Light at Lavelle by Paullina Simons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
TORN BETWEEN WHAT THEY CANNOT HAVE AND WHAT THEY CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT. It is 1929. The world is about to change. Finn Evans is a successful Boston banker harboring a secret that threatens to unravel his carefully constructed idyllic life. Isabelle Lazar, a young Ukrainian farmer, endures unspeakable ha ...Show more
Photos in the Attic - One War. Two Worlds. Three People in Love by Donna Fiechtner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Photos in the attic is an empowering love story set amongst the backdrop of war on the western front in France.Bill a young many from the country, answered the call to fight for his country, he and his best mate Jimmy joined up believing it would be a great adventure in a faraway land. Bill was also dri ...Show more
Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A captivating and moving new novel from the international bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos. A nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets from World War II. On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving village-and a hub of resistance an ...Show more
Salonika Burning by Gail Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
MACEDONIA, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war.Amid the destruction are those who have come to the frontlines to heal- surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and other volunteers. Four of them-Stella, Olive, Grace and Stanley-are at the centre ...Show more
Seven Against Thebes The Quest of the Original Magnificent Seven by Stephen Dando-Collins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Oedipus, who famously killed his father and married his mother, solving the riddle of the Sphinx to become king of Thebes. His devastated wife Jocasta. Their sons, the power-hungry Eteocles and the betrayed Polynices. Their loyal sisters Antigone and Ismene. And the Seven, most famous warrior band in Gr ...Show more
Sharpe's Command - Richard Sharpe and the Bridge at Almaraz, May 1812 by Bernard Cornwell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Sharpe's Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
SHARPE IS BACK.The brand new novel from Bernard Cornwell in the global bestselling Sharpe series.If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe . . .And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he's dispatched on an undercover mission behind enemy lines, deep ...Show more
Sisters under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | 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
Sparrow by James Hynes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
'Utterly engrossing, vivid and honest' - Emma Donoghue 'A novel of ancient times for our times.’ - Jim Crace Sparrow tells the story of Jacob, son of no one, last survivor of an abandoned British Roman town. Raised in a brothel on the Spanish coast in the waning years of the Roman Empire, a boy of no ...Show more
Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A glorious new edition of the multi-award-winning historical novel about outsiders on the Queensland gold fieldsIt is 1877 and trouble is brewing on the Queensland gold fields.Siblings Ying and Lai Yue have fled their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. But Lai Yue has a secret he is keep ...Show more
Sunbirds by Mirandi Riwoe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
1941, West Java. Love and revolution are in the air. And war is on its way. Shortly before the Japanese invade, the van Hoorn family throws their famous Sinterklaas party at their tea plantation in West Java. One of their guests, Mattijs, a Dutch pilot, hopes to forge a future in the Dutch East Indies, ...Show more
That Bligh Girl by Sue Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A fascinating story of Governor Bligh's trouble-making daughter, Mary, a powerful and determined woman from the bestselling author ofElizabeth and Elizabeth. 'Superb narration and engrossing drama.' Tom Keneally Mary Bligh is no shrinking violet. After an horrific six-month sea voyage from Britain, sh ...Show more
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