"The year is 1841. Victoria is on the throne, but women are not in control of their own destiny, and Elisabeth Godwin is facing a grim future after the death of her husband. Her brother-in-law is desperate to avoid ruin and determined to remove the threat she...

"The Avallon Hotel offers unrivalled luxury in the wild Appalachian Mountains, its curative sweetwater washing away the troubles of high society. June 'Hoss' Hudson, a local girl turned general manager, has known its power since she first stepped through the...

"Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about...

"The Crewel Wing is the sweeping Gothic drama of a freethinking, self-reliant woman caught between Victorian constraints, ancient superstitions, and the deep bonds of family... After tragedy befalls her family, Claire Bietris is now married to schoolmaster...

"In the aftermath of Elijah's fiery ascension, the mantle of prophecy rests heavily on Elisha's shoulders. Called to shepherd Israel through turbulent times, he faces challenges from rulers, prophets, and even the people closest to him. Jaedon, who has...

"Spurned by potential suitors, Miriam travels to Jezreel to care for her cousin's son. There, the precocious seven-year-old works his way into her heart. When Arameans swarm the land like locusts, Miriam focuses on the safety of her young ward but promises...

"He is destined to be high priest - but at what cost to those he loves? In ancient Samaria, Aban anticipates his rites of passage with excitement and dread. He yearns to join the priesthood of Ba'al Melqart, unlock the power of the rain god, and hear the...

"In this moving, coming-of-age novel set in the heart of Eastern Europe during the years between the World Wars, a random act of violence by local anti-Semitic thugs casts Wolchi, a trusting and superstitious teenage boy, and Leja, his bookish but independent...

France, 1830. A young woman is facing a difficult decision about her future, when the turmoil of the July Revolution overturns her tranquil world. Her family is called upon to protect a precious heirloom for an aunt who has been forced into exile, throwing...

"A feminist historical fiction novel about a community of only women in early-twentieth-century Alberta, all of whom are running from their pasts. Scottish newcomer Flora Craigie jumps from a moving train in 1905 to escape her abusive husband. Desperate to...

"Samahani means 'forgive me' in Swahili, two words that stand in stark contrast to everything that happens in this novel. Set in 19th century Zanzibar, this is a dark story of slavery, cruelty and vengeance, that depict the agonies of the native Zanzibaris at...

"In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with their neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and the Pendennis boys on the other. But their...

"A new arrival at the Beach Hotel spells trouble. Chambermaid Fanny is thanking her lucky stars she has had a second chance at life. As an unmarried mother, it could have been very different and she is happy. But when new maid, Susie, arrives at the Beach...

"1966, China is on the cusp of a decade of upheaval, and the furnaces of Old Kiln have never been this cold. The village's once-famed ceramics production has almost ground to a halt. Only ancient grudges smoulder beneath its poverty-stricken streets, never...

"Will his ambition be her destiny or her downfall? ... When Isabel Williams is betrothed to John Seymour, Lord of Wolf Hall Manor, she hopes that love and respect will come, despite his cold streak of ruthless ambition. Jess the Shepherdess tends her flock on...

"Cornwall, 1947. Tragedy strikes the village and Sheila is determined to help those who are suffering. Sheila is determined to help those who are suffering and soon finds herself seeking out new ways to make a difference. But when her long-term beau proposes,...

"Flanders 1922. After serving as a soldier in the Great War, Noon Merckem has lost his memory and lives in a psychiatric asylum. Countless women, responding to a newspaper ad, visit him there in the hope of finding their spouse who vanished in battle. One day...

"Cleopatra, Egyptian Princess, grows up the favoured daughter of the Pharoah, hiding amongst the scrolls in the great library of Alexandria with her beloved slave Charmian, longing for the chance one day to write her own story. Then, when her father dies,...

"1820, and the marriage between wealthy widower Sir Edward Knatchbull and Jane Austen's handsome, dutiful niece Fanny Knight is widely praised as being the most excellent match in the county. As Sir Edward's wife, Fanny pays attention to the upbringing of...

"England 1939. Women answer the call to defend their country, the first women to do so since Boadicea, two thousand years earlier. Among them are four remarkable women: Officer Diana Buckingham, 19 year old Edith with her brilliant mind, fearless Australian...

