The Librarians of Rue de Picardie by Janet Skeslien Charles
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Under what was left of the roof of the ruined cottage, a girl with pigtails perched on a pile of rubble, hunched over a book... 1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France, a group of wome ...Show more
Wolves of Winter by Dan Jones
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Essex Dogs Trilogy Ser.
For the Dogs, the war has only just begun. Caught up in the siege of Calais, in the midst of a brutal eleven-month blockade of a small port on the French coast, they are no longer blindly walking into the unknown. But the men still have more questions than answers about what faces them and why. What ar ...Show more
The Scarlet Letter (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Jonty Claypole (Introduction by)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." --- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathan ...Show more
The Romantic by William Boyd
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover. One man, many lives. Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving from County Cork to London, from Waterloo to Zanzibar, Cashel seeks his fortune across continents in war and ...Show more
The Armour of Light HC (Kingsbridge #4) by Ken Follett
$60.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Kingsbridge Novels Ser.
International No.1 bestseller Ken Follett returns to Kingsbridge with an epic tale of revolution and a cast of unforgettable characters. Revolution is in the air 1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to powe ...Show more
Empire by Conn Iggulden
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
IN CONN IGGULDEN'S LATEST GOLDEN AGE EPIC, JOIN PERICLES, THE LION OF ATHENS, ON A JOURNEY TO SECURE THE FATE OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE----Pericles returns home more than a hero: he's the leader of Athens, the empire's beacon of light in the dark.But even during times of peace, the threat of Sparta - Athen ...Show more
The Call of the Wrens by Jenni L Walsh
$32.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Call of the Wrens introduces the little-known story of the daring women who rode through war-torn Europe carrying secrets on their shoulders. An orphan who spent her youth without a true home, Marion Hoxton found in the Great War something other than destruction. She discovered a chance to belong. ...Show more
Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
From Jeannette Walls, the bestselling author of The Glass Castle, a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Prohibition-era Virginia Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small ...Show more
The Frontier Below: The 2000 Year Quest to Go Deeper Underwater and How It Impacts Our Future by Jeff Maynard
$40.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see the ocean when we look at the water that blankets more than two thirds of our planet. We only see the entrance to it. Beyond that entrance is a world hostile to humans, yet critical to our survival. ...Show more
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of The Rose Code and The Alice NetworkIn the snowbound city of Kiev, aspiring historian Mila Pavlichenko's life revolves around her young son - until Hitler's invasion of Russia changes everything. Suddenly, she and her friends must take up arms to s ...Show more
The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
$10.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will' Hailed as one of the most distinctive and compelling literary voices of her era, Charlotte Perkins Gilman is praised today for her ...Show more
The Postcard (HB) by Anne Berest; Tina Kover (Translator)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 WINNER OF THE AMERICAN CHOIX GONCOURT PRIZEWINNER OF THE PRIX RENAUDOT DES LYCÉENSWINNER OF THE ELLE READERS PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE GONCOURT PRIZE Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the ...Show more