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
After the Party by Cressida Connolly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Had it not been for my weakness, someone who is now dead could still be alive. That is what I believed and consequently lived with every day in prison.' It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has returned to England after years abroad. Moving into her sister's grand country house, she soon finds ...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
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
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
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
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
Royal Succession (Accursed Kings #4) by Maurice Druon
$15.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Accursed Kings Ser.
"This is the original Game of Thrones." George R.R. Martin. 'No woman shall succeed in Salique land' Louis X is dead, poisoned, murdered, by the hand of Mahaut d'Artois. Her plan is simple - to clear the path to the throne for her son-in-law Philippe. However, there is the small matter of Queen Clemence ...Show more
The Emperor Waltz by Philip Hensher
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
The new novel from Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip Hensher - his most ambitious and daring novel yet. An astonishing novel, 'The Emperor Waltz' draws together various narrative strands into a compelling symphonic whole. In a third-century desert settlement on the fringes of the Roman Empire, a new wife ...Show more
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