The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die by PETER LANTOS
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Boy Who Didn’t Want to Die describes an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945. Peter and his parents set out from a small Hungarian town, travelling through Austria and then Germany together. Along the way, unforgettable images of adventure fla ...Show more
Angels of the Pacific: A Novel of World War II by Elise Hooper
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
"Absolutely riveting. A stay-up-all night read about two very different women who discover just how strong they can be—and just how much they'll dare—during the brutal Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II. This story of endurance and sisterhood will have you turning pages late into the ...Show more
Deadly Waters (Australia's Second World War) by Helen Chapman
$17.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
‘You could see the pilot as he came past, immobile, seconds to eternity.’ As a teenager, Cliff dreams that one day he will play cricket for Australia, but when war comes he changes cricket whites for a navy uniform. Leaving everything he knows behind he faces new horrors every day, from exploding mines ...Show more
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
$21.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Picador Collection | Reading Level: very good
With an introduction by Philipp Meyer The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic and potent account o ...Show more
Conqueror (#5 Conqueror) by Conn Iggulden
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Conqueror Ser.
Number one bestselling author Conn Iggulden takes on the story of the mighty Kublai Khan. An epic tale of a great and heroic mind; his action-packed rule; and how in conquering one-fifth of the world's inhabited land, he changed the course of history forever. A scholar who conquered an empire larger th ...Show more
The Wild Date Palm by Diane Armstrong
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From a bestselling Australian author comes a gripping novel of espionage, passion and sacrifice set in the Middle East during World War I. Based on an astonishing true story, it asks what are you willing to die for? For readers of Geraldine Brooks, Heather Morris and Alli Parker. During a train journey ...Show more
Cilka's Journey: Sequel to the International Number One Bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz, based on a true story of love and resilience. by Heather Morris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The Tattooist of Auschwitz #2 | Reading Level: very good
The sequel to the International Number One Bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz, based on a true story of love and resilience. In 1942 Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, a ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho: The bestselling follow-up to The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho. Peggy is intelligent, ambit ...Show more
Gallipoli (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The attack has been timed to the minute. Thirty minutes from now well climb down the rope ladders in to the lighters and find our seat. Im one of the lucky ones. Ive been chosen as one of the 500 men from my battalion who will be in the first wave to land... The Turks wont know whats hit them... Two mil ...Show more
Haywire (Australia's Second World War) by Claire Saxby
$17.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Australia's Second World War Ser.
In 1939, 14-year-old Tom lives in Hay where his family runs the local bakery. Max Gruber is nearly fourteen-years-old. He is sent to his Uncle Ferdy in London, but is then interred and shipped to Australia aboard the Dunera. He arrives in Hay and meets Tom. The two boys become friends and find their liv ...Show more
Wolf of the Plains (#1 Conqueror) by Conn Iggulden
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Conqueror Ser. | Reading Level: very good-near fine
The first book in the bestselling Conqueror series featuring Genghis Khan and his descendants. 'I am the land and the bones of the hills. I am the winter.' Temujin, the second son of the khan of the Wolves tribe, was only eleven when his father died in an ambush.His family were thrown out of the tribe a ...Show more
Bones of the Hills (#3 Conqueror) by Conn Iggulden
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Conqueror Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The powerful and exhilarating third novel in Conn Iggulden's No. 1 bestselling Conqueror series, following the life and adventures of the mighty Genghis Khan The fatherless boy, exiled from his tribe, whom readers have been following in 'Wolf of the Plains' and 'Lords of the Bow', has grown into the gre ...Show more