My Ántonia by Willa Cather
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Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
My ntonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It is the final book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers and The Song of the Lark. The novel tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia, Jim Burden, and the elder daug ...Show more
The Bride of Almond Tree by Robert Hillman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Welsey Cunningham grew up running barefoot through the orchards of his Quaker family farm, working with horses and dreaming of one day building himself a house on his own patch of ground above the river. The Second World War interrupted those dreams: it took Wes to New Guinea as a medic, and then sent h ...Show more
The Confessions of a Young Nero by Margaret George
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Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Nero Ser.
In the Roman Empire no one is safe from the sting of betrayal: man, woman - or child.As a boy, Nero's royal heritage becomes a threat to his very life, first when the mad emperor Caligula tries to drown him, then when his great aunt attempts to secure her own son's inheritance. Faced with shocking acts ...Show more
The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
"The book that the whole literary world can't stop talking about." --Marie Claire (Australia)"A considerable achievement." --Sarah Dunant, The New York Times Book Review England, 1255: Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman shut away in a small cell, measuring sev ...Show more
The Boar Stone (Dalriada #3) by Jules Watson
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Category: Historical Fiction
Minna, a Roman serving girl living in Roman Britain, fights for her survival when she and her friend Cian are enslaved in the wilds of barbarian Scotland. They soon find themselves in the midst of the conflict between Romans and Picts, and Minna finds her loyalties are torn.
The Plant Hunter by T.L. Mogford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
1867. King's Road, Chelsea, is a sea of plant nurseries, catering to the Victorian obsession with rare and exotic flora. But each of the glossy emporiums is fuelled by the dangerous world of the plant hunters – daring adventurers sent into uncharted lands in search of untold wonders to grace England's f ...Show more
Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen: Six Tudor Queens 5 by Alison Weir
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Six Tudor Queens Ser.
'This six-book series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction' The TimesAlison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times-bestselling Six Tudor Queens series, relates one of the most tragic stories in English history: Katheryn Howard, Henry VIII's fifth queen.'With characteristic ver ...Show more
Angel of Waterloo by French Jackie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The powerful new novel from master storyteller Jackie French The soldiers she saved called her the Angel of Waterloo. The husband she loved and lost called her Hen. The patients she treated in secret called her Auntie Love. She was Henrietta Bartlett, a surgeon's daughter, a survivor of the Napoleon ...Show more
The Last Kingdom (#1 Last Kingdom) TV Tie-in by Bernard Cornwell
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Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser.
In the middle years of the ninth century, the fierce Danes stormed onto British soil, hungry for spoils and conquest. Kingdom after kingdom fell to the ruthless invaders until but one realm remained. And suddenly the fate of all England--and the course of history--depended upon one man, one king. New Y ...Show more
The Last Hours by Minette Walters
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
June, 1348: the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in the county of Dorsetshire. Unprepared for the virulence of the disease, and the speed with which it spreads, the people of the county start to die in their thousands. A culture of terror and superstition quickly sweeps across the ...Show more
Invader by Simon Scarrow
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers BROTHERS IN BLOOD, CENTURION and THE GLADIATOR, and co-author with T. J. Andrews of the Sunday Times bestseller ARENA, comes a tense, action-packed adventure with the Roman army officer Figulus in the heart of barbaric first-century Britannia. Previously p ...Show more
Emperor of the Eight Islands (Tale of Shikanoko #1-2 Prequel to Otori) by Lian Hearn
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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