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  • The Fishermen The Fishermen
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    The Fishermen

    "The Fishermen" by Dmitrii Vasil'evich Grigorovich offers a poignant glimpse into the lives of Russian peasants in the 19th century. This work of literary realism vividly portrays the hardships and simple joys of those who depend on the river for their...
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  • John the Fool John the Fool
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    John the Fool

    "John the Fool: An American Romance" by Charles Tenney Jackson, originally published in the early 20th century, tells a compelling story of love and self-discovery against a backdrop of societal change. The novel follows the journey of John, a character...
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  • The Net; a Novel The Net; a Novel
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    The Net; a Novel

    Rediscover a poignant narrative from the early 20th century with "The Net; a Novel." This enduring work of literary fiction captures the nuances of a bygone era, offering readers a glimpse into the social and personal landscapes of the time. With...
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  • The Strangers of the Glen; Or, the Travellers Benighted The Strangers of the Glen; Or, the Travellers Benighted
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    The Strangers of the Glen; Or, the Travellers Benighted

    The Strangers of the Glen; Or, the Travellers Benighted: A Tale of Mystery, penned by Hannah Maria Jones, invites readers into a world of suspense and intrigue. Set against the backdrop of the Scottish Highlands, this early 19th-century novel unfolds a...
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  • Percy Grange Percy Grange
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    Percy Grange

    "Percy Grange; Or, the Ocean of Life" by Thomas Joseph Potter is a compelling work of 19th-century fiction offering profound spiritual and moral insights. Set against the backdrop of Victorian England, the narrative follows the life and experiences of...
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  • Ascanius; Or, the Young Adventurer Ascanius; Or, the Young Adventurer
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    Ascanius; Or, the Young Adventurer

    "Ascanius; Or, the Young Adventurer" recounts the tumultuous events of the Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland during the years 1745-6. This historical narrative provides an impartial view of the uprising, detailing significant events such as the Battle of...
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  • A Mexican Ranch A Mexican Ranch
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    A Mexican Ranch

    "A Mexican Ranch; Or, Beauty for Ashes" is a compelling historical novel by Janie Prichard Duggan. Set against the backdrop of a vibrant Mexican landscape, the story follows characters facing challenges and transformations on a ranch. This ‘Prize...
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  • You and What Army? You and What Army?
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    You and What Army?

    Stevie Stepanek's upbringing in a mill town past its prime has taught him to expect the worst from life, which is exactly what he gets the day his big brother returns from war, his body intact but his mind clearly missing in action. Impelled to...
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  • Prince of Wales Fort, 1770 Prince of Wales Fort, 1770
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    Prince of Wales Fort, 1770

    "A riveting glimpse into history." -Professor Ann Carlos, Author of Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur TradeIn 1770, Prince of Wales Fort and the hinterlands of Canada are kingdoms within themselves. From well-established...
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  • Decalogue Deception Decalogue Deception
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    Decalogue Deception

    A farmer discovers a stone in the New Mexico desert engraved with the Ten Commandments-in ancient Phoenician Hebrew, a language dead for 2,000 years.Dr. Vivian Guthrie, director of the National History Museum, is thrust into a dangerous treasure hunt...
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  • Halley's Gathering Halley's Gathering
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    Halley's Gathering

    Longlisted for the Dzanc Books Prize for FictionNew Mexico Territory. 1910.  Julia Halley, unlikely owner of the Many Springs Canyon Trading Post on the Navajo Reservation, has attracted a small but devoted circle of friends-her "gathering"-both...
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  • Silenced Whispers Silenced Whispers
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    Silenced Whispers

    While other Iranian girls of the early twentieth century cook, sew, and hope for marriage, Gohar climbs trees, reads books, plays tar, and dreams of escaping her forsaken desert town. But when her forbidden correspondence with a non- Muslim boy is...
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  • Forever Blackbirds Forever Blackbirds
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    Forever Blackbirds

    Told in dual timelines, Forever Blackbirds traverses protagonist Marta Gottlieb's escape from 1914 Russia to her tribulations in rural North Dakota during WWII. Young Marta, now in her mid-forties, begins to question her evangelical faith in...
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  • The Yellowstone Campaign The Yellowstone Campaign
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    The Yellowstone Campaign

    Fall 2024 The BookFest Second Place Award for Young Adult Historical FictionFor decades, mountain men told tales of the exotic geography surrounding the source of the Yellowstone River, and Jubilee Walker, to the dismay of his fiancée, Nelly Boswell,...
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  • The Silent Sacrifice The Silent Sacrifice
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    The Silent Sacrifice

