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
Words in My Hand by Guinevere Glasfurd
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
THE WORDS IN MY HAND is the reimagined true story of Helena, a 17th century Dutch maid, desperate to educate herself and use her mind, in an era where women were kept firmly in their place. Helena works in the Amsterdam lodging house of an English bookseller who rents out a room to the mysterious 'Monsi ...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
Neverhome by Laird Hunt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
I was strong and he was not so it was me went to war to defend the Republic. I stepped across the border out of Indiana into Ohio. Twenty dollars, two salt-pork sandwiches, and I took jerky, biscuits, six old apples, fresh underthings and a blanket too. There was a conflagration to come; I wanted to len ...Show more
Spy (The) by Paulo Coelho
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
This is a pre-read / used book. Excellent Condition. "When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Soon she was feted as the most elegant woman in the city. A dancer who shocked and delighted audiences; a confidant and courtesan who bewitched the era's richest and most powerful men. But as p ...Show more
Virgins by Diana Gabaldon
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Outlander Ser.
FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE JAMIE MET CLAIRE IN THIS BRILLIANT NEW OUTLANDER SHORT STORY. 1740- Young Jamie Fraser has left Scotland and, with his best friend Ian Murray, is running with a band of mercenaries in France. Both men have good reason not to go back to their homeland- both are nursing wound ...Show more
To Capture What We Cannot Keep by Beatrice Colin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
As the Eiffel Tower rises, a marvel of steel and air and light, the subject of extreme controversy and a symbol of the future, a young Scottish widow and the Tower.s engineer fall in love...In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and .mile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris--a mom ...Show more
Gwen by Goldie Goldbloom
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In 1903, the artist Gwendolen Mary John travels from London to France with her companion Dorelia. Surviving on their wits and Gwen's raw talent, the young women walk from Calais to Paris. In the new century, the world is full of promise- it is time for Gwen to step out from the shadow of her overbearing ...Show more