The Minutes of the Lazarus Club by Tony Pollard
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'Some of our ideas are not of the most orthodox nature. They would be frowned upon in a more traditional scientific environment, perhaps even laughed at.' London 1858 - the Lazarus Club. Some of the finest, most-unconventional minds in Victorian Britain - including Charles Darwin, Joseph Bazalgette, Cha ...Show more
Under Enemy Colours by Sean Thomas Russell
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
As the streets of Paris are overrun with revolutionary fervour, England prepares for the inevitable war with France. Along the south coast, the Royal Navy readies its fleet and its most capable officers. Lieutenant Charles Hayden is a man of undeniable ability. The son of an Englishman, his allegiance t ...Show more
Hope by Lesley Pearse
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Somerset, 1836, and baby Hope is cast out from a world of privilege as living proof of her mother's adultery...Smuggled away from the Harveys and Briargate House to a nearby village, Hope grows up in the arms of the warm and loving Renton family, unaware of her true identity. But fate has harsh plans fo ...Show more
Bluey's War by Herb Hamlet
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Bluey and Ellen are childhood sweethearts ready to take on the world, but their lives are torn apart when Bluey signs up for war and is captured by the Japanese. The war and its aftermath leave profound effects on their family, and threaten to tear them appart.
Through the Stones by Diana Gabaldon
59.95 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Through The Stones is an illustrated companion and guide to the author's popular series of Scottish, historical fantasies, chronicling the adventures of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser.
Just a Girl (Elizabeth Tudor #1) by Jane Caro
26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Elizabeth Tudor Trilogy
I do not remember when I discovered how my mother died, it seems to be something I always knew, a horror I absorbed through my skin. Determined, passionate, privileged and headstrong, Elizabeth was born into a world where she felt she didn't belong and had to fight to survive. Her mother, Anne Boleyn, w ...Show more
Errol, Fidel and the Cuban Rebel Girls by Boyd Anderson
39.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppre ...Show more
Kept by D. J. Taylor
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Egg-stealing in the Scottish highlands, fraud and felony on the streets of London, and strange goings-on in the fens. Captivating and ingenious, full of suspense and teeming with life, Kept is a Victorian mystery about the extreme and curious things men do to get what they want. August 1863. Henry Irela ...Show more
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (tr from French Sandra Smith)
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sixty-two years after an emigrant Russian Jew died at Auschwitz, her unpublished work about occupied France is taking the world by storm. 'Quite outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truth... We are lucky to have this book.' The Telegraph. 'A profoundly felt meditation on the nature of freedom, and the ...Show more