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  • Sisters of the Resistance
    One of PopSugar's Best Books of June! Two sisters join the Paris Resistance in this page-turning new novel inspired by the real-life bravery of Catherine Dior, sister of the fashion designer and a heroine of World War II France—perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Jennifer Chiaverini. "As dazzling as a Dior gown! With a gorgeous blend of fashion, heartbreak,...
    By Christine Wells
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  • Golden Lion
    In this epic African adventure, Wilbur Smith returns to his longest running series—and the very beginnings of the Courtney family saga in the late seventeenth century—with co-author Giles Kristian. Henry 'Hal' Courtney has always lived at sea. He watched his own father executed during the Anglo-Dutch naval war, and spent his entire young adulthood avenging his father's death. Now a...
    By Wilbur Smith
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  • A Room Made of Leaves
    Kate Grenville's latest bestselling novel, now in a smaller format and featuring a beautiful updated cover design. What if Elizabeth Macarthur—wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney—had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously found and published it? Marriage to a ruthless bully, the impulses of...
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  • An Almond for a Parrot
    Shades of Sarah Waters… irresistible – The Guardian ‘I would like to make myself the heroine of this story – an innocent victim led astray. But alas sir, I would be lying…’ London, 1756: In Newgate prison, Tully Truegood awaits trial. Her fate hanging in the balance, she tells her life-story. It’s a tale that takes her from skivvy in...
    By Sally Gardner
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  • The White Lady
    1947. Elinor White, known locally as the White Lady, is living a solitary, quiet life in a grace-and-favour cottage in the Kent countryside. Unbeknownst to her neighbours, she is the veteran of two world wars, a trained killer and former intelligence agent. Yet Elinor's private and seemingly tranquil existence conceals a past trauma that comes to the fore when she...
    By Jacqueline Winspear
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  • The MANIAC
    From the author of When We Cease to Understand the World: a thrilling, kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and AI 'Monstrously good... Reads like a dark foundation myth about modern technology but told with the pace of a thriller' Mark Haddon In a scintillating mix of fact and fiction, The MANIAC tells of...
    By Benjamín Labatut
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  • The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
    Jane Austen revolutionised the literary romance, using it as a platform from which to address issues of gender politics and class consciousness among the British middle-class of the late eighteenth century. The novels included in this collection from the elegant Knickerbocker Classics series - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan -...
    By Jane Austen
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  • Small Things Like These
    'A single one of Keegan's grounded, powerful sentences can contain volumes of social history. Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' - Hilary Mantel 'This is a tale of courage and compassion, of good sons and vulnerable young mothers. Absolutely beautiful.' - Douglas Stuart 'Marvellous - exact and icy...
    By Claire Keegan
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  • Private Peaceful
    Heroism or cowardice? A stunning story of the First World War from a master storyteller. ‘Full of warmth as well as grief, conveying vividly how precious it is to be alive’ Sunday Times. As young Thomas Peaceful looks back over his childhood from the battlefields of the First World War, his memories are full of family life deep in the...
    By Michael Morpurgo
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  • Death of Kings
    A brand new companion to the Last Kingdom series, Uhtred’s Feast, is available to pre-order now The sixth novel in Bernard Cornwell’s epic and bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world. Alfred, the great king, is said to be dying. Rivals...
    By Bernard Cornwell
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  • A Terrible Kindness
    Tonight nineteen-year-old William Lavery is dressed for success, his first black-tie do. It's the Midlands Chapter of the Institute of Embalmers Ladies' Night Dinner Dance, and William is taking Gloria in her sequined evening gown. He can barely believe his luck. But as the guests sip their drinks and smoke their post-dinner cigarettes, a telegram delivers news of a tragedy....
    By Jo Browning Wroe
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  • A Sunlit Weapon
    October 1942. Jo Hardy, an Air Transport Auxiliary ferry pilot, is delivering a Spitfire to Biggin Hill Aerodrome when she has the terrifying experience of coming under fire from the ground. In a bid to find out who was trying to take down her aircraft, she returns on foot to the area and discovers an African American soldier bound and...
    By Jacqueline Winspear
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  • The Last Of The Bonegilla Girls
    For readers of The Woolgrower's Companion and The Three Miss Allens... Their friendship transcends nationality and background, but can it overcome the horrors of the past? A post-Second World War story of strong female ties and family, secrets and lies, set in the multicultural Australia of the fifties. Can the Bonegilla girls defeat their past? Or will it come to...
