Historical Fiction

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. "Allied in the...

THE REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK FOR MARCH 2024 It's 1985 and Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City. Thirteen years later, art...

‘A sultry, immersive exploration of 30s New York with a taut plot and a vivid soundtrack. The perfect escape – evocative, smooth prose’ Harriet Tyce, Sunday Times bestselling author ‘[A]...

BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products,...

Esperanza risked her life fleeing the Dominican Republic for the glittering dream she saw on television but years later she is still stuck in a cramped tenement with her husband,...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020: The story of an Iranian man reckoning with his capacity for love and evil.Set in Iran and New York City, Man of...

The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Underground Railroad in Alaya Dawn Johnson's timely and unsettling novel, set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BY THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS' 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020 Brooklyn, 2001. It is the evening...

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over...

An exhilarating tale of one remarkable woman’s journey to find her purpose, and herself, in post-war America. Hailed as ‘whip smart’ by Australian Women’s Weekly. New York, 1954. A Fifth...

A queen of punk before her time. A duo on the brink of stardom. A night that will define their story for ever. Opal is a fiercely independent young woman...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTRE FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE A THING IS MIGHTY BIG WHEN TIME AND DISTANCE CANNOT SHRINK IT It was a quote by Zora Neale Hurston. Malaya...

'Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...' To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. 'Glorious' New York Times Book Review 'The compelling energy of a crime thriller...

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...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 PEN AMERICA OPEN BOOK AWARDLibertie Sampson was named by her father as he lay dying, in honour...

CHOSEN BY BARACK OBAMA AS A FAVOURITE READ OF 2020NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKTOP TEN BOOKS OF 2020, NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST From a...

Two girls’ lives are irrevocably intertwined the summer of 1985 in the streets of Brooklyn, New York, and neither will ever be the same in this coming-of-age story that spans...