The Afghan Campaign by Steven Presfield
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Alexander the Great's campaign in the Afghan kingdoms began in the summer of 330bc. It would last for three brutal years and prove the most difficult he and his army ever fought. This work tells the story of this bloody and ruthless conflict from the perspective of a Macedonian recruit.
The Inferior by Peader O'Guilin
39.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
There is but one law: eat or be eaten. Stopmouth and his family know of no other life than the daily battle to survive. To live they must hunt rival species, or negotiate flesh-trade with those who crave meat of the freshest human kind. It is a savage, desperate existence. And for Stopmouth, considered ...Show more
The Crimson Portrait by Jody Shields
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Spring 1915. On a sprawling country estate not far from London a young woman mourns her husband, fallen on a distant battlefield. The eerie stillness in which she grieves will soon be shattered as her home is transformed into a bustling military hospital. Recoiling from the chaos, unhinged by grief, the ...Show more
Dragon Horse by Peter Ward
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Set in ancient China, two brothers fight the classic battle between good and evil as the Shadow-without-name attempts to break free from an eternal imprisonment by utilizing the strength and power of the famed dragon horses. Rokshan and An-Lushan are drawn into this centuries-old struggle, along with a ...Show more
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In 1910, Edwardian England was scandalized by a murder. Mild-mannered American Dr Hawley Crippen had killed his wife and buried some of her remains (her head was never found) in the cellar of their London home. He then went on the run with his pretty young secretary, Ethel Le Neve. A Scotland Yard inspe ...Show more
Sweetsmoke by David Fuller
38.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'I will just come out and say it, Cassius.' Hoke hesitated, and Cassius saw a tremor in his hand. Apparently the news had been a blow to Hoke as well. 'She is dead Cassius, that is all there is to it, Emoline Justice is dead, and that is that.' The year is 1862, and the Civil War is in full flame. Cassi ...Show more
A Whispered Name by William Brodrick
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Father Anselm Novels
'To keep quiet about something so important ...well, it's almost a lie, wouldn't you say?' When Father Anselm meets Kate Seymour in the cemetery at Larkwood, he is dismayed to hear her allegation. Herbert Moore had been one of the founding fathers of the Priory, revered by all who met him, a man who'd s ...Show more
The March by E.L. Doctorow
26.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Doctorow's new novel is set towards the end of the American Civil War and follows General Sherman's epic march with sixty thousand Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, one of the major manoeuvres to bring the war to its conclusion. THE MARCH ranges widely over a diverse set of characters - ea ...Show more
The Mutiny by Julian Rathbone
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
For its British population, the India that swelters in the late spring of 1857 is a place of amateur theatricals, horseracing and flirtations under the aegis of the omnipotent East India company. But a brutal awakening lies in store for the complacent British: one May night, after thirty years of abuse, ...Show more
Plain Tales from the British Empire by Charles Allen
47.99 NZD
49.99 (4% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
PLAIN TALES FROM THE BRITISH EMPIRE gathers together Charles Allen's best loved books on the British experience across the Empire: PLAIN TALES FROM THE RAJ, TALES FROM THE SOUTH CHINA SEAS and TALES FROM THE DARK CONTINENT. These vivid stories and recollections give an evocative and unique glimpse into ...Show more
Mexica by Norman Spinrad
28.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The year is 1531. In a small hut on the slopes of the volcano Popocateptl, scholar and poet Alvaro de Sevilla reflects on his extraordinary life. For Alvaro was one of the small army of conquistadors who, some years earlier, set out to conquer an empire ...Hernando Cortes is a man driven by his desire f ...Show more
Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve
25.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good
Set 100 years ago in Boston, Fortune's Rocks is a classic of literary and romantic storytelling. Fourteen-year-old Olympic Biddeford is spending the summer with her parents at their seasonal house at Fortune's Rocks. Her father handles her education himself and is in fact a publisher of mildly liberal l ...Show more