The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The follow-up and companion to one of the most successful Australian novels ever, The Dictionary of Lost Words. What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy an ...Show more
The Painter's Daughters by Emily Howes
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
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
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Let us descend, and enter his blind world' —Dante's Inferno Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of ...Show more
The Dressmaker and the Hidden Soldier by Doug Gold
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The true story of an escaped soldier hiding out in the house of a Greek dressmaker who is secretly a resistance fighter. It's an epic love story against the odds, set during the Nazi occupation of Greece in WW2. Peter Blunden, a New Zealand soldier captured in Crete, jumps from a train and escapes from ...Show more
Sisters under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sisters under the Rising Sun, the captivating new novel by Heather Morris, is a story of women in war: a testament to resilience, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances. It is February 1942. Amid the turmoil of World War II, a group of Australian Army nurses, among them Nesta James and ...Show more
Mary I: Queen of Sorrows by Alison Weir
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Sunday Times bestselling novelist Alison Weir returns with the spellbinding story of Mary I. A DESTINY REWRITTEN. A ROYAL HEART DIVIDED. Adored only child of Henry VIII and his Queen, Katherine of Aragon, Princess Mary is raised in the golden splendour of her father's court. But the King wants a son a ...Show more
The Librarians of Rue de Picardie by Janet Skeslien Charles
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Under what was left of the roof of the ruined cottage, a girl with pigtails perched on a pile of rubble, hunched over a book... 1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France, a group of wome ...Show more
Sewing Moonlight by Kyle Mewburn
39.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews
It's winter of 1928, and young German man Wilhelm Erdinger is left stranded in the remote New Zealand village of Falter's Mill. Wilhelm purchases a piece of land capable of providing the kind of sustainable, self-sufficient life he craves, and a shack he soon begins to call home. Though he is regarded w ...Show more
Munich Wolf by Rory Clements
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The standalone pre-WW2 crime novel from Sunday Times bestselling Rory Clements - set in Munich in the early 1930s. Munich, 1935 - The Bavarian capital is a magnet for young, aristocratic Britons who come to learn German, swim in the lakes and drink beer in the cellars. What they don't see - or choose t ...Show more
Warrior King by Wilbur Smith
44.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Multimillion copy bestselling author Wilbur Smith returns with a brand-new historical epic set in Africa. South Africa, 1820 When Ann Waite discovers a shipwreck in Algoa Bay she is stunned to find survivors: a scarred sailor and a little boy. As the man walks away into the distance alone, Ann is left t ...Show more
The Sugar Palace: The gripping historical romantic adventure from the bestselling author of The Pearl Thief by Fiona McIntosh
25.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
One woman's ambitionSydney, 1925- When Grace Fairweather meets the irresistible Londoner Alfie Sweeting, dreams of selling her homemade confectionery are spun into reality.A criminal pastWhen the truth about Alfie's roguish past is revealed, Grace and Alfie's fairytale sweetshop - and their lives - come ...Show more
At the Going Down of the Sun by Mary-Anne O'Connor
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
An epic romantic adventure of love and courage that pays tribute to our brave Gallipoli heroes of World War One. 'Fans of Natasha Lester and Victoria Purman will adore...' Better Reading 1914- Brothers Thom and Archie Hogan are the best of friends who love nothing more than tinkering with their father's ...Show more