    By Victoria Purman
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  • Ashes in the Snow
    A beautiful, moving detective story set in Auschwitz in the Christmas of 1943. A young Jewish prisoner…Auschwitz, 1943. It’s snowing outside and Block 10 looks even bleaker than usual. Gioele Errera, a young Jewish boy imprisoned in the camp, finds the body of an SS officer. A detective with everything to prove…Hugo Fischer is sent to investigate the unexplained death...
    By Oriana Ramunno
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  • We Are Wolves
    The powerful novel from award-winning Australian writer Katrina Nannestad. Shortlisted in the 2021 CBCA Book of the Year Awards. Winner of the 2021 Australian Book Design Awards. Longlisted in the 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards. Sometimes it's good to be wild. Sometimes you have to be wild. When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the...
    By Katrina Nannestad
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  • The Teacher of Warsaw
    "I want everyone I know to read this book." --Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say For fans of The Warsaw Orphan and The Tattooist of Auschwitz. The start of WWII changed everything in Poland irrevocably—except for one man's capacity to love. September 1, 1939: Sixty-year-old Janusz Korczak and the students and teachers at...
    By Mario Escobar
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  • The Silence In Between
    Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your new-born baby and there is now no way of getting to him... For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and Alone in Berlin, a stunning historical debut. The gripping historical debut about a family separated by the Berlin...
    By Josie Ferguson
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  • The Paris Notebook
    ‘Gripping, compelling and beautiful.’ Emma Cowell, author of The House in the Olive Grove A secret big enough to destroy the Führer’s reputation. . . January 1939: When Katja Heinz secures a job as a typist at Doctor Viktor’s clinic, she doesn’t expect to be copying top secret medical records from a notebook. At the end of the First World...
    By Tessa Harris
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  • The Commodore
    Fantastic new B format package for the entire Hornblower series 1812 and the fate of Europe lies in the hands of newly appointed Commodore Hornblower... Dispatched to northern waters to protect Britain's Baltic interests, Horatio Hornblower must halt the advance of Napoleon's empire into Sweden and Russia. But first he must battle the terrible Baltic weather—fog, snow and icebound waterways;...
    By C.S. Forester
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  • The Blood Tide
    ‘Think Jack Reacher fronting Line of Duty’ Ian Rankin You get away with murder.In a remote sea loch on the west coast of Scotland, a fisherman vanishes without trace. His remains are never found. You make people disappear.A young man jumps from a bridge in Glasgow and falls to his death in the water below. DS Max Craigie uncovers evidence...
    By Neil Lancaster
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  • Runaway Horses
    The second novel in Mishima's masterful Sea of Fertility tetralogy. Runaway Horses is the second book in Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy. It is a story of political violence, traditional samurai values, and nihilism. Isao is a young, engaging patriot and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the new industrialists,...
    By Yukio Mishima
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  • Pony
    The highly anticipated, unforgettable new story from the internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning author of Wonder. When Silas Bird wakes in the dead of night, he watches powerlessly as three strangers take his father away. Silas is left shaken, scared, and alone, except for the presence of his companion, Mittenwool, who happens to be a ghost. But then a mysterious pony shows...
    By R. J. Palacio
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  • Hornblower and the Crisis
    Fantastic new B format package for the entire Hornblower series. The final Horatio Hornblower story tells of Napoleon's plans to invade England... Set in 1805, Hornblower and the Crisis finds Horatio Hornblower in possession of confidential dispatches from Bonaparte after a vicious hand-to-hand encounter with a French brig. The admiralty rewards Hornblower by sending him on a dangerous espionage mission...
    By C.S. Forester
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  • Great Goddesses
    Beautifully illustrated feminist retellings of the great mythical goddesses. Empowering life lessons from myths and monsters. Wonder at Medusa's potent venom, Circe's fierce sorcery and Athena rising up over Olympus, as Nikita Gill majestically explores the untold stories of the life bringers, warriors, creators, survivors and destroyers that shook the world - the great Greek Goddesses. Vividly re-imagined and beautifully...
    By Nikita Gill
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  • The Queen’s Fool
    A stunning novel set in the Tudor court, as the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half-sister Elizabeth is played out against a background of betrayal, conflict, and passion. The savage rivalry of the daughters of Henry VIII, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth, mirrors that of their mothers, Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. Each will fight by any available means...
