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  • When We Caught Fire
    From the New York Times bestselling author of the Luxe series comes a lush, romantic novel about the love triangle that started Chicago’s infamous Great Fire. It’s 1871, and Emmeline Carter is poised to take Chicago’s high society by storm. Between her father’s sudden rise to wealth and her recent engagement to Chicago’s most eligible bachelor, Emmeline has it all....
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  • When the Lights Go On Again
    The tide is turning, but on the home front, the battle is far from over for the Campions... Autumn 1944, the allies are invading Italy. On the home front, the Campion family are doing their bit—working tirelessly in the hope that the end of the war is now in sight. Sasha, newly engaged to Bobby, has been tormented by nameless...
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  • Wakestone Hall (Stella Montgomery, #3)
    THE MAGICAL CONCLUSION TO STELLA MONTGOMERY'S AWARD-WINNING STORY 'the perfect conclusion to a wonderfully quirky Victorian fantasy series' -- Pages & Pages Stella Montgomery is in disgrace. The Aunts have sent her to Wakestone Hall, a grim boarding school where the disobedient are tamed and the wilful are made meek. But when a friend disappears, Stella is determined to find...
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  • Upon a Frosted Star
    An enchanting new twist on a classic tale – Elodie Harper When the snow falls, she will be free… The invitations always arrive the same way – without warning, appearing around the city on the first snowfall of the year, simply inscribed with ‘Tonight.’ When struggling artist Forster finds an invitation, he’s bewitched by the magic of the evening, swept...
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  • Under A Cerulean Sky
    In 1911, two English roses embark on an adventure under the Indian sun that will test their every limit. When high society sisters Isobel and Violet find themselves down on their luck, an unexpected inheritance sends them on an unforgettable voyage of discovery to face a wild destiny, deep in the jungles of India. With only their widowed Aunt Bea...
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  • Twilight at Moorington Cross
    Amelia Pembroke is in a unique position in Regency England: She can obtain financial freedom. But in order to do so, she must marry one of two gentlemen. The trouble is, she might be falling in love with another man entirely. Perfect for fans of Julie Klassen and Sarah Ladd. 1819, Kent, England: Everything changed the moment Amelia became heiress...
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  • Tu
    In this new novel, acclaimed Maori novelist Patricia Grace visits the often terrifying and complex world faced by men of the Maori Battalion in Italy during the Second World War. Tu is proud of his name—the Maori god of war. But for the returned soldier, there's a shadow over his own war experience with the Maori Battalion in Italy. Three...
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  • To The Strongest
    An excellent new series by the consistently brilliant Robert Fabbri - Sunday Sport Babylon, 323 BC: Alexander the Great is dead, leaving behind him the largest, and most fearsome, empire the world has ever seen. As his final breaths fade in a room of seven bodyguards, Alexander refuses to name a successor. But without a natural heir, who will take...
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  • Tom Appleby, Convict Boy
    At the tender age of eight, chimney sweep Tom Appleby is convicted of stealing and sentenced to deportation to Botany Bay. As one of the members of the First Fleet, he arrives in a country that seemingly has little to offer—or little that the English are used to, anyway. Tom Appleby, Convict Boy by Jackie French tells the story of...
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  • To Calais, In Ordinary Time
    Inventive and original - The Times Fans of intelligent historical fiction will be enthralled - Hilary Mantel Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Three journeys. One road. England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a proctor sets out for a monastery in Avignon, and a young ploughman...
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  • Timetable of Death
    1859. St Mary's Church, Spondon. A little girl playing hide-and-seek jumps into a freshly-dug grave to find a dead man already occupying it. It is the body of Cedric Norton, a senior director of the Midland Railway. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming travel to Derbyshire to investigate. Immerse yourself in the gripping mystery of Timetable of Death by Edward Marston....
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  • Those Hamilton Sisters
    Will their mother's scandalous past decide their futures? The Sunday train which snaked into Noah Vale that verdant, midwinter afternoon brought with it fire, sending an inferno of small-town gossip roaring up the valley... Beautiful, irrepressible Esther Hamilton had a reputation in the small Queensland town of Noah Vale. That was until she ran away, twenty years ago, under a...
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  • The Worst Duke in the World
    Attention, Bridgerton fans: if you're ready to delve deeper into the world of historical romances, The Worst Duke in the World by Lisa Berne is a fun place to start." —Pop Sugar A wayward duke must choose: will he be the bad hero in a love story gone awry, or the brave and clever hero who risks everything for true...
