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  • The Lighthouse Secret
    Family secrets never stay buried… 1951, Ireland On the windswept Cork coast, the lighthouse-keepers’ wives wait, watching the sea. Their husbands are coming home. But one secret can never be revealed. 2023, Maine Decades later, Mollie Kenefick receives an anonymous note: Family secrets never stay buried. The only person she can ask is her grandmother – however, Beth made a...
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  • The Giver of Stars
    The latest bestselling novel from household name Jojo Moyes is back with a new look summer jacket – this is the escapist blockbuster that everyone must read. England, late 1930s, and Alice Wright makes an impulsive decision to marry wealthy American Bennett Van. But stuffy Baileyville, Kentucky, where her husband favours his work and overbearing father, is not what she...
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  • Sharpe’s Escape
    SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now. Portugal, 1811 Captain Richard Sharpe’s renegade ways leave him discarded by his regiment and waging a war against a private Portuguese enemy – one fought through the burning, pillaged streets of Coimbra. Forced to retreat across treacherous terrain, the British army prepares vast defences...
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  • Territory
    MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A breathtaking story of disaster, courage, passion, and that Top End spirit that never says die. JOURNEY TO AUSTRALIA When Henrietta Southern trades war-torn England for Australia's Northern Territory, with its crocodile-infested rivers and red wilderness, she embarks on a new life on her husband, Spitfire pilot Terence Galloway's cattle station, six months after the bombing...
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  • The Astromancer
    A lively story with stunning illustrations that reveals the tradition of Matariki. The Astromancer is looking for four new apprentices to learn about Matariki and the Maramataka calendar. She chooses three boys and an orphan girl, Aria, who will come only if she can bring her smelly dog. Aria, though, is bored by the lessons, and she doesn't want to...
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  • The Crossing
    The Crossing forms the second part of Cormac McCarthy's critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, a story that began with All the Pretty Horses and concludes with Cities of the Plain. Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World War, Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing follows the fortunes of sixteen-year-old Billy Parham and his younger brother Boyd. Fascinated by...
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  • The Book of Longings
    THE New York Times BESTSELLER The stunning bestseller about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings 'Transporting, life-affirming, gripping. It is simply brilliant' Mel Giedroyc 'Fascinating . . . Clever, rebellious Ana is a memorable character' The Times 'Brilliant . . . Brava!' The...
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  • The Geomagician
    An enchanting and transporting historical fantasy - perfect for fans of Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries and A Natural History of Dragons. When a Victorian fossil hunter discovers a baby pterodactyl, she vows to protect him with the help of a fellow scholar - her former fiancé - in this enchanting and transporting historical fantasy. Perfect for fans of Emily...
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  • On the Way to the Wedding [Bridgerton Deluxe Collector's Edition]
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    A stunning hardcover Deluxe Collector’s Edition of On the Way to the Wedding, the eighth and final novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Bridgerton series, featuring beautiful endpapers, a ribbon marker, and a gorgeous, decorated spine. Collect all 8 in the series to unveil the beautiful imagery when shelved together! Watch BRIDGERTON, created by Shondaland...
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  • It's in His Kiss
    A stunning hardcover Deluxe Collector’s Edition of It's In His Kiss, the seventh novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Bridgerton series, featuring beautiful endpapers, a ribbon marker, and a gorgeous, decorated spine. Collect all 8 in the series to unveil the beautiful imagery when shelved together! Watch BRIDGERTON, created by Shondaland for Netflix. HYACINTH'S STORY...
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  • The Iliad
    Discover and treasure one of the greatest war stories of all time with this luxurious edition of Homer's first great epic, The Iliad. Find yourself swept right into the emotion of the action and characters, including Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth, as they endure the tenth and final year of the Greek siege of Troy. This...
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  • Edge of Eternity
    Edge of Eternity is the epic, final novel in Ken Follett's captivating and hugely ambitious Century trilogy. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, this is an irresistible and spellbinding epic about the fight for personal freedom set during the Cold War. A FIGHT AGAINST INJUSTICE In 1961, in the United...
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  • A Night Like This
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Bridgerton series, Julia Quinn presents the second, stunning installment in the Bridgerton adjacent Regency era-set world featuring the romantic adventures of the well-meaning but less-than-accomplished Smythe-Smith musicians. In this case, a distractingly lovely pianist sitting in at the annual Smythe-Smith musicale catches the eye of a haunted, hunted man...
