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  • I Ordered a Table for Six I Ordered a Table for Six
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    I Ordered a Table for Six

    Adela Framley seems to be a perfect citizen. She's a proud mother, she runs a charity for homes which have been bombed and wants to hold a dinner party in aid of the charity's patron, Gardiner Penrose. But are there dark motives behind her good...
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  • The Future is My Past The Future is My Past
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    The Future is My Past

    In this final book of the trilogy, award-winning journalist, Dr. Donna Clovis, writes from Einstein’s lecture hall and takes classes in physics at Princeton University. Here, she recounts stories of Princeton, New Jersey through its current events...
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  • Conflict Overhead Conflict Overhead
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    Conflict Overhead

    The main character in the book is Gordon William Grey, a young man from Australia who was raised in the bush. It's the 1930s, and his love for flying takes him to Victoria, where he joins the RAAF. Circumstances then take him and a group of RAAF pilots...
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  • Honor Among Outcasts Honor Among Outcasts
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    Honor Among Outcasts

    As the Civil War rages, a man and his regiment of former slaves risk their lives for freedom in the second novel from the author of The Lies That Bind.  2017 Missouri Writers Guild Historical Fiction Award Winner   After fleeing...
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  • A Pillar of Iron A Pillar of Iron
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    A Pillar of Iron

    New York Times Bestseller: A magnificent novel of ancient Rome and the tragic life of Cicero, who tried in vain to save the republic he loved from tyranny.In this riveting tale, the Roman Empire in its final glory is seen through the eyes of philosopher,...
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  • Lo! Jacaranda Lo! Jacaranda
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    Lo! Jacaranda

    LO! JACARANDA is a young, Spanish-Gypsy woman in 1760s Spain. As fate would have it, she is born and raised as the daughter of a wealthy ranchero owner. A beautiful life of prosperity and love stretches on before her as the day of her betrothal...
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  • Four Hundred Bones Four Hundred Bones
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    Four Hundred Bones

    This book is about "Stalinism" and the "Thought Police" in academia during the Communist regime. The setting is the School of Medicine in Bucharest, Romania. The year is 1949.With the Communist takeover, Western biology and medicine are declared an...
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  • Wagon Tracks Wagon Tracks
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    Wagon Tracks

    Wagon Tracks: Across Kansas is a continuation of The Tennessee Mountain Man saga. Abel Strawn, one of Jack Leffingwell's sharpshooters, has an opportunity to acquire land in the western Kansas Territory. On the surface, it seems like a good opportunity...
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  • The Queen's Stallion The Queen's Stallion
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    The Queen's Stallion

    Desoto came to steal treasure as he had done in Peru, where he found the gold and jewels of the Inca. But he was not happy at home, so he returned with an army from Spain to find new treasures.He had hundreds of soldiers as well as war dogs trained to...
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  • Can He Love Me After This Can He Love Me After This
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    Can He Love Me After This

    Elizabeth was very happy living on her farm with her husband, Mark and baby girl, Cassie. Everything was good until the frightful day six cowboys came to her house when her husband was gone. She spends the next four years learning to forgive the...
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  • Such a Time as This Such a Time as This
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    Such a Time as This

    <p>Liesel von Schwarzkopf is a spoiled young socialite living in Germany. Pampered and loved by her parents and society, she is just beginning to know love, stepping out into a future that seems so bright, when WWII breaks out. Lost in the midst of...
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  • The Fireglass The Fireglass
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    The Fireglass

    Peter Shamokin is a young man who comes of age amid neglect and sorrow in the high-risk environment of the frontier of the New World in the late eighteenth century. He drifts into a life as a lone hunter and trapper, sharing supplies with a succession of...
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  • Edge of Doom Edge of Doom
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    Edge of Doom

    A workman bulldozing the rotting remains of a barracks of the former Weimar Concentration Camp, spots a corner of a rusted canister protruding from the dirt. He believes the contents could be revealing information on the murder and mayhem that took place...
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    1886 Ties That Bind

    It is 1886 as Englishman Lord Langsford travels by train to San Francisco. Newly widowed, Langsford is desperate to escape his grief, demons, and life in England. As Langsford completes the last leg of his transcontinental journey, his life unexpectedly...
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    Shadows of Us

    It is 1969 as Eileen Emerson points her car toward the California border. Eileen, who has always embraced her gift to see things not apparent to others, is used to keeping her abilities a secret. But thanks to a devoted mentor, Eileen is now heading...
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  • The Longhorn Feud The Longhorn Feud
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    The Longhorn Feud