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  • The Women's Pages
    From the bestselling author of The Land Girls comes a beautifully realised novel that speaks to the true history and real experiences of post-war Australian women. Sydney 1945. The war is over, the fight begins. The war is over and so are the jobs (and freedoms) of tens of thousands of Australian women. The armaments factories are making washing machines...
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  • The Woman with Two Shadows
    For fans of Atomic City Girls and The Secrets We Keep, experience the story of a woman caught up in one of the most closely held secrets of World War II. For those who loved Atomic City Girls and The Secrets We Kept, this fascinating debut historical novel explores one of the most closely held secrets of World War II....
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  • The Witches at the End of the World
    Two sisters find themselves at odds in this breathtaking historical fantasy—and when one releases a dark spell, someone will have to burn. They are witches, after all. Rage burns brighter than any spellfire... Deep in the birchwoods of Norway, magic courses through the veins of two sisters. For years they've been alone, but sweet-tempered Kaija is tired of living in...
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  • The Winter Dress
    Longlisted for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize. ‘From a few shimmering strands of truth, Lauren Chater has spun an intriguing story of love, loss and fulfilment.’ Pip Williams, bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words Two women separated by centuries but connected by one beautiful silk dress. A captivating novel based on a real-life shipwreck discovered off Texel...
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  • The Winged Tiara
    Diamonds and danger dazzle in Ciesielski's latest enchanting romp through post-war Europe as estranged spouses and jewel thieves hunt an elusive Valkyrie tiara. November 12, 1918. It was a match made in champagne-soaked heaven, but all too soon the bubbles dried up, and Esme Fox awakens the morning after celebrating the end of the Great War to find herself shockingly...
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  • The Windsor Conspiracy
    Georgie Blalock, the acclaimed author of The Other Windsor Girl, delivers an enchantingly reimagined fictional portrait of Wallis Simpson through the lens of her cousin who is engaged to spy on the Duchess of Windsor for her alleged Nazi sympathies and finds much more than she bargained for! American Amelia Montague defied her family five years ago to marry the...
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  • The Way From Here
    A cache of letters from beyond the grave leads a bereaved sister on a journey from Australia to an idyllic French coastal town—and back in time to a golden summer where it all went wrong. An addictive, atmospheric, and evocative mystery that examines how we become who we are and whether we can truly know those we love. The Way...
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  • The War Nurses
    A moving and inspiring WWII novel of friendship and courage, based on the true events of the Bangka Island Massacre, by the bestselling author of The Drifter. 'A powerful and absorbing story of friendship and courage, bringing to life a history that should never be forgotten. I could not put this book down, even as it broke my heart.' –...
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  • The Walled Garden
    No one survives war unscathed. But even in the darkest days, seeds of hope can grow. It is 1946, and in the village of Oakbourne, the men are home from the war. Their bodies are healing, but their psychological wounds run deep. Everyone is scarred - those who fought and those left behind. Alice Rayne is married to Stephen, heir...
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  • The Visitors
    From award-winning author, Jane Harrison, comes an audacious, earthy, funny, gritty and powerful re-imagining of a crucial moment in Australia's history - an unputdownable work of fiction. WINNER OF THE 2024 INDIE BOOK DEBUT FICTION AWARD Longlisted 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize 'An extraordinary read.' Herald Sun On a steamy, hot day in January 1788, seven Aboriginal men, representing the...
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  • The Thirteenth Husband
    Tearing through millions of dollars, four continents, a hearty collection of husbands, and multiple run-ins with a mysterious psychic, real-life heiress Aimee Crocker blazes an unbelievable trail of public notoriety and private pain in the newest novel from acclaimed historical fiction author of The Arctic Fury. "A whirlwind...A truly wonderful read." - Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of...
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  • The Third Wife of Faraday House
    “A deliciously chilling gothic mystery with a smart and resourceful heroine . . . What more could fans of Jane Eyre and Rebecca want” — Carol Goodman, two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award winner Two brides band together to unravel the secrets at the heart of a crumbling island manor in this delicious love letter to gothic fiction from the award-winning...
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  • The Storyteller
    A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year pick for 2023! With the mystery of Maureen Johnson and Brittany Cavallaro and the historical intrigue of Romanov, this genre-bending YA will pull readers into one girl’s journey of discovering the impossible tale of a long-lost aunt—and through her, the importance of being true to yourself. It’s not every day you...
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  • The Story Collector
    Three women. A long-buried secret. The story that could free them all... London, 1915 - Tarot reader Katerina is trying to hold her life together amid the wartime chaos. When she opens a bakery that offers divination alongside sweet treats, she is hailed as a beacon of hope. But Katerina is hiding a dark truth that could cost her everything....
