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 Porcelain Maker by Sarah Freethy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
‘A page-turning journey to uncover a past of heroism, betrayal, love, and loss’ Heather Morris, bestselling author of Three Sisters Two lovers caught at the crossroads of history A daughter’s search for the truth Germany, 1929. When Max, a Jewish architect, and Bettina, a beautiful and celebrated Ge ...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
Those Hamilton Sisters by Averil Kenny
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An irresistible story of family, secrets and love. Will their mother's scandalous past decide their futures? The Sunday train which snaked into Noah Vale that verdant, midwinter afternoon brought with it fire, sending an inferno of small-town gossip roaring up the valley... Beautiful, irrepressible Esth ...Show more
Wedding Dress Sewing Circle by Jennifer Ryan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
'Atmospheric, wise and warm . . . comforting and unputdownable . . . an enchanting hug of a novel' Cathy Kelly on The Kitchen FrontTo have. To hold. To sew.After fashion designer Cressida Westcott loses both everything she owns in the Blitz, she has nowhere to go but the family manor house she fled deca ...Show more
Where Light Meets Water by Susan Paterson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An evocative novel of love and art, and one man's journey to find his place in the world. Where Light Meets Water is a moving debut traversing nineteenth-century London, Melbourne and New Zealand's rugged South Island. London, 1847. Sailor Tom Rutherford has two passions: the sea and his painting. Sent ...Show more
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Wolf Hall 1 | Reading Level: very good
From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel. ‘Every bit as good as they said it was’ Observer ‘Terrific’ Margaret Atwood ‘As soon as I opened this book I was gripped. I read it almost non-stop’ The Times In Wolf Hall, one of our very best writers ...Show more
Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
<i>My father always said with a name like Kitty Hawke I'd surely fly away. He said my mother should have thought of that before she named me. It was the way on the island, time out of mind . . . Times have changed. </i> Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind ...Show more
Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Moments after Lisbeth is born, she s taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though Lisbeth ...Show more