The Naturalist's Daughter by Tea Cooper
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Local HQ Fiction B | Reading Level: very good
"Two women, a century apart, are drawn into a mystery surrounding the biggest scientific controversy of the nineteenth century, the classification of the platypus. 1808 Agnes Banks, NSW: Rose Winton wants nothing more than to work with her father, eminent naturalist Charles Winton, on his groundbreaking ...Show more
A Universe of Sufficient Size by Miriam Sved
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
I have wished so many times that I had acted differently.I wish that I had been more worthy of you...Eventually the war will end, and then we will find each other. Until then, remember me. Hungary, 1938. In a city park, beneath one of its bleakly looming statues, five Jewish mathematicians gather to tr ...Show more
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Wolf Hall 1 | Reading Level: very good
From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel. ‘Every bit as good as they said it was’ Observer ‘Terrific’ Margaret Atwood ‘As soon as I opened this book I was gripped. I read it almost non-stop’ The Times In Wolf Hall, one of our very best writers ...Show more
South of Darkness by John Marsden
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The first novel for adults from Australia's master storyteller: John Marsden. Thirteen-year-old Barnaby Fletch is a bag-and-bones orphan in London in the late 1700s.Barnaby lives on his wits and ill-gotten gains, on streets seething with the press of the throng and shadowed by sinister figures. Life is ...Show more
Belgravia: A Tale of Secrets and Scandal Set in 1840s London by Julian Fellowes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Julian Fellowes' Belgravia Series | Reading Level: good
Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. ...Show more
Tombland (Shardlake #7) 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
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The brilliant debut novel from the award-winning author of Maggie & Me South Africa, 1901, the height of the second Boer War. Sarah van der Watt and her son are taken from their farm by force to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp where, the English promise: they will be safe. Johannesburg, 2010. Sixtee ...Show more
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes a reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, a story about an isolated mansion in 1950s Mexico--and the brave socialite drawn to its treacherous secrets."Masterful . . . a gloriously moody adventure, spooky, smart, and wry."--Victor LaValle, author ...Show more
The Pagan Lord (#7 The Last Kingdom) by Bernard Cornwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The Last Kingdom 7 | Reading Level: very good
The seventh 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 Autumn 2015 TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series. Uhtred - sword of the Saxons, bane of the Vikings - has be ...Show more
The Bunting Quest by Steven Marcuson
$26.95 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Nick Lawrance, an antique map dealer, is shocked to find his gallery has been burgled. However, this isn't an ordinary robbery: the thieves have ignored priceless maps and have only taken Bunting's World Map. All of a sudden, Nick is thrown into a four-hundred-year religious mystery where strange people ...Show more
Fools and Mortals by Bernard Cornwell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A dramatic new departure for international bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, FOOLS AND MORTALS takes us into the heart of the Elizabethan era, long one of his favourite periods of British history. 'With all the vivid history that is his trademark, Bernard Cornwell transports the readers to the playho ...Show more
The Letter of Marque #12 by Patrick O'Brian
$20.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Aubrey/Maturin Ser.
Thrown out of the navy for a crime he did not commit, Jack Aubrey has lost everything he held most dear. In command of his beloved Surprise, but in a civilian capacity, Jack Aubrey must navigate a world apart from anything he has previously known, his friend Stephen Maturin at his side. Together the ...Show more