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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
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
Heads You Win (HB) by Jeffrey Archer
$44.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'The master storyteller returns with a nail-biter every bit as good as Kane and Abel - utterly enthralling' - Joanna Lumley Heads You Win is the incredible and thrilling novel by the master storyteller and bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer. Leningrad, Russi ...Show more
A Well Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler
$34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Sure to enthral' Harper's Bazaar 'Captivating . . . I dare you not to dive right in' Paula McClain,author of The Paris Wife 'This is a wonderful book!' Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves 'A must-read masterpiece' Caroline Leavitt, author of Pictures of You OUTSPOKEN. BRA ...Show more
The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters
$36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: 2 Crime
As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course across England. In Dorseteshire, the quarantined people of Develish question whether they are the only survivors. Guided by their beloved young mistress, Lady Anne, they wait, knowing that when their dwindling stores are fina ...Show more
Book of Colours by Robyn Cadwallader
$36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
From Robyn Cadwallader, author of the internationally acclaimed novel The Anchoress, comes a deeply profound and moving novel of the importance of creativity and the power of connection, told through the story of the commissioning of a gorgeously decorated medieval manuscript, a Book of Hours. London, 1 ...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 Beauty of the Wolf by Wray Delaney (Sally Gardner)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
'What some might call beauty, I find monstrous' In the age of the Faerie Queene, Elizabeth I, Lord Francis Rodermere starts to lay waste to a forest. Furious, the sorceress who dwells there scrawls a curse into the bark of the first oak he fells: A faerie boy will be born to you whose beauty ...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
War of the Wolf (Last Kingdom #11) by Bernard Cornwell
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser.
At the fortress of the eagles, three kings will fight ... Uhtred of Bebbanburg has won back his ancestral home but, threatened from all sides by enemies both old and new, he doesn't have long to enjoy the victory. In Mercia, rebellion is in the air as King Edward tries to seize control. In Wessex, rival ...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
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
