Pilgrim by James Jackson
38.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
1212. In the streets of Cologne, thousands of children gather. Inspired by preachers and the promise of eternal salvation, they pledge to recapture Jerusalem for Christendom and find the True Cross, the holiest of relics lost to Islam at the Battle of Hattin twenty-five years before. Among the crowd ar ...Show more
To Kill a a Tsar by Andrew Williams
38.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
St Petersburg, 1879. A shot rings out in Palace Square. Cossack guards tackle the would-be assassin to the ground. In the melee no one notices a striking dark haired young woman in a heavy coat slip away from the scene. Russia is alive with revolutionaries. While Tsar Alexander II remains a virtual pris ...Show more
The Naked Name of Love by Sanjida O'Connell
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In 1865, as Darwin's new theory of evolution begins to sweep aside old certainties, a young Jesuit priest and plant-hunter sets out into an unknown world. He is driven by twin passions: for science and for his faith. Travelling across the Eastern Steppes of Mongolia in the company of a Buddhist monk and ...Show more
Red Velvet Turnshoe by Cassandra Clark
38.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Black February in the year 1383: rain started to fall before Martinmas, sweeping through France, Flanders and Tuscany, and barely ceased all year. Floods brought famine. Famine brought disease. The Black Death bestowed its grace on town after town. Bodies were piled in open pits. The lime was spread. Pa ...Show more
The Red Velvet Turnshoe by Cassandra Clark
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Black February in the year 1383: rain started to fall before Martinmas, sweeping through France, Flanders and Tuscany, and barely ceased all year. Floods brought famine. Famine brought disease. The Black Death bestowed its grace on town after town. Bodies were piled in open pits. The lime was spread. Pa ...Show more
The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor
40.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The ghost of Sylvia Whichcote is rumoured to be haunting Jerusalem since disturbed fellow-commoner, Frank Oldershaw, claims to have seen the dead woman prowling the grounds. Desperate to salvage her son's reputation, Lady Anne Oldershaw employs John Holdsworth, author of The Anatomy of Ghosts – a sti ...Show more
Warrior of Rome: The Caspian Gates by Harry Sidebottom
40.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Warrior of Rome
AD262 - the Imperium is in turmoil after the struggle for the throne. Furthermore, Ephesus, Asia's metropolis, lies in ruins, shattered by a mighty earthquake. Its citizens live in fear as the mob overwhelms the city, baying for blood to avenge the gods who have punished them. Yet an even greater threat ...Show more
Warrior of Rome Part 2 by harry sidebottom
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Warrior of Rome
AD256. The spectre of treachery hangs ominously over the Roman Empire. The sparks of Christian fervour have spread through the empire like wildfire, and the imperium is alive with the machinations of dangerous and powerful men. All the while, Sassanid forces press forward relentlessly along the eastern ...Show more
The Devils Brood by Sharon Penman
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Devil's Brood has at its heart the implosion of a family, a story of devastating betrayal as King Henry II's three eldest sons and his wife Eleanor enter into a rebellion against him, aligning themselves with his most bitter enemy, Louis of France. It is also the story of a great king whose brillian ...Show more
Fire in the East (Warrior of Rome #1) by Harry Sidebottom
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Warrior of Rome
'WAR IS HELL . . . ' The year is AD255 - the Roman imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged throughout the territories and along every border. The most potent threat lurks far to the east in Persia, where the massing forces of the Sassanid Empire loom with fiery men ...Show more