The Woman Before Wallis by Bryn Turnbull
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
For fans of The Paris Wife and The Crown, this stunning novel tells the true story of the American divorcée who captured Prince Edward's heart before he abdicated his throne for Wallis Simpson. In the summer of 1926, when Thelma Morgan marries Viscount Duke Furness after a whirlwind romance, she's imm ...Show more
Big Sky (Jackson Brodie #5) by Kate Atkinson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Jackson Brodie
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER- THE RETURN OF JACKSON BRODIE, 'LIKE ALL GOOD DETECTIVES, A HERO FOR MEN AND WOMEN ALIKE' (The Times)'Big Sky is laced with Atkinson's sharp, dry humour, and one of the joys of the Brodie novels has always been that they are so funny' (Observer)Jackson Brodie has r ...Show more
Trio by William Boyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is involved in making a rackety Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the film is shot, with ...Show more
Summer Darlings by Brooke Lea Foster
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
"Filled with 1960s nostalgia and a host of deftly drawn characters" - Renee Rosen, author of Park Avenue Summer. Summer Darlings pulls back the curtain on one mysterious and wealthy family as seen through the eyes of their nanny--a college student who, while falling in love on Martha's Vineyard, is al ...Show more
Tussaud by Belinda Lyons-Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Paris, 1810. Haunted by the French Revolution, Marie Tussaud has locked herself away in her shop with the death masks she was forced to make to avoid the guillotine. Philidor, a famous magician, offers her the chance to accompany him to London to assist in creating a wax automaton that will bring them b ...Show more
Songbirds by Christy Lefteri
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The powerful new novel from the bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo. 'I've never read anything quite like Songbirds - a beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class, that flags the frank truth of the life of migrant workers for whom a flight to freedom can become ...Show more
Lana's War by Anita Abriel
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the bestselling author of The Light After the War comes the unforgettable story of a young woman waging her own war against the Nazis as a spy for the Resistance on the French Riviera. Paris, 1943: Lana Antanova is rushing to tell her husband she is pregnant when she witnesses him being executed by ...Show more
The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A sweeping story of love, friendship and betrayal in bohemian 1920s Paris The captivating story of a trailblazing young woman who fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the twentieth century to the world. PARIS, 1919. Young, bookish Sylvia Beach knows there is no gr ...Show more
The Sawdust House by David Whish-Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
This sweeping tale of a larger-than-life figure is a must-read for lovers of historical fiction.San Francisco, 1856. Irish-born James 'Yankee' Sullivan is being held in jail by the Committee of Vigilance, which aims to rout the Australian criminals from the town. As Sullivan's mistress, seeks his releas ...Show more
Dangerous Women by Hope Adams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Named one of 2021's Most Anticipated Historical Novels by Oprah Magazine ∙ Cosmopolitan ∙ and more! Nearly two hundred condemned women board a transport ship bound for Australia. One of them is a murderer. From debut author Hope Adams comes a thrilling novel based on the 1841 voyage of the convict s ...Show more
The Italian Girl by Anita Abriel
$35.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A fearless Italian girl risks everything to save precious artworks from the Nazis in a gripping story of love and war from the bestselling author of The Light After the War. Rome, 1943: Marina Tozzi adores her father Vittorio and working together in his art gallery is her only escape from the reality of ...Show more
Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight by Steven Carroll
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Eliot Quartet Ser.
From one of our finest writers - winner of the Miles Franklin, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Award - comes a wistful and emotional story that imagines a happier ending for the mercurial and complicated Vivienne Haigh-Wood, first wife of the great poet, TS Eliot. Londo ...Show more