Historical Fiction

'Wildly entertaining. A rollicking saga about one of America's earliest abolitionists' People 'Just so brilliant' John Green Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856....

The story of a northern village during the American War in Vietnam, where all the young men have left to fight, and the loved ones left behind labor through grief...

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori  The heartbreaking story of two orphans fighting for survival at the end of World War Two, published in English for the first time. In the...

BY THE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'A magnificent novel- beautiful, terrible, true _x2026_ It reads already like a classic' - Ali SmithShortlisted for the Baileys Women s Prize for...

Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2018Shortlisted for the NUS Singapore History Prize 2021Shortlisted for the Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Fiction Title Siew Li leaves her husband and young...

WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE In the summer of 2020, as Germany slowly emerges from lockdown, a young Japanese woman studying in Gottingen waits at the train station to meet...

Translated by Bonnie Huie * Winner of the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize* Longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize* A New York Times Editors' Choice The English-language premiere of Qiu...

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney –...

In this darkly ironic novel, a dead man walks back through four generations of family estrangements to recover his lost identity.The journey will be long and difficult, one thousand miles....

Based on the true experiences of Bao Ninh and banned by the communist party, The Sorrow of War is revered as the 'All Quiet on the Western Front for our era'.Kien's job is...

In the late fifteenth century, a young Dominican friar sets out on a journey from Paris to Florence in search of manuscripts of pre-Christian philosophy. Along the way, he encounters...

Co-Winner of the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction PrizeWinner of the 2022 Singapore Book Award for Best Literary Work Miss Cassidy is no ordinary governess.She can tutor the most wayward child,...

The masterful, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original exploration of race, trust and the cruel truths...

Translated by Pablo Strauss SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILLER PRIZE An internationally-bestselling, and multi-award-winning, tale of impossible love and family secrets in late-twentieth century Egypt. Cairo, 1980s. Tarek's whole life is...

From the winner of the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize. Lei Ling Wen is lonely. Bored of her demanding after-school schedule of tuition, study and violin lessons, she struggles to see...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024 From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Trees comes a heartbreaking and powerful retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck’s friend, the...

Escape is only the beginning... When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black - an eleven-year-old field slave - finds himself selected as personal...

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Cora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp...

The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. There's a journey we must go on, and...

From the author of the international bestseller Mornings in Jenin comes a powerful, passionate story of a family separated by conflict, and the tragedy they endure It is 1947, and...

*Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction* *Longlisted for the Voss Literary Prize 2020*'Vital, brutal and tender, The Palace of the Angels is written...

‘Chip told us not to go out. Said, don't you boys tempt the devil. But it been one brawl of a night, I tell you.’ The aftermath of the fall...

*Shortlisted for the Small Press Network 2021 Book of the Year Award* The Tiniest House of Time is more than a family saga, ranging across continents and decades seamlessly, from...

A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR A deeply personal novel of identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, HOMELAND ELEGIES blends...

Winner of the 2019 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize 'On the third of September, not so long ago, something truly wondrous happened on the Beauford Farm and Estate. At the moment...

Translated by Melanie Mauthner Introducing Scholastique Mukasonga: a major international author and her brilliant and award-winning first novel. Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be...

A glorious new edition of the multi-award-winning historical novel about outsiders on the Queensland gold fields It is 1877 and trouble is brewing on the Queensland gold fields. Siblings Ying...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 Winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction 2020 Time #1...

A new edition of this award-winning title, Every Secret Thing is filled with humour, joy and despair. It is an unflinching insight into the legacy of Australia’s mission era. Every...

From the award-winning author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain, this stunning story collection includes two prize-winning novellas along with an impressive range of historical and contemporary stories exploring the inner...

The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the world's greatest writers. David Lodge, chairman of the judges in 1989, said,...

Beloved is Toni Morrison's masterpiece and one of the most important books of the twentieth century.Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home, the farm where she was kept as a...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey...

A profoundly moving story on the bonds of family and history — this is Beloved for the 21st century. Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One...

An electrifying debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, The Old Drift is the Great Zambian Novel you didn't know you were waiting for and...

Winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize Celestial Bodies is set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, where we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries Abdallah after a...

WINNER 2022 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD INDIGENOUS WRITER'S PRIZE2022 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS HIGHLY COMMENDED Gundagai, 1852. The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in its...

Winner of the Reddit Fantasy Award for Best Debut 2018‘The best fantasy debut of 2018' — WIRED A brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut, inspired by the bloody history of China's...

HUGO AWARDWINNER FOR FOR BEST NOVEL 2022 THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An absorbing historical fantasy, She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan reimagines the rise to power...

Shortlisted, DSC Prize For South Asian Literature, 2013 Longlisted, Man Asian Literary Award, 2011 One hot afternoon in a remote Bangladeshi village, a telegram brings life-changing news to Maya Haque’s...

* NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * PRINTZ HONOR BOOK * WALTER HONOR BOOK * ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR LITERATURE HONOR BOOK * From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author...

Winner of the National Book Award 1990 The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans. Rutherford Calhoun, a puckish rogue and newly freed slave, spends his days...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015 Jamaica, 1976: Seven men storm Bob Marley's house with machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but leaves Jamaica the following day, not...

WINNER OF THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A searing, gripping novel about a young Tamil woman living through the Sri Lankan civil war Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a...

Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought...

Winner of the Prix Ethiophile, the Prix des racines et des mots, and the Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie AN AWARD WINNING NOVEL FOLLOWING THREE GENERATIONS TORN APART...

Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan – a dazzling queer historical fantasy of war and destiny set in an epic alternate China, and sequel to Sunday Times bestselling She...

Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Trust is a sweeping, unpredictable novel about power, wealth and truth, set against the backdrop of turbulent 1920s New York. Perfect for...

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean He thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke made light show, there must be a way for memories to...

The prize-winning story of a Senegalese soldier in the trenches, told in hypnotic, powerful prose. Alfa Diaye and Mademba Diop are two of the many Senegalese tirailleurs who fight in...