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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.
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
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
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
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
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 fo ...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
Little - Paperback by Edward Carey
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
'A startlingly original novel' -- THE TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH 'Dont miss this eccentric charmer' -- @MargaretAtwood 'Compulsively readable: so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison. Dickens and David Lynch? Defoe meets Atwood? Jud ...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
Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
$29.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
1961: On a sweltering summer's day, while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm, sixteen-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree house dreaming of a boy called Billy, a move to London, and the bright future she can't wait to seize. But before the idyllic afternoon is over, Laure ...Show more