Island Beneath the Sea - A Novel by Isabel Allende
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarit - known as Tt - is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tt finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voo ...Show more
The Visitors by Caroline Scott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the highly acclaimed author of The Poppy Wife, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, comes a tale of a young war widow and one life-changing, sun-drenched visit to Cornwall in the summer of 1923... 1923. Esme Nicholls is to spend the summer in Cornwall. Her late husband Alec, who died fighting in WWI, grew ...Show more
The Red Bird Sings by Aoife Fitzpatrick
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
**AN AWARD WINNER BEFORE IT WAS EVEN PUBLISHED. A FEMINIST GOTHIC SUSPENSE THAT WILL KEEP YOU UP ALL NIGHT** 'Beautifully crafted ... wholly convincing in its historical detail and tone' SARAH GILMARTIN, author of Dinner Party West Virginia, 1897. After the sudden death of young Zona Shue only a few mon ...Show more
The Betrayals by Bridget Collins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the Number 1 bestselling author of The Binding. If everything in your life was based on a lie Would you risk it all to tell the truth? At Montverre, an exclusive academy tucked away in the mountains, the best and brightest are trained for excellence in the grand jeu: an arcane and mysterious contes ...Show more
Sugar Money by Jane Harris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Martinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master, Father Cleophas, with a mission. They must return to Grenada, the island they once called home, and smuggle back the 42 slaves claimed by English invaders at the hospital plantation in Fort Royal. While Lucien, barely in ...Show more
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles. "This book is stunning."--Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven One night in an isolated college town in the hill ...Show more
Two Old Men Dying by Tom Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Pre-read / Used. Very Good condition. Learned Man is the child of humankind as we know it; of those who are thought to have travelled from the Rift Valley in Africa and to ancient Australia. Shelby Apple is an acclaimed documentary-maker. After making films about Learned Man?s discovery, in Vietnam ...Show more
At the Wolf's Table by Rosella Postorino
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
At the Wolf's Table is the internationally bestselling novel based on the untold true story of the women conscripted to be Hitler's food tasters, from author Rose Postorino. "They called it the Wolfsschanze, the Wolf's Lair. 'Wolf' was his nickname. As hapless as Little Red Riding Hood, I had ended up ...Show more
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
In this masterful debut novel, Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad delivers a sweeping, brilliantly crafted portrait of a young man's coming-of-age alongside the embattled development of a nation. Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile merchant from Nablus, a town in Ottoman Palestine. In 1914 ...Show more
The Prague Sonata by Bradford Morrow
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Pages of a weathered original sonata manuscript - the gift of a Czech immigrant living in Queens - come into the hands of Meta Taverner, a young musicologist whose concert piano career was cut short by an injury. The gift comes with the request that Meta find the manuscript's true owner - a Prague frien ...Show more
The Glovemaker by Ann Weisgarber
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: 1
For fans of Cold Mountain comes the story of a woman in Mormon country, from the author of The Promise and The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home ...Show more
Guardian of Lies by Kate Furnivall
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A brilliant story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the internationally bestselling author of The Survivors. 1953, the South of France. The fragile peace between the West and Soviet Russia hangs on a knife edge. And one family has been torn apart by secrets and conflicting allegiances.Eloïse ...Show more