These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer
28.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A classic tale of intrigue, adventure and love from the 'Grande Dame' of romantic historical novels set in Georgian and Regency England. Under the reign of Louis XV, corruption and intrigue have been allowed to blossom in France, and Justin Alastair, the notorious Duke of Avon and proud of his soubriqu ...Show more
A Winter in China by Douglas Galbraith
26.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Just down from Cambridge in the summer of 1937, Sally Marsden contemplates her future without enthusiasm. So many have assumed she will marry Hugh Jerrold - it is, practically, an engagement. When Hugh returns from his diplomatic posting to China there will be a wedding and a thoroughly respectable sett ...Show more
Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer
26.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes. . . Utter, immersive escapism' SOPHIE KINSELLA'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS________________________Hero Wantage is desperate to change her fate.When ...Show more
Mansfield by C K Stead
26.99 NZD
28.99 (6% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A fictionalised account of Katherine Mansfield's life, her loves and search to write the new kind of fiction towards which she strives. A fascinating and enlightening account. Spanning three years in the life of the writer Katherine Mansfield during the First World War, this novel follows the ups and do ...Show more
Star of the Sea : Farewell to Old Ireland by Joseph O'Connor
26.99 NZD
28.99 (6% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York. On board are hundreds of fleeing refugees. Among them are a maidservant with a devastating secret, bankrupt Lord Merridith and his family, an aspiring novelist, a maker of re ...Show more
HMS Expedient by Peter Smalley
26.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
1786: Captain William Rennie is on the beach and on half pay when he's given a prime commission: HMS Expedient is a 36 gun frigate; she is to be sent to the South Seas on a scientific expedition. For Lieutenant James Hayter, in Dorsetshire, whose career had barely begun when the peace came, his own comm ...Show more
Port Royal by Peter Smalley
26.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
It is the year 1788. HMS Expedient has returned from a perilous secret mission to the Pacific Ocean. Her Captain, William Rennie, and First Lieutenant James Hayter should be wealthy men, but their patron, the sinister spymaster Sir Robert Greer, has seen that their rewards and their crews are meager at ...Show more
The Unknown Ajax: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance by Georgette Heyer
28.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A witty and gripping Regency romance by one of the best-known and most beloved historical novelists of all time. Miles from anywhere, Darracott Place is presided over by irascible Lord Darracott. The recent drowning of his eldest son has done nothing to improve his temper. For now he must send for the u ...Show more
Cotillion by Georgette Heyer
28.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is a pre-read / used book. Good to fair condition. well read. pages slightly yellowed and some foxing. creased spine A brilliant and compelling Regency romance by one of our best-known and most beloved historical novelists of all time. The three great-nephews of cantankerous Mr Penicuik know bette ...Show more
The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer
26.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When the most eligible Earl of Rule offers for the hand of the Beauty of the Winwood Family, he has no notion of the distress he causes his intended. For Miss Lizzie Winwood is promised to the excellent, but impoverished, Mr Edward Heron. Disaster can only be averted by the delightful impetuosity of her ...Show more
Ireland Awakening by Edward Rutherfurd
26.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Best-selling author Edward Rutherfurd has lived in Ireland for the past decade; with the help of some of Ireland's leading historians, he has researched this epic and groundbreaking novel of the country. He managed to encapsulate the drama of Salisbury, Moscow, London and the New Forest in one volume i ...Show more
The Poe Shadow by Mathew Pearl
26.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who died a drunkard is accepted by all. But none of this deters Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer who risks his own career and reputation in a passionate crusade to salvage ...Show more