Gwen by Goldie Goldbloom
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In 1903, the artist Gwendolen Mary John travels from London to France with her companion Dorelia. Surviving on their wits and Gwen's raw talent, the young women walk from Calais to Paris. In the new century, the world is full of promise- it is time for Gwen to step out from the shadow of her overbearing ...Show more
Ravenspur (#4 Wars of the Roses) by Conn Iggulden
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Wars of the Roses Ser.
Witness the rise of the Tudor dynasty--in this concluding volume to Conn Iggulden's vigorous and commanding retelling of the Wars of the Roses. England, 1470. A divided kingdom cannot stand. King Edward of York has been driven out of England. Queen Elizabeth and her children tremble in sanctuary at We ...Show more
The Revenant by Michael Punke
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A #1 New York Times BestsellerThe book that inspired the Oscar-winning filmA thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, this is the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass -- a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stret ...Show more
Ashes of London by Andrew Taylor
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the No.1 best-selling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand new historical thriller set during the time of the Great Fire of London. The first of an exciting new series of novels. London, September 1666. The Great Fire rages through the city, consuming everything in its path. ...Show more
Resolution by A. N. Wilson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
A. N. Wilson's powerful new novel explores the life and times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, and the golden age of Britain's period of expansion and exploration.Wilson's protagonist, witness to Cook's brilliance and wisdom, is George Forster, who travelled with Cook as botanist ...Show more
Facing the Flame (#7 The Matilda Saga) (TPB) by Jackie French
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Matilda Saga
There have been fires before, but not like this. Heartbreaking and powerful, FACING THE FLAME is a story of the triumph of courage and community, and a love for the land so deep that not even bushfire can erode it. Gibber's Creek, 1978 As grass dries and the hot wind howls, Gibber's Creek will burn. But ...Show more
The Butcher's Daughter (HB) by Victoria Glendinning
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
We are, all of us, princes and peasants, alone in this world. The Butcher 's Daughter is the richly atmospheric story of a young woman 's struggle to define herself in a world of uncertainty, intrigue and danger in a period of great upheaval during the Tudor era. It is 1535 and Agnes Peppin, daughter of ...Show more
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams by Anita Heiss
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Gundagai, 1852 The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in its wake. It is a stark reminder that while the river can give life, it can just as easily take it away. Wagadhaany is one of the lucky ones. She survives. But is her life now better than the fate she esc ...Show more
The Clockmaker's Wife by Daisy Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The world is at war. And time is running out… London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter – leaving behind her husband, Arthur, the clockmaker who keeps Big Ben chiming. When Arthur disappears, Nell is desperate to find hi ...Show more
Paris Savages by Katherine Johnson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
This story has its genesis in fact, when three Fraser Island people were taken to Germany in 1882–83. The sole survivor was Bonangera (Boni/Bonny) whose life-size plaster cast remains at the Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France. The silencing that Badtjala people continue to endure in the localised histo ...Show more
Josephine's Garden by Stephanie Parkyn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
France, 1794. In the aftermath of the bloody end to the French Revolution, Rose de Beauharnais stumbles from prison on the day she is to be guillotined. Within a decade, she'll transform into the scandalous socialite who marries Napoleon Bonaparte, becomes Empress Josephine of France and builds a garden ...Show more
The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes an unforgettable story inspired by the true events of a BBC-sponsored wartime cooking competition. Some wars will be fought at home . . . Two years into the Second World War, and German U-boats are frequently disrupting Britain's supply o ...Show more