The Gallows Bird by Barbara Sumner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
London 1838- The cast-out child of an aristocratic mother, Hannah 'Birdie' Bird is a laundry maid with a hidden past and a suspicion that the wealthy family she serves is hers. Longing for beauty and liberation, Birdie risks everything to change her circumstances. She falls into love and crime, committi ...Show more
Mary Churchill's War - The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter by Emma Soames
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of wartime ATS service shows' ANNE DE COURCY, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Mary's affectionately intimate and emotionally volatile diaries [...] are an informal record that perfectly complements Churchill's ...Show more
Siena: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City by Jane Stevenson
$80.00 AUD
Category: Historical
An authoritative, richly illustrated history, and affectionate celebration, of Siena, one of the best-loved and most-visited cities in Italy. Occupying a hilltop site in the midst of a vast, undulating landscape - between the wine-producing region of Chianti to the north and the truffle-filled woods of ...Show more
Haven by Emma Donoghue
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'Beautiful and timely' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater 'Everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. Haven is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.' - Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet 'Book of the Year' pick in The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Irish Post, RTE ...Show more
Where Light Meets Water by Susan Paterson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
An evocative novel of love and art, and one man's journey to find his place in the world. Where Light Meets Water is a moving debut traversing nineteenth-century London, Melbourne and New Zealand's rugged South Island. London, 1847. Sailor Tom Rutherford has two passions: the sea and his painting. Sent ...Show more
The Witching Tide by Margaret Meyer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A spellbinding historical debut which tells the story of a silent midwife hiding a secret and a witch-hunt that tears a community apart. Perfect for fans of Stacey Halls, Maggie O'Farrell, Jessie Burton and Hannah Kent. East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer and servant, has lived for m ...Show more
The Painter's Daughters by Emily Howes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
1759, Ipswich. Sisters Peggy and Molly Gainsborough are the best of friends and do everything together. They spy on their father as he paints, they rankle their mother as she manages the books, they tear barefoot through the muddy fields that surround their home. But there is another reason they are in ...Show more
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women - by a major new talent.'The best first novel I've read in years ... So full and so vivid; it is amazing' -RODDY DOYLE In the year of 1413, two women meet for the first time in the city of Norwic ...Show more
In Love with George Eliot by Kathy O'Shaughnessy
$26.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR. What every lover of George Eliot's work wants- a new novel made from her life and mind. Marian Evans is a scandalous figure, living in sin with a married man, George Henry Lewes. She has shocked polite society. In secret, though, she has begun writing fiction under the pseudonym ...Show more
The Fair Botanists by Sara Sheridan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'Hugely enjoyable'Ambrose Parry'Dazzling, original and full of wonderful characters'Katie Fforde'Seductive and sensual'Essie Fox'Historical fiction at its best'Frances Quinn***Could one rare plant hold the key to a thousand riches?It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King Georg ...Show more
Every Rising Sun by Jamila Ahmed
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Before she was the legendary Persian queen who spun a thousand tales, Shaherazade was a girl who saw something she shouldn't have.She told the king. She thought she was doing what was right. She couldn't have imagined what was to come. The Seljuk Empire is on fire and the king is on a rampage after lea ...Show more
Edenglassie: An extraordinary story of early Brisbane (Miles Franklin Longlist 2024) by Melissa Lucashenko
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with ...Show more