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  • The 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...
    By David Hill
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  • The 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...
    By Peter Lantos
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  • Katipo 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...
    By Brian Falkner
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  • KATIPO 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....
    By Brian Falkner
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  • Finding 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...
    By Michael Morpurgo
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  • The 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...
    By Olivia Laing
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  • The 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,...
    By Shotaro Ikenami
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  • The Murder at World’s End
    From award-winning children's author Ross Montgomery comes the first in a gripping new crime series, where Downton Abbey meets Knives Out with a sprinkle of wickedness. Secrets, murder and mayhem collide as this unlikely sleuthing duo—an under-butler and a foul-mouthed octogenarian—hunt a killer in a manor sealed against the end of the world. Cornwall, 1910. On a remote tidal island,...
    By Ross Montgomery
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  • A 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....
    By Melinda Szymanik
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  • Clive Cussler’s Quantum Tempest
    Clive Cussler’s Quantum Tempest by Mike Maden features Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon in an explosive new instalment of the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Join Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew in the latest explosive thrill-ride from the grand master of adventure, Clive Cussler. Praise for Clive Cussler: The Adventure King - Sunday Express Cussler...
    By Mike Maden
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  • The 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...
    By Anthony Horowitz
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  • Animal 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...
    By Sir Michael Morpurgo
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  • Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix
    London, 1812. Oliver Bennet feels trapped. Not just by the endless corsets, petticoats, and skirts he's forced to wear on a daily basis, but also by society's expectations. The world—and the vast majority of his family and friends—think Oliver is a girl named Elizabeth. He finds solace in the few times he can sneak out and explore the city dressed...
    By Gabe Cole Novoa
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  • Dusk
    By Robbie Arnott
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  • The 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...
    By Paullina Simons
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  • Venetian Vespers
    FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW 'A marvellous and rewarding novelist . . . He is a magician, really.' THE SCOTSMAN 'Banville has a grim gift of seeing people's souls.' DON DeLILLO 'The most eminent innovator in Irish fiction of the last 50 years.' IRISH TIMES 'One of my favourite writers alive.' REBECCA F. KUANG 'Banville writes prose of such...
    By John Banville
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  • Pride and Prejudice
    Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy’s romance comes to life once more in a stunning and truly accessible retelling of Austen’s beloved classic from bestseller Laura Wood. Witty, intelligent Elizabeth Bennet has no desire for a marriage of convenience. When she meets the handsome, wealthy Mr Darcy, her opinion of him is quickly set: he is aloof, selfish and proud –...
    By Laura Wood
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  • I 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...
    By Rebecca Mix and Andrea Hannah
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  • Before 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...
    By Hazel Gaynor
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  • Lady of Disguise
    Readers who love the fairy tale charm of Melanie Dickerson, and the historical richness of Philippa Gregory and Bernard Cornwell, will be drawn into this riveting tale of courage, romance, and hidden treasures. Feel the tension and intrigue as a brave and determined young woman embarks on an adventurous journey to unearth the legendary "Giant's Treasure" in Melanie Dickerson's Lady...
    By Melanie Dickerson
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  • Forever 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...
    By Grace Burrowes
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  • The 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...
    By Eman Quotah
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  • Murder 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...
    By Lainie Anderson
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  • A 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...
    By Joanna Toye
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  • The 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...
    By Defne Suman
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  • The Leopard
    VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS - Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of the great Italian classic. 'Historical fiction at its best' – The Week It is the spring of 1869 and there is talk of revolution in Sicily. Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people, including his own numerous family,...
    By Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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  • Pilbara
    Coming November 2025 - the stunning new novel from the No.1 bestseller The stark, beautiful landscape of the Pilbara is the backdrop for the latest novel by Anonymous and Judy Nunn. With its vast red earth and boundless horizons, the Pilbara region of Western Australia is both a place of rich opportunity and deep challenges. Pilbara weaves an intricate tapestry...
    By Anonymous
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  • A 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...
    By Guy Gavriel Kay
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  • The 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...
    By Felice Arena
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  • The 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...
    By Carlo Emilio Gadda
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  • Damned
    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....
    By Genevieve Cogman
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  • Catching 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...
    By Jenny Pattrick
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  • AMITY
    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...
    By Nathan Harris
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  • The 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...
    By Harriet Evans
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  • The 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....
    By Hayley Gelfuso
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  • Boudicca's Daughter
    PRE-ORDER THE EPIC NEW STANDALONE NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WOLF DEN TRILOGY Boudicca’s Daughter is Elodie Harper’s masterpiece. — Costanza Casati, bestselling author of Babylonia A beautiful, breathtaking novel... pre-order it immediately! — Jennifer Saint, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ariadne One of the best books I have ever read. — Bea Fitzgerald, Sunday Times bestselling author...
    By Elodie Harper
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  • Essex 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....
    By Dan Jones
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  • The 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...
    By Vanessa Beaumont
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  • Smoke 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...
    By Oriana Ramunno
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  • Up 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...
    By Amy Rose Bennett
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  • The 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...
    By Darry Fraser
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  • The 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...
    By Jacqueline Wilson
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  • The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost Fair
    Absolutely stunning… Real emotional depth alongside a fast-paced plot. Fantastic – A F Steadman An amazing and captivating, curl-up-on-the-sofa debut about a magical frost fair and the lasting power of friendship, perfect for fans of Tamzin Merchant, Abi Elphinstone and Anna James. The Great Frost of 1683 has London in its icy grip. Thomasina and her best friend Anne sell...
