The Winter Dress by Lauren Chater
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Longlisted for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize. 'From a few shimmering strands of truth, Lauren Chater has spun an intriguing story of love, loss and fulfilment.' Pip Williams, bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost WordsTwo women separated by centuries but connected by one beautiful silk dre ...Show more
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
$27.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A mesmerizing new historical novel" (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean ...Show more
The Settlement by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A career-defining masterpiece by internationally award-winning Australian storyteller Jock SerongThe settlement is on a windswept island at the edge of Van Diemen's Land. The people gathered there, taken from their country, are sick and consumed by grief. The Commandant attends their deathbeds, steals w ...Show more
The Romantic by William Boyd
$25.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover. One man, many lives. Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, Cashel seeks his fortune across continents in war and ...Show more
Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last a lifetime. In 1805, at boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-olds me ...Show more
Gulliver's Wife (PB) by Lauren Chater
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Birth. Death. Wonder … One woman’s journey to the edge of love and loyalty from the bestselling author of The Lace Weaver London, 1702. When her husband is lost at sea, Mary Burton Gulliver, midwife and herbalist, is forced to rebuild her life without him. But three years later when ...Show more
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story - and about who deserves to be believed. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cous ...Show more
Pachinko: The New York Times Bestseller by Min Jin Lee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * 'This is a captivating book ... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity a ...Show more
The Moon Sister (The Seven Sisters Book #5) by Lucinda Riley
$23.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The Seven Sisters | Reading Level: very good
The Moon Sister is the fifth epic story in the Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley. After the death of her father - Pa Salt, an elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters from around the globe - Tiggy D'Aplièse , trusting her instincts, moves to the remote wilds of Scotland. There she takes a j ...Show more
Tidelands (#1 Fairmile) by Philippa Gregory
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Fairmile
THE BRAND NEW SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR The eagerly awaited first book in Philippa Gregory's sweeping new series begins with the story of Alinor, a young midwife who finds herself tempted by a forbidden love affair. But in a society that has already set a path for her, ...Show more
Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold by Stephen Fry
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths | Reading Level: very good
Mortals and Monsters. Quests and Adventures . . . There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes ...Show more
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove--to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his pregnant wife--"that the hours of his life belong to himself alone." In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. S ...Show more