Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the Number One multi-million copy international bestselling author of THE FOUR WINDS and THE NIGHTINGALE. Winter Garden is a haunting and compelling novel illuminating the intricacy of mother-daughter bonds and the enduring links between past and present.Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different a ...Show more
The Last Dress from Paris by Jade Beer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Each Dior dress tells a story... London, 2017. When her beloved grandmother, Sylvie, sends her to Paris to retrieve a dress she wore decades before, Lucille sees the perfect opportunity to briefly escape the pressures of her own life. But not everything is as it seems, and the long-buried secrets she d ...Show more
Cuddy [Winner of the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize] by Benjamin Myers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The triumphant new novel from the Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The Offing. Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patron saint of the North of England. Incorporating poetry, prose, play, diary and real historical acco ...Show more
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
$8.00 AUD
$19.99 (59% off)
Category: Historical
When the plague visits an isolated village in the English countryside, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers endure a self-imposed quarantine to keep the disease from sp ...Show more
The Three Lives of Alix St Pierre by Natasha Lester
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Discover a breathtaking story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the internationally bestselling author of The Paris Secret. Alix St. Pierre was an ordinary woman. Until she became a spy for the American government. 1943. War is raging, and after developing a successful propaganda campaign to ...Show more
The Little Wartime Library: A gripping, heart-wrenching WW2 page-turner based on real events by Kate Thompson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
London, 1944.Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's only underground library, built over the tracks in the disused Bethnal Green tube station. Down here a secret community thrives: with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a ca ...Show more
The Clan of the Cave Bear (#1 Earth's Children) by Jean M. Auel
$12.99 AUD
$22.99 (43% off)
Category: Historical | Series: Earth's Children | Reading Level: very good
The story of Ayla begins when, as a 5-year-old orphan, she is adopted by the Clan, a group of Neanderthals. Initially she inspires surprise, then wariness and finally acceptance by the Clan. She is cared for by its medicine woman, Iza, and its wise holy man, Creb. But she makes an implacable enemy of th ...Show more
Dust Child by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
'Dazzling. Sharply drawn and hauntingly beautiful.' Elif Shafak, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Island of Missing Trees. In 1969, two sisters from rural Viet Nam leave their parents' home and travel to the bustling city of Saigon. Soon their lives are swept up in the unstoppable flames of a war ...Show more
Taste of Blood (Tennison #9) by Lynda La Plante
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The gripping new Detective Jane Tennison thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante. Detective Jane Tennison made a bad choice. She was the one who put in a transfer to the quiet, local police station in Bromley, keen to escape the relentless pressure of her former West End department. Now ...Show more
The Death of John Lacey by Ben Hobson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
An Australian western set in the goldfields of Ballarat, The Death of John Lacey is a viscerally powerful story of greed, power and violence from the author of Snake Island. He felt the lump of gold still in his pocket. He would find his way out of this place and leave his brother happy and he would et ...Show more
Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown (#2 Tudor Rose) by Alison Weir
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The magnificent new Tudor novel from Alison Weir, author of the Sunday Times-bestselling Six Tudor Queens series. This is Henry VIII - his side of the story.A young boy grows up dreaming of knights and chivalry.Harry is the second son. He is never meant to rule.But the death of his brother changes every ...Show more
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, ...Show more