The Ministry of Unladylike Activity (#1) by Robin Stevens
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The Ministry of Unladylike Activity
The start of a thrilling new World War Two mystery series from the number-one-bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Murder Most Unladylike.Britain is at war, and a secret arm of the British government called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is training up spies. Enter May Wong- courageous, sm ...Show more
The Mona Lisa Mystery: A time-travelling adventure around Paris and Florence (Butterfly Club #3) by M.A. Bennett
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The Butterfly Club
Would you risk the future to change the past? Luna, Konstantin and Aidan are time-travelling thieves working for The Butterfly Club. When they are asked to steal a little-known painting called the Mona Lisa, Aidan can only think of one man who can make things disappear - the magician, Harry Houdini. And ...Show more
The Prisoner of Bhopal by T. I. M. WALKER
$17.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
In Bhopal in 1984, Amil learns that he can predict the movement of the wind. Can this gift free him from working for the hateful Mr Kumar and protect him from an impending poisonous gas leak at the Bhopal Pesticide Plant? Amil has always dreamed of working at the modern, space-age pesticide plant in Bho ...Show more
The Rebels of Mount Buffalo by Helen Edwards
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
It's 1998 and Clara and her parents are staying at the Mount Buffalo Chalet for the centenary celebrations. It couldn't be more different from their last visit-they were a family of four then. Now they're just three separate people, orbiting around each other while trying to navigate their overwhelming ...Show more
Tom Appleby, Convict Boy by Jackie French
$17.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: From 10 To 99
Tom Appleby, eight year old chimney sweep is convicted of stealing and sentenced to deportation to Botany Bay. This book tells of a colony that, despite its natural abundance, cannot offer what the colonists want. While the people's health is better than ever, their morale is low as they wait for news f ...Show more
We Are Wolves by Katrina Nannestad
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Sometimes it's good to be wild. Sometimes you have to be wild. When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the war, the Wolf family must flee. Liesl, Otto and their baby sister Mia find themselves lost and alone, in a blizzard, in the middle of a war zone. Liesl has promised Mama that ...Show more
A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Adiba Jaigirdar, author of one of Time's Best YA books of all time, gives Titanic an Ocean's 8 makeover in this nail-biting heist set onboard the infamous ship.Four friends have stolen aboard the Titanic. They're after the Rubaiyat - a book inlaid with priceless jewels. Josefa is a charismatic thief, Hi ...Show more
A Rebel in Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A portrait of a remarkable man who volunteered to face the unknown in the name of truth and country. In 1940, Witold Pilecki volunteered to assume a false identity and deliberately get himself sent to the camp. Its name was Auschwitz. Over the next two and half years, and under the cruellest conditions, ...Show more
A Waltz for Matilda (#1 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The Matilda Saga | Reading Level: 11-14
The story behind Banjo Paterson's iconic Australian song.Ages 10-14 'Once a jolly swagman camped by a BillabongUnder the shade of a Coolibah treeAnd he sang as he watched and waited till his Billy boiledYou'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me...'In 1894, twelve-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to fi ...Show more
Addison Cooke and the Treasure of the Incas (Addison Cooke #1) by Jonathan W. Stokes
$14.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Addison Cooke Ser.
After 12-year-old Addison Cooke's uncle unearths ancient Incan secrets in Peru, he is kidnapped by a shadowy organization intent on stealing the treasure unless Addison and his friends can decipher the clues first in this funny, kid-friendly adventure series.
After the War by Tom Palmer
$12.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Conkers
Master storyteller Tom Palmer returns with a deeply moving and beautifully told novel of friendship and belonging, inspired by the incredible true story of the Windermere Boys. Summer 1945. The Second World War is finally over and Yossi, Leo and Mordecai are among three hundred children who arrive in t ...Show more
Alice Stories (Our Australian Girl Bindup) by Davina Bell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
For the first time, read all four Alice stories in one beautiful hardback edition. It's 1918 and Alice's deepest wish is to be a professional ballerina. But as World War One tears her family apart, a battle is being fought in her heart.