Gulliver's Wife by Lauren Chater
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Birth. Death. Wonder ... One woman's journey to the edge of love and loyalty from the bestselling author of The Lace Weaver London, 1702. When her husband is lost at sea, Mary Burton Gulliver, midwife and herbalist, is forced to rebuild her life without him. But three years later when Lemuel Gulliver is ...Show more
The Children's Train by Viola Ardone
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Based on true events, a heartbreaking story of love, family, hope, and survival set in post-World War II Italy--written with the heart of Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours--about poor children from the south sent to live with families in the north to survive deprivation and the harsh winters. Though ...Show more
The Mirror And The Light by Hilary Mantel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Wolf Hall Ser.
With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferociou ...Show more
The Evening and the Morning: A Prequel to The Pillars of the Earth (#0.5 Kingsbridge) TP by Ken Follett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: PREQUEL TO PILLARS OF THE EARTH
From the bestselling author Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning is a historical epic that will end where The Pillars of the Earth begins. A Time of ConflictIt is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. The king's grip on the country is fragile and chaos reigns. A young boat builder dreams of a better fu ...Show more
The Arctic Fury - A Novel by Greer Macallister
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition--and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don't come back.Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into the Arctic, and find her husband's lost expedition. Four partie ...Show more
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A cerebral, compulsive psychological novel from the bestselling author of His Bloody ProjectI am convinced, you see, that Dr Braithwaite killed my sister, Veronica. I do not mean that he murdered her in the normal sense of the word, but that he is, nonetheless, as responsible for her death as if he had ...Show more
The Swift and the Harrier by Minette Walters
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
An unforgettable novel of England's Civil War, from the bestselling author of The Last Hours and The Turn of Midnight. Dorset, 1642. When bloody civil war breaks out between the King and Parliament, families and communities across England are riven by different allegiances. A rare few choose neutrality. ...Show more
Cold Light (#3 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Edith Trilogy
"Winner of the Queensland Literary Award. Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Barbara Jefferis Prize.It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League. Edith Campbell Berry, who joined the League i ...Show more
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardize ...Show more
The Only Child by Kayte Nunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Almost every graduating class had a girl who disappeared. A decades-old crime threatens to tear apart three generations of women in this unputdownable mystery that will keep you gripped until its last heart-wrenching page. 1949 It is the coldest winter Orcades Island has ever known, when a pregnant sixt ...Show more
The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
London, 1944.Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's only underground library, built over the tracks in the disused Bethnal Green tube station. Down here a secret community thrives: with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a ca ...Show more
Love, Oil And The Fortunes Of War by Paul Ashford Harris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
• A rollicking fictionalised tale about (real life) powerful characters, and how by helping preserve the dominance of the British Navy they arguably altered the outcome of WW1. • Main characters: Gertrude Bell (famous explorer, archaeologist and supporter of women’s rights – Nicole Kidman play her in th ...Show more