Sugar Island by Sanjida O'Connell
39.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
1859. Unrest is brewing in the South as Emily, an actress from England, arrives in Georgia to begin life with her new husband Charles. On arriving, Emily realises that Charles has been keeping a terrible secret from her - he is a slave-owner. On the surface, Emily appears to reconcile herself to his way ...Show more
Hangman Blind by Cassandra Clark
38.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
November, 1382. The month of the dead. At the Feast of St. Martin in the fifth year of King Richards reign, a nun rides out for York and the Abbey of Meaux. But this is no ordinary journey. Rival popes, a boy on the English throne and a volatile peace in the savage aftermath of Wat Tylers murder. Travel ...Show more
Walking in Pimlico by Ann Featherstone
38.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
To 'walk in Pimlico' colloq. to be handsomely dressed Murray's Dictionary of Slang, Cant and Flash Words and Phrases (1857, 3rd ed.). Stumbling across Bessie Spooner's murdered body, comedian Corney Sage is caught in a tangle of deception and lies. He flees from his concert-room job in London's Whitecha ...Show more
Siege by Jack Hight
34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
For more than a thousand years the mighty walls of Constantinople have protected the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, the furthest outpost of Christianity. But now the Turkish army, the largest their Sultan has ever assembled, stands before them, their massive cannons including the new 'dragon' - a ...Show more
Eagle by Jack Hight
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Holy Land is purged with blood: the Crusades have begun. The young Saladin, chivalrous and kind, holds a heroic future entwined with the bloody battles while John, an English crusader, whose past is shrouded with mystery, cites his purpose in the Holy Land solely as 'redemption'. They must set out o ...Show more
Prince (John Shakespeare #3) by Rory Clements
39.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
From Rory Clements, winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award, comes PRINCE, the third in his acclaimed bestselling John Shakespeare Elizabethan mystery series. 'Does for Elizabeth's reign what CJ Sansom does for Henry VIII's' Sunday Times Spring 1593. England is a powder keg of rumour and fea ...Show more
Daughter of Siena by Marina Fiorato
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Palio: Siena's famously dangerous and hard-fought horse race. A year of planning, ten riders, three circuits of the piazza - and all over in a single moment. But this year, for two of the women watching, far more than the coveted prize is at stake. For Pia of the Tolomei, the most beautiful woman in ...Show more
The Bones of Avalon by Phil Rickman
38.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Religious strife, Glastonbury legends, the bones of King Arthur and the curse of the Tudors...can Renaissance man John Dee help the young Queen Elizabeth to avoid it? It is 1560. Elizabeth Tudor has been on the throne for a year, the date for her coronation having been chosen by her astrologer, Dr John ...Show more
The Bones of Avalon by Phil Rickman
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The John Dee Papers | Reading Level: very good
Religious strife, Glastonbury legends, the bones of King Arthur and the curse of the Tudors... can astrologer John Dee help the young Queen Elizabeth to avoid it? And can fans of C.J. Sansom afford to miss Phil Rickman's stunning new series of historical crime thrillers?
The Emperor's Gold by Robert Wilton
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
This is an intense, imaginative and darkly atmospheric historical spy thriller set in 1805, when Britain was within hours of invasion and defeat by Napoleon. O'Brian meets le Carre with a nod towards "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell". 1805. The armies of France have beaten every challenger. Now they c ...Show more