Historical Fiction

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come.

Blank Spaces details the journey of a girl named Jerusalem Walker who, as she prepares to graduate from high school at the age of fifteen, wonders what will come next. Pondering a dull future, similar to that of her housewife mother, Beryl, and her office worker father, Kevin, Jeri hopes that the empty places in her life will be filled with excitement and adventure. Her hopes come to a dark fruition when the Walker family home is ransacked by intruders. In the aftermath Jeri, and her brother, Y

Australian Heritage Courage, Pride and Honour The Zuytdorp Survivors - Courage The Zuytdorp departs the Cape of Good Hope, Table Bay, with the ship Kockenge. She pulls ahead of the Kockenge due to her being a much larger and faster vessel. The captain sails until sighting land before turning north for Batavia, making full benefit of the winds. But catastrophe is all they meet, no success in voyage to be celebrated. The Zuytdorp is shipwrecked, and this is the story of the survivors.

In these stories of a quintessential Australian phenomenon, bushfires reveal a conflagration of human drama. They deepen the pain of a tragic love triangle, bring justice to a false mate, and push a young drover and his horse to the limits of their endurance. A priest and wedding guests find themselves fighting fires instead of toasting the happy couple. A woman capable of saving her farm from fire cannot save herself from the proprietary rage of men. And a good horse and a faithful dog prove t

"Hang up your guns and enjoy life-before the bullet sends you to bootlegger heaven," Infamous gangster Charlie Birger tells Carl Shelton. The next morning, Birger hangs. Carl, though, returns to his life as a bootlegger and leader of the Shelton Gang. Still, Birger's words haunt him. Retiring to his farm in southern Illinois seems like an idyllic way for Carl to spend his golden years. Meanwhile, though, there are banks to rob, infringing mobsters to kill, and church to attend. Religiously.

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In 18th century Isle of Man eleven-year-old Alice Moore, was seemingly abandoned by her mother, then thrown, penniless, into the street by the landlord and left fend for herself.

A novice nun stolen away by a ruthless clan-chief. The warrior who must turn his back on everything to save her. The emotional tale of a woman in jeopardy and a reformed rogue in Medieval Scotland. Leanna MacDonald never wanted to become a nun-but it was the only way her father could protect her from the attentions of a cruel man who wanted her as his wife. However, when Leanna's father unexpectedly dies, her recently widowed former suitor decides he will have her no matter the cost. Ro

Boswells Fairies is an often humorous tale of life during basic training of Her Britannic Majestys Corps of Royal Marines. Paul Johnson is unhappy with his middle-class (striving for upper middle class) parents, his girlfriend, and his job. To change his life he joins the Royal Marines. He rejects his father's recommendation that he apply for a commission and knows he will have to dumb-down his background and education if he is to fit in with other recruits. Jack Mason left his foster home to j

A story of hope, love, sacrifice, this is the sometimes harrowing, yet ultimately uplifting tale of a child's search for happiness, and a woman's test of faith. Set in the unforgiving landscape of the Australian outback during the 1950s, the story follows the life of Katherine, on an isolated property beyond Broken Hill, NSW.

Twenty-three short stories show rural life in Louisiana after the Civil War. Former slaves, people of color, women, poor whites, and wealthy whites chafe against social restrictions. Includes translations from French and standardized spelling, with no changes to plot or settings, and the original unedited versions in appendices.

'Mad Nicholas' to his friends, 'Scourge of Spain' to the enemy, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet has never been known to resist a challenge.When a captured galleon yields the lovely Dona Dominica de Rada y Sylva, he vows to return her and her father to the shores of Spain. He will take Dominica as his bride even if he must enter the lion's den...