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...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayDaughters 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...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayBrigid
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...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe 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...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayFamiliaris
'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...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe 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...Paperback$2400Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe 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...Paperback$1899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayHarper 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...Paperback$1899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayI Survived The Dust Bowl, 1935 (I Survived #25)
The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was the worst environmental disaster in American history, a time when ‘black blizzards’ of dust, some hundreds of miles wide, swept across the southern plains. Hundreds of people were killed. Thousands of farms were buried. Millions of refugees fled starvation and sickness in the plains only to face hatred and prejudice in California. In...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Violin Maker’s Secret
The brand new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop! 🎻🎻🎻 On any given day, there are thousands of items slowly gathering dust in the Lost and Found of Heathrow Airport. Unknown to anyone, hidden among the clutter, is a very special object that can change the fortunes of those who possess it – a violin...Paperback$2799Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayHurricane Katrina
Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when his little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept off by the...Paperback$1800Elsewhere:$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe 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...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayFireflies 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...Paperback$3099Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayGreat 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...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayLe 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...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe 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',...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Ladies of Grace Adieu
Faerie is never as far away as you think. Sometimes you find you have crossed an invisible line and must cope, as best you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates, or with endless paths in deep, dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice. The heroines and heroes bedevilled...Paperback$2899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe 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...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThree Sisters
'I want you to make a promise to me that you will always take care of your sisters. That you will always be there for one another. That you will not allow anyone to take you away from each other, ever. Do you understand?' When they are little girls, Cibi, Magda and Livia make a promise to their father—that they...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayHomecoming
Morton is such a clever writer, crafting a rich, absorbing and complex story. The Advertiser Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayCrossfire
Wilbur Smith returns to his legendary Courtney Series with a brand new race against time World War II thriller. 1943. The tide of the Second World War is turning. The Russian victory at Stalingrad—the bloodiest battle in history—has opened the door for the Allies. Now, they must strike decisively at the heart of Hitler's Reich. But military success cannot be...Hardback$1999Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayCover Her Face
St Cedd's Church fete has been held in the grounds of Martingale manor house for generations. As if organising stalls, as well as presiding over luncheon, the bishop and the tea tent, were not enough for Mrs Maxie on that mellow July afternoon, she also has to contend with the news of her son's sudden engagement to her new parlour...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayHow to Lose a Lord in Ten Days
Sophie Irwin is an exciting and original voice. She's a must-buy author for me – Taylor Jenkins Reid I simply couldn't put this book down. Joyous, hilarious and full of sparkling enemies-to-lovers tension, it has everything you could want in a regency romcom – Beth O’Leary, The Flat Share From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a delicious new romance…...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Red Poppy (Book & CD)
Five minutes ... Two minutes ... Young soldier Jim McLeod waits in the trenches of World War I for the order to attack the enemy. With him are his friends and Nipper, the messenger dog. When they charge across no-man’s land, Jim is shot ... and finds himself face-to-face with an enemy soldier. A sensitively-written war story that shows the...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Boy Who Didn't Want to Die: A Graphic Memoir
Peter, a boy of five, makes an extraordinary journey through war-torn Europe, travelling with his parents from a small Hungarian town, through Austria and on to Germany. Along the way, unforgettable images of adventure flash one after another: sleeping in a tent and then under the night sky, discovering a disused brick factory, catching butterflies in the meadows. Before Peter...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayKatipo Joe: Blitzkrieg
