The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
"A page turner. . .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. . .in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns: love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality." - Alice Hoffman, The Washington Post A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King Davi ...Show more
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
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Category: Historical | Series: Wolf Hall 1 | Reading Level: very good
From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel. ‘Every bit as good as they said it was’ Observer ‘Terrific’ Margaret Atwood ‘As soon as I opened this book I was gripped. I read it almost non-stop’ The Times In Wolf Hall, one of our very best writers ...Show more
Tidelands (#1 Fairmile) by Philippa Gregory
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Category: Historical | Series: Fairmile
THE BRAND NEW SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR The eagerly awaited first book in Philippa Gregory's sweeping new series begins with the story of Alinor, a young midwife who finds herself tempted by a forbidden love affair. But in a society that has already set a path for her, ...Show more
The Choir of Gravediggers by Mel Hall
$16.00 AUD
Category: Historical
When Miss Truelove discovers hatboxes full of papers after her mother's death, mysteries of her past begin to resolve. She is compelled to tell the story of her eccentric father, Charles Truelove, and the scandals surrounding his name. The Choir of Gravediggers takes us back to late nineteenth century M ...Show more
Bring Up The Bodies (#2 Wolf Hall) by Hilary Mantel
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Category: Historical | Series: Wolf Hall 2 | Reading Level: very good
An astounding literary accomplishment, Bring Up the Bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists. ‘Our most brilliant English writer’ Guardian Bring Up the Bodies unlocks the darkly glittering court of Henry VIII, where Thomas Cromwell is now chi ...Show more
Saltblood by Francesca De Tores
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'A gripping tale of one woman's extraordinary adventures ... Saltblood is a triumph of the imagination'ELODIE HARPER, author of 'The Wolf Den' trilogy'A ravishing picaresque told with fireworks, finesse and gusto' PAUL LYNCH, author of Prophet Song'Saltblood is exquisite. The writing is sumptuous and ly ...Show more
Warleggan: A Novel of Cornwall, 1792-1793 (#4 Poldark) by Winston Graham
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Category: Historical | Series: Poldark Ser.
Cornwall 1792. Ross plunges into a highly speculative mining venture which threatens not only his family's financial security but also his turbulent marriage to Demelza. When Ross and Elizabeth's old attraction rekindles itself, Demelza retaliates by becoming dangerously involved with a handsome Scottis ...Show more
The Curator by Owen King
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Sing Me to Sleep Ser.
Half fairy tale and half historical account of a revolution that never was, Owen King's The Curator is full of sly humor, sensuality, and strangeness - Holly Black. From Sunday Times bestselling author Owen King comes a Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figure ...Show more
The Twisted Sword: A Novel of Cornwall, 1815-1817 (#11 Poldark) by Winston Graham
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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
Essex Dogs by Dan Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Essex Dogs Trilogy Ser.
Globally bestselling historian Dan Jones makes his historical fiction debut with Essex Dogs, the explosive first instalment in an epic new trilogy set during the Hundred Years War. July 1346. The Hundred Years' War has begun, and King Edward and his lords are on the march through France. But this war b ...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 Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: FABER MODERN CLASSICS
"In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of lost causes and lost love, The Remains of the Day, winner of the Booker Prize, contains Ishiguro's now cel ...Show more