Gatty's Tale by Kevin Crossley-Holland
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In the year 1203, nine pilgrims set out on a pilgrimage. The journey - on foot, on horseback and by sea - is fraught with danger. Not all of them will come safely home. Among them is Gatty, whose whole life has been spent working in the fields. Bright, eager and resolute, she is at the heart of a huge, ...Show more
The Silver Blade: Bk. 2 by Sally Gardner
34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
With Sido safely in England and the Terror at it's height, Yann returns to France to smuggle out aristocratic refugees who will otherwise face the guillotine. But when Sido is kidnapped, he must use all his strength and courage to outwit the evil Count Kalliovski, and rescue her for a second time. Set a ...Show more
The Red Necklace (#1) by Sally Gardner
19.99 NZD
20.99 (4% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: 10+
The story of a remarkable boy called Yann Margoza; Tetu the dwarf, his friend and mentor; Sido, unloved daughter of a foolish Marquis; and Count Kalliovski, Grand Master of a secret society, who has half the aristocracy in thrall to him, and wants Yann dead. Yann is spirited away to London but three yea ...Show more
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
40.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Erasmas - Raz - is a young avout living in the Concent, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world by ancient stone, honoured traditions and complex rituals. Three times during history's darkest epochs, the cloistered commun ...Show more
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
* Reissued in a new look is this richly imagined historical novel that combines mystery, history, politics and passion in a story of gripping power, from the author of SACRED HEARTS
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
1527. While the Papal city of Rome burns - brutally sacked by an invading army including Protestant heretics - two of her most interesting and wily citizens slip away, their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed as the enemy breaks down their doors. Though almost as damaged as their belove ...Show more
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good
Shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past - drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a res ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
19.99 NZD
26.00 (23% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
First published in 1905, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities. Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated, is accepte ...Show more
The Ante-Room by Kate O'Brien
28.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
*A masterpiece of passion, reticence, and self-denial by one of the twentieth century's greatest writers
All the Nice Girls by Joan Bakewell
55.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
ALL THE NICE GIRLS captures the danger and excitement of wartime Britain with a sweeping story of heroic deeds and painful separations, illicit love and battles at sea, and above all, of the poignancy of longing and loss. 1942, and the war is not going well. As part of the war effort the Ashworth Gramma ...Show more
Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore by Stella Duffy
34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'Justinian took a wife: and the manner she was born and bred, and wedded to this man, tore up the Roman Empire by the very roots' Procopius Charming, charismatic, heroic ? Theodora of Constantinople rose from nothing to become the most powerful woman in the history of Byzantine Rome. In Stella Duffy's b ...Show more