The Swift and the Harrier by Minette Walters
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'Once again, Minette Walters has given us an historical fiction to rival no other...brimming with historical detail while still maintaining an accessibility that would rival a contemporary novel. The characterisation is superb, the drama intense, and the historical retelling fascinating.' - Theresa Smit ...Show more
The Broken Places by Russell Franklin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In 1931, Gregory Hemingway's life begins in Kansas City, Missouri. The third and favourite son of an overbearing father, Greg is a paragon: a star athlete, a crack shot, bright and handsome and built like a pocket battleship.In 2001, Gloria Hemingway's life ends in a Miami women's correctional instituti ...Show more
Shogun: NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES by James Clavell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Asian Saga Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
SOON TO BE AN FX LIMITED SERIES - A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life. All brought together in an extraordinary saga aflame with passion, conflict, ambition, and the struggle for power. Here is the world-famous novel of Japan that ...Show more
Under Occupation by Alan Furst
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
Occupied Paris, 1942. In the dark, treacherous city, the German occupying forces are everywhere-and so are French resistance fighters, working secretly to defeat Hitler. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the Gestapo hands off a strange-looking document to the unsuspecting novelist Paul Ricard. ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: near fine
Do not believe too quickly... What if Elizabeth Macarthur - wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney - had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir. What fol ...Show more
The Crooked Branch by Jeanine Cummins
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'Rich and intricately drawn... luminous prose' Carolyn Parkhurst After the birth of her daughter Emma, the usually resilient Majella finds herself feeling isolated and exhausted. Then, at her childhood home, Majella discovers the diary of her maternal ancestor Ginny, and is shocked to read a story of m ...Show more
Lady MacBethad by Isabelle Schuler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Power. History. Love. Hate. Vengeance.She will be Queen. Whatever it takes... Daughter of an ousted king, descendant of ancient druids, as a child it is prophesied that one day Gruoch will be queen of Alba. When she is betrothed to Duncan, heir elect, this appears to confirm the prophecy. She leaves be ...Show more
The Chanel Sisters by Judithe Little
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The unforgettable story of the sisters who changed fashion forever. Gabrielle and Antoinette know they're destined for something better. Abandoned to a convent orphanage, they are raised for simple lives. But at night they dream of a glittering future, and the Chanel sisters are determined to prove them ...Show more
Hera: The beguiling story of the Queen of Mount Olympus by Jennifer Saint
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The enthralling tale of a powerful Greek goddess maligned in both myth and ancient history, as told by Sunday Times bestselling author Jennifer Saint. 'A brilliant read' Women & Home | 'A spirited retelling' Times | 'Beautiful and absorbing' Fabulous | 'A vivid reimagining of Greek mythology' Harpe ...Show more
Annelies A Novel of Anne Frank by David Gillham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Having survived the concentration camps but lost her mother and sister along the way, a sixteen-year-old Anne Frank reunites with her father, Pim, in newly liberated Amsterdam. But it's not as easy to fit the pieces of their life back together. Anne is adrift, haunted by the ghosts of the horrors they e ...Show more
The Map of William by Michael Thomas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Western Australia, 1909. William Watson's beloved father is set on an expedition to the north-west to map water sources in the Pilbara. Invited along, fifteen-year-old William embarks on the outback journey of a lifetime.At sea and on land, William will forge lasting friendships with his fellow travelle ...Show more