Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles
28.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Emilia and Luzia dos Santos, orphaned when they are children, grow up under the protection of their aunt in the hillside village of Taquaritinga, Brazil. Raised as seamstresses, the sisters learn how to cut, how to mend and how to conceal. Emilia treasures pretty, girlish things and longs to escape fro ...Show more
The Aviary Gate by Katie Hickman
27.99 NZD
28.99 (3% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
Elizabeth Stavely sits in the Bodleian Library, her hands trembling as she holds a fragment of parchment, the key to a story untold for four hundred years Constantinople 1599: the English merchant Paul Pindar must deliver an extraordinary gift to the Sultan. Grieving for his lost love, drowned in a ship ...Show more
The Journal of Dora Damage by Belinda Starling
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
This story is set in Lambeth, London, in the year 1859. By the time Dora Damage discovers that there is something wrong with her husband, Peter, it is too late. His arthritic hands are crippled, putting his book-binding business into huge debt and his family in danger of entering the poorhouse. Summonin ...Show more
The Last Empress by Anchee Min
27.99 NZD
28.99 (3% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
At the end of the nineteenth century China is rocked by foreign attacks and local rebellions. The only constant is the power wielded by one woman, Tzu Hsi, also known as Empress Orchid, who must face the perilous condition of her empire and devastating personal losses. In this sequel to the bestselling ...Show more
Peony in Love by Lisa See
27.99 NZD
28.99 (3% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
Peony has neither seen nor spoken to any man other than her father, a wealthy Chinese nobleman. Nor has she ever ventured outside the cloistered women's quarters of the family villa. As her sixteenth birthday approaches, she finds herself betrothed to a man she does not know, but Peony has dreams of her ...Show more
The Age of Shiva by Manil Suri
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
It is India, 1955: as the scars of Partition are just beginning to heal, in Ramjas College, Delhi, seventeen-year-old Meera is enraptured. In a spotlight, a handsome young man, Dev, is singing a song that is redolent with a longing, a hunger, that is thrillingly new to her. Beside her sits her older sis ...Show more
Stalin's Children by Owen Matthews
59.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
On a midsummer day in 1937, the young Commissar Boris Bibikov kissed his two daughters goodbye and disappeared into the official Packard waiting outside. It was the last time his family ever saw him. Arrested by Stalin's secret police, the loyal Party man confessed to a grotesque series of crimes agains ...Show more
The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel by Maureen Lindley
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Peking, 1914. Eight-year-old Eastern Jewel, daughter of Prince Su's last concubine, peers from behind a carved screen as her father makes love to a bound-footed servant girl. Overhead the gathering clouds foreshadow the end of peace, and the start of Eastern Jewel's own tumultuous story Eastern Jewel is ...Show more
The Solitude of Thomas Cave by Georgina Harding
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is August, 1616. The whaling ship Heartsease has ventured high into the Arctic, but the crew must return home before the ice closes in. All, that is, save Thomas Cave. He makes a wager that he will remain there alone until the next season, though no man has yet been known to have survived a winter th ...Show more
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Owen Brown is the last surviving son of America's most famous political terrorist, John Brown, who in 1859 raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, intending to galvanise the Southern slaves into rebellion. Now Owen tells John's story. This incredible novel recreates pre-Civil War America, ...Show more
Prison Ship: The Adventures of Sam Witchall by Paul Dowswell
17.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Sam fights in a fierce battle against the Danish Fleet, led by none other than Nelson himself, and against all odds victory is theirs. Peace is declared and Britain's war with most of Northern Europe is over. Sam can go home. But on the journey back, he witnesses a crime, for which he is framed. He is s ...Show more
The Song Before It Is Sung by Justin Cartwright
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Two Oxford friends find their friendship destroyed by the rise of the Nazis. On 20th July, l944 Adolf Hitler escaped death by a miracle in a failed bomb. He found the main conspirators, had them hung from meathooks and their executions filmed. Axel Count Von Gottberg, is one of those hanged by Hitl ...Show more