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 Tower by Flora Carr
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A fiery feminist retelling of Mary, Queen of Scot's darkest hour for fans of MATRIX and THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS 'The Tower is such a vivid, visceral read, you feel you're locked in the tower alongside the characters, acting out a royal family drama. I am moved and impressed' TRACY CHEVALIER They are im ...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
Pelican Girls by Julia Malye
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A historical feministic epic, for readers of Barbara Kingsolver, The Matrix by Lauren Groff and Maggie Shipstead's The Great Circle. Paris, 1720. The Hospice of La Salpêtrière is overrun with 'difficult' women. Halfway around the world, on the American frontier, French settlers are in want of wives. At ...Show more
The Women by Kristin Hannah
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the worldwide bestselling author of The Four Winds, The Nightingale and Firefly Lane (a Number One series on Netflix), The Women is a story of devastating loss and epic love. It is both an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and a story of a nation divided by war.It would ...Show more
Picasso's Lovers by Jeanne Mackin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The women of Picasso's life are glamorous and elusive, existing in the shadow of his fame - until 1950s aspiring journalist Alana Olson determines to bring one into the light. Unsure of what to expect but bent on uncovering what really lies beneath the canvas, Alana steps into Sara Murphy's well-guarded ...Show more
The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making. I ...Show more
A Sign of Her Own by Sarah Marsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
'Beautifully written and illuminating... Excellently conveys the experience of being deaf in a hearing world' Priscilla Morris, Women's Prize Shortlisted author of Black Butterflies Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiance receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ell ...Show more
The Chocolate Factory by Mary-Lou Stephens
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Love, friendship and dangerous secrets in the early years of Cadbury's Tasmanian factory. It's 1921, and after years of working for Cadbury's at Bournville, Dorothy Adwell is on her way to a new adventure in the colonies, helping to establish the Firm's new Australian factory. A promotion and a fresh st ...Show more
All the Golden Light by Siobhan O'Brien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
"1918, Belowla, south coast New South Wales. As the Great War grinds to an end, Adelaide Roberts accompanies her father to a rugged island off the south coast of New South Wales to deliver much-needed supplies. While loss and deprivation has decimated the country, Ada is determined to live a life of pur ...Show more
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Winner Indie Awards Fiction 2023 'I loved this book so much - an important book, gorgeous, full of love' Ann Patchett 'Thrilling... a book about the power and pain of words' New York Times 'Everyone should read Geraldine Brooks' Guardian A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, an ...Show more
The Beauties by Lauren Chater
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An incomparable beauty. A promise to a king. A portrait that can never be completed. In the seventeenth-century court of King Charles II, Anne Hyde, the Duchess of York has commissioned a series of ten paintings of the most beautiful women in the entourage. She hopes her series will capture something m ...Show more