The Maiden by Kate Foster
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's The Maiden is a remarkable story with a feminist revisionist twist, giving a voice to women otherwise silenced by history. "In the end, it did not matter what I said at my trial. No one believed me." Edinbu ...Show more
The Silk Merchant's Son by Peter Burke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, silk and sermons. In 1846, linguistics professor Fabrice Cleriquot is despatched from Lyon to the Swan River Colony, sent away with a box full of silkworms to stop him from bringing more disgrace upon the family. Accompanying him on board the Elizabeth are ...Show more
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice. If Davy had remembered to put on a coat. If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street. If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub on a quiet night in February in his white shirt. There is nothing special abo ...Show more
Atonement by Ian McEwan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen- year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country hosue. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge.By the ...Show more
73 Dove Street by Julie Owen Moylan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Pre-order the page-turning and evocative new novel from Julie Owen Moylan, author of That Green Eyed Girl'Powerful, poignant and so beautifully drawn - every single scene comes alive' Frances Quinn'Once again, Julie Owen Moylan has created a world that feels completely real and vivid. A hugely enjoyable ...Show more
The Midnight News by Jo Baker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
It is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother who never returned from France, she is working hard to keep her own little life ticking over: holding down a dull typist job at the Ministry of Information, ...Show more
Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
One night. One fateful choice. A constellation of lives changed forever. On a summer night in 1985, the lives of three teenagers are shattered by a horrific car crash in which a young woman is killed next to the sprawling oak tree that marks the perimeter of 18 Division Street. For the Wilfs, it will be ...Show more
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientif ...Show more
My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A gripping thriller based on true story of an Irish priest in the Vatican who smuggled victims of the Nazis out of Italy under the nose of his SS officer nemesis. From the bestselling and prizewinning author of Shadowplay. September 1943- German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptman rules with te ...Show more
Elektra: The mesmerising story of Troy from the three women its heart by Jennifer Saint
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
**The spellbinding new retelling of the Trojan War drawn from the perspective of the fearless women at the heart of it all.**'The story and its characters swept me up and engulfed me, I could not put this one down' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ REAL READER REVIEW'I was glued to it from beginning to end and could not wait t ...Show more
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, ...Show more
Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him enough money to buy a small boat. His two brothers are away at war, their whereabouts unknown. His father and older sister struggle to hold things together on the family orchard, Limberlost. Desperate to ig ...Show more