Historical Fiction

  • The Mystery Woman

    Author: Belinda Alexandra Publisher: HarperCollins Australia Genre: Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Thriller Year of release 2020 Release date 2nd September 2020 Rating Trigger Warning Suicide, PTSD, Disability, Domestic Violence, Elder Abuse Synopsis Rebecca Wood takes the role as postmistress in a sleepy seaside town, desperate for anonymity after a scandal in Sydney. But she is confronted…

  • The Berlin Girl

    Author: Mandy Robotham Publisher: Harper Collins Australia Year of release: 2020 Genre: Historical Fiction, War, Adventure, Modern Fiction, Year of release:  2nd December 2020 Rating Synopsis Berlin, 1938: It’s the height of summer, and Germany is on the brink of war. When fledgling reporter Georgie Young is posted to Berlin, alongside fellow Londoner Max Spender,…

  • The Betrayals

    Author: Bridget Collins Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia Year of release: 2020 Genre: Historical Fiction, Fantasy, LGBT, Magical Realism Release date: 12th November 2020 Rating 🌟🌟🌟 Trigger warning Suicide, descriptions of death   Synopsis If everything in your life was based on a lieWould you risk it all to tell the truth? At Montverre, an exclusive…

  • the Devil and the dark water

    Author:  Stuart Turton Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Year of release: 2020 Genre: Historical Fiction, Adventure Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Fantasy Release Date: 1st October 2020 Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Trigger Warning Livestock is slaughtered, domestic violence is addressed Synopsis An impossible murder.A remarkable detective duo.A demon who may or may not exist.It’s 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world’s greatest…

  • The Sea Gate

    Author: Jane Johnson  Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Australia  Year of Release: 2020 Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction  Release Date: 2nd September 2020 Rating Synopsis  Following the death of her mother, Becky begins the sad task of sorting through her empty flat. Starting with the letters piling up on the doormat, she finds an…

  • People Like Us

    Author:  Louise Fein Year of Release: 2020 Publisher: Head of Zeus Genre: Modern, Historical Fiction   Release Date: 5th August 2020 Rating 🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis A love story set in 1930s Germany. Hetty, daughter of an SS officer, falls in love with Walter, a Jew – but will the steady march of dark forces destroy their…

  • The German Midwife

    Also published as A Woman of War Author: Mandy Robotham Genre: Fiction, Adventure, Modern, Romance Wartime, WW2, Historical Fiction Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Year of release: 2020 Release date: 5th August 2020 Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis Germany, 1944 a prisoner in the camps, Anke Hoff is doing what she can to keep her pregnant campmates and…

  • The Paris Secret

    Author: Natasha Lester Publisher: Hachette Australia Genre: Fiction, Modern & Contemporary, General Fiction, Historical Fiction Year of release: 2020 Release date: 31st March 2020 Rating:  🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis A wardrobe of Dior gowns, a secret kept for sixty-five years, and the three women bound forever by war… from the New York Times bestselling author of The French Photographer England,…

  • The Beantown Girls

    Author: Jane Heartley  Publisher: Lake Union Publishing Release date: February 1st 2019 Genre: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure Wartime, Historical Year of release: 2019 Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Synopsis A novel of love, courage, and danger unfolds as World War II’s brightest heroines—the best of friends—take on the front lines. 1944: Fiona Denning has her entire future planned…