Call to Kill by Billy Billingham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Mace Mason Ser.
THE FIRST IN A BRAND NEW SERIES FROM SAS: WHO DARES WINS STAR. A country in turmoil. A rescue mission gone wrong. A hero on unlike any other fighting to save a broken world. Matt 'Mace' Mason is deployed on a deniable SAS mission in war-torn Yemen, becoming embroiled in a hostage rescue that goes te ...Show more
The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
It is a sad fact of life that if a young woman is unlucky enough to come into the world without expectations, she had better do all she can to ensure she is born beautiful. To be handsome and poor is misfortune enough; but to be both plain and penniless is a hard fate indeed.In Jane Austen's Pride and P ...Show more
Imperfect Alchemist - A Spellbinding Story Based on a Remarkable Tudor Life by Naomi Miller
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Miller revisits and reimagines the life of one of Shakespeare's neglected female literary contemporaries, Mary Sidney Herbert.
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardize ...Show more
The Resistance Girl by Mandy Robotham
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The next gripping and emotional World War II historical fiction read from international bestseller, Mandy Robotham. Norway, 1942. War rages, and, under cover of darkness, Rumi Orlstad and her fellow resistance fighters smuggle British agents, fugitives and supplies across the North Sea into Nazi-occupie ...Show more
October - The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Mieville
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In February of 1917 Russia was a backward, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world's first workers' state, straining to be at the vanguard of global revolution. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? In a panor ...Show more
Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece by Stephen Fry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: good-very good
The Greek myths are amongst the best stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney. They are embedded deeply in the traditions, tales and cultural DNA of the West. You'll fall in love with Zeus, marv ...Show more
The Pearler's Wife by Roxane Dhand
$32.99 AUD
$45.00 (26% off)
Category: Historical
A distant land. A dangerous husband. A forbidden love.The year is 1912. Nineteen-year-old Maisie Porter watches from the deck of the SS Oceanic as England fades from view. Her destination is Buccaneer Bay in Australia's far north-west. Her fate: marriage to distant cousin Maitland Sinclair, a man she ha ...Show more
Now is the Time by Melvyn Bragg
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
At the end of May 1381, the fourteen-year-old King of England had reason to be fearful: the plague had returned, the royal coffers were empty and a draconian Poll Tax was being widely evaded. Yet Richard, bolstered by his powerful, admired mother, felt secure in his God-given right to reign. Within two ...Show more
Wolf of the Plains (#1 Conqueror) by Conn Iggulden
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Conqueror Ser. | Reading Level: good
The first book in the bestselling Conqueror series featuring Genghis Khan and his descendants. 'I am the land and the bones of the hills. I am the winter.' Temujin, the second son of the khan of the Wolves tribe, was only eleven when his father died in an ambush.His family were thrown out of the tribe a ...Show more
Henry's BattleLove and Lives in Conflict in World War Two. by Gloria E. Swan
$20.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Henry has big plans, to play test cricket for Australia, and to do his bit in putting an end to World War Two. Leaving his matchmaking mother and his hometown of Murwillumbah, Henry sets off on the first stage of his mission, to Cowra for basic training. There he meets the girl of his dreams. But the pa ...Show more
Conclave by Robert Harris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: good
The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and twenty 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 have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become ...Show more