China by Edward Rutherfurd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The internationally bestselling author portrays the great clash of East and West in his new epic novel, China. China in the Nineteenth Century: a proud and ancient empire forbidden to foreigners. The West desires Chinese tea above all other things but lacks the silver to buy it. Instead, western adventu ...Show more
The Winter Dress by Lauren Chater
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Two women separated by centuries but connected by one beautiful silk dress. A captivating novel based on a real-life shipwreck discovered off Texel Island by the bestselling author of Gulliver's Wife, Lauren Chater. Jo Baaker, a textiles historian and Dutch ex-pat is drawn back to the island where she w ...Show more
The Ghosts of Paris by Tara Moss
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Billie Walker PI Ser.
A gripping story of secrets and intrigue set in postwar London and Paris. A search for a missing husband forces investigator and former war reporter Billie Walker to face the ghosts of her own painful past, and sets her on a collision course with an underground network of Nazis. It's 1947. The world c ...Show more
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a profoundly moving story of an island refuge, and a community of outcasts living on borrowed time. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discovered an island where they could make a life together. More than a century later, the H ...Show more
The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story by Karen Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In the middle ages, a poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary classic. But what if the woman in question had a chance to tell her own version? Who would you believe?'Brooks' mischievous retelling [of Chaucer's The Wife of Bath] dials up the feminist themes - and the fun - to 1 ...Show more
Dark Tides (#2 Fairmile) by Philippa Gregory
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Synopsis coming soon.......
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
2018 Audie Award Finalist The thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been abandoned and adopted by an American couple--now available at a great value Li-yan and her family align their lives around the ...Show more
Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: General Adult
After earning a graduate degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia, Tracy Chevalier was immediately recognized for her literary talent. In Girl with a Pearl Earring, she recreates the 17th-century world of Johannes Vermeer. This haunting work of historical fiction received rave revie ...Show more
Das Boot by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
Filled with almost unbearable tension and excitement, Das Boot is one of the best stories ever written about war, a supreme novel of World War II and an acclaimed film and TV drama. Das Boot is the thrilling story of a U-boat commander and his crew during World War II. It is autumn 1941 and a German U-b ...Show more
Death of Kings (The Last Kingdom #6) by Bernard Cornwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Warrior Chronicles Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
The sixth installment of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)--the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series. As the ninth century wanes, England is perched once more on t ...Show more
Alchemy and Rose by Sarah Maine
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
A beautiful and sweeping historical novel that takes the reader from the west coast of New Zealand, to Scotland and Melbourne in the 1870s 1866. Will Stewart is one of many who have left their old lives behind to seek their fortunes in New Zealand's last great gold rush. The conditions are hostile and t ...Show more
Summer by Ali Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Seasonal Quartet Ser.
In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borro ...Show more