The Venetian Contract by Marina Fiorato
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the city is infected with b ...Show more
Agent of Rome: The Imperial Banner by Nick Brown
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
272 AD The Roman Emperor Aurelian has defeated Queen Zenobia and crushed the Palmyran revolt. Faridun's Banner, hallowed battle standard of the Persian Empire, has fallen into Roman hands and is to be returned to the Persians as part of a historic peace treaty. But on the eve of the signing the banner g ...Show more
The Ghosts of Athens by Richard Blake
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Roman Empire faces the barbarian horde. 612 AD. Decadent, desperate Athens is the Roman Empire's most vulnerable city. Aelric - senator of the Roman Empire, fresh from a bloodbath in Egypt that may or may not be regarded in Constantinople as his fault - is forced to divert the Imperial galley to Ath ...Show more
Waratah House by Ann Whitehead
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Eleven-year-old Marina and her beloved parents are travelling to a new life in Australia. But illness quickly spreads through their ship and before they have reached their new home, Marina has been left an orphan. Taken in by James and Sarah, a couple with jobs waiting for them in the colony, the hand o ...Show more
The Sultan's Wife by Jane Johnson
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The author of "The Salt Road" and "The Tenth Gift" Jane Johnson returns with a captivating historical novel set in Morocco. The year is 1677. Behind the magnificent walls and towering arches of the Palace of Meknes, captive chieftain's son and now a lowly scribe, Nus Nus is framed for murder. As he atte ...Show more
City of Fiends by Michael Jecks
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
It's 1327 and England is in turmoil. King Edward II has been removed from the throne and his son installed in his place. The old man's rule had proved a disaster for the realm and many hope that his removal may mean the return of peace to England's cities. Keeper of the King's Peace Sir Baldwin de Furns ...Show more
The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'I spy with my little eye, where the bird goes when he doesn't fly,' Mama said one mid-day, her words floating on the Richmond heat as we carried empty cookpots through the yard to the kitchen. Mama, your little girl is all grown up, and still playing our best game. I am a spy ...Mary Bowser was born a ...Show more
The Midwife of Venice by Roberta Rich
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
"At midnight, the dogs, cats, and rats rule Venice. The Ponte di Ghetto Nuovo, the bridge that leads to the ghetto, trembles under the weight of sacks of rotting vegetables, rancid fat, and vermin. Seeping refuse on the streets renders the pavement slick and the walking treacherous. It was on such a nig ...Show more
Rome: The Eagle Of The Twelfth by M C Scott
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
They are known as the Legion of the Damned... Throughout the Roman Army, the Twelfth Legion is notorious for its ill fortune. It faces the harshest of postings, the toughest of campaigns, the most vicious of opponents. For one young man, Demalion of Macedon, joining it will be a baptism of fire. And ...Show more
The Last Caesar by Henry Venmore-Rowland
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
AD 68. The tyrant emperor Nero has no son and no heir. Suddenly there's the very real possibility that Rome might become a republic once more. But the ambitions of a few are about to bring corruption, chaos and untold bloodshed to the many. Among them is a hero of the campaign against Boudicca, Aulus Ca ...Show more
The Kingmaker's Daughter (#4 Cousins' War) by Philippa Gregory
45.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'I have lost my father in battle, my sister to Elizabeth Woodville's spy, my brother-in-law to Elizabeth Woodville's executioner, my nephew to her poisoner, and now my son to her curse...' The gripping and ultimately tragic story of Anne Neville and her sister Isabel, the daughters of the Earl of Warwic ...Show more
The Second Empress by Michelle Moran
32.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Empress Josephine's family has been called to Napoleon's court for the terrible news that he intends to divorce his barren wife of thirteen years and take a younger bride, the Austrian Princess Marie-Louise. For Josephine's daughter, Hortense, this means she is free to leave her husband, Napoleon's brot ...Show more