Crossed Bones by Jane Johnson
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Based on a little-known chapter of world history, Crossed Bones by Jane Johnson is a book that will delight readers who loved The Island, The Historian, and Labyrinth. And in a weird and inexorable twist of fate, it has drawn the author into the power of its narrative and changed her life forever, too.. ...Show more
The Secrets of the Chess Machine by Robert Lohr
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Vienna 1770 - Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils a strange and amazing invention, the Mechanical Turk, a sensational and unbeatable chess-playing automaton. But what the Habsburg court hails as the greatest innovation of the century is really nothing more than a brilliant illusion.The chess machine is ...Show more
House of Orphans by Helen Dunmore
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The orphaned daughter of a revolutionary in turn-of-the-century Finland is sent to keep house for a widowed country doctor. 'This novel
Counting the Stars by Helen Dunmore
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In the heat of Rome's long summer, the poet Catullus and his older married lover, Clodia Metelli, meet in secret. Living at the heart of sophisticated, brittle and brutal Roman society at the time of Pompey, Crassus and Julius Caesar, Catullus is obsessed with Clodia, the Lesbia of his most passionat ...Show more
Mosquito Creek by Robert Engwerda
39.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Huge floodwaters have engulfed a remote Victorian goldfield, reducing the prospect of digging up a fortune from very slim to impossible, and adding disease to the many possibilities of sudden death in harsh conditions. As sickness starts to take its toll and calls mount for the rescue of diggers strande ...Show more
Blood of Dreams by Susan Parisi
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
As Venice is taken over by the hedonism of Carnevale, a charismatic stranger roams the city, intent on stealing the dreams of others by taking their lives. A series of gruesome deaths brings the murderer, the priest and the beautiful yong opium adict together in an astonishing encounter from which no on ...Show more
Barbed Wire and Roses by Peter Yeldham
12.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Set partly in the small rural town of Gundagai and partly in Sydney during the Depression years, this is a beautifully written and engaging story about an uncoventional family's coming-of-age.
Whitethorn by Bryce Courtenay
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In this sweeping novel of Africa, in all its power, beauty and savagery, Bryce Courtenay captures the life of a nation. Whitethorn is a book about tragedy and joy, about love and hatred, and about a boy called Tom who will not rest until justice is done. From the author of The Power of One comes a story ...Show more
Sylvia by Bryce Courtenay
39.99 NZD
55.00 (27% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
The story of Sylvia Honeyeater, who sings like an angel and can literally charm the birds from the trees, this epic tale of a Europe torn by religious intolerance also features the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Francis of Assisi, the Muslim Sultan and his harem, as well as the fervour that became the Children' ...Show more
Passarola Rising by Azhar Abidi
39.95 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
`On the twenty-seventh day of the month of June, in the year of grace 1731, my brother, Bartolomeu Lourenfo, rose on his airship from the ancient ramparts of St. Jorge Castle. I remember the day as clearly as if it were yesterday. . .' Thus begins Passarola Rising, a fabulous historical tale of two brot ...Show more
The Murrumbidgee Kid by Peter Yeldham
10.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Belle Carson longs for her young son, Teddy, to achieve the success that eluded her as a stage and screen star. She abandons her husband and their Murrumbidgee River home to pursue his dream.