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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
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.
The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
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
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
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
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
Tales of Japan - Traditional Stories of Monsters and Magic by Kotaro Chiba
$45.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
A goblin with no body and a monster with no face.A resourceful samurai and a faithful daughter.A spirit of the moon and a dragon king. This collection of 15 traditional Japanese folktales transports readers to a time of adventure and enchantment. Drawn from the works of folklorists Lafcadio Hearn and Ye ...Show more
The City of Tears by Kate Mosse
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Following on from the bestseller, The Burning Chambers, Kate Mosse's The City of Tears is the second thrilling historical epic in The Burning Chambers series, for fans of Ken Follett and Dan Brown. June 1572: for ten, violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Neighbours have become e ...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
The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
A mother. A child. An impossible choice. Poland, 1941. After the Jews in their town are rounded up, Róza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, spend day and night hidden in a farmer’s barn. Forbidden from making a sound, only the yellow bird from her mother’s stories can sing the melodies Shira compos ...Show more