Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'Let us descend, and enter his blind world' —Dante's Inferno Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of ...Show more
Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last a lifetime. In 1805, at boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-olds me ...Show more
The Dressmaker and the Hidden Soldier by Doug Gold
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The true story of an escaped soldier hiding out in the house of a Greek dressmaker who is secretly a resistance fighter. It's an epic love story against the odds, set during the Nazi occupation of Greece in WW2. Peter Blunden, a New Zealand soldier captured in Crete, jumps from a train and escapes from ...Show more
Lessons by Ian McEwan
25.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Epic, mesmerising and deeply humane, Lessons is a chronicle for our times - a powerful meditation on history and humanity through the prism of one ordinary man The world is forever changing. But for so many of us, old wounds run deep. Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a res ...Show more
The Sweet Blue Distance by Sara Donati
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A young midwife travels west to the New Mexico Territory to care for women in need and faces dangers more harrowing than the ones she's fleeing in this epic tale of survival, redemption, and love from Sara Donati, the international bestselling author of the Wilderness series. 1857: In a bid to outrun he ...Show more
The Sugar Palace: The gripping historical romantic adventure from the bestselling author of The Pearl Thief by Fiona McIntosh
25.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
One woman's ambitionSydney, 1925- When Grace Fairweather meets the irresistible Londoner Alfie Sweeting, dreams of selling her homemade confectionery are spun into reality.A criminal pastWhen the truth about Alfie's roguish past is revealed, Grace and Alfie's fairytale sweetshop - and their lives - come ...Show more
The Household by Stacey Halls
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Offering refuge for prostitutes, petty thieves and the destitute, Urania Cottage is a second chance at life - but how badly do they want it? Nearing the end of her prison term, Josephine Nash accepts an invitation to live at Urania to please the woman she loves, but finds herself arriving alone and hea ...Show more
The Tattooist of Auschwitz FTI by Heather Morris
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
This internationally bestselling novel is now a six-part drama series streaming on Stan in 2024, starring Harvey Keitel. The incredible story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the woman he loved. Lale Sokolov is well-dressed, a charmer, a ladies' man. He is also a Jew. On the first transport of me ...Show more
The Beauties by Lauren Chater
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
An incomparable beauty. A promise to a king. A portrait that can never be completed. In the seventeenth-century court of King Charles II, Anne Hyde, the Duchess of York has commissioned a series of ten paintings of the most beautiful women in the entourage. She hopes her series will capture something m ...Show more
Until August by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
39.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude - a moving tale of female desire and abandon. Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happi ...Show more
Falling Sky by Harry Sidebottom
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The new book in the much-loved, bestselling Warrior of Rome historical thriller series.
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
An exhilarating, fiercely original story of brotherhood, war and art, and of daring to dream of something bigger than ourselves. 'Bold and totally unexpected, I loved this book' Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain ... 'A very special, very clever, very entertaining novel' Roddy Doyle, author of Padd ...Show more