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  • Rattling the Jewel in the Crown Rattling the Jewel in the Crown
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    Rattling the Jewel in the Crown

    One of the first Afghans in London - inspired by true events. In 1895, the despotic Amir Abdul Rahman Khan, nicknamed 'The Iron Amir' who had united Afghanistan through a reign of terror, espionage and retribution had intended to undertake a...
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  • The Crown and the Cushion The Crown and the Cushion
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    The Crown and the Cushion

    1671, London is buzzing with news of Thomas Blood's theft of the crown jewels, but for Emily Cussons, his long-term mistress, the repercussions from his audacious crime will catapult her into the glittering court of Charles II. Glamorous, filled...
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  • Signum Signum
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    Signum

    SIGNUMTHE SERPENTS OF CAESAR ~ BOOK 1In an alternate first century Rome, treachery casts a long shadow...When Praetorian Guard Verendus answers a plea to return home, he finds military unit "the Watch" terrorising the island of Iolia. The Watch signum is...
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  • HIGHLANDER HONORED HIGHLANDER HONORED
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    HIGHLANDER HONORED

    Can a woman who is running from her past, and a man who believes in only himself, fall in love? A disgraced laird's daughter. The cynical captain charged with protecting her. An epic tale of duty, desire, and courage in Medieval Scotland.After a love...
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  • Christmas in Crooked Creek Christmas in Crooked Creek
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    Christmas in Crooked Creek

    Will two hearts find a way to leave the sorrows of war behind and embrace a future in Crooked Creek? Join the women of Crooked Creek in a heartwarming tale of survival, hope, love, and maybe even a Christmas miracle. The war is over, though for some like...
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  • The Alewives The Alewives
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    The Alewives

    Colmar, 1353 CEGritta, Appel, and Efi managed to survive the Black Death, only to find that they are in desperate need of money. With limited options and lots of obstacles, they band together to become alewives - brewing and selling ale in the free...
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  • Daughters of Jerusalem Daughters of Jerusalem
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    Daughters of Jerusalem

    Daughters of Jerusalem is a saga of three generations of extraordinary Jewish women. Lili Ventura immigrates to the Holy Land in 1903 to fulfill a promise to God, and reinvents herself as a midwife, serving not only the Jews of the Walled City but also...
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  • With Great Sorrow With Great Sorrow
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    With Great Sorrow

    Massachusetts, 1861. The American Civil War has been raging for almost a year when Emmett joins the 28th Massachusetts Infantry with the promise of serving his country under the green flag of the Irish Brigade. But soon he finds himself struggling to...
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  • The Queen's Almoner The Queen's Almoner
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    The Queen's Almoner

    Sometimes loyalty to the queen comes at a cost.In The Queen's Almoner, Thomas Broune is a Reformer and childhood friend of the young queen, Mary Stuart. When Mary embarks on a new life in her estranged homeland of Scotland, Thomas is there to greet her...
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  • The Huguenot and the Heathen The Huguenot and the Heathen
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    The Huguenot and the Heathen

    After studying in Europe to become a doctor at the forefront of the medical knowledge of his day, John Power, eldest son of Jacques and Marie, faces heartbreaking tragedy when he cannot save the woman he passionately loves - only to have the same...
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  • Two Faces of Janus Two Faces of Janus
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    Two Faces of Janus

    A young nobleman confronts a specter from the past that could threaten his family's legacy.  A brash young aristocrat, Lucius Antonius anticipates Emperor Augustus Caesar will support his lofty ambitions to serve as a praetor in the Roman...
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    Found in Pieces

    A Heart-rending Story of Two Mothers-one White, One Black-struggling for Truth and Justice in the Civil Rights-era SouthIn 1958, when almost no women own and edit newspapers, Pearl Goodbar, a white mother of two teen-age girls, risks her family's...
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  • Miss Fanshawe's Fortune Miss Fanshawe's Fortune
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    Miss Fanshawe's Fortune

    "Wonderful novel! Vividly drawn characters, an intriguing mystery, and humorous and sparkling dialogue reminiscent of Heyer, as if the author was laughing as she wrote it. Fans of traditional Regency romance will love this book!"Camille Elliot, Author,...
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    Bogeys

    When the United States reluctantly enters the First World War, American Glenn Langley follows his fascination with flying to become a pilot in Europe. Joining the Army forces him to leave behind his football days at Brown University, but provides an...
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  • The Boy and the Lake The Boy and the Lake
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    The Boy and the Lake

    "The Boy and the Lake is a poignant and haunting coming-of-age story ... a multifaceted, evocative and masterfully told tale." -Lynda Cohen Loigman, USA Today bestselling author of The Two-Family House and The Wartime Sisters"Pelzman excels at creating...
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  • The Birdhouse Man The Birdhouse Man
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    The Birdhouse Man

    Sam Walker pulls no punches when he tells his Vietnam War story to college journalism student, Claire Cunningham. As Sam shares his unapologetic and unvarnished viewpoint, he begins to suspect Claire’s thesis work isn’t her only reason for...
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    Far Away Bird

