Tidelands (#1 Fairmile) by Philippa Gregory
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Fairmile
THE BRAND NEW SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR The eagerly awaited first book in Philippa Gregory's sweeping new series begins with the story of Alinor, a young midwife who finds herself tempted by a forbidden love affair. But in a society that has already set a path for her, ...Show more
The Choir of Gravediggers by Mel Hall
$16.00 AUD
Category: Historical
When Miss Truelove discovers hatboxes full of papers after her mother's death, mysteries of her past begin to resolve. She is compelled to tell the story of her eccentric father, Charles Truelove, and the scandals surrounding his name. The Choir of Gravediggers takes us back to late nineteenth century M ...Show more
Bring Up The Bodies (#2 Wolf Hall) by Hilary Mantel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Wolf Hall 2 | Reading Level: very good
An astounding literary accomplishment, Bring Up the Bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists. ‘Our most brilliant English writer’ Guardian Bring Up the Bodies unlocks the darkly glittering court of Henry VIII, where Thomas Cromwell is now chi ...Show more
Warleggan: A Novel of Cornwall, 1792-1793 (#4 Poldark) by Winston Graham
$18.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Poldark Ser.
Cornwall 1792. Ross plunges into a highly speculative mining venture which threatens not only his family's financial security but also his turbulent marriage to Demelza. When Ross and Elizabeth's old attraction rekindles itself, Demelza retaliates by becoming dangerously involved with a handsome Scottis ...Show more
The Curator by Owen King
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Sing Me to Sleep Ser.
Half fairy tale and half historical account of a revolution that never was, Owen King's The Curator is full of sly humor, sensuality, and strangeness - Holly Black. From Sunday Times bestselling author Owen King comes a Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figure ...Show more
The Twisted Sword: A Novel of Cornwall, 1815-1817 (#11 Poldark) by Winston Graham
$18.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Poldark Ser.
The Twisted Sword is the eleventh novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner.Cornwall 1815. Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For ...Show more
Essex Dogs by Dan Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Essex Dogs Trilogy Ser.
Globally bestselling historian Dan Jones makes his historical fiction debut with Essex Dogs, the explosive first instalment in an epic new trilogy set during the Hundred Years War. July 1346. The Hundred Years' War has begun, and King Edward and his lords are on the march through France. But this war b ...Show more
The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Opening on the windswept front of Morecambe Bay, on the remote north-west coast of England, The Electric Michelangelo is a novel of love, loss and the art of tattooing. Hugely atmospheric, exotic and familiar, it is an exquisitely rendered portrait of seaside resorts on opposite sides of the Atlantic by ...Show more
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: FABER MODERN CLASSICS
"In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of lost causes and lost love, The Remains of the Day, winner of the Booker Prize, contains Ishiguro's now cel ...Show more
The Parihaka Woman by Witi Ihimaera
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
"A wonderfully surprising, inventive and deeply moving riff on fact and fiction, history and imagination from one of New Zealand's finest and most memorable storytellers. /b>here has never been a New Zealand novel quite like The Parihaka Woman. Richly imaginative and original, weaving together fact a ...Show more
The Emperor Waltz by Philip Hensher
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
The new novel from Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip Hensher - his most ambitious and daring novel yet. An astonishing novel, 'The Emperor Waltz' draws together various narrative strands into a compelling symphonic whole. In a third-century desert settlement on the fringes of the Roman Empire, a new wife ...Show more
The Tailor's Girl by Fiona McIntosh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A humble soldier wakes in a military hospital with no recollection of his past. Jones has only a few horrifying memories of the battlefield at Ypres, and his identity becomes a puzzle he must solve. A stunning seamstress dreams of her own high-fashion salon in London. After a fated meeting with Jones, E ...Show more