The Soldier's Curse: Book One, The Monsarrat Series by Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: MONSARRAT SERIES
In the Port Macquarie penal settlement for second offenders, at the edge of the known world, gentleman convict Hugh Monsarrat hungers for freedom. Originally transported for forging documents passing himself off as a lawyer, he is now the trusted clerk of the settlement's commandant. His position has ce ...Show more
The Son by Philipp Meyer
$27.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
"An epic journey spanning a century and a half in Texas, America.Eli McCullough was born in 1836, the year that the Republic of Texas was declared an independent state. He was the first child of this new republic. Eight years later he and his brother are kidnapped. They are left with nothing, barely the ...Show more
The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
$37.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
A girl known only as Red, the daughter of a Cornish fortune-teller, travels with her father making a living predicting fortunes using the ancient method: the Square of Sevens. When her father suddenly dies, Red becomes the ward of a gentleman scholar. Now raised as a lady amidst the Georgian splendour o ...Show more
The Story of Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist
$27.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Having been diagnosed with hysteria in 1878, Blanche Wittman was committed to Salpetriere Hospital for sixteen years. Under the care of the famous M. Charcot she was regularly displayed before a public audience in a cataleptic state. Over time the nature of her participation in these demonstrations chan ...Show more
The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
$17.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
In one of the most fascinating works of fiction of all time, Stevenson examines the inner conflict between good and evil. Lawyer Gabriel Utterson hears of an ambiguous, solitary, violent man called Edward Hyde, who is said to have trampled over a young girl in the street, leaving her bruised and terrifi ...Show more
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale
$30.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome ...Show more
The Swift and the Harrier by Minette Walters
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
An unforgettable novel of England's Civil War, from the bestselling author of The Last Hours and The Turn of Midnight. Dorset, 1642. When bloody civil war breaks out between the King and Parliament, families and communities across England are riven by different allegiances. A rare few choose neutrality. ...Show more
The Sword Saint (#3 Empire of Salt) by C. F. Iggulden
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Empire of Salt
Conn Iggulden is back with the spellbinding third instalment in the EMPIRE OF SALT trilogy.
The Taming of the Queen by Philippa Gregory
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Why would a woman marry a serial killer? Because she cannot refuse...Kateryn Parr, a thirty-year-old widow in a secret affair with a new lover, has no choice when a man old enough to be her father who has buried four wives - King Henry VIII - commands her to marry him. Kateryn has no doubt about the dan ...Show more
The Tea Gardens by Fiona McIntosh
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Spirited doctor Isla Fenwick is determined to work at the coalface of medicine in India before committing to life as a dutiful wife. With hopes of making a difference in the world, she sails to Calcutta to set up a midwifery clinic. There she will be forced to question her beliefs, her professionalism a ...Show more
The Terror: the novel that inspired the chilling BBC series by Dan Simmons
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Stephen King hailed Dan Simmons' bestselling novel as 'a brilliant, massive combination of history and supernatural horror' and it's now a chilling 10-part AMC Original TV series from Ridley Scott. The most advanced scientific enterprise ever mounted, Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition in search of the ...Show more
The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story about one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna. Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund ...Show more