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    Blood Hemlock

    Part 3 of the White Lotus trilogy Working in secrecy for the Persian king Cambyses, Rhodopis finds herself back in the great city of Memphis, restored to her old profession of hetaera, moving with caution through the decadent world of the Greek...
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  • The Glad Game The Glad Game
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    The Glad Game

    A Jewish woman in a 19th-century shtetl nearly loses her mind when her six-year-old son is torn from her arms, bound for a twenty-five-year enlistment in the Russian army. She spoils her second son rotten, a foolish, headstrong young man...
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  • Mao's Kisses Mao's Kisses
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    Mao's Kisses

    Among the shelves of books that have been published on Beijing’s 1989 Tiananmen Square incident—in Chinese and English, inside and outside China—Mao’s Kisses: A Novel of June 4, 1989 is the first novel.Mao’s Kisses is told...
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  • From Valor, Triumph From Valor, Triumph
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    From Valor, Triumph

    From Valor, Triumph, a novel of a century of American warriors, is a work of military historical fiction. It spans WWI through the War on Terror, centering on four generations of the Howard family, fighting men from the low country of South Carolina. The...
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  • A Body in Berkeley Square A Body in Berkeley Square
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    A Body in Berkeley Square

    A Bow Street Runner summons Captain Gabriel Lacey to a Berkeley Square ballroom where a young dandy has been found stabbed to death during a society ball. The prime suspect: Lacey’s former commander, Colonel Brandon.Instead of denying the charges,...
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  • The Woodcarver's Secret The Woodcarver's Secret
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    The Woodcarver's Secret

    Connie Shelton’s bestselling Samantha Sweet mystery series begins when Samantha is given an ancient carved wooden box from a woman reputed to be a bruja, a witch. Immersed in the series, readers have wondered: Where did the box come from? When did...
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  • Now and Then Stab Now and Then Stab
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    Now and Then Stab

    London, 1593. An anonymous ballad calls for violence. The mayor offers 100 crowns for the author's name. Thomas Clarady wants that money and drags Francis Bacon in to help.Then the authorities turn on two popular playmakers. One is tortured. Another is...
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    The Painter's Apprentice

    Would you rather sacrifice your livelihood, your lover, or your life? When the Black Death comes knocking on your door, you'd better decide quickly.Venice, 1510. Maria Bartolini wants nothing more than to carry on her father’s legacy as a...
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    Grimoire of the Four Impostors

    Journey into the Occult, Where History is HorrorPresented in six tales, Grimoire of the Four Impostors takes readers on a dark tour of the 17th century, where corners of the world stand in shadow. Here grimoires possess secrets,...
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  • Beneath A Crescent Moon Beneath A Crescent Moon
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    Beneath A Crescent Moon

    An elite soldier chosen for greatness. An empire extending its reach. Will love or loyalty carry through until dawn?Europe, 1529. Despite tragic origins, Haris swore to defend Sultan Suleyman at any cost. Already serving as one of the ruler's closest...
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  • Lachlan's Heart Lachlan's Heart
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    Lachlan's Heart

    The Saga of the MacCulloughs continues... Lachlan MacCullough doesn't want to be a laird. He never did. But when his cousin, Black Richard, asks him to rule the recently conquered holdings of Randall Chisolm until Black Richard's first born is old...
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  • Tindr Tindr
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    Tindr

    The Lady of the Forest, Freyja, the Goddess of all woodland beasts, appears here on Midgard as a white hind. So great is her love for her deer that she herself comes in their guise. None has ever seen her; but if she permitted man but a glance, that is...
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  • Brother Wolf Brother Wolf
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    Brother Wolf

    For Athene Howard, the only child of renowned cultural anthropologist Charles Howard, life is an unexciting, disillusioned academic project. When she encounters a clairvoyant Dominican postulant, a stern nun, and a recusant English nobleman embarked on a...
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  • Southern Cross Rising Southern Cross Rising
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    Southern Cross Rising

    The Southern Skyes SeriesTwo brothers are separated by circumstance, their descendants by choice. In centuries-old Australia, familial roots of siblings and societies feed the beasts of prejudice, misfortune, and disproportionate wealth. What will the...
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  • The Rose Covered Cottage The Rose Covered Cottage
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    The Rose Covered Cottage

    This is one woman's solitary story of desperation and madness during WW1. Of her journey from hope to despair to death. Set in a great dark brooding forest, loneliness is pervasive as is the raven's cry. Lost love rotted and moldering, this woman, this...
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  • The Asian Queen The Asian Queen
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    The Asian Queen

    The Asian Queen tells the compelling and poignant story of awar-torn Cambodia following the aftermath of the Vietnam War. In thiswork of historical fiction, Esther Brafford is a young Americanvolunteer for the United Nations who wants to have a positive...
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  • The Knights of God The Knights of God
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    The Knights of God

