Historical Fiction
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The Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker
Read more ▸ Order ▸When the Greek Queen Helen is kidnapped by Trojans, the Greeks sail in pursuit, besieging...
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The Garden of Evening Mists
Tan Twan Eng
Read more ▸ Order ▸Teoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about Aritomo and the...
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West
Carys Davies
Read more ▸ Order ▸Staff Pick
A single-sitting epic that beautifully balances light and dark, humour and sadness. Not a...
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A Place of Greater Safety
Hilary Mantel
Read more ▸ Order ▸An extraordinary work of historical imagination – this is Hilary Mantel’s epic novel of the...
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Circe
Madeline Miller
Read more ▸ Order ▸Staff Pick
Think you know the man-killing witch of Greek mythology? Think again. Miller breathes new...
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The Order of the Day
Eric Vuillard
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘A thoroughly gripping and mesmerising work of black comedy and political disaster’ Guardian
Winner of the...
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Aardvark BureauThis Mortal Boy
Fiona Kidman
WINNER OF THE OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS 2019 WINNER OF THE NZ BOOKLOVERS’ PRIZE…Read more ▸ Pre-order ▸ -
Aardvark BureauLittle
Edward Carey
LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE…Read more ▸ Order ▸ -
Aardvark BureauSalt Creek
Lucy Treloar
THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 1855. Failed entrepreneur Stanton Finch moves his family from…Read more ▸ Order ▸ -
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Salt Creek
Lucy Treloar
THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 1855. Failed entrepreneur Stanton Finch moves his family from…Read more ▸ Order ▸ -
Aardvark BureauAll Day at the Movies
Fiona Kidman
The choices of the past echo through the generations in this moving New Zealand saga…Read more ▸ Order ▸ -
Julian Fellowes’s Belgravia
Julian Fellowes
Read more ▸ Order ▸Julian Fellowes’s Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the...