Sovereign: (#3 Shardlake) by C. J. Sansom
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Shardlake Ser.
Book 3 in the highly acclaimed Matthew Shardlake mystery series, now available from Vintage Canada. Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant submission by his rebellious subjects in York. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlak ...Show more
The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From a writer praised by Junot Diaz as 'the fire, in my opinion, and the light', a mesmerizing novel that follows one woman's rise from circus rider to courtesan to world-renowned star Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role. When ...Show more
Lords of the Bow (#2 Conqueror) by Conn Iggulden
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Conqueror Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The second in the bestselling new Conqueror series on Genghis Khan, it is a wonderful, epic story which Conn Iggulden brings brilliantly to life. The gathering of the tribes of the Mongols has been a long time in coming but finally, triumphantly, Temujin of the Wolves, Genghis Khan, is given the full ac ...Show more
The Beguiled FTI by Thomas Cullinan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
When an injured Union soldier is found in the Virginia woods as the civil War rages, he is brought to the nearby Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies to recover. For the sheltered girls and their teachers, the arrival of the attractive John McBurney is a thrilling distraction from normal lif ...Show more
The Lion Rampant by Blanche D'Alpuget
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
The second novel in the compelling series about two of medieval history's most fascinating characters, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. It is 1154 and Henry Plantagenet avenges his family honour by taking back the English throne from Stephen the Usurper. The kingdom he inherits is impoverished, lawles ...Show more
Gilded Hour by Sara Donati
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the internationally bestselling author of Into the Wilderness comes a magnificent epic about two pioneering women doctors in 19th-century New York. The year is 1883, and in New York City it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bri ...Show more
The Sound by Sarah Drummond
$27.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
The Sound is set in the 1820s, in the violent and lawless world just before the English established colonial law in Western Australia. It is a historical fiction about the men of many nations who made their way across the southern waters of Australia from Tasmania to WA, plundering seal colonies, and st ...Show more
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to 'My dear and unfortunate successor'. Her discovery plunges her into a world she never dreamed of - a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother ...Show more
The Fourteenth Letter by Claire Evans
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A mysterious keepsake, a murdered bride, a legacy of secrets...One balmy June evening in 1881, Phoebe Stanbury stands before the guests at her engagement party: this is her moment, when she will join the renowned Raycraft family and ascend to polite society. As she takes her fiance's hand, a stranger br ...Show more
Heloise by Mandy Hager
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
What happens when the 12th century's most famous French lovers are caught in the crossfire of factions, religious reform and blind ambition? Heloise is a determined young woman with an exceptional mind, longing to pursue learning rather than marriage or life as a cloistered nun. Her path inevitably cros ...Show more
Wars of the Roses: Trinity: Book 2 by Conn Iggulden
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Wars of the Roses
The brilliant retelling of the Wars of the Roses continues with Trinity, the second gripping novel in the new series from historical fiction master, Conn Iggulden. 1454: King Henry VI has remained all but exiled in Windsor Castle, struck down by his illness for over a year, his eyes vacant, his mind a b ...Show more
Trinity (#2 Wars of the Roses) by Conn Iggulden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
1454: King Henry VI has remained all but exiled in Windsor Castle, struck down by his illness for over a year, his eyes vacant, his mind a blank. His fiercely loyal wife and Queen, Margaret of Anjou, safeguards her husband's interests, hoping that her son Edward will one day know the love of his father. ...Show more