"Young widow Zarmina Miller has spent her life defying expectations. Fiercely self-reliant, she has no desire to remarry and lose her freedom. Jamie Kinross left his homeland, scarred by betrayal, vowing never to love - or trust - again. In India he starts a...

"Who can you trust? Betrayed by his brother and his childhood love, Brice Kinross needs a fresh start. So he welcomes the opportunity to leave Sweden for the Scottish Highlands to take over the family estate. But there's trouble afoot at Rosyth in 1754 and...

"Marriage of convenience or a love for life? It's 1732 in Gothenburg, Sweden, and strong-willed Jess van Sandt knows only too well that it's a man's world. She believes she's being swindled out of her inheritance by her stepfather and she's determined to stop...

"After the fall of Troy, an eleven-year-old boy sets off for the razed city when his father and sister vanish into the war zone. His family farm and the surrounding community now emptied by war, young Hani embarks on an epic quest - assisted by a brooding yet...

"She came from a lineage known for good fortune...by those who don't know the whole story. Portland, 1888. Amid the subterranean labyrinth of the notorious Shanghai Tunnels, a woman awakens in an underground cell, drugged and disguised. Celia soon realizes...

"August 1914- Edie Lawrence has never played by the rules. When war is declared, she disguises herself as a man to join the war effort and write about her experiences. But she also wants to catch news of her beloved Nate, who has already been sent to the...

"Manchester, 1941: Amid the heartbreak of war, can the girls band together to give their friend the wedding she deserves? Kept apart by war work, bombs and blackouts, Lorna and her beloved George cherish every precious moment together. George's vital role...

"In the white heat the sky is opaque, the air leaden and the light intense. A single cavalryman wonders at the oppressive atmosphere of the unfamiliar countryside he is entering. Exile from his Italian homeland as well as an innate, stubborn pride compel him...

"As the specter of Nazism looms over Germany, Margot finds herself torn between two men - Ben, the Jewish doctor who sees her potential, and Max, her childhood confidant and now husband. Their lives are further complicated by Margot's sickly son, Erik, who...

"Melbourne, 1927. The summer flowers smell like Christmas the night Zara Dickins meets Harry Holt. Zara is wearing a dress she has designed and made herself: white organdie over a short black slip, with black embroidery and a crimson taffeta sash. It's party...

"When Eileen, known to all as Sheena, is forced to move back to Kiltie Street from Devon by her landlady, she is unsure how she will start over again. With the help of friends old and new, she finds work at a garment factory. And though she catches the eye of...

"Possessing enormous physical strength, Seamus has a sacred and intimate relationship with the sea, can shape-shift, and has been gifted with second sight. But he is no hero. Illiterate and largely mute, he is a warrior without a sword, a poet without words....

"After falling pregnant unexpectedly, sixteen-year-old Catrin is devastated when her neglectful father sends her away and has her baby taken from her. Then she's reunited with her brother Roddy, a trainee doctor, and Catrin determines to change her life for...

"Roma, 410 AD: Twenty-year-old Galla Placidia is born of imperial blood but has no power. Fate has other plans. After refusing Galla Placidia a noble marriage, her half-brother Emperor Honorius has abandoned the city and left it vulnerable to attack. Outside...

"Rocky Mountains, 1823. The trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is one of the most respected men in the company, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts Glass...

"1917: As the war reaches its final moments, the families of the Somerset village of Street take comfort in new arrivals among them, but can they allow themselves to hope, or are more dark times around the corner? Following her recent marriage to Lucas, Louisa...

"Blackburn, 1947. In the tiny front parlour fourteen-year-old Laura Blake watches her beloved father die. But not before he tells her she will make something of her life. Laura never forgets his words. Yet her path to success proves to be a rocky one. Forced...

"Beth Ward and Tyler Blacklock share a deep love, but Beth's mother seizes the chance to be rid of her daughter and banishes her from the family home. Beth is taken in by the warm-hearted Maisie, and here she awaits the birth of her child, tormented by the...

"Having fled Rome and a stultifying marriage, Isabel Osmond is in London, brooding on the recent disclosure of her husband's shocking, years-long betrayal of her. What should she do now, and which way should she turn, in the emotional labyrinth where she has...

