The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
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 Lost Letters of Rose Carey by Julie Bennett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A captivating tale of love, glamour and betrayal, inspired by the life of 1920s Australian film icon Annette Kellerman, for readers of Kate Morton and Taylor Jenkins Reid. Blue Mountains, 2023: Working on a documentary at the historic Carrington Hotel, videographer Emma Quinn rescues a box of vintage ...Show more
The Women by Kristin Hannah
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the worldwide bestselling author of The Four Winds, The Nightingale and Firefly Lane (a Number One series on Netflix), The Women is a story of devastating loss and epic love. It is both an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and a story of a nation divided by war.It would ...Show more
Sisters under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Sisters under the Rising Sun, the captivating new novel by Heather Morris, is a story of women in war: a testament to resilience, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances. It is February 1942. Amid the turmoil of World War II, a group of Australian Army nurses, among them Nesta James and ...Show more
A Woman's Work by Victoria Purman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The astonishingly rich prize of the 1956 Australian Women's Weekly cookery competition offers two women the possibility of a new kind of future, in this compassionate look at the extraordinary lives of ordinary women - our mothers and grandmothers - in a beautifully realised post-war Australia. It's 195 ...Show more
The Widow and Her Hero: The Tom Keneally Collection by Tom Keneally
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
I knew in general terms I was marrying a hero. The burden lay lightly on Leo, and to be a hero's wife in times supposedly suited to the heroic caused a woman to swallow doubt . . . The Japanese had barely been turned away. It was heresy and unlucky to undermine young men at such a supreme hour.When Grac ...Show more
Thaw by Dennis Glover
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Some secrets won't stay buried. 'Scott's lost expedition was still here, she thought - frozen, preserved, waiting to be rescued from the thaw. The truth lay beneath the surface, and she was going to bring it up.' In 1912, five British explorers struggle across the freezing Antarctic landscape, through ...Show more
The Magician by Colm Tóibín
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'As with everything Colm Tóibín sets his masterful hand to, <i>The Magician</i> is a great imaginative achievement - immensely readable, erudite, worldly and knowing, and fully realized.' - Richard Ford When the Great War breaks out in 1914 Thomas Mann, like so many of his fellow countrymen, ...Show more
Drums of Autumn (#4 Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Outlander Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. How far will a woman travel to find a father, a lover a destiny? Across seas, across time - across the grave itself. It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. Claire Randall was swept through time into the arms of James Fraser whose love for ...Show more
Unsettled by Gay Lynch
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The unsettled South Australian frontier near Mount Gambier is a strange and difficult place for a Galway family trying to make sense of their new world.Rosanna and brother Skelly long to escape. Their older brother Edwin races against poets in steeplechases and schemes over cattle, carts and cards to ge ...Show more
Dreaming the Serpent Spear (#4 Boudica) by Manda Scott
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Boudica Ser.
Britannia, AD 60: The tribes of Britannia are ready to seek bloody vengeance. Twenty thousand warriors are poised to reclaim their land from their captors. Now is their chance: the Roman governor has marched his legions west, leaving his capital and a vital port undefended. There is no going back. But t ...Show more
I, Julian by Claire Gilbert
$49.99 AUD
Category: Historical
‘So I will write in English, pressing new words from this beautiful plain language spoken by all. Not courtly French to introduce God politely. Not church Latin to construct arguments. English to show it as it is. Even though it is not safe to do so.’ From the author of Miles to Go before I Sleep comes ...Show more