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  • Tenants and Cobwebs
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    Tenants and Cobwebs

    Samir Naqqash's stirring novel Tenants and Cobweb nostalgically commemorates the lost culture of an ancient Iraqi Jewish minority living amidst a majority Muslim population in 1940s Baghdad. The plot unfolds during a time of great turmoil: the rise of...
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  • A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore
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    A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore

    Shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize in 2010, this finely constructed epic traces the turbulent life of Aisha, an Egyptian girl raised in a Christian convent beyond the reach of a predatory uncle. With her English education, Aisha crosses paths with...
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  • Waterlily
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    Waterlily

    When Blue Bird and her grandmother leave their family's camp to gather beans for the long, threatening winter, they inadvertently avoid the horrible fate that befalls the rest of the family. Luckily, the two women are adopted by a nearby Dakota community...
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  • Lady Susan
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    Lady Susan

    This new edition of Lady Susan is part of the ongoing Shepherd Moon Pocketful editions presenting the cult classic works of world renowned authors in contemporary travel-sized formats. Tracing back the early career of Austen, this edition brings forth...
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  • The Slightest Chance
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    The Slightest Chance

    When your enemy is your best friend...In war, you can pretend to be someone you're not. Yet, in war, people find out who you really are. Hong Kong, 1941.Anglo-Australian civil servant Dominic Sotherly's colonial sojourn in Hong Kong becomes complicated...
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  • Clouds of Love and War
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    Clouds of Love and War

    Occasionally panoramic, more often intimate, in Clouds of Love and War author Rachel Billington balances a detailed and highly researched picture of the life of a Second World War Spitfire pilot with the travails and ambitions of a young woman too often...
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  • Champion
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    Champion

    Dark haired, slight, with deep-set haunted eyes, Herschel Grynszpan is an undocumented Jewish alien living in Paris. He receives a postcard from his parents - recently bundled from their Hanover flat, put on a train and dumped, with 12,000 others on the...
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  • At the Palaces of Knossos
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    At the Palaces of Knossos

    A captivating retelling-newly translated-of the rise and fall of the Minoan civilization interwoven with some of ancient Greece's most enduring myths At the Palaces of Knossos is a vivid reimagining of ancient Crete, blending history and mythology into...
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  • Clenched Fists, Burning Crosses
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    Clenched Fists, Burning Crosses

    Inspired by the horrors of the Greensboro Massacre, Cris South penned Clenched Fists, Burning Crosses as part of the noted Feminary collective. The book, a thinly fictionalized representation of her own life and activism, centers on Jessie, a...
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  • Lords of the Ocean
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    Lords of the Ocean

    James L. Nelsons Isaac Biddlecomb series has brought to life a never-before-seen side of Americas war for independence. With the expertise of a seasoned mariner, a historians vivid attention to detail, and a natural gift for sensational storytelling,...
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  • The Continental Risque
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    The Continental Risque

    Nelson's exciting seafaring trilogy concludes. As cries for independence ring through the chambers of the Second Continental Congress, Captain Isaac Biddlecomb and his crew are called upon to engage The Royal Navy. Isaac Biddlecomb, now captain of the...
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  • The Maddest Idea
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    The Maddest Idea

    In the late summer of 1775, General George Washington discovers that his cache of gunpowder has dwindled to a mere nine shots per man. A desperate plan is hatched--to send a ship under the command of Captain Isaac Biddlecomb to Bermuda to capture the...
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  • Born to the Badge
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    Born to the Badge

    Born to the Badge has been honored as a 2019 Spur Award Finalist! Shunted from his entrepreneurial ambitions to profit from the boomtowns of the frontier, Wyatt Earp returns to law enforcement. In Wichita, Kansas the town leaders become disenchanted with...
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  • Provenance
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    Provenance

    Set in Hungamon (aka Bogalusa), Louisiana 1988-89, Provenance takes the reader through progressive historical discoveries to the sources of a Hungarian painting that escaped the grasping fingers of Nazis and Communists, and to the secrets of two...
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  • Dreams Bigger Than the Night
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    Dreams Bigger Than the Night

    Set during the Great Depression, when fascism was looking increasingly attractive to many, Paul M. Levitt's latest novel surrounds attempts to boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the counterforces at work: the American Nazi Party, Avery Brundage, a...
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  • The Virginian
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    The Virginian

    Considered the greatest western of all time— "When you call me that, smile!" finds its origins in the book—this classic tells the story of the Wyoming ranch foreman known only as the Virginian, his courtship of school teacher Molly Wood, and his...
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  • The Shifting Winds
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    The Shifting Winds

    This is the story of reluctant Oregon pioneer Jennie Haviland, who must give up study at her academy in New York when her father takes the family west over the Oregon Trail. In Oregon Jennie meets two young men, American mountain man Jake Johnston and...
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  • Incredible Pirate Tales
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    Incredible Pirate Tales