"Susanna Webster's dress shop stands in the picturesque Madensky Square, a quiet little world of its own, nestled in the heart of glittering pre-war Vienna. As the winter of 1910 unfurls into Spring, Susanna starts a journal about life in the Square,...

"Countess Anna Maria Berezowska has finally married her true love, Jan Stelnicki, but life is anything but ideal. Not long into their union, Jan takes to the battlefield in the hopes of ensuring a sovereign Poland for his children. Meanwhile, his best friend...

"In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock--the 'Widow of the South'--has quietly built a new life for herself as a midwife to the women of Franklin, Tennessee. But when Mariah's ambitious, politically minded grown...

"Maggie Flynn isn't your typical 1960s mum. She's a spy, an unsuspecting operative for MI5, stalking London's streets in myriad disguises. Widowed and balancing her clandestine career with raising a Beatles-mad teenage daughter, Maggie finds comfort and...

It's only Annie's second day working in the Bexleyheath branch of F.W. Woolworths when an oil bomb is dropped on the store and she must help save her fellow staff members. Thankfully uninjured, she is moved to the Erith store. There, she meets a lad - much to...

"Rafi Dubois is five years old when his mother is murdered after the Battle of Crécy in 1346. Alone and lost, Rafi is given a token by the dying Englishman who tried to save his mother's life: a half-broken family seal which he urges Rafi to return one day to...

"The marriage of Marcia and Curt Ratheter seemed idyllically happy. As much in love as on their wedding day, nothing could mar their joy. But one fateful day in 1931 brought Marcia's world tumbling about her ears and left her and her two daughters bereft....

"On the wedding day of Emperor Claudius to Agrippina, a senator lies dying in his own home. Yesterday, this senator was betrothed to Octavia, Claudius's daughter. Now blood gushes from his slit wrists. Agrippina's elevation to empress changes so many things....

"In a continuation of the family saga following the lives of Tamar and Andrew Murdoch, in the years leading up to and immediately after World War One. Tamar's children become the focus of the continuing story, in particular her illegitimate eldest son, Joseph,...

A heart-rending tale of enduring love ' "My name is Sarah, I'm 26, I live with my parents at The White Hart Inn, and I'm a ..." She hesitated. What else could she say? The facts were so cold and didn't remotely tell the story of her life. "I'm a widow. No,...

"Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry's master...

"It's 1863, and Melbourne is transitioning from a fledgling colony to a thriving, gold-fuelled metropolis. But behind its shiny new faade, the real Melbourne can be found in the notorious red-light district of Little Lon, full of brothels where rich and poor...

"Grenada, 1983. Opera star Felicity returns to her mother's homeland to perform a benefit recital and reconnect with a past lover, but when an armed coup traps her under house arrest with her estranged friends in the revolutionary government, she reflects on...

"Botanical artist Jane Saville is devastated when her manipulative mother banishes her to the countryside to protect someone else's honour. Isolated far from home, she is forced to live an impoverished, secretive life to save the family from public shame. Guy...

"1940. As Soviet forces storm Lithuania, Zofia and her brother Jacek must flee to survive. A lifeline appears when Japanese consul Sugihara offers them visas on one condition: they must deliver a parcel to Tokyo. Inside lies intelligence on Nazi atrocities,...

"G.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest, perhaps the greatest director of his era: when the Nazis seized power he was filming in France, to escape the horrors of the new Germany he flees to Hollywood. But under the blinding California sun, the world-famous...

"It is 1901, and Dr Gallagher has just pronounced Murray Hall dead. New York politico, gambler, womaniser - Hall is all these things, but when the newspapers break the news of his death to the world, they reveal a side to his identity he never wanted known, a...

"It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France...

"What if another world existed... where the Titanic had never sunk? When the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic leaves Olivia Davenport orphaned, she's sent to live with her guardians, the Fairchilds, in their huge Jacobean mansion. But the Fairchilds have...

"When life is weighed down by challenges, pillars of enduring hope and love are always waiting to be discovered. Ida Dempsey has grown up in a privileged life of luxury thanks to her aunt and uncle. Although Second Street - where women of ill repute ply their...

