Until August by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude - a moving tale of female desire and abandon. Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happi ...Show more
Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge is a mysterious, transporting tale about the unbreakable bond of sisterhood, from the author of the critically acclaimed Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter. London, 1850. Constance Horton has disappeared. Maude, her older sister, knows only that Constance abandoned the ...Show more
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
$20.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "One of the year's strongest fantasy novels" (NPR), an imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale from the bestselling author of Uprooted.NEBULA AWARD FINALIST * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS ...Show more
Miss Austen Investigates by Jessica Bull
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
It is a truth universally acknowledged that every good mystery is in need of a brilliant sleuth. A Jane Austen-inspired murder mystery for fans of Richard Osman and Janice Hallett. Hampshire, 1795. A young Jane Austen has her sights set on securing a marriage proposal from the dashing Tom Lefroy at a ...Show more
The Wartime Book Club (PB) by Kate Thompson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From enchanting cliff tops and white sandy bays to the pretty cobbled streets of St Helier, Jersey is known as the land of milk and honey. For best friends Bea Rose (the local postwoman) and Grace Le Motte (who works in the island's only library) it becomes the frontline to everyday resistance when thei ...Show more
A Woman's Work by Victoria Purman
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The astonishingly rich prize of the 1956 Australian Women's Weekly cookery competition offers two women the possibility of a new kind of future, in this compassionate look at the extraordinary lives of ordinary women - our mothers and grandmothers - in a beautifully realised post-war Australia. It's ...Show more
Queen Charlotte by Julia Quinn, Shonda Rhimes
$23.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: A\Bridgertons Prequel Ser.
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn and television pioneer Shonda Rhimes comes a powerful and romantic novel of Bridgerton's Queen Charlotte and King George III's great love story and how it sparked a societal shift, inspired by the original series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, ...Show more
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a profoundly moving story of an island refuge, and a community of outcasts living on borrowed time. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discovered an island where they could make a life together. More than a century later, the H ...Show more
Edenglassie: An extraordinary story of early Brisbane by Melissa Lucashenko
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with ...Show more
The Postcard by Anne Berest
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A moving novel based on the true story of a family's endurance and pain, and a heartfelt exploration of Jewish identity in a secular society. January 2003. The Berest family receive a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side was an image of the Opera Garnier; on the other, the names of their relatives ...Show more
The Visitors by Jane Harrison
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Visitors is an audacious, earthy, funny, gritty and powerful re-imaging of a crucial moment in Australia's history - an unputdownable work of fiction. On a steamy, hot day in January 1788, seven Aboriginal men, Elder statesmen representing the nearby clans, gather at Warrane. Several newly arrived ...Show more
The Escapades of Tribulation Johnson by Karen Brooks
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this brilliant recreation of the vibrant, optimistic but politically treacherous world of London's Restoration theatre. We are introduced to the remarkable playwright Aphra Behn, now a feminist icon then an anomaly, who gravitated to the stage - a place whe ...Show more