    By Philippa Gregory
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  • The Indian in the Cupboard
    Essential Modern Classics are relaunched in gorgeous new covers, bringing these timeless stories to a new generation. For Omri, it is a dream come true when the plastic American Indian he locks into the old cupboard comes to life. Little Bull is everything an Indian brave should be – proud, fearless, and defiant. But being in charge of a real,...
    By Lynne Reid Banks
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  • The Girl With the Make-Believe Husband
    New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn presents the second 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... While you were sleeping... With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia...
    By Julia Quinn
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  • The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris
    From an exciting new voice in WWII historical fiction comes a tale of love, loss and a betrayal that echoes through generations… Paris, 1940: War is closing in on the city of love. With his wife forced into hiding, Jacques must stand by and watch as the Nazis take away everything he holds dear. Everything except his last beacon of...
    By Daisy Wood
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  • The Distant Echo
    The first novel in the bestselling Karen Pirie series. The award-winning Number One bestseller and Queen of crime fiction, Val McDermid, carves out a stunning psychological thriller. The past is behind them, but what’s still to come will tear them apart… From the creators of Line of Duty and Bodyguard, the series KAREN PIRIE is now on ITV, starring Lauren...
    By Val McDermid
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  • Pandora
    The debut breakout sensation of the year - and instant number 1 bestseller - for fans of Jennifer Saint, Madeline Miller and Bridget Collins. THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE NEW VOICE IN HISTORICAL FICTION A pure pleasure of a novel set in Georgian London, where the discovery of a mysterious ancient Greek vase sets in motion conspiracies, revelations...
    By Susan Stokes-Chapman
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  • Mr Midshipman Hornblower
    Hornblower is Hamlet in command of a battleship - New York Times 1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command. As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's navy. Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship...
    By C.S. Forester
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  • Lieutenant Hornblower
    Fantastic new B format package for the entire Hornblower series. The nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower faces the fury of the French and Spanish fleets combined. Amidst the hissing of wet wads, the stifling heat of white-hot cannonshot and the clamour of a mutinous crew, new Lieutenant Hornblower will need all of his seafaring...
    By C.S. Forester
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  • All Quiet on the Western Front
    Vintage Quarterbound Classics - Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of the most famous anti-war novel ever written, translated by Brian Murdoch. 'A necessary, shattering read' - Irish Times In 1914, a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of...
    By Erich Maria Remarque
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  • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
    HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ’I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two’ A London lawyer is drawn into a series of strange occurrences concerning his old friend Henry Jekyll and the...
    By Robert Louis Stevenson
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  • The Happy Return
    Fantastic new B format package for the entire Hornblower series! June, 1808 - off the Coast of Nicaragua, Captain Horatio Hornblower has his hands full... Now in command of HMS Lydia, a thirty-six-gun frigate, Hornblower has instructions to form an alliance against the Spanish colonies with a mad and messianic revolutionary, El Supremo; to find a water route across the...
    By C.S. Forester
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  • Paradise
    Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison, is one of the finest novelists of our times. Four young women are brutally attacked near an all-black town in rural Oklahoma. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, and the counter-culture of the...
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  • Over My Dead Body
    The gripping new instalment in the William Warwick series, An Eye for an Eye, is available to pre-order now! An unputdownable story of murder, revenge and betrayal from international number one bestseller Jeffrey Archer. THE CLOCK IS TICKING IN THIS ROLLERCOASTER RIDE OF A THRILLER… In London, the Metropolitan Police set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit – a cold...
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  • McGlue
    Man Booker Shortlisted Ottessa Moshfegh's blistering first novel - "A wonderwork of virtuoso prose and truths that will make you squirm and concur" Gary Lutz. Discover the blistering first novella from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxation. They said I've done something wrong?... And they've just left me down here to starve. Haven't had...
    By Ottessa Moshfegh
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  • Brideshead Revisited
    Waugh's great novel of the lost golden age before the Second World War, new to the Penguin English Library. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the years before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted...
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  • The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy
    Sir Richard Kenworthy has less than a month to find a bride. He knows he can’t be too picky, but when he sees Iris Smythe-Smith hiding behind her cello at her family’s infamous musicale, he thinks he might have struck gold. She’s the type of girl you don’t notice until the second—or third—look, but there’s something about her, something simmering...
    By Julia Quinn
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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 seeks to claim the crown for themselves. While they squabble and spoil...