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  • The Somerset Tsunami
    The Somerset Tsunami 'My name is Fortune and I am on trial for my life. They say I did magic that made the sea disappear, then come back again so monstrous and so fast no person could outrun the waves. The sea came so far inland, cows climbed trees to escape! But I didn't do magic. All I did was...
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  • The Sinner's Mark
    Treason, heresy and revolt in Queen Elizabeth's England . . . The year is 1600. With a dying queen on the throne, war raging on the high seas and famine on the rise, England is on the brink of chaos. And in London's dark alleyways, a conspiracy is brewing. In the court's desperate bid to silence it, an innocent man...
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  • The Shores Of Tripoli
    "A rollicking good time."—Brian Kilmeade, author of Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates Now in paperback, the first novel in the brilliant series by award-winning historian James L. Haley features young midshipman Bliven Putnam as he begins his naval service aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. The first novel in award-winning historian James L. Haley's brilliant adventure series features young midshipman Bliven...
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  • The Shanghai Wife
    Forbidden friendship, political conspiracy, and incendiary passion draw Australian woman Annie Brand deep into the glamour and turmoil of 1920s Shanghai. Leaving behind the loneliness and trauma of her past in country Australia, Annie Brand arrives in the midst of the political upheaval and glittering international society of Shanghai in the 1920s. Journeying up the Yangtze with her new husband,...
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  • The Shadow Network
    ‘A superbly plotted historical drama… highly recommended!’ The Wishing Shelf One woman must sacrifice everything to uncover the truth in this enthralling historical novel, inspired by the true World War Two campaign Radio Aspidistra… England, 1942: Having fled Germany after her father was captured by the Nazis, Lilli Bergen is desperate to do something proactive for the Allies. So when...
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  • The Secret World of Connie Starr
    A stunning evocation of Australian life through the war to the 1950s, this novel is intimate and sweeping, immediate and dreamlike—a magical rendering of darkness and joy, and the beauty inherent in difference. For readers of Sarah Winman's Still Life, Trent Dalton's All Our Shimmering Skies and Rosalie Ham's The Dressmaker. Connie Starr was always a difficult child. Her mother...
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  • The Secrets We Keep
    ‘Truly gripping… I loved it.’ Jill Mansell, Sunday Times bestseller A heartbreakingly beautiful novel which captures the endurance and strength of ordinary people in the darkest of times, and the courage of one woman who put her life on the line to join the resistance. Perfect for fans of The Nightingale and The Secret Messenger. 1944, the Cote d’Azur.Artist Marguerite...
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  • The Secrets of the Huon Wren
    A deeply moving novel of love and loss set in the majestic mountains of Tasmania's Central Highlands. Senior journalist Allira is writing a story for Folk magazine when she meets Nora, a nursing home resident with dementia and a doll cradled lovingly in her arms. Bit by bit, Nora reveals details about her younger life as a spirited teenage girl...
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  • The Secrets of the Huon Wren
    A deeply moving novel of love and loss set in the majestic mountains of Tasmania's Central Highlands, ideal for book clubs and fans of Kate Morton. 'A mesmerising tale of love, heartache and healing . . . I laughed, I cried, I was totally swept away.' — SANDIE DOCKER 'Two women. Two journeys. A tender, powerfully wrought telling of love...
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  • The Secret Detectives
    When Isobel Petty is orphaned, she finds herself being taken away from her home in India and sent to live with a distant uncle in England. On board the S.S. Mariana, she witnesses a shocking act – somebody being thrown overboard in the middle of the night. But when the ship's captain insists that nobody is missing, Isobel and her...
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  • The Sea Captain's Wife
    From bestselling author Jackie French comes a compelling story of murder, mystery, and mutiny on the high seas - and a love so intense it can overcome two different cultures. You never know what the sea will give you ... or what it will take back. When Mair McCrae follows her island tradition and hunts for a husband cast up...
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  • The Scandalous Ladies of London
    New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan kicks off her amazing new high concept series, The Scandalous Ladies of London, which chronicles the lives of a group of affluent ladies reigning over glittering, Regency-era London, vying for position in the hierarchy of the ton. They are the young wives, widows, and daughters of London’s wealthiest families. The drama is big,...
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  • The Royal Windsor Secret
    Could she be the secret daughter of the Prince of Wales? In this dazzling novel by the author of Sisters of the Resistance, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her mysterious past. Perfect for readers of Shana Abe, Bryn Turnbull, and Marie Benedict. Cleo Davenport has heard the whispers: the murmured conversations that end abruptly the second...