    Inspired by true events, Far Away Bird delves into the complex mind of Byzantine Empress Theodora. This intimate account deftly follows her rise from actress-prostitute in Constantinople’s red-light district to the throne of the Byzantine Empire...
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  • The 14th Day The 14th Day
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    The 14th Day

    "The 14th Day will have you on the edge of your seat while tugging at your heart strings."Stefan Adamek, a CIA spy based in Cuba in 1962, has grown weary of the espionage business. Although still yearning for revenge against Communists for killing his...
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  • The Education of Delhomme The Education of Delhomme
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    The Education of Delhomme

    **Winner of the 2023 IPNE Book Award for Legacy Fiction**A richly layered novel set in 19th-century France: When Frédéric Chopin's piano tuner faces execution, the only person who can save his life is his former rival, the novelist George Sand...Beaulieu...
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    Courses of the Cursed

    African American youth Curtis Jefferson is still serving his one-year term at Fort Grant, a penal outpost for boys-a place where a horrific massacre still haunts the inhabitants. In the second book of the Curtis Jefferson series, our hero continues to be...
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  • The Bliss of the Grave The Bliss of the Grave
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    The Bliss of the Grave

    MehwishZanzibari Heiress Mehwish Shumaila bin Said al-Murgebi murdered her grandmother to retrieve an ancient Grimoire that had been authored in hell. Without a backward glance, she boarded her future husband’s ship bound for the Americas with the...
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  • Terry (First Edition) Terry (First Edition)
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    Terry (First Edition)

    The book follows the main protagonist search for his true identity in post-war Britain. The audience is introduced to 26 year old Terry who is trying to fit into a world which is not totally ready for the life he is striving for. We are introduced to his...
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  • Living with Certainty Living with Certainty
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    Living with Certainty

    Joy is a young woman from 2015 with an attitude to match. When her 'time-travelling' friend Eva departs, she chooses to stay in the year 1967. This is a time when women were not always given the respect they deserved. Being kidnapped by two thugs from...
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  • Rose Gray Rose Gray
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    Rose Gray

    Thirteen-year-old Rose Gray's fervent prayers for peace during the bombing raids have been answered, but no one around her in 1947 England is physically or spiritually free of the aftereffects of war. Living on a government-run tenant farm, Rose...
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  • A Carnival of Lies A Carnival of Lies
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    A Carnival of Lies

    The Gestapo arrested my father in Berlin in the summer of 1933. When he asked why, he was told, "We do not give reasons."
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  • Other Brother Other Brother
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    Other Brother

    This is the grand adventure of a family, forcibly separated for years, that endures hardship and heartbreak as they struggle for survival and cross the American frontier to find each other. Every page contributes to the story; there is no filler material...
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  • Around Brazil on the "International Adventurer" Around Brazil on the "International Adventurer"
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    Around Brazil on the "International Adventurer"

    Around Brazil on the "International Adventurer" - a Fictional Panegyric is the story of Professor Mike Gaherty in a new "gig" as Cultural Speaker for Adventure Travel's small ship expedition around Brazil, a thirty-plus day trip from Manaus in the Amazon...
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  • Black Bow Black Bow
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    Black Bow

    The tragedy of the Indians on the American prairie during the white migration across the continent will never be forgotten or forgiven. The American government thought they had purchased the west from France and Mexico, but the real owners were the...
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  • Diablas Del Cimarron Diablas Del Cimarron
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    Diablas Del Cimarron

    Three young women of entirely different backgrounds were thrown together by fate then demolished the Mexican slave trade for a decade. This fast moving, historically based novel with non-stop action and dramatic predicaments is captivating. It takes...
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  • Double Star Double Star
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    Double Star

    This story is set in Germany at the start of the First World War and follows Klaus, a quiet astronomer of Jewish background, who spends his time with a telescope in an observatory on the edge of town. There he meets an independent young woman from a...
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  • Red Beam of Day Red Beam of Day
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    Red Beam of Day

    Dublin, Ireland 1918When WWI veteran-and part-time private detective-Tommy Conlon is hired to find the troubled daughter of a wealthy Irish businessman, he uncovers a mysterious cult whose army of followers are willing to do anything to keep their...
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  • The Last Dollar Princess The Last Dollar Princess
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    The Last Dollar Princess

    "The Last Dollar Princess is a skillfully-written and engaging historical novel about a unique young woman struggling against the constraints of society." -Sublime Book ReviewIt must be said. Scandal follows her family like an ever-faithful hound. No...
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  • Enemies of All Enemies of All
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    Enemies of All

    "Tightly plotted with break-neck pacing, Leahy's immersive historical crime drama, Enemies of All, is a winner!" -James L'Etoile, award-winning author of Black Label, Dead Drop, and the Detective Penley seriesIn the early 1940s, NYPD Dan Brady, an Irish...
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  • A Persistent Echo A Persistent Echo
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    A Persistent Echo

    "Kaufman is a fantastic writer with a distinctive poetic touch... It will be the rare reader who will not be moved by this soulful, poignant novel." -Kirkus Reviews"It's a powerfully rendered novel that holds the rare ability to traverse genres to...
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  • The Incredible Journey of Lacey Starr and Mabel Brown The Incredible Journey of Lacey Starr and Mabel Brown
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    The Incredible Journey of Lacey Starr and Mabel Brown

