The Investigators by Anthony Hill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A novel of high adventure, exploration, shipwreck and survival, based on the life of Matthew Flinders' cousin, fifteen-year-old midshipman John Franklin, by the award-winning author of Soldier Boy. 'Our discoveries have been great, but the risks and misfortunes many.'John Franklin always wanted to be a ...Show more
Galatea by Madeline Miller
$14.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe, an enchanting short story that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion. **A small hardback edition featuring a new afterword by Madeline Miller** In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has ...Show more
Daughter Of Fortune by Allende, Isabel
$10.00 AUD
$18.99 (47% off)
Category: Historical
Can we control our own destinies? What does it take to change the course of our lives so that we may pursue our dreams? And how do we know that our decisions are the right ones, especially if we hurt others or ourselves in the process? These are the questions posed by Isabel Allende's fascinating story ...Show more
Evergreen Falls by Kimberley Freeman
$8.00 AUD
$29.99 (73% off)
Category: Historical
1926: Violet Armstrong is one of the few remaining members of staff working at the grand Evergreen Spa Hotel as it closes down over winter. Only a handful of guests are left, including the heir to a rich grazing family, his sister and her suave suitor. When a snowstorm moves in, the hotel is cut off and ...Show more
Half Life by Jillian Cantor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A brilliant sliding-doors reimagining of the passionate life of the first woman to win a Nobel Prize – and the life Marie Curie might have led if she had chosen love over science. Poland, 1891. Marie Curie (then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his ...Show more
Fragrant Harbour by Ray Lycette
$29.95 AUD
Category: Historical
An exciting story of battling adversity to find success and love among the teeming millions of Hong Kong.Three young members of a Chinese commune risk all when they decide to flee the cultural revolution and make the treacherous swim to Hong Kong. For one, their desperate bid for prosperity and freedom ...Show more
Cross Stitch (Outlander #1) by Diana Gabaldon
$7.00 AUD
$19.99 (64% off)
Category: Historical | Series: Outlander | Reading Level: very good
THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. As seen on TV. What if your future was the past?1946, and Claire Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank. Itâe(tm)s a second honeymoon, a chance to learn how war has changed them and to re-establish their loving marriage. But one ...Show more
Learwife by J.R. Thorp
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, this breathtaking debut novel tells the story of the most famous woman ever written out of literary history.
The Manningtree Witches by A. K. Blakemore
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Fear and destruction take root in a community of women when the Witchfinder General comes to town, in this dark and thrilling debut. England, 1643. Parliament is battling the King; the war between the Roundheads and the Cavaliers rages.Puritanical fervour has gripped the nation, and the hot terror of da ...Show more
Will by Christopher Rush
$10.00 AUD
$19.95 (49% off)
Category: Historical
William Shakespeare is dying and his last will and testament needs urgent attention. It is March 1616. Will's lawyer, Francis Collins, is at the Stratford deathbed, and is privy to the great dramatist's final words. The will must be watertight if his client's son-in-law, the execrable Thomas Quiney, is ...Show more
Cunning Women by Elizabeth Lee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A dark and dazzling tale of forbidden love'I loved it. Atmospheric and so good' Marian KeyesWhen it is no longer safe to be a witch, they call themselves cunning.Seventeenth-century Lancashire is a dark and mistrustful place. Ten years after the notorious Pendle witch trials saw ten accused witches hang ...Show more
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams by Anita Heiss
$24.99 AUD
$32.99 (24% off)
Category: Historical
Gundagai, 1852 The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in its wake. It is a stark reminder that while the river can give life, it can just as easily take it away. Wagadhaany is one of the lucky ones. She survives. But is her life now better than the fate she esc ...Show more