Historical

The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia....

England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors....

England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need, comes Thomas Cromwell....

Gaiman's gods are thoroughly alive - irascible, visceral, playful, and passionate - and the tales carry us from the beginning of everything to Ragnarök and the twilight of the gods....

This sequel to Outlander sweeps listeners back into the past as Claire relates more of her perilous sojourn there with her Scottish warrior husband, James Fraser....

Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum)....

The blazingly brilliant new novel from Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the international best seller Eat Pray Love: a glittering coming-of-age epic stitched across the fabric of a lost New York....

In Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy, one of our very best writers brings the opulent world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life.... 

The year is 1771. Claire Randall is still an outlander, out of place and out of time. But now she is linked by love to her only anchor: Jamie Fraser....

By 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith's son, is far from his humble origins....

England, 1939. Talented pilot Skye Penrose joins the British war effort where she encounters her estranged sister, Liberty, and childhood soul mate Nicholas Crawford, now engaged to enigmatic Frenchwoman Margaux Jourdan....

Mourning the death of his father and gravely injured at the hands of the English, Jamie Fraser finds himself running with a band of mercenaries in the French countryside....

The year is 1772, and the rift between Britain and its American colonies has put a frightening word into the minds of all concerned: revolution....

Ikey Solomon's favorite saying is also his way of doing business....

A sweeping saga from Bryce Courtenay, Australia's most popular author....

Here is an Australian family saga centering on a working-class family of publicans who make their first mark in Balmain in the 1930s....

After 20 years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Tilly Dunnage returns to the small Australian town she was banished from as a child....

Two sisters. One must be brave. One should be afraid. Bravery, courage, fear, and love in a time of war....

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby....

Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia....

Resourceful, adventurous and utterly indefatigable, Sophy is hardly the mild-mannered girl that the Rivenhalls expect when they agree to take her in....

In this book, for the first time, Philip Freeman brings together the best stories of Celtic mythology....

The first book in a brand-new series, The Last Kingdom is set in England during the reign of King Alfred....

England, 1346. For Thomas Blackstone the choice is easy - dance on the end of a rope for a murder he did not commit, or join the king's invasion....

Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls....

An utterly heartbreaking tale of two young girls, worlds apart, who are thrown together when they have lost everything....

The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known....