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Fragile Monsters by Catherine Menon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
On a visit to her childhood home in rural Malaysia, Durga faces a reckoning. Stuck with her sharp-tongued grandmother in the rising heat, both women must untangle the truth from the myth of their family's past. What happened to Durga's mother after she gave birth? Why did so many of their family members ...Show more
The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In the first year of the doomed German invasion of Russia in WWII, a German military doctor, Paul Bauer, is assigned to establish a field hospital at Yasnaya Polyana - the former grand estate of Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of the classic War and Peace. There he encounters a hostile aristocratic Russia ...Show more
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A stunning new departure for Maggie O'Farrell's fiction, Hamnet is the heart-stopping story behind Shakespeare's most famous play. TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART. On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to ...Show more
Mirror and the Light (#3 Wolf Hall) TPB by Hilary Mantel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Wolf Hall Ser.
With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferociou ...Show more
The Chanel Sisters by Judithe Little
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The unforgettable story of the sisters who changed fashion forever. Gabrielle and Antoinette know they're destined for something better. Abandoned to a convent orphanage, they are raised for simple lives. But at night they dream of a glittering future, and the Chanel sisters are determined to prove them ...Show more
Wettening Auralia by Peter Burke
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Historical novel set in Western Australia at Federation, with CY O'Connor and the Goldfields water scheme being centre stage. The foundation myth of the western state, the O'Connor tragedy is a story everyone in WA 'sort of' knows, retold here in compelling style. And a light is shone on the role of one ...Show more
Dark Tides (#2 Fairmile) by Philippa Gregory
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Midsummers Eve, 1670. A wealthy man waits outside a poor London warehouse to meet with Alinor, the woman he failed twenty-one years before. He has everything to offer, wealth, land, status, and he believes she has the only thing he cannot buy: his son and heir. The warehouse is failing, clinging on to ...Show more
The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in west Ireland, until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, with her sister, Johanna, and a boy named Michael Ward, a son of itinerant tinsmiths.Despite her family's cynicism, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, earn a ...Show more
The Duke And I (#1 Bridgerton) by Quinn, Julia
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Bridgertons Ser.
From New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the first novel in the beloved Regency-set world of her charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, chil ...Show more
Alchemy and Rose by Sarah Maine
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A beautiful and sweeping historical novel that takes the reader from the west coast of New Zealand, to Scotland and Melbourne in the 1870s 1866. Will Stewart is one of many who have left their old lives behind to seek their fortunes in New Zealand's last great gold rush. The conditions are hostile and ...Show more
The Children's Train by Viola Ardone
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Based on true events, a heartbreaking story of love, family, hope, and survival set in post-World War II Italy--written with the heart of Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours--about poor children from the south sent to live with families in the north to survive deprivation and the harsh winters. Though ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Do not believe too quickly... What if Elizabeth Macarthur - wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney - had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir. What fol ...Show more