Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Wolf Hall 1 | Reading Level: very good
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 (#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
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree by Ali Tariq
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Tariq Ali tells us the story of the aftermath of the fall of Granada by narrating a family sage of those who tried to survive after the collapse of their world. Ali is particularly deft at evoking what life must have been like for those doomed inhabitants, besieged on all sides by intolerant Christendom ...Show more
Will & Tom by Matthew Plampin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Will & Tom is a glimpse into the life of the infamous artist JMW Turner as a young man during a week spent at Harewood House fighting for a commission against his childhood friend and rival Tom Girtin. 1797, West Yorkshire. When rising artist Will Turner arrives at Harewood House in high summer, his ...Show more
Ridley Road by Jo Bloom
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A dark love story set in the Swinging Sixties SUMMER, 1962. Twenty-year-old Vivien Epstein, a Jewish hairdresser from Manchester, arrives in London following the death of her father. She has travelled to the city to make a new start, and quickly finds herself swept up in a city buzzing with life. Landi ...Show more
Wettening Auralia - SIGNED 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
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend by Wang Du Lu
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
When master warrior Shulien learns of the death of her family's patron, she abandons retirement and returns to the capital to protect Green Legend, a sword renowned for its historic triumphs. But much has happened in the years she has been in seclusion, and she finds herself beset on all sides with hidd ...Show more
King Without a Kingdom (Accursed Kings #7) by Maurice Druon
$15.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Accursed Kings
'This was the original GAME OF THRONES' George R.R. Martin Available for the first time in English, THE KING WITHOUT A KINGDOM is the seventh and final volume of The Accursed Kings series. The reign of the Capetian kings has ended and John II, 'The Good', takes the throne. Under the leadership of this v ...Show more
Chinese Love Pavilion by Paul Scott
$24.95 AUD
Category: Historical
Based just after the 2nd World War. Saxby is suspected of murdering collaborators. Tom Brent is asked to find Saxby.