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  • The Moon Gate
    A faded photograph. An abandoned house. A wartime secret . . . From the author of the Richard and Judy Book Club pick The Midnight House, a mesmerising story of love, war, and a mystery that ensnares three generations, sweeping the reader from London to Tasmania and to Ireland. Perfect for fans of Kate Morton, Lucinda Riley and Eve Chase....
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  • Because of Miss Bridgerton
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn presents the first novel of the delightful Bridgerton Prequel series in a stunning new package. There were Bridgertons before the eight alphabetically named siblings, and in this novel, we go back to where it all began... Sometimes you find love in the most unexpected of places... This is not one of those...
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  • Offer From a Gentleman TV-Tie in
    A special TV Tie-In edition to BRIDGERTON, a series created by Shondaland for Netflix, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn:  the story of Benedict Bridgerton, in the third of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring her charming, powerful Bridgerton family. BENEDICT’S STORY Sophie Beckett never dreamed she’d be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton’s famed masquerade ball—or that “Prince Charming” would...
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  • Marrying Off Morgan McBride
    Marrying Off Morgan McBride by Amy Barry Morgan McBride is tough as nails – but a surprise mail-order bride is enough to have him quaking in his cowboy boots in this laugh-out-loud historical romance. The oldest of the McBride siblings, Morgan has had to look after his siblings since Ma died and Pa ran off. It hasn’t always been easy,...
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  • The Leopard
    NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMATISATION FOR RADIO 4 - AVAILABLE ON BBC SOUNDS This is the new, revised edition which includes recently discovered new material including letters and diary entries by the author and two additional sections of the novel. The Leopard is a modern classic which tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the...
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  • The Changeling
    Set against Scotland's first witch-hunt, a young woman with faery blood must defy two queens to survive love, magic and treachery. On her fourteenth birthday, Caiti NicNeven discovers her true mother is the queen of the Sidhe, the faery folk who dwell beneath Scotland's hollow hills. Bound by ancient grievance, the faery queen demands Caiti become the instrument of her...
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  • The Voyage Home
    The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls. After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle. Alongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks—among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra, and...
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  • Pride and Prejudice
    Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy’s romance comes to life once more in a stunning and truly accessible retelling of Austen’s beloved classic from bestseller Laura Wood. Witty, intelligent Elizabeth Bennet has no desire for a marriage of convenience. When she meets the handsome, wealthy Mr Darcy, her opinion of him is quickly set: he is aloof, selfish and proud –...
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  • Written in My Own Heart's Blood
    The captivating eighth novel in the multi-million bestselling Outlander series - now on Amazon Prime! 'A series that will keep you turning the pages long into the night' - Rebecca Yarros * 'Jamie & Claire fans should not be disappointed' 'Epic, magical, and deeply romantic. A true gift to all readers' - Ali Hazelwood * 'Of course I loved it!...
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  • Trust
    Longlisted for the Booker Prize The Sunday Times Bestseller Trust is a sweeping, unpredictable novel about power, wealth and truth, set against the backdrop of turbulent 1920s New York. Perfect for fans of Succession. Can one person change the course of history? A Wall Street tycoon takes a young woman as his wife. Together they rise to the top in...
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  • Bridgerton Boxed Set 5-8
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  • Circe
    A FIFTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR Woman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. Circe. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange child – not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. Scorned...
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  • Glorious Exploits
    'One of the most original and brilliant debuts in years' Irish Times An exhilarating and fiercely original story of brotherhood, war, and art, set in ancient Sicily. Ancient Sicily. Enter GELON – visionary, dreamer, theatre lover. Enter LAMPO – lovesick, jobless, in need of a distraction. Imprisoned in the quarries of Syracuse, thousands of defeated Athenians hang on by the...
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  • The Winter King
    The Winter King is the first of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling Warlord Chronicles series. In the Dark Ages, a legendary warrior arises to unite a divided land... Uther, the High King of Britain, is dead. His only heir is the infant Mordred. Yet each of the country's lesser kings seek to claim the crown for themselves. While they squabble and spoil...
