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Lost Roses (Lilac Girls #2) by Martha Hall Kelly
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the author of the million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls comes Lost Roses, which once again celebrates the unbreakable bonds of women?s friendship during the darkest days of history. It is 1914, and New York socialite Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, ...Show more
Brigantia (#3 Vindolanda) by Adrian Goldsworthy
$32.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Vindolanda Ser.
From bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy, a profoundly authentic, action-packed adventure set in Roman Britain. AD 100: BRITANNIA. THE EDGE OF THE ROMAN WORLD. Flavius Ferox is the hardbitten centurion charged with keeping the peace on Britannia's frontier with the barbarian tribes of the north. ...Show more
The Encircling Sea (Vindolanda #2) by Adrian Goldsworthy
$22.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Vindolanda Ser.
AD 100: Flavius Ferox, Briton and Roman centurion, is finding it hard to keep the peace. Based at Vindolanda - an army fort on the northern frontier of Britannia and the entire Roman world - he feels the eyes of his enemies on him at all hours. Ambitious leaders sense a chance to carve out empires of t ...Show more
The Girl in the Tower (Winternight Series #2) by Katherine Arden
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Winternight Trilogy Ser.
For a young woman in medieval Russia, the choices are stark- marriage or life in a convent. Vasya will choose a third way- magic. . . The court of the Grand Prince of Moscow is plagued by power struggles and rumours of unrest. Meanwhile bandits roam the countryside, burning the villages and kidnapping i ...Show more
The Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A Zoe Ball ITV Book Club Pick. 'A remarkable feat of imagination ... I enjoyed and admired it in equal measure' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent 'A powerful tale of Barbary pirates ... richly imagined.' Sunday Times 'Engrossing' Sunday Express 'Fascinating ... a really, really good read' BBC R2 ...Show more
The Silence of the Girls (PB) by Pat Barker
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
One of The Washington Post's 50 Most Notable Books of 2018One of NPR's Best Books of 2018One of Vanity Fair's Best Fall Books of 2018 "An important, powerful, memorable book that invites us to look differently not only at The Iliad but at our own ways of telling stories about the past and the present."- ...Show more
A Universe of Sufficient Size by Miriam Sved
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
I have wished so many times that I had acted differently.I wish that I had been more worthy of you...Eventually the war will end, and then we will find each other. Until then, remember me. Hungary, 1938. In a city park, beneath one of its bleakly looming statues, five Jewish mathematicians gather to tr ...Show more
The Tailor and The Shipwright by Robert Westphal
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Sydney, Australia 1800s. Thomas O'Neil, an Irish convict and tailor, arrives in Sydney having left his two daughters on the shores of Dublin. Appointed as Governor King's tailor, O'Neil establishes a successful business in Upper Pitts Row and soon finds a wife, Anne Kennedy. They are to be among ...Show more
Annelies A Novel of Anne Frank by David Gillham
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Having survived the concentration camps but lost her mother and sister along the way, a sixteen-year-old Anne Frank reunites with her father, Pim, in newly liberated Amsterdam. But it's not as easy to fit the pieces of their life back together. Anne is adrift, haunted by the ghosts of the horrors they e ...Show more
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might ...Show more
Blackberry and Wild Rose by Sonia Velton
$34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Set in eighteenth-century Spitalfields, London, Blackberry and Wild Rose is the rich and atmospheric tale of a household of Huguenot silk weavers as the pursuit of the perfect silk design leads them all into ambition, love, and betrayal. When Esther Thorel, wife of a master silk weaver, rescues Sara Ke ...Show more
Vindolanda (#1) by Adrian Goldsworthy
$22.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Vindolanda Ser.
Gripping, authentic novel set in Roman Britain from bestselling historian, Adrian Goldsworthy. AD 98: VINDOLANDA. A FORT ON THE EDGE OF THE ROMAN WORLD. The bustling army base at Vindolanda lies on the northern frontier of Britannia and the entire Roman world. In just over twenty years time, the Emper ...Show more
