The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Butte, Montana, October 1891, and a hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and balladmaker of the town, but also a doper, a drink ...Show more
The Studio Girls by Lisa Ireland
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Studio Girls is a sumptuous, nostalgic journey back to the glamorous Golden Age of cinema and the intoxicating world of Tinsel Town, where nothing is quite what it seems . . . 'Fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo will love Lisa Ireland's cinematic new novel. Set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, ...Show more
Whale Fall by Elizabeth O'Connor
$26.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
It is 1938 and for Manod, a young woman living on a remote island off the coast of Wales, the world looks ready to end just as she is trying to imagine a future for herself. The ominous appearance of a beached whale on the island's shore, and rumours of submarines circling beneath the waves, have villag ...Show more
At the Going Down of the Sun by Mary-Anne O'Connor
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An epic romantic adventure of love and courage that pays tribute to our brave Gallipoli heroes of World War One. 'Fans of Natasha Lester and Victoria Purman will adore...' Better Reading 1914- Brothers Thom and Archie Hogan are the best of friends who love nothing more than tinkering with their father's ...Show more
The Youngest Son by John Byrnes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An epic saga of brotherhood, betrayal and revenge. Set in 1920s Sydney, the Leach family have nothing but each other. In a tale spanning decades, three children of the broken, working-class family find adventure, heartache and trouble, as their lives drift apart. From police corruption and gambling de ...Show more
Peggy by Rebecca Godfrey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She's in a reflective mood, thinking back on her thrilling, tragic, nearly impossible journey from her sheltered, old-fashioned family in New York to here, iconoclast ...Show more
Psykhe by Kate Forsyth
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Kate Forsyth gives voice, power and agency to Psykhe telling this much loved myth from the perspective of the woman at its centre. It is not wise to anger the gods ... or to fall in love with one. Psykhe has always been different. Fair as Venus, the goddess of love, and with the hard-won ability to sav ...Show more
Beyond Summerland by Jenny Lecoat
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A riveting story of redemption and retribution in a unique wartime setting by the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Girl from the Channel Islands. 'An unforgettable tale of friendship, love, courage and survival. I loved every word of this fantastically engrossing novel. Jenny Lecoat is an a ...Show more
Testament by Wilbur Smith, Mark Chadbourn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Global bestselling author of River God and The New Kingdom, Wilbur Smith, returns with the next epic book in his brand-new Ancient Egyptian series. An epic new novel of Ancient Egypt, from the Master of Historical Adventure, Wilbur Smith. IN THE RUINS OF BATTLE A HERO MUST RISE FOR THE GLORY OF EGYPT Ye ...Show more
Mrs Hopkins by Shirley Barrett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A witty and poignant final novel from acclaimed author and filmmaker Shirley Barrett about what destroys us, what sustains us, and what we carry from one world into the next. On a rainy night in 1871, an idealistic schoolmistress arrives on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour. Mrs Hopkins doesn't know wh ...Show more
Death of a Foreign Gentleman by Steven Carroll
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Stephen Minter Ser.
Who killed Martin Friedrich? From award-winning writer Steven Carroll comes the first book in a series of post-war literary crime novels featuring Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter, with shades of The Third Man and Brighton Rock. Cambridge, UK, 1947. Martin Friedrich, a German philosopher who is in Ca ...Show more
A Poisoner's Tale by Cathryn Kemp
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A powerful historical fiction debut inspired by the true story of Giulia Tofana, the first documented female serial killer in history. Rome, 1656 In the shadowy backstreets of the Eternal City lies an apothecary - a place for women to take their heartbreaks and troubles. Herbs for childbirth. Tarot read ...Show more