The Women by Kristin Hannah
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the worldwide bestselling author of The Four Winds, The Nightingale and Firefly Lane (a Number One series on Netflix), The Women is a story of devastating loss and epic love. It is both an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and a story of a nation divided by war.It would ...Show more
The Royal Librarian by Daisy Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations… Windsor, 1940: War rages, and as bombs rain down across Britain, nowhere is safe: not even a royal palace. Secretly tasked with foiling a suspected plot, Sophie Klein is placed in the Royal Library at Windsor castle, where the ...Show more
This Tender Land: A Novel by William Kent Krueger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
For fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, "a gripping, poignant tale swathed in both mythical and mystical overtones" (Bob Drury, New York Times bestselling author) that follows four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the New York Times bestselling a ...Show more
Compassion by Julie Janson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
‘You can’t enslave us all, Captain!’ I yelled into his face. ‘We will resist, and you will die a beaten man. Our Blackfellows will rise...’From the acclaimed author of the Miles Franklin longlisted Madukka: The River Serpent (UWA) and the Barbara Jefferis Award shortlisted Benevolence, Compassion contin ...Show more
Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth by Nancy Marie Brown
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
*A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE* "An impassioned, informative love letter to Iceland." —New York Times Book Review "This compelling and highly readable book offers a thought-provoking examination of nature of belief itself" —Bookpage, starred review In exploring how Icelanders interact wit ...Show more
A Bakery in Paris: A Novel by Aimie K. Runyan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the author of The School for German Brides, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century and post–World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple bakery in a tiny corner of Montmartre. ...Show more
The Beauties by Lauren Chater
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An incomparable beauty. A promise to a king. A portrait that can never be completed. In the seventeenth-century court of King Charles II, Anne Hyde, the Duchess of York has commissioned a series of ten paintings of the most beautiful women in the entourage. She hopes her series will capture something m ...Show more
Nineteen Steps by Millie Bobby Brown
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The debut novel from global star Millie Bobby Brown. Love blooms in the darkest days... London, 1942. Despite the raging war, spirited 18-year-old Nellie Morris lives a quiet life in the tight-knit East End community of Bethnal Green. Her family and friends all tease that she will marry air raid warde ...Show more
The Divorcees by Rowan Beaird
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A dark and dazzling debut from a beguiling new voice - for fans of Beautiful Ruins and Lessons in Chemistry. Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, unh ...Show more
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The third novel from the Booker-shortlisted author exploring love, betrayal and morality in 1920s Penang. It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an ...Show more
Burning the Books - A History of Knowledge Under Attack by Richard Ovenden
$25.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital existence, Burning the Books shows how the preservation of knowledge is vital for the survival of civilizati ...Show more
The Winter Dress by Lauren Chater
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Longlisted for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize. 'From a few shimmering strands of truth, Lauren Chater has spun an intriguing story of love, loss and fulfilment.' Pip Williams, bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost WordsTwo women separated by centuries but connected by one beautiful silk dre ...Show more