    What if the greatest warrior of the Mahabharata never fought?What if his silence carried the weight of the world?In a forest forgotten by kings, a boy is born to storm and shadow. Barbarik, grandson of Bhima, son of Ghatotkacha, grows into a warrior with...
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  • Brothers Gone Before Brothers Gone Before
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    Brothers Gone Before

    The values of two young brothers raised in a religious household are affirmed and destroyed by combat in the Civil War’s most famous unit, the Iron Brigade. Describing the battles of Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness in letters and...
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  • Spying on Jesus Spying on Jesus
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    Spying on Jesus

    The government of Herod Antipas has hired Caleb the scribe to spy on a rabble-rousing prophet, Jesus of Nazareth. Suspicious and critical of Jesus, Caleb infiltrates his band of followers and sends letters back to the government reporting on Jesus’...
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  • TESS AND THE HIGHLANDER TESS AND THE HIGHLANDER
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    TESS AND THE HIGHLANDER

    A Macpherson Clan NovelTess Lindsay has spent most of her life on the remote Isle of May, uncertain of her identity. Raised by the two sole inhabitants of the island, she is left to fend for herself after their deaths, until a stranger washes ashore in a...
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  • Coldwater Reckoning Coldwater Reckoning
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    Coldwater Reckoning

    A Novel of Love, Loss, and the Fight to Belong1870s Kansas-On the windswept frontier, where the railroad has yet to arrive and old divisions still run deep, Coldwater is a town caught between its past and an uncertain future.When Alice Payne arrives, she...
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  • The Raven's Call The Raven's Call
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    The Raven's Call

    The raven's cry awakens Rayl from the mists of her broken mind, thrusting her into a battle for survival. A fierce fighter with a shadowed past, Rayl strives to shield Kiri, the spirited but naive royal daughter of the Askuzai, from enemies without and...
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  • When the Storm Passed When the Storm Passed
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    When the Storm Passed

    Some storms shatter. Others reveal what was always meant to stay.Seven years ago, Elara Morgan walked away from everything she knew-including the one person who truly knew her heart. Haunted by a shared tragedy, she built a new life across continents,...
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  • Als die Zeit uns trennte Als die Zeit uns trennte
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    Als die Zeit uns trennte

    In einer Welt, in der Magie und mittelalterlicher Aberglaube herrschen, ist modernes Wissen der gefährlichste Zauber.Izolde Strauss, eine brillante Profilerin aus unserer Zeit, findet sich plötzlich im finsteren Mittelalter einer alternativen Welt wieder...
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  • The Road to Hindostan The Road to Hindostan
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    The Road to Hindostan

    Empyrean is a novel spooled in blood and silver, set in the hollows of Appalachia where a man named Elias dares to build a sanctuary-and instead awakens something.Fleeing war and economic ruin, two fractured families settle the forgotten valley of...
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  • The Seeker Chronicles The Seeker Chronicles
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    The Seeker Chronicles

    The Seeker ChroniclesA Christian Allegory of Faith, Inner Transformation, and the Search for TruthStep into an unforgettable spiritual journey through the heart of the wilderness. In The Seeker Chronicles, an allegorical Christian novel rich with...
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  • Illustrious Illustrious
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    Illustrious

    On the eve of their 50th anniversary celebration they face the first serious threat to their vaunted marriage...Max Godfrey and Stella Flynn are Hollywood royalty, but their successful careers in film and music mean far less to them than their marriage,...
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  • Endless Horizon Endless Horizon
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    Endless Horizon

    Set amidst what is now the American southwest, Endless Horizon paints a thrilling portrait of a quest for survival in a space and time where previously isolated individuals, cultures, and nations collided. This first in a series of historical thrillers...
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  • Miss Devoted Miss Devoted
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    Miss Devoted

    Psyche Fremont has known two constants in life: Her passion for her art, and society's determination to ignore her talent. She isn't looking for anything other than a handsome model when she crosses paths with Michael Delancey, and he's only interested...
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  • Lion Fangs
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    Lion Fangs

    Lewis Frobisher is a man with a colourful history.Raised on the streets of London under the reigns of the Stuarts, he finds employ as a cabin boy aboard His Majesty's Ship Lion following a series of incidents at his almshouse in Cripplegate. As the...
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  • Obscured Intent Obscured Intent
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    Obscured Intent

    In 1930s America, Mina Albers's life takes a tragic turn when the state sends her and her siblings to ‎an orphanage after her father's death as her mother was unable to care for them all. Desperate to ‎escape, Mina flees and finds refuge with Robert...
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  • A Rebellious Bride A Rebellious Bride
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    A Rebellious Bride

