The End and Everything Before It by Finegan Kruckemeyer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A debut novel from one of Australia's most internationally celebrated playwrights, The End and Everything Before It is a kaleidoscopic story about the way love and loss shape a community.Emma watched her mother's kayak disappear among icebergs in the Arctic Sea. Six years later, her brother, who had not ...Show more
Dirrayawadha (Rise Up) by Anita Heiss
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the bestselling author of Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams) comes another groundbreaking historical novel about resistance, resilience and love during the frontier wars. Miinaa was a young girl when the white ghosts first arrived. She remembers the day they raised a piece of cloth and r ...Show more
Burning the Books - A History of Knowledge Under Attack by Richard Ovenden
$25.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital existence, Burning the Books shows how the preservation of knowledge is vital for the survival of civilizati ...Show more
Imperial Harvest by Bruce Pascoe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Yen Se has lost everything to the Khan's brutality.Left with one eye and one leg, he is forced out of his home village to work in the city as a horse handler. Witness to the Khan's violent crusade, their raids sweeping across Eurasia, he travels with the theatre of war, but exists outside of it; stunned ...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
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 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
Atlas: the Story of Pa Salt (#8 The Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley; Harry Whittaker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Seven Sisters Ser.
THE INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe final novel in the Seven Sisters series is here. Spanning a lifetime of love and loss, crossing borders and oceans, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, co-authored by her son Harry Whittaker, draws Lucinda Riley's saga to its stunning, unforgettable conclusion.1928, P ...Show more
For the Term of His Natural Life: An Australian Classic by Marcus Clarke
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
First published in 1874, this is a powerful tale of an Australian penal settlement, which originally appeared in serial form in a Melbourne paper. It follows the story of Rufus Dawes, a young man transported for a murder which he did not commit. Australian author and content.
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
The Prophet's Wife - A Novel of an American Faith by Libbie Grant
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A sweeping, lyrical tale of historical fiction that tells the unbelievable story of the early days of the Mormon church through the eyes of the woman who saw it all--Emma, the first wife of the prophet Joseph Smith. In 1825, in rural Pennsylvania, Emma Hale marries an itinerant treasure-digger, a man ...Show more
The Beauties by Lauren Chater
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An incomparable beauty. A promise to a king. A portrait that can never be completed. In the seventeenth-century court of King Charles II, Anne Hyde, the Duchess of York has commissioned a series of ten paintings of the most beautiful women in the entourage. She hopes her series will capture something m ...Show more