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The Sound by Sarah Drummond
$27.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
The Sound is set in the 1820s, in the violent and lawless world just before the English established colonial law in Western Australia. It is a historical fiction about the men of many nations who made their way across the southern waters of Australia from Tasmania to WA, plundering seal colonies, and st ...Show more
Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus.' So begins the exquisitely written new novel from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings Ana is a rebellious young woman, a gifted writer with a curious, brilliant mind, who writes secret narratives about the ...Show more
The Wolf Hall Companion by Lauren MacKay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
An accessible but hugely authoritative companion to the bestselling Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel. What is the true story behind the blockbuster Wolf Hall trilogy--and of Thomas Cromwell, its principal protagonist? This companion guide concisely illuminates both Cromwell's life and Tudor history, c ...Show more
Wolf Hall (#1) by Hilary Mantel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Wolf Hall Trilogy
From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel. ‘Every bit as good as they said it was’ Observer ‘Terrific’ Margaret Atwood ‘As soon as I opened this book I was gripped. I read it almost non-stop’ The Times In Wolf Hall, one of our very best writers ...Show more
Tidelands (Fairmile #1) by Philippa Gregory
$19.99 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
Benevolence by Julie Janson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
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
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
Crooked Branch by Jeanine Cummins
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'Rich and intricately drawn... luminous prose' Carolyn Parkhurst After the birth of her daughter Emma, the usually resilient Majella finds herself feeling isolated and exhausted. Then, at her childhood home, Majella discovers the diary of her maternal ancestor Ginny, and is shocked to read a story of m ...Show more
The Viscount Who Loved Me (#2 Bridgerton) by Julia Quinn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Bridgertons
1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And, in all truth, why should he? When it comes to playing the consummate rake, nobody does it better . . . --Lady Whist ...Show more
The Silk House by Kayte Nunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Weaving. Healing. Haunting. The spellbinding story of a mysterious boarding school sheltering a centuries-old secret... Australian history teacher Thea Rust arrives at an exclusive boarding school in the British countryside only to find that she is to look after the first intake of girls in its 150-yea ...Show more
Bring Up The Bodies (Wolf Hall #2) by Hilary Mantel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Wolf Hall Trilogy
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
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