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The Mirror and the Light (Wolf Hall Trilogy #3) 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 Familiars by Stacey Halls
$33.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Assured and alluring, this beautiful tale of women and witchcraft and the fight against power was a delight from start to finish' - Jessie Burton, bestselling author of The Miniaturist.
A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett
$20.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Set in an era of turbulent social changes, A Place Called Freedom is a magnificent novel from the undisputed master of suspense and drama, Ken Follett.A Life of PovertyScotland, 1767. Mack McAsh is a slave by birth, destined for a cruel and harsh life as a miner. But as a man of principles and courage, ...Show more
Code Name Helene: Based on the thrilling true story of Nancy Wake, 'The White Mouse' by Ariel Lawhon
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
February 29, 1944: I am about to jump out of an aeroplane for the first time … I don’t care that every man is looking at me as though I don’t belong. Besides, I’m hungover. And I think I might throw up … In 1936 intrepid young Australian journalist Nancy Wake is living in Paris after witnessing firstha ...Show more
Franci's War by Franci Epstein
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
In the summer of 1942, twenty-two year-old Franci Rabinek Epstein arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto forty miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the beginning of her six-year journey through several camps during the Second World War, from Terezin to Auschwitz-Birkenau, to force ...Show more
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 follo ...Show more
Camelot by Giles Kristian
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Following his acclaimed Sunday Timesbestseller, Lancelot, Giles Kristian's new novel returns us to the realms of Arthurian legend . . . Britain is a land riven by anarchy, slaughter, famine, filth and darkness. Its armies are destroyed, its heroes dead, or missing. Arthur and Lancelot fell in the last g ...Show more
Catch-22 (TVTI) dno by Joseph Heller
$24.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
HEDLEY THOMAS: (Investigative journalist, creator of the podcast 'Teacher's Pet' & friend of Bookoccino) "A classic I somehow failed to read until this year, but inspired by George Clooney’s TV series I took the plunge and was soon having many spontaneous laugh-out-loud moments. Incredibly funny wi ...Show more
Dictator (Cicero Trilogy #3) by Robert Harris
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Cicero Trilogy
"Confirms Harris' undisputed place as our leading master of both the historical and contemporary thriller". (Daily Mail). There was a time when Cicero held Caesar's life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure and Cicero's life is in ruins. Cicero's comeback requires wit, skill an ...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 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 German House by Annette Hess
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess's international bestseller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator--caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power--as she fights to expo ...Show more