War of the Wolf (Last Kingdom #11) by Bernard Cornwell
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser. | Reading Level: very good
At the fortress of the eagles, three kings will fight ... Uhtred of Bebbanburg has won back his ancestral home but, threatened from all sides by enemies both old and new, he doesn't have long to enjoy the victory. In Mercia, rebellion is in the air as King Edward tries to seize control. In Wessex, rival ...Show more
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: near fine
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 unders ...Show more
Warrior of the West by M.K. Hume
$39.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: King Arthur
The second book in an exciting, brand-new Arthurian trilogy Twelve long, blood-soaked years, have passed since Artor fulfilled his destiny and was crowned the High King of the Britons. Against all odds, Artor has united Celtic Britain and with a last great campaign, has banished the Saxon scourge. The l ...Show more
William Blake - The Complete Illuminated Books by David Bindman; William Blake Trust Staff; William Blake
$78.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Includes: Jerusalem; Songs of Innocence and of Experience; All Religions are One; There is No Natural Religion; The Book of Thel; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Visions of the Daughters of Albion; America a Prophecy; Europe a Prophecy; The Song of Los Milton a Poem; The Ghost of Abel; On Homers Poetry ...Show more
William Blake. Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’. The Complete Drawings by Sebastian Schütze, Maria Antonietta Terzoli
$70.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Imagination Ablaze William Blake's spectacular illustrations for "The Divine Comedy" Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), is widely considered the greatest work ever composed in the Italian language. The epi ...Show more
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Wolf Hall 1 | Reading Level: very good
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
Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation... Until one night her granddaughter blows ashore in the midst of a storm, desperate, begging for sanctuary. For years, Kitty has kept herself to herself - with only the c ...Show more
World Without End (#2 Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett
$27.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: The\Kingsbridge Novels Ser.
The saga that has enthralled the millions of readers of The Pillars of the Earth continues with World Without End. On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In ...Show more