Velvet by Mary Hooper
19.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: From 12
Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. With both her mother and father dead, she is an orphan and has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. The laundry's work is back-breaking and Velvet is desperate to create a better life for herself. Then Velvet is noticed by Madame Savoya, a famed ...Show more
Forged in the Fire ; bk. 2 by Ann Turnbull
18.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Quaker Trilogy
London 1665 - 66. With the Plague raging and the scent of smoke upon the wind, Will and Susanna, separated by class and distance, struggle to re-unite. Will has become a Quaker and broken with his father. Leaving Susanna behind in Shropshire, he travels to London, swearing to send for her once he is set ...Show more
No Shame, No Fear ; bk. 1 by Ann Turnbull
18.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Quaker Trilogy
This is a story of love against the odds. 1662 - England is reeling from the after-effects of civil war, with its clashes of faith and culture. Seventeen-year-old Will returns home after completing his studies, to begin an apprenticeship arranged by his wealthy father. Susanna, a young Quaker girl, leav ...Show more
Seeking Eden ; bk. 3 by Ann Turnbull
21.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Quaker Trilogy
This is the conclusion of Ann Turnbull's epic story of love and the struggle to stay true to what is most important - in spite of parents, society and even the law. "Seeking Eden" is the final chapter of Ann Turnbull's long-awaited "Quaker" trilogy. Will and Susanna Heywood (No Shame, No Fear and Forged ...Show more
Park Lane by Frances Osborne
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
London, February 1914. Eighteen year-old Grace Campbell arrives in London from Carlisle, her family's hopes pinned on her becoming a secretary. The only job she can find is as a housemaid in the mansion that is Number 35, Park Lane, and soon she is entangling herself in an ever-thickening web of lies. U ...Show more
The Second Woman by Kenneth Cameron
70.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The third Denton mystery centres on political intrigue, terrorism 1900s-style and the beginnings of the British secret intelligence organization, as London becomes a hotbed of anarchist plotting. Denton is drawn into a complex web of murder and revenge when a mysterious Polish woman is found dead in the ...Show more
The Potter's Hand by A. N. Wilson
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is A. N. Wilson's first novel for five years that tells the epic story of the Wedgwood dynasty. In 1774, Josiah Wedgwood, master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for Catherine the Great. Josiah's nephew Tom journeys to America to buy ...Show more
Wilderness by Lance Weller
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Thirty years ago, Abel Truman found himself on the wrong side in the Battle of the Wilderness, one of the bloodiest clashes of the American Civil War. Its aftermath took him to the edge of the continent, the rugged coast of Washington State, where he has made his home in a driftwood shack with his belov ...Show more
Poseidon's Spear by Christian Cameron
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good
The third instalment in the epic story of Arimnestos, tracing the conflict between the Greeks and Persians.
Black Opera by Mary Gentle
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good
Conrad Scalese is a writer of librettos for operas in a world where music has immense power. In the Church, the sung mass can bring about actual miracles like healing the sick. Opera is musicodrama, the highest form of music combined with human emotion, and the results of the passion it engenders can be ...Show more
Rebellion (Tainted Realm #2) by Ian Irvine
34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Tainted Realm
The war has been lost. Hightspall has fallen. The Cythonian enemy, led by their reincarnated sorcerer-king, Lyf, are determined to wipe it off the map and build their ancient realm anew. TALI, an escaped slave who bears the master pearl within her, is held captive by an embittered chancellor so he can t ...Show more
Queen's Promise by Lyn Andrews
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the bestselling author Lyn Andrews comes a compelling historical epic set at the endlessly fascinating Tudor court about the most infamous woman of the age - Anne Boleyn - and the man who loved her before she became queen. From the moment Henry Percy, the future Earl of Northumberland, first glimps ...Show more