"Elena Bradford is more interested in her art than marriage. But when her father dies, leaving the family in debt, her mother packs the family up to go to a resort in Kentucky in search of a rich husband for Elena. With three men vying for her attention and a...

"Two pairs of siblings, devotees of Jane Austen, find their lives transformed by a visit to England and Sir Francis Austen, her last surviving brother and keeper of a long-suppressed, secret legacy. In Boston, 1865, Charlotte and Henrietta Stevenson, daughters...

It's 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer's block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey-- a total stranger living halfway across the Channel, who has come across her name written in a second hand book--she enters into a...

It's 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer's block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey-- a total stranger living halfway across the Channel, who has come across her name written in a second hand book--she enters into a...

"Livia Blake has lost her husband far too soon and faces a crossroads. It's her friend Pearl Grayson, head of Bristol's nursing school, who suggests she would make an excellent district nurse. With training completed and no ties left, a job offer to join the...

"Imprisoned by her husband. Separated from her children. If King Henry II thought these things would push his queen into submission, he was wrong. Eleanor of Aquitaine refused to give into his tyranny. Freed by his death, she became dowager Queen of England....

"Munich, 1945. Max Fischer cannot remember anything from his life before the concentration camp. Not his family, not his occupation, not even his own name. All he is left with is the sickening, maniacal laugh that echoes in his head. More than haunting his...

How to tempt an earl: "Kieran Parkhurst has been awarded the title of Earl from the Crown - blood money for the loss of his brother. Keen to avenge him, a meeting with a mysterious informant promising valuable information brings Kieran face to face with...

"In 1932 Berlin, Bertie, a trans man, and his friends spend carefree nights at the Eldorado Club, the epicenter of Berlin's thriving queer community. An employee of the renowned Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld at the Institute of Sexual Science, Bertie works to improve...

"Damnation has never been so sweet ... When Rosamund Tomkins enters the world she is so different, with her darkling eyes and strange laughter, that the midwives are afraid, believing her a changeling. But Rosamund's life is set to be anything but enchanted....

"Italy, 1940. With Florence on the cusp of war, Il Scorpione, the no-nonsense Englishwomen of the city, find their genteel livelihoods under grave threat by the approach of the Nazis. Tea rooms and bookshops are closed by the Fascists, and the women are forced...

"In this homage to True Grit, a young woman makes a perilous journey west in 1863 in search of her gold-mining father. After their mother dies, Haidie Richards and her younger brother, Boots, are put to work in an orphanage. Their father left four years...

"Alexandra Bouvier is born in Paris in 1900, at the dawn of a new century. From an early age, she is encouraged to think for herself by her enlightened family: her father, a French doctor; her mother, an American nurse; and her maternal grandfather a highly...

"When Charlotte's father dies, she receives an unexpected letter and learns she is part of the great Morland family, and heir to a vast fortune. Entry into Society and a glamorous marriage seem the next steps, but her unconventional upbringing makes Charlotte...

"Paris, 1900. Carousel-maker Gilbert works tirelessly to finish his masterpiece in time for the city's Exposition Universelle. But Gilbert is struggling in the wake of his wife and son's tragic deaths, and as he finalises his creation, a dangerous idea forms...

"The moment Thirza Caruthers sets foot on Corfu, memories flood back: the scent of jasmine, the green shutters of her family's home - and her brother Billy's tragic disappearance years before. Returning to the Greek house, high above clear blue waters, Thirza...

"Working in her father's chocolate factory, Kasia risks her life every day hiding notes vital to the Polish resistance in the carefully packaged boxes. The information tucked beneath the truffles is crucial to freeing her country and her family from the Nazis....

"The ancient North American city of Cahokia is threatened by civil war when the believed reincarnation of divine hero Morning Star is targeted by assassins, prompting his aunt, Matron Blue Heron, to bring the culprits to justice."--Provided by publisher.

"On the shores of the sparsely populated American wilderness, a small group of intrepid settlers have landed, seeking freedom to worship and prosper far from the religious strife and political upheaval that plague a war-ridden Europe. 500 years before Columbus...