    By Bernard Cornwell
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  • The Hundred Days
    'If we had only two or three of O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series, we would count ourselves lucky; with six or seven the author would be safely among the greats of historical fiction. But this is his nineteenth volume!' WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE, Literary Review Following the extraordinary success of The Yellow Admiral, this latest Aubrey-Maturin novel brings alive the sights and sounds of...
    By Patrick O’Brian
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  • The Gates of Athens
    Two and a half thousand years ago, the Greeks and the Persians fought an epic battle to decide the future of our world. This is their story. 490 B.C. Two great empires are about to go to war... The momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as rival powers and political systems will last for twenty-seven years (431 to 404 BC)....
    By Conn Iggulden
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  • Sharpe’s Devil
    SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now. Richard Sharpe, asked to help an old friend, meets, at last, the greatest enemy. Five years after the Battle of Waterloo, Sharpe’s peaceful retirement in Normandy is shattered. An old friend, Don Blas Vivar, is missing in Chile, reported dead at rebel hands –...
    By Bernard Cornwell
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  • Lords of the Bow
    The action-packed second novel in the No. 1 bestselling Conqueror series, bringing the epic story of Genghis Khan brilliantly to life. The gathering of the tribes of the Mongols has been a long time in coming, but finally, triumphantly, Temujin of the Wolves, Genghis Khan, is given the full accolade of the overall leader and their oaths. Now he can...
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  • Empire
    Discover the rise and fall of the world's greatest empire in the stunning second novel in the THE GOLDEN AGE series, from the nation's finest historical novelist. Pericles returns to Athens as its leader — the empire's beacon of light in the dark. But the threat of Sparta — Athens's legendary rival — looms large on the horizon. When a...
    By Conn Iggulden
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  • Beowulf
    The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926. He returned to it later to make hasty corrections but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the poem by the translator himself, in the written form...
    By J. R. R. Tolkien
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  • The Pearl Thief
    The thrilling new blockbuster by the bestselling author of The Tea Gardens. Severine Kassel is asked by the Louvre in 1963 to aid the British Museum with curating its antique jewellery, her specialty. Her London colleagues find her distant and mysterious, her cool beauty the topic of conversations around its quiet halls. No one could imagine that she is a...
    By Fiona McIntosh
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  • The Legion (Eagles of the Empire 10)
    When the actions of a rebel gladiator in Egypt threaten the stability of the Roman Empire, Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro know he must be stopped. The locals are holding the Romans responsible for the attacks Ajax and his crew have been making along the coast, and now Egypt is dangerously volatile. Tasked with tracking and defeating the renegade, Cato...
    By Simon Scarrow
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  • The Fields of Death (Wellington and Napoleon 4)
    The Fields of Death is the epic final novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Wellington and Napoleon Quartet. Essential reading for fans of Bernard Cornwell. 1809. Viscount Wellington and Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte have made their mark as military commanders. Lifelong enemies, they both believe their armies are strong enough to destroy any rival. But in war, victory can never be certain....
    By Simon Scarrow
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  • The Chocolate Tin
    The sensuous blockbuster novel by the beloved, bestselling author of The Pearl Thief. MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Impossible to put down' – BETTER READING 'A sweeping wartime romantic thriller' – HERALD SUN Alexandra Frobisher dreams of a career in England's famous chocolate-making town of York. She has received several proposals of marriage, although none of them promises that elusive extra...
    By Fiona McIntosh
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  • Praetorian (Eagles of the Empire 11)
    The thrilling Roman adventure from the author of The Legion and The Gladiator. The city of Rome in AD 50 is a dangerous place. Treachery lurks on every corner, and a shadowy Republican movement, 'the Liberators', has spread its tentacles wide. It is feared that the heart of the latest plot lies in the ranks of the Praetorian Guard. Uncertain...
    By Simon Scarrow
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  • Hidden in Plain Sight
    Hidden in Plain Sight is the second brilliant and captivating novel featuring William Warwick by the master storyteller and bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer. Do you want the good news or the bad? William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion has meant reassignment, along with the rest of his team, to the Drugs...
    By Jeffrey Archer
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  • MIDSUMMER MYSTERIES: Secrets and Suspense from the Queen of Crime
    An all-new collection of summer-themed mysteries from the master of the genre, just in time for the holiday season. Summertime – as the temperature rises, so does the potential for evil. From Cornwall to the French Riviera, whether against a background of Delphic temples or English country houses, Agatha Christie’s most famous characters solve even the most devilish of conundrums...