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  • Nemesis
    A FIGHT FOR HONOUR. A QUEST FOR REVENGE. Paris, 1794. Revolutionary fervour has erupted into the Reign of Terror. A young man, Paul Courtney, hides in a crowd watching as the condemned are brought to the guillotine. Among them is Constance Courtney, Paul's mother. As he watches her brutal execution, he knows he must avoid the same fate and fulfil...
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  • The Penelopiad
    The series that began in October with Karen Armstrong's compelling A Short History of Myth continues, with electrifying new works of fiction from two of the world's most loved writers. Booker Award-winner Margaret Atwood, who has reworked the traditional telling of the Odyssey narrative, says, "I've chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to the twelve...
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  • The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion
    "I was sitting at my desk reading, with a cup of tea, my windows flung open, when I heard The Tenant enter his garret, just on the other side of the wall from myself." The year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighbourhood of St. Crispian's. But Emma's plans for a charmed and studious life...
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  • The House of Fortune
    The House of Fortune is the sequel to Jessie Burton's million-copy bestseller, The Miniaturist. 'A book of beauty and insight . . . awe-inspiring. Burton is a master storyteller' — Elizabeth Day In the golden city of Amsterdam, in 1705, Thea Brandt is turning eighteen, and she is ready to welcome adulthood with open arms. At the city's theatre, Walter,...
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    The Bureau of Unknown Fates
    Sometimes when you are looking for the dead, you find the living. When Irène joins the International Tracing Service, she becomes consumed by a singular obsession: returning the belongings confiscated from concentration camp prisoners to their families. A faded cloth doll. A medallion. An embroidered handkerchief. Each object holds a story - and behind each one, a life waiting to...
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  • Rottenheart
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    Revenge me. For I am murdered . . . Odette and Cecilia are young women, living between their grand homes in Hampstead and the imposing, ancient Herne House in Suffolk. Though Odette's artist mother Lydia keeps a tight grasp on her, she and her beloved Cecilia are mostly left free to roam, to learn and to love. But when Lydia...
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  • A Prince Among Pirates
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    A sharp, funny, unputdownable historical(ish) debut, with an incredibly distinctive and witty voice, this romp of a novel is perfect for fans of Gwen and Art are Not in Love and Our Flag Means Death. Kit Davenport is in trouble – not that this would surprise anyone who knows him. Headstrong, reckless, and utterly unsuited for the stodgy House of...
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  • The Saffron Thief
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    Out of the ashes of the Great Fire of London comes an unforgettable tale … T.L. Mogford has excelled himself – Michael Morpurgo I swallowed up The Saffron Thief in 36 hours. It’s a tremendous piece of work … Truly superb – William Boyd In 1666, England's saffron industry is booming, with the spice fetching a staggering £4 per pound—rivalling...
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  • Peacock
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    From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Sparrow comes another spellbinding historical epic set in the last days of a dying Roman empire . . . Sparrow has flown from the confines of the Roman brothel where he was raised. Now older and smarter, and having learned the arts of deception and enticement from the women who raised him, he...
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    The Original
    Katharine Hepburn won more Oscars than any actor in history, yet her most memorable role is the one she carved for herself. Hollywood in the early 1930s is a town full of secrets. When Katharine Hepburn arrives to launch her film career, she leaves behind her East Coast marriage and icy patrician family to live and love on her own...
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  • Murder at Gulls Nest
    In a house like Gulls Nest, curiosity might prove fatal . . . After thirty years in a convent, Nora Breen has thrown off her habit. Her fellow sister Frieda has gone missing and it's up to Nora to find her. Nora's only clue is that Frieda was last seen at Gulls Nest boarding house. So she travels down to...
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  • The Eighth Life (for Brilka)
    LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION “Devastatingly brilliant. . . . Poignant, heart-stopping, sublime.” —New York Times Book Review War and Peace for the twenty-first century, the internationally bestselling, award-winning multigenerational epic that begins with the Russian Revolution and spans a century—a novel of war, loss, love requited and unrequited, ghosts,...
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  • Salem's Mercy
    In 1638, Cassandra Southwick wonders if she has made an enormous mistake. She made the epic journey to Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony with her husband and their five children to escape religious persecution. She expects a freer life in the New World... but she's in for a big surprise. In 1659, frightened out of her wits, Provided Southwick stands on...
