Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF BIRDSONG'Excruciatingly powerful' ANTONY BEEVOR 'A brilliant, harrowing, powerful novel' DAILY MAIL 'Faulks is a prodigiously talented writer' NEW YORK TIMESIn the black of night, a woman lands on the fields of Occupied France. Charlotte Grey is on a missio ...Show more
While Paris Slept: A mother faces a heartbreaking choice in this bestselling story of love and courage in World War 2 by Ruth Druart
$23.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
On a platform in occupied Paris, a mother whispers goodbye.It is the end. But also the beginning...'What a book... Emotional and heartrending...absolutely phenomenal. I was on tenterhooks throughout. A wonderful achievement' JILL MANSELL*** THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ***'I absolutely loved it. An inge ...Show more
A Disappearance in Fiji by Nilima Rao
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A charming debut historical mystery set in 1914 Fiji. 1914, Fiji: Akal Singh, 25, would rather be anywhere but this tropical paradise - or, as he calls it, 'this godforsaken island'. After a promising start to his police career in Hong Kong, Akal has been sent to the farflung colony of Fiji as punishmen ...Show more
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLER'Magnificent - deeply moving' Sunday Times'Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable' The TimesIn the heat of the French summer, young Englishman Stephen Wraysford travels to France and falls in love with his host's wife, Isabelle Azaire. When the world stops, their affair fa ...Show more
Benevolence by Julie Janson
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
For perhaps the first time in novel form, Benevolence presents an important era in Australia’s history from an Aboriginal perspective. Benevolence is told from the perspective of Darug woman, Muraging (Mary James), born around 1813. Mary’s was one of the earliest Darug generations to experience the impa ...Show more
The Evening and the Morning (#0 Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett
$26.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: PREQUEL TO PILLARS OF THE EARTH
From the bestselling author Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning is a historical epic that end where The Pillars of the Earth begins. A Time of ConflictIt is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. The king's grip on the country is fragile and chaos reigns. A young boat builder dreams of a better future ...Show more
The Escapades of Tribulation Johnson by Karen Brooks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this brilliant recreation of the vibrant, optimistic but politically treacherous world of London's Restoration theatre. We are introduced to the remarkable playwright Aphra Behn, now a feminist icon then an anomaly, who gravitated to the stage - a place whe ...Show more
Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold by Stephen Fry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between ...Show more
Vincent and Sien by Silvia Kwon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Hague, 1882, a howling winter's night, Sien and her daughter are on the brink of surrendering to the bitter cold, their exhaustion, their hunger, when a good Samaritan appears. Vincent van Gogh, a struggling artist, provides them with warmth and shelter for the night. Fascinated by Sien - her face, ...Show more
Lion: 'Brings war in the ancient world to vivid, gritty and bloody life' ANTHONY RICHES by Conn Iggulden
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
ENTER THE BATTLEFIELDS OF ANCIENT GREECE WITH THE EPIC BESTSELLER FROM MASTER STORYTELLER CONN IGGULDEN'Pacy and propulsive . . . Crackling with energy, violence and stirring speeches, Lion chronicles power struggles, political machinations and the bloodthirsty ravages of up-close combat' DAILY MAIL'Igg ...Show more
The Binding by Bridget Collins
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Imagine you could erase grief. Imagine you could remove pain. Imagine you could hide the darkest, most horrifying secret. Forever. Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange letter arrives summoning him away from his family. He is to begin an apprenticeship as a Bookbinder -- a vocation ...Show more
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
$21.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a reckless storm. As Maren Magnusdatter watches, 40 fishermen, including her father and brother, are lost to the waves, the menfolk of Vardø wiped out in an instant.Now the women must fend for themselves.Eighteen ...Show more