The Mistress of Dara Island by Averil Kenny
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A tropical paradise is her birthright ... but will its dark secrets destroy her dreams? In the 1960s, a tropical island in the Coral Sea hides dark secrets behind its primordial beauty. Thalia - 'Tally' - Ramsey has grown up barefoot, wild and free on the island purchased by her maternal grandfather. It ...Show more
The Paris Agent: Inspired by true events, a gripping tale of family secrets by Kelly Rimmer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
'A masterpiece' SARAH JONES'Another soon-to-be classic' Woman's Day 'Riveting and moving' The Australian Women's Weekly Twenty-five years after the end of the war, ageing British SOE operative Noah Ainsworth can't stop thinking about the secret agent who saved his life in occupied France. He never knew ...Show more
The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Her decision changed history. Now her family must survive it. Destined to become a modern-day classic, The Storm We Made is a dazzling saga about the power of familial love in the face of the horrors of war, for fans of Pachinko and All the Light We Cannot See. 'I'll never forget this book' JESSAMINE CH ...Show more
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Tie-in): the internationally bestselling novel, soon to be a Stan series by Heather Morris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
This internationally bestselling novel is now a six-part drama series streaming on Stan in 2024, starring Harvey Keitel. The incredible story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the woman he loved. Lale Sokolov is well-dressed, a charmer, a ladies' man. He is also a Jew. On the first transport of me ...Show more
The Two Loves of Sophie Strom by Sam Taylor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A timeless, heart-wrenching story about love in the face of indoctrination and tragedy - perfect for fans of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Lovely Bones, and Life After Life. A house fire, Vienna, 1933: thirteen-year-old Max is orphaned, disfigured and adopted by an Aryan family who change his ide ...Show more
Those Girls by Pamela Rushby
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
New, from award-winning historical novelist, Pamela Rushby, exploring the roles, and struggles, of women in wartime The poster had a picture of a tanned, healthy girl, wearing a regulation uniform hat and shorts that were, surely, anything but regulation. When Hilly volunteers for the Women's Land Arm ...Show more
To Sing of War by Catherine McKinnon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship, To Sing of War. December 1944: In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, there to fight the Japanese and ke ...Show more
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is A Witch by Rivka Galchen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances. The story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Emp ...Show more
Held by Anne Michaels
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
'Through luminous moments of chance, change, and even grace, Michaels shows us our humanity - its depths and shadows' MARGARET ATWOOD The triumphant new novel from the author of the Orange Prize-winning Fugitive Pieces- a soaring and luminous story of chance and change 1917. On a battlefield near the ...Show more
Paradiso - A Novel by Steve Capelin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Paradiso is an outstanding achievement, as a testament to the human will to find a better life, and simply as an incredible read.’ Venero Armanno In 1880 three hundred Italian peasants abandon the fields of Veneto to follow a dream. They join an expedition to establish a utopian colony in the islands ...Show more
The Bee and the Orange Tree by Melissa Ashley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
It's 1699, and the salons of Paris are bursting with the creative energy of fierce, independent-minded women. But outside those doors, the patriarchal forces of Louis XIV and the Catholic Church are moving to curb their freedoms. In this battle for equality, Baroness Marie Catherine D'Aulnoy invents a p ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho. Peggy is intelligent, ambit ...Show more