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
Enemy of God: A Novel of Arthur by Bernard Cornwell
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Category: Historical | Series: Warlord Chronicles Ser.
From Bernard Cornwell, the creator of the No. 1 bestselling Sharpe novels. Arthur has brought a fragile peace to Britain - but it cannot last . . . Uniting the restive British kingdoms behind him, Arthur believes he can now hold back the Saxons threatening the country. Meanwhile, Merlin sets out on a qu ...Show more
The Fiery Cross (#5 Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon
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Category: Historical | Series: Outlander Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
THE FIFTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. 1771- the Colony of North Carolina stands in an uneasy balance, with the rich, colonial aristocracy on one side and the struggling pioneers of the backcountry on the other.Between them stands Jamie Fraser, a man of honour, a man of worth. Exiled from ...Show more
Lustrum: From the Sunday Times bestselling author by Robert Harris
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Category: Historical | Series: Cicero Trilogy
Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power. Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic's greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath, Clodius an ambitious playboy. The stori ...Show more
Three Sisters, Three Queens (Tudor Court #7) by Philippa Gregory
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Category: Historical
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorWhen Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret, takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined -- with Margaret's younger sister Mary -- to a sisterhood unique in all ...Show more
The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
$37.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. Poe, The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativit ...Show more
Now is the Time by Melvyn Bragg
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Category: Historical
In this gripping novel, Melvyn Bragg brings an extraordinary episode in English history to fresh, urgent life. 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. Y ...Show more
Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur by Bernard Cornwell
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Category: Historical | Series: Warlord Chronicles Ser.
From Bernard Cornwell the creator of the No. 1 bestselling Sharpe novels. Arthur seeks peace, with the aid of his sword Excaliber . . . After rebellions and betrayals by those he believed loved him most, Arthur looks at his most weak. His Saxon enemies decide to strike before he regains his strength, pl ...Show more
The World is Full of Foolish Men : Little Black Classic by Jean De La Fontaine
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Category: Historical | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'The pleasure is twice as sweetWhen you cheat a cheat.' An illustrated collection of fables from one of France's most vital writers. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics ...Show more
My Stratford Friend by Dominick Reyntiens
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'My Stratford friend' tells the story of Tom Wickham; A stable boy and son of a livery steward, who's mother dies during his birth. Mary Shakespeare, feeding a new-born William, brings her free breast to the rescue, thus precipitating a lifelong connection. In the home of the Shakespeares, next door to ...Show more
The Shogun's Queen by Lesley Downer
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Category: Historical | Series: The Shogun Quartet
Only one woman can save her world from barbarian invasion but to do so will mean sacrificing everything she holds dear - love, loyalty and maybe life itself ...Japan, and the year is 1853. Growing up among the samurai of the Satsuma Clan, in Japan's deep south, the fiery, beautiful and headstrong Okatsu ...Show more
Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant
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Category: Historical
By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched only by its brutality and corruption. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy, he is defined not just by his wealth, charisma and power, but by his blood: a Spanish Pope in a city run by Italians. If he ...Show more