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The German Wife by Kelly Rimmer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
"Skillfully researched and powerfully written, The German Wife will capture you from the first page." --Madeline Martin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in LondonThe New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan returns with a gripping novel inspired by the true story of ...Show more
The Last Kingdom #1 by Bernard Cornwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Last Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
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 Yo ...Show more
The Mirror And The Light by Hilary Mantel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical | 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
The Nurses' War by Victoria Purman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
There is more than one way to fight a war...An extraordinary story of grit, love and loss, based on the true history and real experiences of Australian nurses in World War 1. In 1915, as World War 1 rages in Europe and the numbers of dead and injured continue to grow, Australian nurse, Sister Cora Barke ...Show more
The Orange Grove by Kate Murdoch
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Blois, 1705. The ch teau of Duc Hugo d'Amboise simmers with rivalry and intrigue. Henriette d'Augustin, one of five mistresses of the duc, lives at the chateau with her daughter. When the duc's wife, Duchesse Charlotte, maliciously undermines a new mistress, Letitia, Henriette is forced to choose betwee ...Show more
The Paris Agent by Kelly Rimmer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Two otherwise ordinary women become spies in WWII France in this sweeping new novel of historical suspense by New York Times bestselling author Kelly Rimmer Twenty-five years after the end of the war, ageing British SOE operative Noah Ainsworth is reflecting on the secret agent who saved his life when ...Show more
The Secret World of Connie Starr by Robbi Neal
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
A stunning evocation of Australian life through the war to the 1950s, this novel is intimate and sweeping, immediate and dreamlike - a magical rendering of darkness and joy, and the beauty inherent in difference. For readers of Sarah Winman's Still Life, Trent Dalton's All Our Shimmering Skies and Rosal ...Show more
The Shadow Sister ( #3 The Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Seven Sisters
Following on from the bestselling The Seven Sisters and The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series, loosely based on the mythology of the Seven Sisters star cluster.Star D'Aplièse is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved fathe ...Show more
The Silk Merchant of Sychar by Cindy Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
One woman, five husbands and the weary rabbi at the well who knows everything she ever did. The day after they bury her husband Leah Marcellus loses her baby. A widow and childless, what man will want her now? Her father arranges a second marriage-a profitable business arrangement-sealed on Mount Gerizi ...Show more
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews, who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place, Lale was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival-literally scratching numbers into his fell ...Show more
The Warsaw Orphan by Kelly Rimmer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Instant New York Times bestseller!Inspired by the real-life heroine who saved thousands of Jewish children during WWII, The Warsaw Orphan is Kelly Rimmer's most anticipated novel since her bestselling sensation, The Things We Cannot Say."Gripping... This one easily stands on its own." --Publishers Weekl ...Show more
Three Sisters: A breath-taking new novel in The Tattooist of Auschwitz story by Heather Morris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'I want you to make a promise to me that you will always take care of your sisters. That you will always be there for one another. That you will not allow anyone to take you away from each other, ever. Do you understand?' When they are little girls, Cibi, Magda and Livia make a promise to their father - ...Show more