller and his German-Australian family have moved from Ipswich to their new house at 11 Ruby Road. Bert’s father has been deported to Germany after...Paperback$2099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
11 Ruby Road: 1900
Dorothy and her family have moved to the city, and life is very different from the rural one she has known. Ruby Road is bustling — full of families and children, horse-drawn carts, and even a mysterious dog. Best of all, her new home has a secret writing room that only she knows about. There are many reasons for her...Paperback$2099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Teeny Houdini #3: The Giant Panda Plan
Little Bessie Lee is on a mission to save the pandas! The adventures of Teeny Houdini come in short, easy-to-read chapters full of hilarious illustrations—a favourite series for building confident readers! When Bessie and her class take a field trip to the zoo, they get to meet someone very special: Xiao Qi Ji, a baby panda! But when Bessie learns...Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Howdunit
Winner of the H.R.F. Keating Award for best biographical/critical book related to crime fiction, and nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe and Macavity Awards for Best Critical/Biographical book. Ninety crime writers from the world’s oldest and most famous crime writing network give tips and insights into successful crime and thriller fiction. Howdunit offers a fresh perspective on the craft of...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Everything the Light Touches
‘A novel like none other’ AMITAV GHOSH ‘A masterpiece’ AVNI DOSHI ‘Wise, funny, touching’ ROBERT MACFARLANE Winner, Sushila Devi 2023 Winner, Atta Galatta 2023 for Best Fiction Winner, AutHer Award 2023 for Fiction Finalist, Tata Live Award for Fiction 2023 Longlisted, 2023 JCB Prize for Literature Shortlisted, Valley of Words Awards 2023 for English Fiction A Best Book of 2022...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Templar Heresy
A tale of initiation, adventure, and romance set within the medieval Crusades. Templar Heresy shares in novel form the mystical rituals and techniques of the Nizari Ismailis (the legendary Assassins) communicated to selected Knights Templar during the Crusades. It shows how the Gnostic traditions of the Cathars and Nizaris were blended to become the core of the "heretical" doctrines for...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Lady of the Lake
A luscious sapphic romantasy retelling from award-winning writer, historian and YouTube sensation. Lady Viviane leaves the lakes of the far North for the splendour of Camelot to capture the heart and hand of the young prince, Arthur. But it is Arthur's sister Morgan who captures Viviane's eye. Fierce and headstrong, Morgan sees another path – one she and Viviane can...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
A Great Escape
Set in Cold War Germany, A Great Escape is a story of true-life heroism and the unbreakable bonds of family, by the acclaimed author of Fearless Frederic and The Boy and the Spy. It's a great escape, but will Peter survive it? When Peter's family leaves for a trip across the border, he stays behind. So when the government builds...Paperback$1900Elsewhere:$2100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
A Favor for the Prince
Bestselling Regency romance author Jane Ashford brings the reader inside Carlton House for a thrilling romance. Lord Alan Gresham is a bit embarrassed when the Prince Regent demands that he abandon his science experiments to work on an extremely important project—getting rid of a ghost. Alan is determined to debunk this obvious hoax as quickly as possible—until he meets a...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Accession
A captivating new novel concluding the dramatic story of Margaret Beaufort, the woman who gave birth to the Tudor dynasty. Margaret Beaufort and Margaret of Anjou - two women who have fought to the bitter end to see their sons take the English throne. But with her son Edward killed in battle, and imprisoned herself, what next for Margaret of...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Girls Who Dared to Love
Three girls seem to have the world at their feet in the summer of 1914. But World War I is coming, and things will change forever—especially for women. Debutante Lucinda McFarlane is engaged to be married to Major Sir David Melcome, but their society wedding has to be scaled right down when war is declared and David is recalled to...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Boudicca's Daughter
PRE-ORDER THE EPIC NEW STANDALONE NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WOLF DEN TRILOGY Boudicca’s Daughter is Elodie Harper’s masterpiece. — Costanza Casati, bestselling author of Babylonia A beautiful, breathtaking novel... pre-order it immediately! — Jennifer Saint, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ariadne One of the best books I have ever read. — Bea Fitzgerald, Sunday Times bestselling author...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid September-
