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From bestselling author Jackie French comes a compelling book about the choices we make and the chances we never dreamed we'd be given. 1931. The height of the Depression, Sydney, New South Wales They were diamonds: beautiful, sparkling and irresistible. Nice girls do not accept employment from...

1912, Loughborough. Molly and Queenie are best friends living on the same street, both are in love with Harry Spencer, though he has made his choice in Queenie . . . Molly, with determined spirit, becomes increasingly involved in the Suffragette cause and grows in confidence. She is blamed for...

Weaving historical fiction with folklore and Tasmanian gothic, this is a gorgeously atmospheric debut that explores memory and self, the resilience of women and a dangerous longing for the sea. The Findlay family history has long been steeped in secrets, tragedy and dark rumours of madness...

From multi-award-winning author Jock Serong comes Cherrywood, an imaginative, darkly playful and deeply meaningful delight, a novel about legacy, community, wonder, love and reinvention. Shortlisted Indie Book Awards for Fiction 2025 Shortlisted ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2025 'One...

Can she defy the odds to follow her heart? London, 1939. With war imminent in Poland, nineteen-year-old Tamar and her father flee to the heart of the East End. Tamar becomes close friends with nurse Florence and local shopkeeper Elma, but their joy quickly falls apart as bombings land and they...

Read by Anna Popplewell, known for her role in The Chronicles of Narnia. Richard & Judy Book Club Pick Sunday Times Bestseller Set during London's blitz and filled with warmth, wit and heartbreak, Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce is a wartime story about the power of friendship, the kindness of...

For readers of The Nightingale, The Paris Library and All the Light We Cannot See, a page-turning story of love, betrayal and sacrifice, and one woman’s complicated connection to the world’s greatest masterpiece, from the bestselling author of Tuscan Daughter. 1910: Eighteen-year-old...

Past loves are like ghosts. They haunt you forever. The stunning new novel from the bestselling author of The Masterpiece and Tuscan Rose. I was war-weary, sad and officially divorced - and that was a recipe for recklessness. Rome, 1951. Veronica Gold is in the city as the correspondent for...

From #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Jennifer Niven, a novel about America’s favorite TV family, whose perfect façade starts to crack, for fans of Lessons in Chemistry and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. * * * For two decades, Del and Dinah Newman and their sons, Guy and Shep, have...

When everyone is watching, survival will be her greatest performance ... A gripping, utterly absorbing novel about survival and art as defiance on the 1930s Berlin stage, from the bestselling author of The Woman from Saint Germain Berlin 1932: With Germany in chaos, Monika Varády, a young...

IS WHAT WE INHERIT A BLESSING . . . OR A CURSE? The Carrington family is blessed with good looks, brains and talent – and far more than their fair share of money. The business acumen of an eighteenth-century ancestor has blossomed into an empire in which generations have played their part and...

From #1 bestselling author Genevieve Graham, “the reigning queen of Canadian historical fiction” (Kristen Harmel, #1 New York Times bestselling author) comes a dazzling novel set at an elegant hotel in Toronto in 1929 about a young chambermaid, a handsome waiter, and a murder that will...

From the million-copy bestselling author of The Frozen River and ‘a genius of historical fiction’ (Daily Telegraph), Ariel Lawhon reimagines the tantalising suspense surrounding a scandalous murder mystery that rocked America. One summer night in 1930, Judge Joseph Crater steps into a New...

A new beginning. An old enemy. A perilous choice. 'With so many stories untold, The Watchmaker's War is a unique and wonderful telling of one of them: how after liberation peace doesn't automatically follow, particularly peace of mind for those who witnessed and experienced so much evil. To be...

"Sally Carson's prescient novel offers an unflinching look at the early days of Nazism, resonating with today's fears of lost boys, strong men and old hatreds... A remarkable novel: chilling, compelling, contained..." The Times "...warrants a permanent place in the growing canon of World War Two...

In 1940, best friends Lili and Esti reside in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy. Their bond deepens as Esti becomes a mother to her son, Theo. However, the onset of war and the enforcement of Mussolini’s Racial Laws, which label them as part of an 'inferior' Jewish race, shatter their...

Abridged edition, narrated by Simon Russell Beale. From the bestselling author of the Shardlake series, C. J. Sansom, comes Winter in Madrid, a standalone historical novel set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. 1940: The Spanish Civil War is over, and Madrid lies ruined, its people...

'Immersive, thrilling and with characters that feel incredibly real. I loved every moment' - Louise Hare When the world is burning, how much is there to lose? London, 1941. As the city thrums with Blitz bombers, lonely air raid warden Ruby is drawn into the unfamiliar world of the India Forum...

From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Dear Mrs Bird, Dear Miss Lake returns us to wartime London where Emmy Lake is facing her greatest challenge yet . . . London, July 1944. Journalist Emmy Lake's career is soaring: Woman's Friend magazine is a huge success, and she is finally...

In 1910s Australia, the sins of the fathers leave behind a bloody legacy in this historical epic saga, perfect for fans of Peaky Blinders. Two fathers, their sons and the feud that binds them. In the early years of the twentieth century, Billy and Tommy Smith are growing up on the mean streets...