The Star on the Grave: A novel inspired by the 'Japanese Schindler' by Linda Margolin Royal
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A novel inspired by 'the Japanese Schindler', written by a woman who owes him her life. In 1940, as the Nazis sweep toward Lithuania, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara defies his own government and secretly issues thousands of visas to Jewish refugees desperate to flee. After the war, Sugihara is dismis ...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
Doctor Zhivago (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Boris Pasternak
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Vintage Classic Russians Ser.
FROM AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKYDoctor Zhivagois the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with cruel experience of the new order and the changes it has wrought in h ...Show more
Nemesis (#22 Courtney Saga) by Wilbur Smith, Tom Harper
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Multimillion copy bestselling author Wilbur Smith returns with a brand-new historical epic, in which three strands of the Courtney family converge in a bloodthirsty bid for revenge.
Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last a lifetime. In 1805, at boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-olds me ...Show more
The Wonder: Netflix Tie-In by Emma Donoghue
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix.'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' Stephen King'Powerful, compulsively readable' Irish TimesEleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nu ...Show more
The Temple of Fortuna by Elodie Harper
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Wolf Den Trilogy Ser.
The final instalment in Elodie Harper's Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den TrilogyA courtesan in Rome. Playing for power. Haunted by her past. Her name is Amara. How will her fortunes fall?Amara's journey has taken her far, from a lowly slave in Pompeii's brothel to a high-powered courtesan in Rome. She ...Show more
The Beauties by Lauren Chater
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
An incomparable beauty. A promise to a king. A portrait that can never be completed. In the seventeenth-century court of King Charles II, Anne Hyde, the Duchess of York has commissioned a series of ten paintings of the most beautiful women in the entourage. She hopes her series will capture something m ...Show more
Conclave by Robert Harris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
THE POWER OF GOD. THE AMBITION OF MEN.***SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they ...Show more
The Secret Books by Marcel Theroux
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Seeking adventure, a young man flees the drudgery of shopkeeping in Tsarist Russia to make a new life among the bohemians and revolutionaries of 19th century Paris.Travelling undercover in the mountains of British India, he discovers a manuscript that transforms the world's understanding of the historic ...Show more
The Boy Made of Snow by Chloe Mayer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In a sleepy English village in 1944, Annabel and her son Daniel live in the shadow of war. With her husband away, Annabel withdraws ever deeper into long-ago memories of happier times. When Mother and son befriend Hans, a German PoW consigned to a nearby farm, their lives are suddenly filled with thrill ...Show more
Corpus #1 by Rory Clements
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
FROM THE AWARD-WINNING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 1936. Europe is in turmoil. The Nazis have marched into the Rhineland. In Russia, Stalin has unleashed his Great Terror. Spain has erupted in civil war. In Berlin, a young Englishwoman evades the Gestapo to deliver vital papers to a Jewish scientist ...Show more