Atalanta by Jennifer Saint
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
The mesmerising story of the only female Argonaut, told by Jennifer Saint, the bestselling author of ELEKTRA and ARIADNE. When a daughter is born to the King of Arcadia, she brings only disappointment. Left exposed on a mountainside, the defenceless infant Atalanta is left to the mercy of a passing mot ...Show more
Babel: Or The Necessity Of Violence: An Arcane History Of The Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang
$28.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Tradut ...Show more
Bring Up The Bodies (#2 Wolf Hall) by Hilary Mantel
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Wolf Hall 2 | Reading Level: very good
An astounding literary accomplishment, Bring Up the Bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists. ‘Our most brilliant English writer’ Guardian Bring Up the Bodies unlocks the darkly glittering court of Henry VIII, where Thomas Cromwell is now chi ...Show more
Catch-22 (TVTI) by Joseph Heller
$40.00 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
Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 firsthan ...Show more
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
$21.00 NZD
$23.00 (8% off)
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork, Don Quixote was voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction and notes by John Rutherford. Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determine ...Show more
Falling Sky (Warrior of Rome #9) by Harry Sidebottom
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
The new book in the much-loved, bestselling Warrior of Rome historical thriller series. AD 265, Gaul - The Roman Empire is on the brink. Emperor Gallienus has amassed a huge army across the Alps to seize back the mountains from the usurper Posthumus. War has come. Ballista and his cavalry are on the fro ...Show more
Free by Meg Keneally
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
From horse thief to the merchant queen of Sydney Cove - how did one woman rise so far? 'It is a harsh land - yes, for you especially - but people can also rise here ...' Born into poverty in eighteenth-century England, her future was predetermined. But throughout her life Molly Thistle refused to follow ...Show more
Girl, Goddess, Queen: A Hades and Persephone fantasy romance by Bea Fitzgerald
$36.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
The feminist myths of Madeline Miller meet the #spice of Sarah J. Maas (with a hefty slice of Bridgerton's sexy, witty banter) in this fierce, fresh and enormously fun YA fantasy retelling from a growing TikTok superstarTo hell with love, this goddess has other plans...Thousands of years ago, the gods t ...Show more
I, Claudius: Popular Penguins by Robert Graves
$15.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Bringing to life the subterfuge and double-dealing of Roman nobility, Robert Graves's I, Claudius brings the ancient world to life with startling clarity and meticulous realism. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is a includes an introduction by Barry Unsworth.Despised for his weakness and regarded by ...Show more
Imperium: From the Sunday Times bestselling author by Robert Harris
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Cicero 1 | Reading Level: very good
'Masterful' Sunday Times Ancient Rome is the setting for the stunning new novel from Robert Harris, the number one bestselling author of Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel and Pompeii. When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, ...Show more
Light at Lavelle by Paullina Simons
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
TORN BETWEEN WHAT THEY CANNOT HAVE AND WHAT THEY CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT. It is 1929. The world is about to change. Finn Evans is a successful Boston banker harboring a secret that threatens to unravel his carefully constructed idyllic life. Isabelle Lazar, a young Ukrainian farmer, endures unspeakable ha ...Show more