The Killing of Louisa by Janet Lee
$29.95 AUD
Category: Historical
To lose one husband may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like murder. In New South Wales in 1888, Louisa Collins was sentenced to hang after being tried multiple times for the alleged murders of her two husbands. The testimony of her young daughter helped to decide her fate. This clever ...Show more
The Botanist's Daughter by Kayte Nunn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondrously imagined tale of two female botanists, separated by more than a century, in a race to discover a life-saving flower . . . In Victorian England, headstrong adventuress Elizabeth takes up her late father's quest for a rare, miraculous plant. She faces a perilous ...Show more
Frieda: A Novel of the Real Lady Chatterley by Annabel Abbs
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
The extraordinary story of Frieda von Richthofen, wife of D. H. Lawrence and the real-life inspiration for Lady Chatterley's Lover. 'A lush and absorbing portrait of a fascinating woman who refused to compromise on what really matters: to be known, to love, to be beloved. She, and all those connected wi ...Show more
The Last Hours by Minette Walters
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical
When the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in Dorseteshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church proclaims it a punishment from God but Lady Anne of Develish has different ideas. With her brutal husband absent, s ...Show more
A Well Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: A Novel of the Vanderbilts | Reading Level: very good
'Sure to enthral' Harper's Bazaar 'Captivating . . . I dare you not to dive right in' Paula McClain,author of The Paris Wife 'This is a wonderful book!' Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves 'A must-read masterpiece' Caroline Leavitt, author of Pictures of You OUTSPOKEN. BRA ...Show more
Annelies A Novel of Anne Frank by David Gillham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Having survived the concentration camps but lost her mother and sister along the way, a sixteen-year-old Anne Frank reunites with her father, Pim, in newly liberated Amsterdam. But it's not as easy to fit the pieces of their life back together. Anne is adrift, haunted by the ghosts of the horrors they e ...Show more
The Familiars by Stacey Halls
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
'Assured and alluring, this beautiful tale of women and witchcraft and the fight against power was a delight from start to finish' - Jessie Burton, bestselling author of The Miniaturist.
Painter to the King by Amy Sackville
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death 38 years and scores of paintings later. It is a portrait of a relationship that is not quite a friendship, between an artist and his subject. It is a portrait of a ruler, always on duty, and inc ...Show more
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Lives of the Mayfair Witches Ser.
On the verandah of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking. And the witching hour begins...Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches - a family give4n to poetry an ...Show more
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Taran dreams of fighting heroic battles instead of being an Assistant Pig-Keeper until Hen Wen, the magical pig, disappears. With the land of Prydain under threat from the Horned King, and Taran searching for Hen Wen, he is drawn into a deadly quest. Coming face-to-face with warriors and witches Taran i ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: near fine
Do not believe too quickly... What if Elizabeth Macarthur - wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney - had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir. What fol ...Show more
The Chanel Sisters by Judithe Little
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The unforgettable story of the sisters who changed fashion forever. Gabrielle and Antoinette know they're destined for something better. Abandoned to a convent orphanage, they are raised for simple lives. But at night they dream of a glittering future, and the Chanel sisters are determined to prove them ...Show more