One Illumined Thread by Sally Colin-James
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A beautiful, enthralling and powerful story of three women separated by centuries, yet connected by a thread of longing and a singular creative spirit - for readers of Geraldine Brooks, Sarah Winman, Maggie O'Farrell and Pip Williams.In Judea, under the brutal rule of King Herod, a woman yearns for a ch ...Show more
Nineteen Steps by Millie Bobby Brown
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The debut novel from global star Millie Bobby Brown. Love blooms in the darkest days... London, 1942. Despite the raging war, spirited 18-year-old Nellie Morris lives a quiet life in the tight-knit East End community of Bethnal Green. Her family and friends all tease that she will marry air raid warde ...Show more
Still Life by Sarah Winman
$23.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man.Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds hims ...Show more
The Butterfly Collector by Tea Cooper
$33.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
What connects a botanical illustration of a butterfly with a missing baby and an enigma fifty years in the making? A twisty historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author. 1868 Morpeth Theodora Breckenridge, still in mourning after the loss of her parents and brother at sea, is more interested ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$23.00 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more