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....

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....

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 long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression....

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....

1940. Parisian seamstress Estella Bissette is forced to flee France as the Germans advance. She is bound for Manhattan with a few francs, one suitcase, her sewing machine and a dream: to have her own atelier....

The latest epic volume in the multi-million-copy best-selling Outlander series....

Leaving the valley of horses with Jondalar, the handsome man she has nursed back to health and come to love, Ayla embarks on a journey that will lead her to the Mamutoi....

Alaska, 1974. Untamed. Unpredictable. A story of a family in crisis struggling to survive at the edge of the world, it is also a story of young and enduring love....

In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family....

Set in the intriguing Scotland of 200 years ago, the third installment in the romantic adventures of Jamie and Claire is as compelling as the first....

At the height of World War II, three women must come together to fight for freedom, for the men they love - and for each other....

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

The most advanced scientific enterprise ever mounted, Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition in search of the fabled Northwest Passage had every expectation of triumph....

What if you could go back in time and change the course of history? What if the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination?

A war for a nation. The battle for her heart....

We're in Bacchus Marsh in the 1950s, with car salesmen, an early aviator, and the lives of Irene Bobs and Willy Bachhuber.....

First novel in Jean M. Auel's magnificent bestselling epic of life 35,000 years ago....

From the Orange Prize-winning, internationally best-selling author of The Song of Achilles comes the powerful story of the mythological witch Circe, inspired by Homer's Odyssey....

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

> Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O’Brian’s now famous Aubrey-Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series of historical novels ever written....

On a small estate just outside Rome in the first century BC, two boys become blood brothers, little imagining the extraordinary future that lies before them....

Bobby Wabalanginy never learned fear, not until he was pretty well a grown man.....

From the trenches of France, General Sean Courtney comes back to fame, fortune, and a seat in the Government....

Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully....

Judaea in AD 46. Roman centurions Cato and Macro have been posted to Judaea for a 'hearts and minds' operation....

Six-year-old Tom Fitzsaxby finds himself in an orphanage where the Afrikaners side fiercely with Hitler's Germany....

The church was empty when I dragged myself out of the pew and headed out the door. As I opened the door, the corner of my eye caught a flicker of movement which I chose to ignore. I walked down the steps and was nearly bowled over by two wild boys. With arms grown strong and quick from man-handling two brothers growing up, I grabbed the two boys before they had a chance to escape me. Anna Stuart is comfortable with her life. She may be a 30-year-old spinster, but she has her routine and enjoys taking care of her father and older brother.

Into the City of Light comes Lise de Trouvaille, a young noblewoman of modest means and no apparent Blessing, searching for an advantageous marriage. But the first eligible man she meets-during a werewolf attack, no less-is exactly the wrong person. Rafael, duc de Bellevasse, is at once too good for her and too bad (he is both the scion of one of the great families of France and a scoundrel presumed to be in league with the Devil, paying huge sums for death-magic spells).   

Louis L'Amour's three novelettes about the legendary hero, the Cactus Kid, previously published separately, have been gathered into one audiobook, a thrill-a-minute adventure as the Kid rides into danger and romance. He will have to think fast and shoot faster to survive. But how many battles can a peace-loving cowpoke survive, when half the gunmen in the Old West are waiting to contest the range against him?