Missing Pieces by Jennifer Mackenzie Dunbar
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Inspired by the 1831 discovery of a hoard of priceless chess pieces on a remote Scottish Island, Missing Pieces tells the story of four women who created and protected the now famous artefacts.When Marianne is coerced into leaving the security of her comfortable London life to curate an exhibition on th ...Show more
The Chocolate Maker's Wife by Karen Brooks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Australian author Karen Brooks rewrites women back into history with this sweeping, breathtakingly researched tale of 17th century London. Set against the backdrop of Restoration London, the plague and the Great Fire, this is a tale of cruelty, revenge, redemption, love and hope, and the sweet, sinister ...Show more
The Shanghai Wife (PB) by Emma Harcourt
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Forbidden friendship, political conspiracy and incendiary passion draw Australian woman Annie Brand deep into the glamour and turmoil of 1920s Shanghai. Leaving behind the loneliness and trauma of her past in country Australia, Annie Brand arrives to the political upheaval and glittering international s ...Show more
Love is Blind by William Boyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
You don't see me as I really am. All the many nuances of Lika Blum. The light and the dark. You just see the light'When Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father and begin a wildly different new chapter ...Show more
The Librarian of Burned Books: A Novel by Brianna Labuskes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
For fans of The Rose Code and The Paris Library, The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who believe in the power of books to triumph over the very darkest moments of war. Berlin 1933. Following the success of her debut novel, American wr ...Show more
Dawnlands (#3 Fairmile) by Philippa Gregory
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From Philippa Gregory, the #1 bestselling author of Tidelands and Dark Tides, the spellbinding Fairmile series continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval, and life-changing secrets in seventeenth-century England. It is 168 ...Show more
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck; Michael Hofmann (translator)
$36.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her a ...Show more
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the bestselling author of Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking murder that unhinges her small community.Maine, 1789: When a man is found entombed in the frozen Kennebec Rive ...Show more
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demand ...Show more
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, des ...Show more
No Hearts of Gold by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Three women from very different backgrounds, bound by friendship, separated by destiny It was impossible, but in full view of the church, the Governor and wedding guests ...The bride had vanished.Some girls are born to be loved, some are born to be useful.Some girls are born to be bad.Indulged and wealt ...Show more
The Country of Others by Leila Slimani
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The first volume of a new trilogy telling the saga of one French family between 1946 and 2016. Alsace, 1944. Mathilde finds herself falling deeply in love with Amine Belhaj, a Moroccan soldier billeted in her town fighting for the French. After the Liberation, Mathilde leaves her country to follow her ...Show more