Historical Fiction

  • The Diamond Eye

    Author: Kate Quinn  Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers  Genre: Adventure Fiction, Wartime, Modern, Espionage and Spy Thriller, Historical Fiction Year of release: 2022 Release Date: 30th March 2022 Rating  Synopsis   In the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organises her life around her library job and her young son – but Hitler’s invasion…

  • The Huntress

    Title: The Huntress  Author: Kate Quinn  Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers  Genre: Historical Fiction, Wartime, Adventure, Fiction, Modern Fiction  Year of release: 2019 Release Date 19th August 2019 Rating  Synopsis  In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted…  Bold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks…

  • The Three Lives Of Alix ST Pierre

    Author: Natasha Lester Publisher: Hachette Australia  Genre: Historical Fiction, Wartime, Fiction, Modern & Contemporary  Year of release: 2022 Release Date: 28th September 2022  Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis  Lavish and compelling, this is the story of a young woman trying to forget her devastating part in the war 1943. After spearheading several successful advertising campaigns in New York, PR wizard Alix…

  • The Flames

    Author: Sophie Haydock  Publisher: Penguin Books Australia  Genre: Historical Fiction Year of release: 2022 Release Date: 16th March 2022  Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis  Every painting tells a story, but what if the women on the canvas could talk… ADELE: passionate, fierce, obstinate. The daughter of a bourgeois family in 1900s Vienna, she rails against the strictures of her…

  • The Only Child

    Author: Kayte Nunn  Publisher: Hachette Australia  Genre: Historical Fiction, General Fiction, Mystery Suspense, Fiction  Year of release: 2022  Release Date 31st August 2022 Rating  Synopsis  1949 It is the coldest winter Orcades Island has ever known when a pregnant sixteen-year-old arrives at Fairmile, a home for ‘fallen women’ run by the Catholic Church. She and her baby…

  • A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting

    Author: Sophie Irwin  Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers  Genre: Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Woman’s Fiction, Fiction  Year of Release: 2022  Release date 4th May 2022  Rating  Synopsis  The season is about to begin – and there’s not a minute to lose Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. This…

  • Midnight in Everwood

    Author: M.A. Kuzniar Publisher: Harlequin Books Australia  Genre: Fantasy, Retellings, Historical Fiction, Holiday, Fiction  Year of release: 2021 Release date 27th October 2021 Rating   🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis Nottingham, 1906Marietta Stelle longs to be a ballerina but as Christmas draws nearer, her dancing days are numbered. At the wishes of her family, she will be obligated to marry and…

  • The Ladies of the Secret Circus

      Title: The Ladies of the Secret Circus Author: Constance Sayers Publisher: Hachette Australia Genre: Historical Fiction, Magical Realism Year of Release: 2022 Release Date: 8th February 2022Rating🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis  The surest way to get a ticket to Le Cirque Secret is to wish for it . . . Paris, 1925: To enter the Secret Circus is to enter a world…

  • The Lost Apothecary

    Author: Sarah Penner Publisher: Affirm Press Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery Year of release: 2021 Release Date: 30th November 2021 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons…

  • The Lilac Girls #1

    Author: Martha Hall Kelly Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Genre: Historical Fiction, Fiction, WW2 Year of release: 2019 Release Date: 2nd April 2019 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis Inspired by the life of a real-World War II heroine, this runaway international bestseller reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom and…