Title: The Paris Bookseller Author: Kerri Maher Publisher: Hachette Australia Genre: Historical Fiction, Fiction Year of Release: 2022 Release Date: 25th January 2022 Rating 🌟🌟🌟 TW Suicide RPP AU $32.99 PARIS, 1919. Young, bookish Sylvia Beach knows there is no greater city in the world than Paris. But when she opens an English-language bookshop on…
Title: The Shape of Darkness Author: Laura Purcell Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction, Historical Year of release: 2021 Release date: 2nd February 2021 Rating🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis As the age of the photograph dawns in Victorian Bath, silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious…
Title: The Pearl Thief Author: Fiona McIntosh Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction Year of Release: 2019 Release Date: 15th April 2019 Rating TW PTSD, Sexual assault, Gun Violence, Death Synopsis Severine Kassel is asked by the Louvre in 1963 to aid the British Museum with curating its antique jewellery, her specialty. Her…
Author: Steve Matthews Publisher: Big Sky Publishing Genre: Historical Fiction Year of Release: 2021 Release Date: 13th October 2021 Rating Trigger warning, Rape, Suicide, Pet death. Book 2 of 3 This series should be read in Order Synopsis 1938, as the world spirals towards war, Klara Koch is employed as Hitler’s personal cook. While…
Title: Hitler’s Brothel #1 Author: Steve Matthews Publisher: Big Sky Publishing Genre: Historical Fiction, General Fiction Year of release: 2020 Release Date: 21st October 2020 Rating TW Gun Violence, Rape, Starvation, trauma, death, pet death. Book #1 of #3 Book This series should be read in order. Synopsis Two sisters are cruelly separated by war…
Synopsis A city divided. When the Berlin Wall goes up, Karin is on the wrong side of the city. Overnight, she’s trapped under Soviet rule in unforgiving East Berlin and separated from her twin sister, Jutta. Two sisters torn apart. Karin and Jutta lead parallel lives for years, cut off by the Wall. But Karin…
Title: The Atomic City girls Author: Janet Beard Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Genre: Modern, Historical, General Fiction Year of release: 2018 Release Date: 29th January 2018 Rating Synopsis In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn’t officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has sprung up in a matter…
Author: Tania Farrelly Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Genre: Historical Fiction Year of release: 2021 Release Date: 2nd July 2021 Rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Fun Fact Pachyderm refers to elephant Synopsis New York, 1897. The richest city in the world. Beautiful, young, and privileged, Rose Kingsbury Smith is expected to play by the strict rules of social etiquette,…
Author: Laura Prescott Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Genre: Historical Fiction Year of Release: 2019 Release date September 17th, 2019 Rating 🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the…
Author: Steven Carroll Publisher: Harper Collins Australia Genre: Modern, Historical Fiction, General Fiction, Adventure Year of Release: 2021 Release Date 3rd February 2021 Rating Synopsis Occupied France, 1943. France’s most shameful hour. In these dark times, Dominique starts an illicit affair with a distinguished publisher, a married man. He introduces her to the Resistance, and…
