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  • The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion
    The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion
    I took Treasure Island to church with me as a talisman."What a lovely bible," Mrs. Tribly said."Isn't it just?" I replied, hoping she would not ask me to read a favourite verse aloud.I do not believe the psalmist wrote, Fifteen men on a dead man's chest,Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum. The year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has...
    By Beth Brower
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  • Pride and Prejudice
    Pride and Prejudice
    Discover Puffin Clothbound Classics - gorgeously giftable editions of the best-loved classics for young readers. Find love in this stunning, abridged Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of Pride and Prejudice, designed for readers aged 9-12 years. 'My good opinion once lost is lost forever.' When two rich young gentlemen move to town, they don't go unnoticed – especially by Mrs Bennett,...
    By Jane Austen
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  • The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion
    “It has been a day ordained by the fates, for how else could one explain the wholly cursed chain of events?” 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 are sabotaged by her eccentric cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the...
    By Beth Brower
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  • The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion
    "It all began very innocently. Truly." 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 are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian's. Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however...
    By Beth Brower
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  • The Eagle and the Wolf
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    The Eagle and the Wolf
    As Hun hordes and Germanic tribes maraud through Imperial lands, two legendary men – Attila the Hun and the Last of the Romans, General Flavius Aetius, find their fortunes entangled with the chaos. Flavius Aetius, a noble Roman son, is an outsider in a savage land. He has been banished, given as a hostage to the barbaric Huns, and sent...
    By Gordon Doherty
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  • The Wartime Librarian’s Secret
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    The Wartime Librarian’s Secret
    Bestselling historical fiction author Molly Green is back with her most engrossing, heartfelt World War Two saga yet, The Wartime Librarian's Secret!Amid the chaos of war, will a new chapter begin? September 1942. Esme Donaldson is still grieving the devastating loss of her husband, Anthony, when she’s forced out of her dream job by wartime budget cuts.Left with few options,...
    By Molly Green
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  • Peacock
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    Peacock
    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...
    By James Hynes
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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...
    By Priya Parmar
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  • Newt's Emerald
    It's her eighteenth birthday, and Lady Truthful Newington—nicknamed 'Newt'—is dreaming of her debut in London, where the streets are filled with eligible young men and magic. Coming of age, she is also to inherit the Newington Emerald, a dazzling gem of mysterious power, last worn by her late mother. When the Emerald is stolen in a magic-infused storm, Newt will...
    By Garth Nix
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  • Murder at Gulls Nest
    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...
    By Jess Kidd
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  • The Diamonds of Tilly Devine
    From bestselling author Jackie French comes a compelling book about the choices we make and the chances we never dreamed we'd be given. 1931. The height of the Depression, Sydney, New South Wales. They were diamonds: beautiful, sparkling and irresistible. Nice girls do not accept employment from infamous Tilly Devine, the brothel owner with jewels on her fingers and a...
    By Jackie French
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  • Salem's Mercy
    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...
    By Rebecca Southwick
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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...
    By Paullina Simons
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  • Crescendo
    A taut, sultry novel about rivalry, obsession and how far we are willing to go to get what we truly desire, set against the glittering backdrop of 1950s Paris. It's the summer of 1957 and Max, a piano prodigy, is on a sold-out concert tour. His beautiful twin sister, Natasha, serves as his manager and minder. But despite Natasha's careful...
    By Jane Healey
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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...
    By Raphael Sabatini
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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...
    By Andre Schwarz-Bart
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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
    By Josef Skvorecky
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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...
    By Nevil Shute
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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...
    By Nevil Shute
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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...
    By Mann Leonard
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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...
    By Umberto Eco
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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...
    By Rafael Sabatini
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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...
    By H.E. Bates
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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...
    By W. Somerset Maugham
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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...
    By Raphael Sabatini
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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...
    By Margaret Kennedy
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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...
    By Nevil Shute
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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...
    By Steven Pressfield
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  • This Wild, Wild Country
    'Thrilling, haunting and darkly beautiful' Chris Whitaker, bestselling author of We Begin at the End Three women. An isolated town. A decades-old mystery. 1933. Cornelia Stover is not the kind of woman the men of Boldville, New Mexico, expect her to be. But, one day, she stumbles upon a secret hidden out in the hills... 1970. Decades later, Joanna Riley,...
    By Inga Vesper
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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)...