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  • Light at Lavelle
    Paullina Simons pulls on every heartstring, she's a master of epic love stories — COLLEEN HOOVER Torn between what they cannot have and what they cannot live without. It is 1929. The world is about to change. Finn Evans is a successful Boston banker harbouring a secret that threatens to unravel his carefully constructed idyllic life. Isabelle Lazar, a young...
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  • The Chronicles of Captain Blood
    Hearty pirate adventure One-time doctor and fugitive from the Monmouth rebellion, Peter Blood escaped from slavery to become the terror of the Caribbean. Winning invaluable treasures, rescuing his crew from almost certain death, and saving an English settlement are all in a day's work for fiction's boldest adventurer. The Chronicles of Captain Blood is an enthralling tale of swashbuckling heroism...
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  • The Last of the Just
    The book - In every generation, according to Jewish tradition, thirty-six just men, the Lamed-waf, are born to take the burden of the world's suffering upon themselves. At York in 1185, the just man was Rabbi Yom Tov Levey, whose sacrifice so touched God that he gave his descendants one just man each generation, all the way down to Ernie...
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  • The Engineer Of Human Souls
    The Engineer of Human Souls spins its own story from the torn entrails of Central Europe. Yet what emerges is comedy—clack, grimacing and explosively funny, as peculiarly middle European as the despairing wit of Prague's own Franz Kafka. Time
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  • Pastoral
    A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach During the Second World War, Peter Marshall's crew become one of the most successful bombing teams in their Oxfordshire airbase. However, when Peter falls in love with a young WAAF officer, his concentration begins to suffer and it looks as though his perfect run of...
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  • The Rainbow and the Rose
    A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach. When Johnny Pascoe attempts to rescue a sick girl from the Tasmanian outback, his plane crashes, leaving him dangerously injured. Ronnie Clarke, who was trained by Pascoe, endeavours to fly a doctor in to help, but this proves more difficult than he imagined. As he...
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  • Flesh in Armour: War Popular Penguins
    Nearly 420,000 Australians enlisted during the First World War, and more than half were killed, wounded or captured. The conflict was the most costly in Australia's history. In the fates of his protagonists in his acclaimed Flesh in Armour - one dies valiantly, one dies in an abject and mentally unhinged state, one survives - Mann pays tribute to the...
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  • The Name of the Rose
    One of 15 limited edition Vintage Future Classics published to celebrate Vintage's 15th birthday. The 15 titles were voted for by reading groups all over the UK as being books that would still be read in 100 years' time. Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, The Name of the Rose is not only a narrative of a murder investigation...
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  • The Sea-Hawk
    A rousing story of pirate adventure, hair-raising duels and romance. With an introduction by Ben Kane Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman, is blessed with 'youth, wealth, and good digestion'. He is betrayed by his half-brother and becomes a renegade and Barbary corsair, winning the title of Sakr-el-Bahr - hawk of the sea. This is the thrilling, full-blooded adventure of how...
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  • How Sleep the Brave
    First published under the pseudonym of Flying Officer X, H. E. Bates's heroic stories of the exploits of British pilots during the Second World War created a sensation when they appeared in 1942, selling over two million copies all over the world. While writing these stories, Bates lived among the often painfully young bomber crews and recorded their lives both...
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  • Then And Now
    Stunningly written and cleverly done, Maugham masters the enthralling and shocking world of Machiavelli. Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. Then and Now enters the world of Machiavelli, and covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer and high priest...
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  • The Fortunes of Captain Blood
    Yet more thrilling adventures of the bold and bolshy Captain Blood. Ready of wit and skilled of blade, the elegant surgeon-buccaneer Captain Blood is ever a jump ahead of his foes. Time and again, he falls headlong into deep peril, and his own motley crew are happy to sail to hell and back at his command. Yet when everything is...
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  • Return I Dare Not
    She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed – Anita Brookner Return I Dare Not presents Hugo Potts, a successful London playwright enjoying his moment of notoriety. Adored by critics and pursued by women, he's the darling of the literary scene. However, his public persona is exactly...
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  • Landfall
    A first-class adventure story of love, mystery, and nail-biting suspense, for fans of classic wartime romance. Landfall follows Jerry Chambers, a fresh-faced young pilot who mistakenly sinks a British submarine. As a result, he is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting to test an experimental new bomb—a dangerous mission far away from the girl he loves. While Jerry risks...