Young Joe is living in pre-World War II Berlin, with his British father and NZ mother, attending school and witnessing the excitement of his friends who are enthusiastically joining the Hitler Youth Movement. Joe feels uncomfortable with the growing mistreatment of local Jews, and after the arrest of his father as a spy, he is forced to escape from Berlin...Paperback$1999Elsewhere:$2199Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayKATIPO JOE
"I have been accused of whitewashing the Nazi leadership in my memoirs. Some people say I make them seem human. But therein lies the problem. I saw these men up close. They were human. If we think of them only as monsters and demons we may lose sight of the fact that they were very much like you and I....Paperback$1999Elsewhere:$2199Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayI Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 (The Graphic Novel)
A deadly and strange disaster... It's been four years since Carmen and Papa moved from Italy to Boston. Life here is exciting, but not always easy. And then there's the massive metal tank that rises up over their crowded North End neighbourhood. The ugly tank, filled with sticky brown molasses, has always leaked. But nobody imagined that it could one...Paperback$1800Elsewhere:$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayFinding Alfie: A D-Day Story
Young Michael Morpurgo always loved the small painting of a boat hanging on Aunty Iris’s wall. But all she would ever say about it was that her beloved Alfie had painted it and given it to her years ago—before he’d left for France during World War II and had never come back. Michael decides to try and find out what...Hardback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Silver Book
At once a queer love story and a noirish thriller, set in the dream factory of cinema, The Silver Book is a fictional account of real things, and an investigation into the difficult relationship between artifice and truth, illusion and reality, love and power. 'It is dangerous to want someone this much. He has always known it, from the very...Paperback$3100Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Samurai Detectives: Volume 1
Shogun meets Sherlock Holmes! Over 24 million copies have been sold of this beloved samurai adventure. It has been half a year since Akiyama Daijiro became a samurai; half a year since he left his father Kohei - the wisest swordsman in the land - to set up his own blade school by the cool of the river. Ever since,...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayA Winter's Day in 1939
Sometimes your only weapon is the will to survive... Taken from their home, forced to leave their country, put to work in labour camps, frozen and starved, Adam and his family doubt that they will ever make it out alive. Even if they were to get away, they might freeze to death, or starve, or the bears might get them....Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe House of Silk
'Horowitz has captured Holmes Heaven' THE TIMES The House of Silk was the first official new Sherlock Holmes mystery and a SUNDAY TIMES bestseller from the author of Magpie Murders. THE GAME'S AFOOT . . . It is November 1890 and London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayGreeking Out: Heroes and Olympians (Disney: National Geographic Kids)
Want to know the greatest feats and the funniest secrets of the gods and heroes of Greek mythology? You're in the right place. Told in the hilarious, kid-friendly voice that's sent the Greeking Out podcast to the top of the charts, these stories of heroic victories, perilous adventures, and plain old mischief are sure to delight kids and adults alike....Hardback$1799Elsewhere:$1899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayChildren of the Rush: Book 2
All is well in Gabriel’s Gully, the ramshackle gold rush town. But not for long. Michael and Atarangi have become firm friends with Siu, a Chinese miner’s daughter who came to the schoolhouse to learn. But when bad news from the coast draws their parents away, things take a shocking turn. Disaster strikes, and sinister faces from the past reappear....Paperback$2100Elsewhere:$2200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayAnimal Magic: Four Stories of the Great Outdoors
Four wonderful stories from the world of nature written by master storyteller, Michael Morpurgo. You have to breathe the world in deep, and all its creatures too ... become part of it. Immerse yourself in the great outdoors and travel around the country in these four heart-warming modern fables. Join Michael, who spots a whale on the shores of the...Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Bell and the Blade
The Bell and the Blade: An Epic of Love and WarIn the heart of war, love is the deadliest weapon. It’s 1944. The world is at war, and forces of evil hold Europe in their grasp. After a mysterious massacre at sea, a ragtag alliance forms in occupied Belgium. A handful of Allied soldiers band together with a fearless group...Paperback$3100Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayI Killed the King
One of Us Is Lying meets Knives Out – with beasts, murder, and magic – in this first book in a thrilling locked-room whodunnit YA fantasy duology by Andrea Hannah and New York Times bestseller Rebecca Mix. After a decade of war, the kingdoms of Avendell and Istellia have finally agreed to peace. As nobles and magic wielders from both...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayBefore Dorothy
The greatest journey is the one you least expect… Long before Dorothy visits Oz, her aunt, Emily Gale, sets off on her own unforgettable adventure much closer to home… When news reaches Kansas that her beloved sister has tragically died, Emily Gale must become a mother overnight. Her sister’s orphaned child, Dorothy, desperately needs a home. But Emily doubts her...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayForever and a Duke
