The New Countess by Fay Weldon
$14.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Love and Inheritance
The year is 1905 and King Edward VII has invited himself and his mistress to a shooting weekend with the Dilbernes. Now Isobel, the Countess, must turn a run-down mansion into a palace fit for a king. Just as well the family fortunes have been restored, but money can't solve everything...not even a kidn ...Show more
The Survivors by Kate Furnivall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
*** THE TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHOR *** 'A thrilling rollercoaster of a read' Dinah Jefferies, author of The Sapphire Widow Discover a brilliant story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the internationally bestselling author of The Betrayal. 'Directly I saw him, I knew he had to die.' Germany ...Show more
The Blue Rose by Kate Forsyth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Viviane de Faitaud has grown up alone at the Chateau de Belisama-sur-le-Lac in Brittany, for her father, the Marquis de Ravoisier, lives at the court of Louis XVI in Versailles. After a hailstorm destroys the chateau's orchards, gardens and fields an ambitious young Welshman, David Stronach, accepts the ...Show more
Crossings (TPB) by Alex Landragin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
I didn't write this book. I stole it...A Parisian bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript containing three stories, each as unlikely as the other.The first, 'The Education of a Monster', is a letter penned by the poet Charles Baudelaire to an illiterate girl. The second, 'City of Ghosts', is a noir roma ...Show more
To Calais, in Ordinary Time by James Meek
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good
Three journeys. One road.England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a Scots proctor sets out for Avignon and a young ploughman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais.Coming in their direction from across the ...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 strug ...Show more
Aztec Autumn by Gary Jennings
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Aztec
The magnificent Aztec empire has fallen beneath the brutal heal of the Spaniards. But one proud Aztec, Tenamaxtli, refuses to bow to his despised conquerors. He dreams of restoring the lost glory of the Aztec empire, and recruits an army of rebels to mount an insurrection against the seemingly invincibl ...Show more
The Mirror And The Light by Hilary Mantel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Wolf Hall Ser.
With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferociou ...Show more
Her Heart for a Compass by Sarah Ferguson Sarah Ferguson Duchess of York
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
THE MOST TALKED ABOUT ROMANCE DEBUT OF 2021 'A tale of daring and determination, set against the glamorous heights, and the harsh restrictions of aristocratic society in the middle years of the British nineteenth century.' Sir Julian Fellowes creator of Downton Abbey and The Gilded Age 'Sarah Ferguson, ...Show more
The Language of Food by Annabel Abbs
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'A sensual feast of a novel, written with elegance, beauty, charm and skill in a voice that is both lyrical and unique. The Language of Food is an intriguing story with characters that leap off the page and live, but what sets it apart from it's contemporaries is Abbs' outstanding prose' Santa Montefior ...Show more
The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
In Strasbourg, in the boiling hot summer of 1518, a plague strikes the women of the city. First it is just one - a lone figure, dancing in the town square - but she is joined by more and more and the city authorities declare an emergency. Musicians will be brought in. The devil will be danced out of the ...Show more
The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle by Jennifer Ryan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the acclaimed author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir and The Kitchen Front, Jennifer Ryan, comes a novel inspired by true events in the Second World War.After renowned London fashion designer Cressida Westcott loses both her home and her design house in the Blitz, she has nowhere to go but the family ...Show more