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Early Warning (Last Hundred Years Trilogy Book 2) by Jane Smiley
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Category: Historical | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
1953. When a funeral brings the Langdon family together once more, they little realize how much, over the coming years, each of their worlds will shift and change. For now Walter and Rosanna's sons and daughters are grown up and have children of their own. Frank, the eldest - restless, unhappy - ignores ...Show more
The Violinist of Venice by Alyssa Palombo
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Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
A dramatic and beautiful novel about composer and priest Antonio Vivaldi's two great loves - his mistress and his music. Following her mother's death, the one source of joy for Adriana d'Amato is her music. Now eighteen, she refuses to let her strict father stop her from pursuing her dreams and begins t ...Show more
Letters From Berlin by Kerstin Lieff and Margarete Dos
$32.95 AUD
Category: Historical
A vivid recreation of a largely untold side of world war II - the German side. Six years before Margarete died, the author asked her mother to tell her all her stories of life during and just after the Second World War. "If you don't tell, no one will ever know and all those stories, and all that suffer ...Show more
The Lords of the North (The Last Kingdom #3) by Bernard Cornwell
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Category: Historical | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
The third installment of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)--the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series. After achieving victory at King Alfred's side, Uhtred of Beb ...Show more
The Familiars by Stacey Halls
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Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
'Assured and alluring, this beautiful tale of women and witchcraft and the fight against power was a delight from start to finish' - Jessie Burton, bestselling author of The Miniaturist.
A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge #3 HB) by Ken Follett
$44.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Kingsbridge Novels | Reading Level: very good
The saga that has enthralled the millions of readers of The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End now continues with Ken Follett's magnificent, gripping A Column of Fire. Christmas 1558, and young Ned Willard returns home to Kingsbridge to find his world has changed. The ancient stones of Kingsbrid ...Show more
Under Occupation by Alan Furst
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
Occupied Paris, 1942. In the dark, treacherous city, the German occupying forces are everywhere-and so are French resistance fighters, working secretly to defeat Hitler. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the Gestapo hands off a strange-looking document to the unsuspecting novelist Paul Ricard. ...Show more
The Birdman's Wife by Melissa Ashley
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Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Inspired by a letter found tucked inside her famous husband's papers, The Birdman's Wife imagines the fascinating inner life of Elizabeth Gould, who was so much more than just the woman behind the man. Elizabeth was a woman ahead of her time, juggling the demands of her artistic life with her roles as w ...Show more
The Botanist's Daughter by Kayte Nunn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondrously imagined tale of two female botanists, separated by more than a century, in a race to discover a life-saving flower . . . In Victorian England, headstrong adventuress Elizabeth takes up her late father's quest for a rare, miraculous plant. She faces a perilous ...Show more
Longbourn by Jo Baker
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Category: Historical
"'If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats,' Sarah thought, 'she would be more careful not to tramp through muddy fields.'It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and raw. Domestic life below stairs, ruled with a tender heart and an iron will b ...Show more
Blue Roses by Peter Salmon
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Category: Historical
In 1922 Percy Grainger was the most famous musician in the world, a pioneer of the recording age who celebrated his wedding at the Hollywood Bowl in front of 20,000 people. When his mother committed suicide, jumping from a New York skyscraper, it made the front page of the New York Times. Blue Roses is ...Show more
The Killing of Louisa by Janet Lee
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Category: Historical
To lose one husband may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like murder. In New South Wales in 1888, Louisa Collins was sentenced to hang after being tried multiple times for the alleged murders of her two husbands. The testimony of her young daughter helped to decide her fate. This clever ...Show more