A duke meets his match in the last place he'd ever expect in this charming Regency romance by the New York Times bestselling author of My One and Only Duke. Wrexham, Duke of Elsmore, is overrun by family obligations. With three sisters to escort about Town, a legion of cousins to look after, and aunties who insist he dance with...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Night is Not For You
The Night is Not For You . . . It Has Always Belonged to HER She's a cautionary tale told by mothers to their young children, 'Come back before it gets dark.' She's a warning to lecherous young men, 'Don't wander the streets late at night.' A man's body is found viciously murdered behind a neighbourhood's 24-hour corner store, sending...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayMurder on North Terrace: A Petticoat Police Mystery
The indomitable Miss Cocks and Ethel Bromley return for Book Two in the bestselling and charmingly cosy Petticoat Police Mystery Series, inspired by one of Australia's first policewomen. Adelaide, September 1917. Six months after solving the Dora Black case, Kate Cocks and Ethel Bromley are back walking the beat. The city is unsettled. Winter won't leave. Soldiers are returning from...Paperback$3100Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayA New Chapter at the Little Penguin Bookshop
A captivating story about the power of Penguin books and how they brought people together during World War II, written by a former Archers scriptwriter. New stories are being written at The Little Penguin Bookshop... Carrie Anderson's business selling books at her local train station is thriving, and with her beloved Mike returned from war, everything feels as though it...Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Silence of Scheherazade
September 1905. At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the ancient city of Smyrna, Scheherazade is born to an opium-dazed mother. At the very same moment, an Indian spy sails into the golden-hued, sycamore-scented city with a secret mission from the British Empire. When he leaves, 17 years later, it will be to the smell of kerosene and smoke...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Marriage Portrait
I thought I had made myself clear. I want something that conveys her majesty, her bloodline. Do you understand? She is no ordinary mortal. Treat her thus. Florence, the 1560s. Lucrezia, third daughter of Cosimo de' Medici, is free to wander the palazzo at will, wondering at its treasures and observing its clandestine workings. But when her older sister dies...Paperback$2899Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Arabian Nights (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
The Arabian Nights is your magic carpet ride to exotic lands full of wonders and marvels. First collected nearly a thousand years ago, these folktales are presented as stories that crafty Scheherazade tells her husband, King Shahryar, over a thousand-and-one consecutive nights, to pique his interest for the next evening's entertainment and thereby save her life. Among them are some...Hardback$6000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayA Brightness Long Ago
'The greatest living author of epic fantasy' - Brandon Sanderson 'The finest in his field' - Tor.com Guy Gavriel Kay's A Brightness Long Ago is a masterpiece; perhaps the finest work of one of the world's greatest living storytellers' - Fantasy Book Review One of Goodreads' Most Anticipated SFF Books of 2019 Internationally bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay's latest work...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Boy and the Spy
Life has never been easy for Antonio, but since the war began, there are German soldiers on every corner, fearsome gangsters and the fascist police everywhere, and no one ever has enough to eat. But when Antonio decides to trust a man who has literally fallen from the sky, he leaps into an adventure that will change his life and...Paperback$2100Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayDeath of a Foreign Gentleman
From award-winning writer Steven Carroll comes the first book in a series of post-war literary crime novels featuring Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter. Cambridge, UK, 1947. Martin Friedrich, a German philosopher, is cycling through an intersection on his way to give a lecture when a speeding car strikes and kills him. Shortly afterwards, Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter, an Austrian-born cockney Jew...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Remembered Soldier
An extraordinary love story and a captivating novel about the power of memory and imagination. Flanders 1922. After serving as a soldier in the Great War, Noon Merckem has lost his memory and lives in a psychiatric asylum. Countless women, responding to a newspaper ad, visit him there in the hope of finding their spouse who vanished in battle. One...Paperback$3700Elsewhere:$4600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Experience of Pain
The first novel from one of Italy's most innovative writers of the 20th century. 'The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are what Gadda wants to depict.' – Italo Calvino At the height of Fascist rule in Italy, and following the death of his mother, Carlo Emilio Gadda began work on his...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todaySong of the Huntress
A beguiling blend of Dark Ages history, strong heroines, and magic . . . Captivating - DAILY MAIL Lucy Holland, the bestselling author of Sistersong, transforms the story of Herla and the Wild Hunt into a rich, feminist fantasy in this stunning tale of two great warriors, a war-torn land, and an ancient magic that is slowly awakening. Britain, 60...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayDamned
For a former English maid, the stakes have never been higher... Damned is the final book in the Scarlet Revolution series, a spellbinding adventure of magic, vampires, and mayhem from the bestselling author of the Invisible Library series. 1794. Eleanor, a former English maid, is a member of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel - and now a promising mage....Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayCatching the Current
A terrific historical novel full of compelling events, vivid communities and the irresistible character of Conrad Rasmussen. Catching the Current is a companion novel to the bestselling Denniston novels, where the free spirit is pitted against the forces of tradition. On the run from an unfortunate 'indiscretion', young Conrad Rasmussen finds refuge in the North Island of New Zealand under...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayAMITY
The highly anticipated second novel from the author of the Booker-longlisted The Sweetness of Water Amity is deeply adventurous and astonishingly beautiful' — Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets 'A writer of great lyricism and power' — i paper 'Harris will win over the hearts of many readers' — Financial Times 'Masterful' — Oprah Winfrey Louisiana, 1869. The Civil...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayTangled Roots
An old soldier carves a croft out of the Finnish forest and calls it home, but try as he might to tame the land, its wild magic endures. For centuries his descendants will work the farm, through days of plenty and famine, love and war, their fates entangled with the rhythms of the ancient wilderness, where mysterious shapes flit between...Hardback$4100Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Treasures
The beginning of a gorgeous new family trilogy, a story of their love, life, and home, of their beginning and their ending, over fifty years and three generations. Every family has a story to tell. Alice and Tom's begins here... On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Alice Jansen collects her treasures—the keepsakes, figurines, and mementoes that help her make...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Paris Muse
‘Living with him was like living at the centre of the universe. It was electrifying and humbling, blissful and destructive, all at the same time.’ Paris, 1936. When Dora Maar, a talented French photographer, painter, and poet, is introduced to Pablo Picasso, she is instantly mesmerised. Drawn to his volcanic creativity, it isn’t long before she embarks on a passionate...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Book of Lost Hours
'Gelfuso seamlessly blends elements of romance and fantasy into the twisty quest narrative, and packs excitement into every page. It's a delight.' Publishers Weekly Nuremberg, 1938: Lisavet Levy's watchmaker father saves her from the Nazis by pushing her through a mysterious doorway. There, she discovers the time space—a vast, magical library where memories of the past are stored in books....Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayEssex Dogs
Don't miss Lion Hearts, the final heart-stopping novel in the Essex Dogs trilogy from bestselling historian Dan Jones - available to pre-order now. 'Draws you in page by page. The way Dan Jones writes enemies reminds me of Cornwell at his best.' Conn Iggulden Some men fight for glory.Others fight for coin.The Essex Dogs fight for each other. July 1346....Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Other Side of Paradise
For fans of Downton Abbey, Gosford Park and After the Party. Duty, scandal, and a mother’s desperate attempt to protect her sons from a secret that will destroy them. 'A breathtakingly good, heartbreaking and utterly absorbing story.' — Cressida Connolly, author of After the Party London 1921 – Jean Buckman, a young and innocent American heiress, arrives in England to...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todaySmoke in Berlin
Smoke in Berlin is a beautiful, atmospheric detective story set in Berlin during the Second World War. Oriana Ramunno's Hugo Fischer series is full of tension, drama and, ultimately, hope. Berlin, June 1944. Hugo Fischer is forced to work for the Nazi secret service, though he keeps his own dangerous secret from the Third Reich. Faced with a series of...Paperback$2800Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayUp All Night with a Good Duke
A new sparkling and sexy Regency romance series from award-winning author Amy Rose Bennett! "I can think of the perfect way to keep you occupied and your mind diverted," she murmured. "Come to my room. If you're not too tired..." Lust flashed in his gaze and then he caught her face between his hands and kissed her. "For you, my...Paperback$1900Elsewhere:$2100Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Widow of Ballarat
A compulsively readable story of passion, adventure and a woman's quest for independence set against the colourful backdrop of 19th century Bendigo and the goldfields of Ballarat. 1854, Ballarat, Victoria When Nell Amberton's husband is shot dead by a bushranger, there are few who grieve his passing, and Nell least of all. How could she miss the monster who had...Paperback$2100Elsewhere:$2299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Three Miss Allens
Three sisters, one secret and a question that stretches across generations... a compulsively readable historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author. How much of who we are is destiny and how much is chance? In 1934, the three Miss Allens - Ruby, Adeline, and Clara - arrive in the seaside town of Remarkable Bay for their annual summer holiday. It's...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Runaway Girls