    Barry Litton lay on the earthen floor of the shack with a bullet in his ribs. Outside, gun in hand, waited his old enemy-the hired killer Rann Duval.Duval laughed mockingly. "Litton. I've got you trapped. Are you coming out?"Painfully, Barry got to his...
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  • Gundown Gundown
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    Gundown

    The street was deserted except for two shadowy figures—tall and menacing. The sun was high, and the hot, dry air held the secret of what was about to happen.…Walt Slade, ace Texas Ranger, walked toward the center of town. Suddenly the two...
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  • Gunsight Showdown Gunsight Showdown
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    Gunsight Showdown

    The mighty bridge crossing the Rio Grande was to be the final step in the completion of the railroad and the taming of the West. But when Ranger Walt Slade saw the plans, he knew there was a sinister enemy at work —for the bridge was being built...
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  • Buccaneer's Blade Buccaneer's Blade
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    Buccaneer's Blade

    If you enjoy a novel of swashbuckling peril, of pirates, wenches, and the quest for Spanish gold, then Donald Barr Chidsey's new book is your dish! It's the story of a dashing young swordsman, Talbot Slanning, who for the love of a maid got...
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  • Episode on the Riviera Episode on the Riviera
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    Episode on the Riviera

    Steven Cogswell was being hunted on the Riviera. Between crooks and party girls, things are getting tough. Add his ex wife ... and beautiful Nadine (who may not be as innocent as she pretends) ... and Nadine's brute of an ex fiance, Gerald ... and...
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  • The Mindleberg Papers The Mindleberg Papers
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    The Mindleberg Papers

    When free-lance writer Nick Saltire arrives in the town of Textilia, North Carolina, he little suspects he is destined to do for this charming little backwater what Sherman did for Georgia. Nick, familiar only with history as it is written in books and...
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  • Faded Flag Faded Flag
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    Faded Flag

    In 1960s Ireland, the “Troubles” wreak havoc over the entire country, terrorizing citizens in both the North and the South. Paul Redding, a career supply runner for the Irish Republican Army, has finally had enough of the relentless violence...
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  • And the Darkness Fell And the Darkness Fell
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    And the Darkness Fell

    Pat McGrath's historical fiction "And The Darkness Fell," tells the nearly forgotten story of Hypatia of Alexandria, the last of the great pagan intellectuals/teachers in the last years of the Roman Empire. Basing her novel in factual...
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  • Salvage Optic Salvage Optic
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    Salvage Optic

    A slave-diver is hunted in the life-devouring Moluccas... Salvage Optic is the tale of a young man's adventure in the Dutch East Indies in 1674, a tropical hell where English-Balinese youth William Harroway is constantly reabsorbed into one form of...
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  • Finding Ariadne Finding Ariadne
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    Finding Ariadne

    WHEN WOMEN RULE AND MEN OBEY THE WORLD'S OLDEST STORY OF TRUE LOVE... Finding Ariadne is a story about a young woman's love for her people, a mother's love for her child, and the love between a man and a woman that is so strong and so true it becomes a...
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  • Serpent in the Pines Serpent in the Pines
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    Serpent in the Pines

    A way of life is threatened as the conflict between North and South rages on long after Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Combatants include a saw mill superintendent murdered in his home, a hot-headed but fair-minded sheriff who must bring the killer or...
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  • Room 203C Room 203C
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    Room 203C

    Room 203C is a tiny cubicle built inside a larger hospital room. Originally designed as an isolation space for children with contagious diseases, it becomes a setting where we meet some of the most memorable characters found in life's ever-changing...
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  • The Ice Clan The Ice Clan
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    The Ice Clan

    The Ice Clan takes place 10,000 years in the past-a time when the great mammals are disappearing and the receding glaciers have left a cold and forbidding climate in the wild lands on the shores of Lake Superior. It is a desperate time for the Clovis...
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  • Song of the Flutist Song of the Flutist
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    Song of the Flutist

    Two thousand years before Dante, Michelangelo and the Medici of the Renaissance, the extraordinary Etruscans civilized central Italy.3 generations of the ambitious Porenna-Laris clan2 powerful rival cities threaten to tear apart this noble family1...
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  • The Good Thief The Good Thief
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    The Good Thief

