The Walworth Beauty by Michele Roberts
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the Booker-shortlisted author comes a sensuous, evocative novel exploring the lives of women in Victorian London, for fans of Sarah Waters, Emma Donoghue and Kate Atkinson 2011: When Madeleine loses her job as a lecturer, she decides to leave her riverside flat in cobbled Stew Lane, where history ...Show more
Half Wild by Pip Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Wellington, 1885. Tally Ho doesn't need to go to school because she is going to be a fisherman or a cart driver or a butcher boy like Harry Crawford. Wellington is her town and she makes up the rules. Papa takes her fishing, Nonno teaches her how to jump fences on his horse Geronimo - life gallops on th ...Show more
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: good
In 1922 Count Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal. He is sentenced to house arrest in The Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room whi ...Show more
Dunstan: One Man. Seven Kings. England's Bloody Throne. by Conn Iggulden
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
** 'Iggulden has created an intriguingly complex saint - flawed, spiteful and unreliable as the teller of his own tale. Through his eyes we watch the story of the making of England' The Times **From the critically acclaimed master of historical fiction Conn Iggulden, comes a novel set in the red-blooded ...Show more
Tombland (Shardlake #7) by C. J. Sansom
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Shardlake Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Summer, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos... the economy is in collapse, inflation rages and rebellion is stirring among the peasantry.Since the old King's death, Matthew Shardlake has been working as a lawyer in the service of Henry's younger daughter, the Lad ...Show more
Annelies A Novel of Anne Frank by David Gillham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Having survived the concentration camps but lost her mother and sister along the way, a sixteen-year-old Anne Frank reunites with her father, Pim, in newly liberated Amsterdam. But it's not as easy to fit the pieces of their life back together. Anne is adrift, haunted by the ghosts of the horrors they e ...Show more
Guardian of Lies by Kate Furnivall
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A brilliant story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the internationally bestselling author of The Survivors. 1953, the South of France. The fragile peace between the West and Soviet Russia hangs on a knife edge. And one family has been torn apart by secrets and conflicting allegiances.Eloïse ...Show more
The French Gift by Kirsty Manning
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A World War Two story of female friendship, longing and sacrifice through war and loss, bringing together the present and the past. 'Kirsty Manning has delivered yet again with this epic novel about women, love and heartbreak. With passion and sensitivity, Manning takes the reader on a journey that is ...Show more
Circus of Wonders by Elizabeth Macneal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
It is 1865 and in a coastal village in southern England, Nell picks violets for a living. Set apart from her community because of the birthmarks that pepper her skin, Nell keeps her head down and her sights small: her world is her beloved brother and devotion to the sea. Then, Jasper Jupiter’s Circus of ...Show more
The Chanel Sisters by Judithe Little
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'Delicious and utterly absorbing... This is a book to be relished and savoured. I can't recommend it enough' GILL THOMPSON, author of THE CHILD ON PLATFORM ONE'Historical fiction at its finest. Antoinette Chanel will capture your heart' ANN WEISGARBER, author of THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF RACHEL DUPREE --- ...Show more
The Flames by Sophie Haydock
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A stunning debut novel about the intertwining lives of four remarkable women, the muses who inspired the artist Egon Schiele. For fans of THE PARIS WIFE, THE FAMILIARS, The MINIATURIST and The DUTCH HOUSE. Every painting tells a story, but what if the women on the canvas could talk... ADELE- passionate, ...Show more