The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in west Ireland, until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, with her sister, Johanna, and a boy named Michael Ward, a son of itinerant tinsmiths.Despite her family's cynicism, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, earn a ...Show more
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the author of the wonderful Beautiful Ruins comes an erudite and beguiling new novel. The Dolan brothers live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his dashing older brother Gig dream ...Show more
Elizabeth of York, the Last White Rose: Tudor Rose Book 1 by Alison Weir
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Tudor Rose
'This series is a serious achievement' THE TIMES on SIX TUDOR QUEENS 'Weir is excellent on the little details that bring a world to life' GUARDIAN Alison Weir, Sunday Times-bestselling author of the SIX TUDOR QUEENS series, returns with a captivating new trio of novels spanning three generations of hi ...Show more
The Lily and the Lion (Accursed Kings #6) by Maurice Druon
$15.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Accursed Kings Ser.
"This is the original Game of Thrones." George R.R. Martin. The royal house of France has fallen. Charles IV is dead, fulfilling the curse of the Templars once and for all. This leaves the path to the throne open for Robert of Artois to place his cousin, Philippe of Valois, upon it. Having committed fra ...Show more
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
She was 'The Angel of the Baths', the one woman whose touch everybody yearned for. Yet she would do more. She was certain of that. In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned for her nursing skills is convinced that some other destiny will one day show itself to her. Bu ...Show more
Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
Germany, 1946A reluctant spy is born… ‘A perfect summer read; gripping, original, well-drawn and compassionate' Joanne Harris 'Celia Rees is a superb writer, and this novel has one of the most irresistible and unique story hooks I've ever come across. This book deserves to be huge!' Sophie Hannah An ord ...Show more
Fire Queen (Shakespeare's Queens Bk 2) by Joanna Courtney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Shakespeare's Queens
The world knows Ophelia as Hamlet's troubled lover; but behind Shakespeare's tragedy stands a real woman: this is her story . . . The second novel in the new historical fiction series from the bestselling author of the Queens of Conquest, Joanna Courtney's new trilogy unearths the real women behind Shak ...Show more
Her Heart For A Compass by The Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
London 1865 In an attempt to rebel against a society where women are expected to conform, free-spirited Lady Margaret Montagu Scott flees her confines and an arranged marriage. But Lady Margaret's parents, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, as close friends with Queen Victoria, must face the public scru ...Show more
The Silk House by Kayte Nunn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Weaving. Healing. Haunting. The Top-Ten bestselling story of a mysterious boarding school sheltering a centuries-old secret...Australian history teacher Thea Rust arrives at an exclusive boarding school in the British countryside only to find that she is to look after the first intake of girls in its 15 ...Show more
China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
1929. At a farm in Punjab, northern India, three girls are married to three brothers in one ceremony. For weeks afterwards, segregated from the men in the 'china room', heavily veiled, and meeting their husbands only under cover of darkest night, none of the girls is entirely sure which brother is hers. ...Show more
The Power Game (The Monsarrat Series #3) by Meg Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: monsarrat series
Being the skipper of the cutter that carries all supplies and communications between Tasmania and Maria Island is a powerful position, and a deadly one. When a boatman is murdered on a remote island off Van Dieman's Land, the authorities want to blame a famous, and very inconvenient, political prisoner. ...Show more
The Woman from Saint-Germain by J. R. Lonie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: 1
SUITE FRANCAISE MEETS THE FUGITIVE AS TWO STRANGERS GO ON THE RUN TO OUTWIT THE NAZIS IN 1941. She is a celebrated writer stranded in Paris after her French lover is killed fighting the German invasion. He is an enigmatic foreigner with a dangerous secret, fleeing Nazi-controlled Austria. Only the war ...Show more