Showing results by publisher "Hachette Australia" in Historical Fiction

Inspired by real events, the New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan returns with an unputdownable novel of a community torn apart when a former Nazi family moves into town to work on NASA's space program Berlin, 1934. Sofie Rhodes is the aristocratic wife of a scientist whose...

'What an emotional journey, beautifully written and with an unforgettable setting . . . A stunning novel full of heart, hope and enduring love in all its forms. A heart-wrenching mystery to savour' AMANDA GEARD A haunting mystery of a family's darkest secrets from the worldwide bestselling...

Darwin, Summer, 1963. The humidity sat heavy and thick over the town as Senior Constable Ned Potter looked down at a body that had been dragged from the shallow marshland. He didn't need a coroner to tell him this was a bad death. He didn't know then that this was only the first. Or that he was...

'An incredible story of courage, devotion and daring, filled with vivid prose and rich detail. A must-read' CHANEL CLEETON 'Natasha Lester uncovers stories of women from history and drapes them in velvet' The Australian Women's Weekly From Australian bestseller Natasha Lester, an epic, sweeping...

'A masterpiece' SARAH JONES 'Another soon-to-be classic' Woman's Day 'Riveting and moving' The Australian Women's Weekly Twenty-five years after the end of the war, ageing British SOE operative Noah Ainsworth can't stop thinking about the secret agent who saved his life in occupied France. He...

From the New York Times bestselling author comes this extraordinary masterpiece of historical fiction that will have you wiping tears from your face Paris, 1939 While working at the Louvre, Éliane Dufort falls for talented painter Xavier. But when the Nazis occupy the city, Xavier leaves for...

'Vogue meets Daisy Jones & The Six . . . with incisive observations about women's roles as muse and inspiration - and what price they pay when they dare to create for themselves' KATE QUINN History said she was just a man's muse. History was wrong. In 1970s New York, a young designer will do...

The irresistibly charming and cosy first novel in the bestselling Petticoat Police Mystery series, inspired by the true story of Australia's pioneering policewoman, Kate Cocks 'An outstanding debut - funny, poignant, historically fascinating, and an absorbingly good crime read - The Death of...

Epic Love. Tragic Loss. Beautiful Friendship. The entrancing story of an orphan who grows up surrounded by the beautiful and the broken in the world's most infamous hotel. After her parents' deaths, Aria Jones is sent to live with her reclusive starlet aunt at the Chateau Marmont, the hotel on...

A compelling and lavish novel from the NYT bestselling author about a young woman striving to forget her part in the war by building life anew as the publicist at the just-launching House of Dior in Paris 1943. After spearheading several successful advertising campaigns in New York, PR wizard...

The indomitable Miss Cocks and Ethel Bromley return for Book Two in the bestselling and charmingly cosy Petticoat Police Mystery Series, inspired by one of Australia's first policewomen. Adelaide, September 1917. Six months after solving the Dora Black case, Kate Cocks and Ethel Bromley are back...

A powerful WWII novel for readers and viewers of All the Light We Cannot See 2019 Life changed beyond recognition for Alice when her son, Eddie, was born with autism spectrum disorder. She must do everything to support him, but at what cost to her family? When her cherished grandmother is...

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of March and People of the Book comes a vivid and unique new novel for lovers of sweeping historical fiction and books about iconic racehorses like Seabiscuit and Secretariat. WINNER OF THE FICTION INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2023 WINNER OF THE ABIA LITERARY FICTION...

Noosa Heads, 1987: Newly divorced Cynthia has returned to her home town from Los Angeles to reconnect with her 19-year-old daughter, who is pregnant and determined not to listen to her mother's advice. Cynthia's former best friend, Lorraine, has been stuck mowing lawns as part of a business she...

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, 1939 Talented pilot Skye Penrose joins the British war effort where she encounters her estranged sister...

Weaving. Healing. Haunting. The spellbinding story of a mysterious boarding school sheltering a centuries-old secret... Australian history teacher Thea Rust arrives at an exclusive boarding school in the British countryside only to find that she is to look after the first intake of girls in its...

The powerful New York Times bestseller inspired by the real-life heroine who smuggled thousands of Jewish children to safety during WWII In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond the courtyard of her comfortable Warsaw home. But she has no...

WINNER OF THE 2026 INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 ARA HISTORICAL NOVEL PRIZE An epic and emotional story of three spirited women - a mother, her daughter, their maid - during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong 1941. The wealthy Tang family has settled in Hong Kong...

Out in that country the sun smeared the sky and nothing ever altered, except that one day a scrap man came by . . . HER name is scarcely known or remembered. All in all, she is worth less than the nine shillings and sixpence counted into her father's hand. She bides her time. She does her work...

Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondrously imagined tale of two female botanists, separated by more than a century, in a race to discover a life-saving flower . . . In Victorian England, headstrong adventuress Elizabeth takes up her late father's quest for a rare, miraculous plant. She faces a...