Cleopatra's Shadows by Emily Holleman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The secret beginnings of Cleopatra's epic saga, seen through the eyes of her forgotten sisters. Arsinoe, the bright and incisive eight-year-old daughter of King Ptolemy, awakes one morning from an ominous dream of statues weeping blood to find that her reality is even worse. There's been a violent c ...Show more
Lamentation (Shardlake #6) by C. J. Sansom
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The eagerly anticipated new Shardlake novel from the number one bestselling author. Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government of Henry's successor, eight-y ...Show more
The Witchfinder's Sister by Beth Underdown
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'The number of women my brother Matthew killed is one hundred and six...' THE PAGE-TURNING RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB BESTSELLER 'A compelling debut from a gifted storyteller' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent When Alice Hopkins' husband dies in a tragic accident, she returns to the small Essex t ...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
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
Munich by Robert Harris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
From the international bestselling author of An Officer and a Spy and Fatherland--a new spy thriller about treason and conscience, loyalty and betrayal, set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of September 1938. Hugh Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving at ...Show more
Last Tudor by Philippa Gregory
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Seventeen-year-old Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king's half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent ...Show more
The Four Horsemen by Emily Mayhew
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In lucid and energised prose, Emily Mayhew summons the four horsemen of the apocalypse; the collective threat to humanity bearing the names of war, pestilence, famine and death. From their first appearance in Revelations they have remained in human consciousness ever since, spanning time and space and e ...Show more
Protector (#2 Athenian) by Conn Iggulden
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Athenian
'Brings war in the ancient world to vivid life...I'm blown away' - Anthony Riches. From the nation's finest historical novelist comes the second instalment in the Athenian series Themistocles stands as an archon of Athens- the might of the city is his to command. Yet he is no nobleman, distrusted by man ...Show more
No Live Files Remain by Andras Forgach; Paul Olchvary (translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: good-very good
For readers of The Lives of Others and The Reader, and based on a true story, No Live Files Remain is a beautiful and moving novel of family, lies, betrayal and forgiveness.He wanted to understand the past. Now he must live with the truth. Thirty years after the fall of communism in Hungary, as acclaime ...Show more
Tsarina by Ellen Alpsten
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Before there was Catherine the Great, there was Catherine Alexeyevna: the first woman to rule Russia in her own right. This rich, sweeping first-person narrative is the story of her rise to power. St. Petersburg, 1725. Peter the Great lies dying in his magnificent Winter Palace. The weakness and treach ...Show more
Katheryn Howard, the Tainted Queen by Alison Weir
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Six Tudor Queens | Reading Level: very good
The fifth spectacular novel in the highly acclaimed SIX TUDOR QUEENS series by historian and Sunday Times bestselling author, Alison Weir. 'This six-book series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction' The TimesAlison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times-bestselling SIX TUDOR Q ...Show more