The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Wladyslaw Szpilman was a young Jewish pianist who, almost uniquely, managed to stay alive in Warsaw throughout World War II. Immediately afterwards, he wrote this account of his experiences during the war.
Half Life by Jillian Cantor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A brilliant sliding-doors reimagining of the passionate life of the first woman to win a Nobel Prize – and the life Marie Curie might have led if she had chosen love over science. Poland, 1891. Marie Curie (then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his ...Show more
The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Opening on the windswept front of Morecambe Bay, on the remote north-west coast of England, The Electric Michelangelo is a novel of love, loss and the art of tattooing. Hugely atmospheric, exotic and familiar, it is an exquisitely rendered portrait of seaside resorts on opposite sides of the Atlantic by ...Show more
The Sins of the Father (Clifton Chronicles #2) by Jeffrey Archer
$17.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Clifton Chronicles Ser. | Reading Level: 16
New York, 1939. Tom Bradshaw is arrested for first degree murder. He stands accused of killing his brother. When Sefton Jelks, a top Manhattan lawyer, offers his services for nothing, penniless Tom has little choice but to accept his assurance of a lighter sentence. After Tom is tried, found guilty and ...Show more
Currawalli Street by Christopher Morgan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
With simplicity and great beauty, Currawalli Street reveals the echoes between past and present through the story of one ordinary street and its families, from the pre-war innocence of early 1914 to the painful and grim consequences of the Vietnam War. In 1914, Thomas, the young rector, questions his f ...Show more
The Ends of the Earth (Wide World Trilogy - James Maxted #3) by Robert Goddard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Wide World Trilogy Ser.
A thrilling climax to Robert Goddard's bestselling adventure trilogy, The Wide World. July 1919. Ex-flying ace James 'Max' Maxted's attempt to uncover the secret behind the death of his father, Sir Henry Maxted, murdered while serving as an adviser with the British delegation to the Paris peace confere ...Show more
The Twisted Sword: A Novel of Cornwall, 1815-1817 (#11 Poldark) by Winston Graham
$18.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Poldark Ser.
The Twisted Sword is the eleventh novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner.Cornwall 1815. Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For ...Show more
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Sometimes I whisper it over to myself- Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor. In 1843, a 16-year-old Canadian housemaid named Grace Marks was tried for the murder of her employer and his mistress. The sensationalistic trial made headlines throughout the world, and the ju ...Show more
The Dollhouse: A Novel by Fiona Davis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
When she arrives at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952, secretarial school enrollment in hand, Darby McLaughlin is everything her modeling agency hall mates aren't- plain, self-conscious, homesick, and utterly convinced she doesn't belong-a notion the models do nothing to disabuse. Yet when Darby befriend ...Show more
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
"One of the most pleasurable and satisfying new books I've read in a long time. Setterfield is a master storyteller...swift and entrancing, profound and beautiful." --Madeline Miller, internationally bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles "A beguiling tale, full of twists and turns like th ...Show more
Year of the Beast (Glenroy Book #6) by Steven Carroll
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Glenroy Ser. | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
One of Australia's finest and most critically acclaimed writers returns with a powerful novel that goes back to the very beginning of the story, to bring his sweeping Glenroy series to a magnificent close. Melbourne, 1917: the times are tumultuous, the city is in the grip of a kind of madness. The Grea ...Show more
The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in west Ireland, until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, with her sister, Johanna, and a boy named Michael Ward, a son of itinerant tinsmiths.Despite her family's cynicism, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, earn a ...Show more