    If you are a fan of the Knights Templar, then this is the book for you! Robert Wakefield has woven history and time in this tale of two best friends who become brothers and head for the crusade.True to the era and historically accurate, even history...
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  • Prohaeresius Prohaeresius
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    Prohaeresius

    In his last novella, renowned Armenian novelist Raffi takes the reader to late antiquity Athens to introduce the Greco-Armenian philosopher, Prohaeresius. Little known to the modern world, Prohaeresius was among the most famed philosophers and orators of...
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  • Hubert's Arthur Hubert's Arthur
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    Hubert's Arthur

    Taking as its point of departure the alleged inaccuracy of the chronicles of Matthew Paris, Hubert's Arthur presents an alternative retelling of English history from the point of view of Hubert de Burgh. In Hubert's narrative, which begins with an...
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  • Salt Redux Salt Redux
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    Salt Redux

    Jane and Salt - Four years of Happily Ever AfterSir Antony Templestowe - Four years of ExileLady Caroline - Four years of HeartacheDiana St. John - Four years plotting RevengeThe time has come...ReviewsJust when you feel safe to...
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  • The Last Aloha The Last Aloha
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    The Last Aloha

    In 1886, following the tragic deaths of her father and her fiancé, Laura Jennings, alone in the world, travels to Hawaii to live with missionary relatives she's never met. Laura imagines she'll live in a grass hut and minister to savages, but on arriving...
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  • The Blight of Lady Emily The Blight of Lady Emily
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    The Blight of Lady Emily

    Not even the imminent threat of a Japanese invasion can stop the notorious Lady Emily Gascoigne-Ridley from courting disaster – or even death – wherever she goes. When she decides to spend the winter of 1943 in Bexford North, simply to spite...
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  • Fiction Favours the Facts Fiction Favours the Facts
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    Fiction Favours the Facts

    Fiction Favours the Facts – a collection of 22 Bible-based micro-tales.“When the tally was complete, it took my breath away and a voice kept saying in my head, ‘This can’t be real!’But it was real.  There was no doubt...
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  • Lord of Sin Lord of Sin
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    Lord of Sin

    In the battle between love and duty, the heart has the most to lose…Despite his previous irksomeness, Lord Julian Wade has become a dear confidant to Portia Hayes. He’s proven attentive, honorable, clever, and would make many a lady a fine...
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  • The Ancestral Ring of Hope The Ancestral Ring of Hope
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    The Ancestral Ring of Hope

    István was a young man when the Iron Curtain blanketed Eastern Europe after the Second World War, vandalising the fabric of Hungarian society. Tortured for criticising the tyranny suffered under Communism, he conspires with likeminded rebels to retaliate...
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  • Villa Sans Souci Villa Sans Souci
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    Villa Sans Souci

    Florence Nightingale, much to the chagrin of her mother and sister, decides to become a nurse and transforms medical care globally. Follow her journey as well as that of her close friend, Dr. Salvatore Luigi Pisani, as they work to advance medical...
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  • When The Mermaid Sings When The Mermaid Sings
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    When The Mermaid Sings

    When the only choice is to run, where do you run to?When the only sound is the song of the sea, do you listen?Or do you drown in the embrace of a mermaid? Throughout childhood, Jesamiah Mereno has suffered the bullying of his elder half-brother...
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  • The Only Light in London The Only Light in London
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    The Only Light in London

    She took him in when no one else would. She didn't expect to fall in love... London 1939. As war casts a dark shadow in his homeland Germany, journalist Sebastien wanders the grey fog-filled streets. His heart breaks as he remembers his hurried...
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  • Orgullo y prejuicio - Pride and Prejudice Orgullo y prejuicio - Pride and Prejudice
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    Orgullo y prejuicio - Pride and Prejudice

    Ambientada en el elegante pero rígido mundo de la Inglaterra de principios del siglo XIX, Orgullo y prejuicio narra la inolvidable historia de Elizabeth Bennet, una joven independiente y de lengua afilada que se niega a conformarse con las...
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  • The Immigrant Queen The Immigrant Queen
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    The Immigrant Queen

    Hated as a foreigner, despised as a woman, I became First Lady of AthensAspasia falls passionately in love with Pericles, the leading statesman of Fifth Century Athens. Artists, writers and thinkers frequent her salon. She hides her past as a sex-worker,...
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  • Back to the Flood Back to the Flood
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    Back to the Flood

    'Everything harks back to the flood,' or so the constable of Wisbech Castle claims. The market baker Alured is dead. In the midst of a ferocious blizzard, Roger of Abynton, the bishop's seneschal for the Isle of Ely, arrives in Wisbech. He soon finds...
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  • Forever Shales Forever Shales
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    Forever Shales