    Jerusalem, 33 A.D. It is the tumultuous final weeks before Passover. Excited pilgrims pour into the Holy City. Many hail a young rabbi preaching in the countryside as the promised Messiah. In the wilderness south of Jerusalem, two wealthy and influential...
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  • A Man Before God A Man Before God
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    A Man Before God

    Darkness shrouds the World. Hitler threatens an activist pope, and the very existence of the Catholic Church. Can one man make a difference? 1939 finds the World on the brink of war, and a Vatican educated Caribbean orphan returning to his island home...
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    Arse Over Teakettle

    Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn found adventure on the banks of the mighty Mississippi. Tom Hudson and his friend "Shorty" discovered it in the secluded laneways and avenues of a deceptively quiet Toronto neighbourhood. Arse Over Teakettle is an...
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  • All This Will Be Lost All This Will Be Lost
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    All This Will Be Lost

    All This Will Be Lost, published in hardback as The Wind is Not a River, by Brian Payton, is a moving story of survival against the odds and an enduring love . . .
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  • The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.
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    The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.

    Originally published in 1902, this early work is a comprehensive and informative look at the life and history of Henry Esmond. The text is split into three books: Book I. The early youth of Henry Esmond, up to the time of his leaving Trinity College in...
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  • Prisoner Of War (1916) Prisoner Of War (1916)
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    Prisoner Of War (1916)

    Prisoner of War is a novel written by Andre Warnod and originally published in 1916. The story is set during World War I and follows the experiences of a French soldier named Jean-Louis Dubreuil. After being captured by German forces, Dubreuil is taken...
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  • Primus In Indis Primus In Indis
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    Primus In Indis

    Primus In Indis: A Romance is a novel written by M. J. Colquhoun and published in 1885. The story is set in India during the late 19th century and follows the adventures of the protagonist, Primus, a young Englishman who travels to India to work as a...
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  • Modern Characters For 1778 (1778) Modern Characters For 1778 (1778)
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    Modern Characters For 1778 (1778)

    Unfortunately, it is not accurate to state that William Shakespeare wrote a book titled ""Modern Characters for 1778"" in 1778. Shakespeare died in 1616, and the concept of ""modern characters"" did not exist in his time. It is possible that this title...
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  • Miss Carmichael's Conscience Miss Carmichael's Conscience
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    Miss Carmichael's Conscience

    Miss Carmichael's Conscience: A Study in Fluctuations is a novel written by Baroness Von Hutten and published in 1900. The story follows the life of Miss Carmichael, a young woman who struggles to reconcile her own desires with the expectations of...
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  • Sir Guy De Guy Sir Guy De Guy
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    Sir Guy De Guy

    Sir Guy De Guy: A Stirring Romaunt, Showing How A Briton Drilled For His Fatherland, Won A Heiress, Got A Pedigree, And Caught The Rheumatism is a novel written by Rattlebrain and published in 1864. The book follows the story of Sir Guy De Guy, a British...
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  • Protestant Fiction (1899) Protestant Fiction (1899)
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    Protestant Fiction (1899)

    Protestant Fiction is a book written by James Britten and published in 1899. It is a collection of short stories that revolve around the Protestant faith and its impact on the lives of individuals. The stories are set in different periods and locations,...
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  • Irresolute Catherine (1908) Irresolute Catherine (1908)
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    Irresolute Catherine (1908)

    Irresolute Catherine is a novel written by Violet Jacob and published in 1908. The story is set in Scotland and follows the life of Catherine, a young woman who is struggling to find her place in the world. Catherine is torn between her desire to live a...
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  • Local Legends (1872) Local Legends (1872)
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    Local Legends (1872)

    Local Legends is a book published in 1872 by an anonymous author. It is a collection of stories and legends that are specific to certain localities in England. The book is divided into chapters, each one dedicated to a specific region or town, such as...
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  • In A Car Of Gold (1902) In A Car Of Gold (1902)
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    In A Car Of Gold (1902)

    In A Car Of Gold is a novel written by Patrick Leopoldo Gray and originally published in 1902. The story follows the adventures of a young man named Guy Neville, who inherits a fortune from his uncle and decides to embark on a journey to see the world...
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  • Romance Of The Olden Time Romance Of The Olden Time
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    Romance Of The Olden Time

    Romance Of The Olden Time: Fourteen Tales From History is a collection of fourteen historical tales published anonymously in 1858. The book is a compilation of stories that are set in different periods of history, ranging from ancient Greece to medieval...
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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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