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Hitler's Niece - A Novel by Ron Hansen
$0.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Hitler's Niece tells the story of the intense and disturbing relationship between Adolf Hitler and the daughter of his only half-sister, Angela, a drama that evolves against the backdrop of Hitler's rise to prominence and power from particularly inauspicious beginnings. The story follows Geli from her b ...Show more
The Kew Gardens Girls - An Emotional and Sweeping Historical Novel Perfect for Fans of Kate Morton by Posy Lovell
$27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In official partnership with Kew Gardens It's 1916 and England is at war. Desperate to help in whatever way they can, Ivy and Louisa enlist as gardeners at Kew, taking on the jobs of the men who have gone to fight. Under their care, the gardens begin to flourish - but Ivy and Louisa aren't being treate ...Show more
Tokyo Redux by David Peace
$33.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A novel about one of history's great unsolved mysteries, by Britain's most original writer.
Featherweight by Mick Kitson
$32.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Annie Perry is born beside the coal-muddied canals of the Black Country at the height of the industrial revolution. When her father dies, her Romi family can no longer afford to keep her, and at nine years old she is sold for six guineas to the famous and feared bare-knuckle boxer Bill Perry, the Tipton ...Show more
Off the Wild Coast of Brittany by Juliet Blackwell
$31.27 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Natalie Morgen made a name for herself with a memoir about overcoming her harsh childhood after finding a new life in Paris. After falling in love with a classically trained chef, they moved together to his ancestral home, a tiny fishing village off the coast of Brittany. But then Francois-Xavier breaks ...Show more
In Love with George Eliot by Kathy O'Shaughnessy
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Category: Historical Fiction
A TLSBOOK OF THE YEAR. Who was the real George Eliot? In Love with George Eliotis a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling story of England's greatest woman novelist as you've never read it before. Marian Evans has scandalised polite society. She lives in sin with a married man, George Henry Le ...Show more
Daughter of Fortune - A Novel by Isabel Allende
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Category: Historical Fiction
"Allende has created a masterpiece of historical fiction that is passionate, adventurous, and brilliantly insightful. . . . suspenseful and surprising."--Denver Post From the revered New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate tale of one ...Show more
The Duke Undone by Joanna Lowell
$27.66 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
An artist stumbles upon a naked duke and an unlikely love story begins in this captivating Victorian historical romance. When Royal Academy painting student Lucy Coover trips over a naked man passed out in an East End alley, she does the decent thing. She covers him up and fetches help. Trouble is, she ...Show more
After the Death of Don Juan by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$25.45 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'She has a talent amounting to genius' John Updike Don Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped? Doña Ana, the woman he tried to seduce, will stop at nothing to discover the truth. Set in a rural eighteenth-century Spain ...Show more
The Paris Collaborator by A.W. Hammond
$32.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
All the Light We Cannot See meets The Da Vinci Code in this riveting WWII mystery. He'll do anything to save her ... even work for the enemy. August, 1944. In German-occupied Paris, former schoolteacher Auguste Duchene has stumbled upon an unusual way to survive: he finds missing people. When he's appro ...Show more
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, EVENING STANDARD, DAILY EXPRESS, METRO, SPECTATOR, RED MAGAZINE AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'A WORD-OF-MOUTH HIT' Evening Standard 'A very fine book... It's witty and sharp and reads like something by Barbara Pym or Anita Brookner, without ever feeling like a ...Show more
Beachcombing - A Guide to Seashores of the Southern Hemisphere
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Category: Historical Fiction
If you've ever walked along a beach or rocky shore and peered, poked or wondered at the things cast upon it by the waves, this book is for you. Sea foam, ambergris, giant squid, stranded whales, seaweed, shells, plastic, dead birds, shoes and pieces of planes or rockets ... Beaches are our windows to th ...Show more