    By Phoenicia Rogerson
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  • SAS Ghost Patrol
    Meet the unit that posed as Nazi stormtroopers in the most daring mission ever undertaken SAS Ghost Patrol is the explosive true story of the day in 1942 when the SAS donned Nazi uniforms to perpetrate the most audacious and daring mission of the war. Beyond top secret, deniable in the extreme (and of course enjoying Churchill's enthusiastic blessing), this...
    By Damien Lewis
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  • Warlord of Britannia
    The enthralling new drama in the epic story of Caratacus: the barbarian king who led the tribes of Britannia against mighty Rome. AD 43, Britannia. A barbarian land... Caratacus is warlord of his tribe. Only King Cunobelinus holds more power. The island's clans are constantly at war. Caratacus has relentlessly driven new alliances, but those are ready to crumble at...
    By Simon Scarrow
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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...
    By Jane Yang
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  • The Light Years
    Told with exceptional grace, The Light Years is a modern classic of twentieth-century English life and is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's extraordinary, bestselling family saga, The Cazalet Chronicles. 'Compelling, moving, unputdownable . . . Maybe my favourite books ever' - Marian Keyes, bestselling author of My Favourite Mistake 1937. Every summer, the Cazalet brothers - Hugh, Edward...
    By Elizabeth Jane Howard
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  • The Library of Lost Dollhouses
    "This beautiful page-turner kept me reading all night.” —Janet Skeslien Charles, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Library When a young librarian discovers historic dollhouses in a hidden room, she embarks on an unexpected journey that reveals surprising secrets about the lost miniatures.Tildy Barrows, Head Curator of a beautiful archival library in San Francisco, is meticulously dedicated to the...
    By Elise Hooper
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  • The Last of the Wine
    A VIVID, SWEEPING SAGA OF QUEER LOVE AND POLITICS IN ANCIENT GREECE, FROM THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION'Renault's eye for intimacy is amazing' DOUGLAS STUART'Arresting and beautiful and moving . . . decades ahead of its time' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKSYour love made me. Do not take it away; for without love I am a temple forsaken by its god...
    By Mary Renault
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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...
    By John Banville
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  • Seascraper
    Seascraper is a mesmerising portrait of a young man confined by his class and the ghosts of his family's past, dreaming of artistic fulfilment. Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa's trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the grey, gloomy beach and scrape for shrimp....
    By Benjamin Wood
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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...
    By Alexander McCall Smith
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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...
    By Shotaro Ikenami
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  • The Girl with the Suitcase
    The enthralling new novel from the 10-million-copy, No. 1 bestselling author. London 1941 When Mary meets a glamorous stranger named Elizabeth, she realises their lives couldn't be more different. But when an air raid forces them to take shelter underground, Mary's life is set to change forever. After waking up in hospital, injured but alive, the nurse mistakes her for...
    By Lesley Pearse
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  • The Ship's Midwife
    Lives are about to be irrevocably changed following a typhus outbreak on a cramped emigrant ship bound for Australia. 1850 Sarah Hallow is orphaned, penniless and alone, with only the skills learned from her midwife mother to guide her. Passage on a ship bound for the new settlement of Brisbane, Australia, is her last option. Though her skills are quickly...
    By Peta Miller
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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...
    By Fiona Schneider
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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...
    By Elizabeth Bowen
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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...
    By Wendy Parkins
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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...
    By Dave Warner
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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...
    By Andrew Miller
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  • Spoiled Milk
    Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran 'A dirty little jewel of a novel' – Julia Armfield 'Malory Towers meets The Conjuring' – Alice Slater 'Gory, tender, sexy' – Krystelle Bamford In 1928, Emily Locke's final year at the isolated Briarley School for Girls is derailed when Violet, the school's brightest star (and a cunning beauty for whom Emily would do anything),...
    By Avery Curran
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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...
    By Anna Bright
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  • The Cloud Catcher: The brand-new for 2026 epic love story from a bestselling author for fans of Jojo Moyes and Nicholas Sparks.
    An epic, soul-stirring love story about the transcendent magic of true love, in the tradition of Nicholas Sparks and Jojo Moyes, from a bestselling Australian author. An elderly woman stands at the edge of a mountain, touching the clouds. As she prepares to fall into the abyss, she reflects on the one great love that defined her life - and...
    By Mandy Magro
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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...
    By Laura Purcell
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  • Empress of Rome
    Fans of Philippa Gregory will be entranced. Kate Quinn's unforgettable third novel is a mesmerising story of passion, ambition and betrayal. —Elle Under its beloved Emperor Trajan, the Roman Eagle spreads its wings, advancing ever further into the untamed world. But neither Trajan nor his reign can last for ever. Gladiator turned soldier Vix is back in Rome to make...
