Three Days and a Life by Pierre Lemaitre; Frank Wynne (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Antoine is twelve years old. His parents are divorced and he lives with his mother in Beauval, a small, backwater town surrounded by forests, where everyone knows everyone's business, and nothing much ever happens. But in the last days of 1999, a series of events unfolds, culminating in the shocking van ...Show more
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
She was 'The Angel of the Baths', the one woman whose touch everybody yearned for. Yet she would do more. She was certain of that. In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned for her nursing skills is convinced that some other destiny will one day show itself to her. Bu ...Show more
War Lord (#13 The Last Kingdom) by Bernard Cornwell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser.
THE FINAL BATTLE AWAITS... The epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series, coming October 2020. England is under attack. Chaos reigns. Northumbria, the last kingdom, is threatened by armies from all sides, by land and sea - and only one man stands in their way. Torn between loyalty ...Show more
A Hundred Flowers by Gail Tsukiyama
$12.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
China, 1957. Chairman Mao has declared a new openness in society: "Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend." Many intellectuals fear it is only a trick, and Kai Ying's husband, Sheng, a teacher, has promised not to jeopardize their safety or that of their young son, Tao. Bu ...Show more
Dangerous Women by Hope Adams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
July, 1841 A group of young women sit on the deck of a ship headed to the colonies of Australia, heads bent, busy stitching a beautiful quilt together, sunlight glancing from silver needles, overseen by their young matron Kezia Hayter.Until a piercing shriek tears the fabric of their small society apart ...Show more
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams by Anita Heiss
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Gundagai, 1852 The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in its wake. It is a stark reminder that while the river can give life, it can just as easily take it away. Wagadhaany is one of the lucky ones. She survives. But is her life now better than the fate she esc ...Show more
The Eighth Wonder by Tania Farrelly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Suffragette meets The Greatest Showman in this story of passion and courage, as a young feminist fights against the rules of society to find her place in the world. New York, 1897. The richest city in the world.Beautiful, young and privileged, Rose Kingsbury Smith is expected to play by the strict r ...Show more
Paris Savages by Katherine Johnson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
This story has its genesis in fact, when three Fraser Island people were taken to Germany in 1882–83. The sole survivor was Bonangera (Boni/Bonny) whose life-size plaster cast remains at the Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France. The silencing that Badtjala people continue to endure in the localised histo ...Show more
The Christie Affair by Nina De Gramont
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days. Only I know the truth of her disappearance. I’m no Hercule Poirot. I’m her husband’s mistress. Agatha Christie’s world is one of glamorous society parties, country house weekends, and growing literary fame. Nan O’Dea’s world is something very different. ...Show more
Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter by Lizzie Pook
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter is an exquisite historical novel set in a mesmerising yet unforgiving land, where both profit and peril lie deep beneath the ocean's surface...Western Australia, 1886As the pearling ships return to Bannin Bay after a long diving season, twenty-year-old Eliza Brightwe ...Show more
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Daiyu is the orphaned daughter of a once influential, now missing, family. Alone and on the streets, she must rely on her wit and quick thinking to discover what happened to her family. But when Daiyu is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, she must relinquish the home and futur ...Show more
The Last Hours in Paris by Ruth Druart
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
War brings them together.Liberation will tear them apart.A POWERFUL PORTRAIT OF WAR. A HEARTBREAKING STORY OF LOVE. THE EXTRAORDINARY NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF WHILE PARIS SLEPT. Paris 1944. Elise Chevalier knows what it is to love...and to hate. Her fiance, a young French soldier, was killed by the ...Show more