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  • The Romanov Brides
    From the author of A Most English Princess comes a rich novel about young Princess Alix of Hesse—the future Alexandra, last Empress of Imperial Russia—and her sister, Princess Ella. Their decision to marry into the Romanov royal family changed history. They were granddaughters of Queen Victoria and two of the most beautiful princesses in Europe. Princesses Alix and Ella were...
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  • The Ripping Tree
    An illustrious family. A beautiful home. A shipwrecked young woman left on its doorstep. Don't think they're going to save her. A new novel from international bestselling author, Nikki Gemmell. Early 1800s. Thomasina Trelora is on her way to the colonies. Her fate: to be married to a clergyman she's never met. As the Australian coastline comes into view, a...
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  • The Revels
    The stage is set, and the witch-hunt is about to begin . . . A spellbinding debut novel perfect for fans of Stacey Halls, Laura Purcell, and Bridget Collins. England, 1645. After his half-brother dies, aspiring playwright Nicholas Pearce is apprenticed to Judge William Percival, an infamous former witch-hunter who is under pressure to resume his old profession. In a...
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  • The Railway Detective's Christmas Case
    December 1864. As a cold winter wind scours the Worcestershire countryside, an excursion train comes through a tunnel in the Malvern Hills to be confronted by a blockage on the line ahead. The driver manages to slow the train down so that the impact is minimised, but the passengers are alarmed. The first person to alight is Cyril Hubbleday, the...
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  • The Queen's Faithful Companion
    From USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight comes an endearing and vivid novel told from the unique multi-narrative viewpoints of a young Queen Elizabeth; Hanna Penwyck, the fictionalised Keeper of the Queen’s dogs; and Susan, the Queen’s Corgi, whose love and loyalty were boundless. A reigning queen... Elizabeth wasn’t born to be queen. But when her uncle abdicates and her...
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  • The Postmistress
    A stunning historical tale of loss, desire and courage that is full of the terror and the beauty of the Australian bush, for readers of The Thorn Birds, The Naturalist's Daughter and The Widow of Ballarat. To forge a new life she must first deal with her past... 1871. Adelaide Greaves and her young son have found sanctuary in the...
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  • The Portrait of a Duchess
    The scandalous women of the SOCIETY OF SIRENS are back with an explosive secret... their ranks include a duchess in disguise. Once upon a time she married in secret... An activist painter of radicals and harlots, Cornelia Ludgate dismisses love and marriage as threats to freedom. But when an inheritance gives her the chance to fund the cause of women’s...
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  • The Poppy Sisters
    ‘A rich and gripping war story that hooked me from the first page…I was effortlessly swept into the drama’ USA Today bestseller Andie Newton Divided by war. Reunited by courage. Phoebe is a volunteer nurse at a Base Hospital in Étaples, France, treating men who’ve served on the Western Front. Their courage and resilience inspires her, and though she’s meant...
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  • The Plague Letters
    Who would murder the dying... London, 1665. Hidden within the growing pile of corpses in his churchyard, Rector Symon Patrick discovers a victim of the pestilence unlike any he has seen before: a young woman with a shorn head, covered in burns, and with pieces of twine delicately tied around each wrist and ankle. Desperate to discover the culprit, Symon...
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  • The Picture Bride
    Could you marry a man you've never met? Three Korean women in 1910 make a life-changing journey to Hawaii where they will marry, having seen only a photograph of their intended husbands. Different fates await each of these women. Hongju, who dreams of a marriage of 'natural love', meets a man who looks twenty years older than his photograph; Songhwa,...
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  • The Physicists' Daughter
    As WWII rages on abroad, one young woman will have to wage her own kind of war at home. The Nazis are no match for the physicists' daughter. New Orleans, 1944 Sabotage. That's the word on factory worker Justine Byrne's mind as she is repeatedly called to weld machine parts that keep failing with no clear cause. Could someone inside...
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  • The Physician's Daughter
    In a world made for men, can one woman break free from tradition and walk a new path? It is 1865, the American Civil War has just ended, and 18-year-old Vita Tenney is determined to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a country doctor like her father. But when her father tells her she must get married instead, Vita explores...
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  • The Phoenix Bride
    A passionate tale of plague, fire, and forbidden love in seventeenth-century London from the acclaimed author of Solomon's Crown. Poetic, romantic, and steeped in seventeenth-century London, The Phoenix Bride is historical fiction at its best. – Mackenzi Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue A BOOKPAGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR It is...
