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
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
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
The Tailor's Girl by Fiona McIntosh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A humble soldier wakes in a military hospital with no recollection of his past. Jones has only a few horrifying memories of the battlefield at Ypres, and his identity becomes a puzzle he must solve. A stunning seamstress dreams of her own high-fashion salon in London. After a fated meeting with Jones, E ...Show more
Warleggan: A Novel of Cornwall, 1792-1793 (#4 Poldark) by Winston Graham
$18.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Poldark Ser.
Cornwall 1792. Ross plunges into a highly speculative mining venture which threatens not only his family's financial security but also his turbulent marriage to Demelza. When Ross and Elizabeth's old attraction rekindles itself, Demelza retaliates by becoming dangerously involved with a handsome Scottis ...Show more
The Secrets at Ocean's Edge by Kali Napier
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'One of the best books I've read this year!' Melissa Ashley, author of The Birdman's Wife Already a bestseller in Australia, this is a haunting, memorable and moving debut of one family's search for belonging. For fans of The Light Between Oceans and The Woolgrower's Companion. Every family has its se ...Show more
The Curator by Owen King
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Sing Me to Sleep Ser.
Half fairy tale and half historical account of a revolution that never was, Owen King's The Curator is full of sly humor, sensuality, and strangeness - Holly Black. From Sunday Times bestselling author Owen King comes a Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figure ...Show more
Stealing: A Novel by Margaret Verble
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
“This powerful novel should join classics like Ernest J. Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.”—New York Times Book ReviewA gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family ...Show more
To Calais, in Ordinary Time by James Meek
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: good
Three journeys. One road.England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a Scots proctor sets out for Avignon and a young ploughman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais.Coming in their direction from across the ...Show more
The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In the first year of the doomed German invasion of Russia in WWII, a German military doctor, Paul Bauer, is assigned to establish a field hospital at Yasnaya Polyana - the former grand estate of Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of the classic War and Peace. There he encounters a hostile aristocratic Russia ...Show more
World Without End (#2 Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Kingsbridge Novels Ser.
The saga that has enthralled the millions of readers of The Pillars of the Earth continues with World Without End. On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In ...Show more
Six Tudor Queens: Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen: Six Tudor Queens 1 by Alison Weir
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Six Tudor Queens
*A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller*Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen by bestselling historian Alison Weir is the first in a captivating series, depicting the lives of Henry VIII's queens. Ideal for fans of Philippa Gregory and Elizabeth Chadwick. 'Alison Weir has managed to intertwine profound histor ...Show more