The Jewels of Paradise by Donna Leon
34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Caterina Pellegrini is a young Venetian musicologist hired by two competing cousins to find the truthful heir to an alleged treasure concealed by a once-famous, but now almost forgotten, baroque composer. Sworn to secrecy, Caterina can solve the mystery only by searching through the papers contained in ...Show more
Betrayal by Julian Stockwin
39.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Cape Colony is proving a tiresome assignment for Captain Kydd's daring commander-in-chief Commodore Popham. Rumours that South America's Spanish colonies are in a ferment of popular unrest and of a treasure hoard of silver spur him to assemble a makeshift invasion fleet and launch a bold attack on the c ...Show more
The Sword and the Scimitar by Simon Scarrow
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Bestselling author Simon Scarrow brings the Great Siege of Malta to vivid and unforgettable life in this gripping standalone novel. 1565; In its hour of greatest need, Malta must rely upon the ancient Knights of the Order of St John for survival. Bound by the strongest ties: of valour, of courage and of ...Show more
Prison Ship: Adventures of a Young Sailor by Paul Dowswell
21.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Adventures of a Young Sailor
In March 1801, a mere six weeks after Sam Witchall's ship wrecked off the Cornish coast, his hopes for getting home are dashed when he is framed for theft and sent to Australia for punishment. The 15,000 mile, eight month journey is a hard and horrible one, and when he and his good friend Richard finall ...Show more
Powder Monkey: Adventures of a Young Sailor by Paul Dowswell
21.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Adventures of a Young Sailor
Thirteen-year-old Sam Witchall has always dreamed of being a sailor, but he never realized how dangerous and gruesome life at sea could be until he is pressed into service aboard HMS" Miranda." Beginning his naval career as a "powder monkey"--assisting the gun crews on the warship--Sam learns the ropes ...Show more
Battle Fleet: The Adventures of Sam Witchall by Paul Dowswell
30.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Sam escapes death in Australia when the truth about his false conviction is finally revealed. But on the journey back to England he faces pirates and a terrible storm, before making the longed-for trip back up the River Thames. Finally reunited with his family in Norfolk, Sam realises how much life at s ...Show more
The Stockholm Octavo by Karen Engelmann
49.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In 18th century Stockholm, as the winds of revolution rage through the great capitals of Europe, the key to a nation's fate rests in the hands of an unlikely hero. Emil Larsson is a drinker, card player and contented bachelor until he is told that his position at the Office of Excise and Customs depends ...Show more
The Liars' Gospel by Naomi Alderman
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'He was a traitor, a rabble-leader, a rebel, a liar and a pretender to the throne. We have tried to forget him here.' For fans of The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Phillip Pulman, Naomi Alderman's The Liars' Gospel is the story of a Jewish man, Yehoshuah, who wandered Roman-occupied Judea ...Show more
The Roving Party by Rohan Wilson
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
1829, Tasmania. John Batman, ruthless, singleminded; four convicts, the youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood as a white man. This is the roving party and their purpose is massacre. With promi ...Show more
Havisham by Ronald Frame
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A compelling prelude to Great Expectations, telling compelling story of Miss Havisham's early life, before heartbreak came to define her entirely. There was a delicate tracery of gold foil on the back of the dress. How strange that such a consummately made garment should be worn for this one day only. ...Show more
Island House by Posie Graeme-Evans
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
One warm rainy summer, Freya Dane, a PhD candidate in archaeology, arrives on the ancient Scottish island of Findnar. Estranged as a child from her recently dead father, himself an archaeologist, Freya yearns to understand more about the man, his work on the island, and why he left her mother so many ye ...Show more
The Ripper Secret by Jack Steel
26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
August 1888. Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Charles Warren has a precious artefact, a relic of incalculable value that dates back to the very earliest days of human history, in his possession. Previously sent to Jerusalem to survey and explore the ancient religious sites there, he found the sol ...Show more