A brand new novel from the beloved, bestselling children's author, Jacqueline Wilson! The must-have new Victorian novel from bestselling, much-loved children's author, Jacqueline Wilson. Victorian London, 1851. Queen Victoria is on the throne and the Great Exhibition is about to open! Lucy Locket lives with her father, the New Mother, and the New Baby. They sent away her beloved Nurse...Paperback$2100Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Island of Lost Horses
Two girls divided by time, united by their love for some very special horses – an epic Caribbean adventure! On a remote tropical island, twelve-year-old Beatriz is about to embark on an epic journey, through hurricanes and across the high seas and back to the time of Christopher Columbus. When Beatriz stumbles across a wild mare with strange markings in...Paperback$1799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Guardian of Lies
THE TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHOR Discover a brilliant story of love, danger, courage, and betrayal from the internationally bestselling author of The Survivors. 1953, the South of France. The fragile peace between the West and Soviet Russia hangs on a knife edge. And one family has been torn apart by secrets and conflicting allegiances. Eloïse Caussade is a courageous young...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Blitz Detective
Saturday 7th September, 1940. The sun is shining, and amidst the good weather, Londoners could be mistaken for forgetting their country is at war—until the familiar wail of the air-raid sirens heralds an enemy attack. The Blitz has started, and normal life has abruptly ended—but crime has not. That night, a man's body is discovered in an unmarked van in...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayOrphia And Eurydicius
The stunning, gender-flipped novel about love, creativity, and the power of speaking out - perfect for fans of Madeline Miller and Pat Barker. 'Poetic and evocative ... this story will thrill readers' PIP WILLIAMS, bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words Their love transcends every boundary. Can it cheat death? Orphia dreams of something more than the warrior crafts...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Last Assignment
From bestselling author Erika Robuck comes the perilous and awe-inspiring true story of award-winning photojournalist Dickey Chapelle as she risks everything to show the American people the price of war through the lens of her camera. Manhattan, 1956. Since her arrest for disobeying orders and going ashore at Iwo Jima almost a decade earlier, combat correspondent Georgette "Dickey" Chapelle has...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayCharlotte
Everybody believes that Charlotte Lucas has no prospects. She is unmarried, plain, poor and reaching a dangerous age. When she stuns the neighbourhood by accepting the proposal of buffoonish clergyman Mr Collins, her best friend Lizzy Bennet is appalled by her decision. Yet this is the only way Charlotte knows how to provide for her future. Her married life will...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Quick and the Dead
Vividly told, with powerfully drawn characters, this tale of obsession and betrayal set in the dark world of Tudor alchemy will cast its spell over historical fiction fans. Heat It is 1597 and Kit Skevy and Mariner Elgin have just robbed the wrong grave. They are young criminals in the pocket of a gang Lord named Will Twentyman, the Grave...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayDeath Under a Little Sky
The stunningly written, atmospheric new debut crime thriller you won’t want to miss! Winner of the 2024 CrimeFest Debut Crime Novel of the Year! A detective ready for a new life Jake Jackson, high-flying ex-city detective, inherits a rural retreat from his reclusive uncle. It’s the perfect chance to start anew. A death that disrupts everything But then the local...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayGenerals Die in Bed: War Popular Penguins
Drawing on his experiences in the First World War, Charles Yale Harrison tells a stark and poignant story of a young man sent to fight on the Western Front. It is an unimaginably harrowing journey, especially for one not yet old enough to vote. In sparse but gripping prose, Harrison conveys a sense of the horrors of life in the...Paperback$1599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayUnbroken
The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. The International Number One Bestseller In 1943, a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Against all odds, one young lieutenant survives. Louis Zamperini had already transformed himself from child delinquent to prodigious athlete, running in the Berlin Olympics. Now, he must embark on one...Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayTreason’s Harbour
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets to coincide with a new film based on the adventures and to introduce these modern classics to a new generation. Uniquely among authors of naval fiction, Patrick O'Brian allows...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Sun Walks Down
In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the whole town is intent on finding him. As they search the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Fairly—newlyweds, landowners, farmers, mothers, artists, Indigenous trackers, cameleers, children, schoolteachers, widows, maids, policemen—explore...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Perfect Wife
An outrageous series of mishaps seems to get in the way of true love in this classic historical romance from New York Times and USA Today bestseller Lynsay Sands! Avelyn's betrothed has just returned from the Crusades and has come to claim her as his bride. She hopes he’s partial to cherries, for Avelyn fears she very much resembles one....Paperback$1799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today