The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Number 1 bestselling author Philippa Gregory continues her series, "The Cousins War", with Jacquetta Woodville, mother of the White Queen. Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry ...Show more
VIII by H. M. Castor
15.00 NZD
30.00 (50% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
VIII is the story of Hal: a young, handsome, gifted warrior, who believes he has been chosen to lead his people. But he is plagued by the ghosts of his family's violent past and, once he rises to power, he turns to murder and rapacious cruelty. He is Henry VIII. The Tudors have always captured the popul ...Show more
The Brothers Story by Katherine Sturtevant
22.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
I lit a candle from the fire and crept through the soundless house to the parlor, where folks had sang and drank a few hours since. The scarf was still there. I picked it up and let it lie for a moment in my hand, just being a servant who picks up after his mistress. Then I hid it quickly neath my cloth ...Show more
The House I Loved by Tatiana de Rosnay
34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the international bestselling author of Sarah's Key and A Secret Kept. Paris, 1869. Houses are being razed, whole neighbourhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently transform Paris int ...Show more
Empress of Rome (Rome #3) by Kate Quinn
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'Fans of Philippa Gregory will be entranced. Kate Quinn's unforgettable third novel is a mesmerising story of passion, ambition and betrayal.' Elle Under its beloved Emperor Trajan, the Roman Eagle spreads its wings, advancing ever further into the untamed world. But neither Trajan nor his reign can las ...Show more
The Book of Madness and Cures by Regina O'Melveny
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th century Venice, she's a woman who practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has provided her entree to this all-male profession, and inspired in her a shared mission to understand the secrets of the human body. Then her father disappears and Gabriella fa ...Show more
Sharpe's Revenge by Bernard Cornwell
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
It is 1814. After a long and exhausting series of battles the British and Spanish armies are pushing into south-western France from Spain. Rumours abound that Napoleon has surrendered, been murdered, or fled. But before the French are finally defeated, and Sharpe can lay down his sword, one of the blood ...Show more
The Whores' Asylum by Katy Darby
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'When you read these words, and all those that follow, I am afraid it must be because I am no longer here to speak them to you. Love is a disease; no doubt of it, and one which has proved mortal to many men down the ages ...' Oxford, 1887: Even as Victoria celebrates the fiftieth year of her reign, a st ...Show more
The Horses Didn't Come Home by Pamela Rushby
19.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A story about a boy, a horse and the last great calvary charge in history. The last great cavalry charge in history took place at Beersheba in the Sinai Desert in 1917. It was Australian soldiers and horses that took part in, and won, this amazing, unexpected, unorthodox victory. The men proudly claimed ...Show more
Ship Of War by Sean Thomas Russell
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
1794 - the height of the French Revolution - and the Reign of Terror continues to ravage France. With no clear champion in the war, the British are desperate for a victory to restore confidence in their campaign. Captain Charles Hayden has orders to destroy a French frigate sailing from Le Havre and to ...Show more
The Absolutist by John Boyne
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
September 1919-20 year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a clutch of letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War. They trained together. They fought together.But in 1917, Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, decl ...Show more
Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth
39.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Of all the Grimm fairytales, 'Rapunzel' is one of the most mysterious and enduring. It is the story of a young girl who is sold by her parents to a witch for a handful of bitter green herbs. At the age of twelve, Rapunzel is confined by the witch in a tower without stairs or a door. Years later, a princ ...Show more