The Art of Breaking Ice by Rachael Mead
34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
In 1960, when the legendary icebreaker Magga Dan set sail for Antarctica, it contained a secret. Hiding on board was Nel Law, wife of expedition leader Phillip Law. She would make history by becoming the first Australian woman to set foot on the icy continent, but it was her art that would change everyt ...Show more
The Talented Mrs Greenway by Tea Cooper
32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From a bestselling Australian author, this compellingly realised novel brings to life the story of an enigmatic figure, wife to feted colonial architect Francis Greenway, and asks, whose hand really shaped Sydney? Who is the talented Mrs Greenway? 1814 Sydney Town When Mary Greenway, freshly arrived fro ...Show more
To Sir Phillip, With Love (Bridgerton #5) by Julia Quinn
19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Bridgertons Ser.
Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he'd proposed, figuring that she'd be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. Except . . . she wasn't. The beautiful woman on his doorstep was anything but quiet, and when she stopped talking long en ...Show more
Devotion by Hannah Kent
22.99 AUD
32.99 (30% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
Prussia, 1836 Hanne Nussbaum is a child of nature - she would rather run wild in the forest than conform to the limitations of womanhood. In her village of Kay, Hanne is friendless and considered an oddity . . . until she meets Thea. Ocean, 1838 The Nussbaums are Old Lutherans, bound by God's law and at ...Show more
Mammoth by Chris Flynn
22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
2020's bestselling cult novel, narrated by a mammoth, now in B format.Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct mammoth, this is the (mostly) true story of how a collection of prehistoric creatures came to be on sale at a natural history auction in New York in 2007. By tracing how and when these fossils wer ...Show more
The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher
32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A sweeping story of love, friendship and betrayal in bohemian 1920s Paris The captivating story of a trailblazing young woman who fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the twentieth century to the world. PARIS, 1919. Young, bookish Sylvia Beach knows there is no gr ...Show more
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
<i>‘Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.’</i> Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Civil War, Margaret Mitchell’s magnificent historical epic is an unforgettable tale of love and loss, of a nation mortally divided and a people for ...Show more
The Naturalist of Amsterdam by Melissa Ashley
39.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Another rich and sumptuously told tale based on the life of artist Dorothea Graff, from award-winning and bestselling author of The Birdman's Wife and The Bee and the Orange Tree, Melissa Ashley. Set in 1700s Amsterdam and the wilds of the South American jungle, it charts the creation of one of the mos ...Show more
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
9.99 AUD
32.99 (69% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
The spectacular and heartbreaking new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See. Cloud Cuckoo Land follows three storylines: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city wall during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and gentle octoge ...Show more
A Life of Her Own by Ellen Feldman
34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
When life doesn't give you a happily ever after ... New York City, 1945. The war is over, the men are coming home and life can go back to normal for young Fanny Fabricant. But when she loses her rosy future in a single instant, she is forced to reinvent her life and raise her daughter alone by sheer wi ...Show more
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams by Anita Heiss
22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
'The novel flows like the great Murrumbidgee River itself, with powerful undercurrents that sweep the reader along - I feel it's a book that all Australians should read, to try and understand why our colonial past still causes so much pain and grievance.’ – Kate Forsyth
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
'Lehane is the master of complex human characters thrust into suspenseful, page-turning situations.' Gillian Flynn 'One of the great diabolical thriller kings.' New York Times The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River - an all-consuming tale of reve ...Show more