    By Natasha Hastings
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  • The 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...
    By Stacy Gregg
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  • The 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...
    By Kate Furnivall
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  • Orphia 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...
    By Elyse John
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  • The View from Lake Como
    The View from Lake Como by Adriana Trigiani is a captivating love story reminiscent of Eat, Pray, Love and Carley Fortune's works, set against the picturesque backdrop of Lake Como. Authored by the New York Times bestselling author, this tale invites readers on a heartfelt journey. In Lake Como, New Jersey, Jess Capodimonte Baratta finds herself divorced, living in her...
    By Adriana Trigiani
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  • The 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...
    By Erika Robuck
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  • Nights at the Circus
    Vintage Classics WEIRD GIRLS: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of women’s weird fiction. Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on...
    By Angela Carter
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  • Charlotte
    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...
    By Helen Moffett
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  • Generals 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...
    By Charles Yale Harrison
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  • Begin Again
    A powerful, thoughtful, and bold comment on humanity and its future from one of today’s most thought-provoking artists. In his first picture book created specifically with a wider audience in mind, Oliver Jeffers shares a history of humanity and his dreams for its future. Where are we going? With his bold, exquisite artwork, Oliver Jeffers starts at the dawn of...
    By Oliver Jeffers
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  • Treason’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...
    By Patrick O’Brian
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  • The 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....
    By Lynsay Sands
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  • The Girl from Munich
    The runaway Australian bestseller about love and loss in wartime Germany, inspired by a true story. 1943 ... The choices she makes will change her life forever. Growing up in Hitler’s Germany, Charlotte von Klein has big dreams for the future. Her mind is full of plans for a sumptuous wedding to her childhood sweetheart Heinrich while working for the...
    By Tania Blanchard
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  • Suitcase of Dreams
    From the bestselling author of The Girl from Munich, a sweeping, dramatic tale of love and identity, inspired by a true story. After enduring the horror of Nazi Germany and the chaos of postwar occupation, Lotte Drescher and her family arrive in Australia in 1956 full of hope for a new life. It’s a land of opportunity, where Lotte and...
    By Tania Blanchard
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  • Mrs England
    Mrs England is a gripping feminist mystery where a nanny must travel to Yorkshire to a grand house filled with secrets. For there's no such thing as the perfect family... 'Something's not right here.' I was aware of Mr Booth's eyes on me, and he seemed to hold his breath. 'What do you mean?' 'In the house. With the family.'...
    By Stacey Halls
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  • Lady in the Lake
    NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV+ SERIES STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN 'A real triumph of storytelling and suspense.' Daily Mail 'A very special kind of twisted genius.' SARAH HILARY 'Complex, hard-hitting and unflinching' Irish Times 'Aching, thoughtful, and compulsively readable.' Vanity Fair A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Cleo Sherwood disappeared eight months ago. Apart from her parents and her two young sons,...
    By Laura Lippman
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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...
    By Kate Grenville
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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 Ghost Tree
    Before you follow the path into your family’s history, beware of the secrets you may find… The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile, left rootless by the end of her marriage, career, and now the death of her father. She is now faced with the daunting task of...
    By Barbara Erskine
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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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  • 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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  • Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief
    Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into the life of Sasha, a soldier at only six years old ... Katrina Nannestad follows up her remarkable novel We Are Wolves with a powerful new historical standalone, exploring an intriguing aspect of the Second World War. Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief invites readers into the...
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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 War Pianist
    Two cities. Two spies. Which woman survives? Pianist: NOUN. Informal. A person who operates or controls a radio transmitter – often in code. July, 1940 Blitz-ridden London: Marnie Fern’s life is torn apart when her grandfather is killed in an air raid. But once she discovers that he’d been working undercover as a radio operative – or pianist – for...
    By Mandy Robotham
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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 Resistance Girl
    Norway, 1942: She has lost everything to the Nazis. But now she fights back… War rages, and, under cover of darkness, Rumi Orlstad and her fellow resistance fighters smuggle British agents, fugitives and supplies across the North Sea into Nazi-occupied territory. One night, when he braves a storm to complete an ill-fated mission, Rumi’s fiancé is lost to the dangerous...
    By Mandy Robotham
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  • The Dressmaker’s Secret
    ‘Extraordinary… Brought history alive on the page… Tense and emotional… Sensitive yet brutal… With the most unexpected end that left me breathless. Wow, just wow… Incredible’ NetGalley Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1941, Nazi-occupied Paris: In the glamorous Ritz hotel there is a woman with a dangerous secret… As Coco Chanel’s assistant, Adèle lives side by side with German officers in the splendour...
    By Lorna Cook
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • An Eagle in the Snow
    A fictionalised account of the real-life British soldier who let Hitler live in the First World War, and his attempt to put right his mistake – from a master storyteller ‘Brilliant. Historical fiction at its most magnificent’ Jackie French An Eagle in the Snow tells the story of Billy Byron, one of the most decorated privates of the First World...
    By Michael Morpurgo
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  • A Bakery in Paris
    From the author of The School for German Brides, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century and post–World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple bakery in a tiny corner of Montmartre. 1870: The Prussians are at the city gates, intent...
    By Aimie K. Runyan
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  • This Tender Land
    1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little...
    By William Kent Krueger
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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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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.