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City of Vengeance by D. V. Bishop
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Cesare Aldo Ser. | Reading Level: very good
City of Vengeance is an explosive debut historical thriller by D. V. Bishop set in Renaissance Florence. Florence. Winter, 1536. A prominent Jewish moneylender is murdered in his home, a death with wide implications in a city powered by immense wealth. Cesare Aldo, a former soldier and now an officer of ...Show more
Outlander: The gripping historical romance from the best-selling adventure series (Outlander 1) by Diana Gabaldon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Outlander | Reading Level: good
THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. As seen on TV. Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century - and a lover in another. In 1946, Claire Randall is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon in Scotland. Innocently she walks throu ...Show more
The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story by Karen Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In the middle ages, a poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary classic. But what if the woman in question had a chance to tell her own version? Who would you believe?'Brooks' mischievous retelling [of Chaucer's The Wife of Bath] dials up the feminist themes - and the fun - to 1 ...Show more
The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Immerse yourself in an electrifying reading experience like no other -- international bestselling author Paulo Coelho's "The Fifth Mountain." A stunning novel in the tradition of the highly acclaimed "The Alchemist, " this is Coelho's daring retelling of the prophet Elijah. During the chaos of the ninth ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
The Clockmaker's Wife by Daisy Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The world is at war. And time is running out… London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter – leaving behind her husband, Arthur, the clockmaker who keeps Big Ben chiming. When Arthur disappears, Nell is desperate to find hi ...Show more
Homecoming by Kate Morton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of ...Show more
Secret Messenger by Mandy Robotham
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Category: Historical
The highly awaited new novel from the international bestselling author of The German Midwife (also published as A Woman of War). #1 GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER.USA TODAY BESTSELLER.KINDLE TOP 10 BESTSELLER. Venice, 1943The world is at war, and Stella Jilani is leading a double life. By day she works in ...Show more
Trust: Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Hernán Diaz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
"Buzzy and enthralling ...A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery...Fun as hell to read." --Oprah Daily"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City's elite in the roaring '20s and Great Depression."--Vanity Fair"A riveting ...Show more
The Mirror and the Light
$45.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Wolf Hall Trilogy 3
The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies; the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy. ‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’. England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat b ...Show more
A Woman of Courage by Tania Blanchard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A gripping, moving story of love, tenacity and the right to be heard by bestseller Tania Blanchard, inspired by a true story 1890, Northern England. Hannah Todd dreams of a future where women have the right to vote. Fresh from her teaching studies in Durham, the university city, she joins her parent ...Show more
The Wild Date Palm by Diane Armstrong
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From a bestselling Australian author comes a gripping novel of espionage, passion and sacrifice set in the Middle East during World War I. Based on an astonishing true story, it asks what are you willing to die for? For readers of Geraldine Brooks, Heather Morris and Alli Parker. During a train journey ...Show more