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Hamnet (PB) by Maggie O'Farrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. ...Show more
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
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 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
The City of Tears (The Burning Chambers #2) by Kate Mosse
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Following on from the bestseller, The Burning Chambers, Kate Mosse's The City of Tears is the second thrilling historical epic in The Burning Chambers series, for fans of Ken Follett and Dan Brown. June 1572: for ten, violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Neighbours have become e ...Show more
People Like Us by Louise Fein
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'I nearly drowned and Walter rescued me. That changes everything.' Leipzig, 1930's Germany. Hetty Heinrich is a perfect German child. Her father is an SS officer, her brother in the Luftwaffe, herself a member of the BDM. She believes resolutely in her country, and the man who runs it. Until Walter chan ...Show more
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
$14.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: IV | Reading Level: very good
In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote 'Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a ...Show more