    By Agatha Christie
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  • This Other Eden
    A testament of love . . . so real it could make you weep - NEW YORK TIMES Masterful . . . has much to say to our times - Guardian Begs to be read - Spectator A luminous, thought-provoking novel - Esi Edugyan, author of Washington Black In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover...
    By Paul Harding
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  • All Quiet on the Western Front
    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. All Quiet on the Western Front is probably the most famous anti-war novel ever written. The story is told by a...
    By Erich Maria Remarque
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  • Kit McBride Gets a Wife
    Kit McBride Gets a Wife is a story of a rugged, bookish cowboy named Kit McBride who is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime when he’s saddled with a surprise mail-order bride. This hilarious historical romance is perfect for fans of Bridgerton and Calamity Jane. Kit McBride knows that Buck’s Creek, Montana, is no place to find...
    By Amy Barry
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  • Song of a Blackbird
    'So heart-rending and familiar, and so brilliantly, unforgettably different.' - Morris Gleitzman, bestselling author of Once Emma is a young student about to be drawn into what will become the biggest bank heist in European history: swapping 50 million guilders' worth of forged treasury bonds for real ones—right under the noses of the Nazis. Emma's life—and the lives of thousands,...
    By Maria van Lieshout
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  • The Order of the Day
    Winner of the 2017 Prix Goncourt Éric Vuillard's gripping novel The Order of the Day tells the story of the pivotal meetings which took place between the European powers in the run-up to World War Two. What emerges is a fascinating and incredibly moving account of failed diplomacy, broken relationships, and the catastrophic momentum which led to conflict. The titans...
    By Eric Vuillard
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  • King of the Cloud Forests
    A heart-racing tale of courage, loss, friendship, and family from the nation’s favourite storyteller, Michael Morpurgo. Escaping from China as the Japanese invade, Ashley and Uncle Sung embark on a perilous journey across the Himalayas. When battling the hostile environments of the mountains, and finding himself alone in an unfamiliar world, Ashley’s courage is put to the test. A mysterious...
    By Michael Morpurgo
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  • The Great Deceiver
    The seventh gripping volume in The Brighton Mysteries series by bestselling author Elly Griffiths. It starts with a magician and a murder in a Brighton boarding house; throw in a show on Brighton pier, a sinister radio personality, and a potential serial killer, and you've got the next gripping book in The Brighton Mysteries series. Magician Max Mephisto, now divorced...
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  • Wolf Road
    Discover the history of our lifetime through the adventure of a girl and her wolf, in the bestselling children's novel from Digging for Britain presenter, Professor Alice Roberts. Selected as Waterstones Children's Book of the Month and The Times Children's Book of the Week. 'A fine storyteller' Philip Pullman ‘This lost world is beautifully rendered, so rich in detail you...
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  • The Last Soldier of Nava
    In this Korean mythology inspired sapphic fantasy, a young woman with shadow magic is awakened after a thousand years to heal her nation and her own troubled memory, even as she falls for the sister of a saint she killed in her past life. Yejin Suh weaves together Korean mythology and sweeping fantasy with vibrant creativity, Sophie Kim, No.1 Sunday...
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  • The Woman in the Wood
    The enthralling new novel from the 10-million-copy, Number One bestselling author. Fifteen-year-old Maisy Mitcham and her twin brother Duncan lose their mother to an asylum one night in 1960. The twins are sent to their grandmother's country house, Nightingales. Cold and distant, she leaves them to their own devices, to explore and to grow. That is, until the day Duncan...
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  • Liar
    A thrilling exploration of lies, deception and trust from the 10-million-copy, No. 1 bestselling author. Liar follows Amelia White, who always dreamed of being a reporter... And it might never have happened if she hadn't stumbled on a young woman's body. Horrified at the lies being spread about this murder victim, Amelia talks a newspaper editor into letting her tell...
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  • The Midnight Estate
    What an emotional journey, beautifully written and with an unforgettable setting . . . A stunning novel full of heart, hope and enduring love in all its forms. A heart-wrenching mystery to savour — AMANDA GEARD A haunting mystery of a family's darkest secrets from the worldwide bestselling Australian author In the aftermath of a tumultuous year, Fiona Winslow finds...
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  • The Magician of Tiger Castle
    The highly anticipated debut adult novel by Louis Sachar, the internationally bestselling author of children's fiction and author of classic novel, Holes. Is true love the greatest form of magic? Long ago, in a kingdom far away, the magician of tiger castle is on thin ice. Once the greatest in the land, Anatole's spells have dried up. He can't even...
