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
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
The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence by Alyssa Palombo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A girl as beautiful as Simonetta Cattaneo never wants for marriage proposals in 15th Century Italy, but she jumps at the chance to marry Marco Vespucci. Marco is young, handsome and well-educated. Not to mention he is one of the powerful Medici family's favoured circle. Even before her marriage with Mar ...Show more
The Last Hours by Minette Walters
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
June, 1348: the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in the county of Dorsetshire. Unprepared for the virulence of the disease, and the speed with which it spreads, the people of the county start to die in their thousands. A culture of terror and superstition quickly sweeps across the ...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
From the Wreck by Jane Rawson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Historical
'It's hard to find the right words to praise this novel. I think we need a whole new critical vocabulary to be invented. Rawson recreates a vanished historical world with utterly convincing characters as well as inhabits the mind of a cephalopod alien and make us feel, in both cases, yes, that's exactly ...Show more
The She-Wolf (Accursed Kings #5) by Maurice Druon
$15.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Accursed Kings Ser.
'This was the original game of thrones' George R.R. Martin Charles IV is now king of France and his sister is Edward II of England's Queen. Having been imprisoned by Edward as leader of the rebellious English barons, Roger Mortimer escapes to France, where he joins the war against the English Aquitaine ...Show more
Book of Colours by Robyn Cadwallader
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From Robyn Cadwallader, author of the internationally acclaimed novel The Anchoress, comes a deeply profound and moving novel of the importance of creativity and the power of connection, told through the story of the commissioning of a gorgeously decorated medieval manuscript, a Book of Hours. London, 1 ...Show more
Prophecy 1: Clash of Kings by M. K. Hume
$20.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The first in an epic historical trilogy charting the heroic life of Merlin. In the town of Segontium, a fugitive is washed ashore. He brutally rapes the granddaughter of the king of the Deceangli tribe, leaving her to bear his son, Myrddion Merlinus. Spurned as a demon seed, the boy is raised by his g ...Show more
Prophecy: Web of Deceit (Prophecy Trilogy 3): An epic tale of the Legend of Merlin by M. K. Hume
$21.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Prophecy #3
The earth-shattering conclusion to the legend of Merlin. Returning from his epic journey to Constantinople, Myrddion Merlinus finds Briton in the grip of Uther Pendragon's bloodthirsty war against the Saxons. Coerced into obedience, Myrddion must serve Uther's brother Ambrosius, the High King, in order ...Show more
Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'A SKILLFUL TRIUMPH' Jessie Burton, bestselling author of The Miniaturist - 'IRRESISTIBLE' Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room New York, 1895. It's late on a warm city night when Sylvan Threadgill, a young night soiler who cleans out the privies behind the tenement houses, pulls a terrible secret ...Show more
The Last Tudor by Philippa Gregory
$45.00 AUD
Category: Historical
`How long do I have?' I force a laugh.`Not long,' he says very quietly. `They have confirmed your sentence of death. You are to be beheaded tomorrow. We don't have long at all.' Jane Grey was Queen of England for nine days. Using her position as cousin to the deceased king, her father and his conspirato ...Show more