Two For Sorrow by Nicola Upson
38.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
London, 1903. Two women are hanged in Holloway Prison for killing babies. More than thirty years later, their crimes resurface with shocking consequences...When Josephine Tey sets out to write a novel about Amelia Sach and Annie Walters, the notorious Finchley baby farmers, she can have little idea that ...Show more
The Bellini Card (#3) by Jason Goodwin
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Yashim the Eunuch Ser.
The third book in Jason Goodwin's celebrated series takes Yashim from the winding alleyways of Istanbul to the decaying grandeur of Venice. Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, he enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in 1840 i ...Show more
The Devil's Mask by Christopher Wakling
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Georgian terraces are rising. In the aftermath of the abolition of the slave trade, the port of Bristol is awash with the commercial gains of the Empire. But in the midst of all the grand building projects something is rotten at the heart of the city. The first victim is discovered. News of the muti ...Show more
Amenable Women by Mavis Cheek
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Flora Chapman is in her fifties when her dashing and infuriating husband, Edward, dies in a bizarre ballooning accident. Ever pragmatic, Flora seizes upon her new freedom and decides to finish Edward's history of Hurcott Ducis, the village where they've spent their married life. A reference to Anna of C ...Show more
The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Lefevre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul, determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim is commissioned to find out more about him. But when Lefevre's mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out that there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Once agai ...Show more
Occupied City by David Peace
38.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'We all know what this could be: we know it could be dysentery, we know it could be typhoid. In the "Occupied City", we all know what this could mean -' Tokyo, January 26th, 1948. As the third year of the US Occupation of Japan begins, a man enters a downtown bank. He speaks of an outbreak of dysentery ...Show more
The Amalgamation Polka by Stephen Wright
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Born in 1844 in bucolic upstate New York, Liberty Fish is the son of fervent abolitionists as well as the grandson of Carolina slaveholders even more dedicated to their cause. Thus follows a childhood filled with fugitive slaves moving through hidden passageways in the house, his Uncle Potter's free-soi ...Show more
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind, however, it proves to be the defining decision of his life when, having witnessed the murder of a fellow RIC policeman, he is wrongly a ...Show more
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Yashim is no ordinary detective. It's not that he's particularly brave. Or that he cooks so well, or reads French novels. Not even that his best friend is the Ambassador from Poland, whose country has vanished from the map. Yashim is a eunuch. As the Sultan plans a series of radical reforms to his empir ...Show more
Days of Atonement by Michael Gregorio
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Three children are massacred in their beds. The crushed corpse of their mother is discovered in a dockside warehouse. Hanno Stiffeniis, a Prussian magistrate, goes to investigate, but everything begins to unwind. Serge Lavedrine, a criminologist attached to the invading French army, steps in to resolve ...Show more
Daughter of the Crocodile by Duncan Sprott
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt are powerful; irresponsible; dangerous. It's 279 BC and Ptolemy Philandelphus finds his wife ousted by his reptilian sister, who wants to marry him herself. A generation later, and Berenike Beta murders her husband and marries Ptolemy Euergetes instead. But with the glory o ...Show more
The Observations by Jane Harris
27.99 NZD
28.99 (3% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy takes a job as a maid. Her "missus" demands Bessy keep a journal of her thoughts in this powerful story of secrets and suspicions, hidden histories, and mysterious disappearances.