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Tidelands (Fairmile #1) by Philippa Gregory
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | 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 Wreck by Meg Keneally
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
All Sarah ever wanted was a better life ... From the bestselling author of Fled comes a moving tale of revolution, treachery and courage. In 1820 Sarah McCaffrey, fleeing arrest for her part in a failed rebellion, thinks she has escaped when she finds herself aboard the Serpent, bound from London to ...Show more
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The brand-new book from the internationally bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Huntress - available to pre-order now! 1940. Three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious ...Show more
Champagne War by Fiona McIntosh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The heart-stopping new blockbuster by the bestselling author of The Diamond Hunter. In the summer of 1914, vigneron Jerome Mea heads off to war, certain he'll be home by Christmas. His new bride Sophie, a fifth generation and rebellious champenoise, is determined to ensure the forthcoming vintages will ...Show more
A Treacherous Country by K.M. Kruimink
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Winner of The Australian/Vogel's Literary award - the prestigious literary award that has launched over a hundred authors WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN/VOGEL'S LITERARY AWARD '...a witty, cracking tale set in Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s' - Australian Book Review There is a woman, somewhere, here, in Van D ...Show more
The Zookeeper of Belfast by S. Kirk Walsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
As the bombs rain down on the city, Belfast's first ever female zookeeper must fight to save the baby elephant in her charge in this gripping, uplifting tale based on a true story. 1941. With the men away fighting, animal-lover Hettie Quin is made Belfast Zoo's first ever female zookeeper. She is put i ...Show more
The Last Reunion by Kayte Nunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Five women come together at a New Year's Eve's party after decades apart, in this thrilling story of desire, revenge and courage, based on a brave group of Australian and British WWII servicewomen. Burma, 1945. Bea, Plum, Bubbles, Joy and Lucy: five young women in search of adventure, attached to the F ...Show more
Hamnet (PB) by Maggie O'Farrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. ...Show more
Ripping Tree by Nikki Gemmell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An illustrious family. A beautiful home. A shipwrecked young woman left on its doorstep. Don't think they're going to save her. A new novel from international bestselling author, Nikki Gemmell. Early 1800s. Thomasina Trelora is on her way to the colonies. Her fate: to be married to a clergyman she's ne ...Show more
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
$19.95 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
Jean Rhys's spell-binding novel Wide Sargasso Sea, inspired by Jane Eyre and winner the Royal Society of Literature Award is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now... Now they have taken everything away. What a ...Show more
A History of the World In 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10� Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they ar ...Show more
Abigail by Magda Szabó; Len Rix (Translator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A cult coming-of-age novel by the author of THE DOOR and KATALIN STREET. Magda Szabo's Abigail is the most widely read of all her novels in her native Hungary. Now, fifty years after its original publication, it appears in English for the first time. Gina, the only child of a widowed general, lives a co ...Show more