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Above the Fold by Peter Yeldham
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Luke Elliott and Claudia Marsden have fallen in love at a perilous time. The Second World War is raging in the Pacific, barbed wire and gun emplacements are strung along the northern beaches in preparation for invasion. As the war moves closer, their 'sextet' of loyal school friends is splintering as in ...Show more
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A mesmerising retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Perfect for fans of CIRCE, A SONG OF ACHILLES, and THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS. As Princesses of Crete and daughters of the fearsome King Minos, Ariadne and her sister Phaedra grow up hearing the hoofbeats and bellows of the Mi ...Show more
Bring Up The Bodies (Wolf Hall #2) by Hilary Mantel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Wolf Hall Trilogy
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
Bystanders: Echoes of Stories Past by Valerie Volk
$24.95 AUD
Category: Historical
Who remembers the onlookers on the sidelines of big events? Such bystanders as the deposed queen Vashti, the blood-stained murdering grandmother Athaliah, the bluff soldier in King David's army, or the desperately searching mother Phoebe? In Bystanders Valerie Volk has created fifteen absorbing characte ...Show more
Diamond Hunter by Fiona McIntosh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'It won't matter how many diamonds you find if you lose the love of your child.' When six-year-old Clementine Knight loses her mother to malaria during the 1870s diamond rush in southern Africa, she is left to be raised by her destitute, alcoholic father, James. Much of Clementine's care falls to their ...Show more
Dragons in the Forest by Peter Yeldham
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
For much of the World War II conflict, Japan had been a safe haven for its citizens, far, far away from Germany's relentless advance in Europe and the daily horrors of such events as the London blitz, concentration camps and the fall of France. But Alex Faure always felt that one day the war would come ...Show more
Hamnet (PB) by Maggie O'Farrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. ...Show more
Hidden in Plain Sight (#2 William Warwick) HB by Jeffrey Archer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: William Warwick Novels Ser.
Jeffrey Archer's Hidden in Plain Sight is the second novel featuring Detective William Warwick, by the master storyteller and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion means that he, along with the rest of h ...Show more
How Much of These Hills Is Gold (PB) by C. Pam Zhang
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 'The boldest debut of the year . . . It is refreshing to discover a new author of such grand scale, singular focus and blistering vision' Observer America. In the twilight of the Gold Rush, two siblings cross a landscape with a gun in their hands and the body of th ...Show more
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
1944. It's a Saturday lunchtime on Bexford High Street. The Woolworths has a new delivery of aluminum saucepans, and a crowd has gathered to see the first new metal in a long time. Everything else has been melted down for the war effort. An instant later, the crowd is gone. Incinerated. Atomised. Among ...Show more
Lost Jewels by Kirsty Manning
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'Based on the true story of the Cheapside Hoard, The Lost Jewels is a riveting historical fiction novel that will captivate readers from the beginning to the unforgettable, surprising end. - Sally Hepworth, bestselling author of The Mother-in-Law.
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and ...Show more