Nimblefoot by Robert Drewe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The untold story of Johnny Day, Australia's first international sports hero - a tale of mishap, adventure, chase, chance and luck - from one of Australia's finest writers.At the age of ten, a small boy from Ballarat named Johnny Day became Australia's first international sporting hero. Against adult com ...Show more
The Settlement by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A career-defining masterpiece by internationally award-winning Australian storyteller Jock SerongThe settlement is on a windswept island at the edge of Van Diemen's Land. The people gathered there, taken from their country, are sick and consumed by grief. The Commandant attends their deathbeds, steals w ...Show more
The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge #0) prequel by Ken Follett
$26.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Kingsbridge Novels Ser.
From the bestselling author Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning is a historical epic that ends where The Pillars of the Earth begins.'Another historical thriller of mighty proportions' - The TimesA Time of ConflictIt is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. The king's grip on the country is fragile and ...Show more
Light Perpetual: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 by Francis Spufford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the best-selling, prize-winning author of Golden Hill, a novel of the everyday, the miraculous and the everlasting. Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. November 1944. A German rocket strikes London and five young children are atomised in an instant. Here are the futures they might have known, ha ...Show more
The Ghetto Within: A Novel by Santiago H Amigorena
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In his English language debut, Santiago H. Amigorena writes to fight the silence that “has stifled [him] since [he] was born”, weaving together fiction, biography, and memoir to distill a stirring novel of loss and unshakeable love.A critical sensation in France, The Ghetto Within is its author’s person ...Show more
No Hearts of Gold by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Three women from very different backgrounds, bound by friendship, separated by destiny It was impossible, but in full view of the church, the Governor and wedding guests ...The bride had vanished.Some girls are born to be loved, some are born to be useful.Some girls are born to be bad.Indulged and wealt ...Show more
Showtime! by Judy Nunn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'So, Will, are you going to come with me and my team of merry performers to the sunny climes of Australia, where the crowds are already queuing and the streets are paved with gold?'In the second half of the 19th century, Melbourne is a veritable boom town, as hopefuls from every corner of the globe floc ...Show more
Dawnlands (#3 Fairmile) by Philippa Gregory
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From Philippa Gregory, the #1 bestselling author of Tidelands and Dark Tides, the spellbinding Fairmile series continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval, and life-changing secrets in seventeenth-century England. It is 168 ...Show more
The Shepherd (FTI) by Frederick Forsyth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Christmas Eve, 1957.For one Royal Air Force pilot, one last hurdle remains between himself and a cozy Christmas morning in England. A sixty-six-minute flight in his Vampire fighter plane from Germany to Lakenheath.A routine flight plan and a full tank of fuel. What could go wrong?But as the fog begins t ...Show more
A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge #3) by Ken Follett
$26.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Kingsbridge Novels Ser.
1558, and Europe is in revolt as religious hatred sweeps the continent. Elizabeth Tudor has ascended to the throne but she is not safe in this dangerous new world. There are many who would see her removed, not least Mary Queens of Scots, who lies in wait in Paris. Elizabeth determines to set up a new se ...Show more
No Country for Love by Yaroslav Trofimov
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Seventeen-year-old Deborah Rosenbaum, ambitious and in love with literature, arrives in the capital of the new Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kharkiv, 1930, to make her own fate as a modern woman. The stale and forbidding ways of the past are out; it's a new dawn, the Soviet era, where skyscrapers ...Show more
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024A NEW STATESMAN FICTION HIGLIGHT OF 2024AN OBSERVER FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024AN IRISH TIMES FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024October, 1891. Butte, Montana. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vi ...Show more