The Potter's Hand by A. N. Wilson
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is A. N. Wilson's first novel for five years that tells the epic story of the Wedgwood dynasty. In 1774, Josiah Wedgwood, master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for Catherine the Great. Josiah's nephew Tom journeys to America to buy ...Show more
Wilderness by Lance Weller
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Thirty years ago, Abel Truman found himself on the wrong side in the Battle of the Wilderness, one of the bloodiest clashes of the American Civil War. Its aftermath took him to the edge of the continent, the rugged coast of Washington State, where he has made his home in a driftwood shack with his belov ...Show more
Poseidon's Spear by Christian Cameron
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good
The third instalment in the epic story of Arimnestos, tracing the conflict between the Greeks and Persians.
Black Opera by Mary Gentle
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good
Conrad Scalese is a writer of librettos for operas in a world where music has immense power. In the Church, the sung mass can bring about actual miracles like healing the sick. Opera is musicodrama, the highest form of music combined with human emotion, and the results of the passion it engenders can be ...Show more
Rebellion (Tainted Realm #2) by Ian Irvine
34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Tainted Realm
The war has been lost. Hightspall has fallen. The Cythonian enemy, led by their reincarnated sorcerer-king, Lyf, are determined to wipe it off the map and build their ancient realm anew. TALI, an escaped slave who bears the master pearl within her, is held captive by an embittered chancellor so he can t ...Show more
Queen's Promise by Lyn Andrews
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the bestselling author Lyn Andrews comes a compelling historical epic set at the endlessly fascinating Tudor court about the most infamous woman of the age - Anne Boleyn - and the man who loved her before she became queen. From the moment Henry Percy, the future Earl of Northumberland, first glimps ...Show more
Saxon: The Book of Dreams by Tim Severin
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Frankia 780AD: Sigwulf, a minor Saxon prince, is saved from execution after his family is slaughtered by the ruthless King Offa of Mercia. Thanks to his Devil's Mark -- his eyes of different colours -- Sigwulf is exiled to the Frankish court of King Carolus, the future Charlemagne. There Sigwulf survive ...Show more
Trade Winds (Kinross #1) by Christina Courtenay
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Marriage of convenience or a love for life? It's 1732 in Gothenburg, Sweden, and strong-willed Jess van Sandt knows only too well that it s a man's world. She believes she's being swindled out of her inheritance by her stepfather and she's determined to stop it. When help appears in the unlikely form of ...Show more
The Lady Risks All by Stephanie Laurens
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Neville Roscoe, notorious and enigmatic, lives resolutely outside society, bound only by his own code of honour - until challenged by his desire for the one woman he cannot have. Miranda Clifford is a lady imprisoned by rigid respectability - until tempted by a passion beyond her power to deny. Flung ...Show more
The Generals (Wellington and Napoleon 2) by Simon Scarrow
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Wellington and Napoleon Quartet Ser. | Reading Level: good
THE GENERALS is the compelling second novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Wellington and Napoleon quartet. A must read for fans of Robert Harris. In the turbulent aftermath of the French Revolution Napoleon Bonaparte stands accused of treachery and corruption. His reputation is saved by his skill in le ...Show more
Iago (International Edition) by David Snodin
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Having escaped from Cyprus, accused of the murders of the governor, known as the Moor, and his lovely young wife, Iago is now locked in battle with Annibale Malipiero, known as Il Terribile, the chief inquisitor of Italy's greatest city. Is Iago a lone psychopath, or does he lie at the heart of a more w ...Show more
The Death of Kings (#2 Emperor) by Conn Iggulden
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Emperor Ser.
The ultimate Rome story The young Julius Caesar is serving on board a war galley, gaining a fearsome reputation. Then his ship is captured and he is abandoned on the North African coast. After gathering a legion of men powerful enough to gain vengeance on his captors and to suppress an uprising in Greec ...Show more