Walking The Invisible by Michael Stewart
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
See through the eyes of the Brontës as you immerse yourself in their lives and landscapes, wandering the very same paths they each would have walked in search of the inspiration behind their novels and poetry.An 'imaginative and elegant trek through the landscape of the Brontës' GraziaIn his journey to ...Show more
Queens of the Age of Chivalry by Alison Weir
$40.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: England's Medieval Queens
The third volume of Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of medieval England Medieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies, yet many of the Plantagenet queens of the high middle ages dramatically broke away from the restrictions imposed on their sex, as Alison Weir shows in this grippi ...Show more
Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall 1783-1787 (#1 Poldark) by Winston Graham
$23.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Poldark Ser.
Cornwall in the 1780s - when powerful forces of revolution and reaction are at large in the world. Tired from a grim war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. But the joyful homecoming he has anticipated turns sour, for his father is dead, his estate is derelict and the girl he lo ...Show more
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
$27.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
One by one the boys begin to fall...In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war?. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier? experiencing th ...Show more
Gould's Book Of Fish by Richard Flanagan
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'A work of pure brilliance', Seattle TimesFrom the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014, his Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning novel.Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'A masterpiece . . . The Narrow Road is an extraordinary piece of writing and a high point in an already distinguished career.' - Michael Williams, The Guardian A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on ...Show more
Crown Lynn - A New Zealand Icon by Valerie Monk
$55.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Crown Lynn china now has iconic status. From its early days of churning out railway china, Crown Lynn became a hugely successful business and the largest pottery in the Southern Hemisphere. The New Lynn factory closed in 1989, but their domestic ware is now one of New Zealand s hottest collectibles with ...Show more
The Last Hours in Paris: A powerful, moving and redemptive story of wartime love and sacrifice for fans of historical fiction by Ruth Druart
$28.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
War brings them together. Liberation will tear them apart. ‘A wonderful book. An involving, terrifying, heartbreaking story of the power of love and forgiveness’ JILL MANSELL ‘A tender, yet thrilling story of love and family secrets in time of war, beautifully told’ RACHEL HORE ‘I was so engrossed. A wo ...Show more
The Colonial's Son: (#4 Colonial) by Peter Watt
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
As the son of 'the Colonial', legendary Queen's Captain Ian Steele, Josiah Steele has big shoes to fill. Although his home in the colony of New South Wales is a world away, he dreams of one day travelling to England so he can study to be a commissioned officer in the Scottish Regiment.After cutting his ...Show more
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 by Paul Stephenson
$33.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' The TimesLong before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the beating heart of a late antique empire, the glittering Constantinople: New Rome. In thi ...Show more
A Small Town in Ukraine - The place we came from, the place we went back to by Bernard Wasserstein
$40.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before.Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated- Krakowiec (Krah- ...Show more
The House of Fortune by Jessie Burton
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Set in the golden city of Amsterdam in 1705, it is a story of fate and ambition, secrets and dreams, and one young woman's determination to rule her own destiny. Thea Brandt is turning eighteen, and is ready to welcome adulthood with open arms. At the theatre, Walter, the love of her life, awaits her, b ...Show more