The Tsarina's Daughter by Ellen Alpsten
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
When they took everything from her, they didn't count on her fighting to get it back...Born into the House of Romanov to the all-powerful Peter the Great and Catherine I, beautiful Tsarevna Elizabeth is the world's loveliest Princess and the envy of the Russian empire. Insulated by luxury and as a woman ...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
The Vanished Days by Susanna Kearsley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A sweeping love story set against the Jacobite revolution from much-loved author Susanna Kearsley There are many who believe they know what happened, but they do not know the whole of it. The rumours spread, and grow, and take their hold, and so to end them I have been persuaded now to take my pen in h ...Show more
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
FROM THE THREE-TIME NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATES AND FURIES AND MATRIX Part of a loose trilogy based on the end of empire, The Vaster Wilds is the story of a young girl who is servant to a minister and his young mistress, and in charge of their young daugh ...Show more
The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Bridgertons
1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And, in all truth, why should he? When it comes to playing the consummate rake, nobody does it better . . . --Lady Whist ...Show more
The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
In a world torn apart by war, a brother and sister fight to find each other. The sweeping new novel from New York Times bestselling author Katherine Arden. World War One, and as shells fall in Flanders, a Canadian nurse searches for her brother believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that sugg ...Show more
The Winter Dress by Lauren Chater
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Longlisted for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize. 'From a few shimmering strands of truth, Lauren Chater has spun an intriguing story of love, loss and fulfilment.' Pip Williams, bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost WordsTwo women separated by centuries but connected by one beautiful silk dre ...Show more
The Zookeeper of Belfast by S. Kirk Walsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
As the bombs rain down on the city, Belfast's first ever female zookeeper must fight to save the baby elephant in her charge in this gripping, uplifting tale based on a true story. 1941. With the men away fighting, animal-lover Hettie Quin is made Belfast Zoo's first ever female zookeeper. She is put in ...Show more
The Zookeeper's War by Steven Conte
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An extraordinary debut, a story of passion and sacrifice in a city battered by war ... In Berlin, who can you trust? A story of passion and sacrifice in a city battered by war ... It is 1943 and each night in a bomb shelter beneath the Berlin Zoo an Australian woman, Vera, shelters with her German husba ...Show more
To Serve Them All My Days by Delderfield R F
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Miner's son David Powlett-Jones returns from the carnage of the Western Front in 1918, shell-shocked and bitterly hardened by the violence of war. He begins life again as a master at a remote Devon school, controlling the destiny of boys barely his junior. As the years pass David becomes a teacher of ra ...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
Tsarina by Ellen Alpsten
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Alpsten's colourful narrative does full justice to her extraordinary career' Sunday Times'With its sprawling canvas and huge cast ... it's an entertaining romp through the endless intrigue, violence and debauchery of court life' Mail on Sunday'A vivid page-turner of a debut' The Times'The extraordinary ...Show more