My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
A gripping thriller based on true story of an Irish priest in the Vatican who smuggled victims of the Nazis out of Italy under the nose of his SS officer nemesis. From the bestselling and prizewinning author of Shadowplay. September 1943- German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptman rules with te ...Show more
A Bakery in Paris: A Novel by Aimie K. Runyan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the author of The School for German Brides, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century and post–World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple bakery in a tiny corner of Montmartre. ...Show more
The Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A Zoe Ball ITV Book Club Pick. 'A remarkable feat of imagination ... I enjoyed and admired it in equal measure' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent 'A powerful tale of Barbary pirates ... richly imagined.' Sunday Times 'Engrossing' Sunday Express 'Fascinating ... a really, really good read' BBC R2 ...Show more
The Paris Secret by Natasha Lester
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A wardrobe of Dior gowns, a secret kept for sixty-five years, and the three women bound forever by war... from the New York Times bestselling author of THE FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHER. England, 1939. Talented pilot Skye Penrose joins the British war effort where she encounters her estranged sister, Liberty, and ...Show more
King's Curse: Cousins' War 6 by Philippa Gregory
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Cousins' War Ser.
A #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorThe final novel in the Cousins' War seriesRegarded as yet another threat to the volatile King Henry VII's claim to the throne, Margaret is buried in marriage to a steady and kind Tudor supporter -- Sir Richard Pole, governor of Wales. But her quiet life is changed f ...Show more
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Kingsbridge Novels | Reading Level: very good
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read #1 New York Times Bestseller Oprah's Book Club Selection From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Column of Fire, the "monumental masterpiece" (Booklist) that changed the course of Ken Follett's already phenomenal ...Show more
Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Salonika, 1940. To the bustle of tavernas and the smell of hashish, a secret war is taking shape. In the backrooms of barbers, envelopes change hands, and in the Club de Salonique the air is thick with whispers. Costa Zannis is the city's dashing chief detective - a man with contacts high and low, in th ...Show more
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the bestselling author of Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking murder that unhinges her small community.Maine, 1789: When a man is found entombed in the frozen Kennebec Rive ...Show more
The Four Swans: A Novel of Cornwall, 1795-1797 (#6 Poldark) by Winston Graham
$18.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Poldark Ser.
Cornwall 1795 -1799. Although Ross Poldark -- now something of a war hero -- seems secure in his hard-won prosperity, a new dilemma faces him in the sudden infatuation of a young naval officer for his wide Demelza. All four women -- the four swans -- whose lives touch Ross's face a crisis in these years ...Show more
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
$45.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Wolf Hall Trilogy 3 | Reading Level: near fine
The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies; the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy. ‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’. England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat b ...Show more
Lighthouse Bay by Kimberley Freeman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
1901: Isabella Winterbourne has suffered the worst loss a woman can know. She can no longer bear her husband nor his oppressive upper-class family. On a voyage between London and Sydney to accompany a priceless gift to the Australian parliament, Isabella is the sole survivor of a shipwreck off the sun-d ...Show more
Mission to Paris by Christopher Fowler
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the New York Times bestselling author and the "modern-day master of the genre" (New York Newsday) comes a gripping novel of espionage and deception in 1938 pre-war Paris. At the center of the intrigue is Hollywood star, Frederic Stahl. September 1938. On the eve of the Munich Appeasement, Stahl arr ...Show more