    From Long John Silver to Captain Hook, from Blackbeard to Captain Kidd, pirates have made off with our imaginations for centuries with their charisma and adventurous living. Truth be told, these capricious cutthroats are not only figures of horror but...
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  • The Archaeological Adventures of I.V. Jones
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    The Archaeological Adventures of I.V. Jones

    The archaeological adventures of i.v. Jones, the new novel by Heidi Roberts, is the fictional retelling of an important time in the U.S. archaeology through the eyes of a twenty -one-year-old archaeologist named I.V. Jones. Ivy, as her friends call her,...
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  • The Moon and the Wind
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    The Moon and the Wind

    There were three things that Steve Greene wanted to do, and they were, in order of importance: 1. Get away from his Great Mistake (her name was Vivian). 2. Write the last movement of his symphony and relieve his mind of an unfinished concerto or two. 3...
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  • The Constant Sinner
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    The Constant Sinner

    Babe Gordon, the star of this brilliant, sophisticated novel of modern New York's racy set, is a strange woman. She uses her beauty and her sexual allure as a soldier uses his weapons-without mercy or scruples. Her basic appeal attracts all types of men,...
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  • Guardians of the Sage
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    Guardians of the Sage

    An Oregon reservation has suddenly been vacated and Henry Stall, a seasoned ranch owner, didn't get the news in time. He is driven to continue the expansion of his cattle empire in the American northwest, and when he goes to stake his claim, conflict...
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  • All Things Human
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    All Things Human

    Here is a remarkable vintage tour-de-force of the Fifties, in which Stuart Benton explores the range of human experience from the sublime to the exotically degrading. Marriage, illicit love, the uneasy relationship between children and parents, business...
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  • My Candle Burns
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    My Candle Burns

    This absorbing tale of adventure begins as the Great War draws to a close, and our young hero, accustomed to fighting for his life, must now seek direction and purpose for that life. Born to a high position and great wealth, having lived an idyllic...
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  • The Drums of Winter
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    The Drums of Winter

    The Drums of Winter is a sweeping epic, a family saga, a novel of history. Set in the time of the American Revolution, it details the decline and fall of a great family, the proud love of a noble woman, a young man's search for his true father, and a...
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  • Overnight
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    Overnight

    Originally published in 1949, Matthew Smith writes with the brilliance of an Arlen and the sophistication of a Maugham in this vintage tale of high-fashioned passion that bares the souls and appetites of mid-century old money. Nestled in rolling fields...
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  • To Make My Bread
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    To Make My Bread

    This classic novel, written in the midst of the Great Depression, translates the themes of Balzac to a Southern Appalachian setting. Lumpkin traces the path of the McClure family as they move from living as poor bootleggers in the mountains to living in...
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  • Jefferson Square
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    Jefferson Square

    Jefferson Square was a multi-million dollar culture center...but there was nothing at all cultural about some of the things that happened there during its grand opening in the Sixties. At the Repertory Theater, a play called Confessional was in rehearsal...
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  • Following the Grass
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    Following the Grass

    When Angel Irosabel rides with his family into the fertile valleys of Paradise, Nevada, he knows that their grueling journey from Basque country is over-he has found a place for his sheep to graze and for his family to thrive. Little did he know that his...
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  • Closed Range
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    Closed Range

    Wyoming's free range is in peril. The free rangers, led by the Catlin brothers, are accustomed to letting their cattle roam where the grass is green and water easy to come by. When they first spot the barbed wire barricades, blocking the herds' progress...
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  • Wolves of the Chaparral
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    Wolves of the Chaparral

    Barry Weston loves Barbara Dawn, whose father's ranch, the Cinchbuckle, is one of the largest in the West. When Steve Moley, a philanderer and the son of the Judge Moley, begins paying attention to her, Barry takes a stand and warns Steve away from the...
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  • Texas Men
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    Texas Men

    It makes a lot of difference who is the sheriff in the town of Lariat. When Grubb was sheriff, Kurt Dodd and his men ran wild. Cattle rustling was a business to them, and they went about it in a business-like fashion. Save for the valor and alertness of...
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  • Idaho
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    Idaho

    After many years on the range, a cool fighter who calls himself Idaho rides back to the country where he was raised. Unrecognized by the friends and foes of his childhood, Idaho finds himself in the midst of a roaring scrap between two proud ranchmen and...
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  • Follow the Dream
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    Follow the Dream

    In this sequel to Cowgirl Dreams, Nettie Brady, now Nettie Moser, is working with her husband Jake to prepare for a busy rodeo season when she's offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel to London to perform with the Tex Austin Wild West Troupe...
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  • Cowgirl Dreams
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    Cowgirl Dreams

    From her ranch home in Montana in the 1920s, Nettie Brady dreamed of joining the rodeo circuit and becoming a star. Defying her mother's wishes and trading her skirts for trousers--and riding the range with her brothers and taking on the occasional...
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  • Dictionary of Lost Words
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    Dictionary of Lost Words