    By Kate Quinn
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  • Daughters of Rome
    This sweeping, powerful epic tells the story of one of the bloodiest years in Rome's history through the eyes of two remarkable women fighting for survival. A.D. 69. The Roman Empire is up for the taking. The Year of the Four Emperors will change everything—especially the lives of two sisters with a very personal stake in the outcome. Elegant and...
    By Kate Quinn
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  • Brigid
    A powerful, witchy retelling of Brigid, Ireland's best known saint and pagan goddess. In a wild, ancient grove at the edge of winter, a desperate girl prays to the gods for her freedom. None have ever listened to Brigid's prayers. But this time, a goddess answers... with a vision that will transform Brigid's path forever. The new Christian god is...
    By Kim Curran
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  • The King Must Die
    Mary Renault's portraits of the ancient world are fierce, complex and eloquent, infused at every turn with her life-long passion for the Classics — Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe. The true parentage of Theseus, grandson of the King of Troizon, has always been shrouded in mystery. Rumours swirl that his father is Poseidon himself. But when he learns the...
    By Mary Renault
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  • The Brass Age
    'Like Olga Tokarczuk, Šnajder has written a novel about a Europe that has lost its diversity and has been destroyed by fascism, communism and, in recent times, nationalism ... a modern epic' Le Monde 'A masterpiece' La Repubblica The very next day processions of young men, some still children, began to move around the little town of Nu tar, with...
    By Slobodan Šnajder
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  • Familiaris
    'A story-telling bonfire as enthralling in its pages as it is illuminating of our fragile and complicated humanity. Familiaris is as expansive and enlightening a saga as has ever been written' — Tom Hanks 'An epic novel... brilliantly interweaves history, philosophy, adventure, and mysticism to explore the meaning of love, friendship and living your life's true purpose' — Oprah Winfrey...
    By David Wroblewski
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  • The Sparrow
    A powerful new historical novel from one of New Zealand's best-loved YA authors An exciting new novel from the author of Alex. In September 1840, two ships arrive on the shores of the Waitemata Harbour to establish Auckland, the new capital of New Zealand. Among the settlers on board the Platina is young Harry, travelling alone and determined to return...
    By Tessa Duder
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  • The Butterfly Club: The Trip to the Moon
    The adventures of the time-travelling Butterfly Club continue . . .Film is set to become the new craze. Butterfly Club member and filmmaker Georges Mlis pleads to be allowed to go forward in time to harvest a movie camera from the future to make his ambitious film, A Trip to the Moon.The Butterfly Club call up Professor Lorenz's hologram from...
    By M.A. Bennett
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  • Harper Wells: Renegade Timeline Officer
    Harper Wells: Renegade Timeline Officer is an intriguing tale where Harper Wells finally gets a bedroom of her own, away from her annoying big brother. However, on the first night in her new bed, she mysteriously wakes up in the past and meets a troubled young girl named Edie. Has befriending Edie changed the course of Australia's history? Who does...
    By Bethany Loveridge
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  • Strangers in Time
    During one of the fiercest conflicts the world has ever known, three strangers' lives collide as they confront the raining bombs of their present and the explosive secrets of their past in this historical drama from the no. 1 bestselling author David Baldacci. Charlie Matters' life has always been a fight for survival. Orphaned, and with no prospects, Charlie steals...
    By David Baldacci
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  • The Shock of the Light
    A powerful story, beautifully told M.L. STEDMAN Exquisitely written and deeply human CHRIS CLEAVE Far-reaching, but also intimate and intensely personal… will stay with me FLORENCE KNAPP A dazzling literary achievement that brings to life the shattering emotional impact of World War Two on ordinary people. Cambridge, 1942 Twins Tessa and Theo had always shared everything – until the summer...
    By Lori Inglis Hall
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  • The Haunting Season
    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'You won't find a more thrilling winter read this year, or a better line up of writers who have mastered the gothic and ghostly.' SARA COLLINS, Costa Award-winning author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton Featuring new and original tales from: Bridget Collins Sunday Times bestselling author of The Binding | Imogen Hermes Gowar Sunday...
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  • Fireflies in Winter: A gripping, moving story of love and survival on the edge of the wilderness
    A breathtaking novel of two young women fighting for love and survival on the edge of the wilderness from the author of the Good Morning America Book Club pick River Sing Me Home. Nova Scotia 1796. Cora, an orphan newly arrived from Jamaica, has never felt cold like this. In the depths of winter, everyone in her community huddles together...