    Perfect for fans of Georgette Heyer and Bridgerton, a wonderful Regency romance from bestselling author Fenella J. Miller.Can the rebel be tamed?When Lord Peregrine Sheldon, an intelligence officer for Wellington, is reported missing, presumed dead, his...
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    Barbours Cut

    The details of Clyde A. Barbour's early life on the Mississippi River call to mind the adventures of that famous riverboat pilot Mark Twain, and like Twain, Clyde would never be content with a life limited by riverbanks - his dreams and ambitions went...
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  • The Queen of the Platform The Queen of the Platform
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    The Queen of the Platform

    "Susan Higginbotham has a gift for telling the tales of strong women who stepped out from the shadows into which society's strictures would have cast them in order to make their indelible marks on history. . . . Weaving together sumptuous prose and...
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  • The Make-Believe Widow The Make-Believe Widow
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    The Make-Believe Widow

    Widower James Ludlow, Earl of Rotherham, attends a house party in search of a mother for his two daughters, and his primary requirement is that he doesn't fall in love. Having already given that emotion to his former wife without reciprocation, he...
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    A Story of Durham

    Richard Harvey Wright came to Durham in the late 1870's with a dream to build a tobacco empire. An orphan at the age of fourteen and no money for higher education, Richard pursues the business world from a different angle. Life is difficult for the young...
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    The Pursuit of Elena Bradford

    <b>Nothing would please her family more than her securing an admirable match, but true love and loyalty are harder to come by than she imagined. <br/></b><br/>At twenty-two, Elena Bradford has never met a man who made her consider...
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  • Dusk
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    Dusk

    WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS FOR FICTION 2025'Magnificent' Tim WintonIn the distant highlands, a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds. Down in the lowlands, twins Iris and Floyd are out of work,...
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    Emilia Tercia, La Hija del Consul. Volumen II

    Emilia Tercia, la hija del consul es una novela historica que describe la vida de una romana patricia, hija en vida del notable consul Lucio Emilio Paulo. Se inicia ambientada en el 233 a.C.Puede ver mas informacion en http://www.librosenred...
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    Emilia Tercia, La Hija del Consul. Volumen I

    Emilia Tercia, la hija del consul es una novela historica que describe la vida de una romana patricia, hija en vida del notable consul Lucio Emilio Paulo. Se inicia ambientada en el 233 a.C.Puede ver mas informacion en http://www.librosenred...
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    La horo 25 (Romano tradukita al Esperanto)

    En la Serio Oriento-Okcidento de Universala Esperanto-Asocio, Mondial prezentas romanon tradukitan el la rumana lingvo al Esperanto:Johann Moritz estas simpla kamparano kun malfacila vivo en Rumanio, en la 1930-aj jaroj. Iun tagon antaŭ la dua...
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    Lavender White Arctic Blue

    During the waning days of the gold rush, Emma Brownston fled a cheating husband, and traded an affluent lifestyle in Britain for a bold venture into the Alaska frontier. But life in the fading Klondike city of Skagway soon proved to be far from her last...
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    The SealEaters, 20,000 BC

    The SealEaters, 20,000 BC is the last of the planned books in the Winds of Change Series on the Peopling of the Americas. The time period is the onset of the last Ice Age which ends the Time of Peace and ushers in the Time of War on earth. The Time of...
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    Tuksook's Story, 35,000 BC

    The Winds of Change novel series examines a few issues:• When people came to the Americas, • Who came to the Americas, and • From where did they come?The Winds of Change novel series views the peopling of the Americas primarily from research over the...
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    Manak-na's Story

    The Winds of Change novel series examines a few issues: * When people came to the Americas, * Who came to the Americas, and * From where did they come? The Winds of Change novel series views the peopling of the Americas primarily from research over the...
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    Zamimolo's Story, 50,000 BC

    The Winds of Change novel series examines a few issues: • When people came to the Americas, • Who came to the Americas, and • From where did they come? The Winds of Change novel series views the peopling of the Americas primarily from research over the...
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    Ki'ti's Story, 75,000 BC

    Neanderthals: had fair skin and some had red hair and blue eyes could speak as well as we can, were intellectually bright catching dolphins (something that cannot be done from shore), killing megafauna for food with spears, surviving cold temperatures...
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    Heart of Abigail

    Weaving spellbinding fiction into meticulously researched history, Heart of Abigail tells the harrowing story of bonnie Abigail Sinclair, a young nurse who travels from Edinburgh, Scotland to Alaska in 1899 to work at the St. Ann's Hospital in Douglas...
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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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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.

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