American Pastoral by Philip Roth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: good
"Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s ...Show more
Vintage 1954 (PB) by Antoine Laurain; Gallic Books (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'The very quintessence of French romance...' The TimesWhen Hubert Larnaudie invites some fellow residents of his Parisian apartment building to drink an exceptional bottle of 1954 Beaujolais, he has no idea of its special properties.The following morning, Hubert finds himself waking up in 1950s Paris, a ...Show more
Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London #7) by Ben Aaronovitch
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Rivers of London
Now in mass market, the seventh book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of London.The Faceless Man, wanted for multiple counts of murder, fraud, and crimes against hum ...Show more
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of t ...Show more
The Mirror And The Light (#3 Wolf Hall) by Hilary Mantel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Thomas Cromwell
The brilliant #1 New York Times bestseller Named a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian, and many more With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall ...Show more
Watson's Pier by Joshua Funder
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Stan Watson was among the first ashore at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, and survived battle, fear and disease to build the pier at Anzac Cove from which so many men later escaped. He faced what seemed like an impossible mission: to get every man out alive. Watson never claimed to be the last man to leave ...Show more
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
$21.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'Engrossing . . . the reader falls under the spell that the author is weaving, surrendering to the story's exotic magic.' - The TimesWhite. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.One misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives an unusual ...Show more
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
'He tilted his desk lamp so that the light fell on the image. The head of a bright bay colt gazed out of the canvas, the expression in the eyes unusual and haunting.' A discarded painting in a roadside clean-up, forgotten bones in a research archive, and Lexington, the greatest racehorse in US history. ...Show more
The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason
$21.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'Part mystery, part war story, part romance, The Winter Soldier is a dream of a novel' - Anthony Doerr, author of All The Light We Cannot See.From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, comes Daniel Mason's The Winter Soldier, a story of love and medicine through the devastation of the First World W ...Show more
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her fath ...Show more
Benevolence by Julie Janson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Historical
For perhaps the first time in novel form, Benevolence presents an important era in Australia’s history from an Aboriginal perspective. Benevolence is told from the perspective of Darug woman, Muraging (Mary James), born around 1813. Mary’s was one of the earliest Darug generations to experience the impa ...Show more
The Guardian of Lies by Kate Furnivall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Discover a brilliant story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the internationally bestselling author of The Survivors. 1953, the South of France. The fragile peace between the West and Soviet Russia hangs on a knife edge. And one family has been torn apart by secrets and conflicting allegiances ...Show more