"It is London, 1914. World War I looms on the horizon, women are fighting for the right to vote, and explorers are pushing the limits of endurance in the most forbidding corners of the earth. The plot begins as the 19th century was drawing to a close and the...

"At the dawn of the second millennium, two royal Scottish children are swept away from their families-Macbeth to the perilous royal court of his grandfather, and Gruach to the remnants of the goddess-worshiping Picts. Macbeth learns that blood bonds are easily...

"1911, Bath, England. Passionate suffrage campaigner Esther Stanbury has been banished from her home for her views. So ever since, she's worked as a window dresser in Pennington's Department Store, where she's proud to have a job and to earn her own money. She...

"1910, Bath, England - Hardworking and whip smart, Elizabeth Pennington is the rightful heir of Bath's premier department store, Pennington's. But her father, Edward Pennington, believes his daughter lacks the business acumen to run his empire. He is resolute...

"England 1904. Mirror twins Adelaide and Victoria have spent their lives in orbit of each other- doomed to be in the other's shadow, their lives are intertwined and inextricable as each other's identical inverse. Adelaide is dutiful and reserved, happy to...

"It's 1910, and Theodulf Sauer has finally achieved a position befitting his ego: master lighthouse keeper at a newly commissioned station towering above Lake Superior. When his new wife, Willa, arrives on the first spring ferry, it's clear her life has taken...

"Te Motu Kairangi Miramar Peninsula, Wellington 1912. Doctor Matti Loverock spends her days and nights bringing babies into the world, which means her daughters - seven-year-old triplets Ada, Oona and Hanna - have grown up at Wonderland, the once-thriving...

"1910. With the disappearance of her mother and the sudden death of her father, Lena instantly loses any security she has within the circus she has known all her life. She is advised to sell the carousel her father cared for like a child and look for a...

"Mayfair, 1910. At the age of ninety, Florence Nightingale is frail and no longer of sound mind. After a storied career as a nurse, writer and statistician, she now leads a reclusive existence. One summer evening she is astonished to receive a visitor: a young...

"Despite a deathbed warning from her beloved mother, Phoebe Mulligan has no choice but to throw herself on the mercy of her uncle, Edward. Wrenched from all she holds dear, the tragic young girl is delivered to Blackburn town, where she must live in a...

"In 1891, timid Jo van Gogh Bonger lives safely in the background of her art dealer husband Theo's passionate work to sell unknown artists, especially his ill-fated dead brother Vincent. When Theo dies unexpectedly, Jo's brief happiness is shattered. Her...

"The year is 1480 and England is in peril. The much-despised Richard III is not long for the throne, and the man who will become Henry VII stands poised to snatch the crown for himself. But for twelve-year-old John Collan, living in a remote village with his...

"Norwegian immigrant Amalia Gunderson and her ward, Ruth Forsberg, arrive in Iowa to claim the boardinghouse Ruth has inherited, despite opposition from a difficult cousin. While Amalia looks for her long-lost brother, her relationship with an attorney unfolds...

"Clockmaker Sydney Forrester inherits the estate of a mysterious industrialist, the estranged uncle she never met. The unusual house, brimming with unfinished inventions of the most clever sort, seems to be trying to tell her something. With the help of an...

"On the Hua Shan (the Holy Mountain) 250 years before Christ, the most powerful man in the world, the First Emperor bequeaths a talisman - a narwhal tusk with carvings depicting the growth of Shanghai for the next 2500 years - to his three trusted followers:...

"Margaret Ryan never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution in her buttoned-up suburb"--

"Emilia del Valle was always destined for great things. Abandoned at birth by her Chilean aristocrat father, Emilia comes of age in nineteenth-century San Francisco as an independent and fiercely ambitious young woman, decades ahead of her time. She will do...

"As Allied bombs rain down on Torino in the autumn of 1942, Stella Costa's mother sends her to safety with distant relatives in a Tuscan villa. There, Stella finds her family tasked with a great responsibility: hiding nearly 300 priceless masterpieces from...

"Victorian New Zealand sets the stage for an extraordinary story of two brothers bound by blood but divided by empire. Hohepa, born to a British captain and a Maori mother, navigates a precarious path between two worlds during a time of mounting colonial...