The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the bestselling author of Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking murder that unhinges her small community.Maine, 1789: When a man is found entombed in the frozen Kennebec Rive ...Show more
Mary I: Queen of Sorrows by Alison Weir
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Sunday Times bestselling novelist Alison Weir returns with the spellbinding story of Mary I. A DESTINY REWRITTEN. A ROYAL HEART DIVIDED. Adored only child of Henry VIII and his Queen, Katherine of Aragon, Princess Mary is raised in the golden splendour of her father's court. But the King wants a son a ...Show more
The Story Thief by Kyra Geddes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An elegant blend of fact and fiction, The Story Thief is a stirring drama set against pivotal moments in Australian history, about a young woman who discovers her family's story has been appropriated by Henry Lawson for his famous tale, The Drover's Wife. 'Brimming with evocative, authentic detail, The ...Show more
Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An unforgettable story of love, faith and science, Enlightenment is Sarah Perry's finest novel to date 'A complete masterwork' SARAH HALL, author of The Electric Michelangelo 'Enlightenment is a gift' SE N HEWITT, author of All Down Darkness Wide Thomas Hart and Grace Macauley are fellow worshippers ...Show more
The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The whole world disappears when you enter The Silence factory. Henry dreams of silence. A world without the clattering of carriages through cobbled streets, the distant cries of drunken brawls, the relentless ticking of the clock. Then he meets a fascinating, mysterious gentleman who sells just that. P ...Show more
Dust Child by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Named a Best Book of Spring 2023 by the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the Chicago Review of Books, Ms. Magazine, BookPage and BookBub A Most Anticipated Title according to Sydney Morning Herald, Salon, NB Magazine and SheReads Four lives, entwined forever by decisions made in a time of conflict. But what h ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The follow-up and companion to one of the most successful Australian novels ever, The Dictionary of Lost Words. What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy an ...Show more
Like Fire-Hearted Suns by Melanie Joosten
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The cost of freedom is sacrifice London, 1908. It's the dawn of a new century and change is in the air.When 17-year-old Beatrice Taylor stumbles across the offices of the infamous Pankhursts and the Women's Social and Political Union she begins to realise her future may not be the one she wants.Her frie ...Show more
Code Name Butterfly by Embassie Susberry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Inspired by the incredible true story of Josephine Baker in the French Resistance, this is a heart-wrenching, unforgettable tale of the strength of the human spirit in the darkest days of World War II. In the City of Light, one woman will stand against darkness. Paris, 1941. With Nazi occupation imminen ...Show more
The Curse of Pietro Houdini by Derek B. Miller
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The compelling and heartrending new novel from the award-winning author of Norwegian By Night and How To Find Your Way In The Dark We will lie, cheat, steal, fight, kill, and sin our way to Napoli. We will trust no one but each other, and we will remember that in this place, at this time, there is no w ...Show more
The River We Remember (PB) by William Kent Krueger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff ...Show more
Maya's Dance by Helen Signy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A powerful novel of survival, resilience and enduring love, based on an incredible true Holocaust story. Our dance. Do you remember how I spun and twirled? How I became more than a Jewish girl with battered shoes and dirty clothes – I became a part of the air, the trees, the sun. We did not know then wh ...Show more