The Secret Familiar (Confessions of an Inquisitor's Spy) by Catherine Jinks
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Beautifully crafted historical fiction set in medieval France, The Secret Familiar is a page-turning murder mystery and a fascinating moral tale of betrayal, faith and ultimate truth.He is my master, and a great man. Yet I would have preferred to escape his notice. 'Hide yourself,' he told me, and I obe ...Show more
A Watery Grave (A Wiki Coffin Adventure Book 1) by Joan Druett
26.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Wiki Coffin
It's 1838 and Wiki Coffin, half-blood Maori son of a Salem ship captain, waits on the banks of the Elizabeth River, Virginia. Pistols ready, he is scheduled to fight a duel but instead discovers a boat drifting with a dead woman inside. When the law arrives he is the immediate suspect and is placed unde ...Show more
Shark Island (A Wiki Coffin Adventure Book 2) by Joan Druett
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Wiki Coffin Adventure Ser.
Wiki Coffin, linguist aboard the U.S. Exploring Expedition, the famous voyage meant to put America at the forefront of 19th century scientific discovery, brings many skills to his job. Whether he's translating native languages, assisting his good friend Captain George Rochester as unofficial first mate, ...Show more
Run Afoul (A Wiki Coffin Adventure Book 3) by Joan Druett
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Wiki Coffin
As the 1865 US Exploring Expedition heads into the port of Rio de Janeiro, one of the vessels collides with a Salem trading ship. Wiki Coffin, resident linguist of the famous convoy, is astonished to discover that the commander of the trader is none other than his father, Captain William Coffin. An inco ...Show more
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In 1903, a mysterious, desperate young woman flees alone across the icy western wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. Her name is Mary Boulton. Bloodhounds track her through the trees. She is nineteen years old. Half mad. Already a widow - by her own hand. Pursued by two relentless and vengeful brothers, M ...Show more
My Name Is Will: Novel of Sex, Drugs and Shakespeare by Jess Winfield
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Our hero, struggling California grad student Willie Shakespeare Greenberg, is trying to write his thesis about the Bard. Kind of. Having been cut off by his father for laziness and desperate for cash, Willie agrees to deliver a single, giant, psychedelic mushroom to a mysterious collector, only to find ...Show more
With a Sword in My Hand by Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem, Pat van Beirs, John Nieuwenhuizen
21.99 NZD
22.99 (4% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: 13+
Marguerite's father is desperate for a son. Instead he's stuck with a feisty, stubborn, red-headed daughter. But the Count of Flanders has plans for his wayward daughter. Will Marguerite be able to resist the combined pressure of politics, power and a foreign prince? And has she met her match in Philip, ...Show more
The Wedding Shroud by Elisabeth Storrs
37.99 NZD
39.99 (5% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
In 406 BC, to seal a tenuous truce, the young Roman Caecilia is wedded to Vel Mastarna, an Etruscan nobleman. Caecilia is determined to remain true to Roman virtues while living among the sinful Etruscans. Instead she finds herself tempted by a mystical, hedonistic culture. But as war looms, Caecilia mu ...Show more
The Further Adventures of Charlotte Bronte: Bedlam by Laura Joh Rowland
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Further Adventures of Charlotte Bronte Ser.
Upon visiting Bedlam, London's notorious mental institution, for research for an upcoming project, Charlotte is shocked to see someone who looks just like her old flame, John Slade, who went to Russia on a mission for the Queen just two years earlier and hasn't been heard from since. Thus unfolds anothe ...Show more
Utopian Man by Lisa Lang
28.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
It's the 1880s. Marvellous Melbourne is a lavish and raucous city where anything could happen. Eccentric entrepreneur Edward William Cole is building the sprawling Cole's Book Arcade and filling it with whatever amuses him, or supports his favourite causes: a giant squid, a brass band, monkeys, a black ...Show more
The Roving Party by Rohan Wilson
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
1829, Tasmania. John Batman, ruthless, singleminded; four convicts, the youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood as a white man. This is the roving party and their purpose is massacre. With promi ...Show more
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
26.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
When the plague visits an isolated village in the English countryside, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers endure a self-imposed quarantine to keep the disease from sp ...Show more