Dreaming The Bull (#2 Boudica) by Manda Scott
25.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Boudica Ser.
Hailed by her people as Boudica, the Bringer of Victory, Breaca now leads the resistance against the occupying legions of Rome. Opposing her is Julius Valerius, an auxiliary cavalry officer whose increasing brutality in the service of his god and emperor cannot shield him from the ghosts of his past. Ca ...Show more
Dreaming the Serpent Spear (#4 Boudica) by Manda Scott
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Boudica Ser.
Britannia, AD 60: The tribes of Britannia are ready to seek bloody vengeance. Twenty thousand warriors are poised to reclaim their land from their captors. Now is their chance: the Roman governor has marched his legions west, leaving his capital and a vital port undefended. There is no going back. But t ...Show more
Dreaming of Eagle (Boudica #1 ) by Manda Scott
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Boudica Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in 33AD, this is the story of Boudica, the last defender of the Celtic culture and the only British warrior to have stood successfully against the might of Imperial Rome- and triumphed.Boudica: the last defender of the Celtic culture; the only woman openly to have led her warriors into battle; the o ...Show more
The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne
28.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Russia, 1915: Sixteen year old farmer's son Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin's bullet intended for a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family and is instantly proclaimed a hero. Rewarded with the position of bodyguard to Alexei Romanov, the only son of Tsar Nicholas II, the course of h ...Show more
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
28.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'I am sure of this much: my little story has become your history. You won't really understand your times until you understand mine'. Reeling from the aftermath of the twin tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, diffident schoolteacher Agnes Shanklin has taken the trip of a lifetime: to E ...Show more
The Book of Unholy Mischief by Elle Newmark
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
It is 1498, and the whole of Venice is abuzz. Hidden somewhere in the labyrinthine city is an ancient book, rumoured to contain thorny heresies and secrets of immeasurable power. Luciano, a penniless orphan, has been plucked from the street and taken on as apprentice to the chef at the doge's palace. Wh ...Show more
Mutiny on the Bounty by John Boyne
28.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
An action-packed fictional telling of the events on the HMS Bounty.Fourteen-year-old John Jacob Turnstile has gotten into trouble with the police on one too many occasions and is on his way to prison when an offer is put to him - a ship has been refitted over the last few months and is about to set sail ...Show more
Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
This is a masterful eipc of love, war, treason, plague, famine, witchcraft, anti-Semitism and the Inquisition. 14th-century Spain, the medieval city of Barcelona is enjoying a golden age of prosperity. Its humblest inhabitants are building, stone by stone, a magnificent church to overlook their harbour. ...Show more
Lilla's Feast : A true story of love, war and a passion for food by Frances Osborne
27.99 NZD
34.00 (17% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
"Lilla Eckford was born in 1882 into a British colonial family in the small Chinese trading port of Chefoo. Her mother, Alice, was a lively woman with a love of cooking she passed on to her identical twin daughters. Lilla vied constantly with her sister, and seeing her fall in love with a naval captain ...Show more
Holy Fools by Joanne Harris
26.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Forced by circumstance to seek refuge with Fleur, her young daughter, in the remote abbey of Saint Marie-de-la-Mer, Juliette reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste under the tutelage of the kindly Abbess. But times are changing: the murder of Henri IV becomes the catalyst for massive upheaval in France. A n ...Show more
Ithaka by Adele Geras
19.99 NZD
22.00 (9% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
"Ithaka" tells the story of the women left behind after the end of the Trojan War. While Odysseus is slowly making his way home, overcoming terrible obstacles sent by the gods, his wife Penelope does not know whether he's alive or dead. How long will she be able to withstand the pressure of the numerous ...Show more