Black Silk and Sympathy by Deborah Challinor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Tatty Crowe Ser.
A dazzling new series from bestselling historical fiction author Deborah Challinor, exploring the fascinating world of Victorian funeral customs and featuring Sydney's first female undertaker. Tatiana Caldwell's childhood in London is idyllic and filled with the love of doting parents. But when they die ...Show more
Medici Heist by Caitlin Schneiderhan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Welcome to Florence, 1517, a world of intrigue, opulence, secrets, and murder. The Medici family rules the city from their seat of wealth, but the people of Florence remember the few decades they spent as a Republic, free from the Medicis and their puppet Pope, Leo X. Sharp-witted seventeen-year-old c ...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
Nero (PB) by Conn Iggulden
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Set at the heart of a Roman dynasty drenched in danger, intrigue and Machiavellian power struggles, the first book in Conn's brand-new series follows empress Agrippina's battle to secure her son Nero's succession Ancient Rome, AD 37 True Roman justice begins and ends with one man's hand around another' ...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
Chloe by Katrina Kell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A riveting novel based on the true story of the brave, enigmatic young woman who modelled for one of Australia's most famous paintings. Taking the reader from Victoria's wild shipwreck coast to the artists' studios of revolutionary Paris and the bloody battlefields of Flanders, this sweeping novel reim ...Show more
The Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
There's something mysterious about the village of Penhelyg. Will unlocking its truth bring light or darkness? Meirionydd, 1783. Henry Talbot has been dismissed from his post at a prestigious London hospital. The only job he can find is as a physician in the backwaters of Wales where he can't speak the ...Show more
The Lyrebird Lake Ladies Choir by Sandie Docker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Sisters Eleanor and Maggie have been running the Lyrebird Lake Ladies' Choir for many years. The choir meets every week in the sisters' stately federation house on the lake's edge and means so much to the women who have found their 'home' there over the years.But the house itself is in desperate need of ...Show more
Jessica by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Jessica is based on the inspiring true story of a young girl's fight for justice against tremendous odds.A tomboy, Jessica is the pride of her father, as they work together on the struggling family farm. One quiet day, the peace of the bush is devastated by a terrible murder. Only Jessica is able to sav ...Show more
Boundary Crossers: The Hidden History of Australia’s Other Bushrangers by Meg Foster
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, ‘Captain Thunderbolt’ and their bushranging brethren are famous. They’re remembered as folk heroes and celebrated for their bravery and their ridicule of inept and corrupt authorities. But not all Australian bushrangers were white men. And not all ...Show more
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the ...Show more
Alvesdon by James Holland
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A heartland World War II family drama centring around the Castell family from acclaimed WW2 historian James Holland The village of Alvesdon has been home to the Castells for generations. But the year is 1939 and the peace and tranquillity there is about to be shattered once more by the stormclouds of wa ...Show more