The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Bridgertons
1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And, in all truth, why should he? When it comes to playing the consummate rake, nobody does it better . . . --Lady Whist ...Show more
Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
A haunting sequence of imagined letters to the Count de Camondo -- the owner of a Parisian palace filled with beautiful objects, turned into a memorial for his lost son -- by the bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes. 'Consistently illuminating... considered, compassionate and appreciative... T ...Show more
Echoes of War (aka Daughter of Calabria) by Tania Blanchard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Set in Mussolini's Italy amid great upheaval, this is the story of one woman's determination to find her place in a world that men are threatening to tear apart. Another heart-rending novel inspired by a true story from Australia's bestselling author of The Girl from Munich. Calabria, Italy, 1936 In a r ...Show more
A History of Dreams by Jane Rawson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In 1930s Adelaide, four women turn to witchcraft to undermine a new authoritarian government determined to enforce their marriage and virtual enslavement. In the 1930s in Adelaide, sisters Margaret and Esther Beasley and their friend Phyllis O Donnell are learning to be witches. Their guide is Audrey Ma ...Show more
The Coast by Eleanor Limprecht
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A stunning novel of love and courage by the bestselling author of The Passengers. Alice is only nine years old in 1910 when she is sent to the feared Coast Hospital lazaret at Little Bay in Sydney, a veritable prison where more patients are admitted than will ever leave. She is told that she's visiting ...Show more
Sharpe's Eagle: The Talavera Campaign, July 1809 by Bernard Cornwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: B FORMAT
Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign, July 1809. In Portugal, Richard Sharpe is ordered to accompany a newly arrived, inexperienced regiment. But Sharpe, a veteran, quickly clashes with the incompetent colonel after they start to lose men. Sharpe's promotion to captain aggrevates the colonel further ...Show more
The Swift and the Harrier by Minette Walters
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'Once again, Minette Walters has given us an historical fiction to rival no other...brimming with historical detail while still maintaining an accessibility that would rival a contemporary novel. The characterisation is superb, the drama intense, and the historical retelling fascinating.' - Theresa Smit ...Show more
Lublin by Manya Wilkinson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
On the road to Lublin, plagued by birds that whistle like a Cossack's sword, three young lads from Mezritsh brave drought, visions, bad shoes, Russian soldiers, cohorts of abandoned women, burnt porridge, dead dogs, haemorrhoids, incessant sneezing, constipation, and bad jokes in order to seek their for ...Show more
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me. The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history discover tha ...Show more
The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant by Kayte Nunn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A cache of unsent love letters from the 1950s is found in a suitcase on a remote island in this mysterious love story by top ten bestselling author, Kayte Nunn. 1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital ...Show more
The Broken Places by Russell Franklin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In 1931, Gregory Hemingway's life begins in Kansas City, Missouri. The third and favourite son of an overbearing father, Greg is a paragon: a star athlete, a crack shot, bright and handsome and built like a pocket battleship.In 2001, Gloria Hemingway's life ends in a Miami women's correctional instituti ...Show more
Under Occupation by Alan Furst
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
Occupied Paris, 1942. In the dark, treacherous city, the German occupying forces are everywhere-and so are French resistance fighters, working secretly to defeat Hitler. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the Gestapo hands off a strange-looking document to the unsuspecting novelist Paul Ricard. ...Show more