Mythos: The stunningly iIllustrated story by Stephen Fry
$80.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld ...Show more
Lion: 'Brings war in the ancient world to vivid, gritty and bloody life' ANTHONY RICHES by Conn Iggulden
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
ENTER THE BATTLEFIELDS OF ANCIENT GREECE WITH THE EPIC BESTSELLER FROM MASTER STORYTELLER CONN IGGULDEN'Pacy and propulsive . . . Crackling with energy, violence and stirring speeches, Lion chronicles power struggles, political machinations and the bloodthirsty ravages of up-close combat' DAILY MAIL'Igg ...Show more
Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold by Stephen Fry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between ...Show more
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
$21.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a reckless storm. As Maren Magnusdatter watches, 40 fishermen, including her father and brother, are lost to the waves, the menfolk of Vardø wiped out in an instant.Now the women must fend for themselves.Eighteen ...Show more
The Binding by Bridget Collins
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Imagine you could erase grief. Imagine you could remove pain. Imagine you could hide the darkest, most horrifying secret. Forever. Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange letter arrives summoning him away from his family. He is to begin an apprenticeship as a Bookbinder -- a vocation ...Show more
The Crossing (The Border Trilogy #2) by Cormac McCarthy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
<i>The Crossing </i>forms the second part of Cormac McCarthy's critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, a story that began with<i> All the Pretty Horses</i> and concludes with <i>Cities of the Plain</i>. Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second Worl ...Show more
The Escapades of Tribulation Johnson by Karen Brooks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this brilliant recreation of the vibrant, optimistic but politically treacherous world of London's Restoration theatre. We are introduced to the remarkable playwright Aphra Behn, now a feminist icon then an anomaly, who gravitated to the stage - a place whe ...Show more
Vincent and Sien by Silvia Kwon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Hague, 1882, a howling winter's night, Sien and her daughter are on the brink of surrendering to the bitter cold, their exhaustion, their hunger, when a good Samaritan appears. Vincent van Gogh, a struggling artist, provides them with warmth and shelter for the night. Fascinated by Sien - her face, ...Show more
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
'Powerful and compelling' - Delia Owens, number one international bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing The Four Winds is a deeply moving, powerful story about the strength and resilience of women and the bond between mother and daughter, by the multi-million-copy number one bestselling author o ...Show more
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might ...Show more
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
$26.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The Kingsbridge Novels | Reading Level: very good
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read #1 New York Times Bestseller Oprah's Book Club Selection From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Column of Fire, the "monumental masterpiece" (Booklist) that changed the course of Ken Follett's already phenomenal ...Show more
The Yellow Bird Sings (TPB) by Jennifer Rosner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A mother. A child. An impossible choice. Poland, 1941. After the Jews in their town are rounded up, Róza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, spend day and night hidden in a farmer’s barn. Forbidden from making a sound, only the yellow bird from her mother’s stories can sing the melodies Shira compose ...Show more