Less by Andrew Sean Greer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: An Arthur Less Novel | Reading Level: very good
Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be too awkward; he can't say no - it would look like defeat. So, he begins to accept the invitations on ...Show more
Nothing Ventured (#1 William Warwick) HB by Jeffrey Archer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: William Warwick Novels Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective...William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father's dismay, that rather than become a barrister like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister Grace, he will join London's Metropol ...Show more
Written in My Own Heart's Blood (#8 Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Outlander
In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears . . . into 1743. The story unfolded from there in seven bestselling novels, and CNN has called it "a grand ad ...Show more
Tussaud by Belinda Lyons-Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Paris, 1810. Haunted by the French Revolution, Marie Tussaud has locked herself away in her shop with the death masks she was forced to make to avoid the guillotine. Philidor, a famous magician, offers her the chance to accompany him to London to assist in creating a wax automaton that will bring them b ...Show more
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a profoundly moving story of an island refuge, and a community of outcasts living on borrowed time. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discovered an island where they could make a life together. More than a century later, the H ...Show more
Where Light Meets Water by Susan Paterson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An evocative novel of love and art, and one man's journey to find his place in the world. Where Light Meets Water is a moving debut traversing nineteenth-century London, Melbourne and New Zealand's rugged South Island. London, 1847. Sailor Tom Rutherford has two passions: the sea and his painting. Sent ...Show more
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demand ...Show more
Empire by Conn Iggulden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
IN CONN IGGULDEN'S LATEST GOLDEN AGE EPIC, JOIN PERICLES, THE LION OF ATHENS, ON A JOURNEY TO SECURE THE FATE OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE----Pericles returns home more than a hero: he's the leader of Athens, the empire's beacon of light in the dark.But even during times of peace, the threat of Sparta - Athen ...Show more
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
$18.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett's breakthrough international bestseller, is a heart-racingly exciting tale about the fate of the war resting in the hands of a master spy, his opponent and a brave woman.Victory Hangs in the Balance1944. In the weeks leading up to D-Day the Allies are disguising their inva ...Show more
To Kill the President by Sam Bourne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A blockbuster thriller from No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Sam Bourne, in which Maggie Costello uncovers an assassination plot to kill the tyrannical new president. The unthinkable has happened...The United States has elected a volatile demagogue as president, backed by his ruthless chief strategi ...Show more
Sugar Money by Jane Harris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Martinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master, Father Cleophas, with a mission. They must return to Grenada, the island they once called home, and smuggle back the 42 slaves claimed by English invaders at the hospital plantation in Fort Royal. While Lucien, barely in ...Show more
The Kid["A Novel"] by Ron Hansen
$26.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
“A marvelous journey into both history and imagination…A perfectly compelling and fast-paced story” (San Francisco Chronicle) from Ron Hansen about an iconic American criminal of the old West: legendary outlaw, Billy the Kid.Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminutive, charming, blond-haired youn ...Show more