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    Daughters of the Tide
    Weaving historical fiction with folklore and Tasmanian gothic, this is a gorgeously atmospheric debut that explores memory and self, the resilience of women and a dangerous longing for the sea. The Findlay family history has long been steeped in secrets, tragedy and dark rumours of madness. Generations of its women have been haunted by a dangerous luring melody and an...
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  • Rescue
    From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen comes a thrilling World War II story of espionage and intrigue, as one girl races to save her father and aid the French resistance. Six hundred and fifty-seven days ago, Meg Kenyon's father left their home in France to fight for the Allies in World War II, and that was the...
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  • A Man at Arms
    Jerusalem and the Sinai desert, first century AD. In the turbulent aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, officers of the Roman Empire acquire intelligence of a pilgrim bearing an incendiary letter from a religious fanatic to insurrectionists in Corinth. The content of this letter could bring down the empire. The Romans hire a former legionary, the solitary man-at-arms, Telamon of...
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  • The Nine Lives Kitty K
    Colonial survivor, farmer's wife and horse whisperer Kitty Kirk is the central figure in this historical novel that looks at her colourful life. She lived from 1855 to 1930 during the turbulent period of the goldfield's history in Central Otago.
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  • Herc
    Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award Waterstones best book of the year 2023 'A remarkable feat of storytelling' Rosie Hewlett This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures…everyone’s favourite hero, right? Wrong. This is the story of everyone else: Alcmene: Herc’s mother (She has knives everywhere) Hylas: Herc’s first friend (They were more than friends)...
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  • Crossfire
    ONE SHOT AT STOPPING A TRAITOR. ONE CHANCE TO CHANGE HISTORY. Praise for Wilbur Smith 'A master storyteller' Sunday Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' Daily Mirror 'Best historical novelist' Stephen King WILBUR SMITH RETURNS WITH A BRAND-NEW SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING WORLD WAR II THRILLER 1943. The tide of the Second World War is turning. The Russian victory...
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  • The Lotus Shoes
    'Brilliantly written, masterful storytelling, and hard to put down. This story will stay with me for a very, very long time' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz'Mesmerising. Jane Yang masterfully creates this 19th century lost world' THE TIMES'This story of love, loss and betrayal will leave a deep imprint on your soul. Perfect for fans of Memoirs of...
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  • The Cardinal
    'Alison Weir has this astonishing ability to make history come alive and jump right off the pages' ⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐⭐'Thomas's story is incredible' ⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐⭐'A gripping tale of power and downfall, passion and principle, it is Alison Weir at her best' ⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐⭐'Accessible and human' ⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐⭐'Captivating and emotive...a must read for all lovers of Tudor history'...
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  • Chris Mould's War of the Worlds
    A stunning full-colour illustrated adaptation of H. G. Wells' sci-fi classic, from the illustrator of A Boy Called Christmas and The Iron Man. 1894. Across space, this Earth is being watched by envious eyes. What seems to be a meteorite falls to Earth, but from the debris unfolds a terrifying alien threat... Leon and his scientist wife race against the...
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  • Christine Falls
    FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW 'Absorbing' The Times 'Gripping' Scotsman Christine Falls takes readers into Quirke's pathology department, set deep beneath 1950s Dublin. This is his own gloomy realm: always quiet, always night, and always under his control. That is, until one evening when he stumbles across a body that should not be there. The investigation he initiates uncovers...
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  • Carnival of Lies
    The Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger Winning Author Venice. Winter, 1539. When Cesare Aldo learns of a conspiracy to assassinate Duke Cosimo de' Medici, he is hired to protect the ruler of Florence. With his life if necessary. The deadly attack which follows leads to bodies, bloodshed - and something far more dangerous. Those behind the plot obtain a journal...
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  • Ripeness
    It is the 60s and, just out of school, Edith finds herself travelling to rural Italy. She has been sent by her mother with strict instructions: to see her sister, ballet dancer Lydia, through the final weeks of her pregnancy, help at the birth and then make a phone call which will seal this baby's fate, and his mother's. Decades...
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  • The Private Side of Friendship
    Six friends. One city. The time of their lives. It's 1988, and on the verge of a reunion with friends she hasn't seen since graduation, Julie recalls her halcyon student days of 1984 and the strange tumultuous time they lived through. The friends—each from a very different background—are living in a gorgeous terraced flat in their Edinburgh idyll. As they...
