A Better Place by Stephen Daisley
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In a novel of stark and lyrical beauty, award-winning author Stephen Daisley portrays the brutal effects of war on two New Zealand brothers. The old people in the district would often say that Roy was not quite the same after he come back. There was a brother. A twin brother, Tony. Tony Mitchell, diff ...Show more
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Cristabel Seagrave has always wanted her life to be a story, but there are no girls in the books in her dusty family library. For an unwanted orphan who grows into an unmarriageable young woman, there is no place at all for her in a traditional English manor. But from the day that a whale washes up on t ...Show more
The Spy's Wife by Fiona McIntosh
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The highly anticipated new historical adventure from the bestselling author of The Champagne War.Evie, a widow and stationmaster's daughter, can't help but look out for the weekly visit of the handsome man she and her sister call the Southerner on their train platform in the wilds of northern England. W ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
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 and Maude, twin sisters who work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho. Peggy is intelligent, ambit ...Show more
Harbouring by Jenny Pattrick
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
It is 1839 and Huw Pengellin is desperate to find a better life for his family than the one he ekes out in Wales. His wife, Martha, is fully aware just how foolhardy Huw's schemes can be, but she is keen to escape the foundry slums, as well as Huw's brother Gareth, with his hot eyes and roving hands. Mi ...Show more
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A mesmerising retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Perfect for fans of CIRCE, A SONG OF ACHILLES, and THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS.'Here, Ariadne takes centre stage in a lyrical, insightful re-telling that explores her motivations and emotions and the grievances caused by grumpy, ...Show more
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The brand-new historical novel from the bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Huntress!'A terrific book bursting with vivid atmosphere' Dinah Jefferies, #1 bestselling author of The Tea-Planter's Wife 'Wonderful...A hugely satisfying and thrilling read' Fern Britton, #1 bestselling author of D ...Show more
The Magician by Colm Tóibín, Colm Toibin
$30.00 NZD
$38.00 (21% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
When the Great War breaks out in 1914 Thomas Mann, like so many of his fellow countrymen, is fired up with patriotism. He imagines the Germany of great literature and music, which had drawn him away from the stifling, conservative town of his childhood, might be a source of pride once again. But his fla ...Show more
Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold by Stephen Fry
$26.00 NZD
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 Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
$28.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The Kingsbridge Novels
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 Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems.... It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of tw ...Show more
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the ...Show more