Dolce Vita Confidential - Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome by Shawn Levy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the ashes of World War II, Rome was reborn as the epicenter of film, fashion, creative energy, tabloid media, and bold-faced libertinism that made "Italian" a global synonym for taste, style, and flair. A confluence of cultural contributions created a bright, burning moment in history: it was the h ...Show more
Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Tattooist of Auschwitz #2 | Reading Level: very good
The sequel to the International Number One Bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz, based on a true story of love and resilience. In 1942 Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, a ...Show more
Vita and the Birds by Polly Crosby
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A haunting mystery for fans of Eve Chase, Kate Morton and Kate Mosse. 1938: Lady Vita Goldsborough lives in the shadow of her controlling older brother, Aubrey. Trapped and isolated on the East Anglian coast, Vita takes solace in watching the birds that fly over the marshes. But then she meets local art ...Show more
The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London comes a moving new novel inspired by the true history of America's library spies of World War II. Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from th ...Show more
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
$32.99 AUD
$45.00 (26% off)
Category: Historical | Series: The Wolf Hall Trilogy 3 | Reading Level: near fine
The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies; the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy. ‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’. England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat b ...Show more
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Achilles, “best of all the Greeks,” is everything Patroclus is not -- strong, beautifu ...Show more
Dust Child by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
'Dazzling. Sharply drawn and hauntingly beautiful.' Elif Shafak, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Island of Missing Trees. In 1969, two sisters from rural Viet Nam leave their parents' home and travel to the bustling city of Saigon. Soon their lives are swept up in the unstoppable flames of a war ...Show more
The Beauties by Lauren Chater
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
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
The Ghost Theatre: Utterly transporting historical fiction, ElizabethanLondon as you've never seen it by Mat Osman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'Dramatic and gripping... a breathless journey of hope, beauty, wonder, tragedy, and the power of theatre' Isabelle Schuler 'Utterly transporting' Catriona Ward 'Vivid, heady and brilliantly staged' Stuart Evers 'Rich and evocative with shades of Angela Carter' Ever Dundas TO LOVE IS TO FALL . . . ...Show more
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
$19.99 AUD
$24.99 (20% off)
Category: Historical
Post-Ethiopia, 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilise his strongest men before the Italians invade. Hirut and the other women long t ...Show more
Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
An intimate look at the domestic lives of enslaved women, NIGHT WHEREVER WE GO is an evocative meditation on resistance and autonomy, on love and transcendence and the bonds of female friendship in the darkest of circumstances. On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleepi ...Show more
Black Sheep: From the bestselling author of Khaki Town by Judy Nunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Judy Nunn's new blockbuster is a sweeping historical novel about a prosperous sheep-farming family and the enigmatic young man with a dark past they let into their lives . . .Black sheep - there's one in every family . . .Orphaned at sixteen, James Wakefield was determined to be a gun shearer like his f ...Show more