Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
$17.95 AUD
Category: Historical
Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and hi ...Show more
Zero Hour - The Anzacs on the Western Front by Leon Davidson
$27.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
The First World War was only meant to last six months. When the Australians and New Zealanders arrived at the Western Front in 1916, the fighting had been going for a year and a half and there was no end in sight. The men took their places in a line of trenches dug throughout Belgium and France from the ...Show more
Loyal Creatures by Morris Gleitzman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
1914. War. Did I want to volunteer with Daisy? Course I did. When I told Dad he tried to wallop me round the head with a canvas bucket. 'You're fifteen,' he said. In the deserts of Egypt and Palestine young Frank experiences all the adventure he ever wanted, and a few things he wasn't expecting. Heartb ...Show more
Ivy Takes Care by Rosemary Wells
$11.95 AUD
Category: Historical
In a heart- and humor-filled adventure by" On the Blue Comet" author Rosemary Wells, a girl spends a summer caring for animals in the mid-century Southwest. Brokenhearted after her best friend leaves for the entire summer, Ivy rallies and finds herself something new and exciting to do: she hires herself ...Show more
Making Bombs for Hitler by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
$14.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Lida and her younger sister, Larissa are caught by the Nazis and separated. Lida is sent to a slave labour camp where she works from dawn to dusk on only bread and soup, clad in one thin dress and no shoes. This is her story.
Buffalo Soldier by Tanya Landman
$16.95 AUD
Category: Historical
This is a beautiful piece of historical fiction with great heart and humanity. "What kind of a girl steals the clothes from a dead man's back and runs off to join the army? A desperate one. That's who." At the end of the American Civil War, Charley - a young African-American slave from the deep south - ...Show more
The Ruby Talisman by Belinda Murrell
$17.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: MURRELL BELINDA
'Tilly visualised the ruby pendant, recreating its crimson fire. She felt herself diving into that pool of colour . . . down into a deep, vivid dream.'Tilly falls asleep wishing she could escape to a more adventurous life. In 1789, Amelie-Mathilde is living in luxury at the Palace of Versailles - but he ...Show more
Viper's Daughter (#7 Chronicles of Ancient Darkness) by Michelle Paver
$17.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Wolf Brother
A boy. A wolf. The legend lives on. Viper's Daughteris the seventh book in the award-winning series that began with Wolf Brother, selling over 3 million copies in 36 territories. Like them it can be read as a standalone story. For two summers Torakand Rennhave been living in the Forest with their faithf ...Show more
Hanna (My Holocaust Story) by Goldie Alexander
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: My Holocaust Story
Hanna Kaminsky loves gymnastics, her best friend Eva, Elza's chicken soup with dumplings and reading. But in September 1939 the happy life that Hanna has always known disappears. The Nazis have invaded Poland and are herding all Jews into ghettos in the cities. Hanna's family are forced into hiding in t ...Show more
Just A Queen (Elizabeth Tudor #2) by Jane Caro
$19.95 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Elizabeth Tudor Trilogy
A gripping and page-turning young adult book about one of history’s greatest women. The Queen of Scots is dead and they say I killed her. They lie! Just a girl to those around her, Elizabeth is now the Queen of England. She has outsmarted her enemies and risen above a lifetime of hurt and betrayal - a m ...Show more
Just Flesh and Blood (Elizabeth Tudor #3) by Jane Caro
$19.95 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Elizabeth Tudor Trilogy
A terrible dread took hold in my belly. The only bed left to me was my deathbed and I was not ready for that - not yet. Elizabeth is a survivor. The unwanted daughter of an executed queen, she endured the perils of her childhood to take the throne as Queen of England. Just a girl at coronation, Elizabe ...Show more
Liberty by Nikki McWatters
$19.95 AUD
Category: Historical
In 1472, Jeanne's father has arranged her marriage to the French Lieutenant Lagoy against her wishes, but armed forces are swelling outside the stone walls and so Jeanne risks her life to rally the city's women to protect the freedom of her people and perhaps herself.In 1797, Betsy, a feisty, brave Iris ...Show more