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A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$48.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Do not believe too quickly... What if Elizabeth Macarthur - wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney - had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir. What fol ...Show more
Wolf Hall (#1) by Hilary Mantel
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Wolf Hall Trilogy
From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel. ‘Every bit as good as they said it was’ Observer ‘Terrific’ Margaret Atwood ‘As soon as I opened this book I was gripped. I read it almost non-stop’ The Times In Wolf Hall, one of our very best writers ...Show more
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird.Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch - 'Scout? - returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the ...Show more
Queen's Colonial by Peter Watt
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Sometimes the fate for which you are destined is not your own...1845, a village outside Sydney Town. Humble blacksmith Ian Steele struggles to support his widowed mother. All the while he dreams of a life in uniform, serving in Queen Victoria's army.1845, Puketutu, New Zealand. Second Lieutenant Samuel ...Show more
The Covent Garden Ladies by Hallie Rubenhold
$24.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
***By the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE*** 'A fascinating expose of the seamy side of eighteenth century life' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Rubenhold's pages practically reek with smelly, pox-ridden Georgian Soho' GUARDIAN ------------------------------------------------------- In 1757, a down-a ...Show more
The Diamond Hunter by Fiona McIntosh
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: Adult
The new historical blockbuster by the bestselling author of The Pearl Thief. 'It won't matter how many diamonds you find if you lose the love of your child.'When six-year-old Clementine Knight loses her mother to malaria during the 1870s diamond rush in southern Africa, she is left to be raised by her d ...Show more
The Mirror and the Light (#3 Thomas Cromwell) by Hilary Mantel
$50.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: The Wolf Hall Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies; the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy. ‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’. England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat ...Show more
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
$20.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
In love we find out who we want to be.In war we find out who we are. FRANCE, 1939 In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France...but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, ...Show more
The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is a sad fact of life that if a young woman is unlucky enough to come into the world without expectations, she had better do all she can to ensure she is born beautiful. To be handsome and poor is misfortune enough; but to be both plain and penniless is a hard fate indeed. In Jane Austen's Pride and ...Show more
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
One of The Washington Post's 50 Most Notable Books of 2018. One of NPR's Best Books of 2018. One of Vanity Fair's Best Fall Books of 2018. "An important, powerful, memorable book that invites us to look differently not only at The Iliad but at our own ways of telling stories about the past and the prese ...Show more
War Lord (#13 The Last Kingdom) by Bernard Cornwell
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser.
THE FINAL BATTLE AWAITS... The epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series, coming October 2020. England is under attack. Chaos reigns. Northumbria, the last kingdom, is threatened by armies from all sides, by land and sea - and only one man stands in their way. Torn between loyalty ...Show more
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Lindsey Hilsum: (author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin’ & friend of Bookoccino) “The best novel I read this year […] The atmosphere of post-war London that he conjures has stayed with me, and I love how the plot slowly unwinds, so you feel that you’re coming to unde ...Show more