    It was a cold, wet day in August when there came a knock at the door. My fresh bone was soon forgotten - I ran to the door barking, getting there before Armstrong. "Shales! Get back!" She ordered. I wanted to see who it was, so I ignored her. She grabbed...
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  • From Ekaterinburg to Askat From Ekaterinburg to Askat
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    From Ekaterinburg to Askat

    What if the Romanoffs had survived after the Russian Revolution?From Ekaterinburg to Askat - Journey Across Russia is an alternative story of the Russian Imperial Romanov siblings who, surviving the murder attempt on them, set off on an incredible...
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  • Murder in Moscow Murder in Moscow
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    Murder in Moscow

    Journey into the heart of 20th Century Russia in this fun and funny historical mystery, perfect for fans of Verity Bright and Helena Dixon.1918 MoscowWill following her heart mean losing her head? It could mean losing her job.Fiona Figg trails her...
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  • Hard Times for the East End Library Girls Hard Times for the East End Library Girls
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    Hard Times for the East End Library Girls

    As the war reaches London, they'll band together...War strikes close to home for chief librarian Cordelia when her flat is bombed, and her beloved Robert is called up and sent abroad. Fortunately, her colleagues Mavis and Jane can help see her through...
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    THE RUNAWAY a captivating historical saga THE RUNAWAY a captivating historical saga
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    THE RUNAWAY a captivating historical saga

    Wales, 1959.At twenty-two years old, Faith Pryor wants nothing more than a family of her own. She hasn't seen her parents or sister since she was evacuated from London during World War II.Her relationship with Nick Harris seems to be going well. Surely...
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  • THE END OF A JOURNEY a captivating family saga THE END OF A JOURNEY a captivating family saga
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    THE END OF A JOURNEY a captivating family saga

    South Wales, 1953.Zena Martin and Jake Williams are happy, in love, and about to announce their engagement.Meanwhile, Zena's brother, Greg, hopes to persuade the beautiful Rose Conelly to meet his family and begin the next stage of their relationship...
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  • Leaving Fatherland Leaving Fatherland
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    Leaving Fatherland

    Oskar Bachmann always imagined that giving his first lecture would be the defining moment of his life. It was, but not in the way he expected...Growing up a misfit in Nazi Germany, a victim of his father's beatings, Oskar's love of books is a...
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  • The Honourable Doctor The Honourable Doctor
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    The Honourable Doctor

    Westminster Hall, 13 December 1828. Midnight. Thousands are massed outside. Newspapers are holding their presses. James Lambert, a young apothecary-surgeon, has accused a leading surgeon at Guy's Hospital of killing a patient. Never before has a...
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  • The Blossoming Miles The Blossoming Miles
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    The Blossoming Miles

    Experience the Golden Age of British aviation through the eyes of a legend: F. G. Miles, the maverick designer who brought speed, innovation, and beauty to the skies. Frederick George Miles is a man obsessed. Fuelled by a relentless drive to design and...
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  • The Woman Outside the Walls The Woman Outside the Walls
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    The Woman Outside the Walls

    I always knew it would come out one day. They are finding everyone who has stayed hidden. They would have come to me in the end. Hamburg, 1942Seventeen-year-old Anna knows she can never tell her proud parents the truth about where she is going. She...
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  • The Silence Before Dawn The Silence Before Dawn
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    The Silence Before Dawn

    Nazi-occupied France, 1944: I tear open the envelope, extracting a sheet of folded paper. I read it, my heart cracking with every word. There is no mistaking the name of the man who betrayed us. Jack. My beloved fiancé - and now, a traitor. For...
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  • Secrets of the Cottage by the Sea Secrets of the Cottage by the Sea
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    Secrets of the Cottage by the Sea

    As Ellie stood on the boat, watching the small island come into view, she wondered what awaited her on shore. What secrets would she uncover in this place? When Ellie Roberts inherits a cottage on a remote Scilly Isle, she's shocked. She's never...
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  • Flight of the Swastika Flight of the Swastika
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    Flight of the Swastika

    The discovery in the Sahara Desert of a world war two military vehicle containing the remains of two former Luftwaffe officers twenty years after they went missing on a covert mission opens up interest in a long dead MI6 file concerning the mystery of...
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  • Fifty-One Fifty-One
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    Fifty-One

    Fifty-One, from south London writer Chris Barnham, is a mind-bending, time travel love triangle, set in past and future London, which has been compared with the classic 'The Time Traveler's Wife.'. Jake Wesson is sent back from 2040 to Blitz-era London,...
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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.

Bestselling Historical Fiction Authors

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.

Trending Historical Fiction Books and New Releases

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.

Why Choose BookLoop for Historical Fiction?

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

What makes historical fiction so popular?

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.