The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story by Karen Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
In the middle ages, a poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary classic. But what if the woman in question had a chance to tell her own version? Who would you believe?'Brooks' mischievous retelling [of Chaucer's The Wife of Bath] dials up the feminist themes - and the fun - to 1 ...Show more
The House of Fortune by Jessie Burton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller'Elegant, atmospheric, compelling. I absolutely loved it' - Marian Keyes, author of Again, Rachel'A book of beauty and insight . . . awe-inspiring. Burton is a master storyteller' - Elizabeth Day, author of Magpie1705. Thea Brandt is about to turn eighteen, and at the the ...Show more
The Letter of Marque #12 by Patrick O'Brian
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Aubrey/Maturin Ser.
Thrown out of the navy for a crime he did not commit, Jack Aubrey has lost everything he held most dear. In command of his beloved Surprise, but in a civilian capacity, Jack Aubrey must navigate a world apart from anything he has previously known, his friend Stephen Maturin at his side. Together the ...Show more
The Midwife by Tricia Cresswell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
After a violent storm, a woman is found alone, naked, near death on the Northumberland moors. She has no memory of who she is or how she got there. But she can remember how to help a woman in labour, how to expertly dress a wound and can speak fluent French. With the odds against her - a penniless singl ...Show more
The Mirror And The Light (#3 Wolf Hall) by Hilary Mantel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Thomas Cromwell
The brilliant #1 New York Times bestseller Named a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian, and many more With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall ...Show more
The Moon Gate by Amanda Geard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A faded photograph. An abandoned house. A wartime secret . . . From the author of the Richard and Judy Book Club pick The Midnight House, a mesmerising story of love, war, and a mystery that ensnares three generations, sweeping the reader from London to Tasmania and to Ireland. Perfect for fans of Kate ...Show more
The Overstory by Richard Powers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are ...Show more
The Postcard by Anne Berest
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A moving novel based on the true story of a family's endurance and pain, and a heartfelt exploration of Jewish identity in a secular society. January 2003. The Berest family receive a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side was an image of the Opera Garnier; on the other, the names of their relative ...Show more
The Queen's Apprenticeship by Tracy Ryan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Two women from different worlds in Renaissance France cross paths in a way that changes both their lives.One is Marguerite de Navarre, a King's sister. Powerful, privileged and widely admired, Marguerite must nonetheless marry where she is told to, regardless of her feelings, and - despite the thrilling ...Show more
The Ship's Midwife by Peta Miller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Lives are about to be irrevocably changed following a typhus outbreak on a cramped emigrant ship bound for Australia. 1850 For Sarah Hallow, orphaned, penniless and alone, with only the skills learned from her midwife mother to guide her, passage on a ship bound for the new colony of Brisbane, Australia ...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
The Tattooist of Auschwitz Commemorative Edition: the heartbreaking and unforgettable international bestseller by Heather Morris
$45.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Five years on, this beautiful hardback edition is a tribute to Lale, Gita and the many thousands of readers who have treasured this book since its first release. 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 ...Show more