The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
36.99 NZD
37.99 (2% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In his most enthralling novel yet, the critically acclaimed author Matthew Pearl reopens one of literary history's greatest mysteries. The Last Dickens is a tale filled with the dazzling twists and turns, the unerring period details, and the meticulous research that thrilled readers of the bestsellers T ...Show more
Savage Lands by Clare Clark
38.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Louisiana, 1704, and France is clinging on to a swampy corner of the New World with only a few hundred men. Into this precarious situation arrive Elizabeth Savaret, one of a group of young women sent from Paris to provide wives for the colonists, and Auguste Guichard, the only ship's boy to survive the ...Show more
Imprimatur by Rita Monaldi
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Its 11 September 1683, Rome. The citizens of the city wait anxiously for the outcome of the battle for Vienna as Ottoman forces lay siege to the defenders of Catholic Europe. Meanwhile, a suspected outbreak of plague causes a famous Roman tavern to be placed under quarantine. One of its detainees, the m ...Show more
The Sky's Dark Labyrinth by Stuart Clark
39.95 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Sky's Dark Labyrinth Trilogy Ser.
At the dawn of the seventeenth century everyone believed that the sun revolved around the earth. Yet some men knew that the heavens did not move as they should. And some men began to suspect that this heresy was in fact the truth. As Europe convulsed in conflict between Catholic and Protestant, these me ...Show more
The Journey of Anders Sparrman by Per Wastberg
59.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Anders Sparrman, b.1748, the son of a country rector in Uppsala, studies medicine and becomes an apostle of the botanist Carl Linnaeus. He sails as a ship's doctor to China. In 1772 becomes tutor to the children of the Swedish Resident in Cape Town, from there joins Cook's second voyage to Antarctica an ...Show more
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
28.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
At the end of the eighteenth century, two brilliant and eccentric young scientists set out to measure the world. Alexander von Humboldt swashbuckled his way across the globe: navigating ocean and jungle, eating with cannibals, swimming with electric eels, lowering himself into volcanoes and scaling the ...Show more
Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Nefertiti, wife of Amunhotep (Akhenaten), mother-in-law of Tutankhamen and the only female Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, was the most beautiful and adored women of Egypt. Whilst Nefertiti
Soul Catcher by Michael White
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Augustus Cain is a war-scarred wanderer with an uncanny, if unwelcome, ability to track the most elusive runaway slaves. To repay a debt and keep his horse, which he carelessly gambled away, he must head north from Virginia and retrieve a runaway named Rosetta. In the tradition of Cold Mountain comes th ...Show more
Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
La poderosa familia de Nefertiti siempre ha engendrado esposas para los gobernantes de Egipto durante siglos y ella esta ahora destinada a casarse con Amenhotep, el faraon mas joven e inestable. Ambiciosa, carismatica y bella, Nefertiti es adorada por las masas, se convierte en la #princesa del pueblo#. ...Show more
Soul Catcher by Michael C. White
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Augustus Cain is a man with his back against the wall. A war-scarred wanderer, he faces a past he wants to forget, a present without prospect or fortune, and an uncertain future marred by the loss of his most prized possession - his horse - which he has carelessly gambled away. But he is not without ski ...Show more