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  • The Samurai Detectives: Volume 2
    Return to the world of The Samurai Detectives, the multi-million copy bestselling series of thrilling adventure and inscrutable mystery. In the months since their last perilous quest, a fragile calm has settled over Edo. Daijiro dedicates his days to training the first pupil of his quiet riverside dojo, while his father Kohei—a famed swordsman whose name still inspires awe—drifts through...
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  • The Paris Affair
    The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society meets Lucinda Riley in this breath-taking story of how one woman's disappearance spurns the search of a lifetime. In Paris 1942, a woman disappears in the middle of the night, leaving behind the man she loves. French chef Sylvie was sent to Paris as part of the resistance, while German soldier Christoph...
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  • The Lotus Shoes
    The captivating, heart-rending story of two women in 1800s China The Lotus Shoes is brilliant, masterful storytelling that's hard to put down and will stay with you for a very long time. – Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz Mesmerising. Jane Yang masterfully creates this 19th-century lost world. – The Times This story of love, loss, and betrayal...
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  • The Heat of the Day
    This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war—each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. A haunting portrayal of love and betrayal in a London hollowed by war. It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Stella discovers that her...
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  • The Girls from Fitzroy
    An unlikely friendship between two young women from opposite ends of Fitzroy sparks life-changing transformations they could never have anticipated. Melbourne, 1945. Born into a well-to-do family, Maggie Johnson wants freedom from her parents' strict conservative beliefs and their unbending desire for her to marry the right sort of man. Instead, Maggie longs to forge her own path in life....
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  • The Defiance of Frances Dickinson
    A woman who braved public disgrace to expose a brutal marriage. 1838, England: When eighteen-year-old heiress Frances Dickinson impulsively marries Lieutenant John Geils, she soon discovers there is much about her husband she did not know. A cruel and violent man, John keeps Frances in isolation on his family's estate in Scotland, while spending her fortune and preying upon their...
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  • Sound Mind Dead Body
    A manor house cosy crime with all the hallmarks of an Agatha Christie-style murder mystery. Devon, 1929. Members of the Pedhurst and de Reve families gather to hear unpopular matriarch Julia Pedhurst (nee de Reve) read from her late husband's will. One of the house guests is fighter pilot Fred Willets, now an inspector in the Kalgoorlie Gold Squad, who...
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  • Pure
    A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love... A year unlike any other he has lived. Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their...
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  • Heap Earth Upon It
    January 1965. The orphaned O'Leary siblings—Tom, Jack, Anna, and Peggy—arrive in the village of Ballycrea, tight-lipped about their troubled past and desperate for a fresh start. After being met with suspicion from most of the locals, the family is thrilled when they are taken under the wing of their well-respected neighbours, Bill and Betty Nevan, who offer them work, companionship,...
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  • Critical Role: Der Katzenprinz & Other Zemnian Tales
    Discover three wondrous fairy tales from the world of Critical Role, translated from the original Zemnian and presented in a gorgeous storybook fit to grace any archmage's library. From the cold regions of the Zemni Fields, where the Dwendalian Empire was born, come three fairy tales told to children on the most frigid winter nights. From the heartwarming Der Katzenprinz...
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  • The Hedgewitch of Foxhall
    In this gorgeous stand-alone cozy fantasy romance perfect for fans of Margaret Rogerson and Allison Saft, a rebellious witch undertakes a last-ditch quest to restore magic to medieval Wales—as two princes vie for her heart.Magic is fading from Wales—choked off by King Offa’s Dyke, the enemy earthworks that spans the entire border. Even the dragons have disappeared. And now an...
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  • The Custom House Murder
    September 1940 is finally drawing to a close. With London having endured the Blitz for nearly a month, people are calling for vengeance: Britain should retaliate even harder with their own bombing campaign in enemy territory. But once again, the night heralds more destruction. At Custom House, anxious residents dutifully head to the nearest public air-raid shelter as the warning...
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  • The Corset
    The new Victorian chiller from the author of Radio 2 and Zoe Ball ITV Book Club pick, The Silent Companions. Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain? Dorothea and Ruth. Prison visitor and prisoner. Powerful and powerless. Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy, and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor, and awaiting trial for murder. When Dorothea’s...
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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.