The City of Tears by Kate Mosse
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Burning Chambers Ser.
A breathtaking historical novel of revenge, persecution and loss, The City of Tears by Kate Mosse follows on from her Sunday Times number one bestseller, The Burning Chambers. May 1572: for ten violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Neighbours have become enemies, countless lives h ...Show more
Thistledown Seed: A Memoir by Louise Helfgott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Interweaving fiction and memoir in multiple threads, Thistledown Seed follows the displacement and violence of the Holocaust for a Polish family who subsequently settle in Western Australia. In this deeply moving account, Louise Helfgott explores another side of her family’s tragic past made famous in t ...Show more
Lily by Rose Tremain
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From fated novelist Rose Tremain a gripping Victorian melodrama about an orphan girl and a vengeful murderNobody knows yet that she is a murderer... Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's night in 1850, baby Lily Mortimer is saved by a young police constable and taken to the London Foundli ...Show more
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES BY BARRY JENKINS (COMING MAY 2021) WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FIC ...Show more
Bronte's Mistress by Finola Austin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
“A meticulously researched debut novel…In a word? Juicy.” — O, The Oprah Magazine The scandalous historical love affair between Lydia Robinson and Branwell Brontë, brother to novelists Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, gives voice to the woman who allegedly brought down one of literature’s most famous familie ...Show more
The East Indian by Brinda Charry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Meet Tony- the first Indian to set foot on American soil.Among the settlers, slaves, and indentured servants that make the treacherous journey across the Atlantic to the New World in the early 1600s - for some, an exciting opportunity, for others, a brutal abduction - there is also Tony. As a child, his ...Show more
Iron Curtain: A Love Story by Vesna Goldsworthy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
* One of the Independent's Best Books of 2022 *'A book so full of steel and compassion that it stands glitteringly apart' Rachel Cusk'A piercingly evocative East-West love story' The Times'Atmospheric and gloriously vivid' Guardian____________________Two worlds on the brink of change in a love story doo ...Show more
The Red Bird Sings by Aoife Fitzpatrick
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
**AN AWARD WINNER BEFORE IT WAS EVEN PUBLISHED. A FEMINIST GOTHIC SUSPENSE THAT WILL KEEP YOU UP ALL NIGHT** 'Beautifully crafted ... wholly convincing in its historical detail and tone' SARAH GILMARTIN, author of Dinner Party West Virginia, 1897. After the sudden death of young Zona Shue only a few mon ...Show more
Demelza: A Novel of Cornwall, 1788-1790 (Poldark #2) by Winston Graham
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Poldark Ser.
Demelza Carne, the impoverished miner's daughter Ross Poldark rescued from a fairground rabble, is now his wife. But the events of these turbulent years test their marriage and their love.Demelza's efforts to adapt to the ways of the gentry - and her husband - bring her confusion and heartache, despite ...Show more
Bella Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1818-1820 (Poldark #12) by Winston Graham
$18.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Poldark
Cornwall 1818. We continue the tale of Ross and Demelza; of the wayward Valentine Warleggan, whose existence keeps open the old wounds of the feud between Ross and George; of Bella, the Poldark's youngest daughter, whose precocious talent as a singer is encouraged by her old flame, Christopher Havergal, ...Show more
All The Broken Places (#2 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas) by John Boyne
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The Sequel to The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas | Reading Level: very good
All the Broken Places is John Boyne's masterful sequel to his classic bestseller, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, taking a character from that novel on a journey to a place she never goes - the past. Through her story, Boyne explores the aftermath of the war and the effects of a lifetime of guilt. 1946. ...Show more
The Valley of Horses (#2 Earth's Children) by Jean M. Auel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Earth's Children Ser.
The second volume of the astonishing Earth's Children(R) series--over 34 million copies sold worldwide In The Valley of Horses, Ayla, the unforgettable heroine of The Clan of the Cave Bear, sets out on her own odyssey of discovery away from the nurturing adoptive family and friends of the Clan. She ...Show more