The Chanel Sisters by Judithe Little
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The unforgettable story of the sisters who changed fashion forever. Gabrielle and Antoinette know they're destined for something better. Abandoned to a convent orphanage, they are raised for simple lives. But at night they dream of a glittering future, and the Chanel sisters are determined to prove them ...Show more
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A Library Journal Top Historical Fiction Book of the Year * Winner of t ...Show more
A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
$23.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live. Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself ...Show more
Hurdy Gurdy by Christopher Wilson
$33.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
It is the year of our Lord 1349 and it is the season of the Plague. Novice friar Brother Diggory, now sixteen, has lived in the Monastery of the Order of St Odo at Whye since his eighth birthday. But his life is about to change. The sickness is creeping ever closer and the monks must attend to the victi ...Show more
The Zoo by Christopher Wilson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Patrick deWitt meets Catch 22, when a guileless young boy gets mixed up in Stalin's inner circle. 'A wonderfully inventive and slyly constructed novel, horrifying, horribly funny, and disgracefully entertaining.' - John Banville
The Jade Lily by Kirsty Manning
$18.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Manning renders Shanghai as a riot of flavors, sights, and sounds, its elegance clashing against gritty poverty in this exquisite window into the past.' - Booklist, starred review 'Kirsty Manning has woven, blended, sewn the threads of history, family secrets, the past and the present into a page-turnin ...Show more
The Midsummer Garden by Kirsty Manning
$16.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Travelling between lush gardens in France, windswept coastlines of Tasmania, to Tuscan hillsides and beyond, The Midsummer Garden lures the reader on an unforgettable culinary and botanical journey. 1487 Artemisia is young to be in charge of the kitchens at Chateau de Boschaud but, having been taught th ...Show more
The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
It is a sad fact of life that if a young woman is unlucky enough to come into the world without expectations, she had better do all she can to ensure she is born beautiful. To be handsome and poor is misfortune enough; but to be both plain and penniless is a hard fate indeed.In Jane Austen's Pride and P ...Show more
The Saffron Runners by B.G. Fox
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Afghanistan, 1827. Suleiman stood in the carnage of his village. At twenty years old he was a man. “I am Suleiman! I take my birthright as Horse Master of all Farkhar". He raised his sword, pointing west to Persia. “No longer will Prince Omid’s men plunder Afghanistan. We will follow you, Persians. We w ...Show more
The Lamplighter by Jackie Kay
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Lamplighter takes us on a journey through the dark heart of slavery. Produced both as a radio and stage play, it also reads as a stirring and a multi-layered poem. Four women and one man tell the story of their lives through slavery, from the the fort, to the slave ship, through the middle passage, ...Show more
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The Four Winds is a deeply moving, powerful story about the strength and resilience of women and the bond between mother and daughter, by the multi-million-copy number one bestselling author Kristin Hannah. She will discover the best of herself in the worst of times . . . Texas, 1934. Elsa Martinelli ha ...Show more
A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy Jago
$33.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Based on the true scandal that rocked the court of James I, A Net for Small Fishes is the most gripping novel you'll read this year- an exhilarating dive into the pitch-dark waters of the Jacobean court. Frances Howard has beauty and a powerful family and is the most unhappy creature in the world. Anne ...Show more