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  • The Woman in the Spotlight
    When everyone is watching, survival will be her greatest performance... A gripping, utterly absorbing novel about survival and art as defiance on the 1930s Berlin stage, from the bestselling author of The Woman from Saint Germain. Berlin 1932: With the country in chaos, Monika Varády, a young Bavarian actress, arrives in Germany's capital with high hopes—to one day, just maybe,...
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  • The War of the Worlds
    HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive. When a strange, meteor-like object lands in the heart of England, the inhabitants of Earth find themselves victims of a terrible attack. A ruthless...
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  • The Strength of Old Shale
    When the bones of a mother and her child, wrapped in a Shetland lace shawl, are dug up from a forgotten graveyard, two worlds collide. Ariel is rural tough, raised in the defiant republic that is Whangamomona. When her childhood nemesis is found decapitated in a sports car beneath the bull bars of Ariel's ute, her world implodes. She has...
    By Kirsty Powell
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  • Great Expectations
    The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers, and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. Dickens's cast of characters, from the orphan Pip, Miss Haversham, and Estella to...
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  • Le Fay
    The second instalment in the feminist retelling of the story of the formidable and misunderstood villainess Morgan le Fay, nemesis of the sorcerer Merlin. Le Fay is truly a story to savour. Keetch is a masterful storyteller who strikes the perfect balance between the intimate and the epic. — Rosie Talbot, author of Sixteen Souls “They should fear me, the...
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  • Canterbury Quake
    An eleven-year-old’s straight-from-the-heart account of life through the Canterbury quakes and shakes of 2010-11. Anyone would think Maddy’s world had crumbled when she didn’t get a cell phone for her eleventh birthday. But Maddy soon has far more important things to worry about. In the dark of night, with a terrifying rumble and a deafening roar, the world turns upside...
    By Desna Wallace
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  • The Paying Guests
    'A page-turning melodrama and a fascinating portrait of London on the verge of great change' Guardian It is 1922, and in a hushed south London villa life is about to be transformed, as genteel widow Mrs Wray and her discontented daughter Frances are obliged to take in lodgers. Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the 'clerk class',...
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  • The Wartime Book Club
    Jersey, 1943. When the German Army invades the tranquil island, librarian Grace La Motee is determined to keep her services running. Ordered to destroy books which threaten the Nazi regime, she refuses, instead hiding them away and fighting back by forming a book club: a lifeline to help islanders escape the terror of war, one chapter at a time. But...
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  • Le Morte d'Arthur
    All the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table are collected in this illustrated volume. Central figures in medieval literature, King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table still inspire many books and films today. Drawing on the legends of Camelot from French and English sources, Sir Thomas Malory compiled the drama of illicit love,...
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  • The Fair Botanists
    'Hugely enjoyable' Ambrose Parry 'Dazzling, original and full of wonderful characters' Katie Fforde 'Seductive and sensual' Essie Fox 'Historical fiction at its best' Frances Quinn * Could one rare plant hold the key to a thousand riches? It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. In botanical circles, however, a different...
    By Sara Sheridan
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  • The Wycherleys
    Fall head over broomstick in love with this swoon-worthy, witchy romantic fantasy, perfect for fans of Twin Crowns, Divine Rivals and Stephanie Garber. For the Kingdom. For the magic. And for love . . . Seventeen-year-old Aurelia Wycherley is entering her debutante season as a witch. Aurelia should be excited about finding the perfect match to tether her magic to....
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  • The Alice Network
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    By Kate Quinn
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  • Small Acts of Resistance
    Sunday Times bestselling author Anita Frank returns with a breathtaking story of love and resistance... When his aircraft crashes in Northern France, British airman Henry finds himself stranded behind enemy lines. His survival depends on the courage and compassion of a local family who risk everything by hiding him in their farmhouse. With her village already suffering under Occupation, Marie...
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  • How to Lose a Lord in Ten Days
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    By Sophie Irwin
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  • Under Attack (Kidnapped From Ukraine #1)
    Twelve-year-old twin sisters Rada and Dariia Popkova couldn't be more different. Dariia is outgoing and chatty while Rada is quieter and artsy. But what they have in common is their love for each other and their home. The family lives in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which is attacked by the Russians on February 24th, 2022. The attack separates the...
    By Marsha Skrypuch
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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.