    The book, The Incredible Journey of Lacey Starr and Mabel Brown, is a historical novel about pre-World War II and the first two years of the war in New York and in Warsaw, Poland. The author emphasizes both entertainment businesses in New York and...
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  • In the Hands of Women In the Hands of Women
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    In the Hands of Women

    In the Hands of Women is a suspenseful historical novel centered on the life of Hannah Isaacson, an obstetrician in training who was determined to improve medical safety for women in a time when women had few choices. This carefully researched work, set...
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  • Caught in the Rush Caught in the Rush
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    Caught in the Rush

    As the depression of 1893 worsened, many began seeking a new life. By 1895, hundreds of banks and thousands of businesses had gone under. As the stock market collapsed, jobs became scarce, and the value of the dollar declined.In 1894, Bill Schooley, with...
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  • Far and Wide, Way in the Distance Far and Wide, Way in the Distance
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    Far and Wide, Way in the Distance

    The need/necessity of Emanuel having to run here and there, resting but running again, farther, always away from the known and always into the unknown, looking, searching, hoping, like a tree branch that reaches and stretches every year.
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  • Shadows We Carry Shadows We Carry
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    Shadows We Carry

    In this sequel to the award-winning post-Holocaust novel The Takeaway Men, the Lubinski twins struggle with their roles as women and coming to terms with their family's Holocaust legacy at the same time as political and social upheaval roils through the...
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  • The Flight of the Veil The Flight of the Veil
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    The Flight of the Veil

    "A well-crafted tale about trauma and miracles." -Kirkus ReviewsNicky Covo is a Holocaust survivor. In 1990, Nicky - a Brooklyn psychiatrist - receives a letter from Abbess Fevronia, the head of a women's monastery in Greece. Although Nicky believes the...
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  • Lucky John Lucky John
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    Lucky John

    John Roberts has the risky habit of infidelity, but it isn’t adult John Roberts running his life, it’s John the indignant and angry teenager. At 17, his secret girlfriend becomes pregnant, and both fathers put an end to the relationship...
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  • Return to Ruby Hope Valley Return to Ruby Hope Valley
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    Return to Ruby Hope Valley

    The love, faith and friendship of Ruby Hope Valley continues as the children begin to grow into adulthood. Joseph Levi is determined to become a Veterinarian as Samuel John struggles to walk again. Betty Anne and Sara Jane are always there to help them...
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  • Upon This Throne Upon This Throne
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    Upon This Throne

    "A perfect read for those who enjoy stories such as Game of Thrones, Vikings and The Tudors." -Pacific Book ReviewComing to his senses in a place he's never seen before, Alfred discovers he has survived the deadly sickness sweeping the land and has also...
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  • Soweto Story Soweto Story
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    Soweto Story

    Soweto Story is the compelling tale of the trials and tribulations of the Khumalo family that took place during the terrible years of apartheid in South Africa, before the release of Nelson Mandela in February 1990. It is the story of South Africa, in...
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  • Griuns Griuns
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    Griuns

    « L’imagination nous emporte souvent vers des mondes qui n’ont jamais existés, mais sans elle, nous allons nulle part. » – Carl SaganSans archives pour la région du Chablais avant le XI siècle, ce conte...
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  • Cutter's Reach Cutter's Reach
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    Cutter's Reach

    A Novel of the Early FrontierA sweeping saga of a family caught up in an epic struggle between empires, with the fate of North America hanging in the balance, written by the bestselling author of more than fifty novels, including High Country, Mountain...
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  • Playing the Patriot Playing the Patriot
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    Playing the Patriot

    1949: American Rudy Chapman is planning his escape from Communist East Germany. For the past decade, he has survived the Nazi regime's brutality by teaching English in the tiny village of Grossheringen and translating at a POW camp while secretly aiding...
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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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At BookLoop, we pride ourselves on being one of Australia’s favourite places to buy books online. Our historical fiction collection is curated with care, featuring both new releases and bestsellers that readers across the country are searching for. Whether you are looking for literary fiction, historical romance, or adventure-driven stories, our collection ensures there is something for every reader. Book clubs searching for novels that spark conversation will also find endless choices in our carefully selected titles.

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Historical fiction continues to be one of the most popular genres, and BookLoop ensures you never miss out on the latest trending books. Explore new releases from international favourites and Australian authors alike. From epic sagas spanning generations to intimate family dramas, historical fiction offers something unique for every kind of reader. If you are searching for the best historical novels to add to your library, BookLoop has you covered.

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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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What are the best historical fiction books right now?

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?

Yes. BookLoop features a wide range of Australian historical fiction books, from award-winning authors like Geraldine Brooks to modern bestsellers by Kate Morton.

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Readers love historical fiction because it combines the richness of history with the emotional power of storytelling, allowing them to experience past worlds in a deeply personal way.

Does BookLoop offer new releases in historical fiction?

Absolutely. We regularly update our catalogue with new releases from both Australian and international authors, ensuring you have access to the latest bestselling books in historical fiction.