Black Silk and Sympathy by Deborah Challinor
Tatiana (Tatty) Caldwell lives in 1860s London. She is the daughter of an odd couple: her father, a successful ...
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Born into poverty, Molly Thistle possesses a spirited character and sense awareness from the outset. She is ...
The Gallows Bird by Barbara Sumner
On the day of her 13th birthday Hannah ‘Birdie’ Bird arrives as the under-laundry maid at Angus Hall. The work is ...
The Story Thief by Kyra Geddes
When an author creates a work of fiction, drawing characters and narrative from imagination or people/situations ...
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
In 17th century Madrid, Luiza Cortado uses her secret magical abilities for menial tasks. Fixing burned bread or ...
The Engraver’s Secret by Lisa Medved
This is a story of two women, centuries apart, a mysterious map, and a family secret spanning hundreds of years. ...
The Library Thief by Kuchenga Shenje
Florence is thrown out onto the streets by her bookbinder father. She uses her wits to talk her way into the ...
Psykhe by Kate Forsyth
This prolific Australian author has provided her readers with historical fiction, non-fiction often based on ...
The Sea Captain’s Wife by Jackie French
At 15, Jackie French wrote ‘an angry three-book rebuttal of Lord of the Flies.’ Now she writes of how women, in ...
The Winter Palace by Paul Morgan
The Winter Palace is a solid contribution to this canon of World War II historical fiction. This offering is ...
The Queen’s Apprenticeship by Tracy Ryan
This novel is set in Renaissance France, an era of splendour and excess. It is about two women from completely ...
To Sing of War by Catherine McKinnon
Catherine McKinnon’s last novel, Storyland, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. It’s worth betting that ...
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During the aftermath of World War I, the pretty town of Hazelbourne-On-Sea houses a complex array of characters ...
Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid
While this tiny book (127 pages) is not your usual gripping McDermid thriller, it’s a well-told story of a strong ...
The Beauties by Lauren Chater
The Beauties transports the reader to the 1660s, and the court of Charles II. It is the story of a woman, Emilia, ...
Mrs Hopkins by Shirley Barrett
Once described by The New York Times as ‘a pragmatic Australian with an offbeat take on the world’, the late ...
Saltblood by Francesca de Tores
Mary Read was never allowed to be herself. Born a girl in 1685, she is forced by her mother to assume the identity ...
James by Percival Everett
James is an extraordinary novel reimagining The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told from the perspective of ...
The Prize by Kim E Anderson
Before opening The Prize, it would be wise to refamiliarise yourself with William Dobell’s 1943 Archibald ...
The Talented Mrs Greenway by Tea Cooper
Mary Moore married Francis Greenway in 1809 in England. The Talented Mrs Greenway is the reimagined life of this ...
A Woman in Sardinia by Valeria Usala
The universal loves, hates, misconceptions, gossip and jealousies of a small village are encapsulated in this ...
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