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    One True Loves
    Soon to be a major motion picture starring Phillipa Soo, Simu Liu, and Luke Bracey, a moving love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who has finally brought her back to life. From the bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones &...
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  • Silver Linings
    A new heartwarming novel set in 1950s Australia from bestselling author Katrina Nannestad. Silver Linings follows Nettie Sweeney, who has a dad, three big sisters, a farm full of cows, and a cat called Mittens. But it's not enough. She longs for a mother—one with a gentle touch and sparkles in her eyes. Instead, she has Aunty Edith with slappy...
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  • Lady Maybe
    One final cry of terror, and suddenly her world shifted violently, until a blinding collision scattered her mind and shook her bones. Then, the pain. The freezing water. And as all sensation drifted away, a hand reached for hers before all faded into darkness. . . . In the midst of a fierce storm, a carriage carrying Sir John Mayfield,...
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  • The Diamond Horse
    A frozen palace and a sparkling secret – an epic Russian adventure awaits! Anna Orlov might be the luckiest girl in the world. She is the daughter of a Russian Count and lives in a beautiful snowbound palace that is home to a menagerie of wonderful animals: tigers, wolfhounds and, of course, horses. She is also the owner of a...
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  • Rex Dinosaur in Disguise: Museum Mystery
    Rex investigates funny goings-on in the city museum in his latest adventure. The third book in the side-splitting series for 7+ readers, from a Lollies Prize winning author-illustrator. Rex Dinosaur in Disguise: Museum Mystery sees Rex eagerly anticipating his first trip to the city museum. But, hold on, are those ... bones? Dinosaur bones?! It turns out that museums can...
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  • The Good Wife of Bath
    In the middle ages, a poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary classic. But what if the woman in question had a chance to tell her own version? Who would you believe? Brooks' mischievous retelling [of Chaucer's The Wife of Bath] dials up the feminist themes - and the fun - to 11. The...
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  • The Brewer's Tale
    It had been Mother's secret and mine, one passed down through the de Winter women for generations. I would ensure it was kept that way, until I was ready to pass it on. When Anneke Sheldrake is forced to find a way to support her family after her father is lost at sea, she turns to the business by which...
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  • A Single Thread
    FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING ‘Bittersweet … dazzling’ Guardian ‘Deeply pleasurable … the ending made me cry’ The Times ‘Told with a wealth of detail and narrative intensity’ - Penelope Lively A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier tells the story of Violet, who is 38 years old. The First World War has taken everything...
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  • Only the Brave
    Only the Brave is a heart-wrenching story of love, courage and hope set in wartime Berlin, from billion-copy bestseller Danielle Steel. In 1930s Berlin, dark days dawn under Hitler's Third Reich. For nineteen-year-old Sophia Alexander, life will never be the same. The daughter of a respected doctor, Sophia has always believed that her destiny is to look after others. As...
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  • Dance with the Fae
    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'An intoxicating blend of romance, mystery, and magic' 1919 May Day Kit Arton-Price should be celebrating. It's his engagement party and, unlike many young men of his generation, he survived The Great War. Whilst his fiancée, Adelaide, is dancing with one of their guests, the enigmatic Mr Wilde, the scars on Kit's face bear the heavy toll of battle...
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  • When Sleeping Women Wake
    An epic and emotional story of three spirited women - a mother, her daughter, their maid - during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. 1941. The wealthy Tang family has settled in Hong Kong after fleeing Shanghai. As the First Wife of the family, Mingzhu leads a glamorous but lonely existence - mothering the son of her husband's concubine, overseeing...
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  • The Stasi Game
    Dresden, East Germany, 1980 - A man's body is found buried in concrete at a building site in the new town district. When People's Police homicide captain Karin Müller arrives at the scene, she discovers that all of the body's identifiable features have been removed - including its fingertips. The deeper Müller digs, the more the Stasi begin to hamper...
    By David Young
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  • The Blooding of the Guns
    A young sailor with the weight of the world on his shoulders, a brother in the line of fire, and the greatest naval battle of all time... Jutland, 1916: In the icy waters of the North Sea, the Royal Navy awaits the challenge of the Kaiser's High Sea Fleet. Sub-lieutenant Nick Everard could never have imagined the terror he would...
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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.