Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
* The phenomenal Indian bestseller * Winner of the Tata Lit Live Best First Book of the Year Award * 'Intense, lyrical, and powerful. This is a remarkable debut' Jeet Thayil, author of Narcopolis and The Book of Chocolate Saints In the feverish tropics of the Andaman Islands, a young botanist tends to a ...Show more
Cold Is the Dawn by Charles Egan
$49.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Hunger deepened in Ireland in 1848 as the potato crop failed again. In London, the government, alarmed by austerity in England and revolution in Europe, refused to re-open the soup kitchens in Ireland. But, worse still, they refused to halt food exports from the starving country. Emigration quickened ...Show more
The Burning Island by Jock Serong
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern--too old, now--for marriage, she lives by herself, looking in on her reclusive father in case he has injured himself while drunk. There is a shadow in his past, she k ...Show more
The Cartographer's Secret by Tea Cooper
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A young woman's quest to heal a family rift entangles her in one of Australia's greatest historical puzzles when an intricately illustrated map offers a clue to the fate of a long-lost girl. A mesmerising historical mystery set in the Hunter Valley from bestselling author Tea Cooper for readers of Nata ...Show more
The Infernal Riddle of Thomas Peach by Jas Treadwell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The year is 1785, and Thomas Peach, a gentleman of modest means, moves to a small village in the West Country, bringing with him a steamer chest of clothes, some books - and, apparently, his wife, Mrs Peach, who quickly becomes a source of fascination and suspicion to the villagers. Why is she never see ...Show more
While Paris Slept by Ruth Druart
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Perfect for readers of EARLY ONE MORNING and THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, Headline Review's Lead Launch for 2021 is a gripping, moving debut novel of courage, survival and the endurance of hope.On a platform in occupied Paris, a mother whispers goodbye.It is the end.But also the beginning. Santa Cruz 1953 ...Show more
The Riviera House by Natasha Lester
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Fiction
The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Secret weaves a lush and engrossing novel of World War II inspired by a true story. Paris, 1939: The Nazis think Éliane can't understand German. They're wrong. They think she's merely cataloging art in a Louvre museum and unaware they're stealing natio ...Show more
The Freedom of Birds by Stephanie Parkyn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Two French storytellers and a runaway girl travel through fairytale lands, Italian theatres, and the battlefields of France in search of a place to belong as Napoleon's Empire falls, from the author of Josephine's Garden. Remi Victoire is the golden child among all the theatre orphans; he dreams of a li ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
$39.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
"An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses." --Margaret Atwood "Nobody who reads it will ever think of Nineteen Eighty-Four in quite the same way."--Vogue A lush exploration of roses, pleasure, and politics, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an ...Show more
The Guinness Girls, A Hint of Scandal by Emily Hourican
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
It's the dawn of the 1930s and the three privileged Guinness sisters, Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh, settle into becoming wives and mothers: Aileen in Luttrellstown Castle outside Dublin, Maureen in Clandeboye in Northern Ireland, and Oonagh in Rutland Place in London.But while Britain becomes increasingly ...Show more
Theatre of Marvels by Lianne Dillsworth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An immersive historical debut which tells the story of a mixed-race woman who plays a freak on the stage in Victorian London and finds herself caught in a reckoning with her own identity.Crowds gather at Crillick's Variety Theatre, where curiosity is satisfied with displays of intrigue and fear. They're ...Show more
The Plant Hunter by T.L. Mogford
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
1867. King's Road, Chelsea, is a sea of plant nurseries, catering to the Victorian obsession with rare and exotic flora. But each of the glossy emporiums is fuelled by the dangerous world of the plant hunters – daring adventurers sent into uncharted lands in search of untold wonders to grace England's f ...Show more