    In 1901, the word 'Bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the 'Scriptorium', a...
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  • Bookseller In Madrid
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    Bookseller In Madrid

    How can the words of the past help heal the horror of the presentFor as long as she can remember, Barbara Spiel has always found solace in books. Born in Germany and having come of age in a tumultuous era, she flees her home country as the Nazis rise...
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  • The Queen of Saturn and the Prince in Exile
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    The Queen of Saturn and the Prince in Exile

    A Black nerd coming-of-age novel set in 1970s Boston about a boy who struggles to learn the truth behind his mother's claims of otherworldly origins in the smoldering aftermath of the Civil Rights era and COINTELPRO's dying breaths.Sean's mother,...
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  • Letters from the Gods Letters from the Gods
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    Letters from the Gods

    Intrepid archaeologist James Tiberius uncovers a hidden chamber deep within the Great Pyramid after being imprisoned, betrayed, and hounded by a ruthless corporation intent on harnessing the power of the gods for itself. Triggered by an unexpected surge...
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  • OldEarth Georgios Encounter OldEarth Georgios Encounter
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    OldEarth Georgios Encounter

    In the first century, Georgios flees his grandparents' home on a Greek island, travels to Celtic lands, and encounters friendly enemies and treacherous friends. In the Roman world of dark secrets and deceptive promises, he discovers new hope in an...
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  • The Day I Carried the King The Day I Carried the King
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    The Day I Carried the King

    Author, Julie Venables, has written a charming, touching, yet important book for children. The unlikely hero is a small donkey named Jasper, who became integral to the story of Jesus, the Messiah and His triumphal entry into Jerusalem only days before...
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  • The Last Convoy The Last Convoy
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    The Last Convoy

    The Last Convoy is a gripping historical novel set during World War II, following Daniel, a young sailor who rises through the ranks amid the brutal Arctic convoys to Murmansk and beyond. Through harrowing battles with enemy forces, freezing seas, and...
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  • Death on the Pedernales Death on the Pedernales
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    Death on the Pedernales

    "There is nothing like a glorious Texas Hill Country morning..." even for New Yorkers moving to Texas. John Boone became infatuated with Fredericksburg, Texas, on a work trip representing his New York computer firm. Bitten by the new adventure bug, laid...
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  • The Pact of Freedom The Pact of Freedom
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    The Pact of Freedom

    One slave master's daughter . . . One intriguing violinist . . . One chance of a lifetime . . .​In July of 1852, almost two years since the Compromise of 1850, Mildred "Millie" Crabtree is the friendly daughter of the mean-spirited, plantation owner...
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  • Trail Trouble Trail Trouble
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    Trail Trouble

    Pinkerton agent Bill Robuck makes his living bringing rogue gunslingers and bank robbers to justice, with the help of his longtime comrades. Hot on the trail of an outlaw, Robuck discovers a Judas among his posse, tipping off their quarry in this...
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  • At the Edge of Honor At the Edge of Honor
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    At the Edge of Honor

    At the Edge of Honor, which was awarded the 2003 Patrick D. Smith Literary Award for Best Historical Novel of Florida, is set in 1863 Civil War Florida and the British Bahamas during the desperate coastal conflict between the U.S. Navy and Confederate...
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Historical Fiction Books | Buy Historical Novels & New Releases Online at BookLoop

Step into the past with the finest collection of historical fiction books at BookLoop. Whether you are drawn to sweeping epics, intimate love stories, or novels that bring forgotten voices to life, our collection allows you to explore the world’s most fascinating eras through powerful storytelling. At BookLoop, we make it easy to buy books online with fast delivery across Australia, giving readers access to both timeless classics and trending new releases in historical fiction.

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Our shelves are filled with novels by some of the most acclaimed and bestselling authors in historical fiction. From Hilary Mantel’s award-winning Wolf Hall series to Ken Follett’s sweeping epics such as The Pillars of the Earth, you’ll find the perfect read to immerse yourself in history. Fans of Philippa Gregory’s Tudor novels and Geraldine Brooks’ Australian historical fiction will also discover a wide range of titles to enjoy. If you love Australian voices, authors like Kate Morton continue to deliver gripping stories set against richly imagined backdrops, making her novels some of the most popular historical fiction books in Australia.

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BookLoop is more than just a bookstore. We connect readers with stories that matter, offering a wide selection of books across every genre. Our historical fiction range highlights authors who bring history to life in unforgettable ways, whether through bestselling novels, book club favourites, or powerful debuts. With a focus on quality storytelling and seamless online shopping, we make it easy to find your next unforgettable read.

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Some of the best historical fiction books trending today include works by Kate Morton, Ken Follett, Hilary Mantel, Philippa Gregory, and Geraldine Brooks, alongside new Australian releases that are quickly gaining attention.

Can I buy Australian historical fiction books at BookLoop?

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