Book of Lost and Found by Lucy Foley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In many ways, my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that. It's when life started in earnest. Hertfordshire, 1928: The paths of Tom and Alice collide against a haze of youthful, carefree exuberance. And so begins a love story that finds its feet by a lake ...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
The Pagan Lord (#7 The Last Kingdom) by Bernard Cornwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Last Kingdom 7 | Reading Level: very good
The seventh novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. BBC2's major Autumn 2015 TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series. Uhtred - sword of the Saxons, bane of the Vikings - has be ...Show more
Rome's Lost Son by Robert Fabbri
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Vespasian
"Rome, AD 51: Vespasian brings Rome's greatest enemy before the Emperor. After eight years of resistance, the British warrior Caratacus has been caught. But even Vespasian's victory cannot remove the newly-made consul from Roman politics: Agrippina, Emperor Claudius's wife, pardons Caratacus. Claudius i ...Show more
Dictator by Robert Harris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Cicero Trilogy 3 | Reading Level: very good
'Confirms Harris's undisputed place as our leading master of both the historical and contemporary thriller' Daily Mail There was a time when Cicero held Caesar's life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure and Cicero's life is in ruins. Cicero's comeback requires wit, skill and c ...Show more
Now is the Time by Melvyn Bragg
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
At the end of May 1381, the fourteen-year-old King of England had reason to be fearful: the plague had returned, the royal coffers were empty and a draconian Poll Tax was being widely evaded. Yet Richard, bolstered by his powerful, admired mother, felt secure in his God-given right to reign. Within two ...Show more
Beneath the Southern Cross by Judy Nunn
$19.95 AUD
Category: Historical
A riveting novel that tells the story of Sydney and the people who shaped its character, its skyline and its heart. In 1788, Thomas Kendall, a na ve nineteen-year-old sentenced to transportation for burglary, finds himself bound for Sydney Town and a new life in the wild and lawless land beneath the Sou ...Show more
Tiger Men by Judy Nunn
$24.95 AUD
Category: Historical
'This town is full of tiger men, ' Dan said. 'Just look around you. The merchants, the builders, the bankers, the company men, they're all out for what they can get.' Van Diemen's Land was an island of stark contrasts; a harsh penal colony, an English idyll for its landed gentry, and an island so rich ...Show more
The Grand Duchess of Nowhere by Laurie Graham
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
There is one great love in everyone's life. For Ducky, Princess Victoria Melita, hers was a Romanov cousin, a member of the doomed Russian royal family. Her father is Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Victoria's second son. Her mother is Grand Duchess Marie, the daughter of Tsar Alexander II. Duck ...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
Fever at Dawn by Péter Gárdos
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
‘How many have replied?’‘Almost twenty.’‘Are you going to write back to all of them?’‘She’s the one,’ Miklós answered, prodding the pocket where he had hidden the letter.‘How do you know?’‘I just do.’ In July 1945, Miklós, a Hungarian survivor of Belsen, arrives in a refugee camp in Sweden. He is skin ...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