Queen, King, Ace by Olivia Hayfield
$28.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Britain is sunk in gloom, its government blundering between crisis and scandal. The country desperately needs a new hero. Enter Arthur 'Ace' Penhalagon, smashing his way to Wimbledon victory and into women's hearts. Ace has two missions: to be the first man to win the Golden Slam - the Holy Grail of ten ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
$28.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The follow-up and companion to one of the most successful Australian novels ever, The Dictionary of Lost Words. What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy an ...Show more
The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Taking the reader from wartime Paris to 1960s New York, The Paris Daughter is a story about mothers and daughters, the way loss transforms us, and the roads we find to beginning anew in the face of impossible odds. A heartwrenching and evocative wartime novel, perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore, Rache ...Show more
The Star on the Grave: A novel inspired by the 'Japanese Schindler', written by a woman who owes him her life by Linda Margolin Royal
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A novel inspired by 'the Japanese Schindler', written by a woman who owes him her life. In 1940, as the Nazis sweep toward Lithuania, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara defies his own government and secretly issues thousands of visas to Jewish refugees desperate to flee. After the war, Sugihara is dismis ...Show more
The Wartime Book Club: the heart-warming and inspiring new novel of love, bravery and resistance in WW2 by Kate Thompson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
From enchanting cliff tops and white sandy bays to the pretty cobbled streets of St Helier, Jersey is known as the land of milk and honey. For best friends Bea Rose (the local postwoman) and Grace Le Motte (who works in the island's only library) it becomes the frontline to everyday resistance when the ...Show more
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
$38.00 NZD
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
Until August by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
$40.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude - a moving tale of female desire and abandon. Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happi ...Show more
The Space Between by Lauren Keenan
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
How do you choose between two sides, when you don't belong on either? Frances is an unmarried Londoner newly landed in colonial Aotearoa at the dawn of the First Taranaki War. Once well-regarded, her family's impressive fall from grace sees them seeking their fortune in a raw, new country and struggli ...Show more
Lamentation (#6 Shardlake) by C. J. Sansom
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Shardlake Ser.
The eagerly anticipated new Shardlake novel, already a #1 international bestseller. Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government of Henry's successor, eight-y ...Show more
The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In a world torn apart by war, a brother and sister fight to find each other. The sweeping new novel from New York Times bestselling author Katherine Arden. World War One, and as shells fall in Flanders, a Canadian nurse searches for her brother believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that sugg ...Show more
The Tower by Flora Carr
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A fiery feminist retelling of Mary, Queen of Scot's darkest hour for fans of MATRIX and THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS 'The Tower is such a vivid, visceral read, you feel you're locked in the tower alongside the characters, acting out a royal family drama. I am moved and impressed' TRACY CHEVALIER They are im ...Show more
Maya's Dance by Helen Signy
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A powerful novel of survival, resilience and enduring love, based on an incredible true Holocaust story. Our dance. Do you remember how I spun and twirled? How I became more than a Jewish girl with battered shoes and dirty clothes – I became a part of the air, the trees, the sun. We did not know then wh ...Show more