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Emma Donoghue
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins…
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V. V. Ganeshananthan
A searing, gripping novel about a young Tamil woman living through the Sri Lankan civil war
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Fiona Kelly McGregor
Acclaimed and bestselling literary novelist Fiona Kelly McGregor dives into the criminal underground of 1930s Sydney and the life of petty criminal, prostitute and murderer Iris.
Maggie O'Farrell
Set at the heart of the treacherous political world of the Italian Renaissance, this is the masterful story of a young woman's battle for her very survival, written with all…
Katherine J. Chen
Girl. Warrior. Heretic. Saint? A stunning feminist reimagining of the life of Joan of Arc, perfect for fans of Cecily and Alison Weir.
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Maggie Shipstead
It is Marian’s life dream and her final journey, before she disappears without a trace. Half a century later, Hadley Baxter, a scandal-ridden Hollywood actress whose own parents perished in…
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Isabel Allende
One extraordinary woman. One hundred years of history. One unforgettable story.
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Tracey Rose Peyton
An intimate look at the domestic lives of enslaved women, NIGHT WHEREVER WE GO is an evocative meditation on resistance and autonomy, on love and transcendence and the bonds of…
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Sophie Mackintosh
From the Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure - an eerie and erotic historical mystery about desire, memory and madness
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Jonathan Franzen
'His best novel yet ... A Middlemarch-like triumph' Telegraph
Paterson Joseph
Meet Charles Ignatius Sancho: his extraordinary story, hidden for three hundred years, is about to be told by Paterson Joseph, one of Britain’s best-loved actors
Pip Williams
In this beautiful companion to the international bestseller The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams explores another little-known slice of history seen through women’s eyes
Geraldine Brooks
An action-packed new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of People of the Book and March.
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Nicole Flattery
A wildly original debut novel about two young women navigating the complex worlds of Andy Warhol's Factory, and coming of age in 1960s New York.
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Juhea Kim
An expansive epic spanning the turbulent decades of Korea’s fight for independence, perfect for fans of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko
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Louise Kennedy
One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice.
If Davy had remembered to put on a coat. If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a…
Claire Keegan
An exquisite winter tale of courage - and its cost, set in Catholic Ireland.
Hannah Kent
The powerful, moving and truly unique new novel from the international bestselling author of Burial Rites and The Good People.
Que Mai Nguyen Phan
An intimate, stirring portrait of a country at war and a family’s battle to survive
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Kim Leine
An immensely powerful epic of colonialism, set in 18th-century Greenland, about the great forces of nature, the meeting of cultures and fathers and sons.
Colson Whitehead
From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.
Melissa Fu
An epic, powerful and intensely personal debut about war, migration, family, and the search for a place to call home. For fans of Pachinko, Wild Swans and All the Light…
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The gripping new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mercies, The Dance Tree is a transporting story of lust, family secrets and women under the eye of…
Nino Haratischvili
At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations…
Rebecca Starford
A page-turning World War Two spy thriller, based on true events.
Sharron Booth
It’s the turn of the century when Fan’s mother, Agnes, announces the family is moving to Western Australia to take care of Agnes’s father - a man they’ve never spoken…
Bianca Pitzorno, Brigid Maher (trans.)
An immersive and vividly written historical novel for anyone who loved Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels or Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Annabel Abbs
Eliza Acton, despite having never before boiled an egg, became one of the world’s most successful cookery writers. Her story is fascinating, uplifting and inspiring. With recipes that leap to…
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Karen Joy Fowler
A major new novel from million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.
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Evie Wyld
Three women, hundreds of years apart, slip into each other’s lives in a novel of darkness, violence and madness.
Nardi Simpson
A captivating Australian saga from the winner of the 2018 black&write! fellowship.
Ann Patchett
Told with Ann Patchett’s inimitable blend of wit and heartbreak, The Dutch House is a story of family, betrayal, love, responsibility and sacrifice; of the powerful bonds of place and…
Min Jin Lee
A victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations.
Two extraordinary people. A love that draws them together. A loss that threatens to tear them apart.
Kerri Maher
The captivating story of a trailblazing young woman who fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the twentieth century to the world.
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Hilary Mantel
In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII’s court, only one man, Thomas Cromwell, dares to gamble his life to win the king’s favor and ascend to the heights of…
Eleanor Catton
The astonishing and epic novel that won the 2013 Man Booker Prize
Tiffany McDaniel
A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl discovers stark truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life.
Clare Chambers
A novel of unexpected second chances set in 1950s England.
Gabriela Garcia
A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter’s fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born
Robert Jones Jr.
Love, in all its permutations, is the discovery at the heart of Robert Jones Jr’s breathtaking debut, The Prophets.
In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.
Sarah Waters
Fingersmith moves between the criminal underworld and gloomy gothic mansions of 1860s London in a story of fraud, insanity and secret passion. Set in a den of thieves, it focuses…
Alice Hoffman
In Berlin in 1941 during humanity’s darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers…
Maaza Mengiste
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020, this is an utterly captivating novel about female strength. Set during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King casts a light on the…
Markus Zusak
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and he will become busier still. From the highly-acclaimed author of The Messenger and…
A masterful work of historical fiction about hope, exile and belonging, A Long Petal of the Sea is Isabel Allende at the height of her powers.
Anita Heiss
Set on timeless Wiradyuri country, where the life-giving waters of the rivers can make or break dreams, and based on devastating true events, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams) is an…
