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The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the international bestselling author of Room. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two ...Show more
The Collaborator by Diane Armstrong
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Is he a hero or a traitor? Based on astonishing true events set in the darkest days of World War II in Budapest, this is an enthralling story of heroism, vengeance, passion, and betrayal. It is also the story of three women linked by a secret that threatens to destroy their lives. For readers of The Tat ...Show more
Tidelands (#1 Fairmile) by Philippa Gregory
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
THE BRAND NEW SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR The eagerly awaited first book in Philippa Gregory's sweeping new series begins with the story of Alinor, a young midwife who finds herself tempted by a forbidden love affair. But in a society that has already set a path for her ...Show more
Paris Never Leaves You by Ellen Feldman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
‘Masterful, magnificent. A passionate story of survival. This story will stay with me for a long time.’ Heather Morris, bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz The war is over, but the past is never past … Paris, 1944. Charlotte Foret is working in a tiny bookstore in Nazi-occupied Paris strugg ...Show more
Ike and Kay by James MACMANUS
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An epic love story on the fogbound streets of London reeling from the Blitz. Acclaimed author James MacManus conjures a compelling historical novel based on the true story of the secret love affair at the heart of the Second World War. It is 1942, and war-battered London plays host to the imposing figur ...Show more
Sword of Kings (Last Kingdom #12) by Bernard Cornwell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser. | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The twelfth installment of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling Saxon Tales series chronicling the epic story of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)--the basis for the hit Netflix series The Last Kingdom.His blood is Saxon His heart is Viking His battleground is Engl ...Show more
Stanley and Elsie by Nicola UPSON
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A compelling novel reimagining the sordid family life of famed painter Stanley Spencer. The First World War is over, and in a quiet Hampshire village, artist Stanley Spencer is working on the commission of a lifetime, painting an entire chapel in memory of a life lost in the war to end all wars. Combini ...Show more
Bring Up The Bodies (#2 Thomas Cromwell Trilogy) by Hilary Mantel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Wolf Hall Trilogy Ser.
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
The Mirror and the Light (Wolf Hall Trilogy #3) - Booker Longlist 2020 by Hilary Mantel
$45.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The Wolf Hall Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies; the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy. ‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’. England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat ...Show more
The Flame Bearer (#10 Last Kingdom) by Bernard Cornwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser.
The brand new novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. BBC2's major TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series. From the day it was stolen from me I had dreamed of recapturing Bebb ...Show more
Tombland (#7 Shardlake) by C.j. Sansom
$18.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Shardlake Ser.
**Sunday Times Number One Bestseller**Tudor England is brought vividly to life in Tombland, the seventh novel in C. J. Sansom's number one bestselling Shardlake series.Summer, 1549.Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos ... The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old ...Show more
Artemis Reissue by Julian Stockwin
$23.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' - Guardian In the great age of fighting sail, life ranging the seas for prey and prize money in the crack frigate HMS Artemis is fast and exciting. Now a true Jack Tar, Kydd sails into Portsmouth Harbour and a hero' ...Show more