You're the Duke That I Want
USA Today bestseller Lenora Bell returns with a Grease-inspired rom-com about an innocent lady who clashes with a sexy rake, the first book in a brand-new series sure to delight fans of Sarah MacLean, Tessa Dare, and Julia Quinn. Raised by an overprotective mother, bookish romantic Sandrine Oliver craves adventure, but nothing exciting ever happens in her sleepy seaside village....Paperback$1799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
You Never Know
“The thing I love about Connie Briscoe now is the same thing I’ve always loved about Connie Briscoe—she writes highly commercial, pacey, character-driven stories. She was made for domestic suspense.” —Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author The revered New York Times bestselling writer makes her triumphant return with this electrifying novel of domestic suspense that marks an exciting turn...Paperback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Wormwood Mire (Stella Montgomery, #2)
THE MUCH-AWAITED SEQUEL TO THE RUNAWAY BESTSELLER WITHERING-BY-SEA 'you won't be disappointed. Wormwood Mire is another page-turner.' -- Kids' Book Review When Stella Montgomery returned to the Hotel Majestic cold and wet but exhilarated by adventure, the Aunts were furious. Now they are sending Stella away to the old family home at Wormwood Mire, where she must live with two...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Wolf Road
Discover the history of our lifetime through the adventure of a girl and her wolf, in the bestselling children's novel from Digging for Britain presenter, Professor Alice Roberts. Selected as Waterstones Children's Book of the Month and The Times Children's Book of the Week. 'A fine storyteller' — Philip Pullman ‘This lost world is beautifully rendered, so rich in detail...Hardback$3400Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Within These Gilded Halls
Hidden treasure and betrayal mingle with unexpected love within the walls of Avonthorpe Hall. After studying art under Miss Drake, a renowned painter, Phoebe Radcliff is certain she can finally move beyond the childish mistake that’s kept her away from home. She is thrilled when Miss Drake employs her to complete a complicated ballroom renovation. Everything changes, however, the moment...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
With a Sword in My Hand
Marguerite's father is desperate for a son. Instead, he's stuck with a feisty, stubborn, red-headed daughter who refuses to behave like a lady. Shaking off the strict expectations of court life, Marguerite roams free—learning to ride, fence, and outwit the boys. But the Count of Flanders has plans for his wayward daughter. Will Marguerite be able to resist the combined...Paperback$2100Elsewhere:$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Winter at Bletchley Park
Bestselling historical fiction author Molly Green is back with her most engrossing, heartfelt World War Two saga yet! Preorder The Wartime Librarian's Secret now! With war raging on, there are still battles of the heart to be won… When Rosie Frost was jilted on her wedding day, she didn’t think life could get any worse. But six years later, in...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
While the Storm Rages
From the bestselling author of When the Sky Falls comes the remarkable story of Noah's fight to save his beloved family dog following the outbreak of the Second World War. September 1939. The world is on the brink of war. As his dad marches off to fight, Noah makes him a promise, to keep their beloved family dog safe. When...Paperback$2000Elsewhere:$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Where They Lie
SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR ‘A superb novel, evoking a bygone era when women could not afford to put a foot wrong’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘This isn't just a mystery novel: it's a window into a vanished world’ TANA FRENCH Some stories demand to be told. They keep coming back, echoing down through the decades,...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Where God Does Not Walk
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER Where God Does Not Walk is a gripping, original thriller set against the backdrop of the Western Front in July 1918. Lieutenant Gregor Reinhardt, serving in a stormtrooper battalion, is thrust into an investigation laden with danger and deceit. When one of his subordinates is accused of murdering a group of officers and subsequently...Hardback$4500Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
When we were Warriors
A body washed up on the beach... Evacuation to an old house with forbidden rooms and dark secrets... An animal rescue service... Set in World War Two, Emma Carroll explores the resilience, resourcefulness and inventiveness of children when their lives fall to pieces. Introducing some compelling new characters, as well as revisiting some familiar settings, these adventures are sure to...Paperback$1899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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