Sword Song (The Last Kingdom #4) by Bernard Cornwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser.
The fourth novel in Bernard Cornwell's epic and bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. BBC2's major Autumn 2015 TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series. To serve a king or become one? Uhtred - warrior, pagan, scour ...Show more
The North Water by Ian McGuire
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A 19th-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp and highly original tale that grips like a thriller. Behold the man: stinking, drunk, brutal and bloodthirsty, Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaling ship bound for the hunting waters o ...Show more
The Joyce Girl by Annabel Abbs
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Paris, 1928. Avant-garde Paris is buzzing with the latest ideas in art, music and literature from artists such as Ford Madox Ford and Zelda Fitzgerald. Lucia, the talented and ambitious daughter of controversial genius James Joyce, is making her name as a dancer. But when Lucia falls passionately in lov ...Show more
The White Princess by Philippa Gregory
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Ser.
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorThe newest novel from "the queen of royal fiction" (USA Today) tells the story of Elizabeth of York, daughter of the White Queen, who is caught in the middle of a battle for the crown of England.The White Princess opens as the news of the Battle of Bosworth is brought ...Show more
The Floating Theatre by Martha Conway
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
In a nation divided by prejudice, everyone must take a side... A gloriously involving and powerful read for fans of Gone With The Wind and Tracy Chevalier's The Last Runaway.
Mischling by Affinity Konar
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental populati ...Show more
The New Countess by Fay Weldon
$14.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Love and Inheritance
The year is 1905 and King Edward VII has invited himself and his mistress to a shooting weekend with the Dilbernes. Now Isobel, the Countess, must turn a run-down mansion into a palace fit for a king. Just as well the family fortunes have been restored, but money can't solve everything...not even a kidn ...Show more
The Survivors by Kate Furnivall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
*** THE TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHOR *** 'A thrilling rollercoaster of a read' Dinah Jefferies, author of The Sapphire Widow Discover a brilliant story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the internationally bestselling author of The Betrayal. 'Directly I saw him, I knew he had to die.' Germany ...Show more
The Blue Rose by Kate Forsyth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Viviane de Faitaud has grown up alone at the Chateau de Belisama-sur-le-Lac in Brittany, for her father, the Marquis de Ravoisier, lives at the court of Louis XVI in Versailles. After a hailstorm destroys the chateau's orchards, gardens and fields an ambitious young Welshman, David Stronach, accepts the ...Show more
Crossings (TPB) by Alex Landragin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
I didn't write this book. I stole it...A Parisian bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript containing three stories, each as unlikely as the other.The first, 'The Education of a Monster', is a letter penned by the poet Charles Baudelaire to an illiterate girl. The second, 'City of Ghosts', is a noir roma ...Show more
To Calais, in Ordinary Time by James Meek
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good
Three journeys. One road.England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a Scots proctor sets out for Avignon and a young ploughman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais.Coming in their direction from across the ...Show more
Paris Never Leaves You by Ellen Feldman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
‘Masterful, magnificent. A passionate story of survival. This story will stay with me for a long time.’ Heather Morris, bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz The war is over, but the past is never past … Paris, 1944. Charlotte Foret is working in a tiny bookstore in Nazi-occupied Paris strug ...Show more