A History of Dreams by Jane Rawson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In 1930s Adelaide, four women turn to witchcraft to undermine a new authoritarian government determined to enforce their marriage and virtual enslavement. In the 1930s in Adelaide, sisters Margaret and Esther Beasley and their friend Phyllis O Donnell are learning to be witches. Their guide is Audrey Ma ...Show more
Joan by Katherine J. Chen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A stunning feminist reimagining of the life of Joan of Arc - perfect for fans of Cecily, Ariadne and Matrix 'It is as if the author has crept inside a statue and breathed a soul into it, re-creating Joan of Arc as a woman for our time' Hilary Mantel, twice Booker Prize-winning author of The Mirror & ...Show more
The Miller's Dance: A Novel of Cornwall, 1812-1813 (#9 Poldark) by Graham Winston
$18.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Poldark
Cornwall 1812. At Nampara, the Poldark family finds the new year brings involvement in more than one unexpected venture. For Ross and Demelza there is some surprising - and worrying - news. And Clowance, newly returned from her London triumphs, finds that her entanglement with Stephen Carrington brings ...Show more
Six Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn, A King's Obsession: Six Tudor Queens 2 by Alison Weir
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Six Tudor Queens
*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession by bestselling historian Alison Weir, author of Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, is the second captivating novel in the Six Tudor Queens series. An unforgettable portrait of the ambitious woman whose fate we know all too well, but whose ...Show more
The Muse by Jessie Burton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: General Adult
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist comes a captivating and brilliantly realized story of two young women--a Caribbean immigrant in 1960s London, and a bohemian woman in 1930s Spain--and the powerful mystery that ties them together. England, 1967. Odelle Bastien is a Caribb ...Show more
The Coast by Eleanor Limprecht
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A stunning novel of love and courage by the bestselling author of The Passengers. Alice is only nine years old in 1910 when she is sent to the feared Coast Hospital lazaret at Little Bay in Sydney, a veritable prison where more patients are admitted than will ever leave. She is told that she's visiting ...Show more
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Lives of the Mayfair Witches Ser.
On the verandah of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking. And the witching hour begins...Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches - a family give4n to poetry an ...Show more
Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Robert Harris' fastest-selling hardback since records began comes to paperback with an unmissable campaign'A belter of a thriller' THE TIMES'A master storyteller . . . an important book for our particular historical moment' OBSERVER'His best since Fatherland' SUNDAY TIMES'From what is it they flee?'He t ...Show more
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Tudor Court Ser. | Reading Level: good
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me. The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history discover tha ...Show more
Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Outlander | Reading Level: very good
The author of the Sunday Times bestselling Outlander series returns with the newest novel in the epic tale. The past may seem the safest place to be . . . but it is the most dangerous time to be alive . . . Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1743, and it took the ...Show more
Sharpe's Eagle: The Talavera Campaign, July 1809 by Bernard Cornwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: B FORMAT
Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign, July 1809. In Portugal, Richard Sharpe is ordered to accompany a newly arrived, inexperienced regiment. But Sharpe, a veteran, quickly clashes with the incompetent colonel after they start to lose men. Sharpe's promotion to captain aggrevates the colonel further ...Show more