Held by Anne Michaels
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
'Through luminous moments of chance, change, and even grace, Michaels shows us our humanity - its depths and shadows' MARGARET ATWOOD The triumphant new novel from the author of the Orange Prize-winning Fugitive Pieces- a soaring and luminous story of chance and change 1917. On a battlefield near the ...Show more
Lady Tan's Circle Of Women by Lisa See
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
In 15th century China two women are born under the same sign, the Metal Snake. But life will take the friends on very different paths. According to Confucius, 'an educated woman is a worthless woman', but Tan Yunxian - born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separation and loneliness - is bein ...Show more
Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last a lifetime. In 1805, at boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-olds me ...Show more
Light at Lavelle by Paullina Simons
$34.99 AUD
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
Photos in the Attic - One War. Two Worlds. Three People in Love by Donna Fiechtner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Photos in the attic is an empowering love story set amongst the backdrop of war on the western front in France.Bill a young many from the country, answered the call to fight for his country, he and his best mate Jimmy joined up believing it would be a great adventure in a faraway land. Bill was also dri ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were starting to creak ajar for women. Growing up in a poor f ...Show more
Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A captivating and moving new novel from the international bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos. A nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets from World War II. On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving village-and a hub of resistance an ...Show more
Salonika Burning by Gail Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
MACEDONIA, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war.Amid the destruction are those who have come to the frontlines to heal- surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and other volunteers. Four of them-Stella, Olive, Grace and Stanley-are at the centre ...Show more
Seven Against Thebes The Quest of the Original Magnificent Seven by Stephen Dando-Collins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Oedipus, who famously killed his father and married his mother, solving the riddle of the Sphinx to become king of Thebes. His devastated wife Jocasta. Their sons, the power-hungry Eteocles and the betrayed Polynices. Their loyal sisters Antigone and Ismene. And the Seven, most famous warrior band in Gr ...Show more
Sharpe's Command - Richard Sharpe and the Bridge at Almaraz, May 1812 by Bernard Cornwell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Sharpe's Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
SHARPE IS BACK.The brand new novel from Bernard Cornwell in the global bestselling Sharpe series.If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe . . .And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he's dispatched on an undercover mission behind enemy lines, deep ...Show more
Sisters under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sisters under the Rising Sun, the captivating new novel by Heather Morris, is a story of women in war: a testament to resilience, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances. It is February 1942. Amid the turmoil of World War II, a group of Australian Army nurses, among them Nesta James and ...Show more
Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A glorious new edition of the multi-award-winning historical novel about outsiders on the Queensland gold fieldsIt is 1877 and trouble is brewing on the Queensland gold fields.Siblings Ying and Lai Yue have fled their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. But Lai Yue has a secret he is keep ...Show more