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  • The Passion
    The best of Jeanette Winterson's remarkable, radical, and genre-expanding novels, reissued in a bold new look ahead of the publication of her new book, 12 BYTES. 'A fantasy, a vivid dream...inventive and brilliant' – Guardian Henri has a passion for Napoleon – but Napoleon has a passion for chicken. As soldier and emperor butcher their way across Europe, glory falls...
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  • The Paris Mystery
    A superb evocation of pre-war Paris ... a mystery I couldn't put down. - Kerry Greenwood A glittering party, a dead body, and a room full of alluring suspects, this book is everything you are looking for. With deft light strokes, Kirsty Manning takes the reader on an Agatha Christie-style journey in 1930s Paris, led by infallible hero, journalist Charlie...
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  • The Paris Gown
    “A glorious showstopper of a novel! With its glittering characters, intricately woven plot, and chapters full of gorgeous Dior dresses, The Paris Gown will be turning all heads this year.”—Natasha Lester, New York Times bestselling author of The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard From perennially popular historical novelist Christine Wells, the delightful tale of three young women in 1950s Paris who...
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  • The Other Princess
    A princess enslaved becomes goddaughter to a queen. By the time she was seven years old, Aina had been born into life as an Egbado princess, witnessed the brutal killing of her entire family, and been enslaved to a rival chieftain. With a death sentence hanging over her head, she would also face being bartered as an exotic trophy, renamed...
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  • The Nurses' War
    There is more than one way to fight a war... An extraordinary story of grit, love and loss, based on the true history and real experiences of Australian nurses in World War 1. Heart-achingly raw yet filled with the beauty of the human spirit, this novel is a triumph that will linger in the heart and psyche. — Karen Brooks,...
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  • The Night They Stormed Eureka
    It's 1854, and the Ballarat goldfields are a place of dreams and rebellion as Sam, a homeless teenager, is called back to the past to join the Puddlehams, who run the best little cook shop on the diggings. The Puddlehams dream of buying a hotel with velvet seats, while others dream of freedom from the British crown, away from the...
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  • The Night Journal
    A mesmerizing novel of four generations of Southwestern women bound to a mythical legacy. With its family secrets and hallowed texts containing explosive truths, The Night Journal suggests A. S. Byatt’s Possession transplanted to the raw and beautiful landscape of the American Southwest. Meg Mabry has spent her life oppressed by her family’s legacy—a heritage beginning with the journals written...
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  • The Narrow Land
    A brilliant portrait... With a beguiling grace and a deceptive simplicity, Christine Dwyer Hickey reminds us that the past is never far away - rather, it constantly surrounds us, suspends us, haunts us. - Colum McCann 1950: late summer season on Cape Cod. Michael, a ten-year-old boy, is spending the summer with Richie and his glamorous but troubled mother. Left...
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  • The Mirror of Simple Souls
    In the heart of 14th century Paris, the great beguinage is an enclave under royal protection, where single women can live apart from men. Widowed or unmarried, rich or poor, here they can study, work, and trade in freedom. Ysabel chose to withdraw here twenty years ago. She watches over the hospital and knows all the secrets of plants, nursing...
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  • The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost Fair
    Absolutely stunning… Real emotional depth alongside a fast-paced plot. Fantastic – A F Steadman An amazing and captivating, curl-up-on-the-sofa debut about a magical frost fair and the lasting power of friendship, perfect for fans of Tamzin Merchant, Abi Elphinstone and Anna James. The Great Frost of 1683 has London in its icy grip. Thomasina and her best friend Anne sell...
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  • The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz
    The second thrilling Ministry of Unladylike Activity mystery, from the number-one bestselling author of Murder Most Unladylike. The second thrilling and unputdownable mystery starring a new generation of the Detective Society, from the million-copy bestselling author of Murder Most Unladylike - Robin Stevens. March 1941. Britain is at war, and a secret agency called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is...
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  • The Midnight Guardians
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  • The Madonna Secret
    Mary Magdalene’s confessions reveal a sensual world of love and betrayal, magic and mystery, hidden within the Gospels. Rerooting Mary Magdalene and Jesus in the lush ecology and complex spiritual culture of Second Temple Period Judea and Galilee under Roman rule, The Madonna Secret invites readers into a rewilded view of the Gospels. Experience the forgotten voices of defiant and...
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  • The Lost Van Gogh
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  • The Little Sparrow Murders
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  • The Little Match Girl Strikes Back
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  • The Last of the Apple Blossom
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  • The Last Light over Oslo
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  • The Last Hour
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  • The Lady He Lost
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  • The Horse Thief
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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.