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
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade (Lord John #2) by Diana Gabaldon
36.99 NZD
39.99 (7% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Lord John
Against the vivid and violent backdrop of war-torn Europe, Lord John Grey pursues a deadly family secret and a clandestine love affair ...Seventeen years earlier, Grey's father, the Duke of Pardloe, shot himself just days before he was to be accused of being a Jacobite traitor. By raising a regiment to ...Show more
Shakespeare's Apprentice by Veronica Bennett
19.99 NZD
22.00 (9% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
The year is 1598. Sam Gilburne is an apprentice actor and member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, appearing in the roles created by famous playwright William Shakespeare. While onstage, Sam notices the lovely Lady Lucie Cheetham, niece of Lord Essex, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth. The two meet on several ...Show more
The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation #1) by M.T. Anderson
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation
Boston, 1775. Raised by a society of rational philosophers, who call each other by a number, Octavian and his mother - a princess in exile from a faraway land - are the only people in their household assigned names. The boy is dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest classical education; but ...Show more
Roma by Steven Saylor
29.99 NZD
30.99 (3% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
"Roma" is the story of the ancient city of Rome, from its mythic beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the centre of the most extensive, powerful empire in the ancient world.Beginning with the prehistory days when Roma was a way station among seven hills for traders and mercha ...Show more
The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
16.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Cooper's first major success, "The Spy" is also his first book set in the period of the American War of Independence. The story starts in 1870 in the area of the country, which was between British-held New York and the Continental Army in the Hudson River Valley and upstate New York. The household of Mr ...Show more
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In this remarkably powerful book, James Bradley takes as his starting point one of the most famous photographs of all time. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima and into a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire from 22,000 Japanese. After climbing through a hellish landsc ...Show more
Alexandria (#19 Falco) by Lindsey Davis
39.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Marcus Didius Falco Ser.
In Roman times, the Seven Ancient Wonders fo the World held a deep fascintation. Two of them were in Egypt" the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Lighthouse at Alexandria. Marcus Didius Falco's wife Helen Justina is deemined to see them before her next confinement. Conveniently, he has and uncle with a h ...Show more