Emperor of the Eight Islands (Tale of Shikanoko #1-2 Prequel to Otori) by Lian Hearn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The Tale of Shikanoko
In the opening pages of the action-packed Book One of Lian Hearn's epic Tale of Shikanoko a future lord is dispossessed of his birthright by a scheming uncle, a mountain sorcerer imbues a mask with the spirit of a great stag for a lost young man, a stubborn father forces his son to give up his wife to h ...Show more
Dunstan: One Man Will Change the Fate of England by Conn Iggulden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
One of our most acclaimed and successful historical fiction writers brings a colossal figure of British history vividly to life. Tenth-century England. A time of violence and greed between tribes andnations, when the rule of the kingdom was determined by a warrior's strengthand skill. The original game ...Show more
The Pull of the Stars (TPB) by Emma Donoghue
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 o ...Show more
Tenderness by Alison MacLeod
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The spellbinding story of Lady Chatterley's Lover, and the society that put it on trial; the story of a novel and its ripple effects across half a century, and about the transformative and triumphant power of fiction itself. D. H. Lawrence is dying. Exiled in the Mediterranean, he dreams of the past ...Show more
The Circle of Ceridwen (Book One of the Circle of Ceridwen Saga) by Octavia Randolph
$46.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Circle of Ceridwen Saga
It is the year 871. Of seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, five have fallen to the invading Vikings. No trait is more valued than loyalty, and no possession more precious than one's steel. Across this war-torn landscape travels fifteen year old Ceridwen, now thrust into the lives of the conquerors. Epic...imme ...Show more
The Escapades of Tribulation Johnson by Karen Brooks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this brilliant recreation of the vibrant, optimistic but politically treacherous world of London's Restoration theatre. We are introduced to the remarkable playwright Aphra Behn, now a feminist icon then an anomaly, who gravitated to the stage - a place whe ...Show more
Warlock: The Egyptian Series 3 by Wilbur Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Egyptian Series 3
From global bestseller Wilbur Smith, an immersive adventure in the brilliant Egyptian Series.
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
FROM THE THREE-TIME NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATES AND FURIES AND MATRIX Part of a loose trilogy based on the end of empire, The Vaster Wilds is the story of a young girl who is servant to a minister and his young mistress, and in charge of their young daugh ...Show more
Rome's Fallen Eagle by Robert Fabbri
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Vespasian
Rome, AD41. Caligula has been assassinated and the Praetorian Guard have proclaimed Claudius Emperor - but his position is precarious. His three freedmen, Narcissus, Pallas and Callistus, must find a way to manufacture a quick victory for Claudius - but how? Pallas has the answer: retrieve the Eagle of ...Show more
Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
'Melissa Fu portrays the time, the culture, the place and the struggles of this family so vividly, with nuance and colour and life . . . A stunning achievement' CHRISTY LEFTERI, AUTHOR OF THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO 'An immersive, expertly plotted and elegantly written novel . . . championing the vitality ...Show more
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good
The spectacular and heartbreaking new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See. Cloud Cuckoo Land follows three storylines: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city wall during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and gentle octoge ...Show more
Birth of the Kingdom (Crusades #3) by Jan Guillou
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The third volume of the crusades trilogy from bestselling Swedish author Jan Guillou. Arn de Gotha has become one of the most feared warriors of the Knights Templar fighting to liberate Palestine with the Crusaders. At the great battle for Jerusalem, a mammoth and bloody struggle where the Christians we ...Show more