Historical Fiction

Raped then murdered in Japanese occupied Hong Kong, 1942, Lin Shui's 'Hungry Ghost' clings tenaciously to life. Holing up in a hospital morgue, destined to become a school, just in...

Best friends, worst enemies and a bond that can never be broken...A poignant tale from the English Maeve Binchy.Crete, present day. A woman anxiously awaits the arrival of someone who...

You can never leave a bad man behind... Mavis Pugh has had a hard life. Despised and abused throughout her teenage years, she turned to the first man who showed...

From the author of HEARTBEAT, JEWELS and THE GHOST, a novel set in 1902, featuring a motherless young girl who arrives in Russia and becomes a great ballerina who is...

What if you knew someone you loved was going to die? What if you thought you could save them? How much would you risk to try?Claire Randall has gone to...

It is 1859 in the raw new township of New Plymouth where Hannah Carstairs walks between two worlds. To her English father she is Hannah; to her Maori step-mother she...

Maggie seems to be going up in the world. Compared to living with her large and impoverished East London family and watching her mother being worn down by life and...

Albert Robertson, the eldest son of a strict Irish-New Zealand Catholic family, does his duty and joins the clergy. A committed and devout priest, he eventually becomes fully ordained and...

Should she stay loyal to her country, or the man she loves? France, 1918. Sophia, the rebellious daughter of a distinguished German general, is on her way to the town of Douai...

France, 1935. At the poor man's end of the Riviera sits Le Rayol, a haven for artists, expatriates and refugees. Here, a world away from the rumblings of a continent...

A pacy literary thriller, ‘The Buried Circle’ is a gripping blend of fact and fiction, peopled with extraordinary characters.The village of Avebury is one of the most mysterious places in...

 The beginning of civilization is fraught with war, invasion, plunder, and rapine. The little city state of Akkad is carving out a mini-Empire on the banks of the mighty Tigris...

Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together with Willie, their lanky navigator, they embark upon the Redex Trial, a...

Sumptuous, glorious evocation of Jacobean London and Renaissance Italy from the acclaimed author of The Fire master's Mistress .Robert Cecil, Secretary of State to James I, has a problem. He...

A captivating and moving new novel from the international bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos.A nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets...