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Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West by Katie Hickman
38.00 NZD
Category: Military History
"Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye grass from sod, and - like the wiry grass - seem as difficult to weed out and discard."The true-life story of women's experiences in the 'Wild West' is more gripping, more heart-rending, and more stirring than all the movies, ...Show more
Courtesans by Katie Hickman
24.99 NZD
25.99 (3% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The great English courtesans and their glittering era, by the author of Daughters of Britannia. During the course of the 18th and 19th centuries a small group of women rose from impoverished obscurity to positions of great power, independence and wealth. In doing so they took control of their lives - an ...Show more
Courtesans by Katie Hickman
34.99 NZD
37.95 (7% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
An account of the great English courtesans and their glittering era, by the author of Daughters of Britannia.During the course of the 18th and 19th centuries a small group of women rose from impoverished obscurity to positions of great power, independence and wealth. In doing so they took control of the ...Show more
Daughters of Britannia - The lives & times of diplomatic wives by Katie Hickman
24.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good
From the first exploratory expeditions into foreign lands, through the heyday of the British Empire and still today, the foreign service has been shaped and run behind the scenes by the wives of ambassadors and minor civil servants. Accompanying their spouses in the most extraordinary, tough, sometimes ...Show more
She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen - The Lives and Times of British Women in India 1600 1900 by Katie Hickman
37.99 NZD
Category: History
The first British women to set foot in India did so in the very early seventeenth century, two and a half centuries before the Raj. Women made their way to India for exactly the same reasons men did - to carve out a better life for themselves. In the early days, India was a place where the slates of 'bl ...Show more
She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen - The Lives and Times of British Women in India 1600 - 1900 by Katie Hickman
27.99 NZD
Category: History
'Sharply observed, snappily written and thoroughly researched, She Merchants provides a fabulous panorama of a largely ignored area of social history. Katie Hickman successfully challenges the stereotype of the snobbish, matron-like memsahib by deploying a riveting gallery of powerful and often eccentri ...Show more
The Aviary Gate by Katie Hickman
27.99 NZD
28.99 (3% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
Elizabeth Stavely sits in the Bodleian Library, her hands trembling as she holds a fragment of parchment, the key to a story untold for four hundred years Constantinople 1599: the English merchant Paul Pindar must deliver an extraordinary gift to the Sultan. Grieving for his lost love, drowned in a ship ...Show more
The Pindar Diamond by Katie Hickman
38.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
It's Venice, 1604. When rumours of a spectacularly rare and priceless diamond begin to circulate amongst the gamblers and courtesans of the Venetian demi-monde, the Levant Company merchant, Paul Pindar, becomes convinced that the jewel is somehow linked to the fate of his former love, Celia Lamprey. As ...Show more
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