Letters From Berlin by Kerstin Lieff and Margarete Dos
$32.95 AUD
Category: Historical
A vivid recreation of a largely untold side of world war II - the German side. Six years before Margarete died, the author asked her mother to tell her all her stories of life during and just after the Second World War. "If you don't tell, no one will ever know and all those stories, and all that suffer ...Show more
Blood and Beauty by Sarah Dunant
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
This is a pre-read / used book. Fair condition. Well read. some yellowing and foxing to pages. Acclaimed novelist of the Italian Renaissance Sarah Dunant now takes on the era's most infamous family: the Borgias. By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by i ...Show more
A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge #3 HB) by Ken Follett
$44.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Kingsbridge Novels | Reading Level: very good
The saga that has enthralled the millions of readers of The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End now continues with Ken Follett's magnificent, gripping A Column of Fire. Christmas 1558, and young Ned Willard returns home to Kingsbridge to find his world has changed. The ancient stones of Kingsbrid ...Show more
Longbourn: The unputdownable Richard and Judy pick by Jo Baker
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
"'If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats,' Sarah thought, 'she would be more careful not to tramp through muddy fields.'It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and raw. Domestic life below stairs, ruled with a tender heart and an iron will b ...Show more
War at the Edge of the World (Twilight of Empire #1) by Ian Ross
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Twilight of Empire
AN EMPIRE IN DECLINE. Centurion Aurelius Castus - once a soldier in the elite legions of the Danube - believes his glory days are over, as he finds himself in the cold, grey wastes of northern Britain, battling to protect an empire in decline. Here he must face the barbarians beyond Hadrian's Wall, in a ...Show more
The Conqueror's Queen by Joanna Courtney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Queens of Conquest
A crown can be won, blood cannot be changed. William of Normandy is a rough man but what more can you expect of an illegitimate son trying to muscle his way into a dukedom? After a violent start to their courtship, Mathilda of Flanders discovers William to be a man of unexpected sensitivity, driven by t ...Show more
The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Siggi lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words ('promise', 'love', 'mercy'). Erich is an only child living a lush rural life, aware that ...Show more
The Friendly Ones by Philip Hensher
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'It's the book you should give someone who thinks they don't like novels ... Here is surely a future prizewinner that is easy to read and impossible to forget' Melissa Katsoulis, The TimesThe things history will do at the bidding of loveOn a warm Sunday afternoon, Nazia and Sharif are preparing for a fa ...Show more
Early Warning (Last Hundred Years Trilogy Book 2) (C-format) by Jane Smiley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
1953. When a funeral brings the Langdon family together once more, they little realize how much, over the coming years, each of their worlds will shift and change. For now Walter and Rosanna's sons and daughters are grown up and have children of their own. Frank, the eldest - restless, unhappy - ignores ...Show more
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive boy - she leaves town for Essex, where she hopes f ...Show more
The Killing of Louisa by Janet Lee
$29.95 AUD
Category: Historical
To lose one husband may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like murder. In New South Wales in 1888, Louisa Collins was sentenced to hang after being tried multiple times for the alleged murders of her two husbands. The testimony of her young daughter helped to decide her fate. This clever ...Show more
A Well Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: A Novel of the Vanderbilts | Reading Level: very good
'Sure to enthral' Harper's Bazaar 'Captivating . . . I dare you not to dive right in' Paula McClain,author of The Paris Wife 'This is a wonderful book!' Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves 'A must-read masterpiece' Caroline Leavitt, author of Pictures of You OUTSPOKEN. BRA ...Show more